The Integral Stage Expanded Universe (ISEU)

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The INTEGRAL STAGE EXPANDED UNIVERSE is an archive of conversations held with people across the developmental, transformational, and regenerative communities. It does not endorse or flinch from anyone willing to speak convivially on these topics. The ethical frame here is to make nuanced, curiosity-driven explorations available and not to provide safe, curated, or validated individuals or ideas. Other guidelines hold sway in other contexts.

  1. 13H AGO

    Pre-Tragic, Tragic & Post-Tragic Pt 2 w/ Gafni

    This is the second part of a deep dive into the nuances of the pre-tragic, tragic & post-tragic framing. It begins in speculative theory space and moves into a consideration of power, post-tragic sexual narratives, the integrity of developmental communities, self-harm, and the collective future of inquiry into the concept of the Post-Tragic. Oblique references are made to the film Fight Club, the comedian Richard Lewis, cult classic "The Room," and Spiral Dynamics. Plus, in an act of supreme magnanimity, Layman retracts his curse and saves Marc from a fiery death...

    1h 40m

  2. 13H AGO

    AWAKENED WHOLENESS II: "Integration" w/ Geoff & Abigail

    The Seven Facets of Awakened Wholeness series is a special Integral Stage / Pacific Integral co-production, highlighting dimensions of the Awakened Wholeness project which is being stewarded by Abigail Lynam and Geoff Fitch, with special support from Tucker Walsh.If episode 1 was an opportunity for oxen to graze widely in the field, episode 2 (The Principle of Integration) explores how a bolus becomes a fat, happy cow.Seven Facets of Awakened Wholeness workshop:https://www.pacificintegral.com/workshopsAbigail Lynam, PhD, is faculty for Fielding University’s PhD program in Human and Organizational Development and for Pacific Integral’s Generating Transformative Change leadership development program in Seattle and Ethiopia. Abigail’s scholarship and practice integrates the interior dimensions of human knowledge and experience (culture, worldviews, adult developmental psychology, wisdom traditions, etc.) with adult learning, leadership development, and social and ecological change work. Abigail is a skilled facilitator, developmental scorer, debriefer, and coach, teacher of awareness, shadow, and embodiment practices, and facilitator of Work that Reconnects. She lives in the Seattle area and is passionate about supporting personal, interpersonal, and collective development for healthier and more just systems.Geoff Fitch, MA, is a founding partner of Pacific Integral. Geoff is a coach, trainer, and facilitator of transformative growth in individuals and organizations. He has been studying and practicing diverse approaches to cultivating higher human potentials for twenty years. He also has twenty years experience in leadership in business.

    1h 25m

  3. 1D AGO

    Authors - "The Alchemy of Being a House" w/ Jen Peer Rich

    In this new Integral Stage Author Series episode, Layman sits down with Dr. Jen Peer Rich to talk about her recently published book, The Alchemy of Being a House.In this poetic, fiercely honest memoir, Jen Peer Rich invites us inside the living house of her body shaped by early childhood cancer, trauma, chronic illness, disability, caregiving and decades of survival. Told through many rooms and different selves, this is the story of what happens when a person dares to listen to their inner voice and follow them home. Inside these pages lives Ruth, Jen’s loyal guide dog of cosmic wisdom. There are splintered selves and barking truths, mystical blueprints and healing thresholds. Through it all moves the question: What if I was never meant to be fixed—but listened to? The Alchemy of Being a House is not a linear story, it’s a circle. A memoir of multiplicity, spiritual embodiment, and transformation that resonates with anyone navigating trauma, chronic pain, intergenerational healing, or the longing to belong to oneself.Jen Peer Rich, PhD is an author, artist, and alchemist whose work explores healing, multiplicity, and the spiritual architecture of selves. Her debut memoir, The Alchemy of Being a House, is the first in The Circle of Selves Trilogy-a series of intimate, genre-defying books tracing the nonlinear path of trauma integration and homecoming. With a background in ecological philosophy and decades of lived experience as a disabled, queer caregiver, Jen brings a rare blend of insight, humor, and radical compassion to her storytelling. She writes in collaboration with her many inner selves-including Ruth, a loyal inner watchdog who speaks in barked wisdom-and lives in Florida beside a lake with her beloved wife, daughter, and rescue dogs.https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Being-House-Memoir-Trilogy/dp/B0FLWHZ829/

    1h 30m

  4. 3D AGO

    Pre-Tragic, Tragic & Post-Tragic Part 1 w/ Gafni

    This is the first half of a discussion in which Layman and the Rabbi discuss the origins, nature, community use, philosophical necessity, and intriguing extensions of the tripartite concept of pre-tragic, tragic & post-tragic.

    1h 29m

  5. JAN 4

    INTEGRAL PSYCHOTHERAPY #10 - "Transcendental Dementia?" w/ Bettina Witchers

    How do we cultivate robust, ethical, convivial human beings who have access to their full cognitive, emotional, and motivational resources? How can we better live functional, enjoyable lives, contribute to our societies' health and evolution, keep growing internally, and maximize the potentials of our best states? In this new Integral Stage series, we will be talking to Integral psychotherapists about their practices and experiences, and about the psychotechnologies, philosophical maps, and emerging clinical insights that can best help us to clean up and grow up -- to heal and thrive.For episode 10, Layman is joined by Bettina Wichers to discuss her groundbreaking research into transpersonal gerontology and the overlap of certain features of dementia with transpersonal or mystical experience.Bettina Wichers is an independent gerontologist and lecturer at the University of Göttingen who has specialized in the understanding dementia. She has worked for more than 25 years with nurses and care-givers in nursing homes, and has developed a unique framework, based upon Integral Theory, which aims to brings all the issues surrounding dementia – medical, psychological, social, spiritual – into a coherent framework. She is currently engaged in writing a book which expresses her evolving understanding of dementia from a unitive perspective.

    1h 4m

  6. 12/29/2025

    AUTHOR SERIES - "An Integral View of Tibetan Buddhism" w/ Pema Dragpa

    Pema Dragpa's new book, An Integral View of Tibetan Buddhism, is the inspiration for and ostensible focus of this conversation between Dragpa and Layman, but it is also just an excuse for them to get together to chat about their favorite dharma, meditation, and "transformative practice in a time between worlds" topics. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=an+integral+view+of+tibetan+buddhism+pema+dragpaLama Pema Dragpa is a resident Dharma teacher at Padma Samye Ling (PSL), the main monastery and retreat center of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center (padmasambhava.org). This institute was founded and directed by the Nyingma Dzogchen masters Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, who both trained and mastered the ancient traditions of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Lama Dragpa lives and teaches at Padma Samye Ling, and was ordained as a lama by the Ven. Khenpo Rinpoches. He is a senior editor of over 20 books on philosophy, meditation, and Buddhist tenets. Lama Dragpa graduated with honors in philosophy and religious studies from NYU in 2002, and is a certified Hospice volunteer. He has taught at Colgate University, Scranton University, and Binghamton Community College, and regularly travels to lead PBC events on traditional and contemporary Buddhist philosophy and meditation.

    1h 38m

  7. 12/22/2025

    A REQUIEM FOR ANDEW COHEN w/ Daniela Bomatter & Carter Phipps

    This was recorded in two parts earlier this year following the death of the influential, controversial and "integrally-informed" teacher of radical, evolutionary and collective enlightenment processes -- Andrew Cohen.

    2h 29m

  8. 12/17/2025

    Seven Facets of Awakened Wholeness #1 w/ Geoff & Abigail

    The Seven Facets of Awakened Wholeness series is a special Integral Stage / Pacific Integral co-production, highlighting dimensions of the Awakened Wholeness project which is being stewarded by Abigail Lynam and Geoff Fitch, with special support from Tucker Walsh.https://pacificintegral.substack.com/p/the-seven-facets-of-awakened-wholeness-bb0----------------------Abigail Lynam, PhD, is faculty for Fielding University’s PhD program in Human and Organizational Development and for Pacific Integral’s Generating Transformative Change leadership development program in Seattle and Ethiopia. Abigail’s scholarship and practice integrates the interior dimensions of human knowledge and experience (culture, worldviews, adult developmental psychology, wisdom traditions, etc.) with adult learning, leadership development, and social and ecological change work. Abigail is a skilled facilitator, developmental scorer, debriefer, and coach, teacher of awareness, shadow, and embodiment practices, and facilitator of Work that Reconnects. She lives in the Seattle area and is passionate about supporting personal, interpersonal, and collective development for healthier and more just systems.Geoff Fitch, MA, is a founding partner of Pacific Integral. Geoff is a coach, trainer, and facilitator of transformative growth in individuals and organizations. He has been studying and practicing diverse approaches to cultivating higher human potentials for twenty years. He also has twenty years experience in leadership in business.

    1h 27m
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The INTEGRAL STAGE EXPANDED UNIVERSE is an archive of conversations held with people across the developmental, transformational, and regenerative communities. It does not endorse or flinch from anyone willing to speak convivially on these topics. The ethical frame here is to make nuanced, curiosity-driven explorations available and not to provide safe, curated, or validated individuals or ideas. Other guidelines hold sway in other contexts.

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