Welcome to the Experience Integral Summer 2010 newsletter
In this newsletter:
Highlighted Integral Events around the Globe
Happy Summer!
Highlighting the following event:
Embodied Leadership workshop with Anouk Brack next Saturday August 21 from 3 - 6 pm in The HUB in Amsterdam. Receive a 10% discount as a friend of Experience Integral and pay €49,50. Register by replying to this newsletter or mentioning it in your registration.
We will explore the leading and following principles from Aikido and Argentine Tango and apply them to leadership and communication. ...Oozing confidence, compassion and clarity in any encounter by using the 4-part centering. In this interactive and hands-on workshop you will experience embodied leadership exercises from the wonderful work of Wendy Palmer (http://www.consciousembodiment.com/).
View all our recommended events in our calendar on http://www.experienceintegral.org/events/. If you know about an exciting event that should be in our calendar, let us know by replying to this email or fill in a contact form.
Announcing: Experience Integral Community Gathering
Join us on Saturday the 4th of September in the afternoon and evening for the second Experience Integral Community gathering.
Program:
- Open Space style workshop offerings, like embodied leadership, shadow work, Integral Freemasonry, etc
- Food & Music and Drinks
- Co-inspiring the Future of Experience Integral
Save the date! September the 4th.... Register by replying to this newsletter or filling out a contact form on the website.
PRE-Announcement: Conscious Leadership for Sustainability with Barrett C. Brown
Make the Leadership Shift from Sustainability to SustainAgility
Spend eight months with 20 sustainability veterans and pioneers deepening your consciousness and learning to cultivate superior sustainability results.
Get a glimpse of the added value of this course: all resources from this years "Conscious Leadership for Sustainability" course are available for FREE DOWNLOAD on our website. Enjoy all the good stuff.
Join the 2010 edition and benefit from the insights and added learning during the sessions. One night a month commitment. Time: 18:30 - 22:00. Dates in 2010: 19 Oct, 16 Nov, 14 Dec and in 2011: 11 Jan, 8 Feb, 8 Mar, 5 Apr, 3 May. This course is offered by the School of Synnervation in cooperation with Experience Integral. Barrett Brown, co-director of the Integral Sustainability Centre will be teaching, assisted by Anouk Brack, director of Experience Integral.
Read more and register http://www.schoolofsynnervation.nl/nl/activiteit.php?id=33
HUB Summerschool, The Netherlands
Hub Summer School 2010 is a Learning Festival that takes place from 28th of June to 27th of August in the Netherlands. Go to http://hubsummerschool.nl/ to see the extensive program with lots of cool and affordable workshops and courses for the sustainable entrepreneur and human being. For instance Rik Hoevers' workshop "Alchemy of Space" or Lara Toensmann's "An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry". Or get a 10% Friend-of-Experience-Integral Discount at Anouk Brack's Embodied Leadership workshop :-)
Integral Theory Conference 2010 in California, USA
Or join us at the second edition of the biannual Integral Theory Conference in California, USA from July 29 - August 1.
This events offers a very exciting program, key-note speaker Robert Kegan of Harvard University and lots of opportunities for networking and celebrating.
Consider signing up for one of the 12 interesting pre-conference workshops on the 28th of July.
For instance the one by our very own Experience Integral director Anouk Brack in cooperation with integral scholar and tango teacher Pelle Billing. The half-day workshop is called "The Tango of Leadership" and will be run on the afternoon of 28th of July.
Integral Education & Ecology event - Next Step Integral, CA, USA
Two seminars woven into One!
Deepening our Practice Through Integral Awareness.
Integral Education and Integral Ecology are two emerging fields, propelled by people who seek to push the envelope of what these two ways of being present and active in the world have to offer. This two-strand seminar will provide an inspiring environment to meet with colleagues and to network with a small but growing community that clearly understands that addressing a more complete spectrum of personal, cultural, and systemic realities at play in the universe is one of the most powerful ways to begin creating the changes we hope to see in the world.
Including embodiment practice moments derived from Aikido and Tango principles by Anouk Brack.
Join in: August 3–8, 2010, Mount Madonna, Watsonville CA, USA
2010: Integral Waves of Consciousness connect...
Review of the outcomes of International Symposium "Research across Boundaries"
One example of the spread of the Integral Thought and Action was the wonderful "Research across Boundaries" symposium in June at Luxembourg University. It was organized by the recently formed Institute for Integral Studies. Part of the line-up were Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Wendelin Küpers, Jonathan Reams, Mark Edwards, and many more.
The contributors are leading representatives of an array of contemporary integrative frameworks and research practices who were gathering for the first time from across the five continents and various research fields (philosophy, physics, semiotics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, business studies etc.). The goal of the symposium was to instigate dialogues among them and additional participants through plenum, small-group and open space sessions, in order to discover common concerns and stimulating differences regarding advanced boundary-crossing research approaches.
They more then succeeded in their goal! The result was an inspiring event with many new and fruitful connections made that will be a fertile ground for both a better META-integral understanding of different streams of integral research and approaches, and that will account for a better informed choice when applying an integral framework (like Wilber's) to a particular issue.
The most exciting and promising outcome for future leaders for sustainability was the blossoming collaboration between several initiatives transforming university education. Some will be forming new universities like University for Humanity and University for the Future and some operating from within the current academic system transforming the universities from the inside out. They will now cooperate in bringing their common integral values like transdisciplinarity and sustainability forward in their separate and common initiatives.
Experience Integral will be involved in the unfolding of the integral education initiatives and possibly with the facilitation of the second edition.
Review Conscious Embodiment seminar for ILR
Experience Integral is teaming up with Integral Leadership Review on announcing and reviewing interesting integral leadership events in the "Notes from the field". Read Anouk Brack's review in the FREE online journal "Integral Leadership review" about Wendy Palmer's Conscious Embodiment seminar in London this spring.
“It is not that I stay balanced all the time, I just recover so fast, nobody notices the imbalance.†–paraphrasing O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the martial art Aikido
I highly recommend Wendy Palmer’s teaching of embodied leadership through conscious embodiment practices that she skillfully derived from Aikido. Aikido means something like “the way of harmony with the life-force.†... In this particular exercise, we practice cultivating an open, welcoming field with a grounded presence while someone approaches us. Shockingly, even in a safe practice setting like the seminar, someone walking up to me to grab my wrist–symbolizing a strong intention to tell me something important–triggers all the safety patterns of closing down and tensing up.... Read on at Integral Leadership Review website...
Tips for our Dutch readers
We have 2 tips especially for our Dutch readers:
1- Check het nieuwe internet platform van Duurzaam Hoger Onderwijs(DHO) www.plado.nl over Interdisciplinair samenwerken aan duurzame ontwikkeling in het hoger onderwijs.
2- De nieuwe gratis digitale publicatie van EnlightenNext is online!
EnlightenNext staat voor een verandering van bewustzijn en cultuur.
Klik hier voor de publicatie met:
· Hoe pas je hogere waarden toe in je werk? Onze partners vertellen hoe zij een evolutionair perspectief toepassen in hun werk.
· Verticale vs. horizontale ontwikkeling. Andrew Cohen en Ken Wilber gaan diep op dit uitdagende onderwerp in.
· Waarom mediteer je? Een selectie van spiritueel leraren, acteurs en activisten vertelt.
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We appreciate it if you forward this newsletter to your friends and colleagues interested in integral, embodied leadership or sustainability. Thanx!
We want to share and multiply information and inspiration on integral leadership for sustainability; If you have resources to be added to our website, feel free to send them to anouk at experienceintegral.org.
Quote of the Season
Mission statement of R. Buckminster Fuller:
"To make the world work
for 100% of humanity
in the shortest possible time
through spontaneous cooperation
without ecological offense
or the disadvantage of anyone"
Now's your chance to provide us with your favorite wise, loving,strange or funny quotes! Submit your favorite quotes through the contact form. If we use it in the newsletter this year you will receive a 10% discount on the next Experience Integral event you attend.
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