Integrating Mindfulness: Finding Wholeness

This workshop is a unique synthesis of practical tools and awareness practices to address the whole of your life.

Even with a regular meditation practice, you may feel disconnected or that your efforts aren’t bridging the gap between your actions and vision. Meditators focus on the UL/”I” and often neglect the other quadrants.

Clear Sky Retreat Center’s Five Principles of a Spiritual Container is a unique approach which addresses not only your inner world but also the external environments (UR), relationships/community (LL), and systems (LR) that influence your well-being.

This holistic practical workshop explores exercises for creating your own supportive container using the five principles: honor your space, structure and routine, communication, cleaning up big areas, it’s easier with others.

Aimed to support heart-centered explorers, the workshop help foster lasting change, strengthen your meditation, build connection, and transform your environment into a sanctuary of growth.

CRYLE, Duncan Dr.

Canada

Duncan Cryle is co-executive director of Clear Sky Retreat Center in Canada, student of founding teachers Qapel and Catherine Pawsarat Sensei, and founder of consciousorganizations.com

He blends years of co-creating Clear Sky’s integral and awakening community with an international career as an executive with major technology companies. He was a co-creator of IBM’s mindfulness community, and led a successful global mindfulness program at SS&C Technologies.

His mindfulness and organizational development work is based on 30+ years of personal practice, and 20 years co-developing Clear Sk as a “living lab” for integral and awareness-based approaches to team learning, communication, organization development, and personal transformation.

He holds a Ph.D in philosophy and publishes in the academic field of workplace spirituality.

He is passionate about the potential of heart-based leadership and practices to transform work cultures to a healthier way of working together for positive impact.

https://www.clearskycenter.org

MCALLISTER, Karen

Canada

Karen McAllister is a co-founding member and leader at Clear Sky Retreat Center, where she has lived year-round in a residential spiritual community since 2004. Trained by Clear Sky’s co-founders and spiritual teachers, Qapel and Catherine Sensei, she not only studies the map of integral theory but actively walks the territory, embodying its principles in daily practice.

Rooted in this lived experience, Karen, her teachers, and their community move together as a collective—helping both themselves and newer members move beyond an overemphasis on the “I” quadrant—developing the “we,” “its,” and “it” quadrants through collective practice, service, and financial maturity. As the community’s money coach and founder of The Mindful Money Coach, Karen works on both growing up—supporting vertical development into mature adulthood—and cleaning up, helping individuals integrate their financial shadow so they can resource their path rather than bypass it.

This work extends beyond Clear Sky to the wider international community through Qapel and Catherine Sensei’s Planet Dharma, where Karen supports seekers in bridging the gap between spiritual aspiration and financial engagement—making money a tool for awakening and meaningful impact.

For those ready to deepen their spiritual and financial maturity—sustaining both inner and outer evolution—she offers a lived pathway to wholeness.

https://themindfulmoneycoach.com/