Discovering Integral and Susanne Cook-Greuter

Duration: 17 minutes

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Beena Sharma brings significant international experience in facilitating leadership and organizational development training. She co- designs, implements and anchors large scale organizational change efforts, and is currently the head of Development and Training at Magellan, a major health organization. She contributes her expertise as a insightful facilitator and her mastery in polarity management to the LMF-intensives. Workshop participants admire her boundless energy, clarity, and deep, caring attention.

Here Beena describes how she first encountered Ken Wilber's Integral model, beginning with a serendipitous encounter with his book No Boundary in the bookstore.  She shares what originally "lit her up" about the Integral approach, feeling like she had finally found a system that attempts to explicitly honor and include all the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of the world, while simultaneously making room for her own full expression of being in the world.  She then talks about her work with Susanne Cook-Greuter, another Integral pioneer who is working to develop a finely-tuned measurement of ego-development.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said that "poor minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas."  Integral minds, we might add, discuss all three.  In the Integral Profiles series, host Jeff Salzman sits down with some of today's most notable thinkers, teachers, and leaders, discussing the many ways they are catalyzing the Integral vision in their lives, in their hearts, and in their work.  These men and women are collectively defining the leading edge of evolution in today's world, their thoughts and actions actively influencing the shape and scope of tomorrow's possibilities.