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Wellbeing - A New Frontier a meta-pragmatic approach
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Wellbeing - A New Frontier Thriveable Cities Integral UrbanHub
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The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two "hungers". There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning... There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter, and that is to have thrust upon them a life without meaning. There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. But of far more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or unhappiness, and that is meaning. Because meaning transfigures all. Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you're happy or unhappy. You are content - you are not alone in your Spirit - you belong. Laurens van der Post
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love. Lewis Mumford, writer
Introduction Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing Making it Happen Health in Cities Going Integral People Books
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It has become clearer and clearer to me that the work I am engaged in involves building our capacities to cope with phenomena—that is, the mess of the world, “the swamp,” the heat, the smell, the emotionality, the conflict and all the things that come from engaging as whole people with whole people. This means leaving our desks, holding our models lightly and engaging our senses. The reward being work that is deeply rooted in the complexity of the world, owned by the people who are affected by them instead of opaque, unaccountable agencies. Slouching Towards Flatland, Zaid Hassan
Wellbeing : A new frontier
Introduction
Integral begins with a recognition that we are evolving through growth stages in individual consciousness and culture. Each of these stages has something important to offer: a dignity, insight and capacity, which shines most brightly when combined, or integrated, with the dignity, insights and capacities of other stages. This integration creates more than the sum of its parts, giving rise to new emergent capabilities. These capabilities include the ability to harmonize previously conflicting perspectives and worldviews and to see and enact solutions that have not been seen or tried before.
“Development - happens when people, however poor in money, get together, get organised, become sophisticated and go to scale. It happens when they are savvy and able to influence or change the course of events or the order of things locally, nationally or even globally - or are themselves able to become that order or part of it.” “Development - is that stage you reach when you are secure enough in yourself, individually or collectively, to become interdependent; when ‘I’ can emerge as ‘we’, and also when ‘we’ is inclusive of ‘them’... Getting organised is the foundation of all the other developmental goals we have set; it is the essence of good governance and of sustainable work; it empowers and opens doors; it makes you money and wins you respect.” Small change: About the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities, 2004 Nabeel Hamdi
Wellbeing in the City Walking in the world not talking of the world No one vision is sufficient in and of itself – visions can guide but only by collaborative action in a creative generative process can visions grow and become part of an ongoing positive sociocultural reality. Without taking into account the many worldviews that currently co-exist and crafting ways of including them in a positive and healthy form we will continue to alienate vast sections of all communities and humankind. It is through growing healthy versions of all the different worldviews that we can attempt to move towards an equitable, regenerative and caring world, all within planetary limits. Through action we will move forward – through only ongoing talk we will stagnate and fail. These books are to be dipped into – explored and used to generate ideas and discussion. A catalyst for collaboration and action. And most importantly grown, modified in a generative way. This is a living series - any suggestions for inclusion in the next volumes send to: info@integralmentors.org www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing in the City How to use this book A taste of many visions in our world. Visions both positive - utopian, and negative dystopian. Each claiming to be true and enfolding all the others. But in reality they are ‘true’ but partial – and some more ‘true’ than others. Each ‘shallower’ truth transcended but the best included in the next ‘deeper’ or broader truth. It’s how we use them together and in collaboration that will define how successful we are. It is the morphogenetic pull of caring that will determine how we succeed as a human race. It is the ability to generate an equitable, fair, resilient and regenerative ‘system’ that must drive us forward. The means will be a combination of many of the ideas showcased here but many more still to be discovered
on our exciting journey into the future. Held together through a syngeneic Integral Mythological Pluralism. Too little courage and we will fail – too much certainty and we will fail. But with care and collaboration we have a chance of success. Bringing forth emergent impact through innovation, syngeneic enfoldment & collaborative effort. And a deeper understanding of a broader framework will be required – that is, a more integral vision. Explore and enjoy – use as many of the ideas as possible, enfolding each into an emergent whole that grows generatively. At each step testing – reformulating – regrouping – recreating. Moving beyond, participating, thro’ share-holding, thro’ stake-holding, to becoming a thrive-holder.
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Wellbeing in the City Meaningful Disruption
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Wellbeing in the City Thriveable Cities
Data driven Overt surveillance Covert surveillance Lack privacy
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Wellbeing in the City The Domains in which we create Thriveable Cities Subjective - Interior MY MEANINGS • • • • •
(the me space)
what matters to me my inner world my thoughts, feelings, fears, values, meaning. my intentions & consciousness my worldviews
Objective - Exterior MY BODY & ACTIONS • • • •
(the it/other space)
what people can see about me the tangible & measurable parts of my behaviour, my doing what I eat & do
Personal: Values, Commitment, Responsibility, Altitude
Behaviour: Actions; Competencies; Compliance; Choices
OUR SHARED MEANING & RELATIONSHIP (the me space)
GROUP PROCESSES/SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES (the its/others space)
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our culture & relationships how we understand How relate to each other our worldviews our dominant mode of discourse
Cultural: Shared values, Morale, Myths & Legends, Covenants
Inter-subjective - Interior
• the design of things/systems • the process, procedures, structures & systems that support, explain, map, measure & guide • how things work/look, aesthetics
Systems: Organisational structures; Policies & Procedures; Metrics; Contracts
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Wellbeing in the City Meta-pragmatic mapping Mindset Worldview Values Faith Beliefs
Values
Nurture Education Learning Creating Innovation Translation Transformation
Behaviour
Health Wellbeing Mobility
Cultures Relationships Value Systems Community Development Stages
Systems
Economy Business Nature Eco systems Systems Complexity Systems of Systems
Development Stages
People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds. www.integralmentors.org
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Mental health is a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.” The World Health Organisation
City & Wellbeing
Curated Barbara van Schaik
Wellbeing in the City
Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing : Design Aspects
www.scribd.com/document/282213136/Healthy-Cities-Lancet
Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing : Health Cities
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Wellbeing in the City City of Wellbeing
www.amazon.co.uk/City-Well-being-radical-guide-planning/dp/0415639328
Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing : City Farm and Community Gardens
www.farmgarden.org.uk/news/communities-encouraged-go-diy-making-their-neighbourhoods-more-sustainable
Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing : Stress
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01426397908705892
Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing : Mental Health
www.link.springer.com/article/10.1093/jurban/jtg063
Wellbeing in the City Can We Improve Well being in Cities
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Wellbeing in the City Envisioning Healthy And Sustainable Cities
Daniel Christian Wahl
The complex systems on which our lives depend—ecological systems, communities, economic systems, our bodies—all have emergent properties, a primary one being health and well-being’. The emergence of health and sustainability as a defining property of the sustainable city depends on appropriate interactions and relationships on all scales of the fundamentally interconnected complex system that unites nature and culture. In a complex and interconnected world, everybody is a participant and a designer affecting humanity’s collective future through the interactions and relationships s/he engages in. A sustainable city cannot exist in isolation. It depends on, and is defined by, its context and its participants. We have to engage in the transition towards sustainability primarily at the local and regional scale, and create a sustainable culture community-by-community, city-by-city and region-by-region. Ultimately, in a fundamentally interconnected and interdependent complex dynamic system, it is safe to assume that local, regional, and global sustainability are interdependent. This is why cooperation on and across all scales of design is a crucial element of scale-linking design for systemic health and sustainability. In general, the wicked problem of sustainability involves the design of more sustainable lifestyles, products, and transport-, energy- and food-systems, as well as of sustainable communities, economies, industries and cities, to make ecosystems, bioregions and societies healthier and more resilient, thereby increasing the likelihood that these systems/processes will be able to sustain themselves over the long term. Collective and community-based visioning is a powerful tool for promoting sustainable development in all these sectors. A vision for ecological settlement design. A settlement of diversity A settlement on a human scale A settlement of short distances A settlement which uses as little space as possible A settlement of occupant responsibility An energy efficient settlement An emission-free settlement
A quiet beautiful settlement A settlement which values water A predominantly waste-free settlement A settlement of healthy buildings A settlement of native species and productive plants A settlement of creative conflict solving A settlement of human values
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Wellbeing in the City How Project Public Spaces Drives Change Transforming Places: We help communities and cities shape their future through individual public spaces and broad placemaking campaigns.
Building the Placemaking Movement: We convene, amplify and build the capacity of the placemaking movement globally and locally.
Campaigning for Systemic Change: We make the case for placemaking and engage with like-minded people and movements to influence policies, disciplines, hearts and minds.
www.pps.org
Wellbeing in the City What Makes a Great Place Placemaking Placemaking is both a philosophy and a practical process for transforming public spaces. It is centered on observing, listening to, and asking questions of the people who live, work, and play in a particular space in order to understand their needs and aspirations for that space and for their community as a whole.
Project for Public Spaces is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build strong communities. We are the central hub of the global Placemaking movement, connecting people to ideas, resources, expertise, and partners who see place as the key to addressing our greatest challenges. www.pps.org
Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing : Roof Gardens Vertical Farms, and Green Walls
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Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing : Design Aspects
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Wellbeing in the City What is wellbeing and can we design for it
Ash Buchanan
Wellbeing is best thought of, not as a ‘thing’ that can be designed, but as an always adapting, pattern of relationships. Wellbeing requires an ongoing partnership, something that happens in concert between people and place. Some of these partnerships are physical and ecological, such as access to healthy food, and being in nature, while others are social and psychological, such as community and having positive emotions. Wellbeing depends on what happened yesterday, as much as it depends on what is happening in the moment, or could happen in the future. It’s a truly complex quality that can’t be dumbed down into a shopping list of design features that ‘make’ us well. Therefore, suggesting we can design physical buildings that make us well isn’t really telling the full story. It is more a matter of designing ‘space’ — physically, psychologically, socially and ecologically — for the potential of wellbeing to emerge. “The amazing thing is, all the studies of longevity and happiness show that when you live a life realising your interconnected, you’re going to be happier and healthier.” — Daniel Siegel https://medium.com/benefit-mindset/what-is-wellbeing-and-can-we-design-for-it-4bd69cd95142
Wellbeing in the City What is wellbeing and can we design for it
Ash Buchanan
The four interwoven dimensions of wellbeing design The following are four research-based dimensions building designers best draw on to create generous ‘space’ for wellbeing on their project’s. Physical — A popular focus for wellbeing design consultants are the physical elements of health and wellbeing. There is now a rich variety of tools and references such as Well Building, Human Spaces and Happy City that help design teams consider how they can create better places for people. This includes guidelines for the design of interior and urban spaces that have the potential to transform the quality of our lives and enhance the richness of our workplaces and communities. Psychological –In recent years there has been an explosion of research into the traits that constitute psychological flourishing in our inner lives of thoughts and feelings. As summarised by Martin Seligman in his book Flourish, much of this research points to 5 key human qualities — Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment — PERMA for short. Spaces that nurture these rich and deeply meaningful experiences opens people up and helps them show up more fully at work, and in life. In turn, this promotes psychological flourishing as well as a number of other desirable human qualities like creativity, productivity and vitality.
https://medium.com/benefit-mindset/what-is-wellbeing-and-can-we-design-for-it-4bd69cd95142
Wellbeing in the City What is wellbeing and can we design for it
Ash Buchanan
The four interwoven dimensions of wellbeing design Social — In addition to our inner world of being, there is the often overlooked fact that we live in a profoundly interconnected world. We are both separate and connected to everything else in this universe. Therefore, our wellbeing is also a function of the diversity and quality of our interpersonal relationships. Spaces that promote culturally rich, diverse and connected communities is fundamental in elevating our collective potential and promoting long term resilience and wellbeing. This includes creating spaces that resonate with their contexts, and express values that purposefully pull communities and organisations forward. Ecological — Finally, there is the fact that for approximately 200,000 years’, humans evolved living in the natural world. It’s only in the past few hundred years or so that we shifted from spending 90% of our time outdoors to spending 90% of our time indoors. While this shift has brought us many gifts, it has highlighted an important aspect of human wellbeing; we are wired to be in relationship with natural elements such as daylight, air, water, flora and fauna. There is now overwhelming evidence that a connection with nature improves our health, wellbeing and productivity as well as enhancing human qualities like learning, empathy and compassion. Therefore, spaces that bring the best of the outdoors, indoors, plays a key role in a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. Taken together, this research implies that the potential for wellbeing is at its highest when the design of spaces is informed and uniquely enriched by all four of these dimensions. https://medium.com/benefit-mindset/what-is-wellbeing-and-can-we-design-for-it-4bd69cd95142
Wellbeing in the City What is Wellbeing
Co-creating Wellbeing
www.cohere.com.au/purpose/
New housing also offers the opportunity to encourage healthier behaviours through the built environment and urban design, preventing ill health and encouraging greater independence and selfcare.
Ensuring Wellbeing
Curated Alan Dean
Health in Cities
Wellbeing in the City Healthy New Towns Program
What is healthy placemaking? There are many factors that influence the long-term health and wellbeing of the population, including the nature of the places that people live, work, learn and spend their leisure time in. The design of buildings, streets, parks and neighbourhoods can support good physical and mental health, help reduce health inequalities and improve people's wellbeing. Conversely, car-oriented environments and hostile public spaces can contribute to sedentary lifestyles and social isolation, increasing people's risk of disease. We champion healthy placemaking through the independent design advice services we provide to Local Authorities, institutions and infrastructure providers, embedding the principles of healthy placemaking in the development process to improve the health of the nation. https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/built-environment/creating-healthy-places. www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing in the City Healthy New Towns Program Why it matters Physical inactivity alone is responsible for one in six UK deaths (equal to smoking) and is estimated to cost the UK ÂŁ7.4 billion annually. Behaviour patterns are responsible for 40% of the cause of premature death in the UK. An evidence review by Public Health England substantiates the theory that improved physical and mental health can be supported by designing neighbourhoods that enable:
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Physical activity: To increase walkability in buildings and neighbourhoods and encourage healthy modes of transport Healthy food: To improve access to healthier foods Social contact: To design well-connected housing and neighbourhoods that provide access to facilities and amenities to reduce social isolation and loneliness Contact with nature: To provide access to the natural environment, including parks Pollution: Reducing exposure to air and noise pollution. This all adds up to compact, mixed-use, walkable neighbourhoods with leafy streets and great parks. https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/built-environment/creating-healthy-places. www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing in the City Healthy New Towns Program The research uncovered: • 48% of built environment practitioners said that in their day-to-day work, they either ‘often’ or ‘always’ increased walking and cycling activity amongst residents • 35% said their work either ‘often’ or ‘always’ decreased the use of private motor vehicles • But built environment practitioners are more likely to consider health and wellbeing when designing outdoor spaces (52% say they do so ‘often’ or ‘always’) than when designing indoor spaces (34%) • Only 40% of the practitioners surveyed felt they helped to deliver compact, mixed-use neighbourhoods. • Healthy placemaking interventions are excluded from design proposals due to the perceived cost to implement them – 55% of the practitioners surveyed reported that insufficient funding prevented them from creating healthy places. • The systems, policies and processes of the planning and building design and development are not currently supportive towards healthy placemaking. • Greater understanding is needed – amongst the general public but also politicians – about the effect of the built environment on health. The report also found: • Many practitioners are not using data and insight to design and create healthy places. • Very few practitioners can demonstrate impact. • While the public are consulted about developments, the timing, tools and techniques vary. • Highways, and guidance on highways, make it difficult to create healthy places. • Priorities differ across government departments leading to conflict, confusion and no shared vision on healthy placemaking. • The vision for healthy place making is clear but this vision does not always translate into delivery of projects on the ground.
The NHS has selected the first 10 sites for its Healthy New Towns programme as part of its drive to tackle the obesity crisis More than 76,000 new homes will be built on sites, including Ebbsfleet Garden City and Barking Riverside (see full list below), with each receiving expert design and technology advice from the NHS to help boost public health.
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Wellbeing in the City Healthy New Towns Program Ten principles A route to healthy places 1. Plan ahead 2. Plan integrated 3. Connect, involve and empower people and communities 4. Create compact neighbourhoods 5. Maximise active travel 6. Inspire and enable healthy eating 7. Foster health in homes and buildings 8. Enable healthy play 9. Provide health services that help people stay well 10. Create integrated health centres england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/ healthy-new-towns www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing in the City Health New Towns Program How places matter to wellbeing Places where people live have a significant impact on their mental and physical health but that impact is too often negative. Many high streets are dominated by fast-food takeaways. Driving is often the only – and most convenient – way to get around. Poorly maintained parks and green spaces do little to invite walking or play. In numerous ways, neighbourhoods, towns and cities restrict people’s choices and chances to lead healthier, more active lives. People are living longer but are spending more of these additional years in poor health. Six million people over the age of 60 live with two or more long-term conditions, such as type 2 diabetes or depression. Many of these conditions are not inevitable, but are associated with the way people live.
There isn’t a single answer to describing what a healthy new town looks like; it’s a combination of a huge range of components, including service redesign and integration, active travel infrastructure, behaviour change, healthy food options and many more.
UK schoolchildren are now among the least active in the world, and as a nation, we are among the most overweight in western Europe. Obesity, inactivity and social isolation are all strongly associated with the development of long-term conditions. It is essential to help prevent ill health by planning, designing and developing higher quality places. There is growing evidence of how this can be done. For example, providing safe routes for walking to school or cycling to work helps promote physical activity, and attractive green spaces or parks for play and recreation can foster learning and wellbeing. england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/ healthy-new-towns www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing in the City Health New Towns Program NHS England established Healthy New Towns, a three year programme, to look at how health and wellbeing can be planned and designed into new places. It brings together partners in housebuilding, local government, healthcare and local communities to demonstrate how to create places that offer people improved choices and chances for a healthier life. The programme’s three priorities were: •
planning and designing a healthy built environment
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creating innovative models of healthcare
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encouraging strong and connected communities.
Places that were planning new large scale housing developments were invited to take part in the programme. Ten were selected to be ‘demonstrator sites’ to test innovation and explore possibilities. These sites represent a range of locations and explore different challenges. Putting Health into Place, to be published by NHS England in spring 2019, will set out national recommendations for change and provide practical tools for anyone involved in creating new places, based on the 10 principles, which are introduced in this leaflet. NHS England has been collaborating with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and cross-government partners throughout the programme and is keen to see these principles adopted by garden cities and communities. england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/ healthy-new-towns. www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing in the City Health and Wellbeing Planet: Care... Keeping our blue planet in tip-top shape is the best recipe for world well-being. It can sometimes feel like a hopeless task, but small positive changes like getting on your bike and switching off your charger, can make a big difference. Cycle or walk when local - it costs nothing, is good for the environment and good for your physical well-being - a no brainer! Repair; recycle; re-use as much as you can. Try a cooking class or join a local gardening group Growing your own fruit or vegetables can be fun and sharing what you’ve grown is very rewarding. Learning how to cook as a family can mean more healthy tasty meals and you can spend a bit of time together. https://www.wheelofwellbeing.org www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing in the City Health and Wellbeing
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Wellbeing in the City Health and Wellbeing
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Wellbeing in the City 5 Ways of Wellbeing Connect... With the people around you. With family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. At home, work, school or in your local community. Think of these as the cornerstones of your life and invest time in developing them. Building these connections will support and enrich you every day.
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Be active... Go for a walk or run. Step outside. Cycle. Play a game. Garden. Dance. Exercising makes you feel good. Most importantly, discover a physical activity you enjoy and that suits your level of mobility and fitness. Take notice... Be curious. Catch sight of the beautiful. Remark on the unusual. Notice the changing seasons. Savour the moment, whether you are walking to work, eating lunch or talking to friends. Be aware of the world around you and what you are feeling. Reflecting on your experiences will help you appreciate what matters to you. Keep learning... Try something new. Rediscover an old interest. Sign up for that course. Take on a different responsibility at work. Fix a bike. Learn to play an instrument or how to cook your favourite food. Set a challenge you will enjoy achieving. Learning new things will make you more confident as well as being fun. Give... Do something nice for a friend, or a stranger. Thank someone. Smile. Volunteer your time. Join a community group. Look out, as well as in. Seeing yourself, and your happiness, linked to the wider community can be incredibly rewarding and creates connections with the people around you. https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/putting-health-into-place-v4.pdf.
Wellbeing in the City 5 Ways of Wellbeing Analytical Framework
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Wellbeing in the City 5 Ways of Wellbeing Some applications of the Five Ways to Wellbeing mapped to the analytical framework
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“In paying attention to our wellbeing, we address the needs of our environment - the society that we live in and our planet. Sustainability depends on community - when we learn to be happily reliant on each other, we're less likely to turn to material consumption to meet our emotional needs.” ― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
Wellbeing : Praxis
Making it Happen
Wellbeing Wellbeing and a shorter working week MENTAL HEALTH AND THE SHORTER WORKING WEEK The move to a shorter working week could help the UK improve the health of workers, and the success of businesses. Poor mental health at work is estimated to cost employers between £33- 42 billion, or almost 2% of UK GDP (Deloitte, 2017). Additionally, 300,000 people move out of work due to poor mental health on a yearly basis. A move towards a shorter working week could reduce stress and increase productivity, as well as enabling a better quality of rest and recuperation, which could in turn limit mental fatigue and lead to fewer sick days. Lower levels of work- related mental distress would also reduce associated burdens on healthcare services. A shorter working week could reduce the current costs of mental health at work for employers and the government, improving productivity and reducing demand for already stretched mental health services. WELLBEING AND THE SHORTER WORKING WEEK A reduction in work-time can lead to an increase in worker wellbeing. The relationship between work and wellbeing is something that normally escapes economic measurements or analysis. Whilst politicians focus on wage relations, unemployment levels and the productivity of a nation’s economic output, very little in the way of policy is directed at improving the qualitative impact work has on people’s day-to-day lives and how this contributes to a well-functioning society. This section outlines a number of empirical studies that have investigated the direct impact reducing the working week has had on people’s wellbeing and their quality of life. http://autonomy.work/…/20…/03/Shorter-working-week-docV6.pdf
Wellbeing Transition to a shorter working week IMPACT OF BEHAVIOUR
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Reduced working hours could change the behaviour of households away from energy intensive behaviours, and toward more eco-friendly alternatives (Coote et al., 2010). Households could prepare home- made food instead of consuming energy-intensive ready-meals, and walk or cycle instead of drive (Jalas, 2002). This holds true even when controlling for income: those working longer hours have more environmentally damaging patterns of consumption (Devetter and Rousseau, 2011). The creation of more free time outside of work creates the possibility for a general movement towards low-carbon ‘soft’ activities (Kallis et al., 2013). These include reading and playing, exercising, spending time with the family, relaxing, and investing in personal education amongst things. It must be noted however that these changes in consumer behaviour are also dependent on the relative prices of different leisure and consumption goods. Additional environmental regulation such as taxes on energy-intensive goods can provide incentives for more low- carbon forms of consumption and leisure (Van den Bergh, 2011). With limited free time, there is an increased tendency to spend that time intensively on more consumer goods. Having less time outside of waged-work means people are not able to use their leisure time for time-intensive, but low-energy activities such as regular exercise, and cooking with raw ingredients. http://autonomy.work/…/20…/03/Shorter-working-week-docV6.pdf
Wellbeing in the City Can We Improve Wellbeing in Cities
www.thinkingcity.org/2013/01/31/wellbeing/
Wellbeing in the City Urban design and mental health in Hong Kong: a city case study 3 Urban planning/design lessons from Hong Kong for better public mental health First mile-last mile infrastructure: Promote walking and negate the need for cars Social infrastructure: Formal sitting out spaces encourage people to socialise, and to walk and rest Space sharing in dense cities: Where space is limited, the same location can have different uses at different times 8 Urban planning/design steps to help improve Hong Kong’s public mental health Urban nature and other public space: More in-city options will support better mental health (and clearer links to nearby greenery) Design work for better mental health: Improve settings for commutes, offices, and breaks during the day Pro-social homes: Increase opportunities for positive social interaction within housing Reduce car domination: Public transport and walking should occupy landscape commensurate with prevalence Sitting in and out: Sitting out spaces should also exist within air conditioned indoor places Cross-sector collaboration: More collaboration between government sectors would deliver better health impact Inclusive planning: More formal effort to engage city residents and users will reap rewards Prioritise health: Shift decision-making priorities from mainly financial considerations to include health https://www.urbandesignmentalhealth.com/journal4-hk-case-study.html
To build a dynamic city you need everyone from different walks of life, different strata of society to come together and build something interesting. It needs to be progressive, dynamic, and definitely needs to be united in its vision. You need to reach that diversity of different ideas, but there needs to be a central idea that everyone can walk towards as well. - Jackson Tan, co-founder of black design & phunk studio
Views of wellbeing
Wellbeing
Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing a Systems View
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Wellbeing in the City Psychology & the City
www.charleslandry.com/themes/creative-cities-index/
Wellbeing in the City PERMA-Theory : Seligman – Positive Psychology
www.livingmeanings.com/martin-seligman-and-his-two-theories-of-happiness/
Wellbeing in the City Six-factor Model of Psychological Wellbeing : Ryff Scale
www.livingmeanings.com/six-criteria-well-ryffs-multidimensional-model/
Wellbeing in the City World Visions Resilient Cities Initiative
www.wvevidence4change.org/
Wellbeing in the City World Visions Resilient Cities Initiative
www.wvevidence4change.org/
Wellbeing in the City Canadian Index of Wellbeing
www.thinkingcity.org/2013/01/31/wellbeing/
Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing: Food Policy Priorities and Implementation
www.peoplesfoodpolicy.org
No society has ever been without its vision holders; the only difference has been in the nobility of the vision. To whom are we to look? —awakened sages or Wall-Street advertisers, shamanic revelations or deconstructive narcissism, growth to goodness or wallowing in ego? Structuralism, by whatever name, has always pointed to the deeper and higher waves of awareness that are the birth right of all sentient beings. Therefore, choose your visions carefully, for as even the earliest sages counselled: you become what you contemplate. The Look of a Feeling: The Importance of Post/Structuralism Excerpt D: Kosmic Karma & Creativity Š 2006 Ken Wilber.
Wellbeing : The Theory
Making it Happen
Wellbeing in the City
Unsustainable impact
Modes of Participation
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Thriveable Impact
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Sustainable Impact
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Wellbeing in the City
Modes of Participation
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Wellbeing Stages of Human Adaptive Socio-psychological Development
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Spiral Dynamic
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Wellbeing Stages of Human Adaptive Socio-psychological Development
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Wellbeing Solonics
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Wellbeing Solonics
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Wellbeing Solonics
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Wellbeing Wellbeing – Worldviews, Mindsets and Values (memes)
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Wellbeing Stages of Human Adaptive Socio-psychological Development The stages are less concerned with content (surface structure) and more about the container (deep structure) of the content. i.e. The worldviews of an absolutist atheist and an absolutist Christian are diametrically opposed, but they share the lack of ambiguity. It’s not necessarily what an individual thinks that’s important but how it thinks. The stages aren’t black or white. No individual or society is wholly at one stage. but are a complex mix of elements from a number of stages. Nuance and complex thinking must apply. Stages can also ‘brighten’ or ‘dim’. Individuals and societies are capable of regressing to lower stages to suit life’s moment to moment situations.
Individual or societies mindset manifest as healthy (open) or unhealthy (arrested/closed). A healthy mindset is one that is open and accepting of new information, where as an unhealthy mindset manifests as closed-off, judgmental and unable to increase its cognitive development. Knowing an organism’s mindset (stage) alone isn’t as useful as knowing how it is manifesting. www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing Stages of Human Adaptive Socio-psychological Development Personal Alignment
The COG
The ‘Talk’
The ‘Walk’
Action-Logic Leadership Development The Leading edge of thought the ‘Talk’
The ‘Star’ & Shadow
The ‘Systems’
developmental pull the ‘Star’ The centre of action the ‘Walk’
Self-Identity Personal Development
Values Personal Development
The trailing tail of action the ‘Shadow’
Integral MENTORS
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Wellbeing A New Initiative for Making Our Movement See Itself One part of what it takes are new coalitions, new cross-sectional partnerships that pool our resources, networks, and capacities to serve this larger purpose. To prototype such collaborations, HuffPost is teaming up with the Presencing Institute (PI) in a joint initiative that blends the online news media reach of Huffpost with the global capacity and movement building infrastructures of PI and MITx u.lab in order to launch a joint initiative that will: Create an interactive multimedia hub to move the new economic narrative from marginal to mainstream. Shine a spotlight on pioneers and inspiring living examples of the new economy and the principles that guide them. Connect aspiring change makers with the pioneers that already created inspiring living examples around the various key acupuncture point areas of transforming capitalism Share key frameworks that link the transformation of capitalism and the upgrading our democratic and educational systems with the UN framework of the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Provide methods, tools, and movement building capacities that help change makes to move from idea to action. Otto Scharmer The figure depicts a map of places that we can choose to operate from when engaging with our social and environmental context. Simply put, we can choose to operate from a closed mind, closed heart, and closed will, or we can choose to operate from an open mind, open heart, and open will. Accordingly, our actions give rise to a social field of self-destruction (absencing) or of collective creativity (presencing). www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2018-moving-beyond-trumprebuilding-our-civilizations_us_5a480ba1e4b0d86c803c7735?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
Wellbeing Regenerating Our Civilization At the end of the day what gives me hope is something very simple. Although as a civilization we are still heading in the wrong direction on many counts, many innovative and eco-system-aware people are doing great work in numerous contexts. Seeing that is a huge source of inspiration and hope. I see all these initiatives as part of an emerging movement that is working to regenerate the foundation of our civilization: how we work and live together. In the context of modern societies, this means rethinking and regenerating our economies toward sustainability, inclusion and well-being for all, our democracies toward more direct, participatory forms of governance, and our educational systems toward activating the deeper sources of learning (head, heart, hand) My source of confidence is that in all three areas the answers are right in front of us. I have seen them being prototyped in many different contexts. But they are not yet linked together and made visible to everyone. They have not yet transformed the old systems. Years ago, I realized that we lacked a word for this deeper capacity of self-knowing, which is why I introduced the blended word presencing. Presencing combines “sensing” (of an emerging future) with “presence” (actualizing that future in the now). The root of the word “presencing” means “to be.” The words essence, presence, and the old Indian sat, which means “truth” and “goodness,” all share the same Indo-European word root. An Old German derivative of the same root, sun, means “those who are surrounding us” or “the beings who surround us.” The deeper developmental capacity at issue here—which you see leadership teams around the globe wrestling with these days—is precisely that: how to connect to the intelligence of those [eco-systems] who surround us?
Otto Scharmer, Contributor Senior Lecturer, MIT; Co-founder u.lab and Presencing Institute
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Wellbeing Wellbeing – The Nature of Life
Barbara van Schaik
www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Life-approach-Wellbeing-interpretation/dp/1512366064
Wellbeing Wellbeing – Air Nature
Barbara van Schaik
For detail on the 3 Natures and much more see - www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Life-approach-Wellbeing-interpretation/dp/1512366064
Wellbeing Wellbeing – Fire Nature
Barbara van Schaik
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For detail on the 3 Natures and much more see - www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Life-approach-Wellbeing-interpretation/dp/1512366064
Wellbeing Wellbeing – Air nature
Barbara van Schaik
For detail on the 3 Natures and much more see - www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Life-approach-Wellbeing-interpretation/dp/1512366064
Wellbeing in the City Digital Access and Equity in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastsides
Willem Booth -adult educator & coordinator of the DTES Literacy Roundtable.
Willem Booth
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Wellbeing in the City Impact not Action
Building Maps and Sets of Interventions that Matter Impact - not only Action What we have tried to show in this series of books is the numerous ideas, theories and activities that are currently in play – how when used alone no lasting impact can be made. Each tends to tackle one of the four domains we have identified as being crucial. As we show in the theory and also the evaluation section - in order to achieve serious impact, interventions in each of the four domains or Quadrants and eight Zones need to be in place . It’s not which intervention to use but which mix in each domain. An intervention in one domain must be complemented by interventions in each of the other three. We now have the methods needed to evaluate and monitor these inter-meshing interventions. Combining this approach with an understanding of stratified increased broadening of mindset ensures that we are able to meet people where they are ‘at’. “it is ironic that we know more about the habitat of mountain gorillas than we do about the [urban] habitat of people’. We have programmes for Smart Cities, Green Cities, Healthy Cities or Cities of Culture, hi-tech or low carbon cities. But people are rarely centre-stage.” The Danish urbanist, Jan Gehl noted acerbically
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Too often development efforts are plastered onto a region or community without full respect for what is already present and what is naturally emerging. An integral approach asks the question: What is already happening here, what is already emerging that could be further supported? This appreciative, community-based way of approaching development is quite a different way to begin a project. Further, applying the evolutionary view that integral theory provides, we are able to get some sense of where a community, or a person, is presently coming from and what might best support this emerging potential. This approach can be applied to both groups and individuals, and essentially honours the inherent trajectory of evolution already occurring, and simply intends to support that as fully as possible.
Wellbeing : A Broader View
Going Integral
Wellbeing in the City During the last 30 years, we have witnessed a historical first: all of the world’s cultures are now available to us. In the past, if you were born, say, a Chinese, you likely spent your entire life in one culture, often in one province, sometimes in one house, living and loving and dying on one small plot of land. But today, not only are people geographically mobile, we can study, and have studied, virtually every known culture on the planet. In the global village, all cultures are exposed to each other. Knowledge itself is now global. This means that, also for the first time, the sum total of human knowledge is available to us—the knowledge, experience, wisdom and reflection of all major human civilizations—premodern, modern, and postmodern—are open to study by anyone. What if we took literally everything that all the various cultures have to tell us about human potential— about spiritual growth, psychological growth, social growth—and put it all on the table? What if we attempted to find the critically essential keys to human growth, based on the sum total of human knowledge now open to us? What if we attempted, based on extensive cross-cultural study, to use all of the world’s great traditions to create a composite map, a comprehensive map, an all-inclusive or integral map that included the best elements from all of them? Sound complicated, complex, daunting? In a sense, it is. But in another sense, the results turn out to be surprisingly simple and elegant. Over the last several decades, there has indeed been an extensive search for a comprehensive map of human potentials. This map uses all the known systems and models of human growth— from the ancient shamans and sages to today’s breakthroughs in cognitive science— and distils their major components into 5 simple factors, factors that are the essential elements or keys to unlocking and facilitating human evolution. Ken Wilber
Welcome to the Integral Model.
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Wellbeing in the City In short, the Integral Approach helps you see both yourself and the world around you in more comprehensive and effective ways. But one thing is important to realize from the start. The Integral Map is just a map. It is not the territory. We certainly don’t want to confuse the map with the territory, but neither do we want to be working with an inaccurate or faulty map. The Integral Map is just a map, but it is the most complete and accurate map we have at this time. We find that an infant at birth has not yet been socialized into the culture’s ethics and conventions; this is called the pre-conventional stage. It is also called egocentric, in that the infant’s awareness is largely self-absorbed. But as the young child begins to learn its culture’s rules and norms, it grows into the conventional stage of morals. This stage is also called ethnocentric, in that it centres on the child’s particular group, tribe, clan, or nation, and it therefore tends to exclude care for those not of one’s group. But at the next major stage of moral development, the post-conventional stage, the individual’s identity expands once again, this time to include a care and concern for all peoples, regardless of race, colour, sex, or creed, which is why this stage is also called world-centric. Thus, moral development tends to move from “me” (egocentric) to “us” (ethnocentric) to “all of us” (worldcentric) — a good example of the unfolding stages of consciousness. Ken Wilber What is the point of using this Integral Map or Model? First, whether you are working in business, medicine, psychotherapy, law, ecology, or simply everyday living and learning, the Integral Map helps make sure that you are “touching all the bases.” If you are trying to fly over the Rocky Mountains, the more accurate a map you have, the less likely you will crash. An Integral Approach insures that you are utilizing the full range of resources for any situation, with the greater likelihood of success. Second, if you learn to spot these 5 elements in your own awareness—and because they are there in any event— then you can more easily appreciate them, exercise them, use them... and thereby vastly accelerate your own growth and development to higher, wider, deeper ways of being. A simple familiarity with the 5 elements in the Integral Model will help you orient yourself more easily and fully in this exciting journey of discovery and awakening. www.integralmentors.org
A Broader Framework Any attempt at interventions to modify behaviour needs to consider the interrelationship between behaviour, values & mindsets, culture and existing systems in place and systems of infrastructure being proposed. Each of these domains have a distinct influence and need to be tetra-meshed to embed change in the long-term. Change can be translational – healthier at same Stage of development or transformational – healthier (hopefully) a higher Stage of development.
Interior Subjective : Values - mindsets & intention
Exterior Objective : Behaviour – competences & capacities
Personal beliefs/ mindset
Personal Behaviour
Stages of development
Cultural views Context Interior Intersubjective : Culture - worldviews
Systems existing & proposed
Exterior Interobjective : Systems – infrastructure & creations
For communication tools see ‘Guides for Integrally Informed Practitioners : Basic’ – Paul van Schaik
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A Broader Framework Beliefs/mindset
(individuals)
Determine Values Centre of Gravity (VCG) (a number of instruments are available to measure VCG) Communications: 1. to nudge ‘improvements’ at current VCG (short term) 2. to transform to higher levels of understanding (long term) - stories, messages, school programs, social media, advertising etc. Peer group pressure, role models etc.
Behaviour
(individuals)
To change Personal Behaviour both – translational more healthy at same level (horizontal) - transformational towards a higher stage of development (vertical) - new laws & guidelines/instructions - programs/projects in other quadrants.
translational or transformational development
Context
Projects need to be co created with communities – not handed down from the centre. See Modes of Participation table (level 6 to 8 for ‘sustainable’ results)
Cultural views (communities etc.)
Systems
Determine Dominant Mode of Discourse (DMD) (a number of instruments are available to measure DMD)
in place – what needs improving & what needs replacing proposed systems C40 interventions
Communications: 1. to nudge ‘improvements’ at current DMD (short term) 2. to transform to higher levels of understanding (long term) - stories, messages, school programs, social media, advertising etc. Peer group pressure, role models etc.
These ‘problems’ are know as ‘wicked problems’ and actions or interventions usually bring forth unintended consequences. This constant alignment to goals of vision needed
Any intervention must be designed and implemented in conjunction with projects in other quadrants For communication tools see ‘Guides for Integrally Informed Practitioners : Basic’ – Paul van Schaik
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Wellbeing in the City Domains of change (tetra-meshed) Psychological - Spiritual
Inter-personal/Bio
Concerned with changing one’s sense of being.
Concerned with changing one’s own behaviours in interaction with others Broad change Theory: It’s all a question of how individuals interact Focus: Showing trust, respect, mutual understanding Shifting behaviour to demonstrate interdependence Reaching conciliation of inter-personal differences
Broad change Theory: It’s all a question of individual perceptions and capacity Focus: Deepening self-awareness Developing one’s knowledge, skills, mindsets, beliefs Methods: Meditation Personal reflection and inquiry Personal development of mastery through courses and apprenticeships
Methods: Diversity training learning journeys into other people’s worlds Group encounters/retreats for exploration Mediation/negotiation training
Cultural
Structural and Systems/Social
Concerned with collective values of fairness and justice.
Concerned with governance, decision-making processes, and institutions Broad change Theory: It’s all a question of processes, institutions, and power Focus: Policies, legislation Institutions, procedures Allocation of resources
Broad change Theory: It’s all a question of collective values and beliefs Focus: Collective goals and aspirations Underlying values and beliefs Implicit ‘rules’ and assumptions Discourse. language Methods: Collective goal-setting & strategy creation Developing value statements and processes of actualisation Ongoing media programmes
Objective - Tangible
Subjective - Intangible
Individual
Methods: Building political structures, agreements, frameworks, systems New accounting/reporting/measurement systems
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Wellbeing in the City Quadrants of Development
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A Broader Framework Upper Quadrants EXPERIENCE/VALUES
BEHAVIOR
Individual-Interior: Self and Consciousness The invisible, subjective, internal reality of an individual
Individual-Exterior: Brain and Organism The visible, objective, external reality of individual
Context: self-identity and consciousness; intentions; personal values; attitude; religious or spiritual beliefs; commitment (e.g., cognitive, emotional, moral); cognitive capacity; depth of responsibility; degree of care for others and the environment; etc.
Context: empirically measurable individual qualities; physical boundaries or surfaces; biological features; brain chemistry; bodily states; physical health; behaviors; skills; capabilities; actions; etc.
Examples of areas addressed: psychological health and development; educational level; emotional intelligence; motivation and will; understanding of one's role in the community and impact on the environment; personal goals; the practitioner's intrapersonal intelligence, mental model, and selfknowledge;
Examples of areas addressed: energy level of a practitioner; nutritional intake; conduct toward environment or opposite sex; response to rules and regulations; money management; computer skills; acidity;
Tools for transformation: e.g., psychotherapy; religious or spiritual counseling; phenomenological research; introspection; goal-setting;
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Tools for transformation: e.g., diet; hygiene; exercise; skill-building; clear rules, regulations, and guidance from a respected authority; use of litigation to enforce regulations
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A Broader Framework Upper Quadrants CULTURE
SYSTEMS
Collective-Interior: Cultures and Worldviews The invisible, inter-subjective, internal realities of groups
Collective-Exterior: Social Systems & Environments The visible, inter-objective, external realities of groups
Context: shared values and worldviews; shared meaning; mutual resonance; cultural norms, boundaries and mores; language; customs; communication; relationships; symbolism; agreed upon ethics; etc. Examples of areas addressed: cultural "appropriateness"; collective vision; relationship between practitioners and the community; relationship amongst communityIfamilyIorganization members; language differences; collective interpretation of power, class, race and gender inequities; collective perception of the environment and pollution Tools for transformation: e.g., dialogue; communitydirected development; inclusive decision making; consensus-based strategic planning; organizational learning; support groups (religious or secular); trust building exercises techniques; community visioning; cooperative participation; storytelling; collective introspection; meme development and propagation
Context: visible societal structures; systems & modes of production (economic, political, social, informational, educational, technological); strategies; policies; work processes; technologies; natural systems, processes & interactions in the environment Examples of areas addressed: stability & effectiveness of economic & political systems; legal frameworks; strength of tech., educational & healthcare infrastructure; poverty alleviation; actual power, class, race & gender inequities; job creation & trade; corporate regulation; organizational structure; food security; health of local biota or global biosphere; climate change; restoration, protection & sustainable use of natural resources; Tools for transformation: e.g., policy-making; capacity building; systems thinking; "upstream" strategies; organizational reengineering; microcredit & micro-enterprise; www.integralmentors.org
Wellbeing in the City Towards an Ecological Epoch
Sim van der Ryn
www.simvanderryn.com/philosophy/
Wellbeing in the City The Consciousness Structure Diagram
Sim van der Ryn
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Wellbeing in the City Metamodern, Postmodern, and Modern Ideas
Upper Right-hand Quadrant
Early Integral
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Wellbeing in the City Moving Towards a More Integral development
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Wellbeing in the City Quadrants: Zones of Development
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Wellbeing in the City Quadrants: Zones of Development
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Wellbeing in the City Common Cause Foundation - (Flatland not the Spiral)
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A Broader Framework Perspectives – Domains of Knowing SELF
My Values & Mindset
Our Culture & WorldViews
PERSPECTIVE (consumption)
My Behaviour & Lifestyle
‘Consumption’ viewed from a personal perspective – through personal mindsets & values
‘Consumption’ viewed from an empirical perspective – (data and observation driven)
Our Society & Systems
‘Consumption’ viewed from a cultural perspective – through group culture & worldviews
‘Consumption’ viewed from a social & systems perspective – (data and observation driven)
domains in which I am embedded
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Wellbeing in the City Self-as-instrument
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Wellbeing in the City Wellbeing – Who am I ?
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People
Wellbeing in the City Contributors Barbara van Schaik Wellbeing Curator - Thriving People Co Founder integralMENTORS
Worked as an advisor to a number of NGOs including Ideas International in Bangladesh. Studied Tibetan Medicine in Bhutan, Nepal and at Men Zee Khang, Dharamshala, India, leading in 2015 to the publication of he book 'The Nature of Life – the Tibetan Approach to Health and Wellbeing’ - is an updated treatment of the ancient teaching of Tibetan Medicine. Followed by the companion volume 'the 3 Natures Guide to Diet & Lifestyle. Also The Cloud Garden - a novel set in Bhutan and a number of short stories. Qualified in Chinese herbal medicine.
Alan Dean Health Curator: - Thriving People Founder/Managing Director Burning2Learn UK Ltd
25+ years of enjoyment, unlocking human talent by building teams through construction, community and media projects that have allowed ownership whist building self- esteem. Allowing people to restore their sense of worth. Building energy into community, this approach has succeeded at all academic levels. Many of the successful projects have been commissioned or accredited by: NESTA National-Endowment-for-Science-Technology-andthe-Arts; Initiatives of Change; BIS Business Innovation Skills; Kent Count Council; WSBK World Superbikes, and UN Global Compact Swiss Network.
Paul van Schaik Creator & Curator Urban Hub – Thriveable Cities Series Founder integralMENTORS Advisor to C40 Cities – Thriving Cities Initiative Co Founder - Integral Without Borders; Founding member of the Integral Institute.
40+ years experience of working in international development – with extensive experience, as team leader in the education, health, infrastructure sectors and program management. Worked with national governments, bilateral and multilateral development organisations and international NGOs to bring an integrally informed approach to programme development, implementation and evaluation, either directly or through the training of operational staff. A UK trained Architect with extensive global experience doing pioneering work with passive solar energy in the 1970/80s in Africa and Australia, and tutored at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.
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This is how they survive. You must know this. You’re too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light, their reason, their judgements, because in the darkness there be dragons. But it isn’t true. We can prove that it isn’t true. In the dark there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark when someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close as we are right now? black sails
Books
Guides for Practitioners
Integrally
Informed
The Guides for Integrally Informed Practitioners (adjacent) cover much of the theory behind the Integral Meta-framework used in these volumes. For topics covered in others volumes in this series see the following page. Urban Hub Series These books are a series of presentations for the use of Integral theory or an Integral Meta-framework in understanding cities and urban Thriveability. Although each can stand alone, taken together they give a more rounded appreciation of how this broader framework can help in the analysis and design of thriveable urban environments. Key to an Integral approach to urban design is the notion that although other aspects of urban life are important, people (sentient beings), as individuals and communities, are the primary ‘purpose’ for making cities thriveable. All other aspects (technology, transport & infra-structure, health, education, sustain-ability, economic development, etc.) although playing a major part, are secondary.
Urban Hub series Pdf versions are gratis to view & download :
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Integral UrbanHub
Wellbeing - A New Frontier
a meta-pragmatic approach
Thriveable Cities
Urban Hub
A series of books from integralMENTORS Integral UrbanHub work - on Wellbeing and Thriveable Cities
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail. This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
This book brings together all the wellbeing related pages from the first 15 volumes of this Urban Hub series and adds a few new ideas