A profound 9-month Journey into Awakened Wholeness through Intimate Community

For over 20 years across three continents, Generating Transformative Change (GTC) has developed into one of the most powerful, awakening, and mature learning journeys available today. 

GTC graduates are extraordinary professionals of all ages, from diverse backgrounds and from many parts of the world. Many come to GTC sensing something is calling them, without being able to fully articulate what or why, but they share a common desire—to transform themselves and their worlds, motivated by a vision of a more beautiful, equitable future for all.

When you join GTC, you meet other individuals who are awakening to new versions of self, relationship, and systems. What emerges over nine months with your cohort isn't just personal growth, but a fundamental shift in how you experience yourself, others, and the very ground of being. Participants consistently describe this journey as among the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

What makes GTC distinct is the recognition that our deepest transformations happen through relationship. Rather than treating development as primarily an individual journey, GTC creates conditions where mutual witnessing, truthful exchange, and collective intelligence catalyze growth beyond what's possible alone.

The program balances theoretical understanding with embodied practice, helping you translate insights into lived experience. And while the work can be profound, there's also space for playfulness, creativity, and joy.

"GTC - the program and its faculty - generates a profound transformation in and among its participants. It is a grounded transformation - one that is quietly realized after the fact. This 'change of form' happens at all levels of experience: a deep physical relaxation into presence, an emotional and interpersonal breaking open of the heart, a spiritual sea change and a behavioral transition to a new way of walking - individually and collectively - on the earth and in life.”

—Julia

What’s included

GTC includes a rhythm of residential retreats, online gatherings, and individual practice—creating a field where transformation happens through relationship. 

• Four residential retreats in natural settings that support deepening presence

• Monthly online sessions for continued practice and integration

• One-on-one coaching to support your unique developmental path

• A cohort of fellow travelers committed to their own and others' unfolding

• Frameworks that help make sense of your experience without constraining it

A curriculum that opens as you do

Rather than a fixed sequence, GTC unfolds through an ecology of practices responsive to what's emerging in the group. While each cohort's journey is unique, these themes reflect the territory we'll explore:

• Developmental Awareness - Understanding how consciousness evolves and how to navigate transitions with clarity and compassion.

• Relational Practice - Discovering how transformation happens through authentic connection and collective intelligence.

• Emergent Leadership - Learning to influence systems through presence and attunement to what's emerging.

• Shadow Integration - Working with unconscious patterns to release energy for authentic expression and relating.

• Evolutionary Purpose - Finding the unique contribution that wants to emerge through you in service of our collective future.

"GTC has allowed me to hold and work within paradox. I can look at collapsing eco systems, shocking economic inequality, and calcified political systems, and not lose hope but work with renewed vigor. Where before I felt despair and frustration and soldiered on, now I can hold those feelings together with optimism and joy and work from a place of service."

—Zach

Retreat Schedule

October 28 - November 2, 2025

January 20 - 25, 2026

April 28 - May 3, 2026

June 28 - July 2, 2026

 *Please note attendance at all four retreats is required for participation. Check in on the first day begins at 3 pm. Retreats end by 1:30pm on the last day and include a closing lunch.

FACULTY

Core Faculty

Is GTC right for you?

GTC welcomes participants from diverse backgrounds who share a readiness to explore territories beyond conventional development. People come to this work when they're sensing limitations in current approaches, navigating significant transitions, or feeling called to bring more of their authentic self into expression.

You might recognize yourself in some of these experiences:

• You've had glimpses of something beyond your familiar ways of making meaning

• You sense that what's next in your life needs to emerge from a deeper place

• You've done significant personal or spiritual work but feel something is still missing

• You're navigating complexity in your work or life that requires new capacities

• You're drawn to both awakening consciousness and engaged action in the world

The program asks for openness, courage, and commitment—not because transformation is difficult, but because it touches everything.

Program Investment

Your investment in GTC includes all program sessions, faculty support, and learning materials. Costs for accommodations and meals during retreats are additional.

Individual Rates:

• Early Bird: $8,950 (register by September 7, 2025)

• Standard: $10,500 (register by October 14, 2025)

Special Rates:

• Organization/Corporate: $12,000 (inquire about multi-participant discounts)

• GTC Alumni: $5,500 (limited spaces available)

• Partners/Couples: $8,500 for second registration when attending together

Additional Costs: Each 4-5 day retreat includes accommodation and meals at the retreat center, ranging from $750-$1,500 per retreat depending on your room selection. Travel expenses to and from retreat locations are not included.

Payment plans are available. All amounts are in USD.

Scholarship

Pacific Integral has a history of supporting people of diverse circumstances and ages to participate in our programs. We have a special scholarship program for young leaders (age 30 and below), as well as limited scholarship funds for committed participants who would otherwise be unable to attend for financial reasons. You can apply for a scholarship here.

Sponsorship

Consider having your organization sponsor your participation. GTC is accepted by many organizations as an external training program. We can work with your organization to fulfill any review and approval requirements. Start by downloading the business-friendly executive summary.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do people get out of GTC?
GTC is a comprehensive development process designed to support your unique needs, so participants tend reap different rewards. Many report attending GTC was instrumental or life changing. Some benefits most often reported are

• Natural release into a larger sense of your Self and your deeper capacities

• Capacity in leading powerful processes for transforming collectives

• Improved skill in conflict resolution, coaching and change management through an understanding of the leading researched-based framework on adult levels of development and evolution

• Greater personal presence expressed in life and work

• Transforming deeply held worldviews, assumptions, values, and long-standing habits

• Deeper, more authentic, and powerful communication, personally and professionally

• Greater ability to collaborate and develop connections and community

• Increased capacity to understand and shift perspectives, improving your ability to influence others towards positive change

• Greater trust in internal wisdom and guidance for decision-making and problem-solving

• Increased creativity and innovative thinking in life and work

• Participation in a global collaborative community of transformative leaders

• Deep relationships and connections with your cohort and the graduate community

How much time will this demand of me between sessions?
This simple answer is that you can plan up to 4 hours per week. The inter-session period is a time to apply the learning through practice, daily inquiry, and field projects. You will have additional learning, through reading and online study, online community connections, coaching conversations, and cohort conference calls.

A critical success factor for the inter-sessions is to connect the learning to your present life and work challenges and opportunities. The more you can connect the learning to what you are doing outside the program, the easier and more supportive the program will be.

I am already in or considering a graduate program. Is this compatible?
Participants often consider GTC when they are in or considering a graduate program. We have had participants in the program while they are completing Masters or Ph.D. programs. Often the draw to GTC is a desire to complement a more academic program with something that involves more applied, embodied learning. GTC is quite compatible and complementary to graduate academic programs.

What if I don't consider myself a leader?
While we often use the word, 'Leadership' to describe the GTC program, doing so is not without its perils. Leadership is a word that means different things to different people and can touch on personal experiences that are not always positive. Needless to say, a review of the meaning of leadership exposes a rich territory that certainly includes people who make an impact who don't consider themselves to be a leader, but who in the eyes of others have exercised great leadership. We invite you to consider your own impulse to make a difference and to express yourself as an impulse towards your own personal kind of leadership and to view your feelings about the word as an opportunity for reflection.

Is this a personal or professional development program?
It is both. We believe that our personal development and professional development are inseparable. When invoking leadership, we are bringing all of who we are as people, which includes our inner capacities and character, as well as our understanding and skills we bring to our work in the world. Many participants attend GTC to further their professional work and have their employers sponsor their participation. At the same time, the program is deeply personal and participants should anticipate a greater level of intimacy and inner exploration than they find in a typical professional development program.

Where do participants come from?
Previous cohorts have included participants from: The United States, Canada, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Palestine, New Zealand, England, Mexico, Germany, Jamaica, Suriname, and South Africa.

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