Nordic Integral Education

(THIS SITE IS NOW TRANSFERRING TO http://nordicintegral.thoughtlead.com/ )In these podcasts I inquire into the moral, ethical, philosophical and spiritual context fundamental to leadership in education today and tomorrow - from preschool and up - highlighting case studies from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, USA, Canada, Australia and UK. These calls are inspired by the model IT'S YOUR CHOICE! Important themes on the podcasts and Tuesday Conference Calls on Education are: What does it mean to be a teacher/leader in our time in history? What role can education play as a vehicle for catalyzing development at the level of consciousness and culture both in and outside of a classroom? What does the expression of higher and deeper values and expressions of inclusiveness, meaning and purpose look like between teachers and students? THIS SITE IS NOW TRANSFERRING TO http://nordicintegral.thoughtlead.com/

Sunday, May 27, 2007

The leadership pyramid

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In this episode Nick Drummond and Mats Edin discuss a model they use with teachers and school leaders called the Leadership Pyramid.

The model is inspired by integral philosopher Ken Wilber and describes the relationship between Depth and Span. Depth refers to verticality or levels of development in human consciousness: eg. from egocentric, to group-centric, to worldcentric to kosmocentric.

Span is show on the horizontal axis and refers to the number of individuals and groups at each level. The diagram shows that the number of individuals and groups decreases as depth increases.

In the middle of the pyramid they point out a barrier to development, which is responsible for the choas in many schools. This position expresses the perspective: Don’t judge! Everything is relative!

When teachers and school leaders move from the middle to the top of the pyramid then all levels become aligned and the whole class is participating on their developmental edge.

See http://nick-nie.zaadz.com/blog for a more detailed description.
See http://www.nordicintegral.com/education.html to download the model.

Are you interested to learn more about applying this perspective in education? Then please contact us: http://www.nordicintegral.com, email: nick.drummond@nordicintegral.com