Jeff Salzman

Jeff Salzman

Jeff Salzman spent the last few years as co-founder and a lead teacher at Boulder Integral, now The Integral Center. These days he travels, teaches and comments about current events on Integral Life and The Daily Evolver.

Jeff has worked in adult education and transformation for thirty years. He is co-founder of CareerTrack Training, an adult education company he and his partner built into an international organization producing over 3000 seminars annually and employing over 300 people.

For three years Jeff worked side by side with Ken Wilber developing the Integral Institute, an international center for integral theory and application. A long time spiritual practitioner in many traditions, he has a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University.

Website: http://www.dailyevolver.com

Forgiving Humanity: An Evolutionary Call for Collective Self-Love

Forgiving Humanity: An Evolutionary Call for Collective Self-Love

Jeff Salzman   October 16, 2018  
Jeff makes the case that humanity is not fallen but rising, and that what matters more than our sinful nature is our basic goodness and the goodness of a kosmos that has destined us to grow.
Today’s Next-Level Organizations

Today’s Next-Level Organizations

Jeff Salzman   October 4, 2018  
Each stage of human development features a unique way of organizing work. So what’s next? Frederic Laloux‘s blockbuster book, Reinventing Organizations, offers compelling answers to that question.
Judging Kavanaugh

Judging Kavanaugh

Jeff Salzman   October 2, 2018  
Jeff shares his insights into the testimony presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee by both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing him of attacking her as a teenager.
An Integral Understanding of Suicide

An Integral Understanding of Suicide

Jeff Salzman   August 8, 2018  
Suicide has been in existence as long as self-aware consciousness has been in existence. The gift of self-aware consciousness included the capacity for humans to anticipate and understand the inevitability of their own deaths, and all gifts come with a price. In this series of videos, Dr. Keith Witt talks to Jeff Salzman and Corey deVos about bringing a more integral understanding and compassion to the topic of suicide.
The Power to Serve

The Power to Serve

Jeff Salzman   June 29, 2018  
Dr. Keith talks to Jeff Salzman about Integral Life’s recent “Tap Your Power” event in Denver, CO, which featured exquisite teachings from himself, Ginny Whitelaw, Beena Sharma, and Ken Wilber on the many facets of power in today’s world — interior and exterior, individual and collective, all the way up and down the spiral of human development.
The Roots of Integral Theory

The Roots of Integral Theory

Jeff Salzman   May 29, 2018  
Steve McIntosh takes us on a tour through his view of the origins of integral theory, starting with Georg Friedrich Hegel, who first explained the mechanisms of evolution in human history, and on through a stream of philosophers who unified the evolution of matter, consciousness and spirit.
Big Data in Little China

Big Data in Little China

Jeff Salzman   May 7, 2018  
Are there fundamentally different ways for countries to progress into and through modernity? After all, the western model has been dominant for 200 years because of its success in doing so. But might Big Data — as controlled either by strong central states, private monopolistic businesses, or both — allow new forms of social regulation that can drive the evolution of non-western societies into modern values and beyond?
Helping Kids Grow Strong

Helping Kids Grow Strong

Jeff Salzman   May 4, 2018  
Dr Keith Witt talks with Jeff about how to better support children's development. Dr. Keith argues that the healthy expression of a person’s type (their preferences, gifts and built-in challenges) is based largely on their early relationships.
Starfleet Values Are Integral Values

Starfleet Values Are Integral Values

Jeff Salzman   April 23, 2018  
Today Jeff is joined by fellow integral nerds Cindy Wigglesworth and Corey deVos in this integral appreciation of the venerable Star Trek franchise. Open hailing frequencies, set phasers to stun, and prepare to boldly go where no Star Trek review has gone before.
Change the Rules: New Structures to Drain the Swamp

Change the Rules: New Structures to Drain the Swamp

Jeff Salzman   April 20, 2018  
Jeff visits with integralist Tom Curren, who has launched a new non-profit initiative with the goal to change the rules of the American political system.
Beyond Excellence in Sports: Flow by Choice

Beyond Excellence in Sports: Flow by Choice

Jeff Salzman   April 19, 2018  
Jeff talks with Scott Ford, author of Integral Consciousness in Sport: Unifying Body, Mind and Spirit Through Flow. Scott offers a specific practice for entering flow, which is applicable for “in the zone” performance in all aspects of life.
The War Among Progressives

The War Among Progressives

Jeff Salzman   April 11, 2018  
Today Jeff and Corey take a close look at an fantastic new article by Valerie Tarico, published to Alternet with the title “Here’s Why Some Progressives Are Tearing Each Other Apart”. In the article Tarico argues that today’s left is largely split into two major factions, each of whom are operating with two very different narratives around social progress and our collective wellbeing.
Integral European Conference: A Preview from Bence Ganti

Integral European Conference: A Preview from Bence Ganti

Jeff Salzman   April 9, 2018  
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Integral Liftoff: Listeners Share the View from Second Tier

Integral Liftoff: Listeners Share the View from Second Tier

Jeff Salzman   April 3, 2018  
In today’s episode Jeff uses your reflections to chart out some of the landmarks of the new integral territory, as well as characteristics of the pioneers who seek to inhabit it.
Trump’s War Cabinet Drops a Developmental Level

Trump’s War Cabinet Drops a Developmental Level

Jeff Salzman   April 1, 2018  
Today Jeff and Corey consider the choice of John Bolton to become Donald Trump’s national security advisor (replacing Gen. H.R. McMaster), as well as the promotion of Mike Pompeo to be Secretary of State (replacing Rex Tillerson). The shakeup represents a major worldview shift from orange modernity to amber traditionalism in the war cabinet of a President who often operates from the red power stage.
Peering into the Post-Privacy World

Peering into the Post-Privacy World

Jeff Salzman   March 26, 2018  
Today Jeff talks with integral psychotherapist Dr. Keith Witt about the arising of big data and its effect on our individual and collective psyches. They share their insights on the fascinating new book, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are.
What Jordan Peterson (and His Fans and Foes) Can Learn from Integral Theory

What Jordan Peterson (and His Fans and Foes) Can Learn from Integral Theory

Jeff Salzman   March 23, 2018  
Through subsequent postings critical of “leftist radicals,” Jordan Peterson has become a hero for advocates of free speech, and a idol to people who are opposed to the postmodern promulgation of multiculturalism and gender fluidity. So where does Peterson fit in the integral schema? In these two episodes of the Daily Evolver Jeff examines Peterson’s message as expressed through his book and his most popular lectures and interviews.
An Ethos for Revolutionaries: Terry Patten on Activism at the Integral Stage

An Ethos for Revolutionaries: Terry Patten on Activism at the Integral Stage

Jeff Salzman   March 20, 2018  
Terry is pioneering a robust and dynamic new form of activism that fuses the “inner work” of personal transformation and awakening with the “outer work” of service and commitment to social justice. In this episode Jeff and Terry explore how we can deploy it to bring about the profound transformation of self and world that our era requires.
From F#@king Up to Waking Up: A Tale of Addiction, Volition, and Liberation

From F#@king Up to Waking Up: A Tale of Addiction, Volition, and Liberation

Jeff Salzman   March 12, 2018  
Today our dear friend Chris Grosso talks to Jeff and Corey about his latest book, Dead Set on Living: Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from Fucking Up to Waking Up, which pivots around Chris’s provocative and profoundly moving journey out of the shadows of addiction and the endless empty parade of substitute gratifications, and into the light of spiritual awakening and healthy living.
Can Virtual Reality Create a More Virtuous Reality?

Can Virtual Reality Create a More Virtuous Reality?

Jeff Salzman   February 28, 2018  
Jeff and Corey explore the exhilarating emergence of virtual reality technology and the far-reaching implications it has across the full spectrum of human experience, from entertainment to education, to medicine, art, journalism, spiritual practice, sexuality, communication, and any number of other exciting and potentially groundbreaking applications.
The Black Panther: A Hero for Humanity

The Black Panther: A Hero for Humanity

Jeff Salzman   February 22, 2018  
Jeff Salzman talks to Steve Harper about the superhero film The Black Panther, which illuminates the struggle of growing beyond a retributionist victim identity to a larger sense of responsibility for one’s self, one’s people, and the whole of the world.
Two Integral Eggheads (Try To) Watch the Olympics

Two Integral Eggheads (Try To) Watch the Olympics

Jeff Salzman   February 19, 2018  
Today Jeff and Corey take an anthropological look at the Olympics, noting how they express multiple stages of human development, how one’s type and kosmic address influences how you experience sports, how athletes at the peak of their performance can transmit powerful state experiences, and much more.
Guns, Madness or Evil? The Roots of Mass Shootings

Guns, Madness or Evil? The Roots of Mass Shootings

Jeff Salzman   February 16, 2018  
Is America’s rate of gun violence, which multiplies that of other developed countries, an immutable part of our character and culture? How do we respond to the steady news of mass shootings and the senseless killing of innocent people? And how about the perpetrators: are they mentally ill or just plain evil?
The Predictable Stages of Growth in Couples

The Predictable Stages of Growth in Couples

Jeff Salzman   February 14, 2018  
Today, in honor of Valentine’s Day, Jeff talks with Dr. Tom Habib about the affairs of the heart. An integrally-inspired clinical psychologist specializing in couples therapy, Tom has mapped what he calls the “couple’s line of development,” which describes the predictable stages of growth that a couple can grow through — and where they may get stalled.
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