Evolving Integral Community
Living in a spiritual community creates endless opportunities to wake up, grow up, clean up, show up and find our edges. Through the grace of our founders and teachers of Awakening, Qapel and Catherine Sensei, we began exploring and experimenting with Integral frameworks over fifteen years ago.
This is the adventure we have been on—learning and leaning in with our community as we built a retreat center for Awakening, based on karma yoga. Our centre and community serve as a living laboratory to explore, evolve, and mature into integrated awakening beings.
Mapping the Terrain of Transformation
Integral offers us diverse lenses and maps to chart the terrain of our experiences, revealing where we are and pointing us toward releasing ourselves and others from unnecessary struggles. The application of integral theory is now consciously woven into how we practice, live in community, and run our centre. It’s quite a feat when you think about it, and it’s still an exciting adventure!
The Four Quadrants in Action
When you spend time with us in conscious community, you’ll experience how we integrate AQAL (all quadrants and all lines) into daily life so that every moment becomes an opportunity to lean in, practice, and evolve.
Interior Individual Development
Collective Community Development
Observable Individual Growth
Systems and Structures
Integrating Shadow and Growth
All of this is a humbling path of learning, and we embrace “failing forward” with grace as we integrate our stumbles and become of greater service in the world.
This integration may show up most clearly in our immersive training program, the three month intensive, where daily work becomes a spiritual practice.
A Community of Diverse Wisdom
As practitioners, we bring a wide range of personal experience to support holistic ways of living:
- Environmental journalism
- Money coaching
- Fortune 500 business expertise
- Counseling
- Integral coaching
- Somatic therapy
- Entrepreneurship
- Permaculture and sustainable living
- Farm-to-table culinary arts
- Film making
- Tech industry experience
Our work together in community is deeply transformative. We bring diverse people and perspectives together to illuminate both our strengths and blind spots as we walk our unique paths of awakening—alone and together—in service of others.
