Program Structure
GTC consists of a core 9-month Leadership Intensive program, followed by an optional 6-month Application and Certification phase. As you progress through the program, you take on greater leadership and responsibility for the process. Participants successfully completing both phases receive a professional certificate in Integral Transformative Leadership from Pacific Integral and the LIOS Graduate College at Saybrook University.
Each cohort has a maximum of 20 members, and meets in retreat at Harmony Hill, on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula, in Washington State.
The program is a multifaceted approach to the expansion and transformation of the participants, individually and in the collective. The program includes:
- Self-inquiry: Deep questions, facilitated throughout the program, designed to reveal the structure of our experience and our internal wisdom.
- Community of practice: Dialog and exploration of experience between participants that deepens the understanding and application of the learning.
- Reflection and coaching: Use of powerful questions and reflective inquiry by facilitators helps participants to examine their structure of interpretation, allowing a more consistent positive impact and improved communications and strategy.
- Cognitive study: Gain knowledge and practice in theories and research of Wilber, Torbert, Kegan, Cook-Greuter, Senge, Scharmer, Robertson, O’Fallon and others. Learn proven leading edge approaches for powerfully intervening in complex systems
- Action Learning service projects: Advance yourself in your particular area of interest through actual experiments in between retreats.
GTC Leadership Intensive
The core of the Leadership Intensive is four 4-day residential retreats, complemented by inter-session work between each retreat. Your learning begins before the first intensive with reading on some of the basic conceptual underpinnings of the program. At this time you also will take the Leadership MAP to help you assess your current stage in development.
During each inter-session you will be assigned reading. You will develop a specific action research experiment related to your leadership area of interest and write a short report to bring the learning back to the entire cohort.
The program is structured in a way that maximizes the personal and collective learning of your cohort while engaging in the program content. The learning is comprised of conceptual and experiential content, and is grounded in applicability.
Application and Certification Phase
Participants may elect to continue on to the Application and Certification phase by submitting a real-world service project proposal. You may choose to do a project as a cohort, as an individual, or some other combination.
This is an exciting and fertile time as you and your cohort look deeply at what truly matters and where you are inspired to serve, while confronting what gets in the way.
With the help of the faculty, the cohort will design the structure of the Application and Certification Phase. Previous cohorts have traveled to places such as the US/Mexico border region to work in a Mexico-based NGO serving community development and to a Navajo community to participate in sacred ceremonies.
In order to obtain certification, participants must meet minimal requirements for successful completion, including acceptance of the project proposal by GTC faculty, final reflection paper, and faculty assessment of project process and results. Participants receive faculty coaching and supervision. Completion of the Applicaiton and Certification phase of GTC is a prerequisite to applying to become an Alumni Mentor for a future cohort.
Learning Topics
Partial List of Skills and Focus Areas:
Transformative Personal Practice
- Integral Life Practice and support groups
- Leadership Development Framework
- Meditation and Silent retreat time at each intensive
- Action/Reflection Cycles
- Awareness Practices
- Personal Shadow
- Authentic Self Expression
- State Development
Group Life
- Stage development of groups, communities and teams
- Communication, dialogue, and second tier conversations
- Working with masculine/feminine energies
- Group Fields
- Insight Dialog practice
- Second tier practices of Paradoxes of Group Life
- Working with Group Shadow
- Online group meditation practice
- Making new knowledge and collective individualism
Integral Assessment and Leadership
- Interviews and assessment as the initiation into a transformative relationship
- Assessment of self, organization, family or community
- Using the Integral model as a framework for inquiry and analysis
- Examining our relationship to money, organization, and the theory of our change
- Transformative leadership principles
- Effective facilitation and presentation skills; presencing, creating a holding space; managing tension
Foundational and Advanced Integral Learning
- Integral theory, Quadrants, Levels, Lines, States and Types
- Practical ontology
- Wilber five
- Updates on application of new Integral knowledge
- Advanced transformative approaches
Facilitation and Leadership
- Integral Models of leading
- Facilitation, presenting and group work
- Self-organizing community project work
- Subtle leadership
- Design of transformation processes: liberating structures
- Leading your own business, community or family from an integral perspective
