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	<description>Raúl Quiñones-Rosado on Integral Liberation &#38; Transformation</description>
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		<title>Identity, Power &amp; Integral Change Workshops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My colleague at c-Integral, Rose Sackey-Milligan, and I will be offering this workshop in Boston and Northampton, Massachusetts this fall. This will be a great opportunity for people interested in learning experientially about the consciousness-in-action approach and about its potential for personal and collective level change. We&#8217;d love to see you either in Boston or Northampton. Here&#8217;s the announcement: Identity, Power &#38; Integral Change is a one-day workshop in which participants are invited to deepen their understanding of identity, broaden their analysis of power, critically examine values, beliefs and behaviors concerning liberation, and personally engage transformative practices for integral change. Through this workshop, we will explore these basic aspects of the consciousness-in-action process: Integral Well-Being &#38; Development: Personal and Collective Dimensions of Being and Doing Forces That Hinder Well-Being &#38; Development: Complexities of Institutional and Internalized Oppression Personal &#38; Social Aspects of Identity &#38; Power Within Dominant Culture: Self in Dynamic Relationship to Other(s) as Context for Liberation and Transformation Integral Transformative Practices: Tools, Practices and Disciplines to Undermine Reactive Patterns and Nurture Libratory Transformation This workshop will be useful for helping professionals, social justice and spiritual activists, community organizers and cultural workers, students and educators, and other change agents interested in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/215</link>
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		<title>Review of Consciousness-in-Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russ Volckmann, Publisher and Editor of Integral Leadership Review, has published a review of Consciousness-in-Action in the March 2010 issue of the journal. Have you ever been to an integral event? Workshops near Boulder, Colorado? Or ILP sessions in San Francisco or New York? Or Integral Leadership in Action in Texas? Or the Integral Theory Conference in Concord, California? I have not been to all of those, but I have been to enough to hear myself wondering, “Where are the people of color?” This is not a new experience. I had the same question when I attended the Organization Development Network conference, World Futures Conferences, or coach training events. In all of these cases I wondered how we, as thought and practice leaders around development and change, were isolated from the perspectives people of color might bring. Even more, it made me wonder about how we were dealing with the phenomena of oppression. Many of us were involved in the Civil Rights Movement (I am showing my age) or activities involved with opening opportunities to women or gay rights. Some have gone to other nations to work as Peace Corps Volunteers or with Habitat for Humanity or Doctors without Borders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/203</link>
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		<title>C-in-Action Webinar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Rose Sackey-Milligan, c-Integral&#8217;s Co-Director, and I held our first Consciousness-in-Action webinar. This presentation was hosted by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society as part of their series of webinars for the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, teachers, scholars, administrators and students who teach or use contemplative practices in academia. This presentation provides an overview of consciousness-in-action, c-Integral&#8217;s unique approach to personal and social transformation. As such, it serves as a basic introduction to some of the key concepts, principles and applications of this transformative path. In it, we speak to the value of contemplative practice in addressing complex identity and social justice issues for individual and collective liberation from oppression, a necessary stage as we move toward integral well-being and development. Clearly, this is merely an introduction to the consciousness-in-action approach to integral liberation and transformation. We hope it serves as a teaser to those that may interested in learning more about this transformative practice. Our thanks go to Beth Wadham, Carrie Bergman and the folks at C-Mind for inviting us to share our work with ACMHE and for making it possible to share it with you all reading this. Consciousness in Action from Center for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/198</link>
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		<title>Where are Latinos in a Future Multiracial Society?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a piece posted on March 4, 2010, Yes! Magazine&#8217;s Sarah van Gelder engages a panel of visionaries on &#8220;Our Future as a Multiracial Society.&#8221; An otherwise good discussion, the panel seems to overlook a centrally important issue, one that fundamentally undermines Ms. van Gelder&#8217;s initial premise: Sarah van Gelder: In the year 2042, people of color will be in the majority in the United States. They already are in many of our cities and farming areas. Yet America still imagines itself—on television, in advertising, and in political rhetoric—as racially white and culturally European. What would it mean to change our self-image and recognize that we’re made up of a mixture of races, nationalities, and cultures? The problem is that People of Color will NOT be in the majority in 2042. Nor anytime soon thereafter. At least, not as long as the Census, government agencies, mass media and other shapers of cultural consciousness (or collective self-image), insist, as it has for the past few decades, on de-racializing Latinos. Following colonial-period notions of &#8220;the one-drop rule,&#8221; people of Latin American origins have historically been racialized as something other than “white”: a designation originally reserved for British and other Christians of northern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/187</link>
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		<title>Five Ways to Greater &#8220;Happiness&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a short video of Tal Ben-Shahar, Psychology Lecturer at Harvard University, posted on the Big Think blog on &#8220;Five Ways to Become Happier Today.&#8221; While I tend to believe that &#8220;happiness&#8221; is our original state, our &#8220;pre-existing condition&#8221; that gets messed with by some nasty thought viruses and other harsh environmental factors, this video is a reminder our how we might seek to restore some balance in harmony in our lives. A good transformative practice as we work toward integral personal and social liberation, too.]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/182</link>
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		<title>A Developmental View of “Men’s Liberation”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[This is a response to Integral Life’s recent blog post, “The Need for Men’s Liberation,” a summary of the talk between Dr. Warren Farrell and Ken Wilber “about power, oppression, and the urgent need for men to begin redefining their roles for today’s world” (accessed 25 feb 2010, http://integrallife.com/node/68177). In this response, I do not attempt to evaluate or critique Dr. Farrell’s work nor his dialogue with Wilber (especially since my multiple attempts to access the audio recording resulted only in an error message). Nonetheless, being familiar with both liberation and integral perspectives, and moreover, being committed to these, not merely as intellectual pursuits, but as orienting principles that guide my ethico-political work, I felt moved to respond.] “The Need for Men’s Liberation” points to the negative impact of sexism on men. Indeed, sexism—the systemic imposition of a presumed male superiority (at the intersubjective/cultural level) and the systematic oppression of women by men (at the objective/institutional level)—does have very negative effects on boys and men in our societies, especially at the personal level (physical, mental, spiritual and emotional aspects of being). Some of the examples shown in the embedded “The Daily Show” video clip, in Dr. Farrell’s audio response to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/179</link>
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		<title>c-Integral, Inc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce a major new phase for c-Integral and its unique transformative work for people in social justice and transformation movements. For the past several years, c-Integral’s work has been to support a new kind of leader and to foster a new kind of leadership for social justice and transformation. This work has been based on the consciousness-in-action approach, which I developed from work in communities of struggle over the past twenty-plus years. Beginning with the founding of the Institute for Latino Empowerment and later Ilé: Organizers for Consciousness-in-Action, this work focused on anti-oppression leadership development and anti-racism organizing in Latino communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Over the years, particularly as I researched and wrote Consciousness-in-Action, Toward an Integral Psychology of Liberation &#38; Transformation, this approach has continued to evolve, as my vision both expanded and deepened. While the core purpose of fostering integral change—cambio integral—has remained constant, the focus of my work has shifted to include people of all social identity groups, to address core dynamics driving all forms of oppression, and to explicitly explore a psychology, an ethic and a spirituality of liberation that is applied simultaneously to personal, social and cultural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/170</link>
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		<title>Revolution in the Time of the Hamsters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is my first post in a while. And it really isn&#8217;t even written by me. I wish it was, because it is simply excellent. It was written by my friend, Ricardo Levins Morales, who besides being a gifted artist is also a committed labor activist, a brilliant thinker and a powerful writer — all at the service of advancing an out-of-the-box progressive perspective for liberation, social justice and transformation. I don&#8217;t know if I would call Ricardo an &#8220;integral&#8221; thinker; I doubt he has even hear of integral theory, Ken Wilber, AQAL or any of it. (Unless, of course, he actually read my book.) But as you read his piece below, you will see how he provides a powerful analysis of forces at work and an insightful critique of the fragmented approaches—and timid attitude—of the US Left, and then offers up a strategy to move to a higher &#8220;altitude&#8221; (as Wilber might say), a broader perspective, a unifying view from which to make the practical and moral arguments for radical, positive, integral change. So, while Ricardo might likely be dismissed by Wilber-integrals as living within the &#8220;mean green meme,&#8221; as far as I can see (and how far is that?), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/162</link>
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		<title>Racism&#8217;s Newer Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Henry A. Giroux&#8217;s important analysis on the &#8220;new racism,&#8221; or how clever white men like Gingrich and Limbaugh attempt to redefine and reframe racism in our times, is a must read for people grappling for deeper understanding of its complexities. TRUTHOUT ORIGINAL Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial Thursday 04 June 2009 by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t &#124; Perspective Judge Sonia Sotomayor with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) While many liberals suggest that with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency the United States has become a post-racial society, many conservatives have now taken the opposite position, prompted by the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, that racism is alive and well in the republic.(1)According to many right-wing pundits and politicians extending from Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich, Judge Sotomayor is a &#8220;racist&#8221; and a &#8220;bigot&#8221; because of a largely decontextualized 32-word quote abstracted from a speech she gave in 2001 in which she stated: &#8220;I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/154</link>
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		<title>Reflections of St-Petersburg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been back from Russia almost three full weeks now, but I still feel like I am only just catching up with myself. Maybe it&#8217;s because since returning I’ve been traveling back and forth from Puerto Rico to Texas as part of The People’s Institute’s Undoing Racism™ statewide effort there, and have hardly had a chance to get grounded here at home. Writing this reflection and looking through the photos I took help me finally land. Harmony Institute’s Second International Conference on Self and Other: The Sacred Space for Dialogue in St. Petersburg was absolutely wonderful! My workshop, Social Identities, Culture, Self and Other: An Integral Transformative Approach, went quite well, with about 25 Russian participants (and one US American): psychotherapists, sociologists, organizational development, human resources, and marketing professionals and others concerned with the conference’s theme of understanding diversity and difference. The several other workshops I was able to attend were quite enjoyable and gave me a sense of how Russian professionals are currently approaching issues of diversity as related to gender and feminism, mass communications, art therapy, management, and personal growth. Not surprisingly, the best part of the conference was meeting people, making new friends, and building upon relationships [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consciousness-in-action.com/archives/119</link>
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