01/25/2010 (Monday), 6:30pm – 8:30pm
This event is free to regular attendees of the “Monday Night Senshi Meditation Class with Keith Martin-Smith”
$10 for Boulder Integral Members/$15 standard

Venue: 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304 (info@boulderintegral.org)

Over the last 30 years, many forms of Buddhist-inspired psychotherapy have emerged to help men and women process their shadows, triggers, blockages, and repressions, so they can become better functioning adults. And while many of these programs have helped people have healthier egos, they have a much less impressive track record for creating and sustaining spiritual insight in their practitioners. This lecture will explore:

• Therapy not grounded in the truth of impermanence is counterproductive to both the therapeutic process and the spiritual path.
• Your angst is your liberation. Anxiety, dread, depression, anger, resentment, jealousy, and insecurity are the very doors that will lead you away from egoic suffering and into true freedom.
• What you can do to use your own angst as the means of your liberation.

Jun Po Roshi spent many years in the intense practice and study various psychotherapies and doing Men’s Work, unpacking his own shadow material. What he realized was that no matter how skillful, therapy that treats the ego as real strengthens attachment, creates ongoing suffering, and blocks spiritual insight.

The implications of this are profound for our relationship to our own ego, to our spiritual insight, and to our ability to take our seats as Awake, embodied spiritual beings. Come join us for a provocative and deeply engaging lecture into spirituality and therapy in the 21st Century.

Jun Po Roshi is the 83rd Patriarch in Rinzai Zen, and was the first dharma heir to Eido Shimano Roshi. He has extensively studied numerous schools of psychotherapy and is an elder in the ManKind Project (MKP). He has created, according to Ken Wilber, the “first true innovation in Zen in 1,000 years” through the creation of Mondo Zen™. www.MondoZen.org

Hosted by Jeff Salzman

Poetry Reading by Jason Matthew Turner

Friday 1/22;  6:30 – 8:30 pm
$10 BI Members – $15 Non members
Venue: 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304
Email: info@boulderintegral.org

Here’s a chance to meet and hang out with Diane Musho Hamilton, one of the most gifted teachers in the Integral World.  Diane has led many spiritual retreats and trainings, both in her role as a fully-ordained Zen priest (she was given dharma transmission by her Zen master, Genpo Roshi, in 2006), and as a leading student of Ken Wilber’s through the Integral Institute.  She is a core founder of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and a co-director of Integral Life Spiritual Center.  She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations.

Diane Hamilton and Jeff Salzman are dear friends, and have lovingly collaborated as integral teachers and pioneers for many years.  The evening at Boulder Integral (Friday 1/22;  7 – 9 pm) will be a casual conversation between the two, and an opportunity for you to share your questions and insights on what it is to walk the path of Integral Dharma.  Join us!

Poetry Reading
Jason Matthew Turner is a traveling poet and photographer. His expression invites spiritual insight into the human condition, as well as the higher reaches of our evolving potential. He believes deeply in the power of art as an agent of personal and cultural transformation, and has performed all across the United States, including at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York City. Learn more at http://evolutionaryartist.blogspot.com.

January 31, 2010
2pm – 4pm
Boulder Integral Members – $10
Regular Entrance – $15

Event will be held at
Boulder Integral Center, 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304 (we are in the north/west corner of Broadway and Balsam)
Limited parking only. Car-pooling and the SKIP bus highly recommended.

Best selling author Sara Davidson, and international peace activist, Rabia Elizabeth Roberts, will talk about their recent trip to Afghanistan. They arrived in Kabul believing the U.S. should withdraw its troops, but after 8 days their presumptions were turned upside down.

The people they talked with made it clear that peace, for them, requires more than withdrawing troops or sending more. Rabia will address how the progressive community can help Afghans, especially women, attain the peace they want, and Sara will relate the human stories from their trip.

Seating will be limited so , so please rsvp to website-feedback@saradavidson.com

Sara Davidson is the bestselling author of Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of our Lives? and Loose Change, the definitive book about growing up in the ’60s.  As a journalist, novelist, TV writer and radio host, she’s earned a reputation for writing cutting edge pieces about the way we live. Read more at www.saradavidson.com

Elizabeth Rabia Roberts, Ed.D. is an educator and social activist who has worked for more than 40 years on issues related to peace, justice and environmental health. She is co-founder of the Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human spirit and directs its new Path of the Friend program. She has taught at Harvard University’s School of Education and was a founding faculty of the Naropa University’s MA in Environmental Leadership. in 1999 she and her husband, Elias Amidon, sold their Boulder home and began an open-ended international pilgrimage of service and teaching. After 9/11 this work took them increasingly to Muslim countries. Over the past years she has worked in Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and most recently Afghanistan. She plans to return to Afghanistan to work with women there in April 2010. She is co-editor of the anthologies Earth Prayers and Life Prayers.