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Faces of X: Making Peace with the Culture War

Faces of X: Making Peace with the Culture War

Stephanie Lepp talks with Corey deVos about her Faces of X project, which models how we can transcend culture wars by integrating opposing perspectives. The discussion explores how the polarization we see in society mirrors unresolved polarities within ourselves, and emphasizes the need for both personal and social integration. This discussion highlights the limitations of binary thinking and the importance of synthesizing conflicting viewpoints to create more inclusive, nuanced solutions.
The Wonderful (But Flawed) Ideals of DEI

The Wonderful (But Flawed) Ideals of DEI

Keith Martin-Smith takes a careful look at the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement when he began to notice the damage it was causing people he knew under the guise of progress, or equity. Putting his keen mind to the task, Keith identified seven key areas where the DEI movement goes markedly astray from the values it aspires to.
The Myth of Evil: Why Polarities,  Not Villains, Drive Injustice

The Myth of Evil: Why Polarities, Not Villains, Drive Injustice

Barry Johnson introduces the concept of polarity thinking, offering a revolutionary framework for addressing complex societal issues like poverty, racism, and climate change. Rather than viewing problems as having singular solutions or evil sources, Barry explains how mismanaged polarities—such as justice vs. mercy and freedom vs. equality—are at the heart of many dysfunctions. By adopting a both/and mindset, we can break vicious cycles, foster balance, and create more sustainable solutions in our personal and collective lives.
Sexual Healing: A Beginner’s Guide to Integral Sex Therapy

Sexual Healing: A Beginner’s Guide to Integral Sex Therapy

Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the transformative world of integrally informed sex therapy—a holistic approach that combines romantic, scientific, and spiritual perspectives to address the unique complexities of modern relationships. This episode offers profound insights into creating and sustaining a fulfilling, dynamic love affair that extends beyond physical intimacy, tailored to the unique needs of every relationship.
Introducing the Cultural Complexity Index

Introducing the Cultural Complexity Index

The Institute of Applied Metatheory recently chose to organize, fund and incubate a significant new Applied Metatheory Initiative called the Cultural Complexity Index, which we see as holding the potential to act as a high-leverage project for long-term social emancipation.
The Integration of Defenses

The Integration of Defenses

How can we become more aware of our defensive reactions as they arise? Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the intricate world of psychological defenses, presenting them as a critical line of intelligence and development. Dr. Witt introduces his pioneering concept of an "integration of defenses" as a developmental line, illustrating how our defensive mechanisms evolve and manifest across various stages of growth.
The Mysterious World of Shamanism

The Mysterious World of Shamanism

Roger Walsh provides us with a brilliant, big picture perspective, pointing out that at the heart of shamanism (and every great world tradition) are psychospiritual technologies—actual practices—that lead us to the doorway of the Great Mystery, and that service is the culmination of each tradition, both as a means to and an expression of one’s realization.
Ready, Steady, Grow! The Art and Science of Vertical Development

Ready, Steady, Grow! The Art and Science of Vertical Development

Corey deVos and Beena Sharma explore the concept of vertical development and its importance in today's world. Beena, with over 30 years of experience in the field, shares her journey and evolving understanding of vertical development.
The Wonderful (But Flawed) Ideals of DEI

The Wonderful (But Flawed) Ideals of DEI

Keith Martin-Smith takes a careful look at the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement when he began to notice the damage it was causing people he knew under the guise of progress, or equity. Putting his keen mind to the task, Keith identified seven key areas where the DEI movement goes markedly astray from the values it aspires to.
The Myth of Evil: Why Polarities,  Not Villains, Drive Injustice

The Myth of Evil: Why Polarities, Not Villains, Drive Injustice

Barry Johnson introduces the concept of polarity thinking, offering a revolutionary framework for addressing complex societal issues like poverty, racism, and climate change. Rather than viewing problems as having singular solutions or evil sources, Barry explains how mismanaged polarities—such as justice vs. mercy and freedom vs. equality—are at the heart of many dysfunctions. By adopting a both/and mindset, we can break vicious cycles, foster balance, and create more sustainable solutions in our personal and collective lives.
Sexual Healing: A Beginner’s Guide to Integral Sex Therapy

Sexual Healing: A Beginner’s Guide to Integral Sex Therapy

Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the transformative world of integrally informed sex therapy—a holistic approach that combines romantic, scientific, and spiritual perspectives to address the unique complexities of modern relationships. This episode offers profound insights into creating and sustaining a fulfilling, dynamic love affair that extends beyond physical intimacy, tailored to the unique needs of every relationship.
Introducing the Cultural Complexity Index

Introducing the Cultural Complexity Index

The Institute of Applied Metatheory recently chose to organize, fund and incubate a significant new Applied Metatheory Initiative called the Cultural Complexity Index, which we see as holding the potential to act as a high-leverage project for long-term social emancipation.
The Integration of Defenses

The Integration of Defenses

How can we become more aware of our defensive reactions as they arise? Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the intricate world of psychological defenses, presenting them as a critical line of intelligence and development. Dr. Witt introduces his pioneering concept of an "integration of defenses" as a developmental line, illustrating how our defensive mechanisms evolve and manifest across various stages of growth.
The Mysterious World of Shamanism

The Mysterious World of Shamanism

Roger Walsh provides us with a brilliant, big picture perspective, pointing out that at the heart of shamanism (and every great world tradition) are psychospiritual technologies—actual practices—that lead us to the doorway of the Great Mystery, and that service is the culmination of each tradition, both as a means to and an expression of one’s realization.
Ready, Steady, Grow! The Art and Science of Vertical Development

Ready, Steady, Grow! The Art and Science of Vertical Development

Corey deVos and Beena Sharma explore the concept of vertical development and its importance in today's world. Beena, with over 30 years of experience in the field, shares her journey and evolving understanding of vertical development.
How America Got Here: A 50 Year Journey to Polarization

How America Got Here: A 50 Year Journey to Polarization

Robb Smith and Josh Leonard look at the deep structures — in the form of actual events, policies and decisions between 1970 and 2024 — that radically shifted America from one form of system “regime” and associated equilibrium, that of relative national coherence in the early 1970s, into a new, radically- and qualitatively-different regime and equilibrium of extreme polarized decoherence of 2024.
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Event Series Exploring The Embodiment of Turquoise

Exploring The Embodiment of Turquoise

Join us for a practical, community oriented journey exploring the genuine embodiment of Turquoise in our daily living. What does it really mean to embody such views? Together we’ll take the map provided by the philosophical giants of our time and prior, and look to the territory itself. No matter your cosmic location in this very moment, we all have the capacity to see and share insights together on our unfolding wisdom, growing and evolving together toward the later stages of evolution. Come, join us!

Colorado Integral: In-Person Meetup in Boulder (free)

It is time to have more in-person time together as an Integral community! These sessions will be opportunities for us to get to know each other through creating a community of support, connection and healthy challenge by engaging in both theory and practice. Depending on the day and who's available, we may also extend the gathering to tea or dinner in the nearby Pearl Street Mall area. We will invite guest teachers on some Sundays.

Event Series Integral Saging – Opening Session

Integral Saging

What is the inner process that moves with us from birth until its culmination with our final breath, and perhaps beyond? Let's embark on a path of meaning, purpose, vitality, and connection as we boldly go from aging to Saging with the wisdom and compassion of Integral Multiperspectivalism.

Integral Christianity Contemplative Practice

Join this session to explore and practice Integral Christianity! Our session will engage in participatory ways with current and evolving forms of the shape of Integral Christianity today, in the ongoing lineage of the work of Paul Smith and Integral Christian Network, including Whole-Body Mystical Awakening, the Three Faces of God, and our divine participation in the world today.

Being and Becoming: A Meditation Inquiry & Practice

Join the live Zoom session Being and Becoming starts with a desire to understand two significant, ever-expanding possibilities: becoming present to experience and evolving experience. It will explore this territory through meditation practice and an inquiry into the nature of that practice. Each session will include two guided meditations and time for discussion and sharing. Its primary focus is on ...

Personality Disorders From An Integral View

In this 90-minute session, we will be given an introductory glimpse into categorical typologies of personality, focusing on the distinction between "normal crazy" and "extra crazy" as seen through the lens of Personality Disorders (PDs). We will explore the 10 empirically validated PDs, categorized into three clusters—A, B, and C—each with its own core excess and deficiency (see below). By utilizing an Integrally informed approach, participants will gain insights into the five key therapeutic focus areas that help clients reduce compulsions, build missing traits, and develop healthier coping mechanisms for long-term emotional regulation.

Transformational Education For Teaching & Learning Of Complex Socioscientific Issues (free event)

For this presentation, Dr. Nolan will highlight some of his research and show how using the Four Quadrants model as a heuristic in the teaching of urgent, open-ended, and ill-structured issues like climate change can create transformational insight that reveals etic-to-emic shifts in perspective, individual and collective critical reflections, and holistic orientations to problem-solving. In a framework he calls socioscientific perspectives, Dr. Nolan will showcase some of his findings from a study he conducted that looked at college students' informal reasoning in their understanding and learning of climate change. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the integral community on the developmental nature of the findings, and how to further create educational opportunities that apply Integral Theory in meaningful and personally-relevant ways.

Experiencias De Consciencia Integral

Imagina que tres personas ciegas encuentran un elefante y tocan distintas partes de su cuerpo. Uno recorre con sus manos la trompa, otro la cola y el tercero el torso. Si después tuvieras la oportunidad de pedirles a cada uno que describiera lo que es un elefante, ¿crees que sus descripciones se parecerían? Cada uno hablaría desde lo que conoce y es capaz de percibir, ya que no tienen forma de saber que todas son partes de una misma cosa. Usualmente así nos movemos por el mundo, partiendo de descripciones que solo tienen que ver con nuestra única perspectiva.

Integral Jewish Meditation (FREE): Iyun Ayin, “Immersion Is Spaciousness”

Spiritual awakening is the realization that you are far more than your thoughts and feelings. Beneath your personality, there’s a radiant field of awareness, free from negativity and connected to the aliveness of the present moment. These sessions begin with learning a text from the traditional weekly Torah reading, followed by chanting and Integral Jewish Meditation. This is followed by Q&A, sharing, and dialogue.

Event Series Exploring The Embodiment of Turquoise

Exploring The Embodiment of Turquoise

Join us for a practical, community oriented journey exploring the genuine embodiment of Turquoise in our daily living. What does it really mean to embody such views? Together we’ll take the map provided by the philosophical giants of our time and prior, and look to the territory itself. No matter your cosmic location in this very moment, we all have the capacity to see and share insights together on our unfolding wisdom, growing and evolving together toward the later stages of evolution. Come, join us!

The Courage To Be Open: A Taste Of The Diamond Approach

The Diamond Approach is a contemporary teaching and path for inner realization and spiritual maturity. For the past fifty years, the Diamond Approach has been taught in groups around the world. Come get a taste of the Diamond Approach teaching, and its primary practice of Inquiry for exploring the inner richness of our direct, living experience.

Being and Becoming: A Meditation Inquiry & Practice

Join the live Zoom session Being and Becoming starts with a desire to understand two significant, ever-expanding possibilities: becoming present to experience and evolving experience. It will explore this territory through meditation practice and an inquiry into the nature of that practice. Each session will include two guided meditations and time for discussion and sharing. Its primary focus is on ...

Event Series Integral Saging – Opening Session

Integral Saging

What is the inner process that moves with us from birth until its culmination with our final breath, and perhaps beyond? Let's embark on a path of meaning, purpose, vitality, and connection as we boldly go from aging to Saging with the wisdom and compassion of Integral Multiperspectivalism.

The View From Somewhere: A Conversational Introduction To Integrative Meta-Studies

This series of conversations between Mark Edwards, Bruce Alderman and audience participants will provide an introduction to the field of planetary meta-studies. Planetary meta-studies is a big picture field of social inquiry, a kind of Earth-system social science, that critically engages with and draws on integrative models and metatheoretical perspectives to study the Earth system in all its majesty, mystery and complexity. In particular, the series will consider the global metacrisis and will offer some avenues for working with the personal and societal challenges that the metacrisis presents. Click to learn more.

Colorado Integral: In-Person Meetup in Boulder (free)

It is time to have more in-person time together as an Integral community! These sessions will be opportunities for us to get to know each other through creating a community of support, connection and healthy challenge by engaging in both theory and practice. Depending on the day and who's available, we may also extend the gathering to tea or dinner in the nearby Pearl Street Mall area. We will invite guest teachers on some Sundays.

Event Series Uncertainment Lounge

Uncertainment Lounge

Uncertainment Lounge is not a relativistic refuge from truth-seeking or certainty, nor a panacea, or a therapy, but rather a practice space for embodied participatory knowing. Practicing together in/as the polarity of knowing and not-knowing builds capacity to turn toward the unknowable, the uncontrollable, and the mysterious as they emerge within and between us in real time.

Integral Christianity Contemplative Practice

Join this session to explore and practice Integral Christianity! Our session will engage in participatory ways with current and evolving forms of the shape of Integral Christianity today, in the ongoing lineage of the work of Paul Smith and Integral Christian Network, including Whole-Body Mystical Awakening, the Three Faces of God, and our divine participation in the world today.

Applying Integral Theory to Criminal Justice (free call – all are welcome)

Join the live Zoom session Join this session to learn about how a meta theory such as Integral theory can shine a light on criminal justice, ethics and reform. This is a free session. All are welcome! We are privileged to learn from David Champion, PhD, a founding member of the Slippery Rock University Criminology Department. His research interests include ...

Being and Becoming: A Meditation Inquiry & Practice

Join the live Zoom session Being and Becoming starts with a desire to understand two significant, ever-expanding possibilities: becoming present to experience and evolving experience. It will explore this territory through meditation practice and an inquiry into the nature of that practice. Each session will include two guided meditations and time for discussion and sharing. Its primary focus is on ...

Event Series Integral Saging – Opening Session

Integral Saging

What is the inner process that moves with us from birth until its culmination with our final breath, and perhaps beyond? Let's embark on a path of meaning, purpose, vitality, and connection as we boldly go from aging to Saging with the wisdom and compassion of Integral Multiperspectivalism.

Integral Jewish Meditation (FREE): Iyun Ayin, “Immersion Is Spaciousness”

Spiritual awakening is the realization that you are far more than your thoughts and feelings. Beneath your personality, there’s a radiant field of awareness, free from negativity and connected to the aliveness of the present moment. These sessions begin with learning a text from the traditional weekly Torah reading, followed by chanting and Integral Jewish Meditation. This is followed by Q&A, sharing, and dialogue.

Experiencias De Consciencia Integral

Imagina que tres personas ciegas encuentran un elefante y tocan distintas partes de su cuerpo. Uno recorre con sus manos la trompa, otro la cola y el tercero el torso. Si después tuvieras la oportunidad de pedirles a cada uno que describiera lo que es un elefante, ¿crees que sus descripciones se parecerían? Cada uno hablaría desde lo que conoce y es capaz de percibir, ya que no tienen forma de saber que todas son partes de una misma cosa. Usualmente así nos movemos por el mundo, partiendo de descripciones que solo tienen que ver con nuestra única perspectiva.

Event Series Integral Men’s Group

Integral Men’s Group

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A monthly, 2-hour deep dive! PLEASE NOTE: This group requires on-time attendance, and will be closed after 10 minutes to maintain a smooth container. Join evolutionary men's guide Jason Lange for an experiential men's group. Get present with yourself, connect with other men, and come away with more clarity about what's ready to happen next in your life. The session will include some light embodiment practices, individual check-ins, breakout rooms to go deep with another man, and space for a few men to get deeper support from the entire group. This will not be a conceptual or teaching-oriented group - your lives will be the focus!

Event Series Integral Saging – Opening Session

Integral Saging

What is the inner process that moves with us from birth until its culmination with our final breath, and perhaps beyond? Let's embark on a path of meaning, purpose, vitality, and connection as we boldly go from aging to Saging with the wisdom and compassion of Integral Multiperspectivalism.

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Often referred to as the "Einstein of consciousness studies", Ken Wilber is a preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the originator of the world's first truly comprehensive or integrative philosophy, aptly named “Integral Theory” — something that is becoming increasingly necessary in order to navigate and thrive in today’s world.

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