Upcoming offerings are listed chronologically below. You can also view them in a calendar or by tag.

Tuesday, January 6th, 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 Fischler is 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.

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!

Mondo Zen is not just American Zen, it is  integrally informed and integrally embodied Zen.

Mondo Zen  catalyzes high level, Upper Left Quadrant cognitive, emotional and  spiritual stages and states of awareness. These high levels are reinforced through  Upper Right Quadrant neuro-linguistic training. Because of this Integral  UL/UR strategy, your stage development evolves - and your perspectives and  perspective-taking evolve from egocentric to Kosmocentric.

Mondo  Zen further encourages the embodiment and enactment of UR speech and  behaviors - as well as inter-subjective and environmental enactments  (LL/LR Quadrants). The ultimate Mondo Zen realization is non-dual awareness (Turiyatita), spontaneously enacted through all aspects of your being.

Mondo Zen transcends and  includes all levels.  It is not a religion, but a practice for living an integrally Transformative Life. Mondo Zen engages body, mind,  shadow and spirit. If your spirituality  is Christianity, Mondo Zen will enrich and deepen your love.  Whether you’re a Christian or a Hindu, warrior in men’s work, a woman  of power creating a new world, a contemplative individual, a social or  environmental activist, an executive, or an Integral scholar, Mondo Zen  will enhance your awareness, clarity, energy and humor - with more  penetrating insight and effectiveness.

Imagine you as this,  abiding as this, being in the world as this, evolving and invovlving as this.

This is FREEDOM. This is Mondo Zen.

And for an alternative description with less “integral theoretical jargon,” because we welcome those who are new to Integral Theory!

At long last, we are finally awakening and  translating Zen into American culture. Mondo Zen is one of these  developments, these awakenings.

Zen is not just living  anthropology, just some Japanese cultural concentration practice, robes  and Buddha statues. Zen is the awakened state of mind represented by the  marriage of compassion (unconditional caring, respect and regard) and  wisdom (great fearless clarity) expressed in the ordinary actions of our  daily life. Mondo Zen’s Five Element training allows us to realize - and  exist continually - in deep clear mind and in heartfelt, fearless  psychological stability.

Through concentration/meditation  practices and philosophical dialectic dialog conversations, we experience  who we truly are spiritually. We experience the freedom of realization of  our ordinary deep clear mind. We learn the real nature and function of our  emotions. We find our exit strategy from unnecessary suffering - and  finally an end to psychotherapy. We clarify and reorganize our  understanding of our minds - and through expression of this new  understanding in thought and action, we liberate ourselves from many  confusions.

Mondo Zen practice begins with a two hour provocative,  humorous, dialectic dialog adventure - your investigation into - and  sharing of - new, transformational states of mind of exquisite quality.   Buddha taught that the first thing we must do to awaken to the truth  is change our mind. This dialog practice gives us a change in mind. Then,  when you’re tested by the continuous and exciting challenges in the normal  events and actions of your daily life, your new heart and mind is  spontaneously expressed and enacted - and experienced as being vastly  preferable to your old self. Through this training, your center shifts  from ego contraction and suffering into spirit openness. Through this  training you learn that what you thought was your angst is in fact is your  liberation.

Imagine waking up each and every morning, looking out  through the eyes of your soul filled with gratitude and excitement for the  gift of another day. Imagine feeling deep caring, respect and regard -  with the great fearless clarity of a Samurai. Imagine living as the source  of infinite creativity - with the Power to enact it.

Imagine being  FREE. This is Mondo Zen!
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Check out pictures from our other events with JunPo Roshi here

Matrix: Foundation of Interconnected Groups
Tuesday, January 20th, 6-10 pm
Members Only

• Establish a Matrix of Person-to-Person Communication in the Group
  • Form the foundation for a highly inclusive, open system
  • Build a Ground of Health – a key to sustainability
  • Discover connections as ordinary human beings
  • 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.

Wednesday, January 21st, at 6:30pm

$15

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.

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

To register for the weekend event, please click here.  If you have technical trouble registering, there is a “help” link here.

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.

Feedback: Gateway to Differentiation and Development
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009, 6-10 pm
Members Only

• Beyond Group Dynamics; Toward Emergent Groups
  • An Eye Toward Shifting Culture and Paradigms
• Establish Feedback as a Practice of Investment and Differentiation
  • Redefine feedback as an investment in the relationships
  • Distinguish between impact and intention; cultivate responsiveness to that which enlivens the system

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.

Distributing Roles: Hallmark of an Open, Emergent System
Tuesday, March 17th, 6-10 pm
Members Only
Also on 2/17/09

• Distribute and Diversify Individual and Group Roles & Fields
• At the Individual Level
  • Gain freedom from limiting or habitual roles & identities
  • Increase range of personal & leadership behaviors
• Transforming Group Culture
  • Distribute power, leadership and group fields
  • Optimize creativity, sustainability and collective intelligence
• Remember ourselves in connection with each other and the Divine

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.

Matrix Model of Transforming Conflict to Differentiation & Emergence

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.

October 9-11, 2009
Registration is not yet open - details will be announced soon

In St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he commends them to “have the consciousness of Christ among you.” In order for the Holy Spirit to embody the consciousness of Christ within our being, knowing, and doing in the world, we must undergo deep metanoia—a lifelong, evolving transformation into our truest selves. Like those drawn to life in the early Christian communities, this retreat is intended for seekers, including those who have left the Christian path behind and those seeking to return.

Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Sr. Theresa Monroe, R.S.C.J., and Fr. David McCallum, S.J. will lead this retreat workshop, sharing how Christian spirituality can help us to grow through the purgative, illuminative, and unitive ways into a more integral life in Christ, a life of discerning love in service to and relationship with others.

This retreat will include:

• Contemplative prayer practices from the Franciscan and Jesuit traditions;
• Consideration of the Christian path through the Integral lens and Integral theory through the Christian lens;
• A developmental view of spiritual maturation and its implications for the way we live our faiths

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. - I am a Jesuit priest who, in the tradition of my brother Teilhard de Chardin, feel quite passionate about the evolution of the human race in relationship with the Cosmos, and am deeply committed to service of that evolution. In particular, through my studies and my work, I explore the connections between adult learning, development, and both leadership and spirituality (I just completed a doctorate at Columbia University in Adult Learning and Leadership, and have worked closely with Bill Torbert and Susanne Cook-Greuter). I work in NYC, offering spiritual and leadership retreats and workshops, and consulting in the areas of leadership for change and organizational development. For me, 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.

Sr. Theresa Monroe, R.S.C.J. Bio to be posted soon