Faculty
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jonathan Reams, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor in the Department of Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He teaches organizational counseling, coaching and leadership, and is pursuing research in the areas of leadership, dialogue and the evolution of consciousness. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Integral Review, a Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis.
A passion for understanding human nature has guided much of his experience, eventually leading to a doctorate in Leadership Studies, with a dissertation on The Consciousness of Transpersonal Leadership.
His consulting work has focused on developing leadership capacities for a wide range of clients. This has included developing and delivering curriculum, consulting, coaching, facilitation, research, writing, and teaching. In addition to this work, he has presented at a number of international conferences on topics such as leadership, consciousness, transformative learning, spirituality, and science and religion dialogue.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kevin Snorf teaches Warrior Yoga®, Quantum Jujitsu®, and Acroyoga® at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Warrior Yoga integrates different streams of yoga together into a challenging and powerful movement meditation experience grounded in the martial way. Kevin also teaches yoga to at risk youth locally and athletic teams at UCSC. Kevin has trained with many ISC teachers to bring more “Integral” into Warrior Yoga. He currently is training to be a certified life coach through Integral Coaching Canada.
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Ben Hart is a graduate of Wesleyan University and former member of the San Francisco Integral Life Practice Group. An interest in human growth and potential has led him to work with adolescents in a wide range of developmentally focused capacities, from rites of passage work through the Omega Institute, to counseling and educational support with teenagers through a Bay Area non-profit.
Ben has received training in conflict resolution and process work and studied sustainable living at the Findhorn Foundation ecovillage. Currently, Ben is co-organizing an integrally informed leadership program for 16-22 year olds in the San Francisco Bay Area through the Sustainable Global Leadership Alliance, as well as developing and presenting experiential workshops on personal and cultural evolution. Ben will be serving as the event manager assistant during the seminar