Schedule
Sunday, August 10, 2008
- 16:00–19:00
- Registration
- 17:15–19:15
- Light Dinner
- 19:30–20:00
- Welcome and Orientation
- 20:00–21:30
- Setting the Stage
Here we are. We will be spending the next five days together... In this first session we will get to know one another; we will touch the ground and lift the ceiling. Together we will talk about our collective capacity and our individual responsibility. We will set the stage for what is to come, and take our first steps together!
Monday, August 11, 2008
- 7:30–8:30
- Integral Morning Practice: Body Logic and Dynamic Play (Jamie Wheal)
You will receive a brief introduction to the morning practices and then Jamie will guide us into exploring adult neuroplasticity and the intriguing relationship between kinesthetics and cognition. Applying leading research in mindset studies and expert performance, we will explore what M. Csickzentmihalyi terms "autotelic experience" -- something we do for the sheer fun of it -- and learn how Dynamic Play can reshape our relationship with challenge, learning, and growth.
- 8:15–9:30
- Breakfast
- 9:30–12:00
- Cultivating Freedom and Fullness: A Dual Center of Gravity Map of Human Development (Clint Fuhs)
Drawing upon Ken Wilber's currently unpublished, pioneering new work, this session will explore a dual center of gravity conception of human development as it proceeds through structure-stages (in its quest for ultimate fullness) and state-stages (in its quest for radical freedom).
Emphasis will be placed on an embodied understanding of: (1) the dual and simultaneous nature of vertical and horizontal development, (2) the interaction between structure and state development, (3) the development of complex perspective-taking abilities. The material presented in this session serves as a meta-framework and theoretical ground for the experiential work done in the The Meta Practice (www.themetapractice.com).
- 12:00–13:45
- Lunch
- 13:45–15:45
- Awakening to Sustainability (Barrett Brown)
How do we gracefully navigate and deeply serve in the face of massive global social and environmental problems? How do we avoid burning out from the endless service we are called upon to deliver? What mind-games trap us from accessing the creativity we actually need to cultivate a better world? What is the relevance of reverence when striving to make a difference? What do developmental psychology, systems theory, and the spiritual traditions offer as practical guidance to help us enact positive local, regional and global change?
We will inquire into these living questions. I will share lessons learned and powerful tools I’ve collected through my years of researching an integral approach to sustainable development. Whether your cause be social justice, environmental restoration, HIV/AIDS, or any other commitment to alleviate suffering, there are best practices of Being, Mind, and Body that will catalyze your actions. My intention is that this work will accelerate your efforts to nurture, drive, and relax into an accelerated, healthy development of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful on this planet.
- 16:00–17:30
- Ditch the Job, Get a real Life: Livelihood in the Age of Abundance (Jamie Wheal)
After college, most of us have ten to fifteen years (max) before the realities and responsibilities of "Grownup" life take hold. Marriage, Mortgages, Kids and Careers all gobble up time, energy and resources that we once had all to ourselves--and if we haven't figured It out by the time they kick in, most of us don't regain our bearings until decades later. That's why harnessing the passion and idealism of our younger years and applying them toward a life that allows us to meet our needs and have enough juice left over to self-actualize becomes one of the central puzzles to solve. In this workshop we will cover emerging trends in employment and careers, share resources for promoting yourself and negotiating your career, as well as game-changing options for rewriting the rat-race script into an endless, spontaneous adventure.
- 17:30–19:00
- Dinner
- 19:00–21:30
- Bring Your Shadow into the Light (Diane Hamilton)
The religious traditions had no way of knowing about modern psychological notions such as shadow, aspects of ourselves which we are unable to incorporate in 1st person ("me") and are thus incorporated in 3rd person ("it"). For example, if we are unable to acknowledge our own hostility, we may project it on to others, seeing them as being hostile to us. Our shadows cause painful symptoms and tend to sabotage spiritual growth, even in the most steadfast of practitioners. This session introduces practices which help us to identify our shadow and bring it to light, releasing stores of energy we never knew we had!
- 21:30
- Fire Circle
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
- 7:30–8:30
- Embodied Sacred Sound (Miriam Mason Martineau)
When you sing, you are the instrument. Nothing else, no one else. Basically “naked” with nothing to hide behind. What an opportunity for growth, insight, and becoming an authentic vessel of sound and song! These interactive sessions will focus on both “being sung” and singing. We will explore singing as an integral practice that combines Body, Mind, Imagination and Spirit. Guidance and instruction is provided -- both technical and inspirational -- on how we can utilize this incredible instrument that we are to connect and communicate through song with ourselves, each other and Spirit. No prior experience necessary!
- 8:15–9:30
- Breakfast
- 9:30–12:30
- Big Mind for Generation Next (Diane Hamilton)
In this session, the Big Mind process -- a unique and revolutionary approach to transmitting the authentic teachings that emerged from Buddha's enlightenment teachings -- will be shaped specifically for Gen Next. By participating in Big Mind you will gain profound insights into the illuminating experience from which Buddhism and all the world's religions originate.
- 12:30–14:00
- Lunch
- 14:00–15:30
- Swimming!
- 15:30–17:30
- Integral Sex and the Urge for Communion (Jamie Wheal)
What does it mean to be young, conscious and exploring the erotic linkage of body, mind and spirit? How might monogamy, polyamory and celibacy contribute to a spiritual path, or constrain it? How do we know if we've found a real life partner? How can we harness the rocket fuel of sexual orgasm to accelerate our practice? Learn what GenNext is really up to in the bedrooms and backseats of the 21st century, and what you can do to make life and love better than ever. (pelase leave baggage at the door and be prepared for a robust and respectful dialogue)
- 17:30–19:30
- Dinner
- 19:30–21:00
- Leadership as a Spiritual Practice (Jonathan Reams)
At the core of leadership, qualities of Beingness, service and awareness are to be found and developed. How can we take opportunities for leadership that present themselves and find the spiritual lessons that not only fuel our growth, but also serve all life in ever more profound ways? This session will explore how we can take up the call to leadership as spiritual practice in both formal positions and informal ways of acting in the world.
- 21:00–21:30
- Sharing circle
- 21:30–22:30
- Thomas Arthur live
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
- 7:30–8:30
- Listening into Awareness through Movement (Thomas Arthur)
The capacity to tap into your body's inner intelligence is the foundation for any integral transformative practice. Our morning engagement will explore a practice of subtle sensing and contemplative movement creating space for the profound wisdom in your body to emerge. As you become permeable to vital energies, internal rhythms and resonant impulse you discover fresh ways of making contact with the fluid freedom of embodied presence. Come and develop your own personal yoga of listening into awareness through movement.
- 8:15–9:30
- Breakfast
- 9:30–12:00
- Stages of Development: Expanding Perspective Taking (Abigail Lynam)
Abigail will take us on a journey through time, exploring the landmarks of consciousness evolution and the pathway of the unfolding self. By focusing on Susanne Cook-Greuter’s research using action logics, we will look at the unfolding of human potential towards deeper understanding, wisdom and effectiveness in the world. We will explore how our developmental stages inform what we are aware of, what we can pay attention to, and therefore what we can influence, integrate and change. We will end by working on expanding our perspectives and recognizing the action logics within ourselves.
- 12:00–13:45
- Lunch
- 13:45–15:45
- Developmental Maturation of Inter-subjective Fields (Jesse McKay)
In this session we will be exploring together what development looks and feels like from the perspective of the "We". Specifically, four stages of maturity of our inter-subjective field will be experientially distinguished and explored in the context of the maturation of intersubjective fields in general. Participants will experience how each successive field is increasingly an expression of authenticity compared to the last. The theory and practice of this session draw on the work of Otto Scharmer, David Bohm, Bill Issacs, Andrew Cohen, and Susanne Cook-Greuter, among others.
- 16:00–17:30
- Concurrent Sessions:
- Contacting, Trusting and Developing your Intuitive Intelligence - The art of making better choices faster... (Anouk Brack)
''The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift'' (Albert Einstein).
Start downloading the podcasts of your own intuition. Deepen your understanding of your whole being, including both your ego as well as your essence and facilitate the alignment of the two. Being Intuitively intelligent means tapping into your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual intelligences. In this session we will place intuition within the integral theoretical framework and combine that with experiencing intuition enhancing exercises. After this session you will have tools to access and deepen your intuition, and you will be familiar with useful mental models to help you make the best decisions faster.
- Integration Session
to be announced
- 17:30–19:30
- Dinner
- 19:30–20:00
- Bubble Mania (Andrew Suttar from Australia. AKA Dr. Froth)
- 20:00–21:30
- Perspectives on Practice (Clint Fuhs)
In this session, we will engage in a series of activities aimed at uncovering an often overlooked or misunderstood dynamic that influences our relationship to practice. It could be called a practice about practice, perhaps. Either way, make sure to join us if you'd like to take a step back and discover how an interesting mix of quadrants, levels, types shapes the way you engage practice.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
- 7:30–8:30
- Warrior Yoga (Sensei Kevin Snorf)
Kevin will guide us through a session of Warrior Yoga, which integrates different streams of yoga together into a challenging and powerful movement meditation experience grounded in the martial way.
- 8:15–9:30
- Breakfast
- 9:30–12:00
- Self and Other within the Great Arc of Life (Miriam Mason Martineau and Stephan Martineau)
Who are you? Where do you come from within yourself in your interactions with others? How can you become more present and authentic, both toward yourself and others? How can you contribute fully to the evolution of human consciousness? We will explore these questions, theoretically and through experiential segments and reflection, by placing ourselves and all our relationships within the Great Arc of Life and learning about the three key requirements of integral life and relationship.
- 12:00–13:45
- Lunch
- 13:45–15:45
- An Experiential Introduction to Developmental Action Inquiry (Jesse McKay)
In this exploratory session participants will be led through an introduction to Action Inquiry as practiced and taught by a number of leading management theorists and practitioners at Harvard, MIT, and, most notably, Bill Torbert of Boston College. Action Inquiry, as the name suggests, is the simultaneous practice of intentional action and deliberate inquiry. While developed in the context of business, and certainly practical on the instrumental level, Action Inquiry is in fact a very demanding spiritual practice which has been largely sourced out of the work of mystic traditions from around the world. To be sure: developing this capacity to "joust with one's own as well as other's awareness" is not going to happen in a few hours. However, this session will give participants keen on serving their own and others' state and structure stage development a beginning foundation to work/play with. An Experiential Introduction to Developmental Action Inquiry
- 16:00–17:30
- The Meaning of Life and Other Questions (Jonathan Reams)
In this session Jonathan will draw on previous presentations and his own background to explore questions arising for participants. This will be framed in the context of existential and transpersonal questions of purpose to enable meaningful connections to deepen and expand.
- 17:30–19:30
- Dinner
- 19:30–21:00
- Evening of networking and sharing
- 21:00–22:00
- Dancing
Friday, August 15, 2008
- 7:30–8:30
- Integral Morning Practice (Miriam Mason Martineau and Thomas Arthur)
description coming soon
- 8:15–9:30
- Breakfast
- 9:30–10:00
- Seminar Evaluation session
- 10:00–11:30
- Taking your Integral Life Practice home
- 11:30–13:00
- Closing
- 13:00–14:00
- Lunch (Bagged lunches will be available)
- 14:00
- Seminar ends. Onwards and forwards!