Integral Growth Work
Growth doesn't end when you're 21, 35, or 50. That's when the outward arc of human growth pivots toward the super-rational, the creative, the philosophical, and the mystical.
In any career path, or any task at all, you'll do something long enough that the basics become automatic.
Try this: Instead of letting your mind wander, enjoy the flow of your performance. Even frustrations or obstacles are of an advanced nature compared to what you faced as a beginner. You are experiencing the inward arc of your consciousness.
All movement is flow if you notice it, and flow is subtly pleasurable. Do this repeatedly, and you're meditating! Meditation is not simply relaxation. It is awareness, actually, awareness of awareness.
The price of admission to higher consciousness is the willingness to self-reflect, to become more of yourself.
What Is the Growth Work Process?
We begin by using two growth charts as a basis for planning your growth work: the integral psychograph and the Wilber-Combs lattice. You do not need to know the integral theory, but you will end up with a working knowledge focusing on self-fulfillment and self-transcendence.
You Will Be Developing Your Capacities For:
If you are spiritually inclined, you can explore the mystical expressions of religion, indigenous culture, or independent pathways. But a belief in a Creator is not necessary for consciousness expansion.
Ethics go hand in hand with wisdom. To know is to love. Therefore, you may choose to work with the Good, True, and Beautiful, or other "eternal" qualities that guide your life.
We will work through obstacles that get in the way of growth. Most obstacles take the form of fear of losing your customary sense of self.
Growth never ends. Think of saints, sages, Bodhisattvas, Tzaddiks, and elders.
Development along the inward arc is arguably the best preparation for physical death. All mystical philosophies agree that consciousness survives physical death. We can learn from those who have paved the way.
Growth never ends. Think of saints, sages, Bodhisattvas, Tzaddiks, and elders.
Let us, then, simply assume that the authentic mystic-sage represents the very highest stages of human development... [T]he mystic-sages have left rather detailed records of the stages and steps of their own transformations into the superconscious realms.
That is, they tell us not only of the highest level of consciousness and super-consciousness, but also of all the intermediate levels leading up to it. If we take all these higher stages and add them to the lower and middle..., we would then arrive at a fairly well-balanced and comprehensive model of the spectrum of consciousness.
Ken Wilber, The Atman Project (p. 3)
In any career path, or any task at all, you'll do something long enough that the basics become automatic.
Try this: Instead of letting your mind wander, enjoy the flow of your performance. Even frustrations or obstacles are of an advanced nature compared to what you faced as a beginner. You are experiencing the inward arc of your consciousness.
All movement is flow if you notice it, and flow is subtly pleasurable. Do this repeatedly, and you're meditating! Meditation is not simply relaxation. It is awareness, actually, awareness of awareness.
The Four Quadrants of Your Life
Upper Left: Inner experience
Upper Right: Outer behavior
Lower Left: Relationships
Lower Right: Social Systems
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Getting Started
We begin with a free introductory phone call to create a therapy or growth work plan for you.
Payment Options
When services are not covered, we will create a workable fee schedule for you. E-mail or call for further information.