Zen & STAGES: A Journey of Development & Awakening
This workshop unites Eastern wisdom (Zen) with Western insights (Development). Development shows that with each stage, we’re “reborn,” bringing forth new hopes, fears, and understandings. Spirituality, on the other hand, reminds us that our primordial nature is unborn, undying, beyond concepts, and always accessible here and now. All sentient beings have needs and wants that […]
Becoming the Ground (in a world of chaos)
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate. Ilya Prigogine We live in times of increasing chaos – times that challenge our capacity to midwife the emergence of a new, convivial world. This active, engaging, & fun workshop will expand your embodied capacity to sustain and dissipate chaos. […]
Redefining Conscious Community with Integral
Discover how our Integral experiences in conscious community can empower your own Integral development, personally and in community. Two decades ago, I co-founded Clear Sky, a transformative meditation-based retreat center in British Columbia, Canada. Alongside our predominantly Buddhist spiritual practices, our dozen residents plus our larger visiting and virtual communities have embraced Integral Spirituality and […]
AQtivating Soul Power: Wholing City Metacrisis
In our action research design workshop we explore how Soul Power reframes wholeness for cities facing Metacrisis. We first question – “What?” is the challenge? We’ll consider why cities seem to be fragmented, climate threatened, at war, polluted, biodiversity deserts, chaotic, destructive and disrespectful. Then we’ll ask: “So What?” How do these conditions catalyse cultural […]
Growing wings of transformation
We are living in times of upheaval, conflict, and uncertainty. One thing is becoming clear: the traditional approaches to change no longer suffice. What if we take seriously the idea that the outer world reflects our inner world? What if the conflicts we see around us mirror our inner fragmentation? This calls for a paradigm […]
Finding Wholeness in Education: A Place for Us
This presentation shares our experience of educating from wholeness at our arts and nature-based integral education project for underprivileged children in rural India. A Place for Us integrates physical, emotional, cognitive, relational and spiritual dimensions of learning, addressing the whole child within socio-cultural realities. Our programme provides nourishing food, basic literacy and numeracy skills, incorporating […]
Supersonic whip, and Sacred weapons of cultures
The physical and mental general benefits of martial arts are known. When examined from the perspective of the left quadrants and the SD model, new potentials emerge. My initiations to the transpersonal levels are the supersonic whip – as a sacred weapon, and my soaring horse as a companion. The “holy struggles” of religions, cultures, […]
Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Shadow
Explore the complex adaptive system of Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Shadow in this dynamic presentation. What are the differences, the similarities, and the complex interactive dynamics of these 3 pillars of consciousness? What role may Psychotherapy have in Spiritual development? What effects does Shadow have on the Spiritual life? How might Spirituality improve one’s Psychology? Explore […]
DIE & GET RE-BORN: Unleash the power of darkness
We are all seeking the light – we are all striving for true freedom, happiness & inner fulfilment, yet it´s collectively a striving from a place of victimhood and scarcity. We are dreaming about an easygoing and abundant life while ignoring that ease & abundance have always been with us. Back then, when we were […]
Integral Yoga Meditation
Integral Yoga Meditation is a spiritual path. It combines & integrates body, breath & spirit to a holistic way of practice. Asanas, mindful breathing, praṇayama, chanting, recitation, silent meditation, walking meditation, darśan are all part of its path. This integrative practice is the groundwork and preparation for yoga/ samādhi. In this morning workshop, we will […]
