FROM CRADLE TO KOSMOS
Exploring the leading edge of educational theory and practice
August 2–7, 2009
Whidbey Institute, Whidbey Island, WA
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 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 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
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.
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.
John T. Kesler was a founding teacher of the Integral Spiritual Center and a founding member of the Politics Section of the Integral Institute reflecting his work over the years in both integral spirituality and integral community activism. He has also been involved in integral educational projects including through being chair for many years of a charter school dedicated to exploring integral approaches to educational reform.
John was one of the first individuals certified by Genpo Roshi to facilitate the “big mind process”. By discovering a mandala of transformation in energetic polarities at every fulcrum of emergent development, John has developed an integral approach to the Big Mind Process which is unique. This integral thematic practice works with polar energies in an ascending practice and archetypal polarities of descending manifestations of Spirit, all in the context of five repeating themes and patterns. The practice also explores the implications of internal and partnering tantra resulting from the embrace of both the absolute and the relative, and the masculine and the feminine.
Terry Patten has worked with Ken Wilber and a core team at Integral Institute to develop Integral Life Practice, which distills ancient and modern practices into an intelligent contemporary transformational lifestyle. He is a Senior Trainer at Integral Institute seminars, a teacher participant at the Integral Spiritual Center, and Co-Director of I-I�s Mentoring and Coaching Center.
He has recently finished co-writing a book with Ken Wilber, Marco Morelli, and Adam Leonard: Integral Life Practice: How to Design Your Own Training Program for Body, Mind, and Spirit.
For more info on Terry's work go to: integralheart.com.
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.
