Integral Life Sessions

Intentional Self Evolution

Exercise Body, Mind, and Spirit in the domains of Self, Culture, and Nature. Build a complex self capable of responding to our cultural and natural crises with grace, skill, and wisdom.

Welcome to a transformative journey toward holistic self-evolution.

If you're struggling with integrating profound insights, resolving self-destructive behaviors, or actualizing a potential that you know is inside of you, you're in the right place. 

Integral Life Sessions are designed to exercise your body, mind, and spirit across the domains of Self, Culture, and Nature. These sessions consider all aspects of your life and being—mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and relational. They aim to help you develop capabilities that enhance your effectiveness, grace, and wisdom in every domain of your life. 

ILP is derived from a synthesis of over 100 charts of the most respected developmental psychologists, and a cross mapping of all major spiritual traditions and states of consciousness. The result is a profoundly comprehensive meta-theory of human development.  (credit and gratitude to Ken Wilber and the long history of traditions and scientific development that makes this understanding accessible to us today)

Read more about the theory behind ILP here.

What's Included in an Integral Life Session:

  • Individualized Developmental Mapping: Gain an honest birds eye view of where you stand in 9 foundational developmental lines. Gain insight and inspiration from learning what the higher stages look like.

  • Tailored Practice Modules: Practices proven by tradition and scientific rigor to be highly beneficial and strategically resonant with your personal and professional goals.

  • In-depth Hakomi Shadow Work: Address subconscious barriers that hinder your development.

  • Practice guidance, feedback, and accountability, helping you to stay on track with your developmental goals and adapt your ILP as life unfolds.

  • Optional continued support and adaptation to your ILP as life unfolds. Receive follow-up summaries, resources, and ongoing adjustments 

  • In-depth Shadow Work: Address subconscious barriers that hinder your development.

  • A panoramic view of your multi-dimentional potential, and a map! You will be inspired by the clarity and confidence that comes from being able to initiate ripples of positive change.

  • Facilitation to expose repressed emotional energy, and be able to live each day without the limiting filters and weight unconsciously affecting everything you do.

  • Practices that contribute to the development of your Self-Awareness so that you can see both “parts” and the “whole” simultaneously, in whatever you are doing. This is the orientation of a graceful and wise life.

  • Relational and mindfulness skills necessary for both personal well-being and professional excellence.

  • Inspiration and Vision to sustain the effort of establishing your ILP until the line between your practices and your life blurs into a continuous and spontaneous self-evolutionary process.

During these sessions you’ll receive…

Single Integral Life Session

If you're curious about shaping a tailored set of life practices and gaining a new perspective on self-evolution, consider starting with a one-part session.
In this 2-hour session, we’ll get a bird's eye view of your developmental map to orient and co-design a unique ILP that will help you evolve into your personal and professional ideals. This session is a blend of conversation, education, and psychosomatic explorations in mindfulness. These explorations will get you in touch with your complexities and facilitate getting honest and clear. You will receive a follow-up email summarizing our discussions, providing useful maps, and detailing the initial practices for your independent journey. There will also be a DIY resource list for you to continue to adapt and build upon your practices as you grow. 

Three-Part Integral Life Sessions

Instead of trying to fit everything into one session, we break it up into three. This creates more space for refinement, experimentation, and accountability. 

Orienting: In our initial 90-minute meeting, we explore the current landscape of your life and envision the transformation that an ILP can facilitate. This orienting session aims to deeply personalize your developmental trajectory. Self-reflective homework and 1-2 practices are given to implement.
Refinement: Two to three weeks later, we meet for another 90 minutes to formalize your ILP. This session offers a tailored set of practices and strategic steps that support your growth, emphasizing flexibility and the ability to adjust to life’s complexities.

Follow-up: A month after the Offer, a 60-minute review session helps assess your progress and refine your practices. We’ll make necessary adjustments to ensure that your ILP continues to evolve with you, facilitating sustained self-development.

12-Part Integral Life Sessions 

This is a 12-session commitment, usually spanning between 4-6 months with open-ended continuation available. Designed for those committed to deep, transformative changes, this comprehensive program supports the cultivation of a sustainable and evolving set of practices, addressing shadow work as needed:

Orienting: Across two separate 1.5-hour sessions, we delve into understanding your current circumstances and the transformative potential of your personalized IEoP.

Refinement: We reconvene for a 75-minute session where I present your detailed ILP, including strategies, resources, education, and actionable steps tailored to foster your development.

Spirals of Growth: Meeting every 2-3 weeks for 75 minutes, we track the changes of your inner experience and external life. This continuous engagement is invaluable for building resilience, addressing shadow material, and building complex capacities needed for an integral life. These sessions blend conversation, education, and hakomi work as needed.

There often will be an emphasis during our sessions together on shadow work. Shadow material is the primary antagonist to the ILP self-evolutionary process. 

“Skyler's passion for self-awareness and human development has clearly guided him on a path of research and practice that reflects in his work as compassionate grounded wisdom. The space he holds for me feels safe, spacious, and guided by a confident and educated devotion to my greatest good and ultimate well-being. 

As a devoted self-awareness practitioner and transformational artisan, I highly recommend Skyler as a guide and powerful resource for your journey into deeper relationship with self, healing, and transformation.”

-Ty Clark

 

FAQ

  • It comes from Ken Wilber’s extensive integration of Western psychology and the great spiritual traditions and his profoundly accessible and all-inclusive Integral Theory.

    In his book, “Integral Psychology” they Charted 100 different developmental maps from renowned modern researchers to develop and inform the creation of ILP. I also bring in the work of John Vervaeke, a contemporary cognitive scientist who presents an “ecology of practice” for the cultivation of wisdom.

  • No specific prerequisites are required, but a willingness to engage deeply, share honestly, and an openness to exploring various beliefs and internal patterns can be very helpful.

  • ILP is unique in its comprehensive and profoundly holistic nature, allowing the integration of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual practices in ways that specifically address the inner and outer realms of an individual.

  • Then it is likely some shadow work needs to be addressed, either to reveal and get more honest about your genuine interests and modify the practices, or to address deep unconscious patterns, for example: getting distracted, critical thoughts, addictive behavior, or relating patterns.

  • Yes, these sessions are ideal for professional development. In our increasingly complex world, we need to develop increasingly complex capacities to thrive and respond effectively.

    The holistic and highly customizable nature of this framework allows you to emphasize the development of specific skills while simultaneously increasing well-being all around and being sustainable for a lifetime.

  • Beginners are welcome! Integral Life Sessions provide education and guided practice in mindfulness and meditation, as well as every practice suggested making them accessible regardless of your experience level.

  • Yes! The time frames and practices will be fit to your available time, energy, and interest. This is about building consistent practices that support your evolution.

  • Immediately, you will notice the benefits of implementing your practices. However, the long-term process will have hills and valleys. Increased self-awareness and expanded capacities will present new kinds of challenges and demands.

  • You will receive follow-up emails summarizing discussions, providing resources, and occasional brief additional support via email or phone may be available. A Hakomi session can be booked as needed for additional support

  • I offer a guaranteed 80% back on all remaining unattended sessions. This does not include scheduled sessions that are missed.

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