Institute of Applied Metatheory
@IAMetatheory
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A social action think tank applying integrative epistemology to transformational leverage points in order to promote human flourishing.
Joined October 2022
1/6 🚨 Introducing ‘Integration: The Journal of Big Picture Theory and Practice.’ A new peer-reviewed journal advancing integrative metatheory, systems thinking, and big-picture approaches to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
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8/8 Read @RobbSmith's full reflection on 2025 and find out what’s ahead here: https://t.co/qq1bCW56z0
appliedmetatheory.org
Dear friends, As we come to the close of an extraordinary year of learning, discovery and growth, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on the past twelve months and give a preview of what’s...
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7/8 None of this work is possible without the intellectual seriousness, financial support, and moral encouragement of those who have chosen to engage with IAM, and we remain deeply grateful to all of you who have supported IAM.
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6/8 IAM also focuses on fostering worldview-producing conditions, supporting leaders and institutions to act coherently as adaptation outpaces institutional learning — including incubating real-world Big Picture applications that are adoptable, not just insightful.
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5/8 IAM’s focus will include the consolidation of an integrative philosophy kernel — a framework capable of holding plural perspectives without collapsing into relativism or ideology.
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4/8 In 2026, IAM’s philosophical, sociological, narrative, institutional, and financial work coheres into a more public strategy — united by one concern: how societies generate, transmit, and act from Big Pictures under accelerating complexity and pluralism.
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3/8 The core challenge of the era is not technological capacity, economic adaptation, or political will — but integrative sensemaking and its adoptability.
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2/8 IAM was formed to help meet a particular civilizational moment. We are entering what @RobbSmith calls a Transformation Age — not merely a period of disruption, but one of structural transformation across sensemaking, meaning, technoeconomy, geopolitics, and ecology.
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1/8 The Institute of Applied Metatheory’s Year in Review — a chance to catch up on the exciting things we’ve been working on, and a glimpse of what’s beginning to cohere as we move into 2026.
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Everyone should read this. If we can get leading media voices like Tom and Ezra to shift from a pluralistic to an integrative mindset, that’s one step away from our leaders and, let’s face it, future president Newsom, having an approach fit for purpose to resist our decline
Today’s NY Times is about the Transformation Age—a time of structural morphogenesis—the Metacrisis, and the Great Release all in one. Here’s a primer, then the article.
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@RobbSmith @IAMetatheory @tomfriedman “Transformation Age” captures the opportunity to develop as a species, society and world…words matter - thank you for your thoughtful attention to this unfolding experience.
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@IAMetatheory @tomfriedman Though Tom is a “light Teal” thinker—integrative but without an integrative metatheory—this is a fairly classic postmodern worldview blind spot of seeing Teal-level system complexity but then flattening its depth. Hence polycene. https://t.co/oUp76wbAvE
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We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.
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Brilliant synopsis of where we are now - the Transformarían Age. Within my area of knowledge and experience, I wonder how this is impacting policing. It IS impacting policing, as it is impacting everything. But who in policing is aware of this? And, more importantly, who isn’t?
Today’s NY Times is about the Transformation Age—a time of structural morphogenesis—the Metacrisis, and the Great Release all in one. Here’s a primer, then the article.
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We have entered a Transformation Age. Meeting this moment requires more than better ideas: it requires integrative worldview networks capable of coordinating meaning, attention, and collective strategy at civilizational scale. @RobbSmith's analysis 👉
Today’s NY Times is about the Transformation Age—a time of structural morphogenesis—the Metacrisis, and the Great Release all in one. Here’s a primer, then the article.
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Kuhn's recent "Landscape of Consciousness" paper is a landmark contribution to the field. At @IAMetatheory we were going to extend Kuhn to build an Integrative Map of Consciousness, but now don't need to bc @danilo_z_j absolutely crushed it w the awesome Consciousness Atlas.
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@CortexAwakens @RaoulGMI @grok OpenAI might be stronger on integrative stage of cognitive complexity at this point, both in terms of content and in terms of actual metasystematic reasoning. Here’s its primer on integrative from @IAMetatheory’s own ChatGPT, as it’s learned a lot from us https://t.co/u7qMFZg2O9
chatgpt.com
ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.
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AI is killing consulting, unless it’s from an Integrative stage of complexity, which AIs can’t touch. If I was CEO of a consulting firm, I’d be learning about the integrative stage of cognition with every hour of spare time I have.
A perfectly timed article from Reuters. “AI is killing consulting.” What’s truly fascinating is this part: “For example, if a company performs a project in-house, it costs around $1 million, but consulting firms like Accenture have been offering the same service for $200,000.
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The kind of stuff we debate weekly @IAMetatheory, this was a speculative update of Integral Metatheory’s concept of quadrants to include the transjective, a relational process ontology, & critical realist depth ontology.
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🌱 New white paper from @LifeItself_ Drawing on Integral Theory’s five domains (Waking Up, Growing Up, Cleaning Up, Showing Up, Cognitive Development), the paper makes the case for dedicated spaces of inner growth as key to systemic renewal. 🔗 Read here 👇
To address our interconnected crises requires a shift at the level of collective worldview. Towards such a shift-and the resilience and flourishing needed to navigate societal breakdowns wisely-we offer a model of Developmental Spaces. New white paper: https://t.co/EaUmg9WemE
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Thrilled that our multitalented crew at @IAMetatheory have launched the new #Integration podcast! 🎙️ This will bring together some remarkable thinkers and practitioners for deep understanding and actionable wisdom. This is the forerunner of the Integration Journal- scholars
appliedmetatheory.org
Dear friends, We’re excited to announce the launch of Integration, a new podcast featuring thinkers forging connections across domains, traditions, and levels of analysis in pursuit of deeper...
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5/5 Watch the first episode of the Integration podcast here with @clemvidal 👉 https://t.co/H45mtOB9jM + subscribe and listen on any app 👉 https://t.co/OnCt3Cc1hz
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