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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

    Orientation and Introduction

    • Introduction to Cultural Intelligence: Transcending Race, Embracing Cosmos
  • 2

    Stage I: Cultural Literacy - Class One: Culture Lives Between Biology and the Cosmos

    • Class One: Culture Lives Between Biology and the Cosmos

    • Release Form Assignment

    • Culture vs Race_ A Polemical Take - Institute for Cultural Evolution

    • Handouts from: The Arc of a Bad Idea - Understanding and Transcending Race by Carlos Hoyt - Diagrams, Epochs of Racialization

    • Supplementing “White Fragility”. Ten Perspectives To Make Difficult… _ by Amiel Handelsman _ Oct, 2020 _ Medium

    • Buddhist Geeks Podcast: The Reality of Materiality, with Greg Thomas, on 10/07/2020

    • Video of Class 1 of 9 Cultural Intelligence with Greg Thomas and Aligned Center

  • 3

    Stage I: Cultural Literacy - Class Two: Culture as a Dynamic Idea—Parts of an Integrated Whole

    • Class Two: Culture as a Dynamic Idea—Parts of an Integrated Whole

    • Thomas, The Black Studies War (1995)

    • Video of Class 2 of 9 Greg Thomas Cultural Intelligence Course Aligned Center

    • CLASS TWO slides
  • 4

    Stage I: Cultural Literacy - Class Three: Intersubjective Operating Systems: Culture as Worldviews or Codes

    • Class Three: Intersubjective Operating Systems: Culture as Worldviews or Codes

    • Are All White People Automatically Racist?: Letter Exchange Between Greg Thomas and Vince Horn

    • Finite and Infinite Games--A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse

    • Video of Class 3 of 9 Greg Thomas Cultural Intelligence Course Aligned Institute - FIXED!

    • Class Three Slides
  • 5

    Stage II: Culture-in-Action—Case Studies Class Four: The West and Europe

    • Class Four: The West and Europe

    • Zoom link for Class 4

    • How Greg Discovered Integral Theory

    • Spiral Dynamics - Horizontal View

    • Lightning_intro_to_Spiral Dynamics_2

    • On Cultivating Cultural Intelligence by Steve Mcintosh

    • What Is Metamodernity?

    • An Overview of Integral Theory by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens

    • Greg Thomas' Interview with Ken Wilber about Race

    • Video of Class 4 of 9 Greg Thomas Cultural Intelligence Course Aligned Institute
  • 6

    Stage II: Culture-in-Action—Case Studies Class Five: American Culture

    • Class Five: American Culture

    • Zoom Lin k for Class 5

    • Slides for Class 4 of Cultural Intelligence--Transcending Race, Embracing Cosmos

    • Culture vs Race Part II: The Problem and Promise of Values

    • The Gift of Ralph Ellison

    • Reading Albert Murray in the Age of Uncertainty

    • There Is No Such thing as Western Civilization by Kwame Anthony Appiah (The Guardian)

    • Conscious Evolution podcast: Episode 1 - Meaning

    • Epilogue to The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

    • Class Five Slides

    • Video: The Origin of Race in the US - PBS Video with Dr. Danielle Bainbridge

    • Video of Class 5 of 9 Greg Thomas Cultural Intelligence Course Aligned Institute
  • 7

    Stage II: Culture-in-Action—Case Studies Class Six: Black American Culture

    • Class Six: Black American Culture

    • Zoom link for Class 6

    • Jazz, Social Justice, and a White Boy from Texas

    • Conscious Evolution podcast: Episode 2 - Cooperation

    • Jazz and American Culture by Lawrence Levine

    • Black Americans by Orlando Patterson

    • Election Reflections and the Blues Idiom

    • Class 5 Youtube Playlist

    • Video of Class 6 of 9 Greg Thomas Cultural Intelligence Course Aligned Institute
  • 8

    Stage III: Personal, Conscious Culture - Class Seven: Your Mind—Culture, Emotions, and Cognition

    • Class Seven: Your Mind—Culture, Emotions, and Cognition

    • Zoom link for Class 7

    • Conscious Evolution podcast: Episode 3 - Creativity

    • Navigating reality--It’s all about perspective by Daniel Schmachtenberger

    • You aren't at the mercy of your emotions: your brain creates them (Lisa Feldman Barrett)

    • Why you feel what you feel: Meaning and Emotional Growth by Dr. Alan Watkins _ TEDxOxford

    • Class Seven slides with videos

    • Video of Class 7 of 9 Greg Thomas Cultural Intelligence Course Aligned Institute
  • 9

    Stage III: Personal, Conscious Culture - Class Eight: Your Body—Cultural Somatics

    • Class Eight: Your Body—Cultural Somatics

    • Zoom link for Class 8

    • Conscious Evolution podcast: Episode 4 - Transcendence

    • Cultural Somatics: Resmaa Menakem featured on On Being with Krista Tippett

    • Dr. Mark Forman: Trauma, Healing, and the Monster's Journey (Thinking Ahead podcast with Carter Phipps)

    • Healing Collective Trauma by Thomas Huebl--Book Excerpt

    • Chloe Valdary's Theory of Enchantment: Compassionate Antiracism Resource Guide

    • Video of Class 8 of 9 Greg Thomas Cultural Intelligence Course Aligned Institute
  • 10

    Bonus Session on Sunday, December 13th from 4:30 - 6:00 pm EST

    • Description of Bonus Session

    • Zoom link for Bonus Session

    • Healing and Wholeness Through and Beyond Racial Identity (Growing Down Podcast)

    • 3 Reasons Anti-Bias May Solve More Than Anti-Racism (NeuroLeadership Institute)

    • Microagressions and The Rise of Victimhood Culture by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)

    • Campus Culture Wars and the Sociology of Morality

    • Video of Class 9 of 9 Greg Thomas Cultural Intelligence Course Aligned Institute
  • 11

    Stage III: Personal, Conscious Culture - Class Nine: Your Soul—Culture and the Cosmos

    • Class Nine: Your Soul—Culture and the Cosmos

    • Zoom link for Class 9

    • Class Nine slides

    • The Dominant Culture: Like Fish Swimming in Water by Seth Godin

    • Conscious Evolution podcast: Episode 5 - Conscious Evolution

    • The False Divide Between Locals and Citizens of the World by Kwame Anthony Appiah (WSJ)

    • Race, Rooted Cosmopolitanism and Hope in the 21st Century--Greg Thomas interviewed by Mark Forman

    • Toward WOMENS Knowledge for the 21st Century by Gregg Henriques

    • 8 Key ideas of UTOK by Gregg Henriques

    • RethinkX+Humanity+Report: From the Age of Extraction to the Age of Freedom
  • 12

    Conclusion

    • “Rethinking Humanity as the Coming Age of Freedom with James Arbib, Tony Seba, Deepak Chopra, and Poonacha Machaiah

    • Contrasting a Dead Universe and a Living Universe (Duane Elgin)

    • Darwinism vs Enlivement (Andreas Weber)

    • Improvisation, Science, and Spiritual Growth by Greg Thomas

    • Integral Diversity Maturity--Toward a Postconventional Understanding of Diversity Dynamics by GREGORY & RAFFANTI

    • Evolution of Diversity Theory and Practice

    • Metamodernism, Simplicity, and Complexity-Deepening Developmental Frameworks through "Spiritual Clarity" by Tom Murray

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

Your Instructor

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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.