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Introduction to Holacracy at BCIL

Posted on Jul 6th, 2007 by Boulder Integral : Gaia Child Boulder Integral









On June 28th, BCIL co-sponsored a 4 hour presentation in Holacracy for a group of highly perceptive people, all interested in this radically new approach to organizational governance and management that, we think, represents the very leading edge of conscious business, cultural and personal evolution. The  presentation was taught by Brian Robertson and Tom Thomison, CEO's of HolacracyOne, who gave a brilliant demonstration of why Holacracy is sweeping across the organizational world. See pictures from the event here. Brain and Tom were treated to many questions  from the audience - a very energetic group of people who were also furious note-takers!

Basically, Holacractic processes bring on-line life energies that are typically seen as spiritual.  You and your team expand beyond the conventional orientation of making things happen to include noticing and working with what is already happening.  And this very process brings its own power to bear, and not just yours.   

What we especially love about Holacracy is that it can achieve transpersonal states within a group that not only access each participant's higher view and wisdom, but also, create a new, palpable, emergent entity: a "group mind," not herd mentality, that metabolizes multiple perspectives into clarity and cohesion.   

Perhaps you'll also like what the Wall Street Journal had to say about Holacracy. To read the WSJ article and to learn more about the event, please click here. Feel free to forward this to whoever you think might be interested. And if BrIan and/or Tom are in your neighborhood, don't forget to particiapte in a Holacracy event.
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JunPo Roshi's visit to BCIL

Posted on Jul 10th, 2007 by Boulder Integral : Gaia Explorer Boulder Integral

July 8th @ BCIL

Doshin and JunPo Roshi Five Training Elements of Integral Zen Practice with Zen Master JunPo Denis Kelly Roshi, Abbot of the Hollow Bones Order

Hello Friends,

We had an incredible day of 3-body  workout today at BCIL with JunPo Denis Kelly Roshi, a powerful and provocative Zen Teacher with an Integral perspective.  Junpo Roshi is a true innovator, integrating traditional Zen practice with the gifts of western psychology and science.  His Five Training Elements represent a full mind/body/emotion/spirit practice developed for the Western mind and life. (Scroll down to read Roshi's bio.)

We started at 9am with a room full of about 50+ people, sitting in deep listening and looking within to Roshi's ringing of the gong. The morning progressed into a 4 hour  session that included teachings, more meditations, qigong, more qigong, and an inter-subjective koan-inquiry session in which he worked with three volunteers from the audiance.   He invited everyone to sit around him and the volunteers in a cozy huddle and skillfully guided everyone through a powerful process of  digging deep inside to experience how our philosophical, rational and egoic minds have to give up their dramas in order to land in our true "home." 
Koan Session

Thank you, Roshi, for your deep insights, compassion and wild sense of humor that kept us all "awake." Your gift will stay with us for a long time to come and we await another session with you soon!

Thanks also to all of you joined us today at BCIL. It is our greatest joy to see this community becoming a true "We."
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