Dear Friend,
Do you sense that your own quest for spiritual awakening is not just a personal matter?
Do you see your own transformation as a meaningful contribution to the evolution of the human race?
If so, you’re probably an evolutionary, which means you know that we’re facing a critical moment in the unfolding of our human story, and you feel called to awaken and evolve in order to help create the pathways to a more enlightened future.
If you’re like most evolutionaries, chances are you feel a bit overwhelmed by the task at hand.
An Academy For Evolutionaries
Here at Integral Enlightenment, we’re committed to one thing: empowering evolutionaries. That means providing you with the tools, training and support to evolve and grow in unprecedented ways.
People who are committed to conscious evolution face some unique challenges. This is unquestionably a pioneer’s journey, and it can feel like heading into new territory for which no maps currently exist.
We’re also acutely aware that traditional paths and practices, as powerful as they once were, are reaching their limitations for many of us who are awakening to this new spiritual calling. We need practices and perspectives that are in step with our times, that integrate both ancient and emerging wisdom, and are informed by an up-to-date understanding of the human condition.
To support the emergence of a whole new way of being human, we need a path that stands up to the complexities and challenges of modern life.
In order to serve this growing need for authentic, effective evolutionary training and support, we’ve created what may be the first Academy for Evolutionaries—an innovative global training ground for people like you, who yearn to be “optimized” to make their greatest contribution, and are determined to develop themselves to fully meet this calling.
Over the past 15 years, we’ve brought together core insights and approaches based on decades of on-the-ground practice and research at the leading edge of spiritual inquiry.
And now, for the first time, we’ve distilled all of this wisdom and innovation into in a single intensive course—to help evolutionaries catalyze the fundamental shift that leads to radical evolution.
An Invitation
Imagine being part of a cutting-edge weekly gathering of passionate individuals committed to their own and humanity’s evolution. Imagine journeying together to the emerging edges of human potential and learning how to realize that potential in yourself and make it manifest in the world.
If the idea of being part of such a gathering inspires you, we invite you to join us for the adventure of a lifetime.
Over nine weeks, we’ll gather together to push the edges of our individual and collective potential.
Each week, we’ll venture into another aspect of what it means to embrace an evolutionary relationship to life.
First, we’ll step back and take in the big picture that brought us all together in the first place—our recognition of the precious significance of this human life and our potential to become awakened agents of conscious evolution. We’ll immerse ourselves in the enlightened consciousness that is the foundation of all authentic spirituality. And we’ll explore the new, emerging evolutionary vision that is redefining the spiritual path for our time.
Then, we’ll take a deep dive into the path itself. We’ll explore what it really means to consciously evolve our own consciousness. We’ll carefully examine the obstacles that usually stop us on the path. And we’ll practice proven techniques and exercises to help us gain the evolutionary traction we need to not only surmount but ultimately transcend those obstacles altogether.
Once we have a deep and grounded grasp of the path, we’ll then jump into the most important question of all: What does it mean to have an evolutionary relationship to every aspect of life? We’ll look at the exceptional transformative potential of evolutionary relationships and leadership, and cultivate the skills needed to create them. We’ll explore how we can bring our work lives and careers into alignment with our highest callings. And we’ll discover the essential ingredients to creating “evolutionary culture” in any group we’re a part of, and in the world as a whole.
Finally, we’ll examine what it means for each of us to take the steps we need to take to bring everything we’ve learned and everything we’ve experienced into full embodiment now and for the rest of our lives—what it means to truly sustain an evolutionary relationship to life.
INTRODUCING
Integral Enlightenment
Awakening to an Evolutionary Relationship to Life
A 9-WEEK ONLINE TRAINING WITH CRAIG HAMILTON
Awakening to the Call of the Cosmos:
What it Means to be an Evolutionary
You’ll discover…
- Why our moment in history is so significant and what it demands of those of us who can recognize it
- Why evolution depends on you: the quantum shift in perspective that can realign your entire life
- The unique role of the human being in the evolutionary process
- Awakening to the unimaginable sense of meaning and purpose that comes from aligning your life with the “evolutionary impulse”
- The transformative power of awakening to our evolutionary interdependence—and why this single insight gives us access to change in ways we wouldn’t just change for ourselves
- How the evolutionary perspective resolves the tension so many of us feel between the impulse to
Enlightenment and Evolution:
From Being to Emergence
You’ll discover…
- Why “being in the now” is the least important part of spiritual life, and how to awaken to an experience of “authentic presence” that includes your desire to create the future
- Experience the dynamic liberation that emerges through wholehearted creative participation in the evolutionary process
- How to distinguish between healthy surrender to the evolutionary impulse and potentially destructive self-abandonment
- Discover the synergistic relationship between being and doing—and why both are essential for an authentic, integral enlightenment
- How to resolve the tension between the call to let go of all attachment and the need to honor your commitments and responsibilities in the world
- Learn to abide at the edge of the unknown in order to midwife the unmanifest creative potentials waiting to be born
Awakening the Will to Evolve:
Motivation, Intention, and the Choice to be Free
You’ll discover…
- Learn to identify the two primary competing “motivational centers” inside you, and how to make enlightened choices even when you don’t feel particularly enlightened
- Why self-fulfillment—or even self-liberation—is not a sufficient motivation to catalyze genuine awakening
- Why you can’t simply “choose to be enlightened”—and the choice you can make that’s even more important
- Discover the fundamental shift in orientation that can enable you to permanently overcome your resistance to change
- Awaken the “four spheres of enlightened motivation” that can propel you to new depths of spiritual awakening
- Dramatically accelerate your spiritual development by awakening the usually dormant power of “enlightened will”
Transcending the Obstacles on the Path:
Shadow, Ego, and the Primitive Self
You’ll discover…
- Discover your core ego strategies and develop precise evolutionary counter-strategies to disable them
- Why awareness of and intimate understanding of our ego is a critical foundation for all authentic spiritual work, so that you don’t get tripped up by your unconscious
- Learn how to harness your “enlightened will” to override the ego’s destructive tendencies
- How to maintain your functionality in the world as you allow the false boundaries of your ego self to fall away
- Sustaining a commitment to evolution—how to stay on the path no matter what challenges come your way
Evolutionary Spiritual Practice Part One:
Unleashing the Power of Meditation
You’ll discover…
- Discover the Ground of Being at the heart of the spiritual quest, and learn simple practices for anchoring your life in this primordial freedom each day
- Learn how to ground your meditation practice in an evolutionary context, and why this simple step will propel your meditation to new depths
- How to meditate deeply even if you have an active mind by learning how to disembed your awareness from the stream of thought.
- How to meet each moment of meditation–and life–with a “beginner’s mind” and discover the expansive freedom of not knowing.
- How to “get out of the way” in meditation so that the process of awakening can unfold naturally.
Evolutionary Spiritual Practice Part Two:
Beyond the Meditation Cushion
You’ll discover…
- How to create a balanced spiritual life that fully engages both the transcendent and dynamic aspects of Awakened consciousness
- The true meaning of surrender: moving beyond simply “accepting what is” and learning to live in alignment with a deeper order
- Learn how to harness your advanced introspective capacities to propel you to new heights of clarity and spiritual alignment
- Discover an active approach to transformation that enables you to defuse, disarm, and deconstruct the ego in the midst of engagement with everyday life
- Confront the human condition in yourself: awaken to the always liberating power of radical self-honesty
- A Commitment to Right Action: Why making a commitment to “do the right thing”—and acting on it—whether you feel like it or not is one of the most direct paths beyond ego
Creating Evolutionary Relationships:
The Exponential Power of “We”
You’ll discover…
- How to go beyond collusion and mutual affirmation to create dynamic “evolutionary partnerships” that both support and challenge you to fulfill your potential
- The three commitments that can transform any intimate relationship into a “crucible of evolution”
- Why true intimacy can only emerge in the context of a shared commitment to transcending ego
- How to navigate conflict and disagreement in ways that catalyze the evolution of everyone involved
- How to build support structures for an evolutionary life, including a relational matrix around you that fosters your ongoing growth and awakening
Becoming an Evolutionary Force in the World:
The Call to Enlightened Leadership and Co-Creativity
You’ll discover…
- Where to find the courage to lead in a world that shuns authority
- How to hold authentic power in a way that empowers everyone around you
- How to create evolutionary culture in any group with which you are involved
- How to find the “razor’s edge” between conviction and openness that will enable you to follow your vision without becoming wedded to it
- How to bring your work life and career into alignment with your deepest values and vision—regardless of what you’re doing for a living (well, within reason)
- Why authentic leadership can only emerge from a foundation of genuine humility
It’s More Than a Course —
It’s a Community!
Everyone needs the support of kindred spirits and like-minded comrades, particularly when confronting a challenge as daunting as the evolution of consciousness. Let’s face it—the evolutionary journey can be a lonely walk. We represent a new stage of human emergence and, at this point, there aren’t that many of us around. In fact, particularly if you’re new to all this, or live in a small town, you may be the only person of “your kind” that you know!
Integral Enlightenment Graduate Retreat – Monterey, CA
When you join this sacred gathering, you’ll become part of a rich, vibrant community of individuals who—just like you—are seeking to connect with similarly inclined souls on an evolutionary path. And you’ll be able to engage with your compatriots in a private online learning community created exclusively for the participants of this course.
Marianne Williamson
Author of A Return to Love, Everyday Grace and Tears to Triumph
“Craig Hamilton is a premier teacher of meditation and transformational wisdom. His work is among the best.”
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author of Conscious Evolution, Emergene and The Hunger of Eve
“If I had to pick one teacher to take a deep dive with around conscious evolution and evolutionary spirituality it would be Craig Hamilton. He is attuned to the frequency of the Impulse of Evolution. He empowers us to make the shift from ego to essence, and from essence to emergence as an expression of the Impulse itself. This is very rare. To be one of his students in depth is a great privilege. Besides all that, he will care about you and stay with you for the long haul of your self-evolution.”
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
Author of Conscious Loving and The Big Leap
“Craig Hamilton is the kind of meditation teacher we most need in the twenty-first century: clear, wise, heartfelt and free of dogma. His approach is dedicated to helping us bring forth the part of us that is already harmonious and happy, the natural wellspring of creativity that bubbles within us all. Craig’s deep understanding of the evolutionary process provides a foundation for the specific techniques he teaches. Beyond any technique, however, is the rare quality Craig brings as a living example of the centered clarity his teachings assist us to develop. When you learn from Craig, you know you’re in the hands of a master teacher.”
Jean Houston
Author of A Passion for the Possible, Jump Time and The possible Human
“Craig Hamilton is a living example of everything he teaches: one who combines passionate commitment to the evolutionary path along with dedicated practice of the core integral ways that expand and deepen the human mind, heart and soul. His superb and sensitive teaching gives the participant both inspiration and potent methods to pursue the path of enlightenment and thereby to profoundly make a difference in both self and society.”
Geneen Roth
Author of Women, Food and God and Lost and Found
“Craig Hamilton is a beautiful meditation teacher. If you want to learn meditation from a seasoned, wise teacher, you’ve found him, here, now.
Geneen Roth
Author of Life Visioning and Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential
“It is rare to find a spiritual teacher who imparts the depth, the clarity, the humility, and the wisdom that Craig Hamilton does. Craig’s transmission of the very spirit of evolution reaches right down into the core Self, awakening his students’ desire to reach their highest evolutionary potential. If you have the good fortune to learn from him, I wholeheartedly encourage you to take advantage of it.”
Ken Wilber
Author of The Integral Vision, A Brief History of Everything and Integral Spirituality
“Craig Hamilton is a genuine pioneer in evolutionary spirituality and its application in practical wisdom. I highly recommend you check out his work at your earliest opportunity!”
Arielle Ford
Author of The Soulmate Secret and Wabi Sabi Love
“After years of trying to do “mantra-based” meditation, and failing miserably, I gave up….until I found Craig Hamilton. Craig’s wisdom, guidance and frequency has opened a spiritual pathway for me that I had heard about but never before experienced. He truly is a master teacher.”
Michael Dowd
Author of Thank God for Evolution and Earthspirit
“After years of trying to do 'mantra-based' meditation, and failing miserably, I gave up….until I found Craig Hamilton. Craig’s wisdom, guidance and frequency has opened a spiritual pathway for me that I had heard about but never before experienced. He truly is a master teacher.”
Claire Zammit
Author of Feminine Power Global Community
“I am humbled, awed and inspired by the depth of wisdom, clarity and integrity that shines through Craig’s remarkable teaching work. He provides a rare portal through which any sincere seeker can gain access to authentic spiritual illumination.”
Terry Patten
Co-Author of Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity and Spiritual Awakening
“Remarkably poised, flexible, dynamic and passionate, Craig Hamilton is a wise voice in the emergence of integral enlightenment—a new spirituality deeply committed not just to awakening, but to action—furthering human evolution and sustainability.”
Dr. Brian Thomas Swimme
Author of The Universe Story and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos
“Craig Hamilton is a fresh, original voice calling for nothing less than the reinvention of spirituality for the 21st century. If you want to discover what it feels like to be the very impulse of evolution, spend some time with Craig. His inspiration is contagious!”
Register for Craig's Integral Enlightenment Course Before Midnight Pacific TONIGHT and you'll receive our
EARLY ENROLLMENT BONUS PACKAGE
Including these Two Valuable Bonus Gifts Valued at Over $250
EARLY REGISTRATION BONUS GIFT #1:
THE GREAT INTEGRAL AWAKENING
DOWNLOADABLE DIGITAL AUDIO SERIES AND EBOOK
(VALUE: $200)
Convened and hosted by Craig Hamilton, this 13-part audio series explores the most essential questions facing spiritual practitioners today—and provides profound insights about how the spiritual path can evolve to meet 21st-century challenges and opportunities.
This unique series of evolutionary conversations includes provocative and penetrating one-on-one dialogues with 13 integral thought leaders, exploring a new paradigm of transformation through the diverse lenses of spirit, science, philosophy and psychology.
Now, these dynamic discussions are available as a 335-page digital book, and a downloadable audio collection.
And this entire collection is your gift when you register today.
You’ll learn:
- What to do when you inevitably encounter doubt and struggle on your spiritual path
- The surprising limitation you may be creating by trying to “work on yourself”–and how to step into the radical alternative
- How to resolve ongoing tension between “living a spiritual life” and “being engaged in the world”
- The key element that creates powerful, transformative evolutionary collectives
- How to effectively navigate the marketplace of spiritual offerings and avoid the subtle traps you’ll encounter on the progressive path
- The core “narratives of non-possibility”—and whether they’re holding you back from a deeper transformation in your practice
You’ll also learn vital new practices that you can begin using immediately, including:
- Meditation techniques designed to address crisis and loss
- Approaches to meditation that cultivate deep experiences of grace and love
- Daily exercises that will clarify your deepest intention and highest motivation
- Voice dialogue practices that will rapidly deepen your ongoing meditation practice
This compendium of evolutionary wisdom features the world’s foremost evolutionary spiritual teachers and visionary thinkers, including Ken Wilber, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Michael Murphy, Sally Kempton, Genpo Roshi, Diane Musho Hamilton, Steve McIntosh, Don Beck, Terry Patten, Claire Zammit, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, and Carter Phipps.
You’ll receive your copy of this essential collection for evolutionaries as our thank-you for registering early—including the digital book and downloadable access to all 13 in-depth audio dialogues.
EARLY REGISTRATION BONUS GIFT #2:
OPENING TO THE ULTIMATE POSSIBILITY:
ESTABLISHING AN UNWAVERING INTENTION TO AWAKEN
A 2-HOUR AUDIO WORKSHOP WITH CRAIG HAMILTON
(VALUE: $80)
About Opening to the Ultimate Possibility…
When you register by May 1st, you’ll be able to join Craig for an Audio Workshop designed to help you establish a powerful foundation for the intensive practices we’ll be engaging in the Integral Enlightenment course.
Spiritual awakening opens the door to a truly unimaginable possibility. The potential of living a deeply awakened life is so magnificent and so far beyond most of what we see in the world that even when we taste it for ourselves, we often find it hard to accept that life could be this extraordinary.
In order to make room in ourselves for the miraculous to take root, most of us need to uncover, examine and ultimately leave behind a deeply rooted fundamental insistence on a life of limitation. In this workshop, Craig will guide you through a process of letting go of all imposed doubt and limitation and stepping into a consciousness of unlimited possibility.
In this radical freedom from limitation, he will then guide you in cultivating the single most important quality you can bring to the spiritual path–a clear and unwavering intention.
When we think about setting an intention, we often tend to associate it with goal-setting and the exercise of will toward the achievement of specific outcomes. But intention is not merely a matter of willpower. Intentions are like seeds that we plant deep in our consciousness that will come to fruition as long as we create the proper environment for their growth.
A foundation free of limiting beliefs and rooted in a direct experience of ultimate reality is the ground within which a true intention for awakening can be set.
In this session, you will learn how to plant an intention that is much more than just an imagined future goal for you to strive toward. The intention that you set in this workshop will be an anchor that connects you directly to the living reality of your own potential for a truly awakened life.
And this entire collection is your gift when you enroll by Midnight Pacific Time TODAY.
WHEN YOU ENROLL
YOU’LL RECEIVE OUR
MEDITATION MASTERY BONUS #1:
THE DIRECT AWAKENING
Virtual Retreat Experience
Join Craig Hamilton for Four Half-Day Virtual Retreats and discover the transformative power of sustained immersion in awakened consciousness.
Retreats have always been a core component of any authentic spiritual life. But many of us find it difficult in today’s world to set aside extended periods of time and travel to go on retreat.
These four powerful 4-Hour Virtual Retreats will provide a potent immersion experience in the meditation practice of Direct Awakening, enabling you to leave behind worldly concerns and sink into the depths of meditation in a way that short, daily practice periods rarely allow.
Our goal in creating these virtual retreats is to give you an opportunity to experience the profound intimacy, depth and activating transmission of being on a retreat with Craig.
In these focused environments, many participants report experiencing the presence of a deep, activating collective field that supports the integration and grounding of spiritual insight and awakening.
The reason retreats are so important for us is not because they introduce us to new possibilities, but because they afford us the time to become deeply rooted in those immaculate spaces of opening.
When we take the time for deeper immersion, we have a rare opportunity to leave life as we have known it behind.
In this depth of immersion, we can even begin to forget the limiting story of self we have taken for granted. This is when something completely unimaginable happens – we merge with the consciousness that exists prior to any sense of separation. This is non-dual awakening.
Only when our practice becomes this deep do we recognize who we truly are as the singular source of consciousness from which the universe emerges.
Each of the four Immersion Retreats will give you an in-depth immersion in awakened consciousness. For each of these immersion experiences, Craig will strongly encourage you to leave behind every worldly concern and give yourself entirely to your own process of awakening.
Through a carefully orchestrated combination of instruction, guided practice, inquiry and silence, we will explore the deep and subtle contours of awakened consciousness as it reveals itself in our own moment by moment experience.
IMMERSION RETREAT #1
Taking the Leap into Awakened Consciousness
Integrating the Foundations
In order to sustain the miracle of awakened consciousness, we need a firm grounding in the fundamentals of authentic spiritual practice. In our first retreat, we'll establish a powerful foundation for awakening by exploring several practice fundamentals, each of which focuses on establishing our foundation in a different way. Over the course of four hours, we'll strengthen our mastery of these fundamentals, reinforce our ability to remain rooted in awakened consciousness, and take our first foray into Direct Awakening by letting go into the practice of profound contentment.
- Deepen your ability to recognize Awakened Consciousness by learning how to distinguish it from other forms of spiritual experience or altered states of consciousness.
- Reinforce your core practice foundations in order to ensure that you're getting the most out of each moment of meditation.
- Strengthen your awakened discernment so that you can consistently avoid the pitfalls and detours on the spiritual path.
- Experience the deeper layers of "letting go" that can occur when we practice for an extended period of time.
- Discover the profound ease of being that arises when you leave behind existential tension long enough for your natural state to reveal itself.
IMMERSION RETREAT #2
Opening to the Infinite Self
The Discovery of Consciousness without Limits
The infinite depth of our true nature is a mystery that our mind will never be able to grasp. To become truly grounded in this self that has no limits, we must learn how to rest in the unknown, ultimately relinquishing the very need to “see ourselves” at all. Our second retreat will invite us to step beyond all conventional reference points into the spacious, easeful awareness of our own true self. We’ll anchor our day in the precious innocence of not knowing. Then, in that openness to the unknown, we’ll let go of any attachment to a separate, isolated ego and expand into a deep and sustained experience of our true nature as awareness itself.
- Deepen your ability to abide for an extended period of time in a “beginner’s mind” and discover the natural innocence that has always been your true home.
- Experience the joy and freedom of “not needing to know” and come to rest in the source of innate non-conceptual wisdom.
- Strengthen your capacity to pay attention to awareness itself by learning how to observe the observer even amidst distracting thoughts and feelings.
- Discover the vast experience of aliveness that opens up when you relinquish all “self-reference” for a sustained period of time.
IMMERSION RETREAT #3
Surrendering to the Truth of Oneness
The Seamless Flow of Awakening
At the core of spiritual awakening is the discovery that, contrary to appearances, reality is not a disparate assortment of separate parts but a seamless, integrated, unified whole in which no separation actually exists. This discovery of unity or “non-duality” releases us from all existential anxiety and fear, opening us to the liberating recognition that we never were separate from the whole. Our third retreat will challenge us to give up any insistence on separation and allow ourselves to rest in the essential unity at the heart of reality. In this wholehearted embrace of the truth of non-duality, we will relinquish any attempt to control our experience, allowing ourselves to be overtaken by the seamless flow of awakened consciousness permeating everything.
- Experience the natural liberation that spontaneously reveals itself when we allow “the mind of separation” to dissolve into the truth of wholeness.
- Deepen your ability to see beyond the appearance of separateness into the indivisible substrate of ultimate reality.
- Allow the organic flow of awakening to carry you into ever deeper dimensions of freedom and fullness by simply letting go of control for a sustained period of time.
- Discover how the subtle practice of authentic surrender to what is can enable you to ultimately embrace every aspect of your experience as a window into the sacred.
IMMERSION RETREAT #4
Taking the Leap into Awakened Consciousness
Integrating the Foundations
In the final retreat of our series, we will allow the momentum of our eight weeks of practice to effortlessly carry us into the infinite depth and freedom of our true nature. Integrating the liberating insights and awakenings from the previous three retreats, we’ll spend our day immersed in a wholehearted embrace of each moment of experience as it arises, relinquishing any idea of insufficiency or lack, so that the sacred essence of reality can naturally and continuously reveal itself without obstruction.
- Deepen your ability to abide in a stance of profound contentment and experience the life-altering sense of fullness that reveals itself when we stop insisting that something is missing from this moment.
- Discover what it means to finally break through the illusion of time itself, coming to rest in the reality that this moment is the only moment there is.
- Strengthen your capacity to stay out of the way in meditation so that the current of awakening can carry you ever deeper into the mystery of Enlightenment.
- Experience the miracle of effortless meditation by allowing the momentum of your practice to take on a life of its own, leading you on a journey into a place your mind cannot go.
- Practice making room for the infinite energy and intelligence of the Cosmos to “meditate you” so deeply that you finally accept the Enlightenment that has always been here as your own true home.
Each of these retreats will be a powerful transformational journey. Taken together, they have the potential to rewire your meditation practice and enable you to become so deeply established in the miracle of awakened consciousness that it begins to permeate your life in ways unimaginable to your former self.
MEDITATION MASTERY BONUS #2:
Living Enlightenment Mentor Series:
Awakening to Conscious Evolution
Ten of today’s most inspired spiritual luminaries show you how to bring Enlightenment into every moment of your life.
Although meditation is the foundation of a spiritually awakened life, most of us yearn to find a way to bring our enlightenment off the meditation cushion and into the realities of our daily lives. In this dynamic workshop series, you’ll learn from ten of today’s leading evolutionaries about the key principles and practices that will enable you to live an enlightened life by activating the impulse of evolution in every moment.
Hosted by Craig Hamilton, this powerful series of in-depth conversations at the leading edge will make an inspiring addition to your audio library.
Guest Faculty Workshop #1:
Awakening to Your True Purpose and Vocation: An Integral Approach to Finding Your Deepest Calling and Making Your Greatest Contribution to the World
with Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jeff Salzman and David Gershon
Evolutionaries almost universally struggle with the question “how do we find our way to creating a livelihood that expresses our deepest values, greatest vision and highest contribution?”
We’ve brought together four of the world’s leading experts and brightest minds to help you fulfill this potential — leading-edge change agents who are sought after for their spiritual and practical teaching about life purpose and right livelihood.
As the discussion unfolds, you’ll discover genuine gems of wisdom that can actually move you closer to a life that reflects your true purpose and evolutionary calling. You’ll achieve clarity and motivation about a clear path to bring your calling into the world — to create true and lasting change in society.
This extraordinary group of thinkers and leaders will teach you how to:
- Navigate the tension between what you currently do for work, and what you would like to be doing
- Recognize your role in the “Great Story” of where humanity is headed
- Design a transformative change strategy for your business or for yourself, and source the motivation to implement it
- Gain deeper insight into your unconscious beliefs, and transform the ones that aren’t serving you
- And much more!
Each of these facilitators, individually revered for their wisdom about purpose and change, has a unique perspective to cast on this yearning so urgently felt by evolutionaries. For example, from David Gershon you’ll learn five key principles for forming your vocation and a framework that serves a greater purpose. Barbara Marx Hubbard’s “Theory of Social Revelation” helps you connect your creative impulse to your deeper purpose.
Jean Houston’s unparalleled work on life purpose and serving humanity is recognized the world over for its power. She’ll show you how to expand into a profound destiny that is larger than our individual aspirations and more complex than our personal dreams.
Jean Houston, Ph.D. has helped thousands of people around the world discover their deeper calling through her Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose courses.
Barbara Marx Hubbard is the co-founder and chairperson of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and the author of six books communicating the new worldview of conscious evolution.
Jeff Salzman’s “Integral Incubators” help men and women find their deepest calling and bring it profitably and successfully into the world.
David Gershon is the founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on behavior change and large system transformation.
Guest Faculty Workshop #2:
Integral Transformative Practice and the Evolution of the Whole Person
with Michael Murphy
In this audio, Esalen founder Michael Murphy shares his insights about the nature of human transformation and the future of human consciousness and evolution. In addition to hearing the story of how Integral Transformative Practice first emerged, you’ll learn:
- The key risks and benefits of “cafeteria” approach to spiritual practice
- Which supranormal abilities often show up on the spiritual path and how they can be honored more openly
- What four key aspects will shape the future of integral spiritual practice
- Why meditation alone isn’t sufficient for integral transformation
Michael Murphy is the chairman of Esalen Institute, which he co-founded with Richard Price in 1962. He is also known for helping to spark the human potential movement. Murphy is the author of many nonfiction books that explore evidence for extraordinary human capacities, including The Future of the Body and The Life We Are Given (with George Leonard).
Guest Faculty Workshop #3:
“Activating the Impulse of Evolution: How to Align Your Life with the Most Powerful Force in the Universe”
with Claire Zammit
In this evocative seminar, Feminine Power founder Dr. Claire Zammit will illuminate how you can awaken to the evolutionary impulse—the powerful creative force that animates the universe—and align with it so that your entire life is infused with deeper meaning and higher purpose. In practical yet inspiring terms, she’ll reveal how you can begin to access this vital energy and to approach life through this empowering perspective. And she’ll offer specific practices that will allow you to begin cultivating an evolutionary relationship to life today.
In this seminar, you’ll discover…
- How to infuse your entire life with deeper meaning and higher purpose by learning to access the underlying creative force of the universe—the evolutionary impulse.
- How to distinguish between healthy surrender to the evolutionary impulse and potentially destructive self-abandonment.
- The dynamic liberation that emerges through wholehearted creative participation in the evolutionary process.
- How to resolve the tension between the call to let go of control and the need to honor your commitments and responsibilities in the world.
Claire Zammit Ph.D., is an expert transformational teacher, leader, mentor and successful conscious entrepreneur. Her mission is to empower women to fully express their gifts and talents by sharing the Feminine Power teachings that she created and which she credits as the source of her own fulfillment, success and impact.
Guest Faculty Workshop #4:
Actualizing the Emerging Future
with Dr. Otto Scharmer
In this experiential workshop, Dr. Otto Scharmer’s renowned “Presencing Process” will teach you how to radically increase your leadership capacity, guide others from the known to the unknown, and tap into the reality that is wanting to emerge.
Dr. Scharmer also takes us on an extraordinary reflective adventure—”A 15-Step Journey of Stepping Into The Field of the Future”—that participants report is unlike any such exercise they’ve experienced. This remarkable journaling practice uses unusual, provocative questions designed to draw out the future that is waiting to be born—your future, and our collective future.
To be able to sense and bring forward the emerging future, Dr. Scharmer emphasizes key skills, capacities and values that you can begin to apply to your work and your life.
You’ll discover:
- They key to listening beyond our “blind spot”—that inner place that prevents us from addressing the pressing issues and challenges of the moment
- How to cultivate a quality of attention that draws forth what’s “arriving”
- Four distinct types of listening (and which kind is the most potent and catalytic)
- Why the impact of a leader’s presence and consciousness is greater than any method or tool
For three decades, Dr. Otto Scharmer has been developing and experimenting with groundbreaking approaches to systems and leadership, and has facilitated change processes at companies, NGOs, and governments across multiple continents. His reflective practices and eye-opening concepts have revolutionized “mindful leadership” and transformed countless communities and organizations worldwide. He is the author of Theory U: Leading From The Future As It Emerges.
Guest Faculty Workshop #5:
Facing the Shadow: An Integral Approach to the Dark Side of Human Nature
with Diane Musho Hamilton
Many of us have had “peak” spiritual experiences and are able to access expanded states of awareness. Yet in spite of that, we still get hung up when we encounter certain qualities in ourselves and other people. In this dialogue, gifted facilitator, mediator and Zen teacher Diane Hamilton shows us how to address this discrepancy with practices that directly address the stickier “shadow” elements of our consciousness—those unintegrated aspects of ourselves that we tend to recognize first in others.
Through her engaging descriptions and real-life examples, you’ll learn:
- The clues that reveal your own shadow is at work
- Practices for re-integrating your own shadow
- How to recognize when shadow is at work it in groups, organizations, and culture at large
- How to clarify your unique ways of “ego clinging” so that you can more effectively work with them in your practice
- How to deal with family and cultural shadow
Diane Musho Hamilton is an exceptionally gifted mediator, group facilitator, and one of the authentic contemporary spiritual teachers of our time. She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogue, especially conversations about culture, religion, race, and gender relations. Diane has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute since 2004.
Guest Faculty Workshop #6:
The New Evolutionary Leadership That Can Transform the World
A Panel Discussion with Ken Wilber, Dr. Jean Houston and Terry Patten
It’s becoming increasingly clear that today’s leaders need new capabilities to manage the immense problems we face as a species. Our challenges (and opportunities!) on crucial global issues require an utterly new level of awareness, cooperation, and courage to address successfully.
Who will step up to the plate and provide the leadership we need to make the evolutionary leap to a more sustainable, just, and healthy planet? Must we wait for our governments to get their acts together—or can each of us play a role in bringing about meaningful change, starting right now?
In this timely and relevant panel discussion, you’ll hear directly from three of our most visionary integral thinkers as they address our deepest yearning to contribute at this pivotal moment in history. Unique leaders in their own right, evolutionary thinkers Ken Wilber and Jean Houston join facilitator Terry Patten to explore how we can make the necessary cultural shift to a higher order of being. You’ll learn how to unite the “inner work” of transforming your consciousness with the “outer work” of transforming our world.
Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages, and is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his collected works published while still alive. Wilber is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development, which continues to gather momentum around the world. Some of his more popular books include Integral Spirituality; No Boundary; Grace and Grit; Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; and the “everything” books: A Brief History of Everything and A Theory of Everything.
Dr. Jean Houston, Ph.D. is a scholar, philosopher and researcher, and is also one of the principal founders of the human potential movement. A tireless teacher and dynamic speaker, Jean is the founder of the Mystery School, which is dedicated to exploring the many dimensions of human potential. A prolific writer, Jean is the author of 27 books, including A Passion for the Possible, The Possible Human, and Jump Time.
Terry Patten is a leading voice in the emerging field of Integral evolutionary leadership. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Integral Executive Leadership program at Notre Dame University and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, and serves on the board of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. A consultant and spiritual teacher, Terry is also the co-author of Integral Life Practice: A 21st- Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening. He created the Integral Spiritual Practice Online Course, and the Beyond Awakening Seminar Series.
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