Being Integral in the World...
iPraxis is an emerging community of integral practitioners dedicated to awakening, cultivating and contributing knowledge, experience, and resources that are essential for wholeness—for ourselves, our organizations, our communities, our ecologies and our world.
iPraxis Circles...
We host iPraxis Circles, intensives for people to awaken, cultivate and contribute to individual and collective integral practice. The length and number of intensives as well as the location depends on the needs and desires of your group. Typically, we work with you and your group to create six two-hour sessions to be held once or twice per month or three-day intensive retreats.
If you are someone who is privately and publicly practicing more integral ways of being and doing committed to:
- Developing more integral ways of being and doing within a community of practice…
- Growing body, heart, mind, and spirit...personally, professionally, individually, mutually, materially, spiritually…
- Learning and teaching in a field of extraordinary learners and teachers…
- Playing simultaneously at the edge and in the center of consciousness…
- Deepening your experience of integral through integral experience…
- Being present—open-embodied, open-hearted and open-minded—showing up and participating regularly…
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The iPraxis Circle is designed to be an intensive (meetings are day-long), intimate (groups are limited to twelve), committed (people attend for the duration), participative (we all participate in learning and teaching) integral (essential for wholeness) practice environment.
iPraxis Circle Participant Responsibilities
Be present. Every session.
iPraxis is about growing as individual integral practitioners and as a community of integral practice. Each individual presence is essential for the wholeness and growth of the collective, so we are each expected to attend every meeting for the duration of the Circle. When you join an iPraxis Practitioners’ Circle, you are committing to be present for yourself and the community. We demonstrate this commitment first and foremost through our attendance—by physically showing up, and also, through our sustained attention—by emotionally, mentally, and spiritually being present over time.
Yes, this is a big commitment and we may have prior commitments on some of the scheduled dates, but as a norm, we expect each other to show up. Sharing the commitment to be together repeatedly over time creates a container of trust and responsibility, developing and deepening our ability to learn with each other. It creates a sacred pattern of learning together for ourselves and our world. This is a big responsibility and requires a big commitment.
Learn and teach iPraxis.
An iPraxis Circle is an opportunity for us to teach and learn with each other as individuals and a community. Each of us is expected to contribute one integral practice—iPractice—to and for the community, along with any guidelines for use beyond the iPraxis gatherings (e.g., any intellectual property rights, desired ethics, etc.) and requests of the community (e.g., any desired responses to content, delivery, process, problem-solving, brainstorming, etc.). A portion of each meeting is devoted to each of us teaching an iPractice to the rest of the Circle. Each of us should be prepared to share our individual practice (or at least a portion of it, given time constraints)—demonstrate what it is, why it’s integral, and how we can use it. Ideally, we offer our experience of our own individual iPractice to facilitate the collective experience of this iPractice.
Integral practice as we define it is a practice that is essential for wholeness for ourselves, our organizations, our communities, our ecologies, and our world. This may be informed by the work of theorists/practitioners such as Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, Georg Feuerstein, Ken Wilber, William James, Robert Kegan, Jenny Wade, Michael Murphy, etc., or simply grounded in your own experience of what it is to be an integral being in the world.
What is most essential is that those of you who choose to join have a genuine commitment to awakening, cultivating and contributing your knowledge, experience, and resources to grow within an emerging community of practice—that you want to broaden and deepen who and how you are in your integral practice—and that you are willing to offer yourself and your own practice in service of broadening and deepening the larger community of integral practice in and for the world.
in·te·gral \in-ti-grel, in-teg-rel\ adj.
1: essential or necessary for wholeness 2: possessing everything essential; entire
prax·is \prak-sis\ n, pl
1: ACTION, PRACTICE: a complex activity by which individuals create culture and society, and become critically conscious human beings 2: a cycle of action-reflection-action, characteristically including self-determination, intentionality, creativity, and rationality 3: a self-critical activity which is not just satisfied with finding the truth, but also aims to verify this truth by transforming society 4: the process by which theory or lesson becomes part of lived experience.
For more information about iPraxis Circles, please contact karen@luminacoaching.com / 1.206.780.2998.
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