Liberating the Deep Potential of Human Being

Over the past 20 years, through over thirty programs delivered on three continents, 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. They share a common desire.... to transform themselves, their organizations, communities and our human consciousness, motivated by a vision of a more beautiful, equitable and sustainable future for all.

When you join GTC, you will meet other individuals who are awakening to new versions of self, relationship, systems, and a spirit of love for the whole. You will complete GTC with more awareness, aliveness, and vision for your own role in bringing about positive evolution for planetary life. And you will leave with the practical knowledge, skills and a community of support, to help make your vision a reality.

A New Hybrid Format for the Asia/Pacific Region

GTC South Pacific has been serving this region since 2012. Now, we have redesigned the program to better support the needs of the region and allow more access to a greater number of countries in the Asia/Pacific region.  People attracted to the program share common desires to transform themselves, their relationships,  organisations, communities and our shared human consciousness. This tends to be motivated by a vision of a more beautiful, equitable and sustainable future for all. We are now enrolling for this new hybrid program, starting is in July 2024.

"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

About GTC South Pacific

GTC South Pacific is a 7-month program supporting us to awaken to new versions of ourselves, our relationships, and to engage skillfully in the crises around us all and nurture the spirit of love for the whole. GTC SP has a hybrid online and in-person format design to support the unique requirements of the region.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

• Self-inquiry: Deep questions and experiences are facilitated throughout the program. We learn by doing and feeling as well as thinking. This reveals the structure of our experience, liberates our internal wisdom, and develops an embodied understanding letting us act more effectively.

• Community of practice: Cultivating relationship among an intimate cohort of fellow travelers. Presencing and exploration of experience between participants that deepens the experience and supports healing and natural unfolding of development.

• Reflection and coaching: Use of powerful questions and reflective inquiry helping 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

• Presencing and prototyping: Advance yourself in your particular area of interest through actual experiments in between retreats. Learn how to engage with a creative unfolding in your life that may be subtle or unclear but requires your participation to be realized.

What Participants are Saying

Watch this short film to hear alumni share about their experience in GTC, created by filmmaker Tucker Walsh (GTC 2022). This diverse set of voices from a variety of walks of life - artist, healer, educator, executive, coach, entrepreneur, parent - each took the courageous leap to let go into a deeper ground in themselves, so their gifts could flow more fully into the world. Listen with your whole self to what GTC was like for them and how it impacted them.

Program Details

Retreat Dates

GTC is a 7-month developmental journey that includes two residential retreats, three online retreats, and virtual engagement between the retreats.

July 20 - 21, 2024 - Online retreat
August 19 - 23, 2024 - Residential retreat - Mana Retreat Centre, Coromandel, NZ
October 5 - 6, 2024 - Online retreat
December 3 - 8, 2024 - Residential retreat - St. Joseph’s Retreat Centre, Baulkham Hills, Sydney, AU
Feb 1 - 2, 2025 - Online retreat 

Please note attendance at all retreats is required for participation. For those traveling to in-person retreats, there is the option to arrive the night before for an additional fee.

Tuition

We have created a need based discount, please reach out if you’re interested in learning more.

Scholarship Support

Limited scholarship is available for those who would love to do the program but are struggling to pay the full fee. For more information, contact gtcsp@pacificintegral.com.

Payment Plans

At the time of registration you may elect to pay in full or over 4 or 7 months. Payment plans include a 3% administrative fee. Example: the early seat price of AUD $8,550 could be paid as $1258 / month for 7 months.

Included:

• Accommodation and meals

• All materials and instruction   

• High faculty/participant ratio

• Individual and cohort inter-session activities and online engagement           

• One coaching session between each retreat with a member of the faculty

• STAGES developmental assessment and debriefing, a value of $1150.

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.

FACULTY FOR GTC SOUTH PACIFIC

Core Faculty

Facilitators

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.

How is this new Hybrid program different than the regular GTC?
We have redesigned the program to better support the needs of the region and allow more access to a greater number of countries in the Asia/Pacific region. Since its inception, GTC has always involved a mixture of in-person and virtual programming. In this version we have moved more of the process online to allow for easier access for the Asia/Pacific region. We will cover similar content and practices we engage with in the traditional GTC format. We have always been a big believer in in-person experiences and at the same time have developed an approach to creating retreat spaces online that are deep and impactful.

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, Kenya, Kosovo, Palestine, New Zealand, Australia, England, Estonia, Mexico, Peru, Germany, Jamaica, Suriname, India, and South Africa.

"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