Algorithmic Undertow and Crises in Governance
As we experience waves of unprecedented technological and political upheaval, our ability to maintain a coherent, functioning society is being eroded by algorithmically mediated digital fragmentation. This presentation explores how AI-driven media ecosystems, designed to maximize engagement rather than coherence, have led to a disintegration of shared reality, making institutions more vulnerable to both accidental […]
Integral Awareness & Energy Field Psychotherapy
In this Integral Awareness Meditation (IAM) experience we will dive into essentials of expansive contemplation that allows you to integrate deeper states of consciousness (including flow & non-dual states) with everyday activities—such as not just your personal meditation practice but also work, interpersonal communication, and group energy field awareness. You’ll explore thoughts, feelings, sensations, and […]
Deconcentration in Integral Awareness Meditation
Deconcentration is a powerful contemplative technique first developed in the later period of consciousness research in USSR; it has correlations with both advanced shamatha-like and open-awareness states practiced in major meditative traditions. We have incorporated deconcentration as an essential part of Integral Awareness Meditation (IAM) as well as a useful tool for Integral Psychotherapy. Deconcentration, […]
Discovering wholeness in addiction care
As a nurse working with people with addictions, I have struggled to find my place in a system focused on crisis and symptom management affecting the individual, friends, family and community. I will share how I discovered wholeness in my work, how this changed my work, relationship with others, and my sense and experience of […]
Integral Politics: how can we make it happen?
(Abstract to be edited in two weeks) Following Elke Fein, Karen O’Brien and Integral Politics Switzerland presentations, how can we make it happen both in our personal context and in Europe?
Meditation with Feelings to Transform Mind Poisons
In this gentle and easy to follow guided meditation, allow your mind to be guided to a quiet and attentive place. From there, you work with each feeling or emotion as it comes up. By being aware – accepting – and letting go, you transform the mind poisons of ignorance, aversion and desire into equanimity. […]
Wholeness through Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics
Attaining structures of consciousness that can “see” wholeness is essential to becoming Whole rather than a composite of parts. Also, since Structures are mainly a function of the mind, and philosophy can be considered a discipline that studies how our minds deal with 6 essential areas of life (What is Reality? What is Knowledge? What […]
Awakening Together: A Co-Meditation Experiment
In this workshop, we’ll embark on a journey into the power of dialogic meditation. After being guided into the nondual experience of direct awakening, we’ll explore co-meditation–a unique form of small group meditation that invites us to share our meditative experience aloud with our group as we continue to meditate. This process has been shown […]
A Journey of Sound through the Stages
Imagine a global integral community of hundreds of people resonating together as they take an embodied journey through the stages of development, uniting live music, movement, meditation, dance, and art—going from our earliest expressions of human consciousness all the way to universal oneness. The first version of this event happened during an online edition of […]
Polarity Wisdom™ for Integral Life Design
What if the qualities you resist the most actually hold the key to your next breakthrough in life? Every time you lean harder into your familiar strengths to break through, you find yourself hitting the same old walls. But transformation doesn’t come from doubling down—it comes from integrating the very qualities you’ve been resisting. These […]