Please note the location of this event is not at The Alignment Center.
It is being hosted at The TAI Group, located at 150 W. 30th Street.
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TERRY PATTEN is a vital, leading voice in the fields of spiritual practice, leadership, integral development and evolutionary spirituality. He speaks and consults internationally, inspiring, challenging, and connecting evolutionary leaders and institutions worldwide. A gifted communicator, community- builder, successful entrepreneur, and author of four books, Terry has worked for over three decades as a philosopher, activist, coach, and teacher, helping leaders embody higher consciousness in practical actions that transform complex systems. His online teleseminar series, Beyond Awakening: The Future of Spiritual Practice, draws a worldwide audience as he explores fundamental life questions with the likes of Ram Dass, Diane Hamilton, Gangaji, Jean Houston and Adyashanti. He is the author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice. His website is www.integralheart.com
DEBORAH BOYAR, Ph.D. is a somatic educator who guides people to navigate through trauma as a gateway to awakened evolution. Through decades of immersion in spirituality, psychology, neuroscience and healing, she embodies deep compassion, seasoned discrimination and the abiding transmission of spiritual wholeness. As a bio-spiritual midwife, she helps people discover their core essence, and welcomes them to shine and incarnate their unique gifts. Her passion lies in fostering core resilience as an embodied foundation for the journey of awakened integration. Her welcoming manner and clear voice create a deep sense of safety and a platform for organic transformation.Her website is www.deborahboyar.com
MICHAEL PERGOLA, MA, MBA, JD, is a lawyer, business executive, teacher, ordained interfaith minister. In the wake of 9/11, he co-founded One Spirit Learning Alliance. A long time student of consciousness, culture and spiritual development, Michael has pursued personal mastery and an understanding of people and creativity for over 30 years in order to to bring the heritage of human wisdom into every aspect of life.
Utilizing insights from the ancient wisdom traditions , as well as from contemporary theories such as Spiral Dynamics, the Enneagram, Integral Theory and Systems Dynamics Michael works to accelerate the conscious evolution of individuals and groups in a way that incorporates heart and mind in a seamless whole. |
These polarities manifest most dramatically in our one-on-one and group relationships. Most of us could benefit from a wider repertoire of skillful alternatives in these areas of our life. Often we react based on patterns from our family of origin or from an emotional wound suffered earlier in life. The most effective way to avoid this cul-de-sac is to pursue an integral approach to psycho-spiritual development.
All of us are involved in a myriad of relationships where we are called upon to express our soul’s unique gifts. Very few of us are able to skillfully express the fullness of our being in a way that engages us in genuine connection and helps the groups we are part of evolve further along the spiral of development. Only by creating harmony between our deep desire to belong (to another, a family or a larger community), with our ambition to actualize our creative talents in a way that is simultaneously in contact with the full range of sensations and emotions without becoming a slave to them, can we move beyond the unsatisfying dilemma of isolation or co-dependence.
In this experiential weekend intensive you will begin learning to:
This experiential workshop will help you express the creative fullness of your being, while connecting in authentic relationship to yourself, others, and the Divine. The entire weekend will offer a comprehensive approach to fashioning an Integral Spiritual Practice that takes your life as its center piece and uses a variety of specific practices and exercises to nurture the evolution of your personal soul in the context of the One Soul that unites us all. By Sunday evening each participant will more clearly experience their life as a Spiritual Unfoldment, and better understand the approaches, attitudes and practices that support (or inhibit) that endeavor.
All of us are involved in a myriad of relationships where we are called upon to express our soul’s unique gifts. Very few of us are able to skillfully express the fullness of our being in a way that engages us in genuine connection and helps the groups we are part of evolve further along the spiral of development. Only by creating harmony between our deep desire to belong (to another, a family or a larger community), with our ambition to actualize our creative talents in a way that is simultaneously in contact with the full range of sensations and emotions without becoming a slave to them, can we move beyond the unsatisfying dilemma of isolation or co-dependence.
In this experiential weekend intensive you will begin learning to:
- Re-pattern the reptilian brain to move beyond fear
- Develop a deeper sense of safety even under stress
- Dare to soften in the face of difference or disagreement
- Try on new perspectives without being attached to any single point of view
- Loosen your harsh judgments of self and others
- Become curious about your repeated patterns of self-sabotage
- Develop a sense of humor and humility in the face of life’s challenges
- Express your authentic self without giving up a sense of belonging
- More fully feel strong sensations and emotions without loosing yourself to them
- Find the deeper harmony beneath these tensions of apparent opposites
- No longer become trapped in either claustrophobia or isolation
- More fully integrate mind, body, heart and soul
- Experience the fullness of embodied communion with yourself and with another
- Express your authenticity from a place of transcendent freedom
- Develop simultaneous awareness of self and other
This experiential workshop will help you express the creative fullness of your being, while connecting in authentic relationship to yourself, others, and the Divine. The entire weekend will offer a comprehensive approach to fashioning an Integral Spiritual Practice that takes your life as its center piece and uses a variety of specific practices and exercises to nurture the evolution of your personal soul in the context of the One Soul that unites us all. By Sunday evening each participant will more clearly experience their life as a Spiritual Unfoldment, and better understand the approaches, attitudes and practices that support (or inhibit) that endeavor.
Email [email protected] for more information
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