Bonnitta Roy
Bonnitta Roy is an award-winning author, philosopher and insight guide. She is a life coach for individuals entering post-formal levels of consciousness. She founder of Alderlore Insight Center whose mission is to catalyze insight in individuals and groups in order to accelerate transformation in education, business, and governance
In 2014 Bonnitta launched a summer SOLE program for young adults based on principles of clarity, complexity thinking, emotional awareness, and generative life practice. She is an associate editor of Integral Review Journal, and a guest faculty for the Masters course in Consciousness Studies at The Graduate Institute. Since 2012 she has been curator of The Magellan Courses – a free online learning community focusing on post-synthetic-dialectic reasoning. In her forthcoming book, Open to Participate, Bonnitta describes the emergence of the “Open Participatory Organization,” and shows how groups can achieve collective insight and cognitive flow.
Open Group Practice: Eight Social Selves
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Through co-operative inquiry, observation, and collective reflection, we began to track patterns of social behavior that seemed to follow a typology. This eventually led to the naming of eight ‘indigenous social selves’ that masquerade around as human beings in conventionally structured environments. The eight social selves are derived from alternative coping mechanisms at three levels of being: an inner core primary psychological schema, an outer social processing temperament, and an interpretive ideology.