Developing We-Space via Resonance Workshop
There are poignant moments when viewing a movie when there is a sequence where we feel both joy and sadness. Often times we hide these powerful feelings and turn away from our companion, fearing over-exposure. What if we do not turn away and allow these complex and potent feelings to settle into a resonance to […]
Cultivating Wisdom
Wisdom is desperately needed, yet little understood and rarely practiced. This presentation offers an understanding of wisdom drawn from multiple cultures as well as a collection and analysis of the world’s methods for cultivating it. These methods range from relational (e.g. teachers and community) to intellectual (study and reflection) to contemplative (meditation and visualization) to […]
Dementia seen from multiple perspectives
Have you ever wondered how later and later perspectives would view dementia? Bettina Wichers M.Sc. and Terri O’Fallon Ph.D. developed a research project that asks this question. By bringing together Terri’s research on STAGES and Bettina’s research and practical experience in diagnostics and dementia counseling, this inquiry comes to a more in-depth perspective of how […]
Embodying the Descending Path in Adult Development
The idea that development is a “transcend and include” process is a partial-truth that results in significant collective shadow in the integral diaspora—specifically it supports an ascending bias and subtle arrogance in narratives about adult development. We will see how human development, i.e. all learning, necessarily involves a transcend and *exclude* process. That is, all […]
Cocooning Next Stage Learning Environments…
28 years teaching experience in Higher Education shows an overview of generations and their changing needs. Millennial Generations need to connect to what is being learned to ignite their interest. Traditional academic formatted learning environments tend not to respond to the core needs of these Generations. Consequently they tend to shut down through engaging in […]
Bodywork – Who am I within the ‘Global’?
In the beginning you realized you are not your body – although it needs to be healthy. Then it becomes clear, you are not your personality, either. Still, it needs to be healthy, too. Then what are you? If I take off all my clothes and roles, what’s left? Who is experiencing exactly and what […]
Beyond teal organisations
I will present several areas that I perceive as next steps of the evolution or our organisations beyond teal. There areas include sharing wider evolutionary purpose and growing into bigger organisational hubs, implementation of a fractal structure and relating to the organisation as a living being. This is a point where the evolution and involution […]
Authentic Living
Through meditations, live music, silent connecting, sense-based exercises & intimate dialogues, James will guide you with gentle precision towards realising who you really, REALLY are, on the deepest level. From that ‘place’ of clarity and openness, you will begin to acknowledge the unconscious fear-based patterns, self-beliefs and physical clenches that block you from expressing fully, […]
A path of healing through body and dance
“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.” Pina Bausch As human beings we are movement: from the simple breathing to everyday gestures, our body express what we feel about life. Body memory recalls and presents closure or openness in the human relationship, leading to a more or less authenticity in the encounter with the other. The […]
A Downside Up view of reality! Integral Africa!
The Integral+ Practice of Leadership & Coaching is a way of facilitating deep transformative change & healing towards integration at a personal, group & structural level. Codified into various levels of programme work, the journeys of deep learning through consciousness practice & action for impact has enabled Paddy to influence the thinking & practice of […]