ABSTRACT
In our relational grounding, emerging and navigating our way towards the effective embodiment of integral development, personally and communally, organizationally and societally, we turn the conventional world upside down, by implying that it is the role of ultimately what we have termed an inter-institutional genealogy to perform such navigation, rather than that of politicians, captains of industry, or even business or social entrepreneurs. They have instead a major role to play, as we shall now see, in effecting rather than navigating development. Indeed, in this chapter on embodying integral development, we turn from organizational and communal, to effecting societal development. In telling their "non-modern" stories the authors encourage these societies to learn from their communal ingenuity and cultural arts, so as to go beyond the mono-culturalism of the modern world, inspired to weave the fabric of their evolving epic: to retain and regenerate their culture, despite the odds that threaten their lives and spaces.
