Discerning Meaningful Action
in Life and Work

These are the key questions I will be exploring in a new teleclass, Discerning Meaningful Action in Life and Work, with special guest John Forman of integral Development Associates.

Making Sense in Good Times and Bad
Making decisions is no easy thing. Even when you think you know what you want (and how often do you even wonder about that?), it can be nearly impossible to see a clear path for effective action. What do you do when you have too much information? When it's hard to distinguish among the alarm bells of homeostasis, the siren songs of wish fulfillment, and the call of your heartfelt purpose? Even in the midst of great confusion, with an attentive practice, you can cultivate the discernment to know when to act and when to wait.

Discerning Meaningful Action in Life and Work will give you a context and a tool for starting or deepening a spiritual discernment practice. Over the four weeks of the course you will have an opportunity to apply a simple discernment tool to your life and work, learning to listen to the promptings of your heart and to follow the guidance of Spirit.

Beyond Happy Talk
In real life, spiritual opportunities, challenges, and lessons aren’t sugar-coated. Who do you need to be in order to become a spiritual adult and apply insights from spiritual practice to everyday dilemmas? How can you sit with difficulties so that they become a platform for new understandings, fresh opportunities, richer ways to experience life and to serve others?

Practicing Discernment
To address these questions, we have developed a simple, but powerful "integrally informed"* practice that is both practical and direct. While based on centuries of multi-disciplinary research and practice (up to and including the most leading edge integral thinking), this is a simple, practical, accessible tool that will allow you to make spiritually informed decisions with day-to-day decisiveness. The tool will be most approachable for those with a Christian background, though it honors truths described by all major bodies of psychospiritual development.

WHEN: This class will run for four consecutive Thursdays in February (Feb. 5, 12, 19, and 26) from noon to 1:30 pm eastern time. Register before January 16 and your tuition is only $159. After the 16th, tuition goes to $179.

LIMITED CLASS SIZE: Class size is limited to 20 people and we expect to sell out early as over 1800 people have downloaded my free discernment guide in recent months.

Discerning Meaningful Action in Life and Work is not currently scheduled. If you would like to be notified when the next teleseminar is scheduled, email us.

About the Instructors
John Forman, OblSB
For more than 15 years, John Forman has advised organizational leadership and management in areas ranging from change management and executive coaching to strategic planning, organizational development, cultural diversity and complex communications issues. John is particularly knowledgeable about the role of organizational culture and values, and the many ways that people make meaning of their work-lives. His work has been included in the curriculum of graduate-level classes at the University of Washington and the National Defense University, where he has been a guest lecturer, and he has led numerous clergy, educator, physician, executive and private retreats. John will be lecturing at Seattle University's School of Theology in the spring of 2004.

For more than 25 years, he has studied and explored the world&Mac226;s wisdom traditions and spiritual practices, ranging from Australian aboriginal dreamtime to Zen Buddhism. He is a Benedictine oblate (a form of lay monasticism) of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon, a lay Eucharistic Minister in the Anglican Communion and the leader of a Healing Prayer ministry in Seattle. John is also a founding member of the Integral Institute where he leads one of the Institute's core teams, and will be co-hosting both the Integral Coaching/Organizational Change site and the Congregational Care site at the soon-to-be opened Integral University.

Molly Gordon, MCC
Molly's international coaching practice is the catalyst for men and women who are setting a higher standard for personal and professional success, a standard that connects purpose with prosperity and mastery with heart. She is a Certified Teleclass Leader and has been a pioneer in telephone-based training.

Molly is the creator of Authentic Promotion®, a program that develops a values-based spirit of entrepreneurship in individuals and organizations. Through Authentic Promotion teleclasses and seminars she has shown hundreds of men and women how to build more prosperous business in line with their values and their talents.

A lifelong student of spirituality and psychology, Molly is committed to (to borrow a phrase from Stephen Gilligan) the rigorous poetics of bringing insight and awareness to everyday life.

Molly is certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the Academy for Coach Training, and has completed Graduate Coach Training with the Newfield Network. She is a Northwest Regional Chapter Host for the ICF, former President of the Puget Sound Coaches Association, and a frequent presenter at live and virtual coaching events.

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*"Integrally informed" means that our approach takes into account multiple aspects of human experience in accordance with the ground-breaking work of Ken Wilber. For a brief discussion of integral theory, visit http://www.integraldevelopment.com/theory.html.

Please check your schedule carefully before committing to a course. If you do need to cancel up to one week before the course begins, we will be happy to refund your tuition less a $20 administrative fee. If you cancel less than one week before a course begins, we will gladly issue a credit for a future course.

Your satisfaction is our primary concern. If after completing a course and applying the principles for up to one full year you are unsatisfied, simply return the study materials and we will credit your account for the full tuition.