Dear friends,
I am excited to announce The New Story of Wholeness (NSoW), a flagship initiative by the Institute of Applied Metatheory aiming to create a global “Welcome Mat” for the emerging Integrative Worldview, a meta-narrative capable of restoring coherence in a time of fragmentation. NSoW is an ambitious, experimental attempt to bring the worldview to life as a felt, visual, and narrative-based experience on the web for institutional leaders, cultural influencers, and system builders.
The stakes are significant: millions of people already inhabit an integrative worldview, and yet no global Welcome Mat exists that could help them identify as such. And as the only worldview capable of holding the complexity of the 21st century, it is a serious gap that no coherent digital expression has been constructed to make this worldview widely visible, intuitively navigable, or emotionally compelling. Moreover, current educational platforms, institutional narratives, and public discourse remain fragmented in traditional, modern or postmodern paradigms, leaving people disoriented and under-equipped to meet the moment. Without a shared story of wholeness grounded in developmental, systemic, and spiritual coherence, we cannot build the futures we urgently need. The NSoW will innovate toward this need for a Welcome Mat and new story for the 21st century, and will be built around archdisciplinary patterns that make the integrative worldview intelligible and inhabitable.
The central thesis of the New Story of Wholeness is that worldviews can be learned—and thus can be taught, transmitted, and transformed. When properly scaffolded, the integrative worldview can shift not only what people believe, but who they become. The NSoW proposes that by crafting a digital experience that mirrors the integrative worldview in form as well as content—by embedding learning in story, pattern, complexity, and beauty—we can accelerate the transmission of this worldview into culture.
Funded by the IAM Foundation, the project brings together an esteemed team of designers and scholars in an attempt to fuse philosophical depth, archdisciplinary and worldview theory, and immersive design to create an experiential gateway to the next stage of collective consciousness. This project will be interesting, challenging and highly experimental.
And as is so often the case with IAM’s applied metatheory projects, what we learn—whether success or failure—is just another small building block on the road to building the Integrative Worldview’s knowledge economy that can prepare human civilization for the back half of the 21st century.
Loving warm regards,
Robb
