Speakers
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Dr. Keith WittLicensed Psychologist, Teacher, AuthorDr. Keith Witt is a Licensed Psychologist, teacher, and author who has lived and worked in Santa Barbara, CA. for over forty years.
Dr. Witt is the founder of The School of Love at www.drkeithwitt.com where he offers his School of Love Lecture Series, blogs, e-copies of his five books, Therapist in the Wild webseries, and Integral Conversations audios and videos on health, love, relationship, sexuality, spirituality, development, and psychotherapy-related topics. He has give three TEDx talks, all available on his website.
In presentations around the country—including Integral Life’s What’s Next, Integral Theories Conferences, and his ongoing series, The Shrink and the Pundit with Jeff Salzman—Keith has explored love, intra and interpersonal relationships, and development from multiple perspectives, weaving neuroscience, Integral theory, wisdom traditions, and numerous forms of psychotherapy into a coherent cosmology of love and development.
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Corey deVosManaging Editor, Media ProducerCorey deVos is managing editor and media producer of Integral Life. He has worked for Integral Institute/Integal Life since Spring of 2003, and has been a student of integral theory and practice since 1996. Corey is also a professional woodworker, and many of his artworks can be found in his VisionLogix art gallery.
Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the cybernetics of love—how all living systems, from bodies to relationships to cultures, regulate themselves through feedback and adaptation. Drawing from Norbert Wiener’s original insights and W. Ross Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety (“only variety can absorb variety”), they show that power in any system doesn’t come from control, but from flexibility—the capacity to sense, respond, and evolve.
Seen through an Integral lens, cybernetics illuminates the Lower-Right dimension of life—the interobjective networks of communication and control—but it also resonates across all four quadrants: as self-awareness in the mind, co-regulation in relationships, self-regulation in the body, and adaptive intelligence in society. Keith and Corey unpack how warmth, flexibility, firmness, and resolve form the essential feedback architecture of thriving love and leadership, and how “post-issue relationships” become self-correcting systems oriented toward growth rather than drama.
Ultimately, the conversation reveals that love itself is a cybernetic force—the universe’s way of learning, healing, and maintaining coherence through ever-expanding loops of feedback and compassion.
Note: We are using a streaming platform called RiverSide which requires you to open the link in either Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Or you can download the Riverside app on your mobile device.
About Witt & Wisdom
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 the call, and recordings will be made available to supporting members of Integral Life. Just click the link above 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).