Dear Friends,

We are thrilled and honored to announce that two of our most precious teachers in the Christian and world wisdom traditions, Br. David Steindl-Rast and Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, are returning to Boulder Integral for a weekend workshop. They first came to Boulder Integral in the spring of 2008 to teach a four day seminar called the Integral Christian Experience.

LIVE MUSIC CONCERT + WEEKEND WORKSHOP!

This time we are not only blessed with a weekend workshop on “The Universal Call to Contemplation,” but also a live music concert by Fr. Cyprian Consiglio. Please click HERE to learn more about the music concert. See below to learn more about weekend workshop.

Please join us for this rare opportunity to learn and practice with two amazing integral teachers!  For questions, please send an email to nomali@boulderintegral.org or call 303 541 1540 ext. 11.  The music concert does not require pre-registration, but the weekend workshop does.

Spirit, Soul, Mind and Body: The Universal Call to Contemplation
Br. David Steindl-Rast & Fr. Cyprian Consiglio

Weekend Workshop: Saturday 6/27 (9am – 6pm) – Sunday 6/28 (9am – 12:30pm)

Fees for Saturday/Sunday workshop: $140 (Boulder Integral Members $120) (fees do not include food and lodging – there are lots of great places to eat near the center)

Click HERE to see details of music concert by Fr. Cyprian Consiglio

The call to contemplation and mystical depth is the heart of every spiritual tradition. Contemplative living means life in fullness for every person, not only for the “professional religious.” This workshop aims at helping participants explore the personal implications of this dimension of life and so find true joy-the happiness that does not depend on what happens.

Both Fr. Cyprian and Br. David are Benedictine monks and pioneers in the dialogue between East and West. In an easy, playful way they weave together meditation, music, and chanting, sacred reading, and prayer into a rich texture of experience.

This weekend is designed to appeal to the whole person, spirit, soul, mind and body-four aspects we need to integrate at all times to come fully alive.  And in that coming alive, we will learn to be grateful, forgiving and joyful. The goal is to take that joy back home into your everyday life.

FEES and REGISTRATION (this is only for the Sat/Sun workshop. Payment for Fr. Cyprian Concert will be at the gate on Friday, 6/26)

To register online, click link below.

Travel and Accommodation

If you are joining us from out of town, please click here to read about traveling to the center & accommodation near the center. Workshop fees do not include food and lodging.

ABOUT THE TEACHERS

Br. David Steindl-Rast was born July 12, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, where he studied art, anthropology, and psychology, receiving an MA from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of Vienna. In 1952 he followed his family who had emigrated to the United States. In 1953 he joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. In 1958/59 Brother David was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, where he also became the first Roman Catholic to hold the Thorpe Lectureship, following Bishop J.D.R. Robinson and Paul Tillich.

After twelve years of monastic training and studies in philosophy and theology, Brother David was sent by his abbot to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, for which he received Vatican approval in 1967. His Zen teachers were Hakkuun Yasutani Roshi, Soen Nakagawa Roshi, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and Eido Shimano Roshi. He co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies in 1968 and received the 1975 Martin Buber Award for his achievements in building bridges between religious traditions.  Learn more about Br. David and his work at www.gratefulness.org.

Fr. Cyprian Consiglio is a monk of the Camaldolese Congregation, musician, composer, writer and teacher. He lived for ten years and did his monastic formation at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, where he served as liturgist, choir director and teacher.  Cyprian currently lives near Santa Cruz, California; he spends about half his time at home, and half his time on the road performing and teaching. Much of both his music and his teaching revolve around the Universal Call to Contemplation through spirituality and the arts.

Cyprian earned his MA in Theology from St John’s Seminary in Camarillo, CA. A student of the writings of Bede Griffiths and Abhishiktananda, Cyprian has a great love for comparative religion, has done work in inter-faith ritual and world music, regularly leads conferences on meditation, and has been to India and other countries in Asia several times, both studying and teaching.  Learn more about Fr. Cyprian and his work at www.cyprianconsiglio.com.

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 6/10/09 will be refunded the entire fee minus a non-refundable administration fee of $35
• Cancellations made between 6/11/09 – 9/20/09 will be refunded 40% of your registration fee, which includes the non-refundable administration fee of $35
• Cancellations between 6/21/09 – 6/28 are not eligible for a refund. Also, no-shows are liable for the entire conference fee.

Music opens the door to that place where hearts speak to hearts. Join us at Boulder Integral for a celebration of Spirit through a unique blend of sacred songs from the East and West in a concert by Fr. Cyprian Consiglio.

Equally along the lines of his spiritual and intellectual brilliance, Fr. Cyprian is also a tremendously gifted and highly accomplished singer/songwriter.

LIVE MUSIC CONCERT + WEEKEND WORKSHOP!

Fr. Cyprian will also be teaching at Boulder Integral that weekend with Br. David Steindl-Rast.  You do not need to pre-register for the concert on 6/26, but you do need to pre-register for the weekend workshop with Br. David Steindl-Rast and Fr. Cyprian Consiglio.  To learn more about the weekend workshop and for registration please see HERE.

Watch Fr. Cyprian sing “Hidden in my Silence,” a new song inspired by a poem of Ghalib, a 19th century Indian Muslim of Turkish origin.

DATE: June 26
TIME: 7PM (Doors open 6:30pm)
$10

Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam

Cyprian Consiglio is a monk of the Camaldolese Congregation, musician, composer, writer and teacher. He lived for ten years and did his monastic formation at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, where he served as liturgist, choir director and teacher.

Cyprian currently lives near Santa Cruz, California; he spends about half his time at home, and half his time on the road performing and teaching. Much of both his music and his teaching revolve around the Universal Call to Contemplation through spirituality and the arts. Along with his six collections of original music recorded and published through OCP, he released three others through the Equilibrium label with his longtime collaborator, percussionist John Pennington. The Equilibrium collections are titled Awakening, The Song of Luke and Compassionate and Wise. Another collection to his credit is Wait, My Soul, In Silence, music for meditation created in collaboration with Laurence Freeman for MedioMedia.  Listen to some samples here.

Cyprian earned his MA in Theology from St John’s Seminary in Camarillo, CA. A student of the writings of Bede Griffiths and Abhishiktananda, Cyprian has a great love for comparative religion, has done work in inter-faith ritual and world music, regularly leads conferences on meditation, and has been to India and other countries in Asia several times, both studying and teaching. He has written numerous articles and is currently working on a book on prayer and meditation.  Learn more at www.cyprianconsiglio.com.
If you have any questions, please send email to nomali@boulderintegral.org or call 303 541 1540, ext. 11.

Presentation and Q & A with Dr. Keith Witt

Friday, 6/12 @ 7pm (doors open 6:30pm)

$15 (Boulder Integral Members $10)

Evolution is relational. Atoms relating to other atoms relating to molecules relating to life relating to other life spirals upward into greater complexity and deeper consciousness. Human evolution is each one of us relating to ourselves, others, and spirit. When we are in intimate harmony with ourselves, others, and spirit, we optimize our personal evolution which contributes to the wave of development that started with the big bang and extends outward and inward to who knows where.

Mammals learn from social approval and disapproval. When disapproved of by significant others, mammalian nervous systems have shame reactions that evoke change. The gift of self-aware consciousness gives humans the capacity to approve or disapprove of others or ourselves in the past, present, and future. Disapproval can result in shame emotions like guilt, embarrassment, chagrin, or humiliation, which pressure us to seek relief by neurotically avoiding the feeling or growing toward compassionate caring for others and deeper consciousness. Such shame driven growth is central to individual and collective evolution.

This talk will explore the psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, and interrelatedness of shame, development, and transcendence. We will learn practical applications of transmuting shame into positive change, deeper wisdom, and radiant love.

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.

THE MIRACLE OF MOTHER

On Mother’s Day, Sunday May 10th
11am – 1pm
$15 (members $10)

If you have wondered why you tend to repeat the same patterns of behavior, but only the context changes, then come and spend May 10th with us at Boulder Integral. This Mother’s Day we will take the time to honor the contribution of our mothers and other mothering figures to our lives. Through dialogue and reflective exercises we will explore the importance of mothering – our very first experience of “We.” In that process we will look at our three most primitive fears and how they continue to determine our behavior throughout a lifetime.

In addition, we will gain an awareness of the central task of development – separating and individuating from mother. This task of separation/individuation is primarily accomplished from birth to age three, and how well we develop thereafter, will depend, in large part, on the success of those first three years. The better we are at separating and individuating from the “mother” in our lives, the more differentiated and unique we become, and the more we are able to love, honor and liberate her. Finally, we will come to understand how the journey of differentiation paradoxically leads both mother and child to their human potential for ultimate oneness – symbiosis with the divine Mother.

To set our intention for the time and space we will share together we will begin with a small ritual. OPTIONAL: Please bring an item to place upon the altar in celebration of the mother figure(s) in your life such as your self as mother, your biological mother, adopted mothers, the Virgin Mary, Kuan Yin, the universe and/or mother earth.

BIO

Dr. Elizabeth Smith has spent the last 20+ years of her career as a professor of social work at The Catholic University of America (CUA), the National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS) and as a psychotherapist/clinical social worker (LICSW) in part-time private practice in Washington, DC. Elizabeth received a Masters in Social Work (MSW) and a doctorate in social work (PhD) from the National Catholic School of Social Work at CUA, and later a Masters of Arts degree in Spirituality from the School of Religious Studies also at CUA. Prior to teaching, Elizabeth worked for many years with cancer patients and their families at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Her interest in Ken Wilber’s work dates back to 1985. Currently she is teaching Integral Psychology at Naropa University. Elizabeth and her partner, Milla, divide their time between Knysna, South Africa and Boulder. She is the proud mother of three children, Mary Elizabeth, James, and Christopher.