ABSTRACT
Since mindset shift is such an important aspect of moving towards ecologizing and away from economizing, it is important to begin considering what mindsets actually are and how they might change. Ethicist Lawrence Kohlberg pushed the developmental stages into the moral realm, arguing that there were other main stages of moral reasoning. An ecologizing mindset—growth-oriented and having achieved the capacity to reason at postconventional levels both cognitively and morally—is needed because of the inherently paradoxical nature of some of the issues the world is facing. Integral theory, as developed by Ken Wilber, provides potentially the best lens into developing an integrated or ecological mindset, as alluded to earlier. He draws from many, many sources to develop the integral framework, which outlines the idea that most disciplines function rather narrowly—only in one of four possible domains, part of the left-brain problem.
