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We offer you a few selected articles which we hope will be stimulating and fruitful.

They include a recent journey through a two day Young People Leadership event that took place in Toronto, which we co-designed and delivered in July 2009 and an article called, The Dance Integral that marks the beginning of a sequence.

Through Andrew’s editorial involvement in Integral Review, we were invited to co-create a joint article which is our third article here. The fourth article, an interview with Francisco Varela gives a glimpse into Andrew’s contribution to, and collaboration with, leading thinkers in the field of phenomenology, complexity, dialogue and presencing.

Amy was also involved in this field into which is complemented by her professional training and experience in Gestalt psychology and psychotherapy and this gave rise to the fifth article, Chasing the Light, which is a bridge between aspects of our parallel past and the unfolding shared present.

The final article, selected from a longer and complex contribution is both a high arc that unites and the ground that underpins all these articles and all our work.   

This file is our response to a blog by the author Dave Pollard, that you can read at http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2009/08/03.html In essence, we discovered that young people have a wisdom that it would be wise for those of us truly concerned for the future to tap into. We now intend to take the ideas that emerged in Toronto to New York, this autumn. We may also run a course in London concurrent with Dave's visit as speaker to the Prince of Wales' Accounting for Sustainability Conference at Clarence House, London in December.
 

In this article,“Campbell writes as an artist about the creative process in a way that is deeply illuminating, and applicable to profoundly deep aspects of our lives. A beautiful example of the process of methodology for looking at issues set deep into the territory of art itself, deepening how we approach making maps of such territory.  Andrew Campbell’s article The Dance Integral contains an opening piece of art that came out of a story I told him in an early email exchange, and it continues to reveal layers of meanings and depth for both of us.” Jonathan Reams, 2006

This paper is a creative and spontaneous response by invitation, to hold up to the light, three papers that were submitted to Integral Review for publication.(Summer 2009) “A journal offering collaborative engagement research and practice, not bound by the conventional modes of reason and enquiry. It supports meaningful exploration into new territories of mind, body and spirit, thinking, doing and being.” Founded by Dr. Sara Ross, Advisory Editors include Double Nobel Peace Prize nominee Irvin László, the Arts & Creativity Editor is Andrew Campbell

This paper from 2001 represents both the core theory & practice of Presencing and Theory U. The fifteen grisaille images offer theory as practice, as images progress from initial contact with text to a dramatic culminating foresight, -two nearly identical colourless columns, collapsing and rising as a multicoloured pair in a sixteenth image. Presaging by one month the calamitous events of 9/11 “Andrew, Claus Otto Scharmer, has been conducting interviews with a large number of the really great thinkers of our time. Attached is his interview with Varlea. We expect it to be available to the public in a few weeks...I would really enjoy seeing what this stimulates.” Rick Karash, Co-founder S.O.L., Boston. MA

This piece explores the deeper nature of a global reality, captured here though personal insight, “ I was somewhat amazed when you said that no-one had responded to the image since you made it [publicly] available. I seem to remember that later on that morning, while sitting in your garden, I asked you how you made that image…I cannot remember faithfully the full story- however, the fragments as I recall are ‘…shards of glass you found…painted on glass, ran the glass over the scanner…light chasing the image…glass shattered…twin towers…’Somehow, it was the words ‘light chasing the image’ that made a deep impression on me and triggered a connection in my mind with ‘leadership’. I remember saying to you in the car that afternoon that I would like to write an article.” Here is the result.

This short piece, first published at Integral Leadership Review [2008] is extracted from the original. Mapping the body/mind of it's co-author Patric Roberts in an astonishing passage, disclosing Native Elder wisdom driven home via the metaphor of the butterfly, it represents the essence of leadership in the 21st century. Joseph Jaworski write of it, “It’s language is precise and directly informs why this experience is so profound. I have developed a deep belief -- that the only real way to develop strategy is to use a process where one goes to - “primary knowing”, tapping into source then listening deeply, moment to moment, as the path unfolds – walking the path as it is created. This is what Patric described in his story about the monarch butterfly – which is beautiful and useful.” Joseph Jaworski