we call you in
#integrityforfuture
Integrity For Future calls you in.
To a conscious choice:
to constantly look for ways to improve
your level of integrity and contribute to the rehabilitation of the trustworthiness of humankind.
Our off-track way of living is causing us much inner and outer wounding. Many gifted people in our society are professionally taking care of these wounds through their highly committed work.
People with a deep knowing about our human nature and the conditions needed for us and life to flourish.
Often they are visionaries – without a mandate, because their contribution has been reduced to serve as “firefighters” in a self-destructive world.
We can do better. We want to get back to our original mission as creative healers and see-ers, leading our current and future societies into the realms of joyful co-creation that we know is possible.
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.
The approach
There is a choice to make
Integrity is not about morals, and neither is our initiative and the content of this website. The aim is to create an understanding on how essential reliability is when it comes to working on the challenges of our time. It is about the rehabilitation of the trustworthiness of humankind itself.
“A good life for all” must include the integrity of everybody and everything. All living beings in the planet´s ecosystem as well as the natural elements. When we address our burning current and future questions, we cannot simply focus our efforts on technical solutions or political compromises between different stakeholders. To go beyond fighting opinions and polarisation we have to give integrity itself the central place in our society that it naturally owns.
Soul-sick people cannot take positive action. Shamed people don’t have access to their self-esteem and their creators force. Ignored people lack the empowerment of contributing their creativity to the whole. Many “helpers” have been working on trying to heal these fundamental issues on the individual level for a long time. We call you out of your specific niches to claim your seat and to join the cause of integrity where it lacks most, at the very centre of our societies.
Our most powerful leverage is a self-commitment to the highest level of personal integrity possible to reach at any time and in any context. When this commitment is applied by many, and when structurally implemented as a core value in our societies, we will have access to a reference point that reflects the diverse and flexible nature of life instead of breaking it in a shortened need for safety.
In the endless cycle of processing new informations and allowing natural self-correction a new sense of safety can occur which is much more reliable and can create the solid ground so much needed to succeed in our common work. To find our place as human species within the web of life on our planet and to contribute to the beauty that is.
The Form
shaping integrity
A sense for integrity has at least two dimensions. We cannot deny the existence of a general common cultural ground that gives us a sense of what integrity and reliability are. Basic qualities might be inclusiveness and a live-affirming orientation. And 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 grew us. This is where qualities such as a sense for self-dignity, self-awareness and self-honesty come in.
Relying on integrity is a journey, to come to integrity a process. The inner movement always includes a certain form of dialogue – within oneself, with the circumstances, sometimes with others. Integrity For Future seeks to stimulate conscious choice to notice and seek this dialogue, and to give it a central place in one’s personal life and in society.
With this initiative we are setting off for a journey too. To begin with we are introducing a choice of existing initiatives that offer concrete support in personal growth, increase the visibility for the marginalised-ones or promote and enable conscious decision making in politics, economics and science. Beside of that there is an active field of people focusing explicitly on “integrity” in an explorative exchange from where pioneering projects and cooperations start to arise. Last but not least individuals, communities and organisations seeking a higher level of integrity can ask us for advice.
The 3 pillars
of my work
My inner call to action
What is integrity for me?