Online - April 16 - 18, 2021
Integral Practitioner Convergence
Evolving Integral Practice in a Time of Cascading Crises
Save the Date for the 2022 Integral Practitioner Convergence
The 5th Integral Practitioner Convergence is taking place May 6-8, 2022. This page includes the program from the 2021 Convergence.
Why The Convergence, and Why Now?
Our Historical Moment Requires a New Kind of Professional
We live in a time of agonizing challenges and creative disruptions. The challenges humanity faces are so complex that our historical epoch is sometimes described as a crisis of complexity at the core of our current ecological, economic, and political turmoil. In each case, what is required of humanity is more complex than what our current capabilities support. Even our own inventions—technologies, cultural memes, organizations, and communities—have been evolving into increasingly complex forms which have increased the demands of everyday life.
For those who choose to engage this historical moment, a deeper and higher order of capability is required.
In response to these challenges, transformative initiatives are emerging and converging all around the globe. Our global circumstances require practitioners involved in transformation and leadership to develop a unique ecology of competencies that is complex enough for the requirements of the present.
Many of us are called to lives of sacred purpose where we seek to connect professional livelihood with personal meaning and passion. However, there is a widening gap between the challenges of complexity and our individual and collective capabilities. To realize our potential for passionate and meaningful livelihood, it is imperative that we close this gap by building a bridge of capability.
"No matter how bad our crises, our responses will decide both their consequences and our destiny. If that’s so, and it is, it raises one of the great questions of our time and of all time: How can we contribute most effectively to help mitigate or heal these crises?
As integral practitioners, this question becomes: How can we use our integral skills to contribute most effectively? Of course, beneath this lies another question: How do we discover our most effective contributions?"
What are Integral Practitioners?
Integral practitioners foster the development and transformation of individuals, teams, organizations, communities, and societies by empowering the whole person and the whole system. In domains such as education, business, healing, coaching, and the arts, integral practitioners bring imagination to complex challenges in the service of transforming mindsets, cultures and social systems.
Integral Practitioners catalyze development in multiple domains of professional practice through facilitating transformative learning at different levels of systems: From individuals, and all the way up to societies.
Integral practitioners make an impact by:
- Facilitating incremental, adaptive and transformative change.
- Catalyzing development through transformative learning.
- Engaging the vitality and emergence of development and evolution.
- Leading in ways that take responsibility for the whole.
- Evolving new methods of creative collaboration.
- Securing the function of integrity in integral practice.
- Developing the whole person: cognitively, emotionally, somatically, and spiritually.
- Integrating action and reflection through collective action inquiry and learning.
- Anchoring the sacred by reuniting the artistic and the scientific.
- Innovating prototypes that can be scaled while sustaining beauty and practicality.
- Inhabiting both the contemplative and the performative.
- Inquiring through both expressive and scientific methods.
- Healing division within historically wounded systems of relationships.
"The ultimate, most sacred form of theory is practice."
"There is nothing so practical as a good theory."
"You could say paradigms are harder to change than anything else about a system…. But there’s nothing physical or expensive or even slow in the process of paradigm change. In a single individual it can happen in a millisecond. All it takes is a click in the mind, a falling of scales from eyes, a new way of seeing."
The 2021 Convergence: Connect, Collaborate, Create
Calling Coaches, Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Consultants, Changemakers, and Leaders...
In past years, the Integral Practitioner Convergence has taken place in Berlin and Vienna while Integral Practitioner Labs have been convened in Vienna, Berlin, Boston, Oakland, and San Francisco.
Now, integral practitioners from around the world are converging online on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 16th, 17th, and 18th to learn from each other about the capabilities, methods, models and practices that they are innovating in the context of their professional engagements.
Who should participate?
Participants will include aspiring, early career, mid-career, established, and distinguished Integral Practitioners in the domains of education, coaching, organizational leadership, business, and well-being & healthcare.
What will Convergence participants do?
- Experience a diverse community of inquiry and practice.
- Engage with established Integral Practitioners from around the world via live video regarding their professional work and learning journeys.
- Connect with other aspiring and emerging practitioners.
- Collaborate with others in prototyping your practice idea.
- Discover the distinct web of competencies required for realizing your unique vision of integral practice.
- Explore the core consciousness capacities vital for Integral Practitioners.
Panelists from the 2021 Convergence
100+ panelists are expected at this year’s Convergence.
Click on each photo to learn about each panelist.
Convergence Program
Convergence panel topics and themes planned for April 16, 17, and 18 include:
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Moderated By:
Convening Circle
Panelists:
- Monica Sharma
- Annette Kaiser
- Diane Hamilton
- Melanie Goodchild
- Rama Mani
- Alexander Schieffer
Moderated By:
Eric Reynolds and Natasha Mantler
Panelists:
- Robin Wood
- Brett Thomas
- Rebecca Colwell
Moderated By:
Beena Sharma
Panelists:
- Tom Murray
- Otto Laske
- Daniel Gortz
- Kristian Stålne
Moderated By:
Bonnitta Roy
Panelists:
- Jeremy Johnson
- Julian Baller
- Brad Kershner
Moderated By:
Marilyn Hamilton
Panelists:
- Hauda Najem
- Paddy Pampallis
- Gall Hochachka
- Lada Kanevska
- Said Dawlabani
Moderated By:
Kazuma Matoba
Panelists:
- Eva Pomeroy
- Lukas Hermann
- Melanie Goodchild
- Arawana Hayashi
Moderated By:
Tom Murray
Panelists:
- Annette Kaiser
- Griet Hellinckx
- Elizabeth Debold
- Roger Walsh
- John Dupuy
- Doshin Nelson
Moderated By:
Convening Circle
Panelists:
- Duane Elgin
- Anneloes Smitsman
- Coleen Elgin
- Rama Mani
- Alexander Schieffer
Saturday, April 17th, 2021
Moderated By:
Convening Circle
Panelists:
- Susanne Cook-Greuter
- Tomas Bjorkman
- Rama Mani
- Alexander Schieffer
Moderated By:
Melissa Schwartz
Panelists:
- Susan Shaw
- Paddy Pampallis
- Pier Lattuada
Moderated By:
Bettina Geiken and Elke Fein
Panelists:
- Jeff Salzman
- Hanno Burmester
- Indra Adnan
Moderated By:
Annette McCall
Panelists:
- Anna Betz
- Hillen Cocq
- Pier Lattuada
- Nomali Perera
Moderated By:
Rica Viljoen
Panelists:
- Eric Reynolds
- Greg Thomas
- Erica Harpe
- Marco Robledo
Moderated By:
Raymond Fismer
Panelists:
- Diana Claire Douglas
- Lisa Norton
- Abigail Lynam
- Tom Habib
- Lada Kanevska
- Miles Kessler
Moderated By:
Convening Circle
Panelists:
- Riane Eisler
- Rama Mani
- Alexander Schieffer
Sunday, April 18th, 2021
Moderated By:
Convening Circle
Panelists:
- Thomas Hubl
- Doshin Nelson
- Rama Mani
- Alexander Schieffer
Moderated By:
Anne-Marie Voorhoeve and Diana Cleire Douglas
Panelists:
- Mathias Weitbrecht
- Maria Bakari
- Pia Anderson
- Lawrence Kampf
Moderated By:
Anouk Brack
Panelists:
- Eleanor Criswell
- Raquel Torrent
- Miles Kessler
Moderated By:
Susanne Cook-Greuter and Akasha Saunders
Panelists:
- Lisa Norton
- Markos Perrakis
- Rama Mani
- Greg Thomas
Moderated By:
Paddy Pampallis
Panelists:
- Geoff Fitch
- Jonathan Reams
- Beena Sharma
- Lawrence Kampf
- Nomali Perera
Moderated By:
Robin Wood
Panelists:
- Mathias Weitbrecht
- Nico Roenpagel
- Erica Harpe
- Natasha Mantler
Moderated By:
Daniel Gortz
Panelists:
- Jeff Salzman
- Patricia Albere
- Jeremy Lent
- kaa Faensen
- George Por
Moderated By:
Convening Circle
Panelists:
- Susanne Cook-Greuter
- Thomas Steininger
- Rama Mani
- Alexander Schieffer
- Jan Henriksson
- Tomas Bjorkman
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