Integral Communications Toolkit

The Integral Communication Kit is a transformative initiative designed to help ambassadors of integral ideas connect with diverse audiences, foster greater understanding, and expand the reach of integral insights. By equipping individuals with tools to identify their audience’s unique perspective (i.e. their “kosmic address”) and tailor messages accordingly, this initiative bridges the gap between integral metatheory’s complexity and its practical application in the real world.

byJosh Leonard

Strategic Metacrisis Mapping Initiative

This initiative will deploy a sophisticated, integrated, and comprehensive philosophy to show what is possible when we leverage Big Pictures to support new forms of sensemaking and meta-strategizing about complex, wicked problems. There is an emerging consensus of a profound, global "metacrisis" characterized by entangled, interpenetrating, and co-arising ecosocial, spiritual, ethical, and epistemic crises, and their underlying network of interconnected root causes. This project will convene the novel intellectual and social resources necessary to map and more fully understand the reality of the global metacrisis and its implications for meaning-making. Leveraging a metatheoretically-integrative Visionary Realism—the project will use a retroductive method to generate a map of causal mechanisms, reality distortions, and symptoms of the global metacrisis's four primary domains assessed across five major worldviews. The project will develop a web-based interactive topology of the metacrisis, innovation lab-style symposia for expert coordination and validation, and one or more papers.

byJosh Leonard

Sensemaking, Action, and Leadership Training (SALT) for Climate

SALT for Climate addresses a critical blindspot in climate action by focusing on conscious sensemaking as the foundation for effective climate initiatives. Combining climate research, human interior facilitation, and metatheories, it aims to heal psychosocial blindspots in current paradigms. SALT bridges the gap between climate policies and public perception, reducing polarization and stalled efforts. By providing specialized sensemaking and leadership training, it enhances climate leaders' capacities across emotional, social, and consciousness domains. This scalable approach complements scientific aspects, fosters public engagement, and aims to drive more effective, integrative climate leadership.

byJosh Leonard

The Cultural Complexity Index

The Cultural Complexity Index (CCI) initiative aims to quantify and analyze human cultural complexification across history. By applying advanced hierarchical complexity scoring to diverse cultural artifacts, the CCI will provide the first comprehensive dataset on cultural evolution. This project seeks to move cultural complexification theories from speculative sociology to empirical science, challenging relativistic academic paradigms and fostering more integrative approaches to today's complex global challenges. Through academic publications and public engagement, the CCI aims to catalyze a paradigm shift in understanding cultural evolution, offering crucial insights for addressing the intricate problems of our time.

byJosh Leonard

The Integrative Social Sector Initiative

The Integrative Social Sector Initiative is exploring how integrative metatheory might help social sector organizations develop more robust internal and external metatheories of change in their work addressing wicked 21st-century social and environmental challenges.

byRobb Smith

Encyclopedia of Big Pictures

Taking the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as inspiration, the Encyclopedia of Big Pictures will be a free online resource that defines the relevant terms and concepts for the growing body of philosophical work underlying integrative metatheories.

byRobb Smith

Integrative Policing Transformation Initiative (Phase 1)

An Integrative Model of Policing Transformation is an Initiative designed to map the fuller complexity of policing in the United States and examine how a transformation toward a fuller guardian model of policing might be achieved.

byRobb Smith

The Ethics & Science of Metatheories

IAM investigates the proper role and application of metatheories, especially the ethics and empirics of their relationship to underlying theories. When do metatheories start to act like theories, and are there limits to the range of applications they can be properly used for in the Institute's work?

byRobb Smith