Are You Embodying What You Know?
By: Robb Smith

Contained within the human heart is an inextinguishable drive to make greater sense of our world while also cultivating the freedom, passion and capacities to transform it. This is why many of us are drawn to lead integral lives. And I’m sure you have noticed that while living integrally starts as something you know, it proceeds to something you do, and ends as something you embody. It is embodiment, this final step, that we all seek – the “on-board capacities” to grow anywhere we want to; to live completely, deeply in touch with our unique gifts and vision. Not merely as something we know, but also as something we are. [+more]

Better Relationships:
Who Are You Talking To?
Contributor: Joanne Hunt

How useful would it be during any communication in your personal or professional life to actually know who you were really talking to? We know it’s a big claim, but if you play with the Better Relationships Part 2 exercise, we think you can learn to spot the perspective of the person you are engaging with and learn to communicate more skillfully with the people around you. [+more]

New School Year
By: Joanne Hunt

The new school year is well underway. Children are back in class with favorite teachers, dreaded homework, a new locker, unknown class-mates, and a backpack of new school supplies. They take on so much ‘new’ at the end of each summer, don’t they? As adults, many of us are also continuing our studies this Fall, taking up the Masters Degree we always wished we had pursued, learning a new instrument, and continuing our deep development in ways that are refined from year to year to year. Cycles of development never ending. [+more]

Coaches' Corner:
Change Takes Time
By: Kevin Snorf

The cheesy tag line on my Integral Coach Home Page says, “Time for a change? Change takes time.” It is a rather succinct way of trying to capture the challenge that development offers us. Why can’t we change over night? How do we make an authentic and lasting shift from where we are now to where we want to be? When a client walks in my door with a coaching topic that is of deep importance, he also comes in with a deeply embedded way of approaching that topic. A big part of bringing about lasting change is first learning to see your current way of approaching your topic so that you can consciously work with the pitfalls and inherent grace of your own “way.” [+more]

Your Unique Self Is Not Your Ego
Contributor: Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei

The Unique Self is much more than a Myers-Briggs test with a spiritual overlay. It does not refer to any of these ornaments of the self—though it is immanent to the trials and tribulations of the ego, it utterly transcends the ego, remaining forever untouched by the appetites of identity. The Unique Self represents the deepest possible expression of consciousness, a subject that can never be made object, the union of ever-present consciousness and individual perspective at a radically fundamental level. [+more]

*This is a part of an ongoing content series addressing the theme of the first annual Integral Spiritual Experience, held this December. ISE schedule highlights are now available, and we've added more seats! [+learn more]

Are You Ready for an In-Home Integral Theory Experience This Holiday Season?

Integral Life has helped to launch Core Integral, a company dedicated to integral theory training products and services, and is pleased to announce that its partnership with Core Integral will bring the first packaged DVD course to Integral Life members in time for the coming 2009 holiday season. [+more]

Alchemy of Loss:
Exploring Living and Dying

This Tapestry Initiative seminar will provide ways to discover the places within ourselves that are still closed through the impact of unhealed loss and grief. Engaging with and moving through these places in a supported safe environment will allow people to shift from resignation to acceptance in the most transparent and yet full way. We will discover together a way to be with both pain and joy and engage in this great adventure with a deep recognition of this precious opportunity we are sharing.

Boulder, CO - October 22-24, 2009– Ken Wilber, Special Guest Speaker on the 24th. Integral Life members are being offered a specially discounted event fee of $395. [+more]