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NOTE: This website has scarcely been updated during the last ten years . . .
Take a look at my LinkedIn page if you want a glimpse of what I have been up to more recently (including articles in English):

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The main purpose of this site is to make some manuscripts available to interested readers. Some of them
are preliminary versions, and I would appreciate your reactions and comments.
If you would like to comment on the material at this site or talk about the issues raised, please send me a note: Thomas.Jordan@gu.se
If you are curious about me, there is a short biographical sketch.
Below are links to articles and longer texts. In the section Other resources I have posted a selection of my most substantial posts to a couple of listserv list, as well as some brief preliminary texts.

Available texts (Aug 2002)

• Perceiving, interpreting and handling workplace conflicts. Identifying the potential for development (pdf, 830 kB)
  This comprehensive study presents results from an interview-based research project on the differences in how individuals perceive, interpret and handle workplace conflicts. The report presents the Conflict Awareness Mandala, an instrument for exploring the role awareness plays in conflicts. Using many excerpts from interviews, we discuss differences in how counterparts are constructed, in what people find important and in how people learn from conflict experiences. One chapter offers six portraits of persons who perceive, interpret and handle workplace conflicts in very different ways. In a concluding chapter, a four-level curriculum for conflict competency is sketched. Please observe the file size of 830 kB: the document may take some time to load. This text is only available as a pdf file. You will need Acrobat Reader to access it.
  
• Becoming a conscious manager (pdf)
  The purpose of this article is to present an instrument, the Conflict Awareness Mandala, for identifying your learning needs in terms of awareness; the particular emphasis here is on prevention and management of workplace conflicts.
• Dimensions of consciousness development. A preliminary framework (v.1.0)
This essay was written as my reaction to Ken Wilber's recent book "Integral Psychology," especially ch. 9. It outlines the major dimensions of consciousness development in some detail, and discusses some aspects of how these dimensions relate to each other. It is also available as a Microsoft Word rtf file (148 kB).

• Self-awareness, meta-awareness and the witness self (pdf)
  This is a reworked section of the essay above. The full essay needs some restructuring to accommodate the changes, and I don't have time for that, so I'll just post the section as is. Read it, it is the best I've ever written :-).
  
• Perceiving, interpreting and handling conflicts in the workplace ­ A study of the differences in individual experience (Summary)
This is a summary of a comprehensive research report that is currently being translated to English.
• Towards the Good Society: A Postconventional Manifesto (v. 1.0)
This is a draft, and I would be grateful for critical comments.
• Conflicts as yoga. Mindfulness in conflicts as a path of consciousness development This text presents concrete guidelines on how ordinary conflicts can be used to work with one's own consciousness development. An earlier and somewhat shorter version has been published in German (in Transpersonale Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 1997:1).
• Developing spiritual skills through conflicts: A set of questions A worksheet with questions you can ask yourself when you are involved in a conflict.
• Integrating spirituality in daily life - A how-to guide using your own conflicts as valuable opportunities This is an edited version of my lecture notes for a seminar held in October 1997.
• Structures of geopolitical reasoning This paper delineates a theoretical and methodological platform for empirical studies of consciousness structures in social conflicts.
• Structures of consciousness (work in progress) This is a quite heavy text, a draft for a chapter of a book that will probably never get written. I no longer believe in the soundness of trying to define coherent consciousness structures.
• The Uses of Territories in Conflicts This is a finished article, an effort to apply a consciousness evolution perspective on the political geography of violent conflicts. It has been published in a Spanish and a German version in academic journals (see the publications list), and in English in the Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution [no longer online, alas].
• Constructions of "development" in local Third World communities: Outline of a research strategy This is a working paper presenting a research strategy for studying how individuals in Third World communities construct the notion of "development."

Links

Engaged spirituality

Spiral Dynamics

Fellowship of Reconciliation

Foundation for Ethics and Meaning (Politics of Meaning)

Tikkun Magazine

Center for Partnership
Riane Eisler, David Loye

Awakening Earth HomePage
Duane Elgin

Global Renaissance Alliance

The Earthstewards Network
In the spirit of Danaan Parry.

Foundation Global Ethic

Worldbuilders
Includes an interesting article on the emergence of an integral culture

Forge Institute

 

Conflict resolution

Communications for a Sustainable Future, Colorado
This is a very large site with material on peace, conflict resolution and much more.

Mediation Information and Resource Center
Also a large site.

Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution

Program on Negotiation
This site presents the Program on Negotiation at Harward Law School. Here you can obtain a large number of roleplay cases.

S. Kaufman's Resources in Conflict Management, for research, teaching and practice
This website offers a large number of conflict-related links. Recommended.

The Mennonite Central Committee
A lot of material on mediation and conflict resolution.

Compassionate Listening & Reconciliation

Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution

Readings in Dispute Resolution: A Selected Bibliography
 
 

Adult development, transpersonal psychology and transformative methods

Journal of consciousness studies

Friends of Andrew Cohen

What is Enlightenment?
This journal, associated with Andrew Cohen, has lots of really good articles and interviews online.

Jean Houston's Mystery School

Bill Torbert's homepage
Bill Torbert has learned from developmental psychology and spiritual approaches, and put them to work for transformation of organizations and leaders. This site includes several very interesting articles.

FlowNetwork
Explores "flow" in the spirit of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Rosen Institute Home Page
A brief introduction to the Rosen method of bodywork.

The Society for Research in Adult Development

Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations

The Diamond approach/Almaas

John Heron
John Heron is an original, articulate and sometimes provoking person, exploring ways of integrating spirituality and collaborative inquiry. He has published several books, including "Feeling and Personhood" and "Sacred science. Person-centered inquiry into the spiritual and the subtle."

New Dimension articles
An archive of articles and interviews around spirituality and social issues. Recommended!

Shambhala Sun
This is the website of the magazine Shambhala Sun. Contains some articles, interviews and excerpts from articles on spirituality.

Integrative Explorations. Journal of Culture and Consciousness
This site is related to the International Jean Gebser Society.

Teaching Tools For Mindfulness Training

Frank Visser's website on Ken Wilber
A growing site of Wilber-related material. Includes a very comprehensive interview with Ken Wilber.

Nonduality, Nondualism: The Varieties of Expression

Saybrook Graduate School Home Page

www.enlightentment.com
 
 

Personal homepages

Phil Servedio: The Spiritual Process of Awakening

Craig Chalquist: Cain's Self-exploration Site
A very large and somewhat spectacular site.

Jay Earley

Victor MacGill

Gus diZerega

 

Other sites

The Noetic Cafe

Leopold Szondi Forum
A website dedicated to the great psychologist Leopold Szondi. Offers many texts in different languages.

Self Improvement Online
If you like browsing through links, and don't mind a certain lack of discernment, try this.

International Listening Association

Last updated on January 14, 2005