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- Title
LEARNING FROM THE INTEGRAL FUTURES CONTROVERSY.
- Authors
Riedy, Christopher
- Abstract
This article is a personal reflection on what integral practitioners can learn from a dialogue that played out in the pages of the journal Futures. In March 2008, Futures published a special issue on Integral Futures methodologies, in which the authors used the AQAL model to explore futures thinking and methods. I contributed an article that used the AQAL model to analyze and propose an extension of a futures method called Causal Layered Analysis. The response to the special issue from some futurists was critical, and Futures published a second special issue in March 2010 giving voice to these critiques. After reflection, some of the criticism of the original special issue (and particularly of my article) seems justified. The experience has caused me to question the way that I (and others) have applied the AQAL model. I am sharing my reflections in the hope that there are valuable lessons for other integral practitioners, particularly those who are relatively new to the AQAL model. My perspective is that of a practitioner seeking to use integrative approaches to grapple with sustainability problems. I argue for an ecology of integrative approaches in which the AQAL model is one viable approach, existing in dialogue with other integrative approaches.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM; FUTURE in literature; FUTUROLOGISTS; SUSTAINABILITY; CLIMATE change
- Publication
Journal of Integral Theory & Practice, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
1944-5083
- Publication type
Article