Robert Stewart

ITPI Programs & Ops Director

Practicing ITP in a Community Setting Brings it Alive

Regular practice is seen as essential for achieving lasting transformation and growth. Practice allows us to develop and refine our skills, acquire new knowledge, form healthy habits, achieve mastery, and build resilience. Through physical, mental or spiritual practice, consistency and intentionality have a transformative impact on our lives.

Bob Doenges with

Annie Ellicott

ITP Tulsa founder, ITPI Board member & ITP Tulsa member

How a Person and an Inspiration Started the ITP Tulsa Community

Inspired at Esalen, built in Oklahoma – that’s the righteous road Bob Doenges describes in this interview with Annie Ellicott, ITP Tulsa and Integral Leadership Mastery member. Bob describes the beginnings of the ITP Tulsa community that he formed years ago; the two ITP Tulsa groups continue to flourish to this day.

Donita Decker

ITP Mastery teacher and San Rafael group leader

Co-creating a Leaderful ITP Community in San Rafael, CA

Creating an ITP group is a learning process and a practice of its own. Donita Decker and Tim Cleary were on an evolving journey participating in and leading ITP Mastery programs for several years. After many conversations about starting their own group, ITP San Rafael was formed in 2012 and has morphed into a leaderful group filled with generosity of spirit, mutual regard and love - the heart of ITP.

Logo art by Rich Sigberman

Joe Hirsch

ITP Houston group leader

Houston ITP Community Begins Thanks to Synchronicities

Thanks to the synchronicities that surfaced between Lydia Dugan and Joe Hirsch, the ITP Houston community got off the ground in 1996. As Joe describes, "The best part of being in the Houston ITP community is celebrating the personal growth of each member and enjoying the support, camaraderie, and richness of new ideas and practices from our group members and other ITP communities." Yeho!     

Ann Horn

ITPI member, The Ki of Cooperation program leader

The Ki of Cooperation – An ITP Online Community

Thanks to technology, the Ki of Cooperation is a community group with members from all over of the world. The space may be virtual, but the community is real. Ann writes, "We believe in a community of practice. Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern and learn how to do better as they interact regularly. In our case, the common concern is to cultivate harmony through skillful cooperation across boundaries."

Charlotte Hatch

ITP Mastery teacher

Walking Through Eternity: An LET Walking Practice

Most of the time, we walk with a goal - a fitness mission or a destination we have in mind. Try this Random Walk, led by Charlotte Hatch. It’s walking for its own sake – balanced, centered, and allowing the open spaces to call to you. Once you experience this practice, you can transfer it to your daily life. Walking in a crowded space may now feel different.

Introducing Roger Marsh as a Member of the ITPI Management Team

A vibrant community takes a dedicated leadership team. Get to know the people who produce your programs and are passionate about supporting you as a practitioner. The ITPI team is a practice group, too!

Our team is excited to welcome ITP Mastery teacher and long-time practitioner Roger Marsh to our management team. Roger, with his decades of coaching leaders and their teams, provides a full range of training, consulting and organizational support to our robust ITP practice community.

Pam Kramer

ITPI president & ITP Mastery teacher

Community Spotlight on Pam Kramer

Each ITP newsletter spotlights a member of the ITP community so that they can share some insight into their practice and the role ITP plays in their life. This newsletter, with its theme of Community and Leadership, shines a light on Pam Kramer.

Pam is the president of ITP International, an ITP Mastery teacher, is on the faculty of Esalen Institute, and presents workshops at venues in the US and abroad. She is engaged in training ITP teachers, helping to form ITP groups and bringing integral principles and practices to the workplace. Pam was the honoree of the For the Love of ITP benefit event on May 2nd.

Sally Isaacs

ITP member

For the Love of ITP – An Extraordinary Event

What a lively, heartfelt event we had on May 2 at the Marin Art & Garden Center with Rachel Hamilton, Improv Extraordinaire, as our guide. The benefit gala featured delicious food, music and outpourings from friends honoring Pam Kramer, ITP training program catalyst, teacher, and collaborator and co-author of Living an Extraordinary Life: The Magic of Integral Transformative Practice. By the end of the night, we were all buzzing from the abundant LOVE!

George Leonard &

Michael Murphy

ITP co-founders

The Magic of Community, Excerpt from The Life We Are Given, chapter 13

How can we summon up the feeling of community, of oneness with others that made our life? Ancient stones offer testimony on campsites, tools, successful hunts, episodes of violent death. Surviving hunting and gathering bands give clues to a way of living that takes us back to our earliest days.