Thursday, December 25th, at 3pm

For Members, family and friends (RSVP required)

This will be a great opportunity for all of us to celebrate the holidays together.  We hope to have some contemplative practices, as well as food, music and fun.  We highly encourage to please bring some food/drinks to share with others.

• Please send your RSVP to info@boulderintegral.org
  
• Please mention how many people/children will join and what you might be able to share with others (food and/or drinks)

Sunday, December 14th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10 (Members free)

Harvard Developmental Psychologist Robert Kegan nails the essence of human development with this insight:

“The subject of one level of development becomes the object of the subject of the next level.”

In other words, what we think of as “us”: our thoughts, our sensations, our emotions, our history, our identity, is something that we can witness as well as enact, and as we do we grow.   This is a call to practice.   In meditation, for instance, we see a feeling, say anger, as an it or series of it’s.  Instead of my anger, just … anger, arising in my body/mind as a fabric of thoughts and sensations.   Not me, but mine.

Through transformational practice we enlarge the witness — by witnessing it! — and once again what was subject becomes object(s) to a new bigger Subject, which we can capitalize because it always feels holy.   And that new  bigger subject is You, a larger dimension of yourself, which is essential your self being liberated into more space and flow.   So now You’re more you than ever, except with less grip and friction, enabling an ever-increasing flow of love, creativity and power.

On a good day, at least!

So let’s have a good day on Sunday with some exploration and  practice.   Stuart Davis will be here to shine his light on the topic as well.

Lead Teacher: Jeff Salzman

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Program format:

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting 10 am
• 11:30 – noon: Social time

Sunday, November 30th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 12/14, 12/25

THIS WEEK’S THEME: Turning: The Assent to a new Direction – with Ross Hostetter

Ascending Angels, Art by Claire J. Candry (2004)

In this Integral Spiritual Sunday, we explore a step in the transformative path, “Turning: The assent to a new direction.” What is it that makes us want to move in a new direction- to explore a new way of being? What triggers our agreement to change, aids us in the process, and keeps us moving? Through some simple practices and dialogues, we explore one aspect of  the mystery of change- the turning and assent to evolution.

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Integral Spiritual Sunday (general event description)

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.

Sunday, November 16th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 11/30, 12/7, 12/14

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.

Sunday, November 2nd, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 11/16, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.

Sunday, October 19th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 11/2, 11/16, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.

Sunday, October 5th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 10/19, 11/2, 11/16, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.

Saturday, October 18th, 9am – noon
Also on 11/6, 12/11

Steve McIntosh and Jeff Salzman have put together a three-hour program on the basics of integral theory, and what it reveals about living a life of more goodness, truth and beauty. We’ll be offering this class regularly, with more advanced classes anticipated. Intro to Integral is offered to the public. It’s a great intro for interested friends and family, as well as a chance for you to get a fresh take on some of the latest integral thinking.

Thursday, November 6th, 7 – 10pm
Suggested Donation: $15
Also on 12/11

• Heard about the Theory of Everything?
• Or evolutionary spirituality?
• Married to a someone who talks about Ken Wilber and the AQAL models?
• Or are you just bored to tears with the same old left vs right, good vs bad, yes vs no arguments we hear all around us?

Then check out Intro to Integral Theory and Practice, the class for people who want a quick, efficient download on the coolest new worldview in town.

Integral describes a philosophical system that seeks to include the gifts of all other worldviews:

• The gifts of science and religion
• The gifts of the East and the West,
• The gifts of the Ancients, the Moderns, the Post-Moderns

The goal — and indeed the result — of this integration, is a view and a way of living that is larger, deeper, more flexible and wise. At Boulder Integral we recognize this as a new stage in the on-going evolution of consciousness and human culture, and seek to explore and enact it in our lives. We are pioneering the development of various kinds of integral practices, designed to help people become more aware, in touch, and capable of skillful action.

This three hour class focuses on the key element of Integral theory: evolution. We will show patterns of history that make sense of our human heritage, and also deeply inform and inspire smarter solutions to today’s global challenges. We will also map the stages of personal evolution that starts with each of us at birth, revealing insights, and indeed energetics, that accelerate our personal evolution in real time. Soon we’re surfing the rising wave of Emergence itself!

Jeff Salzman

Steve McIntosh

Taught by Steve McIntosh, author of Integral Consciousness, and Jeff Salzman, co-founder of Boulder Integral.

Matrix Model of Transforming Conflict to Differentiation & Emergence

POSTPONED (originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 21st, 2009. 6-10pm)
Members Only

• Support the expression of differences, challenges or “rubs” between multiple pairs of people without a need for resolution
  • Understand conflict as the process of differentiation occurring through only one pair (or subgroup) of people
  • Facilitate toward expression of differences through more pairs of people
  • Avoid polarizations, fragmentation, scapegoating and other regressive versions of differentiation
• Listen for the emergent voice of the Whole / Source.
• Differentiate from the paradigm of separateness and from those beliefs and behaviors that do not serve us, our relationships or the whole

Amina Knowlan, creator of Matrix Leadership, and offered only to members of Boulder Integral, will lead this series of experiential trainings. The series will consist of four, 4-hour monthly sessions designed to complement our efforts at individual transcendence with new practices for sparking transcendence as an interconnected group. Each of the basic Matrix building blocks will be taught sequentially to replicate how they can be applied in any group context, regardless of your role as leader, facilitator or member. Read More to RSVP.

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