Relationships, Love, & Shadow: An Integral Journey of Heart, Mind, and Body with Dr. Marc Gafni – May 28th-30th!
The Integral Evolutionary Tribe will be gathering Memorial Day weekend for three days of powerful community, friendship, love, deep study and consideration, spiritual practice, and ecstatic dancing into the night! This is an Integral practice intensive not to be missed!
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The Topic:
On Living the Integral Masculine and the Integral Feminine in Your Life with Dr. Marc Gafni — Guest teaching by Ken Wilber
We all engage in relationship. They are the basic monad of our existence. Successful Relationships give heart, joy and passion to our lives. In many ways successful relationships are life itself. Failed relationships foster most of the pain, heartbreak and even disaster in our lives. In many ways failed relationships are death itself.
By relationships we mean a wide variety of interactions. But the core of all relationships is between the masculine and the feminine. This may show up in relations between lovers, teacher and student, parent and child, in romantic relationships, in friendships, in business relationships and more. The masculine and feminine show up in sexual relationships in both straight and gay relationships. Moreover the masculine and the feminine, in their shadow and light forms, are principles at play in the politics of of love and sex no less then in the politics of economics, globalization, and the environment.
In this weekend we will engaged through heart, body, and mind Four core topics:
- Masculine Power and Masculine Shadow in Love Relationships
- Feminine Power and Feminine Shadow in Love Relationshipss
- Evolutionary Integral Models for Teacher Student Relationships
- Evolutionary Integral Models for Marriage and Sexuality
Who Should Attend?
Relationships, Love, and Shadow is open to all practitioners and students at all levels of experience, from all schools of practice.
How is the Seminar Structured?
Relationships, Love, and Shadow is itself an example of Integral practice: it is designed to engage you cognitively, interpersonally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We will employ a balance of theoretical and experiential, as well as individual and group, learning sessions–all woven together into a vital, comprehensive, and balanced awareness.
We will also focus on helping you develop and strengthen your own Integral Evolutionary Practice, with modules including:
– Chanting and contemplation practices
– Yoga and movement
– Free time in nature
– Journaling and introspection exercises
– Self-expression and fun!
One of the primary goals of this seminar is to facilitate a network–and an on-going support system–of Integrally-informed iSpirit practitioners.
Through the facilities of iEvolve online, you will be connected to our learning community, with online events, seminars, and conferences, all designed to move Spirit forward–with your participation!
Come a day early and meet some of your iSpirit colleagues! Get prepped to make the most of your Relationships, Love, & Shadow experience.
Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice: A One-Day Primer to the AQAL Framework
with Dr. Marc Gafni and Clint Fuhs
Friday, May 28th, 9am-5pm
Westin Hotel
Westminster, Colorado
(same hotel hosting the Relationships, Love, and Shadow intensive.)
The Teachers:
Anchor Teacher, Marc Gafni, co-founder iEvolve: Evolving a World Spirituality, Author of the Erotic and the Holy, The New Enlightenment: Awaken Your Unique Self, Soul Prints and more…
Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and sacred audacity that he teaches.
Guest appearance by Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books, translated into some 30 foreign languages, including the recent Integral Spirituality. He is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive, and is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the founder of Integral Institute, Inc. and the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc.
Guest appearance by Mariana Kaplan
Mariana Caplan, PhD, is a counselor speciailizing in somatic approaches to psychotherapy. She is a professor of transpersonal and yogic psychologies, and the author of seven books in the fields of psychology and spirituality, including Eyes Wide Open, Halfway Up the Mountain and Do You Need a Guru?. She has degrees in cultural anthropology, counseling psychology, and contemporary spirituality, and is a lifelong practitioner of yoga.
She has spent the past two decades researching and practicing in the world’s great mystical traditions, and has lived in villages in India, Central and South America, and Europe. Mariana resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has a private practice in counseling in Marin County. She also teaches yoga philosophy and transpersonal psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and yoga Äsana classes at Yoga Mountain Studio in Fairfax, California.
Don’t miss our Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice with Dr. Marc Gafni and Clint Fuhs on May 28th!
Clint Fuhs is the founder of Core Integral, a company dedicated to expanding access to, and ensuring the integrity of a comprehensive understanding of the Integral approach. He is a senior student of Ken Wilber’s, and is currently completing a PhD in Human and Organizational Development at Fielding Graduate University. He is also an adjunct faculty member at both JFK and Fielding Graduate Universities.
The Weekend will be chaired by Zak Stein and Dustin Diperna and Curated by Kelly Sosan Bearer and Nicole Fegley.
Zachary Stein received a B.A. in philosophy from Hampshire College in 2004 and an Ed.M. in Mind, Brain, and Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in 2006. He is currently a student of philosophy and cognitive development pursuing a doctorate at Harvard. He is also the Senior Analyst for the Developmental Testing Service where he has worked for years employing cognitive developmental models and metrics in a variety of real world contexts.
Dustin spent two years at Integral Institute from 2003-2005 working for both the seminar team and Integral Spiritual Center. Inspired by all that he experienced, Dustin left I-I to begin writing full time about the nexus of religion and psychological development. He recently completed his first book Developmental Religious Pluralism: A Brief Introduction to Integral Religious Studies — to be released by Integral Books sometime next year. Dustin is currently pursuing a Masters of Liberal Arts in Religion at Harvard University and consults on issues of how a developmental perspective creates greater clarity on the role of religion in international relations — www. drpi.org.
Kelly Sosan Bearer is the Executive Director of iEvolve: Global Practice Community. She is the C co-curator of Integral Life Spiritual Center and Integral Spiritual Experience. Previously, Kelly worked for Integral Institute from 2003-2008 and has been a student of Integral theory and practice for over a decade. Kelly is an ordained Zen Monk and studies with Zen Master Genpo Roshi. She is a published author in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. She completed her graduate studies at Naropa University with Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology.
Nicole Fegley is a co-curator of Integral Life Spiritual Center and Integral Spiritual Experience. A former restaurant owner, she has worked for Integral Institute and Integral Life for the past 4 years and is currently studying in the Integral Coaching Canada certification program. She is a writer and the co-owner of Core Integral, Inc, dedicated to comprehensive and accessible training in Integral Theory and Application.
