As part of the Cohere+ project (formerly Field Intelligence and Technology for Transformation, FITT), IFIS has been leading the following activities:

Co-Creative Gatherings

Hosting Integral Political Salons  

The following European Political Salons have been hosted (in English):

• Salon 7: Sociocracy as a tool for more coherent decision-making in politics
• Salon 6: The magic of Integral Politics
• Salon 5: Metamodern Politics challenging the political system (Alternativet/DK)
• Salon 4: Mapping constraints & options in the UKR-RU war
• Salon 3: Presenting the Politics Repair Party (Austria)
• Salon 2: Presenting Integral Politics (Switzerland)
• Salon 1: Presenting the VOLT party

The following Salons have been hosted in German language, focusing on the below topics:

• Coherence between our inner and outer spaces
• Future villages: What is a good life?
• Sustainable economics, SDG game
• Integral politics: Deepening space for POP 23: Integral Politics
• Sortition-based citizens assemblies: deepening space for POP 24

Hosting integral online Colloquia

• Online Colloquium "Gaming around SDGs and IDGs"
• Online Colloquium "Creating Common Ground"
• Online Colloquium "Estuarine Mapping - a playful way of managing complexity"
• Online Colloquium "Runde Tische als Weg zu einer neuen Politik"
• Online Colloquium "Reinventing Society - Realutopien für die große Transformation"
• Online Colloquium "The Magic of Integral Politics"
• Online Colloquium "Ecosystem Intentions"
• Online Colloquium "Indigeneity and Development: Are we missing something?"
• Online Colloquium "Climate simulation"
• Online Colloquium "Integral political philosophy - Understanding the current crisis of legitimacy in liberal democracies"
• Online Colloquium "Trauma & Politics - a metamodern perspective"
• Online Colloquium "Chronobiologie - Macht und Potenziale unserer genetischen Rhythmen"
• Online Colloquium "Regeneratives Wissen aus indigenen Kulturen"

Hosting generative dialog spaces to explore aspects and dimensions of coherence

• Deep Democracy Dialog (focus: Corona and society), Freiburg
• Round Table at Praxisgruppe Moderation, Freiburg
• Round Table at Herder Haus, Freiburg
• Round Table in the public space, Freiburg
• Deep Democracy Dialog on Corona, Health Politics and German History, Freiburg

Onsite Learning Spaces - Building capacities for coherence (non-exhaustive)

• Workshop "Workshop on Integral Politics, including experiential parts", June 23, 2023
• 2-day training "Principles of Integral Politics", Nov 11-12, 2023
• Dialog on Corona, December 19, 2023
• Integrale Politik - ein neues Betriebssystem für die Politik
• Workshop IDGs, Integral Politics and Coherence, March 9, 2024
• Build Coherence in the Pioneers of Change field, March 17, 2024
• 2. Dialog on Corona, deepening format, March 27, 2024
• Round Table Hinterzarten, April 12, 2024
• Workshop Integrale Politik, April 20, 2024
• Workshop Integrale Politik + Deep Democracy (AfD und Vertiefung der Demokratie), May 7, 2024
• 2nd Round Table Hinterzarten, June 14, 24
• Workshop Integrale Politik + Deep Democracy (AfD und Vertiefung der Demokratie), June 18, 24
• Integrale Politik + Deep Democracy, June 29, 2024
• IDGs and Integral Politics - the Marriage of Depth and Power, July 11, 2024
• 2-day training "Principles of Integral Politics", Oct. 12-13, 2024

Democracy Update Initiative (Germany) & Book chapter 

IFIS has been among the 10 first co-signatories of the initiative. The goal of the co-creative process at national level was the joint publication of an anthology. The entire book is downloadable as PDF here

IFIS Book review: Ein Update für unsere Demokratie. Politische Innovationen für mehr Mitbestimmung, Beteiligung und Transparenz“
Book Chapter by Elke Fein, IFIS: Chapter 14 “Demokratisierungspolitik”

Blog articles

Publishing regular blog articles  (1 per month of the project duration) exploring the quality of coherence and its significance for the work of paradigmatic change agents working toward systemic change in view of a regenerative society and politics. 

Blog articles in German

• Blog article: "Regeneratives Wissen aus indigenen Kulturen"
• Blog article: "The Marriage of depth and power: Integral Politics & IDGs in Caux"
• Blog article: "Arbeit am kollektiven Schatten-Deep Democracy und Umgang mit derAfD"
• Blog article: "Vertiefung der Demokratie: Zweiter integraler politischer Dialog in Freiburg"
• Blog article: "IDGs und Integrale Politik – eine zauberhafte Mischung"
• Blog article: "Reinventing Society - Zukunftsdünger im IFIS Online-Kolloquium"
• Book Review: "Ein integrales Update für die Demokratie"
• Blog article "Future Politics made in Europe"
• Blog article "Slipchain Economy and Integral Economics"
• Blog article "Innen und Aussen in Balance"
• Blog article "Coherence matters - mapping a new paradigm quality"

Publishing interviews with pioneers of a new, integral politics (Pioneers of Politics series)

• POP 19: Interview with Frederik Fischer (in German): Summer of Pioneers
• POP 20: Interview mit Harald Schellander (in German): Verwobensein als Zukunftsbild für die Gesellschaft
• POP 21: Interview with Gerald Kaschowitz (in German): Transformation und Emergenz in Natur und Kultur
• POP 22: Interview with Jakob Hafele (ZOE Institute): Zukunftsfähige Ökonomie ist eine zuhörende Ökonomie
• POP 23: Integrale Politik - 10 Prinzipien für ein neues politisches Betriebssystem (presentation by Elke Fein, in German)
• POP 24: Interview with Kira Hoffmann (Klimabürgerrat Freiburg)
• POP international 26: Essentials of Integral Politics

Summary presentations - Results and Impact of the Cohere+ Project (EN & DE)