Integral Education
FROM CRADLE TO KOSMOS
Exploring the leading edge of educational theory and practice
August 1–6, 2008
Whidbey Institute on Whidbey Island
Washington State
Integral education stands out as one of the most pertinent and practical means of creating positive change in ourselves and the world.
This seminar will bring educators of all age groups together from around the globe, educators who are seeking the necessary vision, skills, and processes to fully serve students and the world that we inhabit.
Integral education is an emerging field, propelled by people who seek to push the envelope of what education can be. The seminar will provide a perfect environment to meet with colleagues and to network with a small but growing community that clearly understands that addressing a more complete spectrum of personal, cultural, and systemic realities at play in education is one of the most powerful ways to begin effecting the changes we hope to see in the world.
Some of the core questions we will be asking ourselves are
- How can education coherently address the whole human being, a being of body, mind, and spirit, immersed in cultural meaning making, social structures, and natural systems?
- How can we embody an integral perspective in all aspects of curriculum, teaching stances, activities, and assessment?
- In a universe unfolding into increasing consciousness and complexity, how can we work not only to develop current capacities, but also to create the conditions for the emergence of more complex perspectives in the future?
Featured presenters:
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Diane Musho Hamilton has been a practitioner of Buddhadharma for over 20 years and has a Masters Degree in Contemplative Psychology from Naropa University, in Boulder, Colorado. She is a Zen teacher, and one of Integral Institute’s most popular trainers. As a dharma successor of Genpo Merzel Roshi, she serves as a facilitator of Big Mind, a process designed by Genpo Roshi to bring the insights of Zen meditation to western audiences.
She is also a mediator, group facilitator, and trainer in conflict resolution. Diane worked as the initial Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994–1999, where she established the first mediation programs in the courts. She has extensive experience in facilitating large meetings, including public policy issues. Diane received the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award in 2001 and the Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar for outstanding work in Dispute Resolution in 2003. She was a founding member of the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Utah Dispute Resolution. Diane teaches mediation at the University of Utah Law School and Communications Institute.
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Susanne R. Cook-Greuter, Ed. D. is an internationally known authority on Mature Adult Development with a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard. She is a founding member of the Integral Institute and co-director of the Integral Psychology Center. She leads workshops throughout the world in ego development theory and its applications.
Susanne is the author of the SCTi-MAP, a professional Sentence Completion Test based on Loevinger's work and her own ongoing research since 1980. The SCTi-MAP is the most sophisticated and statistically rigorous assessment tool available for measuring a person's meaning making capacity. Unlike other development theories, the Leadership Maturity Framework, is empirically based and therefore evolving as new evidence warrants. As a seasoned practitioner, Susanne consults to various projects in rigorous research design (integrated qualitative and quantitative analyses) and in using developmental assessments in service of organizational health and adaptation efforts.
She is the principal of Cook-Greuter and Associates, LLC - consulting, research and coaching firm. Her group offers the SCTi-MAP tool to individuals, groups and organizations valuing an AQAL approach. They are dedicated to fostering professional excellence and ongoing learning through testing, action inquiry, self-reflection and coaching.
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Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Integral Studies Department and Program Director of two Master of Arts degrees (Integral Psychology and Integral Theory) at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. He is founder and Director of the Integral Research Center, which supports graduate and post-graduate mixed methods research. In addition, he is the founder and Executive Editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice.
Sean is a leading scholar-practitioner in Integral Studies. He is currently the most published author applying the Integral model to a variety of topics: education, sustainable development, ecology, research, intersubjectivity, science and religion, consciousness studies, and play. His articles have appeared in academic journals such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, World Futures, ReVision, and Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Sean co-edited Ken Wilber’s book The Simple Feeling of Being and has just completed writing a 600-page book with environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman: Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World. Currently, he is co-editing an anthology on Integral Education.
He is a practitioner within both Tibetan Buddhism (Shangpa Kagyu linage) and A. H. Almaas’ the Diamond Approach. Sean serves as an integral coach and consultant through his business Rhizome Designs.