Integral Oceania Symposium 2010

Building The Track As We Go

Worldview Centre, Maleny QLD

6pm Fri 29 – 4pm Sun 31 October, 2010

A weekend gathering of integrally informed practitioners, scholars and enthusiasts of the Integral Approach and the work of Ken Wilber. The purpose of the gathering is to experience and explore the integral worldview in a community of peers in a way that makes your soul sing.

Held by 4 intentions:

• LL – to replenish our faith in our community and to quench the thirst for peer companionship
• UR – to relax, eat well, sleep peacefully, soak in the view, stargaze, sit in a rainforest, bathe in nature
• UL – to explore the integral terrain together in way where cognition meets experience to ignite insight and delight; to stay lovingly present with what is arising
  
• LR – to take stock of the world and assess our potential to manifest social change

With the 4 quadrants so balanced and nourished, there is the potential for a luminous state experience to arise for the group as a whole… where the song of our heart-mind comes into tune to create a field of beauty that bathes us all. It’s happened at these gatherings before, and seems to be the hallmark of truly integral events.

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The schedule for the symposium will emerge by about late June. I intend to call in some established practitioners, and invite people with integral passion to participate by offering a 90 minute exploration of some aspect of the integral terrain. Over 3 days however, the final timetable will be spacious to allow time to go with the flow and follow your soul.

This gathering is intended for those well-versed in the integral approach. If you’ve encountered integral and are keen to understand it, we have an Integral Life Artistry workshop scheduled in mid November better suited to learning the model (learn more). You don’t have be an integral Olympian to attend, but if you don’t know a quadrant from a level, this is not for you.

If you have an integral focus and would value the chance to share it and explore it with your community of peers, please send me a few words of outline via the blog or send me an email.

The workspace (left) is well-resourced to support most formats, including laptop plug-in to a roof mounted projector, a decent sound system (you can plug an iPod into), whiteboards, flipcharts, chairs, cushions and tables if needed. The room can transform from a presentation space into a large exercise or performance room in seconds.

When not engaged in a facilitated process or wandering in Big Nature, I envision long open dialogues on topics of interest to us all. What those topics are we decide on a blog. Some that occur to me are:

• Exploring the Integral Stage: how is an integral worldview qualitatively different than a first-tier experience of existence? How do qualities like flexibility, presence, trust, freedom, relative fearlessness, resilience, sensitivity to beauty, etc. change at second-tier? How do we embody, understand and communicate these qualities and their promises?
  
  
• Energy Age: what does the next wave of humanity look like? What characterises a post-postmodern culture? What does a "subtle energy economy” look like? How can we participate?
  
  
• States work: particularly ways of categorizing states, and reproducing them (through music, movement, guided focus, group activities, ?)
  
  
• Types work: what is integrally informed gender? can masculine and feminine instincts be understood as forms of quadrant favouritism? How do we view masculine and feminine forms of spirituality?
  
  
• What is the unique selling proposition of integral? How does an integral product distinguish itself in the marketplace above non-integral approaches? What are the markets and what business opportunities exist for those with integral insight?
  

While some of these are obvious head-trips, I am passionate that discussions on heady topics are accompanied by exercises that show me what is being described. My hope for the symposium is of a being-and-connecting-fest, not a talkfest (even though we will probably talk a lot). The final schedule will protect adequate spaciousness to be free and peaceful at our stunningly beautiful Maleny-Montville ridge location. Please comment on our blog.

Our main room also turns into a cinema, so we have the option of punctuating our passion with the world of make-believe, and observe the amazing work some creative folk are producing to guide consciousness to evolve (e.g. The Matrix, What the Bleep (flaws and all), Celestine Prophecies, Mythic Journeys, etc.).

The vision (logical enough, I hope) is to run the entire gathering using a dynamic approach that follows what arises, which periodic provocations of an interesting and engaging kind. Perhaps Open Sphere or something similar. If you have skills running groups like that, I’d love to hear from you (email Terry).

We are planning for 20 attendees, and ask that if you attend you do your best to attend the whole gathering. The motivation to make such an effort is the potential for that "luminous state experience” I mentioned earlier. We need to build trust for that to happen, and that takes time. If you are

Maleny is about 90 minutes north of Brisbane. The Sunshine Coast airport is 40 minutes away with a reliable mini-bus taxi service.

We have 12 beds here at worldview, all twin share with shared bathrooms. One value of a shared accommodation format is that it thrusts us into community, cooperating with each other to eat, sleep and stay clean. It's a richer we-space than a motel room on your own. If you need or prefer your own room with an ensuite, there is the Maleny Hills Motel just a few minutes up the road, or the Maleny Lodge B&B in the centre of town.

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The event price is $695 if you book before 14/11, or $750 after that, inclusive of all meals and accommodation. Staying offsite with all meals at Worldview is $550 or $600. If you book with a partner or friend, you receive a further discount off the combined ticket price.

If you are in need of a concession ticket, you can come for 30% off. You qualify for the concession price if you feel the need to ask for it (email me and I will send you the concession code).

Limited to 12 staying onsite plus 8 offsite. Click to book now.

My sincere gratitude to the creative souls who unwittingly contributed their soul-voice to this page. If you know who created any of these images, please tell me. They deserve to be credited.

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