Dear Friends,

We hope very much that this New Year showers upon you rich blessings of love, peace, meaning, sacred friendships, work that you enjoy doing, good health and plenty time to play!

We have some great events lined up, all in favour of our ever-deepening beauty, goodness and truth, starting with an introduction to Integral Law, with Mark Fischler of Plymouth State University, NH.  You do not need to be a lawyer to come to this presentation!  We can all participate in taking the most valuable integral perspective on ethics, justice and many other relevant areas that impact our lives through the legal system.  Hopefully, this year truly is the year of Change.  So, please come!

We also want to say a special Thank You to all who joined our Christmas Party with great food and drinks.  Thank you for taking the time to cook, bake, shop and show up with such beautiful spirit, grown-ups and kids!  We feel a few more parties should be lined up!  Any excuses?  Let us know!

More events are coming up next year, including a 3-day workshop with Dr. Don Beck on applying Spiral Dynamics to real world situations (March 6 - 8, 2009) and “New Wineskins: an Integral Approach to Christianity,” with Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Sr. Theresa Monroe, R.S.C.J., and Fr. David McCallum, S.J. in the fall of 2009.  More details soon…

For questions, comments, please write to info@boulderintegral.org. And friends, we are a learning organization, and we value your feedback very much!  Please take 10 minutes to do the Boulder Integral survey.  Thank you to all of you who already took it.  We will be reviewing your feedback soon!

Once again, Happy New Year!

Peace and Love,
From everybody at Boulder Integral
~Jeff
~Ross
~Mary
~Jason
~Nomali

Upcoming Events

• 1/6   Integral Law: An Exploration of its Meaning and Application, with Mark Fischler
• 1/16 - 18  Mondo Zen: Revealing the True Nature of Mind through Integral Zen Dialogue, with Jun Po Denis Kelly, Roshi
• 1/20   Creating We-Space: Matrix: Foundation of Interconnected Groups
• 1/21   Attunement, Integral psychology, and developmental neurobiolgy: Practical applications with clients, lovers, children, and friends, with Dr. Keith Witt
• 2/6 - 8 Holacracy: An Evolutionary Approach to Organizational Development and Governance, with Brian Robertson & Tom Thomison

Please see below for more event details and announcements on a new book release by Keith Martin-Smith and free onetime-only online magazine offer from EnlightenNext.  If you have any questions, please send an email to info@boulderintegral.org.

Boulder Integral Inc. is a 5O1C3 nonprofit organization. Please support our efforts in developing an Integral community by becoming a
monthly paying member. Thank you!

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In the New Year!

Ken Wilber Study Group

Friday 1/2, 3pm

This week’s chapter is “Miracle of We” from Integral Spirituality, by Ken Wilber.  The group will be led by Elizabeth Smith.

Every other Friday we host a Ken Wilber Study Group, to get a deeper understanding of the foundational work that has inspired today’s international integral movement.  Everybody is welcome, from those who have not yet read Ken Wilber to those who are experts.  Please note: Mr Wilber is not a participant of this group.

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Integral Law: An Exploration of its Meaning and Application, with Mark Fischler, J.D., Plymouth St. University

Tuesday 1/6, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
$10 (Free to Members)

Whether you are a lawyer or non lawyer, laws and those who practice law effect our lives no matter what we do. The following presentation will apply the basic model of Integral Theory to the practice of law. Utilizing this approach we will demonstrate it’s usefulness in creating a more comprehensive practice and approach to legal problems. By creating a more comprehensive practice, the level of lawyer and client satisfaction will rise as a result. In addition, we will begin to explore the limited nature of the interpretative models currently relied on by our Courts; revealing in the process how an integral approach to interpretation is therefore a more whole and just approach to legal interpretation.

Mark James Fischleris currently an Assistant Professor of criminal justice at Plymouth State University in NH. He teaches primarily criminal procedure and ethics to undergraduate students. Before teaching, Mark practiced law as a NH Public Defender for three-and-a-half years representing indigent people accused of criminal acts. He also worked as Guardian Ad Litem representing the best interests of children in divorce cases. His principle mentor as an attorney in style and approach is trial attorney Gerry Spence (a teacher of his). After leaving the law Mark went out on a personal journey for a year and a half working in the Buddhist and Toltec traditions and upon return joined the Plymouth State University faculty.

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Mondo Zen: Revealing the True Nature of Mind Through Integral Zen Dialogue
Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi

Friday, January 16, 2009, 6:30pm (Open to all)
$15 ($10 for members)

Saturday, January 17 - Sunday, January 18 (Weekend workshop)
$189 ($149 for members)
Registration at the gate: Check or cash only please

Rinzai Zen is known for its rigorous practice in attaining penetrating insights into our own True Nature.  Even for those who live in monasteries, it can take years to integrate these insights. Come experience a taste of the True Nature of Mind in a single evening! Enter into a group Zen dialogue with Jun Po Roshi and experience Ego Deconstruction which opens you to more creative and fearless perspectives. Taste what Ken Wilber in Integral Spirituality calls Turiya - the Freedom of Radical Emptiness. Learn how “your angst is your liberation” - and embody in your life what Ken calls Turiyatita and Radical Fullness.

The penetrating and enlightening Integral protocols of Mondo Zen will be led by Jun Po Denis Kelly, Roshi, first dharma heir of Eido Shimano Roshi. Jun Po is Abbot of Hollow Bones Zen. He has returned to the roots of Rinzai Zen and revitalized the Koan practice in a way that is truly Integral, unique and graspable for western minds like ours. Spend a fruitful and humorous evening with Jun Po Roshi and experience Mondo Zen.  Join us to learn more about Jun Po’s innovative, Integrally Informed and Integrally Embodied approach to Zen that enriches and deepens any spiritual practice.  Come - and One Taste! Read more…

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Creating We-Space: Matrix: Foundation of Interconnected Groups

Tuesday, 1/20, 6-10 pm
For Boulder Integral Members Only

* Establish a Matrix of Person-to-Person Communication in the Group
o Form the foundation for a highly inclusive, open system
o Build a Ground of Health - a key to sustainability
o Discover connections as ordinary human beings
o Return to what is simple, enjoyable, satisfying or appreciative
* Access the Intelligence of our Bodies, Minds, Hearts and Spirits

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.

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Attunement, Integral psychology, and developmental neurobiolgy: Practical applications with clients, lovers, children, and friends
Dr. Keith Witt

Wednesday, 1/21, 6:30 pm

Attunement is feeling into ourselves and others with caring intent. Secure attachment is necessary for satisfying relationships and involves lovers, friends, and family members feeling consistently known, accepted, and protected. All these relationships can appear different at progressive developmental stages while including the same principles and neurobiological processes.

Using music, exercises, and current research, Dr. Witt will demonstrate how simple principles like a attunement can access complex knowledge areas in therapy and other relationships.

Dr. Keith Witt (www.kwwitt.com): Author of, The Gift of Shame, The Attuned Family, Waking Up, and Sessions, offers 35 years experience as a therapist, lecturer, and teacher. He has conducted fifty thousand therapy sessions in Santa Barbara with individuals, couples, and families from all walks of life including the film and music industries, corporate management, information technologies, engineering, academia, the law, and a full spectrum of other cultures. He is a professor at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.

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Holacracy: An Evolutionary Approach to Organization

Friday 2/6 Open Evening $10 (Members Free)
Full day workshop on Saturday 2/7 & 2/8

$495 Early bird ends January, 9th 2009
$595 Regular registration

Lead Trainer: Brian Robertson, with Tom Thomison

Rarely do organizations live up to their full potential. Even our most progressive approaches to human organization and management are often insufficient for navigating today’s complex and rapidly changing world.

What if we questioned our deepest assumptions about organizational design in light of the challenges and opportunities we face today?  Could we transform our most fundamental approaches to organization to enable entirely new levels of agility, health, and results?

These questions are being asked by a growing number of organizational pioneers, and a compelling possibility is emerging.  It’s called Holacracy.

About Holacracy: www.holacracy.org

Holacracy is a complete system for organizational governance and management that honors conventional business fundamentals while integrating cutting-edge transformative practices. With its unique structure and processes, Holacracy integrates the collective wisdom of people throughout the organization, while highlighting the needs of the organization distinct from those of the individuals within. The result is greater agility, innovation, transparency, and health; liberating the organization to live up to its full potential.

About the Workshop
This workshop dives into the core principles, structure, and practices of Holacracy through interactive lecture and immersive simulations. Attendees will witness Holacracy in action and actively participate in Holacracy’s key meetings and decision-making processes, and leave with a first-hand experience of Holacracy’s leading-edge organizational design and practice.

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Other Announcements

Book Release

The Mysterious Divination of Tea Leaves, by Keith Martin-Smith

Explore the emotional side of Integral art through the only work of fiction endorsed by both Ken Wilber and Robb Smith.  The Mysterious Divination of Tea Leaves is an evocative collection of 12 short stories that uncovers the grandeur and smallness of the human condition, the honor in the struggle to find meaning in our lives, and the potential for terror and salvation that exist in every human life. This book is our Integral journey as seen and felt from the inside, a subjective look into the pain, contraction, and release so many of us experience on the way to a more nuanced understanding of ourselves and our world.  Author Keith Martin-Smith is a member of Boulder Integral.

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Dear Friends,

Please support us in our efforts at Boulder Integral by becoming a member.  We would love to make this truly a home for everybody interested in the application of integral theory in their daily lives at work and play and we would deeply appreciate your participation and contribution.  Thank you so much!

We would also love to hear from you if you have papers, articles, media files, pictures, etc that you would like to share with the Boulder Integral community and beyond.  We may post them on our site.  Write us a little about what you do in your own integral community.  Send your emails to info@boulderintegral.org.

And of course, if you are in the Boulder/Denver area, please visit us!

Best Wishes,

Nomali @ Boulder Integral