Integral Applied
Integral Theory has been applied to dozens of fields! Below we have included applications that resonate with applying Integral to the philosophy of chiropractic.
Integral Medicine
Integral Medicine is relatively recent application of Integral Theory. It is being described by several authors as the next step beyond integrative medicine. Several pioneering health professionals are exploring what it is like to apply the Integral Approach across health care, to patients, practice members, healers, doctors, nurses, as well as the systems involved from clinics and health centers to hospitals and managed care. The first conference on Integral Medicine is underway in October, 2011.
- The Teleosis Institute has compiled a bibliography of publications on Integral Medicine
- A recent call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice is dedicated to Integral Medicine.
- One interesting online article by David Tusek is available online: An Integral Path to Medicine.
- A glimpse of the excellent book on Integral Medicine by Elliott Dacher is available: Integral Health.
- An audio dialogue between Marylin Schlitz (president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences) and Ken Wilber, is enlightening: Emergence of Integral Medicine on Integral Life.
- Ken Wilber wrote the foreword to the groundbreaking book Consciousness & Healing: Integral approaches to mind-body medicine, edited by Schlitz, Amorok, & Micozzi:
* Four Quadrants of Integral Medicine from Wilber’s The Integral Vision (2007).
Integral Nursing
Integral Nursing is being pioneered by Barbara Dossey, one of the originators of Holistic Nursing. Dossey and several other leaders in the field are calling for an all quadrant all level approach to nursing.
- Dossey’s powerpoint presentation on Integral Nursing is available online:
Theory of Integral Nursing. - The amazing images from the powerpoint can be downloaded here: Integral Nursing Images.
- Olga Jarrin just completed her dissertation on Integral Nursing. Her seminal article on the topic is available:
An Integral Philosophy and Definition of Nursing. - Several nurses and practitioners from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing developed a paper
Integral Nursing: An Emerging Framework for Engaging the Evolution of the Profession - Barbara Dossey’s chapter on Integral Nursing is also available. The chapter is in the 2008 edition of the textbook, Dossey and Keegan, Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, 5th edition:
* The image, Healing, Meta-Paradigm, Patterns of Knowing in Nursing, Four Quadrants and AQAL, is from B. M. Dossey (2008). Integral and Holistic Nursing: Local to Global. In B. M. Dossey & L. Keegan. Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (5th ed.) Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
Integral Coaching
Integral Coaching is being pioneered by several leaders in the field. Integral Coaching Canada started by Joanne Hunt and Laura Divine is a great training program. Their approach to assisting people to fully express their highest evolutionary potential can certainly inform many chiropractors.
- Susanne Cook-Greuter is one of the leaders of Developmental Research and Integral Coaching. An interview with her by Russ Volkmann is available:
Integral Leadership Review. - Integral Coaching has roots in Integral Psychology: Elliott Ingersoll
- And human development: Robert Kegan
- A glimpse of Kegan’s book with Lisa Laskow Lahey is available (a must read!): Immunity to Change.
- Hunt’s seminal article on the topic can be found here:
*Four-Quadrant Integral Coaching image courtesy of Elastic Mind
Integral Life Practice
Integral Life Practice developed from merging Wilber’s Integral Map with the work of Michael Murphy and George Leonard (1923-2010). Murphy and Leonard developed Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) as a way to exercise body, heart, mind, and spirit in a daily long-term way. Wilber’s approach went even further by including core modules as well as all five elements of the AQAL matrix.
- Integral Transformative Practice was co-founded by George Leonard (one of the pioneers of the human potential movement), and Michael Murphy (founder of Esalen Institute). An interview with Leonard with Craig Hamilton is available online: If you’re not changing, you’re not learning.
- An interesting article on ITP from a participant’s perspective was written by Jorge Ferrer and is available online: Integral Transformative Practice: A participatory perspective.
- The first chapters to the book Integral Life Practice by Ken Wilber, Terry Patton, Adam Leonard, and Marco Morelli is available from www.MyILP.com:
* Integral Life Practice Matrix chart from Wilber’s The Integral Vision (2007).