Dear Friends,

We are grateful here in Northern California to be graced by recent rainfall, putting an end to the horrific fires and smoke-filled skies. Our hearts go out to all impacted by the devastation and mourn for lives lost. May we experience blessings of safety and peace, as we find our way to renewal in the coming year.

More than ever, we witness members of our ITP community - and countless others around the globe - stepping up to make meaningful contributions in the world. Not a moment too soon! To facilitate growth in cultivating leadership from the inside out, we soon launch our Integral Leadership Program. This new program is designed to train community leaders (that means all of us!) in practices for personal sustainability and support for generating contributions that matter most to each participant. 

Enjoy reading articles submitted by members of our Integral Leadership team about this new approach to leadership and discover more about it here.   
 
Thank you sharing the path of practice with us. Together, we can create a more beautiful, hopeful and generous world. Wishing you a healthy holiday season!
 
With love and gratitude,
 
Pam Kramer 
ITPI President 
  
The Path of Integral Leadership
  
by Charlotte Hatch
ITP Mastery Teacher
  
How important is integration to effective leadership? What are the characteristics of an integral leader? To answer these questions let's investigate the whole self - body, mind, heart and soul - as it appears in leadership.
 
Body  
Our bodies are amazing vehicles that most often carry us through our lives in good style if we listen to them. Our bodies tell us what we need to do to care for them, and they don't lie. When we don't pay attention, pain happens. An integral leader accepts the importance of his/her body and models habits that encourage good health: eating well, exercising and resting.

  
Exploring Integral Leadership
A Capacity Available to All
  
by Kim Kristenson-Lee
ITP Mastery Teacher & ITP Houston Co-leader
  
How do you define Integral Leadership? Who is a great role model of Integral Leadership? How can your integral practice reflect the essential needs of your family, team or even our entire society?

Take ten minutes now to journal on these most important questions. Then read on!

Those of us committed to Integral Transformative Practice are very familiar with cultivating our capacities as individuals-mind, body, heart and soul. When we focus on our individual development, we unlock our fullest potential as humans. We find a more joyful and peaceful existence. Our positive internal conditions create a more positive environment for those around us.

  
Purpose to the People!
A Rallying Cry for Global Change
  
by Emanuel Kuntzelman
Greenheart International Founder & ITPI Board Member
 
It was a half of century ago when I declared myself an activist. I remember the day well. It was April 5, 1968. I was a sophomore in high school, doing a research project on marine biology over spring break on Sapelo Island, Georgia.

The day before had been a magical day of studying the homing instincts of fiddler crabs and sampling the culinary delights of quahog clams. But when I walked into the breakfast room that morning the atmosphere was anything but magical. A palpable sense of gloom hung in the air. The black women who worked in the kitchen were sobbing. In the background, a black and white TV was blaring out the news of the assassination of Martin Luther King.

      
Evolutionary Panentheism:
A Theory, Philosophy and Experience
  
by Roger Kenneth Marsh
ITP Mastery Teacher & GLEE Co-leader
  
How do you know something outside of yourself? When I ask myself this question, it occurs to me I can know nothing outside of myself except through myself, that all my experience is, ultimately, a personal one. I know things through my internal experience of them, through my thoughts, feelings, sensations, images, smells and sounds. All of these things, while potentially activated or stirred by something outside, and potentially aligned with how others may experience something outside, occur inside and are totally personal to me.

Have you ever noticed how two people experiencing the same phenomenon can have two totally different experiences of it? Think of something simple like broccoli. Some people think it tastes delicious while others think it tastes terrible. What's the truth? Does broccoli taste delicious or terrible? Well, actually, both are true - one is true for one person, and one is true for the other. Perhaps this insight can apply to many things in life.

  
Spotlight on Barbara Brown
  
ITP San Rafael and Integral Leadership Member
  
How did you become involved in ITP?
A long-time Mastery teacher, Tim Cleary, introduced me to ITP and suggested that I consider it. He described the nine commitments, and I felt as if he was describing the guiding principles by which I live. When I heard ITP was started by Michael Murphy and George Leonard, I wanted to learn more because I had been going to Esalen since the early 80s and greatly admired Michael Murphy. 

At Esalen, the first workshop I attended was led by George Leonard. In 2015, I read The Life We are Given and attended an introductory ITP workshop that was led by Pam Kramer and Barry Robbins. Then I was hooked! I joined the San Rafael ITP group and have participated in two cycles of Mastery to date, preparing now for the new Integral Leadership Program for Community Leaders.

      
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In This Issue
The Path of Integral Leadership
Exploring Integral Leadership
Purpose to the People!
Evolutionary Panentheism
Spotlight on Barbara Brown


    
Upcoming
Events
   


     
 NEW PROGRAM
Integral Leadership Training Program

A six-month program of
mind body practice for community leaders &
dedicated ITP practitioners
 
Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2018
Ralston White Center,
Mill Valley, CA
 
Feb 8 - 10
Aikido of Tamalpais
Corte Madera, CA
 
April 5 - 7
Aikido of Tamalpais
Corte Madera, CA
 
May 31 - June 2, 2019 
Esalen Institute,  
Big Sur, CA 

  


     
Falkirk Series
with Michael Murphy

Entering History:
The Aims and Foundations of ITP

December 10, 2018

Falkirk Cultural Center
San Rafael, CA




  
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Start Close In
by David Whyte

 Start close in,
 don't take the second step
 or the third, start with the  first thing close in,
 the step you don't want
 to take.

 Start with the ground
 you know, the pale ground
 beneath your feet, your   own way of starting
 the conversation.

 Start with your own
 question, give up on other
 people's questions,
 don't let them
 smother something simple.

 To find another's voice,
 follow your own voice,
 wait until that voice
 becomes a private ear
 listening to another.

 Start right now
 take a small step
 you can call your own
 don't follow someone else's
 heroics, be humble and  focused, start close in,
 don't mistake that other
 for your own.

 Start close in,
 don't take  the second step
 or the third,  start with the  first  thing  close in,
 the step  you don't want
 to take.



  
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