What we’re about
Welcome to the Austin Integral Salon!
This group has a rich history from running for over 14 years in Austin; filled with people helping each other grok, embody, and apply the integral model (especially that of Ken Wilber) to pretty much everything imaginable, and even writing books about it.
For the past few years our group's time and attention has gone mostly to an integrally informed practice called Circling/Relatefulness. This is equal parts shadow work, subject-object practice, state training, and a way to bring more awareness and elegance to the lower left quadrant. If that sounds awesome to you, you’re in the right place with this group :).
--- CIRCLING and INTEGRAL ---
In my view, Integral Theory is unsurpassed in rigor, scope, depth, and inclusiveness as a map for navigating our experience. But often us Integralists hoping to enact the theory—and the communities we build that orient around integral—lack an embodied engagement with the messier aspects of inhabiting a personality. That embrace of our humanity is where Circling really shines. Especially because it can be challenging even to those of us who have done a lot of transformational work for many years (though often not for the reasons you’d expect). Here are some more pieces of writing that might interest you as to the overlap between Circling and Integral Theory, and why it's become the cornerstone of my integral practice:
• Circling and Developmental Altitudes
• Circling and Meditation
• Circling and Cutting Edge Practice
More writing here + Previous theory videos.
We are happy you found us...
If you like what you see, you're welcome to any of our events. We’ve now got a team of facilitators (most of whom are deeply integrally informed) running this integral practice daily at the Austin Circling Studio—which is “A Gym for Emotional Health." We offer a Totally Free Membership, with access to 4 session-hours a month. There are in-person sessions Sunday-Wednesday at the Studio, and every day of the week online. We only list the Monday nights here for y'all's convenience, but you could come any time! Register here and reserve your spot.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Relatefulness (Integral Relational "Meditation" + communication practice)Relateful Austin, Austin, TX
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Register here and reserve your spot.
Cost & Payment details below.----
Relatefulness and INTEGRAL
This weekly event — often called "lab" because we're always experimenting — is a wonderful chance to dive into this Integral Relational Meditation. The practice is wildly different and reliably weird (in the good Austin Weird kind of way) pretty much every time. Tends to be a mix of Waking Up (to the awareness of awareness that's always here), Cleaning Up (catching projections and reclaiming our shadows), Growing Up (through subject-object moves and intersubjective to interobjective moves), and Showing Up (with body awareness and perspectival fluidity, seeing personal, interpersonal, behavioral and systemic dynamics and their interconnectedness) rolled into moment-to-moment awareness and acceptance.- Relatefulness and Integral Theory
- Relatefulness and Developmental Altitudes (the practice was formerly called Circling)
- Many more writings about integral and this practice here + Previous theory videos.
Schedule:
7:30 - 9:30 Relateful PracticeOne Take on What's Happening:
Monday Relateful Lab is an experiment in emergent, self-organizing collective intelligence.It is a meditation on what it means to be human and to be part of humanity; a way for us to discover more inclusive and expansive ways of being together; to align w the impulse of evolution while honoring the perfect wholeness of each unfolding now. We gather with a willingness to step into the mystery of being truly honest and seeing the innocence and beauty of every expression in every moment.
This environment challenges our assumptions of how to be ourselves and behave with each other; (we've all felt these challenges Monday nights!) the result is a release of creative potential, and long lasting insight into the unconscious habits we've constructed to avoid the raw intimacy of each moments' full expression (and that avoidance is innocent and beautiful as well).
Our guides are truth and love, championed by facilitators who model the ever-imperfect practice and gently direct attention to seeing how every share, no matter how unskilled, can be seen as an intelligent expression of our wholeness (including their/our own individual shares as leaders), and can become more potently creative and lovable when seen that way and held with a sense of wonder and curiosity.
We believe that we can train our awareness to recognize this consciousness itself already-always becoming manifest in everything; yet the more our collective becomes aware of this already present-awareness, the more luminous it becomes.
Hope to see you there.
Location:
Relateful Austin Studio,
1205 West 42nd St. A
Austin, TX 78756Cost & Payment links:
You've got options—- $5 unlimited for the first two weeks—trial membership
- $25 for this two-hour block
- $89 unlimited all in-person sessions
We've also got a free membership but the Mondays aren't a part of it. All the options are here.
Please note, the RSVP numbers on Meetup do not reflect reality: We average about 20 people each week, they just aren't on Meetup.com.
This event has been happening every Monday for the past ten years; the facilitators vary from week to week but are likely to include any combo of the following: Jordan Myska Allen, David Swedlow, Annabeth Novitzki, Michael Blas, Kageni Pierce, Tristana Pirkl, Stephanie Hagemeister, Dara Harmon, Ben Poliakoff
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“Integral relationship has been the missing piece, and Circling is the most powerful relational practice I’ve seen…”
- Ken Wilber
- Relatefulness (Integral Relational "Meditation" + communication practice)Relateful Austin, Austin, TX
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Register here and reserve your spot.
Cost & Payment details below.----
Relatefulness and INTEGRAL
This weekly event — often called "lab" because we're always experimenting — is a wonderful chance to dive into this Integral Relational Meditation. The practice is wildly different and reliably weird (in the good Austin Weird kind of way) pretty much every time. Tends to be a mix of Waking Up (to the awareness of awareness that's always here), Cleaning Up (catching projections and reclaiming our shadows), Growing Up (through subject-object moves and intersubjective to interobjective moves), and Showing Up (with body awareness and perspectival fluidity, seeing personal, interpersonal, behavioral and systemic dynamics and their interconnectedness) rolled into moment-to-moment awareness and acceptance.- Relatefulness and Integral Theory
- Relatefulness and Developmental Altitudes (the practice was formerly called Circling)
- Many more writings about integral and this practice here + Previous theory videos.
Schedule:
7:30 - 9:30 Relateful PracticeOne Take on What's Happening:
Monday Relateful Lab is an experiment in emergent, self-organizing collective intelligence.It is a meditation on what it means to be human and to be part of humanity; a way for us to discover more inclusive and expansive ways of being together; to align w the impulse of evolution while honoring the perfect wholeness of each unfolding now. We gather with a willingness to step into the mystery of being truly honest and seeing the innocence and beauty of every expression in every moment.
This environment challenges our assumptions of how to be ourselves and behave with each other; (we've all felt these challenges Monday nights!) the result is a release of creative potential, and long lasting insight into the unconscious habits we've constructed to avoid the raw intimacy of each moments' full expression (and that avoidance is innocent and beautiful as well).
Our guides are truth and love, championed by facilitators who model the ever-imperfect practice and gently direct attention to seeing how every share, no matter how unskilled, can be seen as an intelligent expression of our wholeness (including their/our own individual shares as leaders), and can become more potently creative and lovable when seen that way and held with a sense of wonder and curiosity.
We believe that we can train our awareness to recognize this consciousness itself already-always becoming manifest in everything; yet the more our collective becomes aware of this already present-awareness, the more luminous it becomes.
Hope to see you there.
Location:
Relateful Austin Studio,
1205 West 42nd St. A
Austin, TX 78756Cost & Payment links:
You've got options—- $5 unlimited for the first two weeks—trial membership
- $25 for this two-hour block
- $89 unlimited all in-person sessions
We've also got a free membership but the Mondays aren't a part of it. All the options are here.
Please note, the RSVP numbers on Meetup do not reflect reality: We average about 20 people each week, they just aren't on Meetup.com.
This event has been happening every Monday for the past ten years; the facilitators vary from week to week but are likely to include any combo of the following: Jordan Myska Allen, David Swedlow, Annabeth Novitzki, Michael Blas, Kageni Pierce, Tristana Pirkl, Stephanie Hagemeister, Dara Harmon, Ben Poliakoff
--
“Integral relationship has been the missing piece, and Circling is the most powerful relational practice I’ve seen…”
- Ken Wilber
- Relatefulness (Integral Relational "Meditation" + communication practice)Relateful Austin, Austin, TX
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Register here and reserve your spot.
Cost & Payment details below.----
Relatefulness and INTEGRAL
This weekly event — often called "lab" because we're always experimenting — is a wonderful chance to dive into this Integral Relational Meditation. The practice is wildly different and reliably weird (in the good Austin Weird kind of way) pretty much every time. Tends to be a mix of Waking Up (to the awareness of awareness that's always here), Cleaning Up (catching projections and reclaiming our shadows), Growing Up (through subject-object moves and intersubjective to interobjective moves), and Showing Up (with body awareness and perspectival fluidity, seeing personal, interpersonal, behavioral and systemic dynamics and their interconnectedness) rolled into moment-to-moment awareness and acceptance.- Relatefulness and Integral Theory
- Relatefulness and Developmental Altitudes (the practice was formerly called Circling)
- Many more writings about integral and this practice here + Previous theory videos.
Schedule:
7:30 - 9:30 Relateful PracticeOne Take on What's Happening:
Monday Relateful Lab is an experiment in emergent, self-organizing collective intelligence.It is a meditation on what it means to be human and to be part of humanity; a way for us to discover more inclusive and expansive ways of being together; to align w the impulse of evolution while honoring the perfect wholeness of each unfolding now. We gather with a willingness to step into the mystery of being truly honest and seeing the innocence and beauty of every expression in every moment.
This environment challenges our assumptions of how to be ourselves and behave with each other; (we've all felt these challenges Monday nights!) the result is a release of creative potential, and long lasting insight into the unconscious habits we've constructed to avoid the raw intimacy of each moments' full expression (and that avoidance is innocent and beautiful as well).
Our guides are truth and love, championed by facilitators who model the ever-imperfect practice and gently direct attention to seeing how every share, no matter how unskilled, can be seen as an intelligent expression of our wholeness (including their/our own individual shares as leaders), and can become more potently creative and lovable when seen that way and held with a sense of wonder and curiosity.
We believe that we can train our awareness to recognize this consciousness itself already-always becoming manifest in everything; yet the more our collective becomes aware of this already present-awareness, the more luminous it becomes.
Hope to see you there.
Location:
Relateful Austin Studio,
1205 West 42nd St. A
Austin, TX 78756Cost & Payment links:
You've got options—- $5 unlimited for the first two weeks—trial membership
- $25 for this two-hour block
- $89 unlimited all in-person sessions
We've also got a free membership but the Mondays aren't a part of it. All the options are here.
Please note, the RSVP numbers on Meetup do not reflect reality: We average about 20 people each week, they just aren't on Meetup.com.
This event has been happening every Monday for the past ten years; the facilitators vary from week to week but are likely to include any combo of the following: Jordan Myska Allen, David Swedlow, Annabeth Novitzki, Michael Blas, Kageni Pierce, Tristana Pirkl, Stephanie Hagemeister, Dara Harmon, Ben Poliakoff
--
“Integral relationship has been the missing piece, and Circling is the most powerful relational practice I’ve seen…”
- Ken Wilber
- Relatefulness (Integral Relational "Meditation" + communication practice)Relateful Austin, Austin, TX
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Register here and reserve your spot.
Cost & Payment details below.----
Relatefulness and INTEGRAL
This weekly event — often called "lab" because we're always experimenting — is a wonderful chance to dive into this Integral Relational Meditation. The practice is wildly different and reliably weird (in the good Austin Weird kind of way) pretty much every time. Tends to be a mix of Waking Up (to the awareness of awareness that's always here), Cleaning Up (catching projections and reclaiming our shadows), Growing Up (through subject-object moves and intersubjective to interobjective moves), and Showing Up (with body awareness and perspectival fluidity, seeing personal, interpersonal, behavioral and systemic dynamics and their interconnectedness) rolled into moment-to-moment awareness and acceptance.- Relatefulness and Integral Theory
- Relatefulness and Developmental Altitudes (the practice was formerly called Circling)
- Many more writings about integral and this practice here + Previous theory videos.
Schedule:
7:30 - 9:30 Relateful PracticeOne Take on What's Happening:
Monday Relateful Lab is an experiment in emergent, self-organizing collective intelligence.It is a meditation on what it means to be human and to be part of humanity; a way for us to discover more inclusive and expansive ways of being together; to align w the impulse of evolution while honoring the perfect wholeness of each unfolding now. We gather with a willingness to step into the mystery of being truly honest and seeing the innocence and beauty of every expression in every moment.
This environment challenges our assumptions of how to be ourselves and behave with each other; (we've all felt these challenges Monday nights!) the result is a release of creative potential, and long lasting insight into the unconscious habits we've constructed to avoid the raw intimacy of each moments' full expression (and that avoidance is innocent and beautiful as well).
Our guides are truth and love, championed by facilitators who model the ever-imperfect practice and gently direct attention to seeing how every share, no matter how unskilled, can be seen as an intelligent expression of our wholeness (including their/our own individual shares as leaders), and can become more potently creative and lovable when seen that way and held with a sense of wonder and curiosity.
We believe that we can train our awareness to recognize this consciousness itself already-always becoming manifest in everything; yet the more our collective becomes aware of this already present-awareness, the more luminous it becomes.
Hope to see you there.
Location:
Relateful Austin Studio,
1205 West 42nd St. A
Austin, TX 78756Cost & Payment links:
You've got options—- $5 unlimited for the first two weeks—trial membership
- $25 for this two-hour block
- $89 unlimited all in-person sessions
We've also got a free membership but the Mondays aren't a part of it. All the options are here.
Please note, the RSVP numbers on Meetup do not reflect reality: We average about 20 people each week, they just aren't on Meetup.com.
This event has been happening every Monday for the past ten years; the facilitators vary from week to week but are likely to include any combo of the following: Jordan Myska Allen, David Swedlow, Annabeth Novitzki, Michael Blas, Kageni Pierce, Tristana Pirkl, Stephanie Hagemeister, Dara Harmon, Ben Poliakoff
--
“Integral relationship has been the missing piece, and Circling is the most powerful relational practice I’ve seen…”
- Ken Wilber
