Many clients with schizophrenia have difficulty with treatment compliance. By including both strengths and deficits in treatment, the client may have a greater chance of actually complying with the treatment plan. Clients are not compliant out of a deviant stance. Clients tend not to comply when they don’t possess the necessary skills to carry it out. The Integral model offers the therapist a tool to actually assess the clients various lines of development.

The 1st Biennial Integral Theory Conference is sold out, and the wait-list has been closed. If you still want to attend this conference you may yet have a chance. Integral Life is running an “Elevator Pitch Contest.” We want you to create an elevator pitch advocating the Integral Approach.

"What’s the connection between meditation, ecological sustainability, social justice, self actualization, and the protesters at the WTO Convention in Seattle? What were the 60’s all about and what’s the socio-cultural link to now?"

"Instead, let's consider an alternative point of view that runs against everything we read in the daily papers. The alternative is this: The opportunities before us are just as real as the dangers. Our future is not an inevitable slide into poverty and despair. But this does not mean celebrating our inevitable progress into a golden future of endless consumption as described by ad agency flacks. Life is harder and more upsetting than that."

Lawrence Wollersheim has published a substantial text proposing some general principles for developing and practicing an open source spirituality.

In this third and final installation of David and Ken's dialogue, we explore the role of sports as a "hidden religion," an age-old tradition with the extraordinary ability to evoke powerful states of transcendence—spiritual experiences, by any other name. As they discuss, when the rational materialistic worldview began to emerge, one of the first things it did was to debunk the mythic religious worldview that came before, effectively discarding the entire notion of spirituality along with it. When this occurred, spirituality was forced to "go underground," sneaking itself into some fairly surprising corners of human activity—and thus sports have grown to offer some of the most widespread forms of covert spirituality in the modern world, for athletes and fans alike. Listen as David and Ken explore some of the contours of this "hidden religion," and discuss what it takes to be a genuinely Integral athlete, both on and off the field.

While I know there are Integral formulations along the lines of " god in the first, second and third person" that speak to this, I am not sure i am comfortable with that formulation given the history of the word "god" and it's definition in the minds of the vast majority of people. I also don't really find I have much use for terms that in common usage refer to a supernatural metaphysics that I find fantastical (indeed delusional) and beside the point.

Ken Wilber discusses harmful spiritual movements with Jacob Bartels, and how an understanding of stages and shadow can help to see why things go wrong....