Spiral Dynamics Integral Training

Sunday, October 22 to Sunday, October 29, 2006
Hotel Boulderado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Dr. Don Beck and the Spiral Dynamcis Group are proud to present
this 7th Annual SDi Boulder experience - a 7-day program of dynamic SDi
certification training, interactive learning, and meshWORKING with some of the finest
vetran minds and groups in the global SDI constellation.

2006 Boulder Level Two Theme
‘Personal Emergence'

This year The Spiral Dynamics Group brings you the 7th annual 'evolution' of the SDi Personal Emergence experience - each year we add more and go deeper into the application of Spiral Dynamics to the Self. This year's theme brings to the forefront the concept of development pathways; pathways for learning, for becoming and for emergence.

Through a series of lectures, presentations, case study high-lights, small group explorations, panel discussions and ‘Live Wire’ tele-interviews with prominent experts, participants will be uniquely informed, inspired, empowered, and challenged to think in fresh ways about the entire concept of personal emergence and development.

As in previous years, the overall intent will be to both explore and experience ways to develop, nurture and enhance the eight senses of self and 'personal' displays: survival Beige (SurvivalSense), magical Purple (KinSpirits), egocentric Red (PowerGods), saintly Blue (TruthForce), achiever Orange (StriveDrive), sensitive Green (HumanBond), integral Yellow (FlexFlow) and holonic Turquoise (WholeView).

This year we add to our curriculum altered states, working intentionally to induce brain wave changes and exploring the dynamics of the brain/mind connection.

We will look at how the brain makes a mind and how the mind makes a brain. We will show how the upper right and upper left quadrants interact to facilitate this emergence. To do this exploration, we begin an archeological dig into the inner working of the mind in search of the distinct thinking patterns arising from our vMemetic coding.

New for this year, special attention is given to the lower quadrants of the collective. Pre- and post-event activities and opportunities will be offered to connect with others interested in Personal Emergence and Spiral Dynamics, so that threads from this one-of-a-kind experience can be woven back into your everyday life.

What will be our focus this year?

Filling in the Spiral Dimensions of Density. This track will highlight and add complexity to the base Spiral. By weaving our way around the quadrants (interior, exterior, individual and collective) we form the fullness and strength of each developmental level. We explore how each quadrant interacts, influences and builds upon earlier stages of development.

A new Spiral-based instrument developed by one our SDi constellation members that turns the Spiral on its side resulting in a horizontal Spiral development amidst the more difficult vertical Spiral development.

A look deep into the brain structures and how the original sourcing of brain function is a valuing process, demonstrating the central location of Graves initial findings with human nature and integral extension and manifestation from that center.

Brain States, Meditation and Navigating the Inner World. This experiential track introduces the benefits and conditions of meditation. In a personal emergence context, meditation focuses the mind, and helps us in very minimal complexity of conditions to learn how our mind operates and in turn we learn how to operate the mind.

• Through the use of innovative technology that induces brain states, the conditions of meditation can be created so that mind development might be accelerated. We intend to illustrate that meditation is not an end in and of itself, it is really the beginning.
  
• Once an altered state is induced, we will play in the mind, looking for evidence of the 5-deep structures of each vMemetic system.
  
• New data will help to understand our personal vMemetic profile, including our strengths, potential gaps, and identifying what’s emerging next for us.
  
• From here new conversations are possible. We will work on the design of a personal system, pathway or habitat to support our emergence through the many dimensions of the Spiral. Simultaneously we design in limits, manage and attract complexity to us. As our mind develops, the transpersonal dimension grows in power and influence. As our inner world builds in resilience, capacity, focus and fullness, our ability to engage our outer world is significantly enhanced.
  
  

What can participants expect to learn from the above explorations?

How ‘emergence’ manifests through the waves, stages, and levels along the total Spiral trajectory. What ‘costumes’ we wear as we strive toward Second Tier intimacy and authenticity. How new expressions of complexity appear in our bio-psycho-social upliftment.

How we ‘retrofit’ our personal Spiral Within: how we go back to earlier systems we have already transcended in order to redress weaknesses, gaps, asymmetries and lack of healthy inclusion.

How we can best develop our internal capacities in the home, school, in community and other organizations, in business, and in social initiatives and relationships.

What tools, programs and activities are available which will facilitate our own introspective quest to map our unique vMemetic history.

How this body of Spiral knowledge can be used to build personal ‘interiors’ in educational systems and structures, within the expanding discipline of Integral Leadership, and in crafting high-performance, dynamic teams.

Bearing our Spiral wisdom regarding personal interiors in mind, how families, communities, institutions, organizations and professional societies can create the natural environments that will provide opportunities and incentives for their members to ‘be all that they can be.’

What else will be important at Boulder 2006?

As always in any SDi program, we will search for the Prime Directive, the underlying Master Code that generates, adjusts, aligns and projects the internal senses of self. The Boulder 2006 SDi Level Two experience is built around interactive and ‘whole brain’ activities and events, all designed to provide a comprehensive view and experience of personal emergence within a Spiral Dynamics framework.

For SDi veterans and newcomers alike, major advances to the developmental pathway for Spiral Wizardry are outlined and opportunities to advance within the constellation grow as you commit to your own personal emergence. The 2006 Boulder event is one of those opportunities.

And as at all SDi events, the Boulder experience also offers the opportunity for participants to get to know one another, for personal networking and connecting, and for sharing much light-hearted fun! This year pre-event activity will have us work the collective aspects of personal emergence. The earlier you register and can begin engaging with this special thread, the stronger, safer and more powerful the collective aspect can be for all of us gathered for this experience.

Leaders, Speakers and Trainers

Special Guest: Bill Harris

Bill is a teacher, public speaker, author, musician, composer, therapist, workshop leader and successful business owner.

His life and work are about mind development. As founder and director of Centerpointe Research Institute, and the creator of 'The Holosync Solution'^TM program he travels around the globe bringing information and technology to lead you into and then deepen brain states, and has found that as a meditation practice it accelerates the development of the mind.

Centerpointe has grown to include more than 160,000 participants in 172 countries. His most recent book, Thresholds of the Mind, describes the research and process that makes this technology effective.

He is a Certified Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and is trained in Ericksonian Hypnosis. He is a long time student of contemporary psychology, quantum mechanical physics, the evolution of non-linear systems (chaos theory) and the effects of a wide range of neurotechnologies on human change, evolution and healing. He is known for his ability to explain difficult subjects in a way that makes them easy to understand.
Bill expands his technology with his Values Clarification Process which is designed to help people discover what unconsciously motivates them to act and how, if they become more conscious of the process they can more effectively chose their internal states and external results.

Presenters, among others, from the SDi Constellation

Dr. Don Beck will open and close this event.

Mike Jay
Mike has been a professional business coach, consultant and successful entrepreneur for more than 35 years. As a business leader for much of his life, he has experienced first-hand what it means to deal with difficult management issues. As an active entrepreneur he has participated in his share of "successful failures." Mike's broad business background adds a depth of real-world knowledge to his ability to connect with clients, audiences and organizations.

Mike is also responsible for the designation of “Developmentalist” and the field of Emergenics, exciting new leadership paradigms integrating a variety of methodologies towards sustainability and well-being.

2004 brought about the realization of a 9-year project called Leadership University (LeadU) – a global virtual university focused on the Leadership Development System Mike created over the course of the past 17 years. LeadU contains more than 36 different programs for leaders in a variety of leadership venues.

Christopher Cooke
Through his work as a leading consultant, trainer and project manager in the application of whole system thinking he is recognized internationally, across public, voluntary and commercial sectors, for his work on Insights and Inspiration. He is a co-founder, with Sir John Whitmore and Nick Hart Williams, of the ‘Be the Change’ events.

Christopher’s pioneering work was recognized in 2003 through the Clare W. Graves Award for Ethical and Innovative Leadership. Christopher has directed the development of onlinePeopleSCAN and leads the SDi CultureSCAN training.
Walk-About with Purpose is currently setting him the challenge of engaging the hearts and minds of individuals in every country on the planet. Why? ‘Enabling Emergence’ is his core purpose.

Cherie Beck
Cherie’s background includes 17 years in the high technology industry as an executive account manager, where she was responsible for consulting, designing and ongoing management of large-scale business computing systems, primarily serving Fortune 500 companies. She has spent a significant portion of the past six years studying, applying and practicing Integral theory in the field of adult development, organizational culture and executive leadership.

Cherie is a coach and mentor for personal emergence, the writer and producer of Beautiful Noise: A View of Stratified Democracy and the publisher of The Crucible: Forging South Africa’s Future / In Search of a Template for the World. She is designing the SDx (experiential) course work and leads an emergence training called “The vMeme Gym”.

Testimonial

Elza Maalouf – a core member of the SDi constellation and user of Holosync

“I have been practicing Mystical meditation for more than 15 years and was always skeptical of any guided meditation or new technology that claims to replace conscious meditation. I started using Holosync a few weeks ago and felt an added benefit to my meditative state and emotional wellbeing.

“Emergence is a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual process: At this stage in my life, my work is focused on the social; traveling to hot spots and dealing with cultural emergence. I have no time nor access to ashrams and meditation groups. It is a joy to be able to use a tool that facilitates the flow of my own emergence in the midst of conflict-torn countries.

“Holosync makes meditating easy.”

Venue

The historic Hotel Boulderado

2115 Thirteenth Street - Boulder, Colorado - USA

Tel: 303-442-4344 or 800-433-4344

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