This book was written for young children to help them understand why mommy or daddy has to go away for an extended time to a treatment center to get better. This can seem like a difficult conversation to have with a 3-6-year old. Children of this age may not understand why their parent is going away and can be confused and even frightened. In many cases, they may know on some level that there is something going on, and often a simple explanation will suffice, that mommy or daddy is going away for a while to get better and that they will return soon. Explaining to a child that they will be safe and taken care of while their parent is gone will help them feel confident in this new change in their life.

In this book, Spook's mommy is going to a treatment center so she can get better and doesn't have to drink her strange milk anymore. Parents going into treatment will also benefit by sharing this book with their 3-6-year old, opening up communication and making the explanation easier.

This book was written for young children to help them understand why mommy or daddy has to go away for an extended time to a treatment center to get better. This can seem like a difficult conversation to have with a 3-6-year old. Children of this age may not understand why their parent is going away and can be confused and even frightened. In many cases, they may know on some level that there is something going on, and often a simple explanation will suffice, that mommy or daddy is going away for a while to get better and that they will return soon. Explaining to a child that they will be safe and taken care of while their parent is gone will help them feel confident in this new change in their life.

In this book, Spook's mommy is going to a treatment center so she can get better and doesn't have to drink her strange milk anymore. Parents going into treatment will also benefit by sharing this book with their 3-6-year old, opening up communication and making the explanation easier.

If we assume, as both the new scientists and ancient wisdom traditions tell us, that all of reality is actually composed of interlocking dynamic energy fields, that life is a continuous process of organising energetic information into form, then what does that mean for the way we need to lead our organisations, be they business, civil society, government, community, or even family systems? To growth, differentiation, and intellect, we need to add stillness, oneness, and intuition. This book is a short beginner's field guide on how to perceive, interpret, and enhance the energetic fields of the collective systems that we lead. The illustrations and accompanying text are designed to remind us of the core principles and practices of resonant leadership and energetic stewardship.

Every living system, everything with a boundary and name-from family to community organisation to department to multinational-has an energetic field associated with it that is continually informing what happens in our visible material world. If that field is not well integrated into the organisation, or carries stressed or blocked energy for example, then the relationships in and around the organisation and its performance in the world will suffer. As leaders of organisations, we have the greatest influence on that field. Through our attention and intention we enhance or detract from the quality of that field. It is not something we are generally taught in business schools or on leadership courses, yet it carries huge potential for us to cocreate organisations that inspire people, serve life, and get things done.

This book with its accompanying illustrations of sacred geometry is designed to be something you can carry around with you, to help you reflect on the core principles and practices of resonant leadership and energetic stewardship. The principles are distilled from 30 years of work in the field. Experience them as simplicity the other side of complexity. Allow the words and images on the pages to sink in.

As a leader of organisations himself, Peter Merry invites you to join him on an inquiry into the future of enlightened leadership on our planet today, with these illustrated core principles and practices of resonant leadership and energetic stewardship.

We humans are born to be full of life, expressing all different parts of ourselves through creativity while building a vibrant world together. The current world of work deadens this human potential by only valuing that which adds to abstract economic indicators and deprives us of the time and space to contribute in ways that are meaningful and empowering. Why Work? shows us how we can change our policies, take action directly in our communities to carve out the space for us to reclaim our humanity, and engage in activities that reward our deeper needs, our communities and our planet as a whole. This is the Why of Work.

If we assume, as both the new scientists and ancient wisdom traditions tell us, that all of reality is actually composed of interlocking dynamic energy fields, that life is a continuous process of organising energetic information into form, then what does that mean for the way we need to lead our organisations, be they business, civil society, government, community, or even family systems? To growth, differentiation, and intellect, we need to add stillness, oneness, and intuition. This book is a short beginner's field guide on how to perceive, interpret, and enhance the energetic fields of the collective systems that we lead. The illustrations and accompanying text are designed to remind us of the core principles and practices of resonant leadership and energetic stewardship.

Every living system, everything with a boundary and name-from family to community organisation to department to multinational-has an energetic field associated with it that is continually informing what happens in our visible material world. If that field is not well integrated into the organisation, or carries stressed or blocked energy for example, then the relationships in and around the organisation and its performance in the world will suffer. As leaders of organisations, we have the greatest influence on that field. Through our attention and intention we enhance or detract from the quality of that field. It is not something we are generally taught in business schools or on leadership courses, yet it carries huge potential for us to cocreate organisations that inspire people, serve life, and get things done.

This book with its accompanying illustrations of sacred geometry is designed to be something you can carry around with you, to help you reflect on the core principles and practices of resonant leadership and energetic stewardship. The principles are distilled from 30 years of work in the field. Experience them as simplicity the other side of complexity. Allow the words and images on the pages to sink in.

As a leader of organisations himself, Peter Merry invites you to join him on an inquiry into the future of enlightened leadership on our planet today, with these illustrated core principles and practices of resonant leadership and energetic stewardship.

How do you inquire about, act in and impact the city as self, other and place?

This is a book of: burning questions that deepen your reflective capacity; injunctions that guide your practice as a city AQtivator; and frames for designing impact on, with and as the city.

Learn through a series of methodological cases studies and templates for process designs, based on Integral City work in the last decade. If you want to achieve impact in your work as Integral City Practitioner, Catalyst or Meshworker, these designs generate outcomes in the city as a whole, using an integrally framed approach. You can address consciousness and culture as Place Caring (the left had quadrants of the integral model) and actions and systems as Place Making (the right hand quadrants of the integral model). Organized using the Integral City design cycle the chapters walk you through processes for inviting in the Knowing Field; embracing the Master Code; assessing the 12 Intelligences of the City; discovering and mapping City Values; designing Vital Signs Monitors; engaging the 4 Voices of the City; Prototyping designs for Learning Lhabitats, Pop-ups and Sustainable Community Development; Meshworking Purpose, People, Place and Planet; and Evaluating Outcomes. Using these process designs you may choose a linear or a non-linear path. Whether you focus on separate stages or attempt the whole tour, you will find an inquiry-action-impact system that is replicable, frequently iterative and provides a grand cycle for enacting change at the city scale.

Integral City 3.7 considers a series of apparently intractable challenges that all cities face because the world has become so complex that cause and effect are rarely directly linked. This third book in our series explores three themes that are eternal practices for designing a collective life that works for all life; namely, Caring, Contexting and Capacity Building. The challenges cities face today result from the intertwining impacts of multiple life conditions, perspectives and capacities and can only be addressed by reframing them within an Integral City model that honors the plural realities, recognizes their developmental and evolutionary relationships and does not conflate differences. Book 3 applies and expands in multiple directions the 12 intelligences described in Book 1, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive and builds on the field work described in Book 2: Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive.

How are we evolving the human hive? 60% of humanity now lives in cities. Can city dwellers, like bees who pollinate the fields, act so intelligently that they add value to the planet? How can the clash of differences that separate people, purpose, profits, and priorities generate fresh energy to solve 21st-century VUCA problems? How do we propagate new pathways for community learning and give the 4 Voices of the city fresh hope?

For City Leaders, Business/Innovators, the 3rd Sector and Citizens, this book proposes 5 sets of City Intelligences: Contexting, Individual, Collective, Strategic, and Evolutionary. It explores a new paradigm that senses, experiences, relates, and co-creates in--with and as the city--using an Integral consciousness.

Integral City recalibrates city intelligences with the Master Code of Care--for Self, Others, Place, and Planet. Its life-giving strategies reveal cities as Gaia's Reflective Organs, evolving futures in space.