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"Ken is even more amazing in person than his written or spoken word. I cannot say enough about how much I enjoyed his dialectic with us. He was present, articulate, clear, and empathic. I would gladly pay a similar price for three days of interaction with him. His presentations with other seminar leaders were off the charts...." — Rollin Denniston

A Comprehensive Approach to Human Growth and Development

Human beings have always sought transformation. Though expressed in wildly different cultural contexts, people in all times and places have resonated with an innate call to liberate their contracted selves into ever-expanding dimensions of personal—and impersonal—power.

Today we are faced with an astonishing opportunity. For the first time in history we have access to all of the great transformational traditions of humanity. The elemental power of the earth-based creeds … the introspective technologies of the mystics, east and west … body- and energy-centered practices … the deeply personal revelations of theism ... the martial and aesthetic arts … all are vividly transmitted to us through the voices of their most accomplished masters.

And that’s not all. We also hold the priceless gifts of science: deep insight into our own physiology, psychology and social dynamics—plus the time, in leisure and lifespan, to make the most of it.

This new wealth of opportunity calls us to a new, comprehensive approach to human growth and development. The call is to integrate, to take a panoramic view of self, culture and nature, and to embrace the insights and tools that serve the highest potential of All.

Welcome to Integral Transformative Practice!

"When Ken interacted with us, I found myself listening and truly understanding. His use of humor and language was absolutely awesome. Time truly stood still when he answered our questions and I never tired of the interaction. It was evident that he was aware of the diversity of individuals attending the seminar and his respect for each and every one of us was deeply felt. I was amazed to watch him interact with other seminar leaders. The understanding and growth that I achieved by attending this intensive workshop was worth every bit of time, effort, and expense it took to get there...." — Luanne O-Brien

"Space has opened up within me and still, weeks later, revelations continue to pour into and through this space with a clarity I've never known...." — Venita Ramirez

The Ultimate in Cross-Training

This seminar is itself an example of integral practice, and is designed to engage you cognitively, physically, emotionally, interpersonally and spiritually. We will employ a balance of informational presentation, group process and experiential learning activities, each integrated to build from the first morning’s session to the closing day.

This seminar engages human development through the AQAL framework (all quadrants, levels, lines states and types) developed by Ken Wilber. It is presented by a team of integral practitioners drawn from a wide range of expertise. In six concentrated days you will:

• Engage a multitude of individual practices that can be employed in your own integral program.
  
  
• Design, or refine, your practice based on the “flexible module” approach, tailoring each practice to the contours of your particular abilities and personality type.
  
  
• Set clearly defined goals, and develop authentic discipline (which is fueled by intention instead of effort) to extend the benefits of the training far beyond the seminar.
  
  
• PLUS, 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 practice learning community—with online events, seminars, and conferences, all designed to move the integral field forward—with your help!

Who Should Attend This Training?

Integral Transformative Practice is open to anyone who yearns to weave the concepts of integral theory into the fabric of their everyday life. Dedicated practitioners as well as newcomers to integral practice are equally welcome.

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.

Design a Personal, Integral Practice Using the Full Range of Human Transformational Wisdom …

Meditation, prayer and contemplation: We will emphasize cultivating awareness, connection and enlightened action in all aspects of life. Centering prayer and meditation assist in this goal, so we will explore several contemplative styles (each well suited to westerners). We will also work with a variety of awareness-in-action exercises.

Yoga, movement and martial arts: These modules, each led by master teachers, are designed to restore a healthy and harmonious flow to your body’s subtle energy systems and to elevate your spirits. No experience or expertise required!

The care and feeding of the body: We start with a radical notion: love your body the way it is. This opens the flow of your body’s native intelligence regarding nutrition, exercise, sleep and the relief of physical imbalances of all kinds.

Feelings, moods and emotions: Together we’ll explore traditional and contemporary practices proven to relieve anxiety and depression, and to foster peace of mind. You’ll learn simple yet powerful methods to transmute the pain of difficult emotions into illuminating wisdom and skillful action.

Relating to others: We will explore practices that will help you open your eyes, mind and heart to other people – even difficult ones. You’ll learn how to replace judgment with discriminating wisdom, which invites new possibilities of relating more positively, productively and joyfully with everyone you meet.

Authentic self-expression: Many high-potential people suffer from what Maslow called the “Jonah complex”: the fear of their own personal greatness. At this program you’ll learn how to identify and express your true gifts, and to show up in a way that honors the highest potential in everyone involved – including yourself.

Creativity and aesthetic practice: At this seminar you’ll engage in practices designed to awaken your appreciation for life as it is, and to express your realization without struggle. You’ll also learn the secrets of “prana on the brain”: how to access your own genius and creativity on demand.

The purpose of this training is not to perfect yourself, but to transform yourself – into what you already are! You’ll learn how to stop struggling to “make things happen” in favor of something far better: harnessing what is already happening under its own power. Life is infinitely generous … learn how to relax and let IT live YOU!

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Integral Transformative Practice will be presented by Integral Institute's premier team of ITP master practitioners, including Ken Wilber, who will personally lead three sessions throughout the week.

Ken Wilber is generally regarded as the world's most influential integral theorist. With 23 books in over 30 languages, he is also America's most widely translated academic writer, and a pioneer in integral approaches to everything from business to psychology to spirituality and to practice. He has worked closely with Bert Parlee, Brett Thomas, Diane Hamilton, Huy Lam, Terry Patten, Shawn Phillips, Willow Pearson and other leaders in the Integral Practice domains at Integral Institute in designing the curriculum for this series of seminars. He will personally facilitate three 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.

Brett Thomas is the research and development director for the Stagen Leadership Institute where he serves R&D head, strategist, consultant, facilitator, and executive coach. He is also Co-Director of the Integral University Business and Leadership Center. Educated at Pepperdine University, Coach University, and Advanced Neuro Dynamics, Brett is a 15-year veteran of the human potential field. He has facilitated hundreds of workshops, consulted with and developed dozens of custom training programs for corporations, and has logged more than 5,000 coaching hours supporting CEOs, executives and entrepreneurs. Brett’s specialties include integral practice, high performance, leadership, accelerated learning, innovation and change. He has pursued integral practice for years and has many passions, including: Zen meditation, Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism), Shaolin Kung Fu, rock climbing, white water kayaking, snowboarding, hiking, camping, music (DJing and producing) and documentary video. Brett is married with two daughters.

Zen master Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944. In 1972, after spending a year in the mountains of California in solitary retreat, Genpo Roshi started formal Zen training at the Zen Center of Los Angeles, under Maezumi Roshi. He was ordained a monk by Maezumi Roshi in 1973 and given the title Hoshi (Dharma-Holder) after completing Koan study in 1979. In 1980, Genpo Roshi received Shiho (Dharma Transmission) from Maezumi Roshi, followed by Zuisse (Empowerment Ceremony required to become an abbot) in Japan in 1981. In the following year he began to conduct retreats in England, Holland, Poland, France, and Germany. In 1984, he left Los Angeles to devote himself completely to the international community of students he named "Kanzeon Sangha." This Sangha now includes thousands of members in the United States and Europe. In 1988, Genpo Roshi completed Shinsanshiki (installation as abbot) at Hosshinji Temple in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 1991 he moved to Oregon and in 1993, at the invitation of the Wasatch Zen Group, he relocated Hosshinji (Kanzeon Zen Center) to Salt Lake City, Utah. Genpo Roshi received the certificate of Dendokyoshi Kenshuso in 1995 at Green Gulch Farm in California. In October of 1996, he received Inka from his elder Dharma brother, Bernie Glassman Roshi, in New York City. Roshi Bernie had received Inka from Maezumi Roshi shortly before the latter's death in May of 1995. In 1999, after studying voice dialogue with Hal and Sidra Stone from 1983 - 1984, Genpo Roshi discovered the Big Mind Process. This method allows anyone who wishes to open their mind to a more universal consciousness to do so in a relatively short amount of time. Individuals or groups are able to do so quite easily without any previous formal Zen training. It is a non-threatening technique which uses the ego instead of trying to destroy it. Genpo Roshi has established a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that brings the Big Mind Process out to the world. Genpo Roshi's written work includes, The Eye Never Sleeps:Striking to the Heart of Zen; Beyond Sanity and Madness: The Way of Zen Master Dogen; and 24/7 Dharma: Impermanence, No-Self, Nirvana.

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.

Huy Lam serves as Co-Director of the Integral Transformative Practice Center at Integral University. Huy is a martial artist, teacher, businessman, dancer, rock climber, and snowboarder. He is also currently working as the CFO of the Integral Institute. Huy began his career in finance, working with high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. It was during this time that he started his martial arts practice by joining a Tai Kwon Do class. After just over a year, he felt the need for something deeper and discovered Shaolin Kung Fu. It was the body, mind & spirit connection of kung fu that inspired him to explore the realm of ITP. He recently has been having fun developing and teaching a martial arts module at the Integral seminars. His practices include Kung Fu, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, meditation, mindful relationships & parenting, spontaneous dancing, and attempting to keep up with Ken and all the work at I-I. Huy currently lives in Boulder, with his wife (Jackie), daughter (Sky), two Labradors (Kenai & Jahla) and a few dozen tropical fish (red ones, blue ones, yellow ones…).

Shawn Phillips is an author, business leader and internationally respected expert in the area of health and fitness. For the past 15 years he has helped athletes, celebrities and tens of thousands of people achieve strong, healthy bodies. Sharing passion, vision and genes with his younger brother Bill, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Body-for-LIFE, Shawn helped to build the most successful company in performance nutrition, EAS. Through the advent of the cutting-edge publication Muscle Media magazine, the documentary movie Body-of-Work, and the Body-for-Life Transformation Challenge (which has inspired more than one million to transform their bodies, and consequently their lives) Shawn has been instrumental in expanding awareness and involvement in physical fitness. Shawn has appeared on numerous magazine covers, and photos of his physique have been featured in over 100 magazine articles over the past 10 years. A widely published author on the topics of training, nutrition, and the peak-performance mindset, his most recent book ABSolution—The Practical Solution for Building Your Best Abs, was an instant fitness bestseller. While best known to many for his signature “six-pack abs,” Shawn is better known by his family, close friends, and co-workers as a focused, hard-working, soft-spoken man with a kind heart and an intense passion for helping people reach their full potential. Shawn lives in the foothills of Colorado with his wife Angie and their son, Nathaniel. Shawn’s commitment to intentional physical training as a foundation for the full expression of human potential, along with his unending search for deeper meaning has contributed to an evolving, integrative approach to training. It is here, at this next-level incarnation of training where Shawn is currently focused, expanding the reach of integral practice through the physical domain with a new book and comprehensive transformation program.

Terry Patten serves as Co-Director of the Integral Practice Center at Integral University. For fifteen years (1973-1988) Terry was a student and editor for Adi Da during which time he co-authored (with Adi Da and Saniel Bonder) the book Garbage and the Goddess and served as founding editor of The Dawn Horse, Vision Mound, and The Laughing Man magazines. During that time, his work and service ranged from presenting public events and courses to community relations and sales to producing large musical performances and recordings. Terry is best known as the founder and guiding spirit behind the Tools For Exploration catalog, which first gathered in one place the many emerging brain-mind machines, subtle energy tools, and other cutting-edge technologies for expanding awareness. During this time (1988-1998) he co-authored (with Dr. Julian Isaacs) A Double-Blind Study of the Biocircuit, a Putative Subtle Energy Device, co-designed various biofeedback tools and psycho-acoustic recordings, and managed the development of Heartmath?s Freeze-Framer Heart Rate Variability Monitor. Terry is an entrepreneur, investor, and consultant. He's also a writer, teacher and coach and a grassroots conservationist. Since selling Tools For Exploration in 1998, he has co-directed two grassroots environmental organizations, one of which, Old-Growth Again, demonstrates a new economic model for sustainable Redwood forestry. He currently lives in San Rafael, California with his wife and son where he is working on a book about integral practice.

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, based in Boulder, Colorado, where she provides integral psychotherapy and voicework. Willow teaches workshops and courses on Integral Artistry to diverse learning communities and trains practitioners in the theory and praxis of Integral Psychotherapy. As a vocal artist, recording artist, and composer, Willow has performed with her band, at national and international music venues. Her most recent CD, Burning, was released in December 2003, through her independent label Lionessroars Productions. In practicing the therapeutic and musical arts, Willow draws on her integral training in shamatha vipassana meditation, tonglen, and ashtanga yoga. Willow has worked for over a decade in various mental health and medical settings, including the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, California, the Mental Health Center of Boulder County, Colorado, and Boulder Community Hospital – where she founded the Music Care Program in 1999. An alumna of Naropa University’s graduate program in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Willow’s undergraduate honors work at Stanford University centered on the intersection of Feminist Studies, International Relations, and Health Psychology. Willow currently serves on faculty at Naropa University, where she teaches integral psychology and the creative arts at the graduate and undergraduate levels. A founding member of Integral Institute, Willow directs the Center for Integral Sexuality and Gender Studies, co-directs the Center for Integral Psychotherapy and is a contributing member of the Center for Integral Arts at Integral University.