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V 2008 ILiA Collaborative: Leading from Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
V Thursday, October 9, 2008 = Kick-off, Meet & Greet, Pre-Program Intensives
V 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm -> Pre-Collaborative Intensives (extra-charge)
V Introduction to Integral
* Rollie Stanich
* If you're new to integral theory, or would like a refresher, join Rollie Stanich and Jeff Salzman for a fun and fast-moving tour through ideas that will clarify your life and your world. The fruits of integral thinking and functioning are quite practical: a reduction of fear, a new capacity to inhabit your body, new possibilities for intimacy, spiritual insight, and an enhanced ability to harmonize conflicting perspectives to bring healing and health to a world that needs it.
* Required for those new to Integral - open and optional to others
V A Discussion of the Leading Edge of Integral Philosophy
* Steve McIntosh - facilitator of open discussion
* This workshop is designed for those familiar with integral philosophy and who wish to explore the leading edge of its development. Participants are encouraged to consider the topic before hand and contribute their ideas to the discussion. Our goal is to better identify the state of the art of integral philosophy, and maybe even push the leading edge out a little further.
V 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm -> Kick-Off and Meet & Greet Party with Jeff Salzman & Diane Hamilton
V WELCOME: Integral Leading through Integral Living
* Jeff Salzman & Diane Hamilton
* Integral living is an opportunity to nudge any given moment toward goodness, truth and beauty. In this session, we’ll have a look and taste of the life we are called to usher in as we ever more stably inhabit integral consciousness.
* Social Meet & Greet
* Jen Blalock and Kim Harpham coordinate 1 to 1 meet and greet (Speed Dating Model) followed by time to mingle.
V Friday, October 10, 2008 = All Day Collaborative
V 7:30 am - 8:30 am -> Optional Morning Practice (meditation room is available at all times for quiet contemplation)
V Integral Life Practice Morning Salutation
* Gary Hawke
* Start the day the Integral way. You are invited to participant in a morning salutation which will follow an Integral Life Practice Framework. The session will support you in centering your Gross, Subtle and Causal bodies allowing you to create an energized self. By engaging with the Integral Life Practice framework the Morning Salutation will invite you to create a We space that will help deepen involvement within the day’s activities.
Within the Morning Salutation you will be invited to engage with centering exercises, the Integral Kata, and integrally informed meditation. Finally the session will close with an invitation to create a daily personal intention. You are welcome to attend as much or as little of the morning practice as you like. The Practice space will be free, open and safe. The practice aims to help you welcome the day through an integral lens.
V 9:00 am - 12:00 pm -> Morning Plenary with Diane Hamilton & Jeff Salzman
V Encountering the Good, True, and Beautiful in Community
* Diane Hamilton, & Jeff Salzman
* “We” space is the new frontier of emerging integral functioning. But what is integral community and how does one create it? What are its gifts and what are its shadows?
V 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm -> Early Afternoon Breakout Sessions
V Creativity and Integrating Your Shadow (Victoria Wilson)
* Victoria Wilson
* One of the most challenging areas of an individual's journey is how to open too and integrate their own shadow. Not only our disowned negative side...but our disowned radiance as well. In this module we will explore how to use creative awareness and heart centered focus to explore that which the ego is afraid of. Bring your journal and a desire to become more skillful. No previous creative experience required.
V Discovering the AQAL meta-principles of Integral Leadership (Clint Fuhs)
* Clint Fuhs
* Rather than lecturing about the research I have recently conducted on an integral framework for leadership, I will instead direct participants in a series of facilitated group activities aimed at uncovering the guiding principles of a truly AQAL approach to leadership. The intended result: evoke an emergent understanding of the theoretical frame upon which the future of leadership will rest through a process of intentional and exciting group exploration.
V Your World Changing Idea (Ross Hostetter)
* Ross Hostetter
* One of the markers of Integral Consciousness is the desire to create. If you’ve signed up for this conference, chances are high that you’ve brought a world-changing project or idea along with you. This is a precious, precious gift- yet how do we liberate our path of service and take our work to the next level? A group of high-level peers who have “been there” will spend a couple of hours offering each other deep listening, intuition, analysis, and advice in a structured format. Be the instrument by which another will receive the one thing they need to hear. Requirements: A Project, a Presenting Issue, and the willingness to be open to a new way of being and acting in service of your hearts desire and the world’s deep need.
V 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm -> Late Afternoon Plenary with Michael McElhenie & Barrett Brown
V Integral Leadership Olympiad
* Michael McElhenie & Barrett Brown
* Business simulations and games are used to teach us about various aspects of leadership (and followership). What happens, however, when you bring integral consciousness to these learning experiences? What emerges and what carnage is unleashed? This session will invite our integral community to tackle challenges related to decision-making, group process, emotional intelligence, hidden agendas, etc. In these mini-simulations, people will apply their integral consciousness to various leadership challenges; using planned, stop-action reflection and "map" application moments, we will help people and groups objectify their thinking, emotions, behavior and group process. Come for the learning. Go for gold!!!
V 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm -> Optional Visionary Music by Michael Garfield
V A Taste of Visionary Music
* Michael Garfield
* The Visionary Music of Michael Garfield...turns on a dime between dynamic, throbbing anthems, heart-spearing ballads, dazzling instrumental etudes, and hypnotic loopscapes. Using a panoply of avant-garde guitar techniques, and integrating the Big Mind process as a songwriting device, Michael plays daring, passionate music that carries listeners on an adventure through mind and nature. His presentation at ILiA this year is a lightning 45 minutes of music and storytelling that is not to be missed.
V 8:00 pm - 9:20 pm -> KEYNOTE: Steve McIntosh
V Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, the Eros of Evolution
* Steve McIntosh
* According to integral philosophy, evolution progresses as the result of both “a push” and “a pull.” We can all see how cultural evolution is being pushed by the pressing need to ameliorate the problematic life conditions that we face here at the beginning of the 21st century. But is also important to recognize how our evolution is being pulled forward by the “attractors of perfection” we experience through the values of the beautiful, the true and the good. Indeed, it is the reclamation of the central importance of these “primary values” that is at the very heart of the philosophical revival of the integral movement. This presentation will focus on the theme of the conference by exploring how the values of beauty, truth, and goodness actually serve to draw us forward into increasingly more evolves states and stages.
V 9:20 pm - 9:45 pm -> Optional Brief Meditation
V Taking the information into our bodies and a bonne nuit
* Victoria Wilson
V Saturday, October 11, 2008 = All Day Collaborative
V 7:30 am - 8:30 am -> Optional Morning Practice (meditation room is available at all times for quiet contemplation)
V Integral Life Practice Morning Salutation
* Gary Hawke
* Morning Salutation - Start the day the Integral way (see description above).
V 9:00 am - 10:15 am -> Morning Plenary with Elizabeth DeBold
V The Myth of the Feminine—An Integral and Evolutionary Approach to Gender
* Elizabeth Debold
* Current wisdom tells us that the cure for our out-of-balance hypermasculine culture is through a resurgence of the feminine. However, the whole way that we think about gender has been conditioned by modern structures in consciousness that polarize masculine and feminine. What would it mean to move beyond that duality? How can a higher integral perspective enable us to evolve our very experience of self?
V 10:30 am - 12:00 pm -> Morning Breakout Sessions
V The Universe Project: Bringing a Kosmos-centric Perspective to Individual and Cultural Development in the 21st century (Carter Phipps & Jeff Carreira)
* Carter Phipps & Jeff Carreira
* In this unique exploration of integral consciousness, What Is Enlightenment? Executive Editor Carter Phipps and EnlightenNext Education Director, Jeff Carreira, will explore what it means to be integral from the inside-out. Drawing on a decade of intensive, intersubjective spiritual practice and exploration, they will share the ways in which their own experiential discoveries have led them to integral philosophy, and explain how integral philosophy has, in turn, enriched their spiritual lives. So what is the ultimate relationship between theory and practice, between embracing integral philosophy and living an integral life? This session will give participants new insight into that all-important question, shining a light on the deeper layers of the term “integral.”
V Formalizing the ILiA Collaborative: Collaborate in Manifesting Your Evolving Vision for Leadership Excellence and Support (Dan Noble)
* Dan Noble
Since the first "Integral Leadership Seminar" (sponsored by Integral Institute and lead by Fred Kofman, Ken Wilber and others, in 2004), ILiA grew out of a desire on the part of some of those participants to keep and expand on integral leadership in the lives of those of us who are practicing leaders of small to large organizations. If you are endeavoring to continue to learn and deepen our practice and experience of integral leadership, come to this collaborative workshop on defining what the ILiA can become for you and the world.
V Shift happens... in the territory;
Enhancing integral awareness with Gestalt theory and practice (Allison Conte)
* Allison Conte
* As integral practitioners, we love our models and maps. They help us to find our way, and each other, in this vast Kosmos -- and to appreciate the view from multiple perspectives. Yet transformation happens in the territory, not on the map. We are changed when our experience leads to contact, here and now, with self and others.

In this workshop, we'll explore how a Gestalt approach can enhance our integral awareness and increase our capacity to meet others where they are, in the territory of experience. Grounded in field-theory, phenomenology and the paradoxical theory of change, Gestalt Gestalt theory and practice offers a broadly interdisciplinary framework which can be used to heighten awareness, increase choice, and support change at every level of human system, from individual to societal.
V 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm -> I-L Update by Robb Smith
V Status Update and News from I-L's Robb Smith
* Robb Smith CEO of Integral Life
* An update on what’s happening at Integral Institute and Integral Living.
V 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm -> Afternoon Plenary with Terry Patton
V ILP - In Action
* Terry Patton
* Integral Life Practice utilizes Integral cross-training, simultaneous practices in the Body, Mind, Spirit, and Shadow modules (and other important modules, as well.) As practice deepens and matures across a lifetime, two merit special attention—the Ethics and Soul modules. Both will be illuminated, in a way that reflects on the practice of Integral Politics. Experiential exercises will help bring it alive.
V 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm -> Afternoon Breakout Sessions
V Spiritual Intelligence and its relationship to higher stages of ego development: a study of possible correlations between the Spiritual Intelligence Assessment and the Maturity Assessment Profile (Cindy Wigglesworth)
* Cindy Wigglesworth
* This segment will review the model of Spiritual Intelligence and the assessment (SQi) created by Cindy Wigglesworth, and the correlations between scores on the SQi and scores on the LDP/MAP created by Susanne Cook-Greuter
V Integral Politics Panel Discussion (Steve McIntosh)
* Steve McIntosh
* "Integral politics" can be defined as the political platform or agenda of those who share the values and perspectives of the integral stage of consciousness. This integral politics panel discussion will examine how these integral values and perspectives can be applied to the political arena. The panelists will include Steve McIntosh, Terry Patten, Carter Phipps, and several other leading thinkers on the subject of integral politics. The session will also provide ample opportunity for audience participation. With the national election three weeks away, our discussion is bound to be rich and provocative.
V Exploring "Integral Leadership In Action": Concurrently A Group Inquiry and Realtime Enactment (Larry Kiehl)
* Larry Kiehl
* Consider that Light shining through the "prism" of Love manifests as Goodness/Truth/Beauty in an infinite array of displays; including in the practicalities of Integral leadership-in-action. As we gradually learn to lead more from 2nd tier's Integral states and stages of consciousness we are nearer to fulfilling our higher appetite for manifesting Goodness/Truth/Beauty. On the practical side, imagine getting meta to and transcending conventional 1st tier command-and-control leadership protocol and decorum for meetings, seminars, or even experiential laboratories, and opening into our group's intersubjective 2nd tier/Integral intention to co-emerge and co-enact a co-leadership dynamic in our 90 minute session. We can be empowered for this by opening to a higher/deeper state in our Authentic self, into an ever-emerging seminal state of nascent awareness, as a continuous "becoming-in-the-now".
V 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm -> Plenary PERFORMANCE by Stuart Davis
V Stuart Davis on Stage
* Live performance by Integral’s own Twisted Mystic.
V 9:00 pm - 11:59 pm -> Party!
* ILiA Celebration PARTY - Let loose, have fun, get down, do the hustle
V Sunday, October 12, 2008 = Morning Conclusion, Post-Program Add-On Session
V 7:30 am - 8:30 am -> Optional Morning Practice (meditation room is available at all times for quiet contemplation)
V Integral Life Practice Morning Salutation
* Gary Hawke
* Optional Morning Salutation - Start the day the Integral way (see description above).
V 9:00 am - 12:00 pm -> Special Event Plenary with Andrew Cohen
V Creating the Future; Our Kosmic Responsibility
* Andrew Cohen
* "I believe that if we want the world to change in a significant way, and if we're serious about creating a better future for us all, then the only way it's going to happen is the only way it's ever happened: through the evolution of consciousness and culture. For the universe to evolve at this level, those of us at the leading edge-that fortunate minority of us who have been blessed with wealth, education, and the time to consider these higher matters-have to make sure it happens. We have to be the ones to create the future."
V 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm -> 2008 Collaborative Closing Ritual (Jeff Salzman, Diane Hamilton, Victoria Wilson)
V Closing Ceremony of Gratitude, Completion, and Connection
* Jeff Salzman, Diane Hamilton, Victoria Wilson
* Gratitude, closure, acknowledgement, and completion - Namaste'
V 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm -> Private Vendor: Meta-Practice Add-On Session Clint Fuhs & Brian Berger (extra charge)
V The Meta-Practice: An Embodied Approach to Cultivating Authentic Interaction through Perspective Training
* Clint Fuhs and Brian Berger
* The crucial challenge in cultivating truly authentic interactions with others is our under-exercised and sometimes underdeveloped ability to fluidly and accurately take perspectives in the moment-to-moment flux of relationships. The Meta-Practice seamlessly weaves three hours of skillfully moderated interpersonal engagement with periods of precisely guided perspective training that focuses on the specific moments generated between individuals. It draws on engagement techniques ranging from method acting to gestalt, and is grounded on cutting-edge Integral theory including the most sophisticated perspective-mapping currently available.

And, best of all, every aspect of this theoretical grounding remains where it best serves this work: in the background. The work is focused exclusively on embodied practice and meaningful interaction, so anyone can benefit from The Meta-Practice’s ability to help them: understand the dynamics of complex perspective taking, deepen their awareness of the perspectives taken by self and others, foster an accuracy of perspective, and cultivate an embodied integral skillful means. If you are interested in developing the ability to cultivate authentic interactions through enhanced perspective-taking ability, join us for this incredible workshop!

For more information on The Meta-Practice™ please visit: www.TheMetaPractice.com

The Meta-Practice: An Embodied Approach to Cultivating Authentic Interaction through Perspective Training
The crucial challenge in cultivating truly authentic interactions with others is our under-exercised and sometimes underdeveloped ability to fluidly and accurately take perspectives in the moment-to-moment flux of relationships. The Meta-Practice seamlessly weaves three hours of skillfully moderated interpersonal engagement with periods of precisely guided perspective training that focuses on the specific moments generated between individuals. It draws on engagement techniques ranging from method acting to gestalt, and is grounded on cutting-edge Integral theory including the most sophisticated perspective-mapping currently available.
And, best of all, every aspect of this theoretical grounding remains where it best serves this work: in the background. The work is focused exclusively on embodied practice and meaningful interaction, so anyone can benefit from The Meta-Practice’s ability to help them: understand the dynamics of complex perspective taking, deepen their awareness of the perspectives taken by self and others, foster an accuracy of perspective, and cultivate an embodied integral skillful means. If you are interested in developing the ability to cultivate authentic interactions through enhanced perspective-taking ability, join us for this incredible workshop!
For more information on The Meta-Practice™ please visit: www.TheMetaPractice.com
V Monday October 13, 2008 = Post-Program Private Vendor: Enlighten Next Add-On Session
V 10:00 am - 5:00 pm -> Enlighten Next One Day Offering (can sign up separately from the Collaborative - extra charge)
V Awakening the Evolutionary Impulse
* Carter Phipps & Jeff Carreira
* Join What Is Enlightenment? magazine’s Executive Editor Carter Phipps and EnlightenNext Education Director Jeff Carreira for an illuminating journey into the development of a new integral spirituality.