What is ‘integral thinking’ and why is it more important than ever?

Integral Coaching™, created by New Ventures West, includes ideas and frameworks from Integral Philosophy. In coaching, we use these integral frameworks to ensure a ‘whole person, whole context, whole journey’ approach, rather than focusing on a coachee’s ‘problems’.

However like ‘design-thinking’, integral thinking offers a useful toolkit that can be used to address challenges faced by anyone outside the coaching context. Indeed, recalling Einstein’s observation:

"We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”

as a system of thinking that aims to ‘transcend and include’ other systems, some integral proponents are suggesting that the Big Picture approach of Integral thinking is just what we need for the Big Problems of our time.

In this blog, we look at some examples of how we can apply - and help others to apply- an integral thinking toolkit outside of our coaching conversations.

So where did Integral Philosophy come from and what is its aim?

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