What people are saying
"Coming to GTC and joining the hearts, minds and souls I found there was for me like finding the last oasis in the desert... An Oasis of possibilities, of good, of opportunities, of challenge, of greatness, of kindness, of brilliance... to just be who I am without shame or pride. I just am. I am so grateful to be part of it. Again, it is still an Oasis of all that and more, but only for the hearts that are ready to believe, ready to stay open, ready to question, ready to be answered, ready not to be answered… It is for hearts that are ready for transformation...."
Yene Assegid
Founder/Director
everyONE
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
"Through GTC, I have met an extraordinary group of forward thinking human beings with heart, who excel in their respective fields and hold the highest standards of integrity and responsibility to their self, their community and to the planet. I've not found a sustained community of this caliber in my 20 years of participation in learning communities. Dana, Terri, Geoff and others combine research-based theory and embodied practice with an accepting, spacious, deep and finely-tuned field of intentioned presence and awareness. This field of awareness has provided me the safety, courage and confidence to step out and find the capacity and the edges of all of the potential I intuitively felt was within me. My life is changing and unfolding with greater ease than I had ever imagined, in large part, because I have the dedicated encouragement, validation and reflection of this amazing collective of remarkable people from around the world."
Venita Ramirez, M.A.
Evolutionary Life Practice Facilitator
"GTC has allowed me to see my strengths in all new ways, helping me to practically and powerfully bring my greatness to my role as a leader, friend, and social change agent. The program has also given me permission to compassionately embrace my weaknesses with a sense of pride, humility and hope. The program's balance between challenge and support has invited me to grow individually, as a member of a learning community, and as a member of the universal community of existence."
Jason Kerber
Vice-Principal
"My professional career as an engineer and project manager had provided all of the opportunity and more that I had hoped for as a student. However after many years launching new products and managing programs that spanned the globe, I still found myself unsatisfied, but not really sure why. My search to find answers to these questions and feelings ultimately led me to the program for generating transformative change and the Pacific Integral team.
The Pacific Integral faculty and the team members of the GTC program understood my questions and have provided an environment in which I could explore and learn the real meaning of these questions whilst simultaneously enabling others to experience that same sense of shared trust mutuality and integrity.
Through a series of retreats and workshops, the program has enabled me to explore my 'Blind Spots' and fears and develop an open and honest understanding of my desires and abilities.
Most importantly, the program is enabling me to understand the value I have to offer society and develop pragmatic means by which to positively contribute through my professional and personal relationships.
The integral teachings and awareness that the program has kindled within me has changed my outlook and approach to life."
Seamus Conlan
Principal Consultant
Integral Teams
"In GTC I have learned to open myself to the greatness of others. At work I now have a new collaboration with a key colleague that I have worked with for the past year and barley knew, even though I saw her every day. This collaboration is adding tangible value to my organization and everyone we touch."
Dennis deLeon, M.D.
Vice President Medical Affairs
Glendale Adventist Medical Center
"GTC is both a deep inner and outer journey. A journey that will change you.
I enrolled in the program with the intent to learn how to apply some of our most leading edge thinking and tools to our world's complex problems. I wanted the delivery to come from people who had both the academic credentials and practical experience.
I received a rich pool of learning with opportunities to apply them. This learning process was supported, every step of the way, by the facilitators and participants. I am forever grateful and honored to have met so many amazing people.
I now see the world in a NEW way. I now SEE potential solutions."
Yvonne Porter
"My original intentions as a participant in Generating Transformation Change program was to increase my skills as a consultant. I entered this program more on faith then current knowledge or understanding about Integral Thinking. What actually transpired during my two year learning community cohort experience far exceeds the limited expectation I originally held for the training.
As I developed my capacity to look at any "system" through a new set of lenses, from an individual, organization, community or country, I realized I was beginning to alter the way in which I would operate in the world. This process wasn't going to be about an individual set of methodologies to apply but rather an expanded worldview of possibilities and an embodied way of being and behaving.
The completion of GTC is only the beginning phase as I continue to increase my awareness and capability to offer my services to individuals and organizations that are doing the work I am passionate about in the world. Transformational change in an individual system is a big undertaking and one that requires deep exploration. Individual transformational change discovered in a learning community accelerated the process ten-fold establishing a new development level for the individual and the collective.
If you are stirred to find your deeper calling, hungry for self-awareness and passionate about meaningfully interacting in the world, GTC could be for you!"
Jo Fjellman
Consultant
"The moment I learned of GTC I knew I needed to participate. Logically I identified reasons for this draw I was feeling; as an Executive Director of an organization that was in deep flux I could see that the learning would apply immediately to the professional challenges I was facing. And yet, from the moment my participation began the experience has been deeper, greater, and broader than any words or logical explanations can describe. My experience has been one of a great unfolding and a beautiful embrace.
And, yes, also very applicable to my professional development.
For me, this is the gift of GTC: integral is what one learns. The experience is in alignment with the theory that is being taught. The experience itself is integral."
Heather Johnson
"My experience with GTC has been a living transformation.
Before enrolling in GTC, I was professionally “burnt out”, disengaged with life, and looking for how I was going to jumpstart new aspirations, work with enthusiasm, realize goals, and not burn out again! I needed a new strategy for leveraging my past successes for a more innovative future. From the first retreat, where I met with key Pacific Integral leaders and my new found friends and colleagues, to our current ongoing collaboration, I have accomplished and continue to achieve success developing and integrating my personal and professional capacities for building an aspiring lifestyle. Thank you GTC!"
Vicki Lundin Taylor
"Pacific Integral's GTC program is unique in that it offers a truly experiential learning
experience that enables participants to go beyond the AQAL map and to literally embody many of
its key components. So there is a lot of focus on presencing, embodiment and a great deal of
deep, transformative work.
Pacific Integral also seeks to bring an element of heart-centeredness into the community by
creating a very warm and supportive atmosphere & by offering many opportunities for participants
to engage in various forms of Appreciative Inquiry and Insight Dialogue. So in that sense,
the GTC program truly integrates the body, mind and spirit (in terms of both the "I" and the
"We") and it fosters a very dynamic and co-creative learning environment for all."
Barbara Larisch
"What drew me to the program was the opportunity to apply integral studies to
real-world needs in the company of other committed learners. I was looking forward to
working with an amazing group of people, but I don't think I realized how big a vision
Pacific Integral has for the reach of this work. It is inspiring... and contageous!
I think we've all stretched beyond where we thought we could go. I am extremely grateful to
be bringing the power of an integral approach to life, in such good company."
Kim Frerichs
Owner, Red Frog Coaching & Consulting
Senior Program Coach, The Newfield Network
"In GTC, I have found rich personal connections as well as tools that support my
creative work in the world to be of service to others. These new relationships have served
as a catalyst and as a connection to additional people and other enriching opportunities.
The tools and processes provided enhance my understanding of the "soup" where I find myself,
stretching what I am doing into a larger world view."
Elisa Sabatini
Executive Director
Non-profit Organization
"In the context of true honesty and integrity and a deep caring for life, its
beauty, wonder and possibility, GTC is a place where I am ever more learning to become
fully human. The crucible of GTC challenges me to take all that I am working
with out into the world....it is about embodying presence, collectively and as individuals."
Katie Teague
Independent Filmmaker
"...amazing people with nothing but the best intentions for this world and the people in it... "
Robb Davis
Vancouver, BC
"The two year course offered through Pacific Integral has, in my first year, shifted me out of many arenas of “mental comfort” that I had conveniently settled into… Pacific Integral has been profoundly disturbing; another way of saying that it is profoundly transformative. “Transformation” here implies positive movement, opening and development, and I recognize that in myself."
Sally Taylor
Northern Ireland
"I have had the opportunity to become exposed to new ideas, methods
and models which have immediately made me a better consultant
in the work I was already doing... I have a strong criterion
for knowing when a piece of information represents true wisdom: it’s
when I think to myself, “If I had only known that before, then I
would have done it differently!” That sensation is a frequent one
at the GTCsessions, and one that I value highly."
Roy Steinberg DC DABCO
Steinberg Consulting Services Inc.
