Led by Jeff Salzman with Special Guest Teacher, Ken Wilber

Join the Integral Incubator November 2010: Nov. 8 – 12
*CLICK HERE* TO REGISTER FOR NOVEMBER 2010
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NOW ANNOUNCING THE FIRST INCUBATOR FOR 2011! MARCH 14 – 18
*CLICK HERE* TO REGISTER FOR MARCH 2011
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VENUE: Boulder Integral Center, 2805 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304, USA

Are you inspired by a great idea, project or personal calling? Are you frustrated by distractions and lower priorities that keep slowing you down? If so, consider attending a five-day boot camp at The Boulder Integral Center, designed to usher you into your next stage of effectiveness — using your own work as your object of practice!

“The whole idea is to help you achieve the dream of your life.” An interview with Integral Incubator leader, Jeff Salzman

HOW IS THE INTEGRAL INCUBATOR STRUCTURED?

At the Integral Incubator you will join with a group of 20 or so high-achieving evolutionaries in an intentional container that will help you function at your new best. The Incubator is designed as a potent combination of:

• Transformational practices to build your focus, creativity, energy and personal power
• Group experiences to help you get insight and support from others
• A variety of intensified work spaces and practices that help you achieve peak performance consistently and on-demand

Do not think of this as time away from your work. This is a journey into your work (bring your laptop, phone, etc.!) You will spend several hours per day focused on the project(s) you have brought. You will be accompanied by a team of people who can see you, appreciate you and support you. You will leave having gained real traction on the most important work of your life, whether it be:

• Your new business venture
• Your work as a teacher, consultant or coach
• Your screenplay, book or art
• Your service project
• Your everyday performance in your current job or career

The overall goal is to help you stabilize higher stages of functioning that will light up all aspects of your life. The Integral Incubator is also perfect for partners and teams, see below for details.

THE INTEGRAL INCUBATOR LEAD STAFF

The Integral Incubator is staffed by a team of integral productivity experts who can provide personalized assistance to you in the areas of coaching, law and business development practices.

Led by Jeff Salzman, Cofounder of Boulder Integral, and long-time teacher of integral theory and practice. Jeff also cofounded CareerTrack, one of the world’s leading developers of professional development seminars and materials. He has led many workshops internationally, receiving the highest reviews.

Special Guest Teacher
Ken Wilber, author of A Brief History of Everything; Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution; and Founder of Integral Institute. Ken will host the Incubator at his loft one afternoon. Here’s your chance to get the insight and transmission of the world’s leading integral philosopher! Ken Wilber is representing Integral Life.

REGISTRATION FOR INTEGRAL INCUBATOR NOVEMBER 8 – 12, 2010

Boulder Integral Members >> Early Bird until Oct. 10  – $895 / Oct. 2 onwards - $1195
Non Members Standard >> Early Bird until Oct. 10 - $995 / Oct. 2 onwards – $1295
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

REGISTRATION FOR INTEGRAL INCUBATOR MARCH 14 – 18, 2011

Boulder Integral Members >> Early Bird until Jan. 28  – $995 / Oct. 2 onwards - $1295
Non Members Standard >> Early Bird until Oct. 10 - $1095 / Oct. 2 onwards – $1395
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

For groups of 3 or more: Please contact Nomali (nomali@boulderintegral.org or call 303 541 1540)

Travel and hotel info – click here.

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND THE INTEGRAL INCUBATOR

To claim your next stage of development and career success

One of the key markers of integral consciousness is that we are able to take an evolutionary view. We begin to see ourselves as an evolving beings in an evolving world. This single insight changes everything.

First of all it, enables us to relax a bit, because we can see that in addition to living our lives, we are being lived by a larger Life. We feel ourselves riding streams of history that appear to be going somewhere ever-more awake and powerful. Second, as we realize ourselves to be evolving beings, we can begin to ask very interesting questions such as: what’s next in my own personal evolution? In my career? In my relationships? In the evolution of the world at large, and my role in its evolution?

Evolution denotes transformational growth. In other words, we see that there are not just new things to know but new ways of knowing. That there are not just new things to do but new ways of doing. And that these new ways of thinking and acting multiply our effectiveness. This is our starting point at the Integral Incubator, and each part of the 5-day process is designed to help participants realize and stabilize their next stage of development, especially as it relates to their work.

To more fully realize your destiny

As we realize our ability to co-create with the the power of emergence itself, we naturally turn our attention to achieving our unique destiny. That may sound a little grandiose, but it is quite literally true, and as evolutionaries we feel it deeply. That’s why so many integralists seem like they’re on a mission from God. Because they see — and feel — that they quite literally are.

But there is another side to it, as well. At integral consciousness we also see that although we are human beings gifted with great vision and calling, we are also works in progress, and that, paradoxically, a lot of the road forward involves realizing how, to use a beautiful religious term, broken we are. Not in the sense that something is wrong with us, but that there are indeed parts of ourselves that are appalling: our selfishness, our grudges, our suffering, the seven deadly sins and more. But now we begin to see that this is the way it should be, and that part of our job as evolutionaries is to bring our dark aspects into the light. We see that by being friendly with them we have a chance at metabolizing them into health and creativity, kind of like a fusion reactor, which lights us up and powers us to do what we are undeniably here to do.

To be with your peeps and peers

It has always been true, as humanity has evolved, that people at the edge of development seek out other pioneers. One of the great benefits of the Integral Incubator is that we get to hang out with other people who get us, who vibrate to the same chords, who see the new territories we see, and who want to explore them with us.

This has very practical and positive consequences. When we are seen and known more deeply by other people, we are able to better see and know ourselves. We have easier access to new dimensions of our own creativity and passion, we find strength we didn’t know we had, and we able to act in the world with greater skill and confidence.

A big part of the Integral Incubator is creating we-spaces among the participants and relationships that support each person’s growth. We will do this both in free-form café settings, but also in large- and small-group processes, as well as group meditation and movement practices. People who have attended events with other Integralists often note a higher level of group functioning that is unparalleled outside integral circles. As one of Boulder Integral’s member wrote about a salon we held recently, “I experience magic when conversing with people about integral ideas.” So, yes, one of the greatest payoffs of attending the Incubator is that we get to be with our tribe, and that is a terrific end in itself.

A chance to work with Ken Wilber, the world’s leading integral theorist

Ken’s public appearances are few and far between, which makes it all the more precious have our group be able to spend an afternoon with him. Ken is not just an historically significant philosopher, he is an accomplished businessperson and, having founded several of the most enduring organization of the integral age, including Integral Institute, Integral Naked and Integral Life. He has great practical skills as well as theoretical insight, and will share them with us in person.

TYPICAL DAILY EVENTS

Each day is different at the Integral Incubator, but here is the general plan we will follow:

Transformational practices to boost your vertical growth

Meditation: Think of meditation as the calisthenics of building the muscles of attention. The ability to focus and direct one’s attention is key to our effectiveness in manifesting tangible results in the world. It helps us to stay focused on our work, which is key to entering flow, that place where genius is accessed and we become our most powerful selves.

Movement and energy work: We will work with various integrations of dance, energy practices such as chi-gong, and free movement. The goal is to get in deeper touch with the various energies of your mind and body, and express them into the world with vibrancy, beauty and skill.

Physical Exercise: We encourage and make time for physical exercise at the Incubator.  There is an exercise session each morning at the Incubator.  Depending on your project and according your needs, you may also enjoy outdoor activities.  The North Boulder Park is close by, as are the hiking trails of the foothills. Our center is also very close to the North Boulder Recreation Center where there is a swimming pool, weight room, etc of international standard.

Planning and power-building sessions help you stay on track

Are you laying a brick, building a wall, or constructing a cathedral? At integral consciousness you are doing all three, and to the degree that you maintain contact with each, the more powerful your are in the world and the more joy you receive from your work. At the Integral Incubator, you will have ample time to contemplate and plan your day for maximum productivity and impact.

Focused work periods where you make real progress on your project

For several periods each day, participants will enter their choice of heightened work spaces to work on the project that they have brought.

• Workspace #1 is contemplative, permitting no talking or technology beyond a pad and pen.
• Workspace #2 is akin to an open office, with desks, computers and functional talking. This is the place to power through projects, email, web-work, etc.
• Workspapce #3 is our salon, with more of a coffee shop feel featuring comfy furniture, a fireplace and a bar. This space welcomes conversation and connection.
• Also available are conference rooms for meetings, and several private spaces for phone calls and conversations.

Private coaching and consulting for help with specific issues

Participants may also dedicate specific periods of the day to working with an array of integral experts on staff here at Boulder Integral, on issues from business planning to personal growth and health. We also have body and energy therapists available for private sessions.

Group work, for camaraderie and support

You will check in with colleagues throughout the day, both in small groups and in the group at large. This is an important chance to share your achievements and challenges, get feedback and state your intentions for moving forward.

Practice in self-expression and communication, to help you influence people and manifest your dream

A crucial element of success is the ability to communicate your ideas quickly and on-demand. At the Integral Incubator

we will work with you on accessing your unique voice, and communicating your vision in a way that magnetizes people and creates the support you need to achieve your dreams. Think Toastmasters on steroids.

Cancellation Policy for Integral Incubator November 8 – 12, 2010

• If you cancel before Sep. 20, 2010, you will be refunded 85% of what you paid (15% goes towards admin fees and cancellation fees)
• If you cancel between Sep. 21 – Oct. 15 , you will be refunded 50% of what you paid.
• If you cancel between Oct. 16 – Nov. 1, you will be refunded 25% of what you paid.
• Cancellations after Nov. 1 and no-shows will not be refunded.

Cancellation Policy for Integral Incubator March 14 – 18, 2011

• If you cancel before January. 31, 2011, you will be refunded 85% of what you paid (15% goes towards admin fees and cancellation fees)
• If you cancel between Feb 1 – Feb 15, you will be refunded 50% of what you paid.
• If you cancel between Feb 16 – Mar 1, you will be refunded 25% of what you paid.
• Cancellations after Mar 2 and no-shows will not be refunded.

• For couples and friends registering together, we offer discounts.  Please email info@boulderintegral.org for details.
• If you are very much in need of financial assistance, please state your need and send us an email to info@boulderintegral.org.  We do not have resources to offer scholarships currently, but we will try our best to assist you.
• If you would like to be a volunteer, please send email to info@boulderintegral.org.
• If you are unable to come to the Incubator of your original registration, you may transfer it to a future Incubator.  A registration that is transferred to a future event, however, does not receive any refund if the participant needs to cancel the future date as well.
• For questions, please email nomali@boulderintegral.org or call 303 541 1540.

Saturday, July 11, 9am- 1pm
Half-day Workshop
$25 (members: $15)

Performance expert (and BI member) Tom Curren will facilitate this experiential workshop on the philosophy and practices of “Getting Happy” as a primary orientation toward life. Participants will work with practical exercises in appreciation and positive thinking, and be challenged to push the edges of their belief around the proposition that “We create our reality.”

We will present “Get Happy” as a primary injunction, rather than a byproduct of material success or spiritual growth. Participants will learn that “getting happy” does not mean living in a constant state of bliss; rather, it is an orientation toward reaching toward the “next higher” emotional level that you can access from wherever you are at any point in time, relative to any object of your attention.

Tom Curren has 30 years experience as a consultant, coach, facilitator and trainer. He specializes in “top team alignment” for corporations and nonprofits around the world. (See www.topteamalignment.com). Tom will draw upon his consulting experience using “appreciative inquiry” and “powerful questions;” his deep familiarity with integral theory, his background as an active spiritual seeker and practitioner, and applying the material from Abraham-Hicks to his recent experience with cancer. Tom will be assisted in this workshop by Boulder Integral co-founder Jeff Salzman.

Join Jeff Salzman as he interviews Integral Life CEO Rob Smith on the state of the integral movement, the election of President Obama, and the challenges of being an integral leader.

Part 1: Intro – How did you find your way to Integral?
Part 2: Translating Integral theory into the living world space.
Part 3: What’s the biggest challenge on the Integral on-ramp?
Part 4: The election and the Integral movement.
Part 5: Now that Obama is president.
Part 6: How the right reacts…
Part 7: How does Obama inform your leadership?
Part 8: What is of real value?
Part 9: Is there an Integral Movement?
Part 10: What’s new at Integral Life/Institute?
Part 11: Living a social life on the web brings hope for a new age.

3 Hour Presentation
Thursday, November 6th, 7 – 10pm

• Heard about the Theory of Everything?
• Or evolutionary spirituality?
• Married to a someone who talks about Ken Wilber and the AQAL models?
• Or are you just bored to tears with the same old left vs right, good vs bad, yes vs no arguments we hear all around us?

Then check out Intro to Integral Theory and Practice, the class for people who want a quick, efficient download on the coolest new worldview in town.

Integral describes a philosophical system that seeks to include the gifts of all other worldviews:

• The gifts of science and religion
• The gifts of the East and the West,
• The gifts of the Ancients, the Moderns, the Post-Moderns

The goal — and indeed the result — of this integration, is a view and a way of living that is larger, deeper, more flexible and wise. At Boulder Integral we recognize this as a new stage in the on-going evolution of consciousness and human culture, and seek to explore and enact it in our lives. We are pioneering the development of various kinds of integral practices, designed to help people become more aware, in touch, and capable of skillful action.

This three hour class focuses on the key element of Integral theory: evolution. We will show patterns of history that make sense of our human heritage, and also deeply inform and inspire smarter solutions to today’s global challenges. We will also map the stages of personal evolution that starts with each of us at birth, revealing insights, and indeed energetics, that accelerate our personal evolution in real time. Soon we’re surfing the rising wave of Emergence itself!

Jeff Salzman

Steve McIntosh

Taught by Steve McIntosh, author of Integral Consciousness,  and Jeff Salzman, co-founder of Boulder Integral.

Friday, October 3rd, 7-9pm
Also on 10/30

How can integralists make more sense of the upcoming election? Can we harmonize the conflicting perspectives that are struggling for dominance? Can we passionately take a side without vilifying the opposition (or are they really villains)? Can we see the piece of the truth that each side holds? Let’s give it a whirl!

Sunday, December 14th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10 (Members free)

Harvard Developmental Psychologist Robert Kegan nails the essence of human development with this insight:

“The subject of one level of development becomes the object of the subject of the next level.”

In other words, what we think of as “us”: our thoughts, our sensations, our emotions, our history, our identity, is something that we can witness as well as enact, and as we do we grow.   This is a call to practice.   In meditation, for instance, we see a feeling, say anger, as an it or series of it’s.  Instead of my anger, just … anger, arising in my body/mind as a fabric of thoughts and sensations.   Not me, but mine.

Through transformational practice we enlarge the witness — by witnessing it! — and once again what was subject becomes object(s) to a new bigger Subject, which we can capitalize because it always feels holy.   And that new  bigger subject is You, a larger dimension of yourself, which is essential your self being liberated into more space and flow.   So now You’re more you than ever, except with less grip and friction, enabling an ever-increasing flow of love, creativity and power.

On a good day, at least!

So let’s have a good day on Sunday with some exploration and  practice.   Stuart Davis will be here to shine his light on the topic as well.

Lead Teacher: Jeff Salzman

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Program format:

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting 10 am
• 11:30 – noon: Social time

Sunday, November 30th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 12/14, 12/25

THIS WEEK’S THEME: Turning: The Assent to a new Direction – with Ross Hostetter

Ascending Angels, Art by Claire J. Candry (2004)

In this Integral Spiritual Sunday, we explore a step in the transformative path, “Turning: The assent to a new direction.” What is it that makes us want to move in a new direction- to explore a new way of being? What triggers our agreement to change, aids us in the process, and keeps us moving? Through some simple practices and dialogues, we explore one aspect of  the mystery of change- the turning and assent to evolution.

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Integral Spiritual Sunday (general event description)

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.

Sunday, November 16th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 11/30, 12/7, 12/14

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.

Sunday, November 2nd, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 11/16, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.

Sunday, October 19th, 9am-Noon
Suggested Donation $10
Also on 11/2, 11/16, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14

Give us that new time religion! Or at least come and help us figure out what that might be. Starting October 5th we’re going to host Integral Spiritual Sunday, a Sunday morning gathering dedicated to trans-lineage inspiration, interaction and celebration. It’s the closest thing to an integral church. Come help us make it happen!

• 9 – 9:45 am: Group meditation in the Meditation Hall, combines teaching, guided processes and silent space.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Homily, group process and discussion led by Ross Hostetter and Jeff Salzman. Stuart Davis will join us to provide music.
• 10 – 11:30 am: Child care will be provided starting at 10 am.
• 11:30 – noon: Social time.