Grief and loss are some of the most intense experiences we have as humans. It’s no wonder that many of us tend to push them aside and short-change the process of letting go, especially when we have responsibilities to attend to. But unprocessed grief and loss can lead to having a heart that is closed …
Any aspect of our past that we haven’t come to terms with affects our ability to see the present moment clearly and to respond in a grounded way. It is like we are looking through a pair of colored glasses that distort reality. It may feel like things look fine, but once you take the …
Inhabit is a monthly practice-based series with Ryan Oelke and Corey deVos, designed to help you embody your own unique expression of integral being and more fully inhabit the territory of your life, your relationships, and your world.
There are few things that can polarize the way a conspiracy theory can. These perspectives can be both alluring and repulsive; electrifying in the clarity they give patterns and frightening in the way they seem contagious. Yet these theories answer our desire to make sense of our world, and the reason they feel so potent …
These facilitated sessions bring together the parts work modality of Voice Dialogue with non-dual awareness method to amplify understanding and transform fixed beliefs and attitudes that fall into the category of what is called Spiritual Bypassing. Spiritual Bypass is when we use our conceptual understanding or direct experience of Waking Up to avoid doing the …
November 3rd is Election Day in the U.S., and there is no more important “showing up practice” than fulfilling your civic duties and participating with our democratic systems. Whatever your politics may be, we encourage you to use this day to vote, and to help others make it to the polls if you can. Remember — the 2016 U.S. election …
Join Corey and Ryan this Tuesday live for a special episode of Inhabit as we discuss the real-time unfolding of the US National Election, perhaps the most defining election of our generation. In addition to discussing the events of Election Day, they’ll explore integral post-election responses to the election, which will likely involve a great deal of uncertainty and potentially …
Let us know what you think about Exhale and practices that you attended! Click here to take a 2-minute survey We are almost at the close of 2020 — and what a year it’s been. Presidential elections, pandemics, civil rights protests, massive social unrest…. we’re sure you’re feeling as exhausted as we do. And yet…. there is so much opportunity …
“With some communities in rebooted lockdown conditions and movement restricted everywhere else, no one is posting pictures of their sourdough. Zoom cocktail parties have lost their novelty, Netflix can only release so many new series. The news seems worse every day, yet we compulsively scroll through it. We get distracted by social media, yet have a pile of books unread. …
Divided minds lead to divided times, and it is the central calling of an integral life to heal division within and in the world through a living capacity for higher integration, inclusion and compassion. This isn’t easy, and it requires practice, but ILP is a dedicated community to help you do so. Meet your practice leader Robb Smith is a …
In this session, Beena Sharma will walk us through a short practice of harmonizing our experiences of 2020, using the lens of vertical development. Beena will take us on a short yet spacious tour of one aspect of each stage of development that we can explore subjectively. You can walk away with a brief practice guide you can use anytime. …
2020 has been a year of challenges. The physical and financial challenges often take center stage. But the psychological challenges are right there, underneath the headlines. The most insidious of which is the erosion of trust. Can I trust anyone? Anything? We ask ourselves these questions every day. The answers are crucial. Our very existence hangs in the balance. The …
Every year of our human journey is an invitation to grow and evolve. Challenges, crises and uncertainty are opportunities to build our resilience and integrate past material. But let’s face it, 2020 has gone above and beyond the typical range of challenges, forcing all of humanity to confront uncomfortable truths about ourselves, our systems and each other. Join Lisa Frost …
Keith Witt explores the rich terrain of the integral mind. Will include an open Q&A with anyone who would like to join the call. Just click the zoom link below to join the discussion! You can watch this free broadcast on the first Saturday of each month at 2:00 PM PT (3:00 MT / 5:00 ET). You can also stream …
The Ladder doesn’t go anywhere. The race isn’t real. The things we have are not as important as the grooves we carve. Deep down, we know this. Yet, we do nothing. We’re called to something more in our life, yet we’re anchored to the life we have. Most of us would prefer to have a …
“We are leading in uncertain times:” it’s become a meme. And it has become our reality. A reality that, as leaders, is our responsibility to help our associates navigate. How do we do that? How, in the time of COVID and intense political unrest, do we keep our workplace culture from devolving into a morass …
For many of us, the path of awakening began with the act of coming to terms with addiction. And with the onset of COVID-19, some of the usual support structures for those in recovery have become more difficult to access or disappeared altogether. Welcome to a recovery meeting for integralists – regardless of program or …
In this session, we are calling out the Integral activist in you. Witnessed from an ultimate non-dual perspective, this world is just fine. However, from a relative perspective, it sure could use some help. What issues of the world around you are of enough concern or inspiration to you that you are willing to offer your Body-Heart-Mind-Spirit as an activist? …
Our focus in Simply Sitting is on creating and sustaining a meditation practice that isn’t about spirituality. It’s not about enlightenment, or attaining some special state of being. It’s not about anything you might experience. It’s about the simplicity of sitting, and being with what is, day after day. And it just might change your life. Meet Your Practice Leader …
Join Robb Smith for a casual holiday get-together by the Christmas tree.
Through a cultivation of embodiment we can more fully awaken, heal, and respond to life. As such, we can integrate many practices of awakening with embodiment, making our awakening much stronger and more rooted and integrated in our lives. Ryan will guide us in a foundational embodiment meditation of inhabiting our body as embodied awareness. By inhabiting our body in …
“Every bad feeling is potential energy toward the right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.” So said Eugene Gendlin, the originator of the Focusing practice. And given the current circumstances: pandemic, racial tensions, political unrest, just to name a few, it’s likely that you’re experiencing some so-called “bad feelings” and wish that things …
How important is leisure to you? Should society have more lax norms concerning casual sex? Are you surrounded mostly by extroverts? Is optimism a good thing? In this final session of the series, we will explore the link between culture and our subjective sense of well-being. Perhaps even more explicitly than other human dilemmas, Indulgence vs. Restraint (IVR) operates at …
Are you experiencing a deep thirst to begin the work you dream about but you keep postponing and procrastinating? Is your goal craftily escaping you? Are you quietly sabotaging yourself? If these questions ring a bell, the Immunity to Change™ (ITC) process could be perfect for you! On this 90-minute Integral Life Practice session, Nomali Perera will guide you through …
Your intimate relationships are the cauldron for your growth and evolution, if you practice within them. Part of growing up is learning how to balance transparent and authentic communication with empathy and understanding our impact on others. It’s also learning how to call back our projections and see the other for who they truly are, and are becoming. Meet Your …
Welcome to a voice dialog practice with Tyko Granberger that invites you to converse with different voices arising out of this present moment in history, specifically with the voices of the Joker and the Secretary of State. Talking through and to our different feelings makes us come into contact with more sides of ourselves. It …
Are you a leader? That was a trick question, because we already know the answer. You are. Every one of us is a leader. We may not have the title on our business card, but that doesn’t change the fact. Leadership is about influence and we’re all in the influence business. If you’ve been stifling your leadership energy or if …
Did you know that body and money are the top two categories for New Year’s resolutions year after year? Are they at the top of your list for 2021? Funny enough, they tend to go hand in hand – and there are some good reasons for this. If you’d like to finally stop struggling in one or both of these …
It’s difficult to set a course for freedom when you are burdened with incompletions. Incompletions can show up externally as half-completed projects, broken agreements, strained relationships or internally as grudges, apathy and remorse. Incompletions can lead to lack of creativity, energy, and clarity as well as debt, weight and clutter. It’s time to bring closure to incompletions of the past …
Kindness is a quality we can learn to dial up, a juiciness that softens rigid places and people, a soothing medicine for the aches and pains of our emotional being and an energy and orientation with no downsides, a mode of living we can really trust. In this guided session we will shift body, heart …
Resilience is the ability to handle and bounce back from crisis. But beyond resilience lies antifragility which is the ability to use crisis and change to become stronger and better – to thrive. Rather than trying to survive the crisis, this means allowing the crisis or change to rework us, like soft clay, into something new, improved and more resilient …
Shadow practice is a willingness to understand the three fingers that point back at oneself when the index finger points toward someone or something else that is in some fashion causing a charged emotional trigger. Whether it is a luminous or more opaque version of shadow, let’s do some work to befriend and reclaim the disowned voices in us with …
We are lucky if we have something we long to create! Perhaps it is your next project to execute, problem to solve, polarity to manage or big desire to enact. While our work in the world comes easy to some of us, many of us also experience a lack of clarity in really stating what it is that we are …
When a role you played in an earlier developmental stage (for example, “the studious one,” “the corporate executive” “always the maid of honor” “the fighter”) shows up in your current life, what need from the past is it asking you to fulfill today? In this session–with inspiration from late sociologist and interaction theorist, Erving Goffman–we are examining our own life’s …
The three foundations of relationship are friendship, abilities to resolve conflicts back to love, and a love affair. In many ways it’s obvious how to be friends and resolve conflicts, but what are the dimensions of a good love affair? We tend to be attracted to someone who resonates with our wounds and dreams. Wounds and dreams can be explored …
Part of growing up is learning how to balance transparent and authentic communication with empathy and understanding our impact on others. It’s also learning how to call back our projections and see the other for who they truly are, and are becoming. Join Lisa for a powerful monthly session where we will dive into how to use your relationships as …
“At some point in our lives, most of us absorbed this false belief that causes the feeling of shame. As a result of not feeling seen, loved, valued and understood, we developed the belief that we were not being loved because there was something wrong with us.” – Margaret Paul Shame is the feeling that …
Join us to explore the roles and patterns we often inadvertently take in our lives that lead to potential damage of relationships with others and ourselves. There’s hope! Let’s check out how to skillfully evolve out of these harmful patterns to more mature roles of discernment and healthy action. Meet Your Practice Leader Nomali Perera, MA, PCC, has been in …
Stuart Davis is a long-time friend to the Integral Project, having hosted a number of dialogues and shared his prolific art, music, and comedy with us over the years. These days Stuart is hosting his own podcast, titled “Aliens and Artists”, which explores the connections between non-ordinary experiences and creativity. Which makes a certain amount of sense, since Stuart is …
In this series we often engage the personal shadow. This session will be a practice in exploring the collective shadow, our humanity and society’s darker side which shows up as religious discrimination, sexism, racism, agism, etc. We will look at the ways in which spirituality and “self development” sometimes adds to this collective shadow, how we may be internalizing it …
We keep hearing about “a new normal.” But what exactly do we mean by that? What are we hoping for and what are we hoping against? In this session we’ll unpack our conscious and unconscious desires for the future and find ways to move into deeper relationship with what is. About the Antifragile Series Resilience is the ability to handle …
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes” – W. Whitman Transformation of our hearts and minds through the various lines of development has never been more vital. The very possibility for future humans to experience Truth, Beauty and Goodness is up in the air! And yet, most of us have significant …
Clare W. Graves, Ph.D., the researcher behind Spiral Dynamics, stated that one makes a “quantum leap” to enter Second Tier (Integral). While we may carry into it our shadow from all previous stages of evolution, the one that tends to bug integralists the most seems to be postmodern “green”, the stage that’s knocking on Integral’s door. As Integralists, while some …
In our previous session, we explored the Karpman Drama Triangle roles of the victim, rescuer and persecutor and David Emerald’s Empowerment Dynamic Roles of the creator, coach and challenger. In this session, we’ll put our focus on practicing the move from persecutor to challenger. You do not need to have attended last month’s session to attend this session. All are …
In Zen Buddhism, the word kensho describes a sudden glimpse or insight into the nature of reality. The Ken Show intends to offer you a very similar opportunity. The Ken Show is a monthly series with Ken Wilber, broadcast live on the second Saturday of every month, exclusively on Integral Life. Click here to find previous episodes.
How can we access and wield the power we have ethically? What does it mean to use power from a 2nd tier sensibility? How do we know if we are out of integrity with our use of power? According to Roger Walsh, action is ethical to the extent it aims to enhance the welfare and wellbeing of everyone including oneself. …
At this session we will explore the habits and patterns of behaviour that each Enneagram Type adapts in order to avoid certain truths about ourselves, but the acceptance of which can lead to a deeply satisfying life. About The Harness Your Enneatype Series If the Enneagram seems complicated with it’s triads, wings, levels and integration/disintegration points, let’s simplify it! Join …
To flourish is to thrive in every context of your life. And to do so, you need an integral mind, one that sees the big picture and the details of how flourishing is intimately tied to factors like emotional positivity, shadow, flow states, vitality, interpersonal connection, joy, purposeful contribution, and goal achievement. 48-hour discount on The Essence of Integral Flourishing …
Motherhood has many meanings to each of us from “mother out there” to the “mother within” regardless of gender, and whether we have birthed children or not. Often, it is a relationship that spans, plunges and rises through love, compassion, complexity and hardship. As we commemorate Mother’s Day, let us take a loving and healing journey back to us through …
“Spiritual bypassing,” a term that was coined by psychotherapist John Welwood, means a “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks.” In such a similar fashion, friends, let us explore if and how we may be falling into “integral bypassing.” Meet Your Practice Leader Nomali Perera, MA, …
Featuring Corey deVos and new co-host Mark Fischler, every month we take a close look at some of the most challenging social and cultural fault lines of our time — as well as the developmental skills we need in order to heal these shared wounds and begin to close the gaps between us. Click here to watch previous broadcasts.
Sometimes it feels as if there is no end to the polarization we keep encountering around us. These divisive forces can easily infiltrate and complicate our personal lives and relationships as well. So, what should/could we do as Integralists? In this session we’ll explore various tools such as Bubble-Hopping, Inquiry, Polarity Management and Randomization to move toward (hopefully) more critical …
Join Grant for a hybrid kata that combines movement and stillness to open the heart-mind for increased vitality and compassion. The arc of the practice starts with getting in touch with our deepest inspiration for practice, performing light calisthenics, energization exercises, moving through all 3 bodies (gross, subtle and causal). Once we’re warmed up, we engage a seated practice with …
This session is to re-ignite and reset ourselves as the world clunkily attempts to stumble its way back into some amount of “new normalcy.” As many of us will agree, what a time this has been. Using the Four Quadrants, let’s get together and inquire deeper into what really are our responsibilities and accountabilities as integralists: How has this pandemic …
The research has made increasingly clear the importance of fathers — or the masculine role — in children’s life. But walking the talk of being a good father can look easier than it actually is. Celebrating fathers is a nice gesture by society (and mothers too for that matter). Many however find the terrain to be trickier than the map …
When it comes down to it, our greatest power lies in our ability to choose. When we choose by default by refusing to make a choice or choose the easiest route rather than the most intentional one, we not only give up our power but may be unintentionally acting unethically as well. How can you exercise your power to choose …
Ken Wilber once said, “It is lonely at the top”. By “top,” he meant the higher reaches of the developmental stages where there are fewer and fewer self-identified integral folks…like us! He encouraged embracing this evolutionary space with both pride and humility. Let’s face it… the integral community is tiny. We aren’t always surrounded by a like-minded and like-hearted integral …
Join this session to meet the maker of the movie, Grace and Grit, Sebastian Siegel, in Q&A with Nomali Perera, followed by a session of Integral Life Practice. Inspired by one of Ken Wilber’s most beloved and acclaimed books, Sebastian Siegel set out on a decade-long journey of dedication and commitment, ultimately, to Love. Let’s hear directly from Sebastian about …
Feelings are the communication of life. They make us feel alive. When feelings can communicate their messages, we can act accordingly, but we lose their wisdom when they are blocked and suppressed. In the interactive Unity Within practice, we let feelings speak in the first person to distill their data to us using the Big Mind Method. In each session …
This month, we’ll take a slightly different approach than past months. Come with your current questions and challenges about navigating your 6’ness and get some 1-1 coaching (in the group setting) and suggested practices from Nicole. Hope to see you there! Join Nicole for a monthly facilitated practice group designed specifically for Enneagram 6’s, where we will support each other …
“We are leading in uncertain times:” it’s become a meme. And it has become our reality. A reality that, as leaders, is our responsibility to help our associates navigate. How do we do that? How, in the time of COVID and intense political unrest, do we keep our workplace culture from devolving into a morass of drama and victimhood? Join …
“We are leading in uncertain times:” it’s become a meme. And it has become our reality. A reality that, as leaders, is our responsibility to help our associates navigate. How do we do that? How, in the time of COVID and intense political unrest, do we keep our workplace culture from devolving into a morass of drama and victimhood? Join …
This session has been cancelled. Stay tuned for rescheduling! If you are an Enneagram 3, you likely see yourself as incredibly self-sufficient. In fact the idea of being “needy” may feel abhorrent. Let’s explore how this pattern keeps us stuck in overdrive, overwhelm and overcommitment. Join Lisa for a monthly facilitated practice group designed specifically for Enneagram 3’s, where we …
In our previous session, we explored the Karpman Drama Triangle roles of the victim, rescuer and persecutor and David Emerald’s Empowerment Dynamic Roles of the creator, coach and challenger. In this session, we’ll put our focus on practicing the move from Victim to Creator, a shift that transforms one’s full playing field. You do not need to have attended last …
The Ladder doesn’t go anywhere. The race isn’t real. The things we have are not as important as the grooves we carve. Deep down, we know this. Yet, we do nothing. We’re called to something more in our life, yet we’re anchored to the life we have. Most of us would prefer to have a calling, but we’re unwilling to …
In this session we will explore a profoundly integral and embodied approach to the sign of the cross through both lifting up to evolution and plunging into the depths of involution bridged by Sacred Love. We will be joined by Rollie Stanich, long-time Integral practitioner and author of the recently published book, “Integral Christianity: The Way of Embodied Love.” Meet …
A revolution in the understanding of the 3 centers: A slow, fine-tuned way of being with self and others. We are deeply conditioned by the environment in which we live which is filtered through the 3 centers of our human organism: Mental, Emotional and Feeling/Physical. Given our Enneagram patterns of attention, emotion and behavior, we overuse one of these centers, …
Members of the Boulder/Denver area (or anyone who’d like to travel to Boulder), let’s get together in-person, safely, outdoors! The Salberg Center and Park on 19th street is typically a very quiet and uncrowded spot. This event is free and is simply to get to know each other. If you are inspired to share, please bring along some food and/or …
This week’s Theme: The Four Ways of Knowing and the Big Three With a little inspiration from ancient Greece, join this session to explore the four ways of knowing (Propositional, Procedural, Perspectival and Participatory as per Cognitive Scientist, John Vervaeke, PhD) to learn how each can influence the depth of meaning and action we can …
Please join fellow Enneagram enthusiasts, spiritual practitioners, and engaged citizens for a community healing circle. You are invited into a space of reflection and witnessing of our personal and collective hopes, hurts, and growing edges as we tend to the important work of hospicing old systems and building new systems that affirm and regenerate life. …
Special Guest, Donna Zajonc, joins Nomali Perera In the spring and summer of 2021, Nomali Perera led various Integral Life Practice sessions introducing the concepts of the “Dreaded Drama Triangle” and its antidote, “The Empowerment Dynamic,” founded by David Emerald. In this session, we are excited to be joined by Donna Zajonc, a Master Certified Coach and Director of Learning …
Long before the pandemic and long after the pandemic, we were and will continue to wear many kinds of other masks! Let’s explore what masks have been unique to you, what role they play in your life and how they impact your relationships. These are the masks of our shadow! Optional: Join 10 minutes early to chit-chat, meditate or listen …
Last month we explored abortion. This month let us dip our toes into Critical Race Theory (CRT), yet another hot button issue in the US. Across cultures, this theme could be a close cousin of the over-all topics of race, immigration, feminism, etc. So, let’s jump right in, shall we? These topics can contain a lot of heat. Our time …
There are several triads imbedded in the Enneagram. The triads are important for transformational work as they specify where our chief imbalance lies. The triads represent three main clusters of issues & defenses of the ego-self, and they reveal the principal ways in which we contact our awareness & limit ourselves. In this session we will explore the most basic …
“The Harmonic Triads tell us how we cope with conflict and difficulty: how we respond when we do not get what we want, and they reveal the fundamental way that our personality defends against loss and disappointment.” – The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Riso & Hudson In this session, I will provide a short introduction to how each of …
Let’s explore the realm of hurt and pain that is stored in our bodies, and learn what it may want us to hear from it. This could also include exploring parts of our bodies or ailments we dislike. Bring your curious body, heart and mind! Optional: Join 10 minutes early to chit-chat, meditate or listen to music together. Meet Your …
Join Beena Sharma and Corey deVos for a free Q&A about how to manage and integrate polarity in your own life, in your work, and in your relationships. This isn’t just another way to use and apply the integral map — it’s a way to learn the type of thinking that produces things like ‘integral maps’ in the first place. …
There are life lessons everywhere, including from Seinfeld, one of the top sitcoms ever! With the encouragement of his good buddy Jerry Seinfeld, the usually awkward, somewhat neurotic George Costanza once decided to try something new to challenge his comfort zones, the spaces where we all experience a sense of safety, certainty and predictability. Join this session for a light-hearted-yet-valuable …
In the same way we disown aspects of ourselves that we deem bad or inappropriate, and project those aspects onto others, we also disown and project qualities that we admire. We allow ourselves to see those qualities in others but amputate our own ability to access them ourselves. We often refer to this as our “light shadow,” but the effect …
iRest® (integrative restoration) is a research-based secular application of an ancient mindfulness practice that combines deep relaxation and resiliency training with meditative inquiry to address such issues as stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic pain, sleep disturbances, and overall well-being. Developed by Dr. Richard Miller, iRest restores psychological & spiritual wholeness by healing unresolved issues in the body, mind & spirit, …
If you wish, bring a poem, a prayer, a short reading or story you might like to share to this session! Let’s get together to reflect back, look ahead and connect with each other as another year comes to a close and a new one is just around the corner. This session is for sharing the beauty of blessings, laughter, …
Join Lisa Frost for The Power of Purpose where we will amplify the voice of your inner truth so you can finally say yes to a deeper sense of purpose. This introductory session is open to the entire Integral Life community, whether you are a member or not.
THIS LIVE EVENT HAS PASSED. VIEW THE REPLAY BELOW. What do you really want in 2022? Is there any part of you that answered: “I don’t know”? How could that be? How is it possible that you don’t know what you really want? It’s easy to say that current global events prevent you from knowing the answer to this question. …
Join Lukas Hosford for meditations to expand our awareness by cultivating an attitude of greater appreciation for direct sense-perception. Please prepare yourself for these meditations with three small morsels of food and a drink.
Join Lisa Frost for a journey into unwinding the subtle and not-so-subtle effects of the inner critic on our lives and relationships and finding the path through.
Whether you are suffering from substance abuse issues or not, we all have issues in our lives that cause us pain and can hold us back from being the people we were meant to be, if we do not process them with great care and skillfulness. Integral Life Practice, or Integral Recovery Practice, is the vehicle that allows us to travel the territory and universe that the AQAL map reveals.
We are not our habits, or even our addictions—and the power to end them permanently is already ours. Let 2022 be the year in which you say good-bye to the habitual baggage you’ve carried for so long and embrace real and lasting change!
Join Paula Staffeldt, in a four-session book discussion (same day/same time) of Dr. Amy Brown’s The Little Book of Big Change.
Zero to Awake is a gradual practice sequence designed as an inclusive activation and appreciation of our spiritual nature. New and seasoned practitioners will find nourishment in this pointing- out instruction style guided meditation.
In Social Meditation we use a variety of peer-to-peer protocols and instruction sets to practice in any or all of the 4 Ups: Waking Up, Cleaning Up, Growing Up, Showing Up.
Practicing the process of debate outwardly in relation to other beings can teach us so much about how to go through it internally with ease and elegant simplicity. We can learn to enjoy the process whereby existing opinions are forced by wisdom into concession. This is a crucial compliment to a non-conceptual meditation practice for anyone wishing to become a masterful co-creator of intention.
At its worst, the inner critic is that internal voice that tends to judge and demean you. But could this voice actually be beneficial? What would it look like to heal the toxic inner critic? Join Lisa for a journey into unwinding the subtle and not-so-subtle effects of the inner critic on our lives and relationships and finding the path through.
Click here to join the discussion. Join us for a free webinar as Lee Mason previews his new Flourishing LIVE training — an online group coaching program to help you develop a personalized strategy to thrive optimally across all areas of your life. If you’re interested in living a life that is as healthy, happy and meaningful as possible, then …
Nomali Perera will hold space for this session. All of your voices and presence are needed. Bring prayers, poems or short readings you may want to share that is relevant to this moment. This is a free session open to all. Feel free to invite others.
We are not our habits, or even our addictions—and the power to end them permanently is already ours. Let 2022 be the year in which you say good-bye to the habitual baggage you’ve carried for so long and embrace real and lasting change!
Join Paula Staffeldt, in a four-session book discussion (same day/same time) of Dr. Amy Brown’s The Little Book of Big Change.
Join Connie and Bill DeKramer for a foray into the world of High Nutrient Dense Whole Foods. Together we will explore how to look for what food nourishes us into a pain free, symptom free life with clarity and vitality and how to tap into the innate wisdom of our bodies to find what works for us in each moment as we navigate changing age, seasons, physical demands, etc.
Join Lisa for a special edition of Being With What Is: The Russia/Ukraine Conflict, where we will unearth our resistance to accepting the present reality so that we can be better resourced in how we respond to it. This live experience will include both discussion and practice.
Click here to join the live zoom session Inhabit is a monthly discussion series with Ryan Oelke and Corey deVos, designed to help you embody your own unique expression of integral being and more fully inhabit the territory of your life, your relationships, and your world. Click here to watch previous episodes
Any aspect of our past that we haven’t come to terms with affects our ability to see the present moment clearly and to respond in a grounded way. It is like we are looking through a pair of colored glasses that distort reality. It may feel like things look fine, but once you take the glasses off, the world looks …
Our consciousness delivers a worldview of ourselves acting as autonomous agents, controlling our life. That worldview is the frame of the subject of our awareness. It is the proverbial water that we fish swim in everyday, moment to moment. What would it take for us to recognize that water in which we are swimming?
With recent global and personal events, many of us are experiencing feelings of profound grief and loss. Grief and loss are some of the most intense experiences we have as humans and unprocessed grief and loss can lead to having a heart that is closed to the intense joy and love that is possible when we are willing to simply be with those feelings. By giving specific space and time to the grief that needs to be processed, we can both work through those feelings and be in the world. Join Lisa Frost for a gentle and loving approach to being with grief and loss.
Now is the time. Now is the only time. Listen to the call. Accept the challenge. Start your heroic journey today.
Come join us for a journey into the mysterious world of Leadership with Mike Herzog.
When we practice together, we open up and focus on the space between us. Join Grant in practicing a Sufi form of awakening called Sohbet, where we come together and slow down to notice each sensation, each thought form, and share our moment to moment experience with each other in succession… opening tenderness, softening, authentic relating and deep connection.
With Centering Prayer as our model we will share a bit of guidance exploring and clarifying our intention, joined with a bit of practice and reflection that leads to deeper intimacy with God, Universe, Spirit… gaining through letting go. Expect to come away from this practice feeling a sense of calm, clarity, creativity and heightened intuition.
Join Grant to reframe purposeful misfires as you surrender guilt and shame associated with not achieving a desired outcome and rewrite emotionally charged misfires as successes and taking purpose-aligned action.
Come practice with Aneesah, using N.A.I.L. Freedom, her dynamic self-reflection tool specifically crafted to help you step into the space between stimulus and response, where you always have enough freedom to do the next right thing. This four-step alignment process can help you unshackle yourself from irrational fears, step into the flow and flourish in all areas of your life.
In this session, let us explore the core ways in which each Enneagram type gets stuck specifically around achieving goals. Every personalty type has a history of coping with what gets in the way of feeling safe in this world. Those strategies started at an early age. As we grow and evolve, often we continue to deploy those old coping …
Join Lee Mason for a monthly facilitated practice group designed specifically for Enneagram 1’s, where we will support each other on the path of Serenity.
Join Kevin Snorf for a monthly facilitated practice group designed specifically for Enneagram 9’s, where we will support each other on the path of Action.
Join Kent Frazier for a monthly facilitated practice group, designed specifically for Enneagram 7’s, where we will support each other on the path of Temperance.
Join Lisa Frost as we go deeper with Living From a Place of Surrender, through both discussion and embodying the teaching with a specially designed practice. This series requires participants to come prepared to discuss the indicated “part” of the audio course by Michael Singer. This 8-part audio course can be found at www.audible.com, www.amazon.com or www.soundstrue.com.
The world premiere of Steve’s profound, inspirational new choral work, ‘Blue Pearl: A One World Oratorio’ will be at 7.30pm (BST) on May 14th, performed by the London Mozart Players and Excelsis & Vox Farnham Chamber Choirs conducted by Rob Lewis, at St Giles’ Cripplegate, London, and streamed live and on demand.
Join Jordan Luftig for a monthly facilitated practice group designed specifically for Enneagram 5’s, where we will support each other on the path of Non-attachment.
Join Lisa Frost as we go deeper with Living From a Place of Surrender, through both discussion and embodying the teaching with a specially designed practice. This series requires participants to come prepared to discuss the indicated “part” of the audio course by Michael Singer. This 8-part audio course can be found at www.audible.com (audiobook), www.amazon.com (cd), www.soundstrue.com (video).
For most of us, we cannot return to a traditional or fundamentalist religion as it were. We probably also cannot feel quite at home in a modernist, hyper-materialist, dry, post-religious space. Nor can we fully entertain a highly relativistic, postmodern world of “spiritual but not religious” where its own dynamics can often seem both fundamentalist and flat. So what could …
Join this session to remember and celebrate teachers who made a big impact on the Integral community. This week we will celebrate Dr. Don Edward Beck who popularized Spiral Dynamics. We will be joined by his colleagues and friends, Ben Levi, John Steiner, Margo King, Bert Parlee, Diane Williams, Deborah Moldow, Thomas Johns and more. Please feel free to bring …
Join Lisa for a special session on celebrating fathers and fatherhood.
“Integral Semiotics offers a comprehensive map or framework of most of the known worldspaces available to humans, and thus offers a Map that allows us to understand the Kosmic Address of a particular referent, and hence know where to look for any referent indicated by a signifier. Since most of these worldspaces do not possess simple location or material form, …
Join Nomali to learn how to spot and work with polarities in your personal and professional lives, relationships and the hyper-polarized world around around us nationally and globally. Through small experiments, discussion, and small groups, let’s explore this beautiful practice that builds complexity-resilience and synthesis of interdependent and competing values.
Whether it is the individual and collective, the inner and outer, east and west or evolution and involution, Integralists love to integrate! That’s why at this session we will look into two age-old views that come from eastern philosophical thought: the Vedantic concept of Self and the Buddhist concept of Non-self. In the meantime, how do you experience your own …
Join Jordan for a learning/discussion group where we will organically explore financial literacy and the psychology of money and investing in the digital-crypto age, through the lens of the four quadrants.
Come together and discover how the views of various philosophers from the past invite us to deepen our integral understanding. No prior knowledge required.
One of the most profound gifts we could ever receive is to be truly heard, seen and known. In this session our primary wish would be to co-create connection and wisdom through deep listening, sincere curiosity, active exchange and compassionate presence. At each Listening Lab, we will also try to create a safe and brave space for one or more participants to be the recipient of loving support through the community of attendees.
This session will be one of deep practice within a closed container where video is required to be on at all times. Join up to 10 minutes in advance as the zoom room will be locked for later comers precisely 5 minutes after the start time of 12pm ET. This session is only for members …
Quadrants, levels, lines, types and states…oh my.
Understanding them is one thing – in Integral Coaching we call this “looking at.” Embodying them or “looking as” is something else entirely. Join Lisa for a journey through the Integral Map where we’ll dive into a different element each month and you’ll come away with ways to deepen your inquiry and embodiment between sessions.
For our inaugural session, we’ll dive into the upper left and upper right “individual” quadrants and explore what the view looks like from the outside and from the inside.
Join Lisa to uncover how and where you’ve given up your power, the consequences of that, and how to begin reclaiming it.
Join this ongoing study group to participate in the brilliant work of John Vervaeke, professor of cognitive science and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto. He offers a deep context to what we might experience as a meaning crisis — the endless difficulty of finding deep connection and the complex conundrum of sense-making–or what Ken Wilber called, “a world gone slightly mad” in his book The Eye of Spirit.
It’s time to step up to a higher level of personal responsibility. It’s time to unfurl your wings so you can soar. And this begins with remembering who you really are and dropping the story of victimhood and limitation you’ve been carrying around for so long.
Join Lisa for a powerful remembering of who you truly and how to show up for you.
Join Lee to turn the timeless and formless into embodied presence through practical exercises.
PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME OF 11:30am PT – On the other side of complex gender discussions (biological male/female, non-binary and LGBTQQIP2SAA or 2SLGBTQQIPAA in Canada) is yet another topic of relational essence regardless of gender identity. That is the world of masculine and feminine energies and expressions in all of us beyond gender. No matter who we are in these times of deep polarization, perhaps we can all agree on two things: we all die and we are all sexual beings! So while we are alive, why not wake up, grow up, clean and show up through some of these powerful energies?
We just subjected the world’s most advanced AI to the world’s most sophisticated test for human maturity. We call it the Maturing Test. Could the results transform our world?
Join Lisa for a powerful group transformative session of profoundly opening your heart to life and love right now.
Let”s get together to hear from each other! Bring your holiday gifts of anything you’d like to share. Poetry, prayers, a song, art, brief teachings or just your heart and presence to listen and be with us. Let’s also explore a little bit about what we might envision for 2023. Meet Your Practice Leader Nomali Perera, MA, PCC, has been …
Join Lisa to learn how to access higher emotional states authentically so you can experience a happier, more joyful way of being.
Integral Church invites you into the power of sacred dialogue. In dialogue, one listens to the other side(s) in order to understand, find meaning, and find agreement. In debate, one listens to the other side in order to find flaws and to counter its arguments. Dialogue enlarges and possibly changes a participant’s point of view, whereas debate affirms a participant’s own point of view.
Whether you are suffering from substance abuse issues or not, we all have issues in our lives that cause us pain and can hold us back from being the people we were meant to be, if we do not process them with great care and skillfulness. Integral Life Practice, or Integral Recovery Practice, is the vehicle that allows us to travel the territory and universe that the AQAL map reveals.
Click here to join the live zoom session In the Daily Evolver series, host Jeff Salzman explores the pressing news stories of the day, lending some much-needed perspective to the people, events, and ideas that shape the world around us, offering a regular touchpoint for one of the most important practices of all: the practice of staying informed. Every Wednesday …
Enter the forgiveness field: a collective space where we can bring our grudges, gripes, grievances and resentments into the open air, and let them go, using the seven-step Forgiveness Made Easy process. Join Barbara Hunt for a guided visualisation process to release your resentments in the “privacy” of your own space, whilst also being part of the collective “forgiveness field”.
Click here to join the live zoom session In the Daily Evolver series, host Jeff Salzman explores the pressing news stories of the day, lending some much-needed perspective to the people, events, and ideas that shape the world around us, offering a regular touchpoint for one of the most important practices of all: the practice of staying informed. Every Wednesday …
The enneagram is a powerful tool for enhancing our own psychological and spiritual development. Whether you’re brand new to it OR a seasoned veteran with enneagram work, this new format invites all enneagram types (1-9) to come learn, explore, and practice. This introductory session will get us oriented as to what is to come as well as get us practicing with this typology methodology.
Explore the nature of a variety of topics from an Integral perspective.
Join Lisa Frost and Kevin Snorf in a monthly series that will explore how to bring more depth and artistry to our Integral Life Practice — the very best and most effective practices to help you Wake Up, Grow Up, Clean Up, and Show Up in your life, your relationships, and your work in the world.
This series will feature relevant topics on practice, rich discussions with practice leaders around the world, as well as live Q&A’s with our audience. These aren’t your typical conversations about Integral maps — they’re about living in the integral territory.
Join Lee Mason for a deeper dive into Philosophies and philosophers that inform integral thinking.
As a special gift to Integral Life Members, you are invited to attend Discover Your Deepest Yes – a 2-Day Online Retreat designed to help you get clear about what it is you really want for 2023 and intentionally create it. Let this be the year where you finally focus on what would make your heart sing – whether that means expressing your purpose, intimately connecting to others, going on adventures, or pursuing a passion like you never have before.
Every month we take a close look at some of the most challenging social and cultural fault lines of our time, as well as the developmental skills we need in order to heal these shared wounds and begin to close the gaps between us. Hosted by Mark Fischler and Corey deVos. Join us on Saturday, July 30 for a lively …
This meeting is an online roundtable discussion, hosted by Josh Leonard, to launch the Integral Social Sector initiative, which is exploring how Integral Metatheory could help the social sector more effectively address the complex 21st century challenges we face as a society. The Integral Social Sector Initiative is designed to draw together leaders in the integral and social impact fields …
This session has been cancelled. Stay tuned for the rescheduled session. Click here to join the live zoom session In Zen Buddhism, the word kensho describes a sudden glimpse or insight into the nature of reality. At Integral Life, the “Ken Show” intends to offer you a very similar opportunity. The Ken Show is a monthly series with Ken Wilber, …
Welcome to the Integral Women’s Group where we actively create a culture of sisterhood based on mutual compassion and respect, that holds each to greater levels of growth, personal accountability and challenge to take increasingly wider perspectives.
Join this session to meet Bence Ganti, the leading convener and visionary behind the Integral European Conferences since 2014. Many of us are inspired to spread the integral vision. Are we doing it locally or globally? If we are thinking globally what does it really mean? Are we spreading our offerings internationally, or are we also creating forums for the global integral movement to be connected and to meet and interact with each other? If so, what are the skills we need to have, and what are the pitfalls that we should avoid?
Jean Gebser (1905-1973) was a Swiss poet, integral philosopher and phenomenologist of consciousness. His magisterial work, The Ever-Present Origin (1949) has made significant contributions to both Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and the field of Integral Studies at large. Gebser describes — in vivid detail — the unfoldment of human consciousness across the span of history: from our origins in the archaic to the magic, mythic, and mental, and still further onto our collective integral futures. The great breadth and depth of his knowledge of art and culture, shared through the unique prose of a man who was both a poet and a contemplative, allows for a truly radiant vision of human consciousness that shines through and past concepts of linearity and hierarchy.
Led by Stefan Schultz, writer for Der Spiegel, this salon hopes to sustain a more healthy and integrative discourse where writers and journalists can explore a more trustworthy, transformative, and socially efficacious approach to truth-telling.
Developmental stages (in the non-tangible subjective and intersubjective domains) have often been viewed as a contentious issue for many…as they probably should be. It is also interesting to ponder on whether that contention or suspicion itself is “developmentally” arising – for better or worse. Daniel will help us soften some of the harder edges around this topic of developmental stages while also, perhaps, helping us firm-up some of the sloppier, loose-ends. Daniel Görtz, PhD is a political philosopher, sociologist and author. He is a leader of “the Nordic school” of metamodernism. Along with Emil Ejner Friis, Daniel has a major influence on the works written by Hanzi Freinacht (The Listening Society, Nordic Ideology).
Note: We are using a new streaming platform called RiverSide, which requires you to open the link above in either Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Or you can download the Riverside app on your mobile device. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the rich terrain of the integral mind. Includes an open Q&A with anyone who would like to join …
We know that the vast majority of climate change to date has been caused by humans, and the impacts are increasing worldwide. But, what do we do now? What can we do as individuals? And how might we work generatively with the values clashes and culture wars that surround this issue. In this group session, we will sit with the tensions of climate change as an individual and collective challenge.
Join Ryan Nakade – mediator, goat lover, and hate-group whisperer – to explore meta-ideological politics (MIP), which offers a path out of toxic polarization. While there are many factors that contribute to America’s “great divide”, MIP examines the role of ideology as a primary driver in today’s culture wars, and how a “meta” approach to ideology can help us navigate such treacherous times.
¿De qué se trata todo esto? La gran mayoria de nosotros hemos sido formateados y formados prácticamente desde nuestro nacimiento para competir, exigir, luchar y tener la razón. Y así participamos en la vida, desde la limitada mirada de “esto está bien ó esto está mal”, ó esto es “mejor o peor”. Y esta forma polarizada es vista tan natural …
Note: We are using a new streaming platform called RiverSide, which requires you to open the link above in either Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Or you can download the Riverside app on your mobile device. Terri and Keith continue their discussion about personal development, focusing on some of the later stages of Terri’s developmental sequence. Expect lots of interesting …
Somatic Attachment Repair: An Integral Approach” is a series that explores the intersection of Integral Theory and somatic attachment repair. Through this series, you will learn how to integrate mind, body, and spirit in the healing process. The series will cover topics such as the role of the body in emotional healing, the integration of mindfulness practices, the use of somatic techniques, and the role of developmental stages in attachment repair.
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.
Friends, it is time to return to holding a good old fashioned book in our hands by taking a bit of a break from the endless YouTube videos, podcasts and streaming TV. Instead, let’s commit some time to engage in Ken Wilber’s Integral teachings, which are best absorbed as a psychoactive process of reading. And there is no better way to do this than by coming into community to study, inquire, learn together and generate collective wisdom.
Join Paul Smith and other community members for a beautiful gathering in exploring the meditative and contemplative prayer practice of Whole-Body Mystical Awakening and its basis in the Three Faces of God and Four Centers of Spiritual Knowing. This session will be led by Paul Smith, co-founder of the Integral Christian Network and author of Integral Christianity and Is Your God Big Enough? Close Enough? You Enough? Jesus and the Three Faces of God.
¿De qué se trata todo esto? La gran mayoria de nosotros hemos sido formateados y formados prácticamente desde nuestro nacimiento para competir, exigir, luchar y tener la razón. Y así participamos en la vida, desde la limitada mirada de “esto está bien ó esto está mal”, ó esto es “mejor o peor”. Y esta forma polarizada es vista tan natural …
Friends, it is time to return to holding a good old fashioned book in our hands by taking a bit of a break from the endless YouTube videos, podcasts and streaming TV. Instead, let’s commit some time to engage in Ken Wilber’s Integral teachings, which are best absorbed as a psychoactive process of reading. And there is no better way to do this than by coming into community to study, inquire, learn together and generate collective wisdom.
The world needs beings that can see the bigger picture, and beings that can take compassionate action, to help evolve culture as a whole. Fortunately, the pathway to cultivating Great Compassion and bringing its fruits into the world has been elucidated by the teachers that have come before us. Join Rev. Bu Nan Brown as we take a guided tour through the Embodied Heart Practices of Buddhism. In this field of practice we will explore the depth of somatic Heart practice, and integrate it into the fields of interconnection.
This group is run by women of Integral Life to gather, connect consciously and support each other around a specific topic, informal spontaneous open discussions, meditations, reflection questions or anything else that feels alive and meaningful. We welcome a generous serving of loving kindness, integral curiosity, your talents, laughter, tears and the potential of sisterhood. Don’t forget your tea or coffee!
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.
Integral theory gives us enormous insight into the issues of the day, such as Russia/Ukraine, the culture war, race, politics, the environment, poverty/development, art and spirituality. For over a decade with his popular podcast, The Daily Evolver, Jeff Salzman has sought to bring an integral sensibility to current events, pointing out the updraft of Emergence and how it animates our evolving world and selves. While evolution is beautiful, however, it is not pretty and life provides us (individually and collectively) with plenty of challenges. In these sessions, Jeff will offer commentary and invite questions from participants.
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.
This is a basic prophetic course that allows us to develop the skill of engaging in the prophetic as well as chronicling our journey in a journal. We will debrief what the prophetic is and ultimately, practice in the arts of the prophetic.
A monthly, 2-hour deep dive! 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!
Integral theory gives us enormous insight into the issues of the day, such as Russia/Ukraine, the culture war, race, politics, the environment, poverty/development, art and spirituality. For over a decade with his popular podcast, The Daily Evolver, Jeff Salzman has sought to bring an integral sensibility to current events, pointing out the updraft of Emergence and how it animates our evolving world and selves. While evolution is beautiful, however, it is not pretty and life provides us (individually and collectively) with plenty of challenges. In these sessions, Jeff will offer commentary and invite questions from participants.
