In this video, a panel discusses the upcoming ILiA Support Pod event in Boulder from April 3rd to 5th, 2025, designed as an "embodied integral experience." This gathering moves beyond intellectual theory to cultivate a journey where facilitators and participants engage with body, mind, spirit, and emotions in a dynamic, interactive environment. Key sessions and micro-practices are aimed at enhancing self-awareness, integrating masculine and feminine energies, and strengthening resilience and community. Sessions cover various themes, including physical embodiment practices, transformative life practices, and collaborative exercises, all grounded in an integral framework. Attendees will have opportunities for personalized, experiential learning, collective practices, and moments of rest.

Dr. Simmons walks you through her proven approach to guiding writers from initial ideas to completed manuscripts. She emphasizes the importance of organization before writing, offering hands-on support throughout the process, and helping authors craft standout book proposals and pitches for agents. If you're writing to inspire, empower, or change lives, Dr. Simmons' coaching could be the key to unlocking your book's full potential.

In this session, we share the practices that help us regulate.

We do a writing exercise using breathwork, writing on paper, and then leverage A.I., such as ChatGPT, to create an essay. We do an exercise to leverage ChatGPT or another LLM for a writing exercise. Enjoy!

We explored these sub topics: What could the US gain from full participation by this group in the decisions to co-build a more inclusive future Can we enlarge the US American pie to fully include the other side of America? What could the country gain from Latino/as who are proud of their roots and share their stories of their own courage in facing challenges, and find resonance with the Universal values that inspire all of us What would happen if were too busy sharing a healthy pride to have time for victimhood? The USA/America is ready for multiple stories of belonging on the same footing, not a pedestal of winners and losers When one feels proud in the most healthy sense not winning and losing, its much easier to reach out and build with others

Integral Creative Writers' Support Pod: Self Publishing Roundtable During this session, 6 writers share their experiences with self-publishing on platforms such as Kindle and Substack.

We share our favorite memories from ICON’s Future Human event from May 2024.

Integral Creative Writers' Support Pod Launch- July 2024

During this session, we did intros, went over the vision, and then shared what we were bringing and what we wanted to receive.

This episode is cohosted by Karen Shearer Voorhees and Bett Bollhoefer as we launch the new Integral Writers Support Pod as part of Integral Leadership in Action.

Brandon Nørgaard presents on how to establish and grow local and regional meta-hubs, which are interconnected meetup groups in the same geographic region wherein each constituent group serves some important function for the community at large and the meta-hub as a whole is intended to provide people some of the important things that would otherwise be lacking in their lives. You can read more about meta-hubs here: https://enlightenedworldview.com/proj...

Note that this is inspired by the work of Hanzi Freinacht, which is the pen name of two social theorists who have applied Integral Theory to the social and political realm.

We are discussing the upcoming event, Future Human.

ICON and ILiA are putting on an event not to be missed called Future Human. The Feb 19th Support Pod will discuss what elements, themes, and experiences will make this May event spectacular. Come out and share your insights.

Suzanne Taylor introduces the Essay Contest.

The ILiA Board shares why you should join us at the Embodied Integral Event in Boulder. To register go to https://www.ilianow.org/embodied-integral-boulder

Learn more about ILiA: https://www.ilianow.org/

About ILiA

Integral Leadership in Action was conceived in an Open Space session in 2004 during an Integral Leadership seminar that was sponsored by Integral Institute. It featured Ken Wilber and Fred Kofman, and Jeff Salzman was a major organizing force. Dan Noble originated the idea of creating a follow-up group, and core collaborators from year one have been Cindy Wigglesworth, Victoria Wilson-Jones, and Terry Poling. Their shared intent was twofold: 1) Continue the conversation that Ken and Fred stimulated and 2) Create a conference that each would personally like to attend.

Dan Noble on Monday, Aug 21st, for an interactive session called “Building Local Regenerative Economies: An ILiA Case Study and Leadership Clinic.”

Dan will share the work he is doing in Regenerative Economies. He will explore together with us the following:

What is Integral Leadership in Action (ILiA)?

What are circular regenerative economies?

What are, and why are bioresources important?

How are ILiA methods central to these enterprises!?

The “clinic” aspect of this discussion is where attendees can share ideas and insights with Dan. Dan is open to improving his work and is hoping to receive wisdom from the group.

About Dan Noble:

Dan Noble is the Founder of Noble Bioresources, Inc. (NBI; NobleBioresourcesInc.com). NBI is a bioproducts market & industry development firm, based in California. He is also Executive Director of the Association of Compost Producers (ACP) (healthysoil.org; the US Composting Council California State Chapter) since 2002 and has over 50 years of science & business-based environmental education, market research, publishing, strategic consulting, enterprise, compost utilization, and association management experience.

ACP continues to develop and implement compost awareness and market-ready programs, specifications, and sustainable management practices that build healthy soil using compost. NBI turns bioresource market intelligence into regenerative Organics Management Infrastructure Plans for local communities, and profitable bioproduct businesses to support the development and operations of local renewable organic economies. Mr. Noble has been a student of Integral Life Practice for over 25 years and has B.A. degrees in Biology and Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, and M.S. degrees in Molecular Biology & Education from the University of Oregon.

Kim Harpham and Victoria Perez on Monday, July 17th, shared an interactive session on what it means to create Intentional Facil-itation on zoom.

We're interested in airing some notions about how "facilitation" in Integral has developed beyond how the term is used in traditional leadership contexts, especially with the advent of the Zoom phenomenon. We plan to explore the language, concepts, and intentions of what Integral Leadership does to forward collaborative success and looks like in action. Please share with us in this interactive conversation.

About Kim Harpham:

Kim loves teaching/learning. Holistically, Integrally, riding the polarity.

Having taught myriad subjects and coached various sports in secondary and post-secondary public schools, she failed at retirement. Instead, she found Integral and helped formalize Integral Leadership in Action [ she resonated with each word in that name]. Simultaneously, she joined Southern Oregon University's School of Education, where they formed the Center for Holistic Education. She continues to integrate home, family, and interconnectedness with Nature with the peculiar weird tasks of event planning, promo, new strategies, infinity, AND her continual teaching/learning.

About Victoria Perez:

Victoria challenges and supports people to step up and grow in multi-dimensional ways. She works with teams and individuals to enhance leadership across the enterprise, improving cross-functional collaboration and catalyzing better business results.

She is an integrator at heart, and as an avid student of human development, she understands how people grow and develop - intellectually, interpersonally, emotionally, ethically, physically, and spiritually.

Enjoy this interpretation created by Tyler Davis Integral Embodiment. He has been working on combining an Integral mindfulness approach with exercise for the past month, and he has come up with three different “sets” of practice. The topics covered include:

Showing Up with posture.

Growing Up while lifting heavy things mindfully.

Waking Up with working out.

The goal is to have an immersive experience that will teach you daily strategies to feel empowered, grounded, and pain-free.

About Tyler:

Tyler Davis is an integrally-aligned personal trainer who explores the depths of nature and new ways to connect with his body. In 2023, he started a company that helps people get outdoors and learn to open up to and enhance their multiple intelligences. Tyler's been training his mind and body for 22 years - to his edge and beyond - and spent six years serving in the US Army (Infantry, Recon, Sniper), four of which in a leadership position focused on Physical Readiness Training. When not contemplating life in his backyard, Tyler can be found hitting the heavy bag, throwing darts, or renovating his home and furniture.

Enjoy this presentation on leveraging Spiral Dynamics and Integral Theory to produce purposeful social media content. Gain insights into the drivers and shadows of each level, and discover how this model can help you evaluate your current online presence and determine your desired image on different public platforms. Bett Bollhoefer will share her own journey of creating content and burning out.

Join our next free event by visiting our site at www.ilianow.org/support-pods

About the presenter:

Tech leader for 23 years, former CTO for AI company, worked at Meta & Instagram for almost 2 years. Has self published 8 books on Amazon KDP. Had a software architecture podcast for 2 years. Has written blogs for 90 day stints. Posted to Instagram for 90 days straight. Posted one yoga video every week for 9 months.

Bett is an entrepreneur in wellness and CEO of a software startup focusing on bringing insights to small organizations just like the big organizations get. Her company is called Redwood Forest Insights and is inspired by how redwood trees build a mycelial network of roots and communicate with each other through it.

She lives in Oakland, CA with her amazing husband Steve and their three rescue cats: Hansel, Gretel and Hamlet.

She has a love hate relationship with social media. She is glad to use this session as therapy.

View the PDF at your leasure:

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How does Integral Theory help us influence people to shift beliefs, take desired action, or buy a product? Using the idea of “environmental sustainability,” our first "Integral Support Pod" will interactively explore how core integral models and maps (AQAL) can help you design content and marketing strategies that resonate with your target audience. By understanding quadrants and the different perspectives and values of people at different stages of development, you can craft messages that speak directly to their concerns and motivations. As a bonus, we'll also discuss how cutting-edge tools like ChatGPT can help you customize your marketing content for specific audiences, making your message even more impactful.

This is the first of our "Integral Support Pods" Join this free event and learn more at https://www.ilianow.org/support-pods

We're excited to introduce our facilitator for our first Integral Support POD, Michael McElhenie PhD. With over 35 years of experience as a facilitator, coach, and advisor to global leaders, Michael is an expert in guiding transformational change. He runs the global consultancy Metatropia and founded Exult Athletics in 2020, which is transforming the culture of youth sports. With a foundation in behavioral neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and crucial communication, Michael is often called upon to help leaders navigate our VUCA world and the complex dynamics of executive team and board relationships. He is a licensed psychologist and a graduate of Being First’s 4Sight and the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s Organizational Systems and Development programs. Michael received his doctorate in Organizational, Clinical and Experimental Psychology, and his Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology.