Convening in the Inner Life, Convening in Relationships
Living an Extraordinary Life:
The Magic of Integral Transformative Practice
Wednesday, April 19 - 7:00-8:15 pm CT US
We look forward to being with you for this extraordinary conversation: exploring what an extraordinary life can mean for all of us. How to prepare? Consider this question: “What does an extraordinary life look like?”
Living an extraordinary life really says it all along with the subtitle, which is the magic of integral transformative practice. It is an inquiry into what is living an extraordinary life for me and for you and for all of us. What does our imagination say is possible? And then how do we live into that? How do we actualize that on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment life experience of our lives? So that's really what's at the heart of the matter.
What does it look and feel like for you? What are the moments that you experience on a day-to-day basis that extraordinary for you? If we can each look for the extraordinary wherever we are, does that make an extraordinary life?
In each and every moment there's the possibility of this extraordinary flowering into our present moment, and a number of ways in the ordinary. What is normally experienced as potentially just an ordinary moment could become extraordinary; there are opportunities for extraordinary capacities emerging in our experience which Michael Murphy was brilliant and categorizing in his book.
The extraordinary in the ordinary and the extraordinary extraordinary. Both are possible, and this conversation and book brings that alive. So that's the key. That's the heart of the question.
How does this sync with the CPL Vision of creating a world that works for all? If we're able to begin to experience this as a daily moment to moment practice, if we begin to create that world for ourselves, so that we can bring it to those that we are with and serve.
“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.”-Thomas Merton. We are cultivating that hidden holness in this conversation.
Pam Kramer, President of ITP International
Christina Grote, board chair of ITP International
Roger Marsh, Beyond Belief LLC
Living an Extraordinary Life is about the vast potential living inside us all and a practice to explore it for yourself. Created in 1991 by human potential pioneers George Leonard and Michael Murphy, Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) is designed for people with busy lives as a practical path for personal transformation and positive social change. Christina Grote and Pamela Kramer present the evolution of the practice to a world that needs it now.
Pam Kramer is President of ITP International, a non-profit organization that stewards ITP and the work of its founders, George Leonard and Michael Murphy. Pam is an ITP Mastery teacher, is on the faculty of Esalen Institute and presents workshops at venues in the US and abroad. She is engaged in training ITP teachers, helping to form ITP groups and bringing integral principles and practices to the workplace. Pam is a performance consultant and executive coach with 30 years' consulting experience for organizations and entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Christina Grote grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and made the unusual choice to move to Columbus, Ohio in the mid 1970’s following four years of international travel, living in Amsterdam, Afghanistan, and Montreal, eventually landing in the hill town of McCleod Ganj, India, seat of the Dalai Lama. A life-long interest in natural healing prompted her to become a licensed massage therapist in Ohio in 1988, practicing many types of body and energy work, and the therapeutic use of sound, music, and color. Her quest to find ways for her clients to improve their well-being led her to create self-care classes that included elements of ITP. Her further exploration of the practice led to her start an ITP group in Columbus in 2004. A lover of the arts and the outdoors, she enjoys painting, sculpting with clay and concrete, hiking and paddleboarding, playing music, and learning new things. She created two large functional art pieces situated in public parks in Central Ohio. Christina lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Jim and spends time in Florida, Colorado, and California, with visits to Los Angeles to be with her son Aaron, and his family.
Roger Kenneth Marsh is committed to evolving humanity to a more peaceful, joyful and love-based state. He has been practicing ITP since 2004 when he helped establish and lead ITP Walnut Creek in Northern California. Roger has continued to develop his leadership through all ITP Mastery programs since 2008 and has been co-leading and convening ITP Group Leader gatherings since 2012. Through his company, Beyond Belief LLC, Roger is a leadership coach opening the hearts and minds of leaders around the world.