International Center for Integrative Studies

"The International Center for Integrative Studies (ICIS), incorporated in 1962, is a not-for-profit organization that works to co-create a common consciousness as a seedbed for new visions of positive futures for humanity and the planet...

"ICIS was founded in 1962 by Erling A. Thunberg to help address the challenges and concerns of many scholars and scientists at the end of the 1950s regarding the future. These concerns included the recognition that tremendous changes were taking place at an accelerating rate in the world - in technology, values and culture. Rapid industrial growth, changing political structures and increasing influence of mass communication were having a major impact on how humankind perceived itself, resulting in rapid fluctuations in attitudes and social customs. With this also came a major increase of information with growing specialization and fragmentation of knowledge. It became clear to many of the leading thinkers of the time that integration of knowledge and understanding was critical...

"Erling A. Thunberg was the Founder of ICIS, the International Center for Integrative Studies, and later the guiding spirit for the ICIS project, The Door, a comprehensive multi-service center for young people in New York City.

"The group that worked with him in the initial stage of translating his vision into program elements and organizational structure included E. Alice Beard, Lamar Carter, George A. Christie, Donald F. Keys and Janis A. Roze."

Board
Accessed May 2012:


 * Sarajane Brittis - president
 * Lamar Carter
 * Donna Christie
 * Bruce Cohen
 * F. Russell Kellogg
 * Steven Knoblauch
 * Ruth Lynford
 * Laraine M. Mai
 * William J. Paul
 * Irene B. Seeland
 * Rolland Smith

Contact
Web: http://www.icisonline.org