Eight core skills that you will develop during the seminar:

Wake into your integral self… 

1. Apply the Integral Model: Learn to apply the deepest and widest framework available to challenges, opportunities and goals in your life, including in your family, community, and workplace. 

2. Embody an Integral Life Practice: Develop and/or deepen a personal practice that exercises multiple dimensions of yourself – body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. 

3. Communication with people at different levels of development: Learn to perceive the level of complexity (for example, egocentric, sociocentric, and worldcentric) of peoples’ development, and then skillfully shape your communication in order to assist their and your own flourishing and evolution. 

4.Multi-perspective awareness: Learn to hold and embody multiple perspectives. Transcend simpler perspectives and include them within more complex ones, to cognitively “see” different perspectives, interpersonally communicate with individuals holding divergent perspectives, and personally inhabit the worldview and understanding of various perspectives. 

5. Expand and deepen understanding of self: Explore different practices of self-inquiry to foster awareness of your own body/mind connection, interior states (emotional, somatic, mental, transpersonal), psychological structures, emotional reactions, shadow material, and object-relations. 

6. Integral management of energy: Learn to center in stillness while taking action; work with your and others’ physical, emotional, and spiritual energies; and recognize and skillfully address your and others’ negative energies. 

7. Develop leadership skills, such as: the capacity tolisten deeply, to guide, inspire and lead, to see beyond the present moment, to hold multiple perspectives and to see the bigger picture – both in time, space and content. 

8. Lift the ceiling! Discover greater degrees of courage, stamina and presence than you ever thought possible. Feel more, see more and grow in your capacity to bear more too, and to let go. Quite simply, be more fully alive... Experience ecstatic joy, piercing sadness and heart-moving compassion as you dance wildly, in body, mind, soul and spirit!

 

Three meta-concepts that you will understand:

You’ll learn about the essence of an integral life in the seminar as we touch on these meta-concepts throughout the week.

 

  1. Many of the major approaches to life are partial in their response to complexity, yet are held within the integral framework, which shows how they fit together in a meaningful way.
  2. Integral cross training of body, mind, and awareness accelerates learning and personal growth.
  3. By shifting from tasks being at the center of all activity to awareness holding center stage, the scope of the life experience that can be taken in widens, as do the unused potentials that can be activated, and the kind of presence and service that is offered to the world.