Sally Isaacs

ITPI member

Back to Basics, ITP Essentials

Hello! I’m Sally Isaacs, writing to you from Oradell, New Jersey. I’m collaborating with the ITPI team to produce the ITPI quarterly newsletters. I’m the reason the theme of the Winter Newsletter is ITP Essentials.

I have been a member of ITP for many years. But I’ve stayed on the periphery. I practice the Kata alone. I write, revise and lean into my affirmations. I skim through the emails and newsletters and assume that I do not do enough or know enough about ITP to engage in it wholeheartedly. Specifically, I’ve felt that all the other ITPI members are more knowledgeable, more committed, more evolved than I am.

So, I’ve decided to back up and review the Essentials of ITP. I dove into the ITP website and the book The Life We Are Given to look for the basics upon which ITP has flourished. Perhaps you want to join me.

Transform Yourself, Transform the World

“The winds of grace are always blowing. We have to raise our sails.” ITP founders, George Leonard and Michael Murphy share ITP history and wisdom in this short video.

Pam Kramer

ITPI President & co-author

Living an Extraordinary Life: The Magic of Integral Transformative Practice - coming soon!

After over three years in development, ITP is proud to announce a new book that describes the genesis of ITP, its evolution and future aims. Living an Extraordinary Life: The Magic of Integral Transformative Practice, co-authored by Christina Grote and Pam Kramer, is scheduled for release in early March. Stay tuned for news of official release.

Enjoy this interview with Pam Kramer as she answers some questions about the new book.

Roger Marsh & Pam Kramer

ITP Mastery teachers

Introducing ITPI Path of Practice Membership

This year ITPI offers resources to support the Path of Practice of its global members. Tune into a short interview of Mastery teacher Roger Marsh hosted by Pam Kramer.

Interested in becoming a member?

George Leonard &

Michael Murphy

ITP co-founders

The Power of Intentions

Intentions are key to any successful practice. ITP practitioners follow nine core practice intentions to the best of their ability and adapt, as desired. Designed for busy lives, these intentions remind you that you are the ultimate authority of your practice and life.

ITP cofounders George Leonard and Michael Murphy believe that your practice can have a significant impact on you and your community when integrated into your work, family life, and daily activities. What do you notice?

Balancing and Centering

Lucy Piper, Mastery teacher & ITP Tulsa group leader

Balancing and Centering Exercise

Sometimes everyday situations can throw us off balance – a long line at the supermarket, holding the phone for some tech support, the waiting room of the doctor’s office. A balancing and centering exercise can be just what we need to return to a calm and accepting state.

At the February online ITP Open House, Lucy Piper presented this integral exercise to help you find your center during life’s ups and downs. (11 minutes)

Annie Ellicott

ITP Tulsa member

Community Spotlight on Annie Ellicott

Learn more about Annie Ellicott and the experience and insight she's gained as a practitioner over the years. “Recognizing, honoring and skillfully navigating homeostasis has been incredibly helpful to my long-term progress as a singer, songwriter, improviser and voice actor. Being comfortable in the role of the fool has given me access to new career paths and incredible adventures.” 

Lucy Piper

Lucy Piper, Mastery teacher & Tulsa group leader

ITP Tulsa Explores the Power of the Imagination

Seven years ago, the Tulsa ITP groups decided to up our game by having weekend workshops designed and facilitated by the ITP Mastery teachers. The journey has yielded amazing results including strength of the community in Tulsa, personal insights, deepening of integral practice, and lots of fun. It has forwarded the mission of ITP which is “to advance the adventure of Integral Transformative Practice.” 

David Whyte

Poet

Where to Begin?

Getting started can be challenging and invigorating. Poet David Whyte encourages us to take the first step.

Start Close In

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.