Faith Development Pathway

The Faith Development Pathway (FDP) is a pioneering initiative dedicated to creating the world’s first open-access protocol for the developmental maturation of faith and ultimate concern. Building on James Fowler’s influential stages of faith and advancing them through the neo-Piagetian lens of hierarchical complexity scoring—specifically via the Computerized Lectical Assessment System (CLAS)—the FDP systematically charts the evolving cognitive and existential architecture of human meaning-making. Its goal is to rationally reconstruct the topography of healthy faith development across the lifespan and democratize this knowledge through accessible tools, assessments, and pedagogical applications. By equipping educators, spiritual leaders, curriculum designers, and social innovators with a scientifically rigorous and spiritually attuned developmental framework, the FDP aims to support both horizontal and vertical growth in faith across diverse populations. Envisioned as an incubator for a future Faith Development Institute, the initiative seeks to steward, refine, and disseminate this integrative protocol across disciplines, traditions, and global contexts.

byJosh Leonard

INSIGHT

INSIGHT is a software tool being designed to evaluate the complexity of reasoning within any narrative. It scans texts, assessing the level of intellectual complexity and identifies the developmental stage of the reasoning. INSIGHT provides detailed analysis, helping users understand how ideas evolve, revealing gaps in reasoning, and offering pathways for improvement. Its aim is to make the concept of developmental stages accessible to all, fostering clearer communication, better sense-making, and more effective decision-making.

byJosh Leonard

Unified Worldview Initiative

Much of humanity lacks a coherent, comprehensive worldview that effectively integrates mind and consciousness with matter and successfully aligns objective knowledge of natural science with subjective and social ways of knowing. The Unified Worldview Initiative (UWI) is designed to underlabor for the continuing emergence of a complete and coherent Integrative worldview capable of addressing this "Enlightenment Gap" and orienting humanity through this moment of planetary transformation. Led by Dr. Gregg Henriques and supported by a core team of integrative metatheorists, the UWI will incorporate a critical but missing transdisciplinary metapsychology into our 21st-century big pictures by integrating three of the most powerful and generative frameworks for understanding the human being: Critical Realism, Integral Theory, and the Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK). The UWI will culminate in a white paper, a symposia series, and a book-length treatment of the integration.

byRobb Smith

Integral Communications Toolkit

The Integral Communication Kit is a transformative initiative designed to help ambassadors of integral ideas connect with diverse audiences, foster greater understanding, and expand the reach of integral insights. By equipping individuals with tools to identify their audience’s unique perspective (i.e. their “kosmic address”) and tailor messages accordingly, this initiative bridges the gap between integral metatheory’s complexity and its practical application in the real world.

byJosh Leonard

Strategic Metacrisis Mapping Initiative

This initiative will deploy a sophisticated, integrated, and comprehensive philosophy to show what is possible when we leverage Big Pictures to support new forms of sensemaking and meta-strategizing about complex, wicked problems. There is an emerging consensus of a profound, global "metacrisis" characterized by entangled, interpenetrating, and co-arising ecosocial, spiritual, ethical, and epistemic crises, and their underlying network of interconnected root causes. This project will convene the novel intellectual and social resources necessary to map and more fully understand the reality of the global metacrisis and its implications for meaning-making. Leveraging a metatheoretically-integrative Visionary Realism—the project will use a retroductive method to generate a map of causal mechanisms, reality distortions, and symptoms of the global metacrisis's four primary domains assessed across five major worldviews. The project will develop a web-based interactive topology of the metacrisis, innovation lab-style symposia for expert coordination and validation, and one or more papers.

byJosh Leonard

Sensemaking, Action, and Leadership Training (SALT) for Climate

SALT for Climate addresses a critical blindspot in climate action by focusing on conscious sensemaking as the foundation for effective climate initiatives. Combining climate research, human interior facilitation, and metatheories, it aims to heal psychosocial blindspots in current paradigms. SALT bridges the gap between climate policies and public perception, reducing polarization and stalled efforts. By providing specialized sensemaking and leadership training, it enhances climate leaders' capacities across emotional, social, and consciousness domains. This scalable approach complements scientific aspects, fosters public engagement, and aims to drive more effective, integrative climate leadership.

byJosh Leonard

The Cultural Complexity Index

The Cultural Complexity Index (CCI) initiative aims to quantify and analyze human cultural complexification across history. By applying advanced hierarchical complexity scoring to diverse cultural artifacts, the CCI will provide the first comprehensive dataset on cultural evolution. This project seeks to move cultural complexification theories from speculative sociology to empirical science, challenging relativistic academic paradigms and fostering more integrative approaches to today's complex global challenges. Through academic publications and public engagement, the CCI aims to catalyze a paradigm shift in understanding cultural evolution, offering crucial insights for addressing the intricate problems of our time.

byJosh Leonard

The Evolution of Philanthropy

The Evolution of Philanthropy initiative is exploring how integrative metatheory might help philanthropic institutions evolve to meet the extraordinary challenges of our time. By introducing a developmental model of philanthropic evolution and offering practical frameworks for navigating it, the initiative aims to support funders who are ready to move beyond empowerment philanthropy and begin practicing what we call Integrative Philanthropy.

byJosh Leonard

Encyclopedia of Big Pictures

Taking the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as inspiration, the Encyclopedia of Big Pictures will be a free online resource that defines the relevant terms and concepts for the growing body of philosophical work underlying integrative metatheories.

byRobb Smith

Integrative Policing Transformation Initiative (Phase 1)

An Integrative Model of Policing Transformation is an Initiative designed to map the fuller complexity of policing in the United States and examine how a transformation toward a fuller guardian model of policing might be achieved.

byRobb Smith