Deepening our Practice Through Integral Awareness
The integral framework offers profound tools for evolving our practice in all fields, allowing us to step into a larger universe of awareness in our work in the world . This seminar offers an opportunity to both experience and learn about embodying an integral perspective through a deeper understanding of integral theory and its application in the areas of ecology and education.
By simultaneously holding a seminar on integral education and one on integral ecology in the same location, we will weave these two strands together, while also honoring and deepening each one separately through parallel programs. Certain segments of the event will be held with everyone – participants from both seminars – present, while others will allow for participants to dive into the exploration of either integral education or integral ecology, depending which program you choose.
The most complete treatment of every ecological or environmental issue involves crucial aspects of educating and informing a broader audience. And every educational undertaking takes place in both a local and global ecology that influences the nature of what can be offered in the learning environment. Each of these streams has its own perspectives, approaches, and methodologies, and yet the two fields are equally informed and deepened by an integral understanding, and also intimately interwoven.
Integral education stands out as one of the most pertinent and practical means of creating positive change in ourselves and the world. As educators we will explore how we can deepen the necessary vision, skills, and processes to fully serve students and the world that we inhabit.
Integral ecology provides a multifaceted framework for engaging fully with our human surroundings and the natural world in a way that allows both to flourish and shine. As ecologists, we will work with our ability to identify and use understanding of multiple perspectives across many levels, bringing energy and vision together to make a real difference in the world we inhabit.
As agents for integral change and progress, we will explore how we navigate the next decades as a human family – focusing on the tools, skills, and understandings for us to be co-creators in building a healthy emergent global ecology with new generations of lifelong learners.
Integral Education and Integral Ecology are two emerging fields, propelled by people who seek to push the envelope of what these two ways of being present and active in the world have to offer. This two-strand seminar will provide an inspiring 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 the universe is one of the most powerful ways to begin creating the changes we hope to see in the world.
Some of the core questions we will be asking ourselves are:
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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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
