Exploring and Embodying Integral in the 21st Century
August 10 – 15, 2008 Pema Osel Ling Retreat Center Santa Cruz, California
This seminar, the first of its kind, will bring together emerging leaders from around the globe who are discovering how integral consciousness, when put into action, can be an incredibly powerful tool for transformative change and leadership.
Living an Integral Life nurtures and challenges body, mind and spirit, thereby facilitating next steps in personal evolution. This leads to a deeper discovery and understanding of who we are, our relationships, and the gifts we have to offer the world. Indeed, an increasing number of people are recognizing that living an Integral Life is key to co-creating a just and sustainable world. In a community of peers we will learn about and examine Integral Theory and its application to our lives and the world at large. We will also explore and celebrate what becomes possible when we truly come together to re-envision ourselves, our culture, and our collective future.
Some of the questions we will engage with are:
“It is now your turn to take on the task of leadership to build a new world, a new civilization, through the development of human character, and the evolution of the human soul. Whatever it is that you do in life, ultimately this is the only game worth playing. To play a game lesser than that is to fail the dignity of your soul.”
And last, but not least, we will have the best of times! With dance, music, late-night discussions, a new community of friends, and surrounded by the majestic beauty of the redwoods we will have a profound week of growth, connection and celebration.
Diane Musho Hamilton has been a practitioner of Buddhadharma for over 20 years and has a Masters Degree in Contemplative Psychology from Naropa University, in Boulder, Colorado. She is a Zen teacher, and one of Integral Institute’s most popular trainers. As a dharma successor of Genpo Merzel Roshi, she serves as a facilitator of Big Mind, a process designed by Genpo Roshi to bring the insights of Zen meditation to western audiences.
She is also a mediator, group facilitator, and trainer in conflict resolution. Diane worked as the initial Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994–1999, where she established the first mediation programs in the courts. She has extensive experience in facilitating large meetings, including public policy issues. Diane received the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award in 2001 and the Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar for outstanding work in Dispute Resolution in 2003. She was a founding member of the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Utah Dispute Resolution. Diane teaches mediation at the University of Utah Law School and Communications Institute.
Barrett Brown is a senior organization development consultant for Stagen, a management consulting firm which helps mid-market companies to scale. Since 1995, Barrett has worked in nine countries as a consultant and entrepreneur in the areas of leadership, human development, communications, and sustainability. He has helped launch a dozen organizations, delivered leadership initiatives for senior executives in Fortune 500 corporations, and briefed high-level officials at the United Nations Development Programme headquarters and the US State Department. A member of Ken Wilber’s think-tank—Integral Institute—since 2002, Barrett is a senior consultant in the application of the Integral framework. He also serves as Co-Director of the Integral Sustainability Center at the Integral Institute, which leverages the Integral framework to help advance sustainable development issues. Barrett represents Kosmos Journal and the Integral framework at the United Nations, holding UN consultative status through the Center for Psychology and Social Change. He is an advisory board member for: US-based Kosmos Journal, an integrally informed journal on global issues; the Australian-based Shift Foundation, which works with young global leaders; and Canadian-based IntegralCity.com, focusing on urban sustainability issues. In addition to consulting, mentoring, and research, he also regularly contributes articles to AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Barrett has presented and trained widely, including at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (side event), US State Department, John F. Kennedy University, the School for International Training, the Bioneers conference, and the Spiral Dynamics Integral Conference on Natural Design. He has completed advanced training and certification programs in Integral Organizational Leadership, Integral Life Practice, the Leadership Development Framework, Spiral Dynamics, and Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI). Barrett\'s undergraduate studies include English Literature and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese and is currently engaged in an executive Ph.D. program in Human and Organizational Development through Fielding Graduate University. Barrett, his wife, Rita, and daughter, Sophia, live in Dallas, Texas.
Clint Fuhs , after five years of working with Integral Institute and Integral Life, Clint currently serves as the Operations and Curriculum Manager at Integral Life, and lead trainer on Integral Theory. He is honored to be a senior student of Ken Wilber who currently conducts workshops nationally and offers individual coaching focusing on the written and verbal communication and comprehension of Integral theory
Clint holds a B.S. in Management with a concentration in recreation and psychology. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development at Fielding Graduate University. His current research is aimed at developing an Integral framework for Leadership.
In 2002, Clint designed and instructed one of the first undergraduate courses on Integral theory and practice at Green Mountain College. He has led workshops around the nation on topics ranging from beginning to advanced Integral theory and its application. Clint is currently designing an embodied practice with I-I colleague and fellow practitioner, Brian Berger, which is grounded on an advanced map of developmental perspectives and seeks to accelerate vertical growth by leveraging a number of state training techniques to cultivate a direct experience of the territory of complex perspective taking.
He lives in Colorado with his dog Isis and enjoys rock, mountain and ice climbing, mountain biking, skydiving and fly-fishing in his spare time.
Jamie Wheal, M.A. is Director of Programs for Performance Unlimited, founder of Misty Mountain Montessori, and senior consultant with Stagen Leadership Institute. He designs, leads and consults for integral educational programs for learners of all ages. He developed the Integral Montessori concept at the secondary and primary levels and leads an Integral Leadership and Practice intensive at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California that combines physical, cognitive and psychodynamic training in service of overall peak performance.
He is certified in the Torbert/Cook-Greuter Leadership Development Framework assessment tool and is an advanced-level trainer in the Heus Approach, an integral body practice that unites kinesthetic and cognitive performance to support both development of current potentials and evolution into more complex capacitites.
As a leadership consultant he has presented and developed courseware for Fortune 500 companies, and has lectured at national and international educational conferences as well as publishing articles and essays in peer-reviewed academic journals.
An avid outdoorsman, he has served in Surf Rescue, Mountain Rescue and Wilderness Medicine, and has led expeditions in the Sierras, the Rockies and the Himalayas, as well as competing in adventure athletics and training in Tai Chi and Aikido.
Stephan Martineau is the founder and president of Next Step Integral, an international NGO with offices in BC, Canada and Pennsylvania, USA. Next Step Integral is currently working in four main areas: Integral Education, Integral Parenting, Integral Community and Integral Ecology. He is an integral consultant for not-for-profit organizations and has worked in watershed management, ecosystem-based planning and community development since 1993. He is also the president of the Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative (SIFCo).
Stephan left his native Montreal, Canada, at the age of 18 and embarked on a 6-year pilgrimage to research human consciousness. He funded these travels, that brought him to 4 continents and 20 countries, by planting over a quarter of a million trees in the wilderness of BC. In 1992 he founded an integrally informed intentional community where he and his wife lived for 10 years.
