Thursday 10/8 (9am) – Sunday 10/11 (1pm), 2009

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A precious opportunity to learn from Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., and Fr. David McCallum, S.J.

Special Guest Teachers: Sr. Theresa Monroe, R.S.C.J., and Rollie Stanich

This retreat/workshop is intended for seekers working within the tradition, those who have left the Christian path behind, and those seeking a way to return. In St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he commands the early Christian community “to have the consciousness of Christ among you.” This four-day offering will explore how the Holy Spirit embodys the consciousness of Christ within our being, knowing, and doing in the world.

The topics we will explore include:

• Deep Metanoia-the process of lifelong, evolving transformation into our truest selves.
• Uniting contemplation and action.
• Healing wounds from the tradition, and opening the path forward.
• Exploring Integral Christianity and emerging Evolutionary Spirituality.
• Teaching contemplative prayer practices from the Franciscan and Jesuit traditions.
• Getting to know the many faces of God.
• Embracing the personal and collective shadow.
• Including, transcending and loving the vast array of perspectives held by those within the body of Christ.
• A developmental view of spiritual maturation and its implications for the way we live our faith.

The Old, The New, The Emerging

In the Gospels, Jesus teaches that new wine requires new wineskins, suggesting that the fresh Spirit he is breathing into the world cannot be adequately contained by the ways of the past. Yet he honors tradition, using the example of the wise servant who brings forth from the storehouse both the best of the old and the best of the new. Today we ask: What is the best that this ancient tradition has to offer? How can this treasure be integrated with the emerging revelation that humanity is developing and evolving both in consciousness and culture? How can Christianity help us grow up, wake up, and create a new world?

Cultivating a Path of Practice: Contemplation, Action, Intellect, Faith, Love & Devotion

At this retreat, while there will be plenty of opportunities to fearlessly dive into the intellectual investigation of the big questions, we will also spend “quality time” with Father Richard and other teachers, opening our hearts and emotions. We will tenderly embrace and touch the core essence of a path of Love and Devotion, and learn how to turn that into meaningful action and service.

With opportunities for deep dialogue and silence, spiritual practice, liturgy, and communion with many others on the same path, our hope is to create a vital space for a contemporary pilgrimage, that we might become true contemplatives in action.

So, we invite you to come and join us with your own wisdom. Together we can draw on past experience and future aspiration to create the emerging reality of Christianity. From the past, let us explore the wisdom of purification, illumination, and union. From the future, let us listen deeply to our hopes and aspirations for what Christianity might become.

A Special Treat- Mountains, Beauty, and the Aspens in October

If the weather permits, we will also include a day’s trip to the Chapel on the Rock at St. Malo Retreat Center near the beautiful Rocky Mountain National Park.

Sliding Scale Tuition and Registration

Members of Boulder Integral get 15% discount!  To get members’ rates, please consider supporting our mission and becoming a member.  Please click here!

Scholarship Rate
$285

Discounted Rate
$327.25 (members)
$385 (non-members)

Sustaining Rate
$412.25 (members)
$485 (non-members)

• Please choose the higher amount that you can afford.  Your contribution is what helps us give assistance to those who are in serious need for scholarships and donate to our teachers.
• Give the gift of learning – Register a friend or someone in need (if you want to know of someone who has financial needs, please send an email to Nomali@Boulderintegral.org and we will let you know a list of those who need most assistance)

Online registration please click here

• Registration fees do not include lodging and food (there are many affordable restaurants just across the street, including a Whole Foods store.)
• For information on Travel and Accommodations please see http://www.boulderintegral.org/contact-us/accomodations/ If you would like to stay at a home of one of our community members in Boulder or Denver, we maybe able to help.  Please send an email to Nomali@boulderintegral.org. It could be free or for a small fee to the host.  These arrangements will be made between you and the host.
  

Cancellation Policy

If you need to cancel, please call Nomali or Jason ASAP at (303) 541 1540 or send an email to Nomali@Boulderintegral.org with “Need to Cancel” on subject line.

• Registrations canceled before 9/7/09 will be refunded the entire fee minus a non-refundable administration fee of $75
• Cancellations made between 9/8/09 – 9/30/09 will be refunded 50% of your registration fee, which includes the non-refundable administration fee of $75
• Cancellations within 1 week of the conference (10/1/09 – 10/7/09) are not eligible for a refund. Also, no-shows are liable for the entire conference fee.
• Refunds are made via check.

LEAD TEACHERS

Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He founded the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971, and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986, where he presently serves as Founding Director.

Richard was born in Kansas in 1943. He entered the Franciscans in 1961, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He received his Master’s Degree in Theology from Dayton that same year. He now lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community in Albuquerque, and divides his time between local work and preaching and teaching on all continents.

He considers the proclamation of the Gospel to be his primary call, and uses many different platforms to communicate the message. Themes he addresses in service of the Gospel include Scripture as liberation, the integration of action and contemplation, community building, peace and justice issues, male spirituality, the Enneagram, and eco-spirituality.

An internationally known speaker, Richard’s travels have recently carried the message to Europe and Australia/New Zealand. Teaching on such themes as adult Christianity, politics and spirituality, embracing the role of prophet in the modern world and presence to the Eternal Now, Richard has partnered with such esteemed teachers as Thomas Keating, OCSO, Ron Rolheiser, OMI, Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Joan Chittister, OSB and Jim Wallis.  Read more

Fr. David McCallum, S.J. is a Jesuit priest who, in the tradition of Teilhard de Chardin, is passionate about the evolution of the human race in relationship with the Cosmos, and is deeply committed to be and act in the service of that evolution. In particular, through his research, studies and work, David explores the connections between adult learning, development, and both leadership and spirituality (he just completed a doctorate at Columbia University in Adult Learning and Leadership, and have worked closely with Bill Torbert and Susanne Cook-Greuter). David works in NYC, offering spiritual and leadership retreats and workshops, and consulting in the areas of leadership for change and organizational development. For David, Integral Leadership is one way of envisioning and enacting this form of service by helping map the terrain of our experience, and offering insight into paths of action and contemplation.

GUEST TEACHERS

Sr. Theresa Monroe, R.S.C.J. is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic order of sisters, and presently serves as the Director of the Leadership Institute and Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego. Formerly she was the Associate Director of the Leadership Education Project and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; Visiting Assistant Professor of Pastoral theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology; and, Lecturer in Leadership at the Irish Management Institute, Dublin, Ireland.

Terri has followed a Christian spiritual path for as long as she can remember. Years of Catholic schooling followed by graduate studies in theology at a Jesuit seminary have led her to working with Robert Kegan, Carol Gilligan, James Fowler, Suzanne Cook-Greuter, Ronald Heifetz, Peter Senge and Bill Ury who opened her eyes to a wealth of new knowledge and new ways of thinking that first seemed to shatter her habitual ways of seeing, hearing, perceiving, knowing and feeling – including the very meanings of God, love and interior freedom –and then eventually deepened her appreciation of the central challenge posed by Jesus to join him in “putting on the mind of Christ.”

Terri then had a profound “ah ha” experience with the work of Ken Wilber. Integral Theory illumined a pathway for linking her interior spiritual journey in a more explicit way with her work as a leadership educator. It helped her re-imagine ways of teaching aimed at developing a synthetic awareness and capacity for perceptive knowing, decision-making and acting that can evolve into a way of living which the physicist, Arthur Zajonc calls “the practice of an epistemology of love.

Rollie Stanich grew up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was awarded the University of Calgary’s highest scholarship for four consecutive years, and graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Management in 1990. He taught at the University’s Faculty of Continuing Education for several years, then worked for ten years in software development in Montreal. Rollie assisted with the early development of the Integral Naked website and joined Integral Institute as the site’s Managing Editor in 2004. A year later, he was appointed to his present position as Chief Facilitator of Integral Spiritual Center. He co-organized numerous ISC seminars on Integral Buddhism and Integral Christianity and the ISC Teachers’ Gatherings of 2005, 2006, and 2007. Rollie presented on the work of James Fowler and Ken Wilber at the third ISC Teachers’ Gathering, and is a frequent teacher at Boulder Integral, Denver’s Buddhist/Christian Interfaith Group, and at Integral Salons and seminars across the U.S. and Canada.

Rollie’s spiritual path is that of contemplative Christianity. He is a practitioner of Centering Prayer and a longtime student of Fr. Thomas Keating. He co-wrote and co-produced the 2008 Integral Life DVD The Future of Christianity, and is currently writing a book about Integral Christianity entitled ‘Who do You Say that I Am?’.