Pacific Integral and the Integral Spiritual Network have joined forces to bring the innovative GTC Leadership program to the Southern Hemisphere for 2011/2012.
GTC (Generating Transformative Change) is a proven, research-based program that supports people in growing and expanding to become leaders who facilitate transformation in their chosen area and beyond. Participants come from around the world, from developed and developing countries alike.

To lead effectively in today’s complex world requires a higher level of both inner awareness and interpersonal skills. Today’s leaders no longer act from traditional positions of authority. They encounter a growing diversity of worldviews, values, assumptions, languages and challenges in an interwoven, globally-informed economy. Navigating these diverse worldviews, especially as they continue to evolve and interact into new forms, takes a special kind of awareness.

GTC will transform your consciousness while helping you gain the skills and vision to act creatively and collaboratively in this new and emerging context. GTC is an experiential learning program designed to support significant deep shifts and transformations in the participants. The program provides the length, breadth, depth, and intimacy needed to support the participants’ transformation into high-functioning, transformative leaders.

Outcomes of GTC include:

• Natural, larger sense of yourself and your capacities.
• Understanding your level of development by working with the leading researched-based framework on adult evolution.
• Greater personal presence expressed in life and work.
• Transforming deeply held worldviews, assumptions, values, and long-standing habits.
• Deeper, more authentic, and powerful communication.
• Greater ability to collaborate and develop relationship and community.
• Increased capacity to understand and shift perspectives, improving your ability to influence others towards positive change.
• Greater trust in internal wisdom and guidance for decision-making and problem-solving.
• Increased creativity and innovative thinking in life and work.
• Becoming part of a global collaborative community of transformative leaders.

The GTC Curriculum incorporates a many-faceted approach to learning, including leading cognitive theory, experiential learning and supported experiments in new ways of being and affecting transformation. The curriculum is designed with awareness of the ‘interior’ dimensions, including intention, worldview, purpose, vision, values, and cultural norms. The curriculum also addresses ‘exterior’ or visible dimensions, such as behaviors, organizational structures, systems, and processes.

GTC has received worldwide acclaim from both graduates and leadership professionals for its unique combination of concepts and practices. Our faculty bring decades of experience in education, psychology, business, leadership and adult development. According to research measures, our graduates leave our program leading, being, embodying and acting on average from one to two later stages of development than when they started. These later stages combine steady mindfulness of inner states, natural ability to see from multiple perspectives, altruism, new levels of creativity, and greater authenticity. These new ways of thinking and seeing allow participants to move through their personal and professional lives with fresh eyes and greater ease, while remaining in integrity with what is kind, just and true.

We invite you to join us.

More details: GTC SP Details

A 2 day workshop probing into the depth of Christianity with an integral perspectives.
Facilitated by Fr. Tim Mansfield.

Integral Christianity is not a new form of Christianity, with a new set of beliefs. Instead, Integral Christianity is a disposition, an attitude, that starts with the radical embracing of all forms of Christian rigorous practice and understanding. Then, taking these practices on both individual and collective levels, we embody them within our faith communities and move into our broader society.

Practicing ceaselessly “the presence of God”, in the words of that beloved spiritual classic, and at the same time also practicing our Lord’s second great commandment – to love our neighbour as our self. Gently probing if these poles collapse into a non-dual mode that touches the very origins of our faith.

In embracing those prior and current forms, without getting tied up between “orthodox” versus “heretical”, and adding the insights of modernity and science, we need to develop new modes of discernment and openness to experience. And doing this with a hunger for authenticity, righteousness and truth that celebrates life and avoids the mushy theological soup in which everything is equally true, but nothing truly matters.

This two-day workshop will draw out some perspectives of what such a broad, discerning embrace might look like.

We will introduce some possibilities of the kinds of rigorous practice that support our discernment. We will create open space amongst the participants to collaboratively explore how we can authentically continue to bring the fullness and richness of our beautiful tradition to life in the 21st Century.

Join us! We need your voice, your head, your hands and your heart.

What will I get from the workshop?

• An embodied sense of the ways in which Christianity has and might evolve alongside society into a premodern, modern, post-modern and integral forms
• A more spacious way to hold the polarity of orthodoxy and heresy.
• An experience of the Christian tradition at different depths: the body, the soul and the spirit.
• An understanding of ways in which tradition grapples with the unconscious aspects of the self and our relationship with our psychological shadow.
• A revisit and reframing of core Christian concepts like the Trinity, sin, the Kingdom of Heaven, salvation, church and Eucharist.
• A renewed grasp of and a renewed passion for the deep, relational character of Christianity.

Please find detailed registration information: Integral Christianity Brochure

On four Monday nights in August, Auckland Integral will be offering an introduction to the theory and practice of Integral. The course will focus on the AQAL model of quadrants, lines, levels, states, and types. Using concrete applications and awareness exercises, we will explore the Integral model in a comprehensive way.

While even an introductory understanding of Integral calls for a robust level of intellectual discourse. It is not necessary that participants have prior knowledge of Integral, however, it will be useful to already appreciate that this model allows us to embrace both the diversity and complexity of life.

Our goal is not discourse but it is understanding, application, and awareness. Throughout the four weeks, each of us will have our understanding deepened by working with concrete examples and through direct observation. Come prepared to stretch yourself in many ways – including your cognitive, but not limited to it.

We are asking participants to sign on for all four sessions.
As we must cover the cost of the venue, we are asking for NZD60 per participant.
Reduced rates may be possible for those who are in need.

The venue is in College Hill in Auckland.

Please see the meetup list on the left.

Big Mind Big Heart is Zen updated for the western world, an ever deepening practice that helps us understand, clarify and awaken our true nature. By enabling us to recognise and address some of the limiting ways we live and relate, we can live a better life. Using a proven interactive workshop format, we explore how different aspects of ourselves help or hinder the expression our true nature. With the skilful facilitation of Philip Oude-Vrielink and lively participation, we learn to directly experience Big Mind Big Heart, embrace ourselves, and start living a more purposeful and joyful life. This is not someone else’s interpretation of who you should be and how you should live. Rather, it is a way you can come to your own deep understandings, and directly experience your life, your relationships, and the world at large in a new and rich way.

A Brief Introduction to Big Mind Big Heart
Friday, 18 June 2010 at 7:30pm, Free
Cityside Baptist Church
8 Mt Eden Road, Newton, Auckland

Big Mind Big Heart Workshop
$95.00, Concessions Available
Saturday, 19 June 2010, 12:15 to 6:30 pm
Kohia Education Centre
Gate 1, 78 Epsom Avenue, Epsom, Auckland
Gate 2, Level 2 for Parking
Bookings: www.integralalchemy.com

This event is organized by Auckland Integral.It is offered as a contribution to the spiritual landscape of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Click here to download the event brochure: Big Mind 18 and 19 June 2010

One of the most controversial and pertinent conversations of our time is the one about climate change. Nothing makes people shut down and zone out or become frothy and heated up like this one. Nor is there a better place to practice perspective taking!

In this second part of a two part discussion (if you missed part one you could still easily join in), we will continue our enquiry into perspective taking via the dialogue/video on climate change between David Roirdan of Integral Life and Dr. Michael Zimmerman.

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