Abigail Lynam, M.S., has devoted the last twelve years to teaching in the field of environmental studies and transformative adult education. She is faculty for Lesley University’s Ecological Teaching and Learning Master’s program, designed for teachers in public, private and non-profit settings. Abigail also taught for the Audubon Expedition Institute and UMASS’s Integral Sustainability in India program for many years.
Abigail brings an integral framework to these programs, in particular incorporating research on human development, including curriculum to support the inclusion and development of interiors, and applying the latest research in integral ecology.
Having taught in the field of environmental education for many years, she is passionate about extending and deepening the way we teach about the natural world and nature/human relations. She works to include both the interior and exterior world of students, teachers and the subject of study, to transform the stories we tell about our human/nature relations, and to deepen our capacities to recognize and communicate across cultural and value differences. She is also one of the directors of Next Step Integral and a graduate of Pacific Integral’s Generating Transformative Change leadership development program.
Claire Andrea Zammit, Ph.D. , is a specialist in personal and social transformation with a gift and passion for designing and delivering content that gives participants access to life-changing paradigm shifts. For over fifteen years, Claire has worked with thousands of individuals, groups, and organizations as a transformative designer and facilitator. Her work emphasizes the relationship between personal and social transformation and the importance of creating learning communities to ensure that insights and intentions result in lasting change. Claire is currently completing her doctoral research in the field of Transformative Learning and Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She also holds a Masters degree in Social Ecology and a B.A. in Film and Television. In addition to her formal education, she has trained with a wide variety of teachers from all corners of the globe in applied psychology, spirituality and holistic healing. She is co-author of the forthcoming book, The New Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life as well as co-creator of the leading edge New Feminine Power workshops for women.
Craig Hamilton , is a pioneer in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. In his writings, talks, and teachings, he calls us to awaken beyond the confines of the separate ego and dedicate our lives to the further evolution of consciousness itself.
In his current work, Craig integrates decades of intensive spiritual practice with insights gleaned during his eight years as Senior Editor of the award-winning What Is Enlightenment? magazine. Through his writings and teachings, he is helping to articulate an authentic “evolutionary mysticism” which illuminates the vital relationship between individual transformation and collective evolution. He outlines the principles and practices of this new, evolutionary spiritual path in his forthcoming books, The Future of God and Integral Enlightenment.
Craig is a founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, and a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, a 35-person interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A master of the art of spiritual dialogue, his celebrated conversations with other luminaries are regularly heard by New Dimensions Radio’s seven million listeners. A frequent contributor to Shift magazine and co-author of IONS’ 2008 Shift Report, he is also co-writer and story editor of the forthcoming documentary film The SHIFT.
Craig lives and teaches in Berkeley, California, where he offers instruction and guidance in meditation and other aspects of evolutionary spiritual practice.
For more info on Craig's work go to: craighamilton.us.
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. She is a core founder of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and a co-director of Integral Life Spiritual Center. Diane is a fully ordained Zen priest and teacher. She has studied Buddhism since 1984, and was given dharma transmission by her Zen master, Genpo Roshi, in 2006. 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. She is also well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations.
Gail Hochachka, BSc., MA. has more than a decade of experience applying an integral approach to sustainable development globally. She works with the Canadian NGOs Drishti-Centre for Integral Action and One Sky where she is involved in projects in Peru, Nigeria and El Salvador. The purposes of these projects are varied, giving her direct experience of the many ways an integral approach serves in practice in communities and ecosystems across the world. In Peru, the focus is on integral capacity development for increased effectiveness in Amazon rainforest conservation. In El Salvador the focus is on climate change adaptation in vulnerable regions. And, in Nigeria, the focus is on leadership development for sustainability in what is considered a ‘bottom billion’ country. As Adjunct Faculty at JFK University, she teaches graduate students in the MA in Integral Theory program and leads a bi-annual Integral Field Course to the global south. She is involved with Integral Institute in various capacities, such as a co-director of the Integral Without Borders. She has authored articles in academic journals, such as in Ecological Applications, World Futures Journal and the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, and has written a book entitled, Developing Sustainability, Developing the Self. An Integral Approach to International and Community Development.
Geoff Fitch founder, faculty, consultant and coach at Pacific Integral, where he helps create and teach GTC, their transformative leadership certificate program, and leads organizational change efforts for organizational clients. Prior to PI, worked for 18 years in the high-tech industry, in product development, brand management, and strategy. For over thirty years, an avid student of business, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality. Geoff is also a passionately engaged parent of two teenaged boys. You can read more about Geoff’s work here >>>
Gil Friend, M.S. is founder, president and CEO of Natural Logic, Inc. >>> He is a systems ecologist and business strategist with 30 years experience in business development and environmental innovation. Tomorrow Magazine called him “one of the country’s leading environmental management consultants, a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how.” Gil has founded and managed companies in the fields of sustainable development, and social marketing, and has developed management strategies and business, operating and marketing plans for large and small companies in many industries. He played key or founding roles in such seminal environmental enterprises as the California Office of Appropriate Technology, Turner Broadcasting’s Planet Live, University of California’s AgroEcology Program, and Buckminster Fuller’s World Game. Gil was co-founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation’s leading urban ecology and economic development “think and-do tanks.” He holds an M.S. in Systems Ecology from Antioch University, a black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned presenter of The Natural Step environmental management system. Gil has lectured on business strategy and environmental policy worldwide, including at the World Bank, Sierra Business Council, Nike Training Center and Environment Canada (Canada’s EPA).
John Gruber, M.S., holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and a graduate degree in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy. As an undergraduate faculty scholar at Brown University he worked to integrate studies in biology, geology and environmental science, and received the C.F. Ma Research Fellowship for Natural Products research as a graduate student. In 2001, he was a Teacher Recognition Awardee in the United States Presidential Scholars Program. As a science teacher and long-time student of evolutionary biology and natural history he is particularly interested in ways to apply integral thinking to the secondary school classroom. Having taught a botany seminar for twelve years, John uses that particular class as an experimental ground, a place to explore the application of integral approaches to teaching with a group of willing and interested students. He emphasizes field-work, experimental observation, and direct perception alongside conceptualization in his science courses, and continues to develop ways to build interior and exterior experiences into his science teaching.
In addition to his work and research as an educator and administrator, he is involved in an active research program in insect ecology and systematic biology of moth species.
John is one of the directors of Next Step Integral, and currently he also serves as Chairman of the Upper School Science Department and the Director of the Summer Science Institute at Friends’ Central School, an independent Quaker day school where he has taught for sixteen years.
Jonathan Reams, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor in the Department of Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He teaches organizational counseling, coaching and leadership, and is pursuing research in the areas of leadership, dialogue and the evolution of consciousness. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Integral Review, a Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis.
A passion for understanding human nature has guided much of his experience, eventually leading to a doctorate in Leadership Studies, with a dissertation on The Consciousness of Transpersonal Leadership.
His consulting work has focused on developing leadership capacities for a wide range of clients. This has included developing and delivering curriculum, consulting, coaching, facilitation, research, writing, and teaching. In addition to this work, he has presented at a number of international conferences on topics such as leadership, consciousness, transformative learning, spirituality, and science and religion dialogue.
Miriam Mason Martineau, M.A. Miriam’s formal training lies in the areas of psychology, dance, choreography, and voice. She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Zurich, with a specialization in Youth and Child Psychology, and is also a certified teacher of Laban Modern Dance, as well as a singer and vocal instructor.
Miriam works in private practice as an integral therapeutic counselor for adults, couples, youth and children. She is vice-president of Next Step Integral, an organization that applies integral consciousness to parenting, education, ecology, and community. For the last 15 years she has studied and researched how parenting can be pursued as a spiritual practice. This has led her to offering courses on the topic, working as a coach for parents, and writing a book (forthcoming) titled Integral Parenting. She also leads workshops on authentic voice and movement, and has performed both as a soloist and in a variety of choirs such as the Swiss National Television Choir. From 1992-2002 Miriam lived in an integrally-informed intentional community and there honed the skills of group facilitation, conflict resolution and generative dialogue.
Nancy Davis, Ph.D. in Science Education, M.S. in Physical Science Education and B.A. in Secondary Chemistry Education. Nancy infuses an integral perspective into her teaching, research and service as a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Her courses in teaching and learning science, curriculum design in science, and research in science education, as well as numerous professional presentations, published articles and directed dissertation studies, use Integral Theory as a framework. Her research focuses on the person of the teacher and how reflection in the forms of autobiography, action research and autoethnography can assist individuals to act in ways that are more consistent with their intentions. In her own reflections on teaching with integrity she has especially focused on the impact of assessment on curriculum. Currently she is working on a book on teaching methods informed by Integral Theory. She is co-founder of the Integral Education Center of Integral Institute.
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.
Stephan Martineau is the founder and President of Next Step Integral and an integral consultant for not-for-profit organizations, and has worked in watershed management, ecosystem-based planning and community development since 1993. He is the president and business manager of the Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative (SIFCo), that manages a 35,000-acre community forest in the Slocan Valley, BC,where he successfully spearheaded an integral approach to a multi-stakeholder situation in one of BC's most contentious areas in regards to forestry practices in Canada.
Terri O’Fallon has a Ph.D. in Integral Studies with a concentration in Learning and Change in Human Systems, and a Masters Degree in Special education. Terri has been an educator for over 40 years and has been in a variety of teaching and administrative positions in elementary schools, high schools/school districts, colleges and universities. Terri has specialized in online teaching for adults and has been involved in creating advanced degree programs involving philosopher Ken Wilber’s integral framework. She is presently one of three principals for Pacific Integral, an LLC that uses and teaches this framework. One of Pacific Integral’s services is a two-year certificate program called Generating Transformative Change in Human Systems. Terri also is involved in chairing and serving on PhD dissertation committees for two institutes (the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology) and consulting, including international work in Kosovo.
All of this work supports a commitment to evoke the Sacred within learning ecologies, from birth to death, from local to global, using face-to-face teaching and contemporary online approaches.
For more info on Terri's work go to: pacificintegral.com.
Terry Patten is a vital, leading voice in the fields of integral evolutionary practice, leadership and spirituality. He speaks and consults internationally, inspiring, challenging, and connecting Integral evolutionary leaders and institutions worldwide. A gifted communicator, community-builder, successful entrepreneur, and author of four books, Terry has worked for over three decades as a philosopher, activist, coach, consultant, and teacher, helping leaders embody higher consciousness in practical actions that transform complex systems. He is the author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice. His personal web site is: integralheart.com.
Thomas Arthur is a performing artist who integrates contemplative juggling, abstract rhythmic vocalization, acoustic music, subtle storytelling, and digital media into an evolving form of participatory ritual theater for children and adults. In a synchronized choreography of sound, motion and light, Thomas interacts with natural objects, geometric shapes and projected image. Seeking to embody and make visible subtle interactions of sense, soul and the biosphere, his work is informed by the rivers, oceans, meadows, forests, slopes, weather, gravity, light and pulsing resonance of the Pacific Northwest.
When not making art, Thomas teaches individuals and groups practices of embodied awareness. Integrating the Feldenkrais approach of movement awareness with practices from his own personal inquiry, he offers workshops and private sessions opening a mindful space for the emergence of authentic presence in effortless action.
For more info on Thomas's work go to: thomasarthur.net.
Tom Murray, Ed.D., has been consulting, researching, publishing, and leading workshops in the areas including Cognitive Tools, Online Communities, Adaptive Educational Software, and Knowledge Engineering since 1985. He is an Associate Editor at Integral Review Journal. Previously a visiting/adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and at Hampshire College, he is currently working as an independent scholar and as the \"Chief Visionary and Instigator\" at Perspegrity Solutions. Tom is particularly interested in action research in \"second tier community\" and has published essays on the relationship between integral theory and topics such as education, ethics, learning communities, dialog and deliberation, and leadership. More info at tommurray.us.
Willow Dea, MS, OTR, utilizes the most non-invasive means available for integrating the sensory and neurological systems of the body, combining a bachelors and masters degree program in occupational therapy, the science of human performance. She has continued to study and explore five additional modalities of human integration, and has most recently become a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Touch teacher. Willow has used an integral approach with her clients in private practice and in educational settings for fifteen years. Currently, she is editing a book on the emerging field of Integral Education with Next Step Integral. She also serves on the board of directors for The Khabele School, in Austin, Texas, where she lives.
Deb Zucker, ND, LMP is the founder of Vital Medicine, an integral medicine clinic and educational center, where she is reframing and transforming the paradigm of medicine to include one’s entire being - body, mind, soul, and spirit - and the world in which we live. Deb is a board certified and licensed naturopathic physician and massage practitioner receiving her doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University in 2008. Deb is also a graduate of Pacific Integral’s 18 month professional certificate leadership development program, Generating Transformative Change. Deb’s undergraduate education was at Williams College where she graduated magna cum laude in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Environmental Studies and the special honor of the Environmental Studies Director’s Prize. She is currently adjunct faculty in Bastyr University’s Counseling & Health Psychology department and a core instructor at the Northwest Academy for the Healing Arts. Learn about Deb’s work and vision here >>>
Ian Wight is an Associate Professor and former Department Head of City Planning, in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba. A founding member of the Integral Institute, long associated with Integral Ecology, and more recently involved in Integral Education, through NSI’s Annual Seminar, Ian’s interests focus on a more integral programming of graduate professional education, and integral adult education for early-career and mid-life professionals.
His approach is rooted in an integral understanding of the interrelationship of place, placemaking and planning. He contributed a related article to the 2005 integral ecology double-issue of World Futures, presented on the integrally-informed journaling at ITC2008, and also contributed a comparative book review essay to the recent climate change issue of JITP (Vol 4, No 4).
Ian is currently exploring ‘evolving professionalism, beyond the status quo’, including the spiritual/professional interface and the possibilities for an integral spiritual activism. This work is grounded in part in a pursuit of a more integral applied eco-psychology conceived, literally and figuratively, as meshworking placemaking and well-being.
Ian divides his time between Canada’s prairie (Winnipeg MB) and west coast (N. Saanich BC), and - when the opportunity arises - in his native Scotland. During the summer and fall of 2010 Ian will be based at the Centre for Confidence and Well-being in Glasgow, Scotland. The Centre is beginning to explore more integral approaches to its work. Ian will be bringing his experiences there to this year’s seminar.
