Seven core skills that you will develop during the seminar:

  1. Communication with people at different levels of development:

    Learn to perceive the level of complexity (for example, egocentric, sociocentric, and worldcentric) of students’ and educators’ development in areas such as perspective-taking, worldview, and morals and then skillfully shape your communication in order to assist their and your own flourishing and evolution. Transcend simpler perspectives and include them within more complex ones.

  2. Integral framing of challenges:

    Situate educational challenges within the deepest and widest framework available so that educational goals and problems can be better understood and addressed.

  3. Multi-perspective awareness:

    Learn to hold multiple perspectives — with their practical implications, warnings, and growth opportunities for yourself and others — when designing any learning environment, including parenting, teaching stances, curricula, and assessment strategies.

  4. Presentation of the integral approach:

    Increase your ability to teach the integral approach to others.

  5. Integral innovation:

    Envision and elicit the possible within yourself and others through integral framing and skillful means in educational contexts.

  6. Integral management of energy:

    Learn to center in stillness while taking action; work with your and others’ physical, emotional, and spiritual energies; and recognize and skillfully address your and others’ negative energies in educational settings.

  7. Integral self-reflection and personal practice:

    Learn ways to engage in integral self-reflection and mutually-enhancing training of body, mind, and spirit.

Six meta-concepts that you will understand:

You’ll learn about the essence of integral education in the seminar as we touch on these meta-concepts throughout the week.

 

  1. Shifting from an educational approach that is followed to a question-centered framework that can be customized allows educational initiatives to be tailored to the needs and learning potential of those being taught as well as to the learning environment in which they are enfolded.
  2. Many of the major approaches to education are partial in their response to complexity, yet are held within the integral framework, which shows how they fit together in a meaningful way.
  3. Using an integral framework allows specific educational activities to be understood in a clear and coherent way.
  4. Self-development plays as vital a role in enabling successful educational changes as professional development.
  5. Integral cross training of body, mind, and awareness accelerates learning and personal growth.
  6. By shifting from tasks being at the center of all activity to awareness holding center stage, the scope of educational components that can be taken in widens, as do the unused potentials that can be activated, and the kind of educational presence that is offered to the world.