8 billion people
who do we
want to be
as humanity?
And what
is mine in
it to do?
“Hello fellow human – my name is Integrity. I am not only a fundamental principle of life, I am also a deep value of humankind. Somehow over the last centuries it happened that I was treated quite badly. I was devaluated, avoided, ignored. But here comes the good news. A bunch of courageous people decided to help me to get back in my seat and to place me in the very center of your human societies.
The simple key to use is your full presence in your vulnerability as a human being. Human species, you don’t know how fragile you are. You have been ashamed. And I know that you are able to bring that back to your ownership. Just know that I look with love at you.
Do you wanna come home and live your full humanness? Are you willing to see yourself as the relational being you are? Are you willing to acknowledge the complex conditions of your sensitive nervous system that seeks to orient you in life? To befriend yourself again with the deep spiritual nature that lays within you and can never be taken? Are you ready to claim your basic human right for soul integrity?
I can’t tell how happy I am to re-union with you, for a future where you and I live together in trust and joy. Everybody will be included. And we will have fun, this is sure. Looking forward to meeting you on the other side! Sincerely yours, Integrity”
The Origin
it all began with a dilemma
In my passionate work as a trauma therapist and process facilitator a question that has been with me from the beginning became more and more disturbing and urgent:
“Can I stay loyal to my professional integrity while my work is taking place in societal structures which dis-esteem and violate my core values?” When I realised that the answer was a clear “no” the question turned out to become a very personal one.
What to do with that painful predicament in me? How to come back to integrity within me and with my path and my contribution in the world? I knew I had to speak up and become visible with my dilemma.
Advocating my own right to live in integrity with my deepest values meant to stand up for the soul integrity of the people I work with. It meant to stand up for the value of integrity itself, claiming it as the basic human right I feel it is. Integrity For Future was born.
Integrity
For
Future
an initiative to reinstate the trustworthiness of humankind
Integrity For Future is an independent initiative to open a benevolent space for a deep listening to the innermost values living in humanity.
The space is mainly formed by questions we can gather around as individuals, neighbourhoods, friends, families, work teams, communities, parties, nations, as a species – to become aware of our interconnectedness and to continually weave the threads of multi-contextual relationship-ing that are alive amongst everything that is.
The vessel for that adventurous journey everyone is free to choose lays in the question of the questions: who do we want to be as humanity? And what is mine in it to do?
Inner call to action
The value of integrity always spoke to me. There was a moment in time when I truly listened. And I followed the call. To become an activist for the rehabilitation of humanity as the soulful species I know we are was a real turning point. It allowed for me the very shift from surviving to living.
Before, my soul cried! My soul was crying since my very first day on our beautiful planet. Sometimes it felt as if the tears could never stop, so deep was the pain. I had come here to love and to serve the beauty on Earth. What I found was a battle field. Heavily loaded relationships, poisoned communication, wars and nature under attack. That couldn’t have meant like this. But have we ever been asked if we want that? Have you ever been asked what you came here for?
Our off-track way of living is causing us an incredible pain. To just give in and to “function”or to reduce our contribution to serve as “firefighters” in a self-destructive world is the origin of a deep soul wound that can no longer be ignored. In facing mine I learned about my own souls mission: to connect every single human being on this planet by asking questions that unleash the hidden treasures in each and everyone of us.
At the level of our souls we have access to a shared knowing about the conditions for life to flourish. The advocacy we dare to show, individually and together, for the truth of our souls is the living prove of our soulfulness as a human species. There is a path beyond blaming and complaint. This path is about your own agency to be the revolution you long for. In finding our unique expressions of worship we can join and weave in the beautiful patterns of life. Only you can do the course correction. Do you know your soul wound? What is your mission to Earth? What did you came here for in the first place? I will be carefully listen to you, Ann
So … what is
integrity for you?
There is a general common cultural ground that gives us a sense of what integrity and reliability are. Basic qualities might be inclusiveness and a life-affirming orientation. At the same time it can never be about a single absolute truth. For each of us there also exists a very personal layer which has to do with our unique journey and the specific experiences that shaped us. And it is important to express this truth and to be witnessed in it by others – that all voices can be heard and contribute to the integrity of the whole. This is the actual purpose of the initiative, to open a space for the 8 billion people walking on our planet, starting with the question: what is integrity for you?
… followed by a whole series of questions deepening the exploration of integrity. My interview partners are coming from all over the world holding all different cultural and social backgrounds. All of them meet by going through the same questions: a whole kaleidoscope of colours of how integrity can express in a human life appears. The interviews are recorded so that you can listen to these manifold voices. And – we would like you to embark for your own explorational journey!
Start with the glimpses below or watch the full interviews and find many more as well as the questionnaire to do it for yourself or better find someone who is asking you the questions – so that you can hear your soul speaking up its truth.
A glimpse on integrity – Peter Levine (USA)
A glimpse on integrity – Sonia Sarina Birrer (Switzerland)
A glimpse on integrity – Matthias Fersterer (Germany)
A glimpse on integrity – Anne Baring (UK)
A glimpse on integrity – Koketso Ritchie (South Africa)
A glimpse on integrity – Nora Bateson (Sweden)
A glimpse on integrity – John D Liu (China/US)
A glimpse on integrity – Scott Williams (Australia)
participatory research
Who we are & what we do
WHO WE ARE: We are a growing field of people who care, for a good life for all, for a healthy planet – as a place that future generations are happy to call “home”. To reinstate the trust into our own species seems to be key.
We believe that in the core of every human being is a knowing about and a longing for life to flourish to say, a longing for integrity. To go deep and to make integrity the central reference point in our societies is the most powerful leverage point we see. Therefore we are setting off for the rehabilitation of the value of integrity itself.
The integrity we are referring to has nothing to do with static morals. Integrity can’t be prescribed or forced onto something or someone. Integrity lives and can only be found in the living exchange amongst us. What we aim to provide are spaces where we can experience and explore that together. In doing so we are aware of the wounds most of us carry caused by the absence of integrity in our daily lives structures which are mainly hostile to life.
In introducing ways to relate to the cruelty and to the beauty of our lives, respecting the integrity of each and everyone, we can start to step out of the vicious circle of failure and shame we trapped ourselves in.
WHAT WE DO: Integrity For Future is at the same time a huge research lab on new ways to gather and a community.
Healthier structures than the ones we know must emerge from the collective. Everyone can join us in simply participating in our gatherings and workshops and will automatically take part in the exploration.
The main insights of this process are made accessible for your own use and as a common base for further exploration.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW >
Another source of insight and inspiration is the growing collection of recorded integrity interviews, sometimes combined with a travel report from a special region.
THE INTERVIEWS >
Your own maturing, engaging, serving is empowered and supported by a choice of activities that we collected for you.
THE COMMUNITY >
A virtual library gives space to the many courageous people and beautiful initiatives that are contributing to our collective healing.
THE INTEGRITY LIBRARY >
In our community you find both: support for the inner healing work you might need and the encouraging company of others when you do your first steps to change our societies as the seeing, healing and creative soul you are!
A Trustable Tribe
facing our soul wound together
In our phenomenological research we touched the question wether humanity today is going collectively through a “dark night of the soul”.
What if nothing went “wrong” so far and we could just let go of wasting our time in searching for the bad guy (or the bad group of people) that we can blame for the miserable state we find ourselves in?
What if the era of scapegoating was over? What if we were ready to simply face our soul wound?
What if we see it as a natural process, having explored our immense power to the limits, to grow out of puberty into the human tribe we would love to be? Let’s explore together what “A Trustable Tribe” is about. If the hidden agreement to split power and soul must not be kept going we are finally free to ask ourselves the most relevant of all questions: who do want to be as humanity?
To relate to our feelings of shame will be our master tool. In the very moment when we discover that integrity and shame are the same shame will become our best friend.
trauma healing & community work
The initiative Integrity For Future is part of the bigger framework “TOWARDS soul integrity”, covering the 3 aspects of a human life path maturing, engaging and serving.
While the initiative aims to serve a shared reflection on our species as a whole, TOWARDS soul integrity also offers individual trauma healing and a choice of group formats strengthening the sense of community in neighborhoods, enterprises, communities and organisations.
Here we can learn to expand our inner capacity to include the complexity of life rather than to reduce it to a “digestible size” causing harm in ourselves, in our community, in others. Training ourselves in the Art of Pearl Diving will help us transcend the old flip coin pattern of defeat-or-overpowering into a learning on “the third way” – establishing soul integrity, again and again and again.
Our projects
in the mood for co-creation?
We love to explore and to create together for the sake of the integrity of the whole. Together we find forms to relate to integrity in an alive, meaningful and embodied way – in our full humaneness.
Ancient wisdom emerges in our experimental circle gatherings, our longings and the challenges of our journey can be expressed in creative ways through arts …
Various cooperations naturally emerge from bringing Integrity For Future into the world. And there is room for more. Get an overview about the projects that already came to life. Integrity can only become alive amongst us. Tune in – you might have an impulse for a new co-creation?
thank you
If you start something important, something that seems almost impossible to do, something you put all your heart in, it’s important to be recognised in it, to be understood, to be SEEN. This is what we can gift each other.
I am grateful for all the beautiful souls that have supported me by listening to me with my vision. There were moments of struggling. They simply showed up with their interest and their love when I needed encouragement most.
One of these people is Orland Bishop, founder of the ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles.. Friend and warm hearted upright activist for the soulfulness of humankind.
Being seen by you in the depth of my attempt at the beginning of this journey meant a lot for me. It still keeps me going. Thank you!
Bendrix – The Circle of 12
Alix – The Circle of 12
How to join us
The Tribe is gathering!
Our souls matter and we only heal and grow in community. The community of Pearl Divers is gathering regularly in various Circles, remote and live. Learn more about the ways to join us.
Interviews & Articles
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Acces To BeautyAccess To Beauty or the treasure of deptha glimpse on humanity beyond the pattern of scapegoating As humans we all…
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The Flourishing Pathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Mr4K9rskb1A In this episode of John D. Liu’s podcast The Flourishing Path he is joined by Bob Wilms and Jason…