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What is Integral Psychotherapy?

Informed by the integral model developed by Ken Wilber, integral psychotherapy values core truths from every clinical orientation and embraces practices from all psychotherapeutic methods. Far from a mere eclecticism, the result is a powerful and flexible system of comprehensive therapy that is as helpful to the practitioner as to the client.

"Ken Wilber is one of the greatest philosophers of this century and arguably the greatest theoretical psychologist of all time." – Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., author, Essential Spirituality

"Ken Wilber is a national treasure." – Robert Kegan, Harvard Graduate School of Education, author, In Over Our Heads

Learn the Basics of Integral Practice in Six Concentrated Days

In this groundbreaking seminar you’ll learn how to apply an integral approach to all aspects of your therapy practice: from assessment tools and intervention, to treatment planning, to deepening your own wisdom and skill as a therapist. You’ll learn how to evaluate methodologies from the full range of psychotherapeutic orientations, as well as how to apply them as any therapeutic situation warrants.

You will be challenged to build upon your own theoretical knowledge, clinical skills and personal development, through both theoretical and experiential learning. You will work directly with the field’s leading authorities, including Ken Wilber, author of the landmark book, Integral Psychology.

Join us and a select group of your colleagues in exploring the art and science of this powerful new approach to mental and emotional health.

Who Should Attend?

Integral Psychotherapy is open to clinical practitioners and students at all levels of experience, from all schools of practice. This seminar focuses on the application of Ken Wilber’s Integral Model (all quadrants, levels, lines, states and types) as it applies to the practice of psychotherapy.

Participants are assumed to have a basic knowledge of the integral framework, as well as an informed regard for the full spectrum of body, mind and spirit as they are expressed in self, nature and culture.

Seminar curriculum includes:

• Integral assessment tools: How to perform a more comprehensive evaluation of individuals, couples, families and organizations
  
  
• An integral approach to executing an effective intervention in your specific treatment setting (private practice, public mental health organization, private agency etc).
  
  
• How to integrate treatment modalities that engage the whole person, while focusing on the interior/exterior, individual/collective aspects that hold the most promise.
  
  
• Using 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person perspectives to build rapport with your client, deepen your insight into his/her issues, and enhance your ability to skillfully respond.
  
  
• Multiple intelligences: discerning your client’s strengths and weaknesses regarding cognitive, emotional, moral, interpersonal, defensive and psychosexual functioning.
  
  
• Values line of the self: how to identify your client’s dominant worldview in order to engage his/her leading edge of transformation.
  
  
• Clarifying and working with the inter-subjective dynamics of transference, projection and exchange.
  
  
• How to identify and respond to dysfunctional conditions such as dissociation, flooding, regression and trauma -- as well as typically positive states such as mystical apprehension, psychic phenomena and heightened subtle energies.
  
  
• Robert Kegan’s “immunity to change process”: how to help your clients discover the roots of conflict while “making friends” with otherwise repressed and split off dimensions of self.
  
  
• Developing “healing presence” and awareness in your own body, emotions, mind and spirit.
  
  
• How to listen more deeply to the literal and metaphoric language of your clients, facilitating you own intuition and compassionate intelligence.
  
  
• “Pointing out” instructions that facilitate the experience of transpersonal states in the context of integral psychology.
  
  
• Identifying client types: how to choose and employ typological tools such as the enneagram, MBTI, learning styles, masculine/feminine dynamics, agency/communion polarities, dialectics and integration, and levels of intimacy and relationship.
  
  
• The Integral Psychograph: how to use this powerful tool to evaluate clients (you'll also have the opportunity to explore your own psychograph!)

Psychotherapist, Heal Thyself...

Much of this seminar will apply not only to your clients, but to yourself. How can your therapeutic practice become a part of your own Integral Transformative Practice? How does your psychograph help or hinder your own chosen goals and deepest realizations?

You’ll have many opportunities to identify and engage your own healing, growth, and development. You’ll learn how to bring an integrally informed awareness to your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health--and learn how this can and will directly effect your clients.

How is the Seminar Structured?

Integral Psychotherapy is itself an example of integral practice: it is designed to engage you physically, emotionally, cognitively, interpersonally, and spiritually. We will employ a balance of theoretical and experiential, as well as individual and group, learning sessions--all woven together into a vital, comprehensive, and balanced awareness.

We will also focus on helping you develop and strengthen your own integral transformative practice, with modules including:

• Meditation and contemplation practices
• Exercise and movement
• Free time in nature
• Journaling and introspection exercises
• Self-expression and fun!

One of the primary goals of this seminar is to facilitate a community – and an on-going support system—of integrally informed practitioners.

Through the vast facilities of Integral University online (which premieres in summer 2004), you will be connected to the world's first integral psychotherapy learning community—with online events, seminars, and conferences, all designed to move the integral field forward—with your help!

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Ken Wilber is generally regarded as the world's most influential integral theorist. With 23 books translated in over 30 languages, he is also America's most widely translated academic writer, and a pioneer in integral approaches reaching from business to ecology to psychology and spirituality. Ken is founder and president of Integral Institute, and has worked closely with the Integral Psychotherapy domain in designing the curriculum for the Integral Psychotherapy seminars. He will personally facilitate three half-day sessions.

Bert Parlee is executive Vice President of Integral Institute, as well as host of the Integral Psychology domain. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a member of the American Psychological Association. Along with clinical work serving individuals, couples and groups, Bert is a personal life and executive coach, with his training from the College of Executive Coaching. He is also a principal partner with Integral Development Associates, a management consulting firm offering integrally informed solutions to organizational challenges. A published author, Bert has served in a variety of roles including lecturer, clinical supervisor and group process facilitator at John F. Kennedy University, The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and Naropa University. He also served as a crisis clinician and psychotherapist with severely disabled populations at the Boulder Mental Health Center and for ten years as Program Director at the Bridge Treatment facility for adolescents in East Oakland. Founding Chief Facilitator of the Integral Institute’s psychology domain, Bert has also served as co-trainer with Don Beck in Spiral Dynamics.

Willow Pearson, MA, LPC, MT-BC is a licensed psychotherapist and board certified music therapist in private practice. She is founder and director of Lionessroars Therapeutic Arts, an independent partnership of therapists in Boulder, Colorado providing an integral approach to psychotherapy, expressive arts therapies, and the healing arts. Willow teaches workshops and courses on Integral Art, Therapy and Consciousness to diverse learning communities, and trains practitioners in the theory and praxis of Integral Psychotherapy. Willow has worked for over a decade in various mental health and medical settings, including the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, California and the Mental Health Center of Boulder County, Colorado. An alumnae of Naropa University’s graduate program in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Willow’s undergraduate honors work at Stanford University centered on Feminist Studies, International Relations, and Health Psychology. Willow currently serves on faculty at Naropa University, where she teaches integral psychology at the graduate and undergraduate level, in the MA Transpersonal Psychology, BA Contemplative Psychology and Extended Studies departments. A founding member of Integral Institute, Willow hosts the Integral Sexuality and Gender Studies domain of Integral University, and is a contributing member of the Integral Psychotherapy and Integral Arts domains.

Jeff Soulen is a psychiatrist in private psychotherapy practice near Baltimore, MD. Rigorously trained in a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches at the Sheppard-Pratt Health System, for the past 10 years he has been a psychotherapy supervisor in the Sheppard Pratt/University of Maryland psychiatry residency program where he is sought after for his ability to teach an Integral approach addressing everything from psychopharmacology to psychodynamics to family systems to transpersonal issues. In his practice, he serves diverse individuals from the chronically mentally ill to those seeking spiritual growth. He teaches Integral theory, and its practical application in psychotherapy, in a variety of settings. Jeff is co-host of Integral Institute’s Healthcare Management domain. A Zen practitioner, Jeff studied Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Tibetan Buddhist practice with Khandro Rinpoche before coming to Zen. After several years of study with teachers at Zen Mountain Monastery, he currently studies with Steve Hagen.

Elliott Ingersoll is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Counseling, Administration, Supervision, and Adult Learning at Cleveland State University. He is licensed as a Professional Clinical Counselor and a psychologist in the state of Ohio. He has authored and co-authored 4 books, and two dozen articles and book chapters on topics ranging from Integral Theory to its infusion in counseling, spirituality, psychopharmacology, and diagnosis. He lives in Kent, OH with his wife Jennifer and son Brady.

Gene Dunaway is an attorney, musician, activist and personal growth trainer. Having earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Hendrix College and a doctorate in law from the University of Arkansas, he began his career as a trial lawyer, county and city attorney and eventually a legal services attorney serving rural Arkansas. In 1988, he left his law practice to pursue a career in the field of transformational education. He served as Director of Trainings of a major US training company, trained other trainers and designed experiential learning courses in both business and private sectors. Gene has led large group experiential learning courses throughout the US and in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia and Canada. Among topics Gene's workshops have addressed are personal effectiveness, responsibility and integrity, family, relationships, sexuality, ecology and sustainability, teambuilding, and A Course in Miracles. In 1992, he founded Sustainable Strategies, Inc. (SSI), with his wife Beverly. SSI’s work follows in the experiential learning tradition and offers participants a pragmatic orientation to the integral worldview enabling them to bring a more complete and balanced approach to creating the kinds of lives they envision for themselves. An integral activist, Gene co-founded and is current President of Friends of the North Fork & White Rivers in Arkansas, a 500-member river conservation organization devoted to creating a forum where individuals, groups and governmental agencies can work together to preserve, restore and enhance our rivers.

Diane Musho Hamilton is a mediator, group facilitator, and trainer in conflict resolution. She was the initial Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994 -1999, where she established the first mediation programs in the courts. She has extensive experience in facilitating large meetings, including public policy issues. Diane received the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award in 2001 and the Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar for outstanding work in Dispute Resolution in 2003. She was a founding member of the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution, and serves of the Board of Trustees of Utah Dispute Resolution. Diane teaches mediation at the University of Utah Law School and Communications Institute. She has been a practitioner of Buddhadharma for over 20 years. She has a Masters Degree in Contemplative Psychology from Naropa Institute, in Boulder, Colorado. She is a senior Zen student of Genpo Merzel Roshi, and serves as a facilitator of Big Mind, a process designed by Genpo Roshi to bring the insights of Zen meditation to western audiences.