In this series of practice-oriented writing classes, we will investigate the nature of a writer’s experience at the interface of language and consciousness. Each class will include creative and contemplative components. This class will start with the practices of the Modernists and move through a brief tour of select spiritual writing methods and schools to arrive at the possibility and practice of post-postmodern, integral writing.

Are you excited about starting a company that can have a global impact? A report by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) found that venture capital investment in startups in the United States reached a record high of $156.2 billion in 2020, up from $138.1 billion in 2019. How can integralists start companies that can get funding and scale impact globally? What are the blind spots integralists carry when launching a project? How can we integrate healthy Orange in with our Teal vision? This group session will discuss strategies to build stable startups and capital raise strategies.

How would you put integral thinking on the map? What integral ideas do you think require translation, and how would you translate them? Stephanie Lepp is an award-winning producer whose work has always been integral-inspired, yet has rarely mentioned the word "integral." In our session, we'll view a showcase of 'integral translation' projects — from the Reckonings podcast, which told the stories of people who expanded their political worldviews and made other kinds of evolutionary change, to the Deep Reckonings deepfake project, in which an imaginary Brett Kavanaugh says, "evolution is beautiful, but it's not pretty." Let's explore our own ideas of how to scale integral.

Join Ryan Nakade and tj Richards to examine the theory of 'anti-memetics' as a way to model social dynamics like culture wars, as well as their relationship to meta-ideological politics and the potential for better sensemaking and social coordination.