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Featuring 100+ Integral Experts

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Making sense of everything with the world’s
most comprehensive philosophy

A hub of the global integral movement

Helping 25,000+ readers a month

Featuring 100+ Integral Experts

A hub of the global integral movement

Helping 25,000+ readers a month

Featuring 100+ Integral Experts

Recorded over 1000 hours of content

Publishing Academic Journal applied to 60+ disciplines

Producing 6 podcast series

Organising 20+ live experiences every month

Making sense of everything with the world’s
most comprehensive philosophy

Making sense of everything with the world’s
most comprehensive philosophy

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A Sociology of Big Pictures: Network Strategy for a 21st Century Worldview

A Sociology of Big Pictures: Network Strategy for a 21st Century Worldview

The Institute of Applied Metatheory (IAM) presents A Sociology of Big Pictures: Network Strategy for a 21st Century Worldview by Robb Smith, an in-depth exploration of how grand integrative frameworks...
The Turquoise Dialectic: Expand Your Cosmology Through Integral Dialogue

The Turquoise Dialectic: Expand Your Cosmology Through Integral Dialogue

Corey DeVos and Dr. Keith Witt explore the turquoise dialectic—a mode of deep, integrative conversation where perspectives evolve rather than compete—touching on themes of honesty, trust, intergenerational transmission, and the...
Evolving Love: The Secret Path to Awakening

Evolving Love: The Secret Path to Awakening

This conversation explores how love evolves alongside human development, revealing how our relationships reflect and shape our consciousness. Through personal stories, integral psychology, and esoteric wisdom, Kimberley Theresa Lafferty, Dr....
Transform Your Motivation System

Transform Your Motivation System

Why do so many high achievers feel like they’re never enough, no matter how much they accomplish? In this episode, Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the hidden meta-motivation...
IAM Spotlight: The Cultural Complexity Index

IAM Spotlight: The Cultural Complexity Index

Brendan Graham Dempsey introduces the Cultural Complexity Index (CCI), a groundbreaking initiative that empirically measures cognitive complexity in historical texts, revealing patterns in human meaning-making across time. By analyzing symbolic...
The Big Picture Mind: What Every Elite is Missing

The Big Picture Mind: What Every Elite is Missing

In this first episode of The Big Picture Mind, Robb Smith explores the rapid, self-reinforcing change that is driving a global metacrisis across governance, technology, culture, and meaning. To navigate...

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In-Person Meetup: Integral Colorado

It is time to have more in-person time together as an Integral community! These sessions will be opportunities for us to get to know each other through creating a community of support, connection and healthy challenge by engaging in both theory and practice. Depending on the day and who's available, we may also extend the gathering to tea or dinner ...

S’engager dans la théorie et la pratique intégrales

Venez rejoindre la communauté francophone pour un moment de partage et d’échange sur la théorie et les pratiques de Vie Intégrale à l’occasion de la sortie des nouvelles traductions des livres de Ken Wilber en français. Une rencontre qui s’appuie sur les principes de vie intégrale, permettant des échanges entre participants et un travail sur les pratiques en lien avec les chapitres des livres.

Event Series Uncertainment Lounge

Uncertainment Lounge: Embracing the Unknown

Uncertainment Lounge is not a relativistic refuge from truth-seeking or certainty, nor a panacea, or a therapy, but rather a practice space for embodied participatory knowing. Practicing together in/as the polarity of knowing and not-knowing builds capacity to turn toward the unknowable, the uncontrollable, and the mysterious as they emerge within and between us in real time.

Drawn Into Integral Presence: The Right Brain Path

Inspired by Betty Edwards, Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke, and Ken Wilber, this series invites us into a creative flow that cultivates integral presence--and creativity as the erotic pull of emergence itself. This isn't an art class. It is an exploration of intuitive, embodied awareness—essential in times of digital overload, social complexity and every intellectual going on and on about everything that's "meta!" While the left hemisphere's analytical mind is well understood--especially in the Integral community--this journey explores the spacious, meditative realm of the right hemisphere. We’ll keep aside the maps (as much as we can and without denying their value), and venture more into direct presence, play, and the simple feeling of Being—the Territory itself.

The Big Picture Mind: Unpacking a Sociology of Big Pictures

Click here to join the live session Note: We are using a 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. The first ever series by Integral Life and Institute of Applied Metatheory founder Robb Smith, the BPM aims ...

Event Series Exploring The Embodiment of Turquoise

Exploring The Embodiment of Turquoise

Join us for a practical, community oriented journey exploring the genuine embodiment of Turquoise in our daily living. What does it really mean to embody such views? Together we’ll take the map provided by the philosophical giants of our time and prior, and look to the territory itself. No matter your cosmic location in this very moment, we all have the capacity to see and share insights together on our unfolding wisdom, growing and evolving together toward the later stages of evolution. Come, join us!

The View From Somewhere: A Conversational Introduction To Integrative Meta-Studies

This series of conversations between Mark Edwards, Bruce Alderman and audience participants will provide an introduction to the field of planetary meta-studies. Planetary meta-studies is a big picture field of social inquiry, a kind of Earth-system social science, that critically engages with and draws on integrative models and metatheoretical perspectives to study the Earth system in all its majesty, mystery and complexity. In particular, the series will consider the global metacrisis and will offer some avenues for working with the personal and societal challenges that the metacrisis presents. Click to learn more.

Being and Becoming: A Meditation Inquiry & Practice

Join the live Zoom session Being and Becoming starts with a desire to understand two significant, ever-expanding possibilities: becoming present to experience and evolving experience. It will explore this territory through meditation practice and an inquiry into the nature of that practice. Each session will include two guided meditations and time for discussion and sharing. Its primary focus is on ...

Integral Edge: Trump and the American Shadow

Click here to join the live session Note: We are using a 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. Donald Trump is a force of nature. To his supporters, he is a bold, uncompromising leader—one of the ...

Event Series Integral Saging – Opening Session

Integral Saging: Developing Personal & Collective Wisdom

In this Integral Life members' forum we begin each session with an objective topic & move into an internal, 1st person exploration to develop greater insights into our inner wisdom. Through meditation, guided reflection and personal sharing as a group, as well as in smaller breakouts, we explore our unique personal experiences that help us embody the Sage within each of us. We apply an Integral lens to investigate how wisdom evolves across our lifespan both individually and collectively.

Meeting The Shadow In Relationships, Aging & Spirituality

Dr. Connie Zweig, known as the Shadow Expert, will lead a transformative 3-part series that applies shadow-work to key arenas of life: relationships, aging, and religion/spirituality. Working with the shadow as a regular practice is an essential part of living an integral life, fostering deeper self-awareness, emotional resilience, and spiritual maturity. Bring your curiosity, an open heart, and an open mind to this enriching series designed to illuminate your path toward wholeness and integration.

S’engager dans la théorie et la pratique intégrales

Venez rejoindre la communauté francophone pour un moment de partage et d’échange sur la théorie et les pratiques de Vie Intégrale à l’occasion de la sortie des nouvelles traductions des livres de Ken Wilber en français. Une rencontre qui s’appuie sur les principes de vie intégrale, permettant des échanges entre participants et un travail sur les pratiques en lien avec les chapitres des livres.

Integral Sensemaking for Global & National Events

Sensemaking is how we interpret and give meaning to shared experiences, especially critical in today's complex media landscape shaped by social media and disinformation. The rise of sensationalized, polarized content has strained the socio-cultural fabric, both in the U.S. and globally. This event will explore frameworks for understanding current events through an integral lens, focusing on how individuals and groups can navigate political and economic issues and make rational, prosocial decisions. Facilitators Brandon Nørgaard and Marty Behrens will present key insights, followed by a participatory session for reflections, questions, and collective sensemaking.

Event Series Exploring The Embodiment of Turquoise

Exploring The Embodiment of Turquoise

Join us for a practical, community oriented journey exploring the genuine embodiment of Turquoise in our daily living. What does it really mean to embody such views? Together we’ll take the map provided by the philosophical giants of our time and prior, and look to the territory itself. No matter your cosmic location in this very moment, we all have the capacity to see and share insights together on our unfolding wisdom, growing and evolving together toward the later stages of evolution. Come, join us!

Drawn Into Integral Presence: The Right Brain Path

Inspired by Betty Edwards, Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke, and Ken Wilber, this series invites us into a creative flow that cultivates integral presence--and creativity as the erotic pull of emergence itself. This isn't an art class. It is an exploration of intuitive, embodied awareness—essential in times of digital overload, social complexity and every intellectual going on and on about everything that's "meta!" While the left hemisphere's analytical mind is well understood--especially in the Integral community--this journey explores the spacious, meditative realm of the right hemisphere. We’ll keep aside the maps (as much as we can and without denying their value), and venture more into direct presence, play, and the simple feeling of Being—the Territory itself.

Healing Trauma and Deepening Spirituality

Welcome to a monthly series that focuses on trauma and healing through its relationship to transcendent spirituality. Sessions will include silent meditation, journaling, peer-to-peer support, and ample time for questions and answers. Although these sessions will focus on important psychological and spiritual issues, and will allow for personal sharing, the sessions themselves are not intended as a form of psychotherapy and does not substitute for the importance of individual trauma therapy with a qualified professional.

Experiencias De Consciencia Integral

Imagina que tres personas ciegas encuentran un elefante y tocan distintas partes de su cuerpo. Uno recorre con sus manos la trompa, otro la cola y el tercero el torso. Si después tuvieras la oportunidad de pedirles a cada uno que describiera lo que es un elefante, ¿crees que sus descripciones se parecerían? Cada uno hablaría desde lo que conoce y es capaz de percibir, ya que no tienen forma de saber que todas son partes de una misma cosa. Usualmente así nos movemos por el mundo, partiendo de descripciones que solo tienen que ver con nuestra única perspectiva.

In-Person Meetup: Integral Colorado

It is time to have more in-person time together as an Integral community! These sessions will be opportunities for us to get to know each other through creating a community of support, connection and healthy challenge by engaging in both theory and practice. Depending on the day and who's available, we may also extend the gathering to tea or dinner ...

Integral Jewish Meditation (FREE): Iyun Ayin, “Immersion Is Spaciousness”

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.

Event Series Integral Saging – Opening Session

Integral Saging: Developing Personal & Collective Wisdom

In this Integral Life members' forum we begin each session with an objective topic & move into an internal, 1st person exploration to develop greater insights into our inner wisdom. Through meditation, guided reflection and personal sharing as a group, as well as in smaller breakouts, we explore our unique personal experiences that help us embody the Sage within each of us. We apply an Integral lens to investigate how wisdom evolves across our lifespan both individually and collectively.

Meeting The Shadow In Relationships, Aging & Spirituality

Dr. Connie Zweig, known as the Shadow Expert, will lead a transformative 3-part series that applies shadow-work to key arenas of life: relationships, aging, and religion/spirituality. Working with the shadow as a regular practice is an essential part of living an integral life, fostering deeper self-awareness, emotional resilience, and spiritual maturity. Bring your curiosity, an open heart, and an open mind to this enriching series designed to illuminate your path toward wholeness and integration.

Being and Becoming: A Meditation Inquiry & Practice

Join the live Zoom session Being and Becoming starts with a desire to understand two significant, ever-expanding possibilities: becoming present to experience and evolving experience. It will explore this territory through meditation practice and an inquiry into the nature of that practice. Each session will include two guided meditations and time for discussion and sharing. Its primary focus is on ...

Imagining the Future of Religion: 3-Part Series

Joran Slane Oppelt (visual consultant and author of Integral Church) leads a three-week series on spiritual innovation. Participants will explore themes from his latest book, Spiritual Edge, including the qualities and criteria of meaningful communities, the practices and languages of new spiritual movements, and how innovative religious (and non-religious) communities are thriving in the wild.

S’engager dans la théorie et la pratique intégrales

Venez rejoindre la communauté francophone pour un moment de partage et d’échange sur la théorie et les pratiques de Vie Intégrale à l’occasion de la sortie des nouvelles traductions des livres de Ken Wilber en français. Une rencontre qui s’appuie sur les principes de vie intégrale, permettant des échanges entre participants et un travail sur les pratiques en lien avec les chapitres des livres.

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Journal of Integral Theory & Practice

How to Connect with Your Students: An Integral Approach to Higher Education

How to Connect with Your Students: An Integral Approach to Higher Education

This article explores why focusing on the subject matter alone in the student/teacher relationship is a restrictive and non-comprehensive approach to higher education. Such a narrowly focused relationship seems to impede the overall health and development of both the teacher and student. The process of avoiding so much of our lives “to teach” leaves many dissatisfied and thirsting for something deeper and more whole.
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Integral Diversity Maturity: Toward a Postconventional Understanding of Diversity Dynamics

Integral Diversity Maturity: Toward a Postconventional Understanding of Diversity Dynamics

This article outlines the authors’ ongoing study of diversity, focusing particularly on the AQAL model as a linchpin in an evolving theory of “diversity maturity.” Recognizing the limitations of non-integral approaches to understanding and negotiating diversity dynamics, the authors explain how an integral perspectives come to inform their postconventional understanding. The authors share their preliminary theory of the diversity maturity process in which the integral vision/theory that unites diversity, complexity, and creativity is the dynamic relationship among and between quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types. The article concludes with an agenda for further theoretical and empirical inquiry.
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What Feels Right: An Embodied Perspective on the Ethical Line of Development

What Feels Right: An Embodied Perspective on the Ethical Line of Development

This article examines ethical frameworks across levels of human development and via the quadrants of the AQAL model. The ethical line is examined as it progresses through stages of development, paying special attention to the role of the felt sense in the determination of right action. The role of unconscious forces, particularly the felt sense of disgust, is examined as the basis of moral intuition. Integral Ethics includes the ethical framework of the previous stages and an examination of personal motivation for right action. By inquiring into the unconscious drives that move us, we may begin to recognize the cultural...
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Developmental Engagement Field Theory

Developmental Engagement Field Theory

This article explores how social engagement is central to human functioning and development, and how it potentially provides agentic access to intersubjective and interobjective energy fields. An integrally informed developmental engagement field theory is described, with practical suggestions for applying it to living, parenting, and psychotherapy. The article concludes with a lifespan case study that embodies the presented research.
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An Integral Taxonomy of Therapeutic Interventions

An Integral Taxonomy of Therapeutic Interventions

Given that therapists are confronted with literally hundreds of techniques or interventions to potentially utilize in their clinical practice — and a growing chasm separating research and practice — how do therapists dispel the confusion that so many of us feel as we confront this fragmented heap of techniques? In short, how do therapists decide which interventions to use with a given client?
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Toward an Integral Cinema: The Application of Integral Theory to Cinematic Media Theory and Practice

Toward an Integral Cinema: The Application of Integral Theory to Cinematic Media Theory and Practice

Defining characteristics of what may constitute an integral cinematic work are mapped out and developed into a set of evaluation criteria using the works of Dulac, Gebser, and Wilber. A test of these evaluation criteria with the viewing of several motion pictures is summarized; the results suggest that several past and recent films demonstrate qualities that could be said to constitute an integral cinematic work.
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Sentio Ergo Sum: The Emotional Line of Development

Sentio Ergo Sum: The Emotional Line of Development

Integral Theory is described as a “nondual” developmental paradigm, where ontology and epistemology are paired constructively, and in which developing consciousness is sourced by thought, feeling, and states of consciousness. Emotional and cognitive development intertwine within ego development, and ego is defined by its coordinating and self-identifying functions. Following a review of the literature on emotions and emotional development, criteria are proposed for preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional levels of emotional development.
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The Ken Show with Ken Wilber and Corey deVos

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, broadcast live on the second Saturday of every month.

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Integrating Shadow

Integrating Shadow

Ken and Corey offer a stunning overview of the psychological shadow. Ken describes several different kinds of shadow, how shadow can show up differently in all four quadrants, and the relationship between shadow, violence, and social transformation.
The Four Quadrants: A Guided Tour

The Four Quadrants: A Guided Tour

Ken and Corey take a in-depth tour through one of Ken’s most well-known contributions to integral philosophy: the Four Quadrants. Watch as Ken shares his personal story about the origins of the Four Quadrant model — the day everything came together — as he weaves 3rd-person theoretical descriptions of the model with his own 1st-person experience and creative process.
The Many Ways We Grow

The Many Ways We Grow

Human development is uneven, which means that we are better at some things than we are at others. Some skills come more naturally to us, and others are more difficult to acquire. Watch as Ken and Corey explore each of these developmental capacities in detail, offering a powerful summary of human potentials, talents, and intelligences — a comprehensive map of...
On the Front Line of the Culture War — Give Me Some Real Examples, Not Just Theories!

On the Front Line of the Culture War — Give Me Some Real Examples, Not Just Theories!

Watch as Ken and Corey offer their views on some of the most controversial policy debates of our time, each of which has become a battle line in our constantly escalating culture wars.
The Baby and the Bathwater: Saving Liberalism

The Baby and the Bathwater: Saving Liberalism

In this episode of The Ken Show we explore five themes near and dear to the liberal heart — tolerance, nonviolence, power, privilege, and gender — celebrating the healthy aspects of each that we want to include in a more integral embrace, while weeding out the unhealthy regressive narratives that most of these have devolved into.
How to Think Integrally

How to Think Integrally

Ken and Corey explore some of the major qualities of integral thinking at the “vision logic” or “construct aware” stages of development.

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Integral Justice Warrior with Mark Fischler and Corey deVos

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.

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Who Is Ken Wilber?

Often referred to as the "Einstein of consciousness studies", Ken Wilber is a preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the originator of the world's first truly comprehensive or integrative philosophy, aptly named “Integral Theory” — something that is becoming increasingly necessary in order to navigate and thrive in today’s world.

“I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.” – Ken Wilber

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Trump and a Post-Truth World

Trump and a Post-Truth World

The election of Donald Trump is an evolutionary self-correction that has been decades in the making, a backlash against the failure of the leading edge of consciousness–postmodernism and pluralism–to acknowledge the lie underlying the progress they’ve pursued: it’s not equal, it’s not consistent and it doesn't make room for everyone. But a new integral force is emerging that can move...
8 Simple Lifestyle Tips to Improve Your Health and Happiness

8 Simple Lifestyle Tips to Improve Your Health and Happiness

Roger and Ken discuss the eight most important things you can do to transform your daily lifestyle, all of which will make a tremendous and immediate difference in your life, your relationships, and your ongoing sense of well-being.
Honesty, Humility, and Reality Distortion Fields

Honesty, Humility, and Reality Distortion Fields

Dr. Keith and Corey discuss “the H Factor” — a variation of the Big 5 personality typology that adds a critical sixth trait, honesty and humility. Watch as we take a deep dive into the psychological benefits of honest self-reporting, a healthy epistemic humility, and the sorts of “reality distortion fields” that seem to emanate from certain personalities.
We’re Hoping AIs Will Answer Our Deepest Spiritual Question. They Can’t.

We’re Hoping AIs Will Answer Our Deepest Spiritual Question. They Can’t.

If we can create an AI that seems fully conscious, what does it mean for our place in the universe? Are we really conscious? If we can basically replicate consciousness, how special can life be? How special can our own lives be?
13 Koans (And Their Answers) to Awaken Your Deepest Heart and Mind

13 Koans (And Their Answers) to Awaken Your Deepest Heart and Mind

Jun Po Kelly Roshi and Ken Wilber explore the 13 koans of Mondo Zen — and then give you the answers to each one of them!
The Fountain and the Cure for Altitude Sickness

The Fountain and the Cure for Altitude Sickness

How Change Works: Supporting Vertical Development

How Change Works: Supporting Vertical Development

Dr. Keith and Corey explore some critical strategies to help support ongoing growth to increasing wholeness in ourselves and in other people: finding a psycho-spiritual framework to help organize our knowledge, experiences, and practices (e.g. Integral metatheory), engaging in change work (psychotherapy, coaching, consulting, etc.), and seeking communities of people who we recognize as more developed than ourselves.
Reclaiming Your Power While Struggling With Chronic Illness

Reclaiming Your Power While Struggling With Chronic Illness

Lynn Fuentes offers a brief teaching about how to reclaim your power while struggling with the sense of disempowerment that often accompanies various kinds of chronic illness, whether you are dealing with your personal health issues or those of a loved one.



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