Resources & Links - Integration Center

This is a list of current pages on this site. More are being added continually.

If you write an article online about Integration Centers, please contact this site to have it linked here.

Additional external resources that appear in various places on this site are collected here for convenience:

Introduction to Permaculture – an in-depth introduction to permaculture design. Also simply search the web for more terse information.
Permaculture observation – a detailed look at the role of observation in the practice of permaculture design.
Holism – the perspective of looking at complex biological systems as discrete organisms.
Bio-Veda Architecture – a system of home design incorporating many diverse self-sustaining, nature-balancing, inexpensive techniques.
ArcGIS map – sample map for evaluating land parcels.

Open-source governance – democratizing governance through sophisticated collaboration systems.
- Vilfredo – a sample tool for open source governance, suitable to village-sized populations.
- Pareto front – Video by the creator of Vilfredo explaining the mathematical concept of the pareto front and how it can apply to governance.
Dunbar’s Number – evaluation of the maximum size of coherent human populations.

Early modern humans – the baseline of human physiology that Integration Centers view as the natural state for humans.
Behavioral modernity – anthropology concept of when humans started employing abstract thinking and developing art.
Recent human evolution – details on human evolution and ice ages.
Holocene – the geologic era starting at the end of the last “ice age,” 11,700 years ago.
Mesolithic era – The start of the Holocene marks the beginning of the Mesolithic era in human history, when ecosystems became more robust and humans started becoming less nomadic. This is the time that Integration Centers look to as the baseline for healthy human interaction with nature.
Neolithic revolution – The concentration of people into denser groups, with fewer people participating in food production. This process happened near the beginning of the Holocene in some places, and not at all in others (such as the Americas).

Fundamental human needs – as defined by Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef.
Bank-debt currency model – explanation of how taking loans creates currency and increases scarcity.
Eight forms of capital – permaculture concept explaining non-financial forms of capital.
Land use for agriculture – breakdown of human impact on land.
The global inequality boomerang – how China’s modernization has created a temporary decline in global economic inequality; while otherwise economic inequality is increasing.

Internal Family Systems – highly effective model for addressing traumas and unhealthy behavioral structures.
The 8 C’s of IFS – a model used in Internal Family Systems
Brainspotting – highly effective somatic therapy for resolving traumas.
MDMA-assisted therapy – experimental but extremely promising method for resolving traumas.
Mind-body health – introduction to the linkage between mental state and many physical illnesses, by Dr. Gabor Maté.
Rolfing FAQs – introduction to Rolfing Structural Integration, a body-reorganization healing practice.

MAPS Integration Workbook – information on the psychedelic integration process.
Integration coaching – information on the process of integration coaching.
Rethinking Ego-Death – article on how indigenous spiritual practices see ego-death not as an end-goal, but as a step toward “remembering one’s place within the greater web of life.”