1. Our History, Our Vision, Our Name, Our Mission Integrative Learning Center of Mid-America Board Retreat Jan 2009

2. Starting with A Somatic Experience in standing—follow verbal guidance Note: you can skip, but this will be used later in the talk to understand Spiral Dynamics value development so it worthwhile for several reasons Approx 9 min—slide will advance

3. Integrative Learning Center of Mid-America • Founding members: • Cynthia Allen • Phyllis Eveleigh • Carol Montgomery

4. The initial dream • Multiple centers of focus • Hosting national trainers and facilitators • Physical mentorship for Feldenkrais Practitioners • Grant funding • Ken Wilber’s integral model as an organizational tool

5. Also included personal values • Collaboration to provide services • Conducive and supportive environment • A healthy lifestyle

6. Mission Through educational centers we nurture the health and development of individuals enabling them to serve as active partners within the global community.

7. TheseCLEARvalues guide us: • Connection We inspire people to create meaningful relationships with others for the quality it brings to one’s life. • Learning: We appreciate the human capacity for life-long learning, not only for the development of a specific set of skills, but also for the discovery of individual self-expression.

8. Empowerment We provide opportunities to become aware of individual choices andresponsible action. • Alliance We engage in dynamic organizational partnership for service. • Research We participate in research and seek to make valid and reliable contributions to the body of literature.

9. What Is Integral?

10. In∙te∙gral “to integrate, to bring together, to join, to link, to embrace.” Ken Wilber Leading integral theorist/philosopher

12. Wilber’s Integral Operating System

13. Lines EMOTIONAL KINISTHETIC EMOTIONAL MATHEMATICAL MUSICAL

14. Levels/Stages

15. Instead of Tidy Flat Line Developmental Sequences… Rolling Creep Crawl Stand Cruise Walk Rolling Creep Crawl Stand Cruise Walk OR

16. Think nested spheres or undulating waves… …Holons

17. Destroy a lower level function, Destroy the functions built upon that level. Improve a lower level function, improve all the higher functions.

18. Example of a Level/Stage system Spiral Dynamics, a system of human value stages that can serve as one very important and easy-to-use model. By Dr. Claire Graves

19. Yellow – Integrative; using and organizing chaos Green – Communitarian; no rules; consensus Orange – Corporate; Strategic; best practice Blue – Authoritarian; united in one right way for later rewards Red – Impulsive; Egocentric; Power Purple – Tribe; Magical Beige-- Survival; Instinctive Spiral Dynamics 2nd Tier Consciousness 1st Tier Consciousness

20. Movement Through Value Memes Yellow Green Orange Blue Red Purple Beige

21. Types Introvert Extrovert

22. States

23. Quadrants/Aspects Source: Integral Institute Website

24. I It Her heart rate peaked at 120 and declined rapidly to 60; EEG shows activity in selective areas of the brain. “Feeling accomplished, fatigued, and good about myself” Serious runners display a desire to spend more time running than virtually any other activity. They tend to bond together in an atmosphere of competitive comraderie. We Its “When any runner wins a race, the feeling of victory outweighs the pain of effort.”

25. Quadrants/Aspects Source: Integral Institute Website

26. Intentional Engagement leads to maximum potential Collective Internal

27. Expanding Spheres of Care

28. Ninety-nine percent of the world waits for change to happen on the outside so they can reflect it, but that is no accomplishment. If we would awaken, we would become selectors of the beauty of the garden God has given us. Ken Wilber

29. Question: Reviewing our Mission statement and core values how is this integral model reflected?