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• Creatively apply integral leadership concepts to your everyday (professional, personal, family and community) life.  Be an everyday integral leader - from parenting children to managing employees, to organizing a neighborhood watch group – be prepared to lead through an integral lens.

• Support your unique integral path by communing with like-minded seekers and restoring your sense of beauty, truth and goodness. 
  

• Find out more about the new frontier in WE space – expanding the culture we live in.

• Learn more about how you can enact leadership from a second tier perspective and employ an integral framework to organizational settings.

• Walk away with practical tools on how to implement integral leadership in action in today’s fast changing world.

• Join us as we collaborate with each other; share best practices and create meaningful and lasting connections
  

• Dates: Friday 11/14 - Sunday 11/16  
• Fees:  Early Registration $695 before October 15/After that, $895 

 

If you are working with or interested in helping people recover from drug and alcohol addiction, and have been frustrated and at times despairing of existing treatment models, please continue reading to learn about a new and comprehensive approach to recovery treatment.

After many years in the world of addiction treatment, recovery expert John Dupuy has created an innovative, new treatment model called Integral Recovery.  This model is based on the application of Ken Wilber's AQAL map to the field of addiction treatment, and puts forward an ongoing life-long Integral Life Practice as the core healing modality of Integral Recovery. This is a real world application of the Integral/AQAL map to one of our largest and most pressing human catastrophes: drug addiction.

You will be introduced to this model in two ways. First, John would like you to have a complimentary copy of a paper he wrote on this new approach, published in AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. The paper is called "Toward an Integral Recovery Model for Drug and Alcohol Addiction," and you can download it by clicking on the link.

Then, we'd like to invite you to a special live workshop where John, along with a few special guests, will discuss this innovative approach, and show you how you can easily implement it in your facility or practice in order to increase the success rate in your recovery approach.

The workshop will be Nov. 14 - 16 at the Boulder Center for Integral Living, in Boulder, Colorado. We are extremely excited about this new approach, and we thought you'd want to know about it.

John Dupuy's work has been published in the AQAL Journal and Integrale Pespectiven, the leading German Integral magazine. He has conducted workshops and talks in the U.S. and Europe, and have many years of experience working with those suffering from addiction and their families. He founded Passages to Recovery and is the co-founder of Open Sky Wilderness Therapy, two therapeutic wilderness programs.

The event's co-presenter will be Bill Harris, who has created an amazing tool that has been used in addiction recovery with astounding results. In this workshop, Bill will demonstrate this tool and show you how you can use it in your own work.

Bill is currently President and Director of Centerpointe Research Institute. He started Centerpointe Research Institute in 1989 with borrowed recording equipment set up on his kitchen table. Today, approximately 700,000 people in 173 countries have used Centerpointe programs, including the tool I want him to share with you, to improve their lives.

Though not initially created as an addiction recovery tool, Centerpointe's proprietary Holosync sound technology, when listened to through stereo headphones, creates the brain wave patterns of deep meditative states, causing the brain to reorganize at higher levels of functioning, while at the same time raising the stress threshold, which in itself powerfully contributes to relapse prevention.

John and Bill have found that those who use Holosync during their recovery process experience tremendous positive changes. They much more quickly have (and embrace) many of the key insights that make their recovery smoother and faster. More specifically, Holosync:

• Reduces stress and increases the ability of people to handle stressful situations

• Reduces the production of cortisol in the brain, a harmful stress-related neurochemical and increases the production of positive neurochemicals, such as dopamine and serotonin

• Aids in balancing the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which is experienced in the individual as increased cognitive and creative abilities

• Aids in the reintegration and release of trauma and repressed shadow elements in the psyche

• Quickly leads to an increased sense of well-being and serenity in one’s life 

• Treatment professionals
• Individuals in recovery (or their family and friends)
• Those interested in Integral theory and its real world application

• Saturday, June 7  (Intro to Integral Practice, see above)
• Saturday, June 14 
• Saturday, June 21  
• Saturday, June 28

• Monday - Friday, June 9 - 13
• Monday - Friday, June 16 - 20
• Monday - Friday, June 23 - 27

• A loosening of fear in your life, and the emergence of your personal calling to create, express and contribute
• A new capacity to inhabit your body (including your energy body) in more powerful and beautiful ways
• New possibilities for intimacy and relationships based on authenticity and intentional co-creation
• Awakened spiritual insight and embodiment
• An ability to harmonize conflicting perspectives and bring real healing to the suffering world.

Please checkout our new website at http://www.boulderintegral.org

June 17^th 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Suggested Donation $10 - $20

Come and explore the Matrix Leadership Model, a deeply integral “We” space model. Join us for an interactive presentation with Dr Elizabeth Smith, long-time integral scholar, teacher, and psychotherapist, and Amina Knowlan, co-founder and director of the Matrix Leadership Institute. Matrix Leadership teaches leadership through radical interconnection. The principles and practices offer a blueprint for creating groups as conscious groups, living systems.  Emergence occurs by the simultaneous support of differentiation (becoming more uniquely and fully yourself) while developing increasing unified, connections with others and the whole.  It optimizes communication between the parts, differentiation from cultural paradigms based on separateness and individual development. Elizabeth and Amina will explore how the Matrix Leadership Model can be used to help develop vibrant, integrally-informed leaders, groups and communities.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Dr. Elizabeth Smith is the founding director of the Center for Spirituality and Integral Social Work at the National Catholic School of Social Service, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, where she taught for more than 20 years.  During that time she also maintained a part-time psychotherapy private practice in Washington, DC, and was a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.  While teaching in the graduate school of social work she developed and taught (for several years) a course in transpersonal theory which centered around Wilber’s book on Integral Psychology. Elizabeth has also been closely involved with Integral Institute in the development of Integral University (IU) as Director of the Center for Social Service.  She has written and published a number of articles in professional journals, chapters in books, and has edited two books.

Amina Knowlan co-founded Matrix Leadership in 1990 (previously Group Leadership Training). She has been facilitating groups and trainings for 30 years. She considers herself a social artist and works as a trainer, facilitator, consultant and spiritual-somatic life coach. She was a trainer for the Hakomi Institute of Body-Centered Psychotherapy for 15 years and an owner/practitioner in Wellspring, Partners in Health (a holistic medical clinic) for 15 years. She incorporates somatic, energetic and intuitive approaches as well as dance, movement, voice, art and practices of mindfulness into her work. She also leads retreats for women entitled Fully Embodied Woman: Remembering the Sacred Feminine.

For more information on the Matrix Leadership Model, see http://www.matrixleadership.com/matrix_model.php

• Date: This Saturday June 14
• Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
• Suggested Donation: $25

Many spiritual traditions point out that happiness isn't just the result of the Path.  It is the Path itself.   In other words, it is worthy of practice.  Today, science too, is weighing in with very cool research on the biological and behavioral aspect of happiness.

Dearest Friends,

So, if you'd like fuller relationships with others in the local integral community, join us this Saturday, 6/21, for a morning workshop.  

From MatrixLeadership.org: As human beings we radically redefine ourselves when we awaken from our trance of separateness. When we live and work in interconnected networks or matrices, we harvest our collective intelligence and realize our full potential. Each member becomes a leader and leadership occurs through the relationships between people. Communities and organizations become highly creative, effective and sustainable.

Sounds interesting?  Then come and help us try it out!  The workshop will be mostly experiential, with a little theory thrown in (we can't help ourselves!).

About  Jack Spivak, BS, MS:

As a facilitator and trainer Jack brings 25+ years perspective from teaching, living systems research, and bioengineering. With an academic background in aerospace and bioengineering, Jack has led diverse groups since 1975 as a project engineer, an internationally certified technical trainer, and an environmental activist. He is passionately inspired by the realization that creative, loving, effective, and satisfying groups are actually possible. He is dedicated to their emergence in our day to day lives. Living an intimate and comfortable dance with Chaos, Jack describes himself as "a surprisingly human engineer whose best and worst qualities are probably the same." He practices what he preaches daily as a loving partner and father of his son.