Barrett Brown: Leading from the Edge: How highly conscious leaders approach complex global environmental and social change issues

We are delighted to sponsor an evening with Barrett Brown, a brilliant contributor in the field of Integral leadership. Barrett’s work focuses on the intersection between organization development, leadership development, and global sustainability. His inquiry looks at: What happens at the intersection of complex consciousness and complex leadership issues? What do leaders and change agents who have access to post-post conventional ways of making-meaning actually do when they design and engage in sustainability initiatives? What does late-stage leadership look like in action, and what can we do to accelerate the development of our own consciousness?

In this presentation, Barrett will offer insight into these questions based upon his research on sustainability leaders and change agents who were assessed at the very latest stages of meaning-making that science can measure. Ken Wilber calls this work “a timely, important, significant, and very telling empirical study of some of the highest stages of human development. Combined with his terrific commentary and superb analysis, this is must reading for all those interested in leadership, development, spirituality, or integral studies.”

We’ve been trying to book Barrett for long time but his extensive travel schedule has made it difficult – until now. This is a unique opportunity to dialog with one of the Integral communities great minds, so don’t miss it!

BARRETT CHAPMAN BROWN, Ph.D (c)

Barrett specializes in leader development and organizational and systems transformation. For 20 years he has supported individuals and organizations to navigate complex challenges and unlock deep capacities. His recent work has involved engaging entire sectors to undergo system-wide development.

Barrett is often asked to speak, and has presented widely, including to CEOs and government ministers. He brings a unique multi-sectoral and international perspective. He has been on the leadership team or advisory board of a dozen companies, NGOs, and foundations. In these roles, he has closely engaged with a variety of sectors, including international trade and development, consumer goods, renewable energy, government, manufacturing, banking, media, humanitarian aid, and academia. He has lived in the USA, the Netherlands, Brazil, and Ecuador, worked in 12 countries, and traveled in over 30.

Barrett works on two interlinked fronts: leader development and complex change. His innovative leadership research has been widely acclaimed. It offers deep insights into the future of leadership, demonstrating how leaders with highly complex worldviews engage in sophisticated change initiatives. Barrett has designed and facilitated dozens of leader development programs for executives and managers from multinationals, high-growth companies, and international institutions. These range from master classes and innovation labs to corporate universities and multi-year executive education programs.

Barrett has personally trained 500+ leaders from over 30 countries and has logged over 1400 hours mentoring. Executives from Nike, Unilever, Nestlé, Mars, Cargill, ADM, and Sara Lee, as well as leaders from government and civil society organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, Dutch Government, US EPA, World Wildlife Fund, Oxfam, and the Asian Social Institute have gone through his programs. He co-designed and currently facilitates an executive education program at Nyenrode Business Universiteit in The Netherlands, and has served as adjunct faculty or lecturer at seven other universities, including John F. Kennedy University (USA) and the Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden).

Barrett also works on complex change issues related to organizational and systems transformation. He has co-architected and co-led visioning, strategic alignment, and change processes for mid-market companies in the US and large-scale public-private partnerships in Europe. For the Sustainable Trade Initiative, he co-led development and implementation of the learning strategy for a €30M investment in eight global agro-commodity supply chains. He also co-designed a €14M cocoa sector development program that is rolling out in five countries in West Africa and Asia.

One of his roles is as Executive Director of the Integral Sustainability Center where his team develops the capacities of leaders to address complex economic, environmental, and social challenges. In the intergovernmental arena, Barrett represented the Center for Psychology and Social Change at the United Nations for four years. He has also delivered leadership briefings at UNDP headquarters, the US Department of State, and the Executive Committee of the ICCO.

As a researcher and writer, Barrett has authored or edited 40+ articles, case studies, book chapters, and videos on leadership, sustainability, organizational development, and market transformation. Some of his writings are used in universities in North America and Europe as well as in the United Nations system, and have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Farsi. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese, and led the translation into English of the leading-edge business book, Conscious Business, by Fred Kofman. Barrett’s undergraduate studies are in Mechanical Engineering and English Literature through the University of California at Santa Cruz. His Ph.D. and Master’s degrees are in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University.

Learn more about Barrett’s research by visiting his blog on IntegralThinkers.com.

Thomas Hübl: Bringing our Awakening into the Social Realm

We’re very excited to be presenting another inspirational event with German spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl on Tuesday, March 27. Our two previous events with Thomas were some of our most highly regarded and best attended, so we’re delighted to have Thomas back again.

In this program, Thomas will lead a deep inquiry into the one of the biggest challenges on the spiritual path: Living an awakened, integral existence in the midst of the social complexities of daily life. How do we express the timeless wisdom of an alive, awake life in our relationships, in our sexuality, with our children, and with our colleagues at work?

In other words: How can awakening become our daily practice and thus our reality?

We all experience moments when we really say Yes, when life suddenly begins to flow and we are pure vibrancy. In a presence that is lived we can engage more deeply in the moment, its dynamics and our interaction with the world.

But how do we live and work if we radically make awakening the core? And what does it mean for our communities and the collective? What tools can we be used to tap into a “new We” and what might organizational and community forms look like? What do presence, transparency, compassion, and integral spirituality mean on the next level to come?

In this program, Thomas will present the four foundational elements of his approach:

• Transcendence into timeless ever-present consciousness
• Integration of shadow and other unintegrated aspects of self
• Connection to the future potential of life
• Being active in the market place of daily life.

Then, working extensively with both collective emergence and collective shadow, Thomas reveals how radical presence allows us to see what we don’t yet see, to see how a committed Yes to every moment opens us to experience each moment in its fullness. We begin to develop the courage to make a creative contribution to life, and to work towards an awakened society.

We start to experience a new awakening that takes us beyond usual forms of individual experience into more evolved capacities such as field thinking, transparent communication, recognizing experiential spaces inside people, naturally extended perception abilities, elevated levels of synchronization and transcendence. These are the signs that a “new We” is emerging!

This special evening includes a selection of tools of Thomas’ work: Meditation, communication, the reading and understanding of fields of consciousness, toning, exercises in presence, training in intuition and inspiration. These are helpful on an awakening path in order to access levels of consciousness, gain insight into the functioning of collective fields, to guide others in their processes and to see from different points of view.

THOMAS HÜBL

Thomas Hübl (born 1971 in Austria) is an integral consciousness teacher of uncompromising clarity who brings the spiritual potential of a new “Culture of WE” into the light. His workshops and trainings invite people to experience a deeper dimension of self-awareness and individual responsibility. Radical transcendence of ego opens the door to deeply authentic expression, service to the world and stable relationship with the absolute. Experiencing a driving inspiration to evolve, people give their gifts to the world in concrete ways.

In 2008 he founded the Academy of Inner Science, creating a space for the exploration of contemporary mysticism, which directly contributes to an awakening culture. The Academy offers an engaging invitation to all who feel the call to awaken and wish to manifest this in the world. The programs of the Academy focus not only on personal transcendence, but also on the active commitment to respond to the challenges of the human condition, which we face in today’s post-modern world.

Thomas Hübl founded the immensely popular Celebrate Life! Festival and has organized and led several large healing events which have brought together thousands of Germans with many Israelis to acknowledge, face, and heal the cultural shadow left by the Holocaust.

http://www.thomashuebl.com/en.html
http://www.innerscience.info/en.html
http://www.celebrate-life.info

From Me to WE, from Us to ALL OF US: Exploring sexuality and love relationships in an integral/evolutionary context

What is the “frothy edge” of romantic partnership? We invite the Integral community to uplevel the conversation on sexuality and love relationships just in time for Valentine’s day. We will take a deep dive into the sometimes shadowy territory and shine the light of Integral into often neglected spaces in our mutual dialogue. Integral Relationships vision keeper Martin Ucik, and WEpractice community co-founder Christina Sophie are our guides in this theoretical and experiential evening.

We will mix Integral Relationship theory with dyads, quads, and whole group exercises and discussion around the topic.

Christina Sophie is a coach, bodyworker, and co-founder of the WEpractice Community. Christina integrates a broad spectrum of philosophical inquiry, a strong grounding in yoga tradition, and the practical knowledge gained in 20 years of hands-on-the-body professional experience. Passionate about Awakening, Christina is an evangelist for living life as a transformative practice, and having a helluva good time while doing it. A student of Terry Patten and Dr. Rudolph Ballantine, she holds degrees in both Philosophy and Psychology, and advanced certifications in Somatics, Tantra, several bodywork modalities, as well as being an avid student/practitioner of Integral Theory and Permaculture. Her web site is: www.integral-tantra.com.


Martin Ucik is the author of Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men, which Ken Wilber calls “a terrific book”. Martin was married for 14 years and has four daughters. He studied with Eckhart Tolle as a Power of Now group facilitator, founded singles2couples.org, an Association for Healthy Relationships, and is trained and certified by Katherine Woodward Thomas as a Calling In “The One” Coach. He teaches Integral Relationships and coaches singles and couples worldwide.

Also see http://www.integralrelationship.com/about.asp
http://www.integralrelationship.com/Martin.asp