Integral: “Possessing everything essential or significant; complete; whole.”

An integral approach (whether to medicine, education, ecology, or leadership) incorporates all of the essential perspectives, schools of thought, and methods into a unified, comprehensive, inclusive, and empirically accurate framework.

—Brett Thomas, AQAL Elements Applied to Leadership

Introduction: Why an Integral Perspective?

The power of Integral is profoundly valuable to us in how we are with our world. Integral is natively systemic; it’s intentionally multilevel—from individuals up to organizations; and it’s inherently both feeling oriented (heart-centered) and objectively oriented (data-driven), joining our hearts and our minds. Integral recognizes the realities ...

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