The Living Institute is a teaching centre committed to exploring humanistic, psychodynamic, existential and mythological themes in individual, cultural and cosmological evolution. The basis for this work is the Holistic Experiential Process Method (HEP). HEP is a model for understanding systemic management and growth that is both social and personal, providing a method for facilitating the evolutionary emergence of self-organizing complexity from apparently chaotic disorder.
The Living Institute recognizes the importance of spiritual and human values in institutional and organizational functions that serve society and culture, based on the interdependence of humans with each other and the natural world.
The Living Institute is also participating in the current re-emergence of spiritual models that draw on ancient cosmologies, from both eastern and western mystical traditions, where nature is seen to embody patterns of integration that link the part with the whole, so that everything is understood to be interconnected.
What makes the Living Institute exceptional is the depth and breadth of our faculty. They are leaders and innovators in their fields.
Practical, hands-on psychotherapy training Three year part time training program
Evening and weekend classes Academic learning - Personal experience - Practical skills
This experiential, competency based program draws on the
humanistic, existential, transpersonal, psychodynamic, archetypal and
somatic depth traditions. We offer consciousness development, a service
orientation toward cultural evolution and an appreciation of the
spiritual dimension of nature.
The evolutionary challenges facing our culture call for a revisioning of all of us as responsible leaders. Creative leadership for the 21st century calls for a new understanding of who we are within an interdependent planetary ecosystem and the emerging new paradigm of interconnectedness in science. Our inner work as leaders calls for holding conflicting, multiple perspectives within a practical, spiritual framework, based in psychological self awareness. This calls for new approaches to business practice models that are authentically relational and ecological, caring for the triple bottom line of people, planet, profits, in a conscious workplace where everyone feels responsible and empowered.
Friday, April 29 2011, 7pm – 9:30pm & Saturday, April 30 2011, 9:30am – 6:30pm Multi-Faith Centre, University of Toronto Early Bird Fee $125 before April 25 2011 Event Flyer
The Living Institute Leadership Program will be a one or two year certificate program that educates people to be leaders in the tradition of cultural activism. This training could be applied in many fields, including facilitating general cultural change, environmental activism, sustainability, social justice, political activism, organizational development, social entrepreneurship, education, health care, the arts. Lectures, workshops and conferences will be part of this program. We are negotiating with the Dharma Centre of Canada (www.dharmacentre.org) to create a Green Leaders conference for Spring 2010, focusing on environmental issues through ecospirituality (drawing on the work of Thomas Berry and others) and ecopsychology (drawing on archetypal psychology). Read More
The Living Institute Wilderness Program is designing various lectures, workshops and programs with a focus to educate and integrate wilderness experience, knowledge and practices into daily life. This would draw from traditional cultural and green living practices, ecopsychology and ecospirituality. The LIWP would include Toronto based lectures and workshops, workshops within 2-3 hours of Toronto, and destination based workshops that would be more remote. Read More
