Heal Thyself: How to Repair Interpersonal and Cultural Injuries

Heal Thyself: How to Repair Interpersonal and Cultural Injuries

The Buddha had it right with "life is suffering"! We all regularly feel injured by other people, our own interior struggles, cultural events, or random chance. Repairing these injuries is a big deal! Luckily, Integrally informed psychology can help us recognize and repair injuries. In this upcoming episode of Live with Dr. Keith we'll talk about how we all become injured and the steps we often need to take for effective repair.
The Art of Being Unique (But Not Special)

The Art of Being Unique (But Not Special)

Today Jeff and Corey take a look at a paradoxical move in vertical development: where we embrace our own radical uniqueness and express it in relation to other beings who are also utterly unique. It’s a new and more vivid integration of the individual and collective realms of reality, and out of it emerges a possibility for a more fruitful, happy and fulfilling life. Once again we are helped out by Sarah Silverman!
Full Spectrum Mindfulness

Full Spectrum Mindfulness

Ken Wilber's groundbreaking mindfulness web course. Eight different kinds of mindfulness practice in one. Recently expanded to include Full Body Mindfulness, Full Spectrum Sexuality, and exclusive bonus modules.
Politics, Addiction, and Mental Health: The Path to Recovery

Politics, Addiction, and Mental Health: The Path to Recovery

In this interview Chris recounts some of the surreal feelings he’s having as the Trump administration continues to disrupt the social, political, and cultural status quo. He speaks to the impact Trump is having on the mental health communities that he serves — as safety net budgets for social services are eliminated, those with mental health issues are often the first to feel the pain.
Moving Beyond Fear

Moving Beyond Fear

At the moment, Ginny is particularly concerned about the lack of leadership that both President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un are displaying in their escalating war of words, and in this discussion she helps work through the very fears that naturally arise as a result.
Why Meetings Suck (And How You Can Make Them More Fun, Efficient, and Engaging)

Why Meetings Suck (And How You Can Make Them More Fun, Efficient, and Engaging)

Join us in this role-playing exercise as four colleagues undergo the first 2 minutes of a business meeting where they discuss a new project. Watch how each participant brings a dramatically different Native Perspective — or “orienting quadrant” — to the table, then get inside their heads to see how they interpret the meeting. Can you spot your own Native Perspective?
Finding Sanity in the Post-Truth Era

Finding Sanity in the Post-Truth Era

Dr. Keith Witt talks about our shared emotional reactions to the election and ongoing cultural upheavals, and some strategies help us not only cope, but actually grow through these times.
Your Native Perspective: Better Relationships

Your Native Perspective: Better Relationships

This practice will help you become more fluent with native perspectives — four fundamental ways of being, perceiving, and doing — in both yourself and in other people.
Lifestyle and Mental Health: Restoring Sanity in the 21st Century

Lifestyle and Mental Health: Restoring Sanity in the 21st Century

Roger Walsh describes eight of the most crucial lifestyle-based approaches to help restore balance and sanity to our frantic 21st-century lives.
Growing, Relating, Connecting: An Integral Tour of Couples Therapy

Growing, Relating, Connecting: An Integral Tour of Couples Therapy

In this episode of Psychology Now, Dr. Keith and Dr. Mark dive into the wide world of couples therapy and relationships, using the Integral lens to locate some of the deeper principles and key insights that leading couples therapists’ employ to help couples develop loving, growth-orientated, grounded relationships. Includes six key practices that you can try right now to enhance your relationship.
Full Spectrum Mindfulness: A Guided Tour

Full Spectrum Mindfulness: A Guided Tour

Ken Wilber offers a blistering in-depth guided tour through his widely acclaimed Full Spectrum Mindfulness teaching, a series of simple but powerful practices to unlock your deepest sources of power, love, wisdom, and self-mastery.
Psychedelics in Psychotherapy

Psychedelics in Psychotherapy

Special guest Dr. Elliott Ingersoll joins Doctors Keith Witt and Mark Forman to share their personal and professional experiences with psychedelics while reviewing relevant research, current practices, and the amazing potentials of these treatments. Therapists need as many tools as possible to remediate symptoms, enhance health, and support development. The way we see it therapies utilizing psychedelics will become increasingly available and likely useful in the years to come.
The 3-2-1 Shadow Process: Face It, Talk to It, Be It

The 3-2-1 Shadow Process: Face It, Talk to It, Be It

A crucial aspect of any integral practice is a way to be profoundly honest with ourselves about our shadow, or unconscious, or false self, or dishonesty, or disowned self. The 3-2-1 Process is a simple and effective tool for working with the shadow — any part of ourselves that we unconsciously repress or deny.
The Five Phases of Change

The Five Phases of Change

Mary Saunders explores the primordial qualities of earth, wood, fire, metal, and water as elemental energies in nature, within our bodies, and within our psyche — a model for physical health, emotional intelligence, and spiritual maturity.
Shapes of Mind: The 10 Stages of Consciousness

Shapes of Mind: The 10 Stages of Consciousness

At Integral Life we sometimes refer to different stages of consciousness in order to make sense of various issues or complex situations. So I thought it might be useful to briefly outline the ten stages of consciousness-or what I often call the ten shapes of mind–in order to provide an orienting primer for those who are new to Integral Life. For those who have been with us a long time, hopefully you'll enjoy a refresher.
Into the Void and Back Again: Understanding and Recovering From Depression

Into the Void and Back Again: Understanding and Recovering From Depression

Depression is a powerful mood disorder and – after anxiety – the most prevalent of all mental health challenges. In this episode of Psychology Now, Dr. Witt and Dr. Forman dive deeply into the topic of depression, and how our struggles with depression can lead to deepened commitment to change, heightened self-understanding, and increased empathy for the suffering of others.
You’re Angry! Find Your Deeper Unmet Need & Reframe Your Anger

You’re Angry! Find Your Deeper Unmet Need & Reframe Your Anger

Anger arises when you feel like you've been violated: you are interpreting some situation or behavior, whether it was done intentionally or not, as a very real violation of your deeper needs or values. It's usually sourced in a deeper need that's not being met. This practice is designed to help you find it.
What’s Beneath Your Anxiety?

What’s Beneath Your Anxiety?

Anxiety feels terrible, a gnawing fear that is hard to pin down and harder to shake. This activity may help you alleviate anxiety: when you can see the core fear that's really underneath your anxiety, you loosen its hold on your emotions and feel more empowered to address it.
The Zen Leader: From Coping to Transforming

The Zen Leader: From Coping to Transforming

Dr. Ginny Whitelaw offers a practice that explores Zen leadership, an authentic expression of the connected Self to serve people, create value and beauty in the world and take away fear.
Discover Your Enneagram Type

Discover Your Enneagram Type

An extraordinary presentation to help you discover more clarity and wellbeing, with practices for each personality type delivered via a deepening understanding of your inner observer.
Loving Completely

Loving Completely

Dr. Keith Witt offers a taste of his Loving Completely practice program, an exceptional web course that helps deepen the whole relationship by acknowledging and working with the intrinsic wholeness of human beings.
Full Spectrum Mindfulness

Full Spectrum Mindfulness

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Patterns of Being / Patterns of Relating

Patterns of Being / Patterns of Relating

[cs_content_seo]Recorded during one of Helen Palmer’s rare live teachings in Boulder, this 9-hour workshop helps to awaken the ancient wisdom of the Narrative Enneagram in your own life, while enriching it with the unique insights and perspectives revealed by the Integral approach. Through these powerful teachings, demonstrations, and conversations you will be able to identify your own particular pattern — and more importantly, learn how your pattern interfaces and interacts with other patterns in your life, helping you to better navigate the many obstacles and opportunities for growth that inevitably emerge in your life and your relationships. Helen Palmer, for...
Loving Completely Web Course

Loving Completely Web Course

Loving Completely is a groundbreaking training program designed to help you and your partner improve your connection on every level: physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Crafted by Dr. Keith Witt and Integral Life, Loving Completely will help you uncover a wealth of personal and interpersonal dynamics that you may not even have known were there. Your personal guide through the wilderness of the heart.
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