The Practice

This page is about a practice that is yours. I describe it from the inside, as someone who works with it in my own life and sits with others who do the same.

What I have come to call integrity is a condition — a state of mind and body that lets you meet whatever arrives with clarity, and lets the people who depend on you find you steady. The work of staying in that condition is the discipline this page describes.

The discipline has two registers — one personal, one systemic. They are not separate practices; they are two views of the same work. I am still developing both, and what follows on the two pages below is what I have come to so far.

Illustration of a desk at dusk with a brass desk lamp, open notebook, a glass, and a sunset over hills and a river through a window.
The discipline of returning to oneself at the end of the day.

The Person

The discipline a human being follows to remain in a condition where sound judgement is available.

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The Organisation

Applied Systemic Integrity — the framework I am developing for designing organisations so they hold rather than erode the human integrity inside them.