The conference team, volunteers, presenters and remaining participants gather in a circle of appreciation and acknowledgement, sharing highlights and words of gratitude. It usually culminates in many hugs and individual exchanges, as gradually those who leave that day travel back to their home countries, while others remain to take part in the gala dinner or even join the tour the next day.

The hosting team will greet the audience, give a general framing of the topic of the conference “Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age” and run through the outline of the coming days. There will also be the first “elevator pitch” introduction of the two additional events of that evening and the morning practices of the next day.

We will be telling our stories of our recent visits to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica. Within a week, up to 90 participants experience their “miracle”. This is brought about through four nights of ceremonies drinking Ayahuasca, a plant medicine served by Shamans coming from a 5000 year old lineage from the Amazon in Columbia. We will share music and images, while telling our story through poetic means.

Rythmia offers a very supportive and professional setting, including medical examination, breathwork, yoga, integration sessions, sharing circles, healthy food and comfortable accommodation. In this way, light workers and light warriors are empowered to heal themselves, in order to contribute to the shift towards living in harmony with the earth. To date, 14,000 people have undergone this experience. They also take part in a survey, both immediately at the end of the week and 6 months after their Ayahuasca ceremony. The results of this research clearly show the healing power of plant medicine. https://rythmia.com/

The conference team, volunteers, presenters and remaining participants gather in a circle of appreciation and acknowledgement, sharing highlights and words of gratitude. It usually culminates in many hugs and individual exchanges, as gradually those who leave that day travel back to their home countries, while others remain to take part in the gala dinner or even join the tour the next day.

For millennia humans have developed stories about power and leadership, of which many have been of great service to humanities thriving. Yet, mostly over the past century, these stories have begun not only to lose their usefulness, but to create disruptive and even life-threatening harm to our planetary livelihood.

More and more people are awakening to the need of living a more regenerative, interconnected, and interdependent life. A beautiful variety of local and global organizations and communities are emerging from this need, carried by people yearning to serve the purpose of a wholistic approach to life. For this, a shift of our relationship to power and leadership is needed, but ­– more often than not – old stories that shape our belief systems on the deepest level form a seemingly invincible blockage on this journey.

In this presentation we will explore how accessing different states of awareness can support us in shifting our relationship to power – the power in us, in others and in all – and how this can open us up to allow for the emergence of a life affirming manifestation of power shifted and purposeful leadership in service to the web of life.