Integration in a nutshell.
Integration 101
What is integration anyway? Integration is the synthesis of the mind and body following the experience of a non-ordinary state of consciousness prompted by empathy-assisted meditations. It is the process of exploring and sharing challenges and insights that arise during your experiences.
Not a panacea or silver bullet.
While you.may feel during a meditation that your problems are easy to solve, or your ideas easy to implement, it will require sustained effort from your side, moreover if the changes you are seeking are in relationship with others.
Integration or disintegration
Any feelings, sensations, and ideas that are brought about during your experience can be meaningful for the process of healing. Integration is about creating the space to “make meaning” of those feelings, sensations, and ideas so that they can inform daily functioning.
Day by day.
You’ve done great work during your meditation, surfaced some deep insights, new awarenesses and connected to parts of yourself you likely had forgotten or never knew to exist. Now is the time to integrate it all in your life. About 90% of the change happens with integration or the process of integrating all that you now know to be true into your day to day life.
Growth and healing.
Non-ordinary states of consciousness have the potential to bring up lots of such big ideas, sensations, and feelings! Sometimes it can be tempting to ignore them or push them away. Growth and healing requires engaging this ideas.
Remembering.
The “real world” will pull hard at you as soon as you get back. You will feel pressure to return to your old thought patterns, your old beliefs, and your old ways of being. We have designed our integration protocol to help you remember and to enable you to start creating new habits, thoughts and ways of being that will support you in the weeks, years and lifetimes to come.
Our Integration Protocol.
In addition to the two integration Zoom calls included as part of your retreat, we will equip you with a number of daily prompts which can include:
journaling
walking in nature
reading recommended books
connecting with fellows
contemplation
meditation
exercise,
We will keep you accountable during the first two weeks after your meditation and you’ll be able to check-in with us. Should you need additional support after the first two weeks, we offer further coaching sessions on demand. Likewise, if we feel you need extra support from a licensed therapist, we can connect you with the right resources.