Join The Aligned Center for this Brand New Course!

Elevate Your Cultural Intelligence

Greg Thomas’ nine-week series, Cultural Intelligence: Transcending Race, Embracing Cosmos, makes the intangible tangible by dissecting underlying cultural and structural issues that contribute to our current social and racial crises, as he guides our attention to real and concrete ways to develop cultural intelligence--the final piece of a great cosmic puzzle to co-evolve a better and brighter global community.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction to Becoming Part of the Solution: A Course in Post-Progressive Politics, with Steve McIntosh

    • OVERVIEW of Becoming Part of the Solution: A Course in Post-Progressive Politics

    • ABOUT Steve McIntosh

    • BOOK: Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself, by Steve McIntosh. (Paragon House. March 1, 2020)
  • 2

    Week 1: Toward a Politics of Culture

    • Week 1 Overview

    • Video of Class One
  • 3

    Week 2: Modernism, Traditionalism, and Progressivism

    • Week 2 - Overview

    • Zoom link

    • Homework Assigned at the End of Class 2

    • Video of Class Two
  • 4

    Week 3: The Political Practice of Integrating Value Polarities

    • Week 3 - Overview

    • Zoom link

    • Week 3 Slides-1

    • Week 3 Slides-2

    • Video of Class Three

    • Homework Assigned at the End of Class 3
  • 5

    Week 4: The Post-Progressive Perspective and Method

    • Week 4 - Overview

    • Zoom link

    • Week 4 Slides

    • Video of Class Four

    • Homework Assigned at the End of Class 4
  • 6

    Week 5: The Physics of Value

    • Week 5 - Overview

    • Zoom link

    • Week 5 Slides 1

    • Week 5 Slides 2

    • Homework Assigned at the End of Class 5

    • Video of Class Five
  • 7

    Week 6: Toward a New American Dream

    • Week 6 - Overview

    • Zoom link

    • Week 6 Slides

    • Video of Class Six

    • Homework for Class 6
  • 8

    Week 7: Virtue Practice

    • Week 7 - Overview

    • Zoom link

    • Week 7 Slides-1

    • Week 7 Slides-2

    • Homework Assigned at the End of Class 7

    • Video of Class Seven
  • 9

    Week 8: Reclaiming the Ideal of Progress

    • Week 8 - Overview

    • Zoom link

    • Week 8 Slides 1

    • Week 8 Slides-2

    • Questions to Contemplate for Week 9: Breakout Exercise #1: Grievance and Gratitude

    • Questions to Contemplate for Week 9: Breakout Exercise #2: Cultural Intelligence

    • Questions to Contemplate for Week 9: Breakout Exercise #3: Evaluation of Post-Progressive Politics

    • Video of Class Eight
  • 10

    Week 9: Post-Progressive Activism

    • Week 9 - Overview

    • Zoom link

    • Video of (Final) Class Nine

$249 one-time payment or three monthly payments of $99.00 each

Your Instructor

Aligned Center Home Teacher

Greg Thomas

Greg Thomas, CEO of the Jazz Leadership Project, is a writer, intellectual, and entrepreneur. Among other models, he uses Integral metatheory and blues idiom philosophy to shed light on complex issues and to point a way forward and upward. As the co-founder of G&J Productions, Greg was instrumental in developing programs such as the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s flagship interview series, Harlem Speaks. He has written about culture, race, and democratic life and values in publications ranging from the Village Voice, Integral+Life, New Republic, Salon, UPTOWN, The Root, the Guardian Observer, and the New York Daily News—as jazz columnist. Greg has lectured on American cultural history and jazz at Columbia, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Hamilton College and Harvard. See more about Greg at the site of the Jazz Leadership Project, as well as its blog, Tune In To Leadership.