Grow Up Archives – Integral Life

Coronavirus: Making Sense of Our Sense-Making

Beena Sharma — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:36:29 +0000

Watch as Beena Sharma and Susanne Cook-Greuter offer a must-see presentation to help us understand the many healthy and unhealthy responses we are seeing to the coronavirus pandemic, all the way up and down the spiral of development.

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The Many Ways We Grow

Ken Wilber — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:11:17 +0000

Human development is uneven, which means that we are better at some things than we are at others. Some skills come more naturally to us, and others are more difficult to acquire. Watch as Ken and Corey explore each of these developmental capacities in detail, offering a powerful summary of human potentials, talents, and intelligences — a comprehensive map of the territory of “you” that will help guide your own ongoing growth and development.

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Kosmic Integrity: The Integral Community’s Most Important Contribution to the World

Robb Smith — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:20:42 +0000

Join Robb as he calls us forward to be agents of kosmic integrity, an incredibly unique praxis of healing and wholeness that may be one of our most important contributions to the world in the road ahead.

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The Stages of Leadership Maturity

Susanne Cook-Greuter — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 05:35:19 +0000

Beena Sharma and Susanne Cook-Greuter offer a stunning overview of their Leadership Maturity Framework, which offers leaders, coaches, and change agents of all stripes a far more thorough understanding of human development and human potential, as well as a far more robust toolset to help others thrive at whatever stage of life they find themselves at.

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Wake Up, Grow Up: Enlightenment in the 21st Century

Ken Wilber — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:06:36 +0000

In this feature presentation from the 2016 SAND Conference, Ken Wilber explains why the path of "waking up" (spiritual awakening) needs to be complemented by the path of “growing up” (psychological maturity) in order to renew and replenish our understanding of enlightenment in the 21st century.

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A Revolutionary Spirituality

Ken Wilber — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 08:07:33 +0000

Ken Wilber offers a general overview of his comprehensive approach to spiritual growth and awakening, noting an important distinction between spiritual intelligence and spiritual experience.

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Human 101: The Psychology of the Future

Ken Wilber — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 08:32:21 +0000

How can we formulate an approach to psychology that honors and embraces every legitimate aspect of human consciousness and pulls these multiple aspects together into a single coherent model of the human mind? Watch as Ken Wilber offers one of the finest and most complete summaries of an Integral approach to psychology he has ever recorded, while suggesting how a more comprehensive understanding of human consciousness can help shape a better, kinder, and more sustainable future.

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Why We Desperately Need an Integral Islam

Amir Ahmad Nasr — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:52:44 +0000

Amir tells his own story of coming to a more integral Islam, finding new ways to embrace and express this rich spiritual lineage while helping to carve a new path beyond the fundamentalist extremism so often associated with Islam in today's world. This piece is heavily adapted from Amir’s book, My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind–and Doubt Freed My Soul.

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In Over Our Heads: Development as a Lifelong Journey

Robert Kegan — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:31:04 +0000

Dr. Kegan talks with Ken Wilber about his landmark book In Over Our Heads, exploring the many ways our cultural lack of developmental perspectives is actively inhibiting development itself, leaving the majority of us ill-equipped to meet the demands of our 21st century lives.

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Six Varieties of Christians and Their Churches: From Tribal to Integral

Paul Smith — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:08:20 +0000

Christians and their communities of faith exist in rich diversity today. Why are there so many different kinds of Christians and churches? There are historical aspects, political factors, matter of taste, and personality types. However, from an integral perspective of evolutionary stages we can see a quite remarkable tendency for churches to fall into one of perhaps six different altitudes of understanding.

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