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There is no peace in Palestine/Israel. Worse than that, it seems that the whole world, including the Israelis and the Palestinians, have given up on peace. After decades of war and occupation, there is an endless spiral of radicalization on all sides. Woman Wage Peace was formed after the “Gaza War” in 2014 and now has 20.000 members. WWP received international attention in 2016 when more than 3000 Israeli and Palestinian women participated in a march from Northern Israel to Jerusalem. In this march, followed by another in 2017, and all of their activities, the women do what is unheard of in this troubled land: they work together, Israelis and Palestinians. And in so doing, they have started a dialogue that seems to be impossible but may be the only chance for change.

Thomas Steininger talks with Yael Treidel, one of the leaders of Women Wage Peace, about the possibility of dialogue in an impossible situation.

Integral City Meshworks is a global constellation of communities of practice that aspire to transform cities into human hives. Launched in 2005 in Canada, Integral City Meshworks works in the USA, the Netherlands, Russia, Mexico, and South Africa to transform cities by energizing relationships in order to unify visions and to develop eco-regional resilience strategies for hive-like well-being. Marilyn’s work engages with provocative questions: How can our cities become living, integral, evolutionary human systems? How can cities become the Reflective Organs of Gaia, our beloved planet?

Surprisingly, Marilyn’s integral vision for cities, which holds a systemic view of our global society, came about through an intuitive engagement that may be key to the transformation that Integral City is about. Marilyn calls it “responding to the ‘still small voice’ through her whispers, nudges, and revelations.” Thomas Steininger talks with Marilyn Hamilton how she is transforming our cities into Integral City Meshworks and how an intuitive intelligence has guided this work and her life.

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A conversation with Terri O’Fallon and

Kim Barta

“We need more grown-ups in the room; we need adults. Our world needs adults. But what does it mean to be an adult? Our times are changing so fast. What passed for adulthood fifty or a hundred years ago no longer is up to the task. Technology, complexity, and global challenges call for a radical new understanding of what it means to be a mature, adult human being. Terri O’Fallon is a globally renowned integral researcher and theorist of adult development. Kim Barta, a master psychotherapist in California and Terri’s brother, shows the importance and applicability of her research through his work.”

Thomas Steininger talks with Terri O’Fallon and Kim Barta about the emerging potential for being an adult human being today.

Thomas Steininger and Adebayo C. Akomolafe

“If colonization places us in boxes, one might think that ‘decolonization’ is the act of coming out of the box. Moving from here to there. But that would be another silent instance of ‘whiteness’: the mythical condition that enlists us in the practice of seeing things as discrete, not relational; as simple, not complex and partial; as dead, not alive and agential,” writes Adebayo C. Akomolafe, Ph.D. “I think decolonization is not about moving from ‘Here’ to ‘There’, as it is a weirding of the distance between the two.”

Born in Nigeria, living in India with his partner and two beautiful children, Bayo is the co-author of the book We Will Tell Our Own Story! He is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on the global crisis, civic action, and social change. He is Coordinating Curator for The Emergence Network, which is “an earth-wide, soil-deep commonwealth of curators that is committed to the art of queering traditional activisms and contemporary patterns of responding to crisis, and opening up new spaces of power in partnership with the nonhuman planet.”

Thomas Steininger speaks with Adebayo C. Akomolafe in this week’s Radio evolve about the weird process of decolonizing the mind.

Thomas Steininger and Terry Patten

Many people know Terry Patten from his book Integral Life Practice that he co-wrote with the integral Philosopher Ken Wilber. Many know Terry Patten as the presence behind “Beyond Awakening,” an ongoing program about living what we have realized through our deeper spiritual experiences.

Terry Patten has now written a new book, A New Republic of the Heart

: An Ethos for Revolutionaries–A Guide to Inner Work for Holistic Change. Problems, as Terry sees them, can be emergent opportunities. Terry offers creative responses for our inner and outer work, responses that are needed to build an integral future. Our world is fractured and threatened, but there is also an underlying wholeness and unity. Both are simultaneously true, and only by honoring both dimensions can we make sustainable changes in ourselves, our communities, our body politic, and our planet. A New Republic of the Heart speaks of how we can “be the change” in a way that addresses the many intractable problems of our time. We have to come together in our communities for conversations that matter. And there is an urgent need for new communities, enterprises, and forms of dialogue that integrate both inner personal growth work with outer awareness, activism, and service.

This week in Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger speaks with Terry Patten about his new book: A New Republic of the Heart.

Thomas Steininger and Alnoor Ladha

Alnoor Ladha is Executive Director of /The Rules (/TR), a global network of activists dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality and poverty around the world. He is a Board Member of Greenpeace International USA and a visiting lecturer at New York University (NYU) Alnoor’s daily practice involves deep immersion into cosmic entanglement knowing his activist work is a spiritual practice and vice versa.

His work is about the interplay between political organization, system thinking, storytelling, technology, and the decentralization of power. As he writes about global inequality: “The reasons for all this are, of course, many and complex. But stand far enough back and it’s also

quite simple. Essentially it boils down to the fact that the corporate capitalist system is governed by incentives and rewards that are unable to directly register anything but economic value. The system is deaf, dumb and blind to climate destruction and mass human suffering.”

Thomas Steininger will speak with Alnoor Ladha on Radio evolve about how an Integral consciousness can address global inequality.

Thomas Steininger and Alnoor Ladha

Alnoor Ladha is Executive Director of /The Rules (/TR), a global network of activists dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality and poverty around the world. He is a Board Member of Greenpeace International USA and a visiting lecturer at New York University (NYU) Alnoor’s daily practice involves deep immersion into cosmic entanglement knowing his activist work is a spiritual practice and vice versa.

His work is about the interplay between political organization, system thinking, storytelling, technology, and the decentralization of power. As he writes about global inequality: “The reasons for all this are, of course, many and complex. But stand far enough back and it’s also

quite simple. Essentially it boils down to the fact that the corporate capitalist system is governed by incentives and rewards that are unable to directly register anything but economic value. The system is deaf, dumb and blind to climate destruction and mass human suffering.”

Thomas Steininger will speak with Alnoor Ladha on Radio evolve about how an Integral consciousness can address global inequality.

Radio evolve Global (INTERNATIONAL EDITION – January 18. 2018)

This week we are happy to start this new series with Bence Ganti. Bence Ganti, born in Hungary, is himself a global integral activist. He founded the Integral Academy in Hungary and for the last few years he has organized the European Integral conference in Budapest. He teaches his own integration of body-flow and we-space work worldwide, which he calls the Integral Flow Experience. Thomas and Bence both agree that the next stage of human evolution calls for a new understanding and experience of the “we.”

Radio evolve Global (INTERNATIONAL EDITION – January 18. 2018)

This week we are happy to start this new series with Bence Ganti. Bence Ganti, born in Hungary, is himself a global integral activist. He founded the Integral Academy in Hungary and for the last few years he has organized the European Integral conference in Budapest. He teaches his own integration of body-flow and we-space work worldwide, which he calls the Integral Flow Experience. Thomas and Bence both agree that the next stage of human evolution calls for a new understanding and experience of the “we.”