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IEC 2016 Opening Address by Dennis Wittrock

Dear friends,  I feel blessed to be able to welcome you to this second Integral European Conference . My own history with integral reaches back 16 years now when I first picked up a book by Ken Wilber and got introduced to Integral. Finally, there was something I wanted to share and amplify in the world, something that reflected my own values and way of thinking. Something true, good and beautiful. Something I could truly stand for. But it has not been an easy journey with integral through all these years. I started out with an innocent and naïve hope, that the Integral Revolution is just around the corner, a big explosion of deeper understanding, compassion and saner ways of treating each other and the planet - similar to my own individual “Heureka”-moment when I first ran into this stuff. Boy, was I wrong about that. But, as Ken Wilber says, “nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time” . I erred , but only about 20 years, or so. I felt like I’ve had a s