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Prior to the 2020 year of the pandemic, cities had become the habitats where more than 50% of humanity live – in the developed world more than 90%. This week will reframe cities from the bricks and mortar infrastructures of the visible city into a human system with consciousness, culture, behaviors and structures. This is the Integral City – a fractal that lies on the trajectory of living human systems, stretching from the individual, to the collective, to the city, to the planet Gaia (person, people, place, planet). This way of looking at the city assumes that it is a complex adaptive living system, evolutionary in its nature and integrative in its potential to serve the wellbeing of Gaia.<br>
Prior to the 2020 year of the pandemic, cities had become the habitats where more than 50% of humanity live – in the developed world more than 90%. This week will reframe cities from the bricks and mortar infrastructures of the visible city into a human system with consciousness, culture, behaviors and structures. This is the Integral City – a fractal that lies on the trajectory of living human systems, stretching from the individual, to the collective, to the city, to the planet Gaia (person, people, place, planet). This way of looking at the city assumes that it is a complex adaptive living system, evolutionary in its nature and integrative in its potential to serve the wellbeing of Gaia.<br>
If we have learned anything in 2020, it is at the scale of the city where humans make life and death decisions and where people have the opportunities to thrive or waste. The overriding purpose of this week is to inquire how people serve the wellbeing of the city and how the city serves the wellbeing of people, while together we serve the wellbeing of Gaia. <br>
If we have learned anything in 2020, it is at the scale of the city where humans make life and death decisions and where people have the opportunities to thrive or waste. The overriding purpose of this week is to inquire how people serve the wellbeing of the city and how the city serves the wellbeing of people, while together we serve the wellbeing of Gaia. <br>
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== THEME FOR THE WEEK ==
== THEME FOR THE WEEK ==


The overarching theme of the Cities week is to help you experience your city/community as a dynamic living system. This week-long exploration will offer a variety of lenses, tools and practices—and opportunities for you to reflect—that will enable you to best serve your city/community so that it can best serve you and together we can all serve the wellbeing of our planet, Gaia.<br>
The overarching theme of the Cities week is to help you experience your city/community as a dynamic living system. This week-long exploration will offer a variety of lenses, tools and practices—and opportunities for you to reflect—that will enable you to best serve your city/community so that it can best serve you and together we can all serve the wellbeing of our planet, Gaia.<br>
   
{| class="wikitable"
Monday: Notice your relationship with your city/community and your learning edges.
|'''DAY 2021'''
Tuesday: Experience your city /community as a living system of complex, adaptive dynamics.
|'''THEME, MESSAGE + GUIDING QUESTIONS'''
Wednesday: Discover and explore the governing principles and structures that best support the local conditions of  your city/community functions.
|-
Thursday: Generate ideas for your “civic practice" that will enable you to use the tensions in your city /community to shape your service to your city/community so that it can best serve you.
|'''Day 1'''
Friday: Notice how you and we are mobilizing with regenerative action in ways that enable relationships of reciprocity with, within and from cities/communities, ecoregions and Gaia.
 
PARTICIPANTS AKA REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONERS
'''Mon'''
For short biographies go here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xW8wkHHQSqvckagarKdQs5rtqO4WKF_iuYa2p5mAQvw/edit
 
Jim Garrison, Ubiquity University
'''Jan 11'''
Sabinje von Gaffke, Humanity Rising
|'''AQtivating cities at scale'''
·        Hani Quan, Life Coach, Social Entrepreneur, Canada
 
·        Jorge Garza, Future Cities, McConnell Foundation
Cities thrive when we activate agency at scale
·        Hugo Araujo, Founder 7Vortex, Mexico, Belgium
 
·        Taina Ketola, Public Sector Specialist, Finland
·  What is your learning edge?
·        Andres Malave, Cultural Consultant, Nantes, France
 
·        Mark McCaffrey, Founder Co-Focal ECOS, Author Climate Smart & Energy Wise, Initiator Powers of 10 Framework , Italy
·  How would you describe your learning edge?
·        Stanley Nyoni, The Natural Step Consultant Africa, Sweden
 
·        Paddy Pampallis, Founder Integral Coach Africa
·  Where is your learning edge?
·        Raji Jayasinghe, Ubiquity U Youth Initiatives, Sri Lanka
|-
·        Luis Camargo, Biomimicry Expert, Columbia
|'''Day 2'''
·        Katerina Zalamova, Smart Cities Expert
 
·        Lev Gordon, Co-Founder of Living Cities Russia Association
'''Tue'''
·        MiraMichelle Jones, Founder The Sacred Female Rising Institute, Shaman
 
·        Tesoc Hah, Architect, Seoul Korea
'''Jan 12'''
·        Soni Dasmohapatra
|'''Living in cities as complex  adaptive systems'''
·        Keren Tang, Public Health Professional, Participatory City, McConnell Foundation
 
·        Taisa Mattos, Global Ecovillage Network, Brazil
Cities are living systems with  consciousness and culture, in addition to behaviours and infrastructure
·        Indra Adnan, Journalist, Founder Alternative UK
 
·        Shweta Srisastav, Design Researcher, Architect, Sustainability Consultant, India & Netherlands
·  How do you experience the linear  city?
·        Julian Baller, ED Co-Creating Europe
 
·        Yene Assegid, International Coach, Ghana, Africa
·  How do you experience the city as a  living system?
·        Vandana Shiva, Author Earth Democracy, India <br>
 
·  Where do you see the city as a living system coming alive?
 
·  How to amplify the city as a living  system?
 
·  What happens when we act as if the  city is a living system?
|-
|'''Day 3'''
 
'''Wed'''
 
'''Jan 13'''
|'''Governing with life-cycle  patterns'''
 
Cities are where we can practice  governance with local conditions and needs in mind
 
·  What can the city learn from its  eco-region? What are the universal principles that can guide / inform city  life?
 
·  How is mutual trust and respect  core to civility?
 
·  How does (explicit) governance  shift from hierarchy primarily to hierarchy and self-organizing?
 
·  What minimal critical structure is  needed to support self-organizing in the city? Under what conditions? When?
 
·  The role of (city) government is shifting… from what to what?
|-
|'''Day 4'''
 
'''Thur'''
 
'''Jan 14'''
|'''Practicing mutual agency'''
 
Cities are living systems of mutual  agency, a survival skill.  
 
A diversity of practices enables us  to serve our cities well so they serve us well in return
 
·  What behaviours of mine enable or  disable the agency of others?
 
·  What are the tensions I experience  in the city around me? How do they indicate the improvements I wish to make  to the city?
 
·  What is my calling in service to the city? How do I trust that others will do what I am not doing?
 
·  How/why is mutual  trust  and respect core to the quality of your life in the city?
|-
|'''Day 5'''
 
'''Fri'''
 
'''Jan 15'''
|'''Integrating coherence for  regenerativity'''
 
Cities are vehicles for  regeneration when we take responsibility for our relationship with the  ecoregion
 
·  What experiments are you  conducting? Who do you experiment with?
 
·  What feedback channels do you use?  Could you use?
 
·  What is regenerating in you?
 
o  Survive, connect, regenerate
 
o  Master code
 
o  Scale
 
·  How does culture impact context and  feedback to give us information re coherence?
 
·  Why/how is regeneration important  to the city?
|}
<br>
'''GUIDING PRINCIPLES, ROLES & FACILITATION'''
'''GUIDING PRINCIPLES, ROLES & FACILITATION'''
* In designing our week we have set 4 guiding principles:  
* In designing our week we have set 4 guiding principles:  
* Enable various levels of participation   
* Enable various levels of participation   
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'''# Convenors'''  
'''# Convenors'''  
# Welcome the assembly  
# Welcome the assembly  
'''# Hosts'''   
'''# Hosts'''   
# Host and guide the process / conversation   
# Host and guide the process / conversation   
# Add insight and perspective   
# Add insight and perspective   
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# Engage in discussion about how “a model” can be used in practice, in the city   
# Engage in discussion about how “a model” can be used in practice, in the city   
#   
#   
Behind the scenes we also have support from: 7 Vortex,  meshwork visualizers, etc.
Behind the scenes we also have support from: 7 Vortex,  meshwork visualizers, etc.
   
   

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Cities Rising for a Regenerative World
Reframing the role of cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs
This is a weeklong program January 11 - 15 convened by Integral City, Nest City, Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising ChatAction Group

OVERVIEW

Inspired by HR’s week of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World convened in October 2020 by Ubiquity U and U International Cooperation and partners, this Cities Rising Week focuses on human systems at the scale of the city. We view “city” as the human habitat (or human hive) at scales from village to megalopolis and our definition of city embraces the ecoregion where it is located and that constrains it. We intend our inquiry to complement the exploration of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World, by providing the context and contribution cities can make to a Regenerative World.
Prior to the 2020 year of the pandemic, cities had become the habitats where more than 50% of humanity live – in the developed world more than 90%. This week will reframe cities from the bricks and mortar infrastructures of the visible city into a human system with consciousness, culture, behaviors and structures. This is the Integral City – a fractal that lies on the trajectory of living human systems, stretching from the individual, to the collective, to the city, to the planet Gaia (person, people, place, planet). This way of looking at the city assumes that it is a complex adaptive living system, evolutionary in its nature and integrative in its potential to serve the wellbeing of Gaia.
If we have learned anything in 2020, it is at the scale of the city where humans make life and death decisions and where people have the opportunities to thrive or waste. The overriding purpose of this week is to inquire how people serve the wellbeing of the city and how the city serves the wellbeing of people, while together we serve the wellbeing of Gaia.

THEME FOR THE WEEK

The overarching theme of the Cities week is to help you experience your city/community as a dynamic living system. This week-long exploration will offer a variety of lenses, tools and practices—and opportunities for you to reflect—that will enable you to best serve your city/community so that it can best serve you and together we can all serve the wellbeing of our planet, Gaia.

DAY 2021 THEME, MESSAGE + GUIDING QUESTIONS
Day 1

Mon

Jan 11

AQtivating cities at scale

Cities thrive when we activate agency at scale

·  What is your learning edge?

·  How would you describe your learning edge?

·  Where is your learning edge?

Day 2

Tue

Jan 12

Living in cities as complex adaptive systems

Cities are living systems with consciousness and culture, in addition to behaviours and infrastructure

·  How do you experience the linear city?

·  How do you experience the city as a living system?

·  Where do you see the city as a living system coming alive?

·  How to amplify the city as a living system?

·  What happens when we act as if the city is a living system?

Day 3

Wed

Jan 13

Governing with life-cycle patterns

Cities are where we can practice governance with local conditions and needs in mind

·  What can the city learn from its eco-region? What are the universal principles that can guide / inform city life?

·  How is mutual trust and respect core to civility?

·  How does (explicit) governance shift from hierarchy primarily to hierarchy and self-organizing?

·  What minimal critical structure is needed to support self-organizing in the city? Under what conditions? When?

·  The role of (city) government is shifting… from what to what?

Day 4

Thur

Jan 14

Practicing mutual agency

Cities are living systems of mutual agency, a survival skill.  

A diversity of practices enables us to serve our cities well so they serve us well in return

·  What behaviours of mine enable or disable the agency of others?

·  What are the tensions I experience in the city around me? How do they indicate the improvements I wish to make to the city?

·  What is my calling in service to the city? How do I trust that others will do what I am not doing?

·  How/why is mutual  trust and respect core to the quality of your life in the city?

Day 5

Fri

Jan 15

Integrating coherence for regenerativity

Cities are vehicles for regeneration when we take responsibility for our relationship with the ecoregion

·  What experiments are you conducting? Who do you experiment with?

·  What feedback channels do you use? Could you use?

·  What is regenerating in you?

o Survive, connect, regenerate

o Master code

o Scale

·  How does culture impact context and feedback to give us information re coherence?

·  Why/how is regeneration important to the city?


GUIDING PRINCIPLES, ROLES & FACILITATION

  • In designing our week we have set 4 guiding principles:
  • Enable various levels of participation
  • Enable agency at scale
  • Display and integrate diversity of faces and experiences
  • Make the community system visible to itself

We have also defined 4 Roles for each day.

# Convenors

  1. Welcome the assembly

# Hosts

  1. Host and guide the process / conversation
  2. Add insight and perspective
  3. Reflective practitioners
  4. Demonstrate the practice of reflecting in action
  5. Share their reflection publicly, and relevant stories
  6. Focus reflective practitioner
  7. Share ways of thinking about cities
  8. Reflect on the reflection
  9. Engage in discussion about how “a model” can be used in practice, in the city

Behind the scenes we also have support from: 7 Vortex, meshwork visualizers, etc.


Facilitation for each day will use the Guiding Principles and include: for the chat function to stop, to allow for personal reflection explicit opportunities to for the chat community ideas to be integrated with those of the guests post-session- facilitated gathering where people can meet each other, find people with similar interests, in the same part of the world, language, etc. (see ChatAction below) ChatAction Group - please join the conversation by adding your ideas and questions using shared document TBD

DAY THEMES, MESSAGE, GUIDING QUESTIONS DAY 2021 THEME, MESSAGE + GUIDING QUESTIONS Day 1 Mon Jan 11 AQtivating cities at scale Cities thrive when we activate agency at scale


What is your learning edge? How would you describe your learning edge? Where is your learning edge?

Day 2 Tue Jan 12 Living in cities as complex adaptive systems Cities are living systems with consciousness and culture, in addition to behaviours and infrastructure


How do you experience the linear city? How do you experience the city as a living system? Where do you see the city as a living system coming alive? How to amplify the city as a living system? What happens when we act as if the city is a living system?

Day 3 Wed Jan 13 Governing with life-cycle patterns Cities are where we can practice governance with local conditions and needs in mind


What can the city learn from its eco-region? What are the universal principles that can guide / inform city life? How is mutual trust and respect core to civility? How does (explicit) governance shift from hierarchy primarily to hierarchy and self-organizing? What minimal critical structure is needed to support self-organizing in the city? Under what conditions? When? The role of (city) government is shifting… from what to what?

Day 4 Thur Jan 14 Practicing mutual agency Cities are living systems of mutual agency, a survival skill. A diversity of practices enables us to serve our cities well so they serve us well in return


What behaviours of mine enable or disable the agency of others? What are the tensions I experience in the city around me? How do they indicate the improvements I wish to make to the city? What is my calling in service to the city? How do I trust that others will do what I am not doing? How/why is mutual trust and respect core to the quality of your life in the city?

Day 5 Fri Jan 15 Integrating coherence for regenerativity Cities are vehicles for regeneration when we take responsibility for our relationship with the ecoregion


What experiments are you conducting? Who do you experiment with? What feedback channels do you use? Could you use? What is regenerating in you? Survive, connect, regenerate Master code Scale How does culture impact context and feedback to give us information re coherence? Why/how is regeneration important to the city? PART 2: THE COMMUNITY IN CONVERSATION WITH ITSELF After the daily HR Zoom session, the Moderators and Reflective Practitioners (who are able) will join the ChatAction Group in their Zoom Meeting format. Here is the general design for this 60-90-minute session:

Who Hosts: ChatAction Group (Lesley Southwick-Trask and Hilary Van Welter and others) Beth and Marilyn will actively participate, along with other Cities Rising guests

Opportunities Model participatory leadership Reflect on the day “Feed” the next day Enable the community to see itself :)

What A hosted dialogue / intentional dialogue Facilitated Large group Small group conversations Large group Empowering conversations to take to my municipality… By Friday, into activation -- how do we do this intentionally in community In out in out in out IN OUT IN OUT IN OUT

Presenters

Hosts:

Conveners Org URL Other Comment Skills
Jim Garrison Founder President of Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising Ubiquity University Humanity Rising: A Global Solutions Summit. “Transforming conversations that matter into action that makes a difference." UbiVerse Social Platform Change Maker
Marilyn Hamilton Faculty, Ubiquity U, Findhorn College, Royal Roads U, U Victoria, Fielding U, Adizes Grad School Integral City Meshworks Author Integral City Book Series for the Human Hive:
  • Reframing Complex Challenges
  • Inquiry & Action
  • Evolutionary Intelligences
 Marilyn's Slides From Video of HRDay 56 Community-Building Creativity Green-Economics Innovation Research Sacred Activist Spiritual-Awakening Strategic-Planning Systems-Design Teaching Facilitation Writing Content Creation Ecological-Literacy Sustainability Teacher Seminar-Leader Visioning
Beth Sanders Presenter of HRDay 56 Healthy Human Habitats Beth Sander's Website Book: Nest City: How Cities Serve Citizens and Citizens Serve Cities exploring our evolutionary relationship with cities Works with citizens, city governments, businesses, and community organizations. She helps them hear each other, make better cities. City-Making Integral City Leadership and Team Building Public Speaking Social Habitat Spiral Dynamics Teaching Facilitation
Conveners Org URL Other Comment Skills


Presenters :

Name WeekDay Org URL Other Comment
Luis Camargo . . . . luis@opepa.org
Raji Jayasinghe . . . . r.jayasinghe@ubiquityuniversity.org
Stanley Nyoni . . . . stanley.nyoni@thenaturalstep.org
Yene Assegid . . . . yene.assegid@gmail.com
Lev Gordon . . . . levagordon@yahoo.com
Julian Baller . . . . Julian Baller julian.baller@co-creating-europe.eu
Andrés Malavé . . . . andres.malave@orange.fr
Indra Adnan . . . . info@thealternative.org.uk
Monica Sharma . . . . dr.monica.s@gmail.com
Paddy Pampallis . . . . Paddy@thecoachingcentre.co.za
Presenter Name . . . . .

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