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.
Abigail Lynam, M.S., has devoted the last nine years to teaching in the field of transformative adult education. She is on the faculty of Lesley University’s Audubon Expedition Institute and the University of Massachusetts’ Sustainability in Auroville, India program. Both programs follow an educational model that blends experiential, holistic, and student-centered learning through a transformative framework of intensive learning community work.
Abigail is currently researching the best ways to support the development, application, and practice of an integral framework in these programs. She is trained as a facilitator of Joanna Macy’s “Work that Reconnects” and “Dynamic Facilitation” methods and previously taught leadership development at Portland State University. She is also a director of Next Step Integral where she is presently developing a semester-long curriculum on Integral Leadership for adult learners.
Jesse McKay has a bachelor degree with majors in Business Administration and Psychology, as well as an MBA with an emphasis on Corporate Strategy and Organizational Development. His master's dissertation focused on fostering deep communication within business organizations. Jesse's professional experience includes business and entrepreneurial coaching and corporate recruitment and selection. He also served as a business analyst on a large scale engineering project for the Canadian government, and as a software engineer with a company designing and building Business Intelligence software. While teaching university courses in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Corporate Strategy at Simon Fraser University, Jesse earned the top student feedback evaluation scores in the Faculty of Business two semesters in a row.
Jesse's passion for cutting edge educational practices saw him join the international team at Holma College of Integral Studies in the south of Sweden in 2001 as a workshop facilitator and organizational leader. He spent most of 2004 studying and working for the Universal Responsibility Institute on a school based on leading research in collective intelligence.
For the last two years Jesse has served on the faculty of Pacific Integral's 18 month long "Generating Transformative Change in Human Systems" program. In this role he has led and co-led several experientially based courses on Integral theory and practice, developmental Action Inquiry, action learning, team development, personal and group shadow, developmental levels of systems and systems thinking, projection and introjection, generative dialogue, and theories and practices of learning organization.
In addition to his work with Pacific Integral, Jesse is currently part of a team of engineers and scientists at the European Space Agency who are responsible for designing and building information systems for 'Columbus' - the European portion of the International Space Station.
Thomas Arthur is a performing artist who integrates contemplative juggling, abstract rhythmic vocalization, acoustic music, subtle storytelling, and digital media into an evolving form of participatory ritual theater for children and adults. In a synchronized choreography of sound, motion and light, Thomas interacts with natural objects, geometric shapes and projected image. Seeking to embody and make visible subtle interactions of sense, soul and the biosphere, his work is informed by the rivers, oceans, meadows, forests, slopes, weather, gravity, light and pulsing resonance of the Pacific Northwest.
When not making art, Thomas teaches individuals and groups practices of embodied awareness. Integrating the Feldenkrais approach of movement awareness with practices from his own personal inquiry, he offers workshops and private sessions opening a mindful space for the emergence of authentic presence in effortless action.
For more info on Thomas's work got to: thomasarthur.net.
Miriam Mason Martineau, M.A. Miriam’s formal training lies in the areas of psychology, dance, choreography, and voice. She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Zurich, with a specialization in Youth and Child Psychology, and is also a certified teacher of Laban Modern Dance, as well as a singer and vocal instructor.
Miriam works in private practice as an integral therapeutic counselor for adults, couples, youth and children. She is vice-president of Next Step Integral, an organization that applies integral consciousness to parenting, education, ecology, and community. For the last 15 years she has studied and researched how parenting can be pursued as a spiritual practice. This has led her to offering courses on the topic, working as a coach for parents, and writing a book (forthcoming) titled Integral Parenting. She also leads workshops on authentic voice and movement, and has performed both as a soloist and in a variety of choirs such as the Swiss National Television Choir and the Stiftschor Einsiedeln. From 1992-2002 Miriam lived in an integrally-informed intentional community and there honed the skills of group facilitation, conflict resolution and generative dialogue.
