Welcome to our ICON Global Blog!

Your holders for this space are Fernanda Ibarra and Juan Pablo Rico.

This blog is a the result of some months of work around the purpose of answering one question ‘what is an integral community?’ What began as a living room inquiry began to unfold into a passion to manifest and participate in what we sense as a movement, as a passion and a dream for thousands of people. This pulse was the drive for further explorations so we decided to step more fully into the object of our attention by launching an online survey, based on a methodology created by Barret-Brown from the Integral Sustainability center (part of Ken Wilber´s Integral Institute) and sent it to a small group of people we know and trust in their individual depth and knowledge/experience about communities and/or integral thinking. (We will soon open it as a tool for communities or communities designer/researchers to use).

This blog is part of our commitment to publish all the survey results. It is a work in progress in the sense that we want to keep working, posting and holding a space for ‘the integral communities movement’. We will soon post more about what ‘The integral framework’ is about, links, images, blogrolls about communities and more. There is more to come.

Right now what you will find here is:

• You may read about the story of the survey

• You will find an analysis on the survey results. Right now its a small chapter. You will be able to download this chapter and the whole results about ‘Integral community design’ in a few weeks.

• All our participants responses

Our recommendations is that you read the participants responses by category.
This will give you more structure and deeper understanding. The order is the one you choose. As any blog it is listed in chronological order, with the most recent posts (articles) first. You may decide to read through the articles in chronological order, starting at the first post and working backwards or read the topics and find what resonates with you.

The key piece that we find for ‘populating the field’ is your feedback, so here are some ways to participate and keep track with us:

• Trust that “RSS–Really Simple Syndication” will notify you when there is new posts.

• One of the reasons why we decided to publish in Blog format is because it is a two-way conversation. If you comment other users will read it and we will all benefit from each other. We will give more power to what has already been shared.

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It is all for now. Enjoy your visit to ICON GLOBAL! :::: More to come ::::