Exploring and Embodying Integral in the 21st Century
Summer 2010
Location and dates coming soon!
This seminar, the second of its kind, will bring together emerging leaders from around the globe who are discovering how integral consciousness, when put into action, can be an incredibly powerful tool for transformative change and leadership.
Living an Integral Life nurtures and challenges body, mind and spirit, thereby facilitating next steps in personal evolution. This leads to a deeper discovery and understanding of who we are, our relationships, and the gifts we have to offer the world. Indeed, an increasing number of people are recognizing that living an Integral Life is key to co-creating a just and sustainable world. In a community of peers we will learn about and examine Integral Theory and its application to our lives and the world at large. We will also explore and celebrate what becomes possible when we truly come together to re-envision ourselves, our culture, and our collective future.
Some of the questions we will engage with are:
“It is now your turn to take on the task of leadership to build a new world, a new civilization, through the development of human character, and the evolution of the human soul. Whatever it is that you do in life, ultimately this is the only game worth playing. To play a game lesser than that is to fail the dignity of your soul.”
And last, but not least, we will have the best of times! With dance, music, late-night discussions, a new community of friends, and surrounded by the majestic beauty of the redwoods we will have a profound week of growth, connection and celebration.
Abigail Lynam, M.S., has devoted the last nine years to teaching in the field of transformative adult education. She is on the faculty of Lesley University’s Audubon Expedition Institute and the University of Massachusetts’ Sustainability in Auroville, India program. Both programs follow an educational model that blends experiential, holistic, and student-centered learning through a transformative framework of intensive learning community work.
Abigail is currently researching the best ways to support the development, application, and practice of an integral framework in these programs. She is trained as a facilitator of Joanna Macy’s “Work that Reconnects” and “Dynamic Facilitation” methods and previously taught leadership development at Portland State University. She is also a director of Next Step Integral where she is presently developing a semester-long curriculum on Integral Leadership for adult learners.
Stephan Martineau is the founder and president of Next Step Integral, an international NGO with offices in BC, Canada and Pennsylvania, USA. Next Step Integral is currently working in four main areas: Integral Education, Integral Parenting, Integral Community and Integral Ecology. He is an integral consultant for not-for-profit organizations and has worked in watershed management, ecosystem-based planning and community development since 1993. He is also the president of the Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative (SIFCo).
Stephan left his native Montreal, Canada, at the age of 18 and embarked on a 6-year pilgrimage to research human consciousness. He funded these travels, that brought him to 4 continents and 20 countries, by planting over a quarter of a million trees in the wilderness of BC. In 1992 he founded an integrally informed intentional community where he and his wife lived for 10 years.
