Interpersonal Archives – Integral Life https://integrallife.com/category/intelligence/interpersonal/ Everyone is right. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:56:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://integrallife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-IL-LOGO-400-copy.png Interpersonal Archives – Integral Life https://integrallife.com/category/intelligence/interpersonal/ 32 32 Cybernetics and the Intelligence of Love https://integrallife.com/cybernetics-and-the-intelligence-of-love/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:49:15 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=413752 Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore how cybernetics — the science of self-correcting systems — reveals the hidden logic of love, power, trauma, and societal evolution. Through the lens of integral theory, they trace feedback loops across all dimensions of life, showing how everything from personal healing to political dysfunction is shaped by the quality of communication and coherence in our systems.

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]]> The Magic Mirror: How AI Is Reshaping Your Mind https://integrallife.com/the-magic-mirror/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:17:37 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=410117 Keith and Corey examine AI’s cognitive, relational, cultural, and developmental impacts — highlighting both the dangers of projection, offloading, and disembodiment, and the opportunities to use AI as a practice partner for discernment, shadow integration, and growth. Corey then showcases some of the new AI tools now available to all Core Members of Integral Life.

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]]> Everything Is Relationships: The Hidden Force That Shapes Reality https://integrallife.com/everything-is-relationships-the-hidden-force-that-shapes-reality/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:25:12 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=409055 Human beings are always in relationship — with ourselves, with others, and with the larger cultures we create together. In this episode, Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore how the quality of these relationships shapes not only our personal growth, but our experience and perception of reality itself.

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]]> How We Lost the Art of Connection https://integrallife.com/how-we-lost-the-art-of-connection/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:25:37 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=408258 This conversation between Keith Martin-Smith and Michael Porcelli explores the hidden dynamics that shape how we communicate, from cultural conditioning to emotional awareness to the unseen “third entity” of relationship. Together they unpack why so many conversations go off the rails—and how we can learn to repair, realign, and relate with greater depth, clarity, and skill.

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]]> A Grand Strategy for the Transformation Age https://integrallife.com/a-grand-strategy-for-the-transformation-age/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:54:54 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=405689 In this powerful second installment of Big Picture Mind, Robb Smith presents a sweeping yet grounded vision for the future of the integrative worldview — one that meets the historic demands of our moment and invites each of us into a shared project of planetary coherence.

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]]> The Turquoise Dialectic: Expand Your Cosmology Through Integral Dialogue https://integrallife.com/the-turquoise-dialectic-expand-your-cosmology-through-integral-dialogue/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:49:14 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=405091 Corey DeVos and Dr. Keith Witt explore the turquoise dialectic—a mode of deep, integrative conversation where perspectives evolve rather than compete—touching on themes of honesty, trust, intergenerational transmission, and the ways our personal cosmologies shape reality. From the psychology of deception to the ancestral patterns we unconsciously carry, this discussion invites listeners to examine how they construct meaning, engage in dialogue, and participate in the ongoing evolution of consciousness.

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]]> Evolving Love: The Secret Path to Awakening https://integrallife.com/evolving-love-the-secret-path-to-awakening/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:31:35 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=404670 This conversation explores how love evolves alongside human development, revealing how our relationships reflect and shape our consciousness. Through personal stories, integral psychology, and esoteric wisdom, Kimberley Theresa Lafferty, Dr. Daniel Stickler, and Dr. Mickra Hamilton uncover how intimacy, shadow work, and sacred partnership can become profound paths of transformation and awakening.

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]]> Escaping the Drama Triangle: Presence, Problem-Solving, and Relational Mastery https://integrallife.com/breaking-the-cycle-drama-problem-solving-and-relational-mastery/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:05:50 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=402440 Corey deVos and Dr. Keith Witt explore one of the most common yet misunderstood aspects of human interaction: the tension between drama and problem-solving. They dive deeply into the "Drama Triangle," a psychological framework that reveals how the roles of victim, rescuer, and persecutor trap us in cycles of dysfunction. These dynamics, while often personal, are also embedded in cultural systems, politics, and even therapy itself.

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]]> The Content/Structure Fallacy: The Common Mistake Most Integralists Make https://integrallife.com/the-content-structure-fallacy-the-common-mistake-most-integralists-make/ https://integrallife.com/the-content-structure-fallacy-the-common-mistake-most-integralists-make/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:02:07 +0000 https://integrallife.com/?p=399819 David Arrell and Keith Martin-Smith explore one of the most important (and misunderstood) dynamics within integral theory: the content/structure fallacy. They explore how developmental structures—our deeper worldviews and ways of making sense—shape the content of our beliefs, but not always in straightforward or predictable ways. The conversation touches on how integral theory can help us navigate the nuances of individual growth, leadership, and social dynamics, especially when it comes to assessing the developmental depth of others.


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