‘…what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man’s existential problems change. These systems alternate between focus upon the external world, and attempts to change it, and focus upon the inner world, and attempts to come to peace with it, with the means to each end changing in each alternatively prognostic system. Thus, man tends, normally, to change his psychology as the conditions of his existence change. Each successive state, or level of existence, is a state through which people pass on the way to other states of equilibrium. When a person is centralized in one state of existence, he has a total psychology which is particular to that state. His feelings, motivations, ethics and values, biochemistry, degree of neurological activation, learning systems, belief systems, conception of mental health, ideas as to what mental illness is and how it should be treated, preferences for and conceptions of management, education, economic and political theory and practice, etc., are all appropriate to that state.’We’ll spend a couple of hours together looking at an introduction to Spiral Dynamics, and discussing how we might recognise the implications of the model in the world, amongst peoples.

New location on Sunday 18th March 2012, 2pm – 4pm, upstairs at the Friend in Hand Hotel, on Cowper St, just off Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Hop off bus 431 and 432 from Central Station at the Glebe Public School, and we’re a short wander down the road.

Some introductory material:
Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap
http://www.clarewgraves.com/articles_content/1974_Futurist/1974_Futurist.html

The Many Dimensions of Change:
http://www.spiraldynamics.net/the-many-dimensions-of-change.html

Where are the women? A SDi approach:
http://integralleadershipreview.com/3732-where-are-the-women-saging-the-invisible-into-the-visible-2

It will be wonderful to engage with you, for our first 2012 event.
See you there! ♥

Start down the path of becoming a Certified Integral Coach™ today!

 “Although we’ve seen several consulting and coaching programs developed using the AQAL framework and we appreciate all of them, we found Integral Coaching Canada’s program to be definitely the most complete and the most comprehensive, in a really profound way. I’m so glad to see what you’ve done with the Integral framework for Coaching. It’s really just an inspiration.” – Ken Wilber

Integral Coaching Canada is finally coming to Sydney, Australia! Module 1 will be taught by two of ICC’s most esteemed teachers:

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and Suzy Lister.

This first cohort of coaches has the potential to become the inaugural group of ICC certified Integral Coaches™ in Australia.

Become a part of ICCʼs global coaching lineage. Module 1 seamlessly combines a fully integrated and elegant approach to embodied Integral Theory, coaching excellence, and human development  through experiential and applied learning methods.

Over five months you will coach two clients working with a Certified Integral Coach™ behind you  every step of the way, leaving you able to carry out this coaching method with your clients.

This is an opportunity not to be missed.

Module 1: A true apprenticing training over five months.

Module 2: Experience embodied Integral Coaching® over nine months of study.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Session 1: March 12 – 16, 2012

Session 2: August 28 – 30, 2012

Led By: Sean Esbjörn-Hargens & Suzy Lister

Register Now!   www.integralcoachingcanada.com

http://isn.org.nz/events/ilp/

Auckland Integral & Integral Spiritual Network introduces an opportunity to discover yourself in light and shadow, spirit and body, woven into relationship with those around you.

Live Freely and Fully!

The team will guide you into a series of experiential encounters designed to awaken you to the broadest sense of your self and anchor that experience in a set of practices you can bring into your own life.

Highlights:

* Learn to design an Integral Life Practice
* Practice yoga and the three bodies
* Discover Self and Shadow in relationship
* Experience Integrative Community
* Rest as Big Mind Big Heart
* Ethics, rhythm and a little theory

Presenters

Philip Oude-Vrielink is a skilled facilitator who genuinely cares about people and deepening human dignity, he is passionate about helping people to know themselves and to empower themselves. Philip is a student of Genpo Roshi, the developer of the Big Mind Big Heart method. He is authorised and endorsed to run Big Mind Big Heart workshops in Australia and New Zealand. He loves the Big Mind Big Heart work and feels grateful for the opportunity to make Big Mind Big Heart available to people. For well over a decade he has been a yoga and meditation teacher and more recently, a wellness educator.

Tim Mansfield is a priest, facilitator and futurist. He is a founder of Sydney Integral in Sydney, Australia and is the leader of a gnostic Christian community called Saint Uriel’s. He runs a research project at the Queensland University of Technology which investigates how to train small to medium organisations to think creatively about the future.

Tamara Androsoff is a integral psychotherapist, coach & relationship coach.  She is the founder of Auckland Integral and the co-founder of South Pacific Integral.  She is passionate about supporting the growing up and waking up of humanity while having as much fun as possible.

Wayne Frecklington is a psychotherapist, yoga practitioner and zen meditator – but mostly a Dad.  Yoga branding can sometimes be confusing.  Skilful yoga is adapted to its purpose.  Wayne’s style combines gentle movements with strong emphasis on breath.

Andrew Rockell is a spiritual director, meditation coach, and Enneagram mentor.

When and Where
What    Integral Life Practice Weekend
When    29 October 2011: 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and optional evening
30 October 2011: 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Where:

Bella Rakha Retreat Centre
581 West Coast Rd
Oratia
Auckland
Cost

* Early Bird: $225 (registered and paid by 10 Oct)
* Standard: $250 after that day
* This includes: ILP sessions, Morning and Afternoon Tea, Lunch, Dinner Saturday night
* Bella Rakha offers a residential option for Saturday night. Additional cost is $50.

Payment and Registration

Please Register here and

* Transfer the money to 12-3100-0129649-02 or
* make a paypal payment to accounts@isn.org.nz
* Please use your name as reference.

Contact for Enquiries

* For more information or to book, please contact:
* Andrew Rockell, info@isn.org.nz

Engaging in old-fashioned story telling about my lived experience on this retreat, you’re invited to come along for a casual conversation over lunch at the Toxteth Hotel in Glebe, this coming Sunday, where we might enquire together into the means and ways through which we might call on some of the learnings from this event, so as to enrich our participation in both the crucible of Sydney Integral, and perhaps our lives in the greater sense, participating in the rich and diverse communities of the world – the workplaces, interest groups, families, intentional communities already existent, where we enact.

Orientation to the community embrace seems an essential part of our lives as integrally-enlivened beings, please come and join us to discuss the practices, means and avenues down which we might wander together, as One person, united in being, manifest across the many and all, dimensions of our lives.

Folks who haven’t come along to a Sydney Integral Event before, but who are interested in finding out more about how an Integral approach to community life might enrigh participation for yourself-and-others are more than welcome to come along and take part.

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday.

What: Sydney Integral Community – raising the discussion field

Where: Media Room, Toxteth Hotel, 345 Glebe Point Rd, Sydney

When: Sunday 11 September, 2011 at 1pm

Who to contact: Trish Nowland on 0404 8494 38 or on email nowlandtr@gmail.com.

There won’t be enough time in the workshop to go into all of the material in depth, so I’m presenting here some of the notes that will go with the activities we’ll do on the afternoon.

Below are eight characteristics of an experiential process step, compiled from one of Gendlin’s books, ‘Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy’ (1996). They give a taste of the sort of territory that you might expect to cover as we wander together along the edges of the first person process that is not a perspective, through the characteristics, of what you might expect to find, in Focusing:

1) A directly sensed source – sometimes showing up as the return of an image or a sense from a dream, sometimes an acknowledged upwelling of the place from which tears might spring, sometimes, in conversation, an admitting-in of the thing that we’re trying to explain, or ‘get at’ – all these movements point to the existence of a direct access point, having an earlier origin than our interpretations would usually allow ‘in’. This is a key element to the Focusing process – a border zone between known, and unknown.

2) An initial lack of clarity – the direct source is direct, but it’s also unclear – fuzzy, vague, indefinable, however present. The unclear is different from experiencing an emotion, having it’s own, unique quality. Unclear edges frequently become hard to find, in talking therapies, mostly due to the pace at which we communicate, which does not typically allow for the silent space where unclear edges can truly emerge.

3) Occurring in a bodily way – while the unclear edge does not need to start or stop, as a felt sense, the body will be a reference point by which a link to the unclear edge can be identified. In beginning the practice, the best way to attend to this is to turn the attention inwards, into the viscera of the body. The felt sense, here, is not definable content. We’re used to separating out our experience, into categories, ‘thinking’, ‘feeling’, ‘understanding’, ‘imagining’. Focusing shows us, quite directly, that these are somewhat false distinctions and a felt sense, particularly, is different from all these. A felt sense is always new.

4) A felt sense is a whole – an intricate whole, a multiplicity present in a single felt sense. The felt sense is something that we have, not something that we are, and sometimes an immense relief comes with this acknowledgement.

5) Change steps come from the felt sense – an unmistakeable, definitive shift comes with a felt sense – there is a process available by which we can acknowledge change.

6) A step will bring you closer to being yourself – the sense-of-self is different from before, and always renewed, as a step by step development of a centered whole. Continually, through Focusing, we are made aware that we are not the felt sense. Through this, we become more deeply, ourselves.

7) Steps are in the direction of growth – in a time where ‘growth’ sits as a somewhat socially inept term, Focusing reveals a non-legislated, but consistent, growth pattern, in our own awareness. Gendlin (1996) distinguishes growth from catharsis, the sense of sloughing off uncontrollable emotional anger or fury through physical and verbal expression. Distinct from this process, Focusing takes us deeper into our own existence, rather than extinguishing parts of it – catharsis returns us to a state of homeostasis, whereas Focusing takes us closer to the source of that homeostasis. Life energy, interest in own process, positive stirrings, inside, central elements become revealed, and we are made aware that they are far from static.

8′) Steps can only be explained retroactively – process steps are always more finely grained and more textured than we can expect. A key learning of participating in a Focusing dyad over the past six months for me has been that the sessions never, ever come in the way that I expect. With this is an acknowledgement that the logic that we might ascribe to the process steps is always retroactively available and applied – progression in this process is only ever available, in hindsight.

Ref:

Gendlin, E. (1996). Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method. New York: The Guildford Press.

Attendees were, John O’Neill (from Kurri Kurri), Anthony Smith (Terrigal) and Trisha Nowland (from Sydney but granted an informal membership to the area to help get things moving).  It was agreed to meet again in about 6 months; time, date and place for the next meeting are yet to be confirmed but those details will be made available.

The small group affirmed their interest in developing a Network for this area and then went on to discuss a wide range of topics under the general ‘Integral’ banner. Topics ranged across; Integral and Business – and Global Economy, Research Psychology, and Buddhism, Christianity and Spirituality.

Discussion also included vision for a future Central Coast Hunter community. We discussed ways to engage with the integral models in our own lives, in our participation in the integral community, and into the broader world.

Central Coast Integral Meeting

Contact details:

Anthony Smith – anthonysmsmith12@gmail.com.au

(02) 4384 6841

John  O’Neill      –  jto@hotkey.net.au

(02) 4937 3846

Tom Dunser and Tamara Androsoff from the Auckland Integral Leadership team went through Pacific Integral’s (Seattle, USA) innovative GTC (Generating transformative change) program last year.  We were so impressed with the results and the program that we talked Pacific Integral into bringing it to this side of the world so more people could benefit from participating.  So…

“GTC is certainly something that I recommend.” – Ken Wilber

Do you feel your own call to greater leadership and expression? It happens differently for each of us. You may be preparing yourself for a life change or launching a new career. You may sense that something deeper is required of you – and want to align and fully use your capacity to serve what calls. Or perhaps you sense that you see more and feel more than those around you – you seem to speak a different language and feel a different pull to life and what truly matters. You may have been deeply engaged in your own development and growth. You may even see yourself as an evolutionary leader at work or in your community, or simply wherever you are.

The nine-month Generating Transformative Change learning experience is research-proven to rapidly develop individual and leadership capacities and allow you to step forth with greater impact, whether you want to be a better leader of your own life or to serve more effectively as a leader in your work, community or family.

If this is your time to move to the next level of your own consciousness and action with others who wish to make a positive difference in your world; if you are ready to put what matters to you on the line and step into greater service in your area of work, we invite you to apply for the first ever cohort be formed in New Zealand & Australia.

“The core teachers are among the most skilled, mindful and dedicated teachers that I know … training a cadre of people who are integrally informed, deeply aware of themselves, culturally attuned, and committed to transformational action in the world.”

-Susanne Cook-Greuter

When you participate with us in GTC you will:

· Advance yourself in your particular area of interest, talent, and work in the world through active experiments, which move you toward fulfilment of your dream or vision

· Be supported to grow by a highly skilled faculty and a like minded group of people

· Advance your ability to collaborate and develop relationship and community.

· Understand your level of development by working with the leading researched-based framework on adult evolution and accelerate your movement to a new developmental stage.

· Increase your capacity to understand and shift perspectives, improving your ability to inspire and communicate with others

· Increase creativity, innovative thinking, and the ability to collaborate in life and work

· Transform and Change deeply held worldviews, assumptions, values, habits, and patterns

· Access new levels of authenticity for expanded communication and contribution

· Build skills in integral assessment, complex problem-solving, awareness, intervention, and conscious leadership

· Be part of an expanding, worldwide integral community

The GTC program consists of 4, four-day residential learning retreats (Thursday – Sunday), plus group and one-on-one interaction online and by phone, between the intensive retreats.  The first and final retreat will be held just outside of Sydney and the second & third retreat will be held in New Zealand.

Join us on July 16^th, 2011 for a live one-hour conference call to learn about GTC and get your questions answered.  GTC faculty (Terri O’Fallon, Venita Ramirez & Geoff Fitch)  and alumni mentors will be on the call to give you a taste and overview of GTC and to engage in conversation about the questions and aspirations you have.

Conference call times:

      Location               Date/Time                                    Dial In number      Dial In PIN

• NZ                   Sat 16 July 11 12:00 – 13:00        0800 449 288       67800123#
• AU/East           Sat 16 July 11 10:00 – 11:00        1800 779 482       67800123#
• Seattle             Fri 15 July 11 17:00 – 18:00         1866 814 5210     67800123#

To register for the conference call email us at gtcsp@pacificintegral.com

Apply before July 17, 2011 and receive $500 early registration discount.   

For more information please contact Tamara or Tom on gtcsp@pacificintegral.com

Learn more about the GTC program.

On:  Saturday July 2, at 1pm

At: Aromas on Sea Restaurant at 40 Terrigal Esplanade , Terrigal.

This meeting is for anyone who might be interested, particularly anyone living north of Sydney in the Central Coast/Newcastle/Hunter regions. Sydneysiders are of course also welcome, as are partners and friends.

The aim of the lunch/meeting is to establish some contacts and links between those interested in the Integral field broadly, living north of the Hawkesbury.

It also will be an initial informal, relaxed opportunity to discuss:

If, how, when, how often, where and to what purpose we may like to have continuing contact among integral students/practitioners/enthusiasts in these regions. 

If you’d like to come along and sample the vibrant and lively conversation that is building amongst the Integral voices in the Hunter/Central Coast region, please follow the links on the ‘About’ page, on this website, to join the Sydney Integral Yahoo group, to RSVP, and find out more details.

It will be lovely to have your company.

This is her invitation:

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to inform and invite you to 3 day Leadership Maturity Framework Workshop that will be conducted from 6th to 8th of July.

I have been working and co-facilitating LMF workshops with Dr Susanne Cook-Greuter for last 5 years, and this is a first time that I will be conducting Module 1 on my own.
Module 1 is workshop in its own right as well as part of 3 Module training required for full certification as an LMF Developmental Coach that Dr Susanne Cook-Greuter and I will continue co-facilitating once a year in March.

Modules can be taken all together in a sequence or separately.

The three module cycle consists of the following topics:

Module 1: Deep dive into ego development theory and exploring your own stage of consciousness and its influence on your work and relationships.
Module 2. Language as a mirror of meaning making.
Module 3: Developmental coaching, practice and qualifying review.

Overall, the LMF offers a subtle and comprehensive developmental stage model for understanding how people and groups make different sense of world, their roles, opportunities and conflict situations depending on their level of maturity.

LMF uses the term “action logic” as well as “stage of development” to describe the different ways of meaning making adults commonly use.
Each action logic is a coherent and internally consistent belief system that describes how its proponents are likely to think, feel, and behave in various life situations.
The LMF describes nine action logics of increasing complexity, each one more effective, insightful, and integrated than the previous one. Each action logic also has its own strength and vulnerabilities.

In light of the emerging interest in spiritual and ethical dimensions of leadership, the LMF makes the most subtle and explicit distinctions at the high-end of the personal developmental spiral and includes ego-transcendent perspectives.

It provides a proven and practical approach to designing development plans for individual and team effectiveness.

I would be delighted to have you join us for these three days of personal and professional growth and exploration of human development in all its complexity, simplicity, confusion and glory.

This workshop is designed for leaders and professionals who are working in the field of leadership and development and is an essential developmental tool for ourselves as agents of change and transformation.

Leadership Maturity Framework and Profile complements and brings more clarity to many other diagnostic tools that are currently used in the field of leadership development.
Looking through an integral and developmental lens, we start to understand ourselves and others better, make more distinctions and get insights into some of the confusion or contradiction that we may have experienced with these tools in the past.

Workshop is limited to small groups of participants, maximum 10, so we encourage you to book early to secure your place.

Full information about the workshop is in the attached flyer.

For those of you who would be travelling to Sydney and need hotel accommodation, special rates are arranged with Medina where the workshop will be conducted.
And for those of you who live in Sydney and will be driving, free hotel parking has been arranged.

I hope you can join us and be part of this exciting opportunity to learn and grow together!
Please feel free to forward this information to others whom you think would find value in this training.

The flyer can be downloaded here: http://sydneyintegral.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/1st-lmf-workshop-for-personal-and-professional-development.pdf

What:  Sydney Integral Planning Meetings 2011

When: 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Sunday 23rd & Sunday 30th January, 2011

Where: Forest Lodge Hotel Cafe
117 Arundel St, Glebe
http://www.forestlodgehotel.com.au/html/forest_lodge_hotel_cafe.html
The cafe is towards the back of the bar.

Sydney Buses that run along Parramatta Rd and that stop at the corner of Ross St include 461, 413, 412, 483, 438, 440. The Hotel is a short walk along Ross St and up the hill to Arundell St.

Why:    Please come along and be a part of the body of people who help to decide and who action the events and presence of Integral in our local community. The first meeting will be focussed on drawing together thoughts and feelings about the sorts of ways we can ‘be’ Sydney Integral, together.  The second meeting is oriented to grounding the actions and roles that emerge from the first meeting.

You’re very welcome to come along to either or both of the meetings. If you’re unable to come along, and you would like to contribute some thoughts as to how you’d like to see and be a part of the shape of the group in 2011, please post a return to this thread, or send through your suggestions to nowlandtr@gmail.com. I’m very interested in hearing from people who are geographically distant from Sydney, but who might like to participate in Skype discussions using Integral reading material as a conversation focus, for example.

Reminders and an agenda will be sent out a week before the first meeting, but in the meantime if you have any queries or questions please return a response to this thread, send an email to nowlandtr@gmail.com, or call me on my mobile, 0404 84 94 38.

Our meeting of 2010