Integral Community

Parenting as a Spiritual Practice Virtual Course starts June 12.

A community learning experience facilitated by Miriam Mason Martineau.

Experience the full potential of parenthood: a transformative vessel for evolving yourself, your child, and the future.

Join us for this transformative, 8-week online course! Together we will explore this new frontier in the parenting adventure.  From meta-perspectives to daily practices, we’ll discover just how powerful this integral-evolutionary context can be in creating the fullest, richest, most loving parenting practice.  Raise the bar for how you show up as a parent, and provide your child with the very best foundation for being a loving, creative, conscious being — while discovering an unshakeable ease amidst the inevitable ups, downs, and doubts of parenting.

” Evolving the We “

Join us in exploring and experiencing what integral community feels like, looks like, and what it takes to evolve the collective, both within ourselves and amongst us all. Most of all, to see what potential next steps emerge from evolving the WE.

August 13 – 19, 2012 at the gorgeous Sunrise Ranch in Colorado!

It is now official, Next Step Integral will be hosting the first ever Integral Education Seminar in Europe.  June 24th to 29th in Trondheim, Norway in collaboration with the Center for Transformative Leadership.

We invite you to join us for five days of immersion in a community dedicated to evolving new depths of transformative learning from an integral perspective. Whether you are a teacher, trainer, coach, counselor, or simply dedicated to serving others to make the world a better place, you will find the passion you have for this work enlivened. You will also come away with a much deeper understanding of skillful means for improving your practice in new and innovative ways.

Since its inception as an organization in 2003, Next Step Integral’s vision and mission has been to take that “next step” toward integral consciousness, and then to apply, embody, and fully live it – in all facets and areas of life. We are committed to the work of taking the step, bringing vision into action, moving beyond ideas and discussions and theorizing to actually doing and being this emerging consciousness. Our overarching and central vision is to co-create Integral Community – where integral being and doing happen within an evolutionary context 24/7 — whether while parenting, at work, in relationship, during personal practice, or any activity and situation we may find ourselves in.

Stephan Martineau shares the first glimpse he encountered of what the emergent next level of togetherness might look and feel like.

January 1991. It was around 4 o’clock in the afternoon on day seven of a Vipassana retreat when something happened that would alter my life forever:

A moment, a few moments stringed together, appearing in what seemed to be a gap in time. Moments that changed the course of my life; direction and purpose are clarified and reconfigured. Emerging from stillness, a stillness so deep… I kneel down and drink it; a thirst that has till now not found rest is quenched. Soul cries out a vital yes. Mind discovers peace, finally. Energy tingles in every cell, Light made almost tangible. In these moments Grace offers a glimpse, and a possibility, a possible future, shows itself.