What Dr.J ThinksSocial Artistry and Integral Sociology |
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Integrate Learning and Societal Change
Social artists are people who use their imaginations and commitments to creating
a better world. Social Artists are individuals who work on themselves so as to
develop their capacity for learning and collaboration. They are skilled to provide a
basis for dialog, and leadership, and guidance to evolve changing, values, laws,
moral agreements, and social structures of their societies.
The Social artist has the ability to be truly multi-cultural which includes the ability
to enter another’s belief systems, cultural styles, centering stories, myths and
rituals. Social Artistry is performative, in that it requires lifelong learning, action
and availability to world issues in the context of different cultures, and not just
from the point of view of a particular sector or group or nation.
The aim of Social Artistry is to help implement creative change and growth in
many arenas and in ways that will encourage and prepare people to more
accomplish the goals of integral intelligence, learning and its applications to Life
on this planet.
To become a Social Artist is to be available to a variety of trainings: crosscultural,
human and cultural development, education in human and cultural
capacities and potentials, and other skills aimed at enabling both individuals and
groups toward the creation of better societies and peoples. Social Artistry aims at
providing strategies that can work in an interconnected world. Fundamental to
the training of effective leaders is the understanding of interconnected world
macro- problems, as well as local or regional issues

