Andrew Cohen


Andrew Cohen, spiritual teacher, cultural critic, revolutionary idealist, and founder of What Is Enlightenment? magazine is passionately dedicated to inspiring as many as possible to be responsible for the greatest task there is-evolving consciousness and creating a new culture together. He has been teaching for over twenty years, has 11 centers in major cities, and a network of students and evolutionaries that span the globe. Cohen is currently working on a new book entitled Evolutionary Enlightenment to be released Fall 2008. www.andrewcohen.org


Steve McIntosh

Steve McIntosh is author of Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Paragon House, 2007). He is an original member of the Integral Institute think tank, and has taught integral philosophy to a wide variety of audiences. What Is Enlightenment? Magazine has referred to him as “integral thinker par excellence.” An honors graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and the USC Business School, today Steve is president of Now & Zen, Inc., and director of The Project for Integral World Federation. For interviews and excerpts from Integral Consciousness, go to: www.stevemcintosh.com


Diane Musho Hamilton
Diane Musho Hamilton has been a practitioner of Buddhadharma for over 20 years and has a Masters Degree in Contemplative Psychology from Naropa University, in Boulder, Colorado. She is a Zen teacher, and one of Integral Institute’s most popular trainers. As a dharma successor of Genpo Merzel Roshi, she serves as a facilitator of Big Mind, a process designed by Genpo Roshi to bring the insights of Zen meditation to western audiences.

She is also a mediator, group facilitator, and trainer in conflict resolution. Diane worked as the initial Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994–1999, where she established the first mediation programs in the courts. She has extensive experience in facilitating large meetings, including public policy issues. Diane received the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award in 2001 and the Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar for outstanding work in Dispute Resolution in 2003. She was a founding member of the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Utah Dispute Resolution. Diane teaches mediation at the University of Utah Law School and Communications Institute. www.dianemushohamilton.org

Jeff Salzman

Jeff Salzman is lead teacher and member of the founding circle of the Boulder Center for Integral Living, a place for integral study, practice and community.  He is is co-founder of CareerTrack Training, one of the country's leading adult education companies. Jeff worked for three years with Ken Wilber, building the Integral Institute, an international center for integral theory and application.  He is a divinity school dropout, but is a graduate of Naropa University with a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Studies.


Elizabeth Debold

Elizabeth Debold, Ed.D., Senior Editor, brings her experience as a pioneering researcher in human development and gender conditioning to her work for What Is Enlightenment?

Debold is coauthor of the bestseller, Mother Daughter Revolution, and has published numerous articles about human and moral development, gender issues, and girls' self-knowledge and growth. She has consulted to a variety of organizations ranging from corporate law firms to nonprofit educational organizations, has lectured widely, and has appeared as a guest on numerous television and radio programs, including Oprah, Good Morning America and NPR’s 51%. Debold is currently the Academic Director of the Master's Program in Conscious Evolution that WIE is running in partnership with The Graduate Institute, in Milford, Connecticut. She is also writing a new book, tentatively entitled The Evolution of Love: Men, Women, and the Possibility of Transformation, to be published by Pantheon.

She received her doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University, and was a founding member of the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, which was directed by Dr. Carol Gilligan.


Stuart Davis

With eleven full-length albums to his credit, Stuart Davis has carved out a unique wavelength in the musical spectrum. Taking the topics of God, sex and death, and crafting them into inimitable pop songs with lyrical flair and unforgettable hooks, Stuart continues to be one of the great, undiscovered singer/songwriters around.

In addition to his musical brilliance, Stuart is becoming something of a cultural force. With the support of devoted fans, in 1999 Stuart started his own record company, Dharma Pop Records (first called Post Apocalyptic Records), through which he has released four albums to date (Bright Apocalypse, Stuart Davis 2001, The Late Stuart Davis, and the new Bell). The same fan base has formed its own divinely mad community. These "Punk Monks" help promote Stuart's shows, run Stuart Davis websites, and generally spread the word of what has come to be known as Post Apocalyptic Punk Folk, or what we might simply call Integral Pop. Early in 2003, Stuart brought together a group of integral artists from around the country, helping form the Integral Salon of Art. The "IS of A" has since morphed into the incipient art domain of the forthcoming Integral University.

The multifarious Davis is also a published author, having contributed to the book, Radical Spirit (New World Library). And he's a fictional character too, appearing in Ken Wilber's novel, Boomeritis (Shambhala). If that weren't enough, Stuart is forming his own actual language, called "IS." (For a taste of IS, listen to Stu's new album Bell.)

In the moments when Stuart is not criss-crossing the country on tour, he lives in Boulder, CO, with his wife, Marci, and their daughter, Ara Belle, freshly manifest from the bardo realm. www.stuartdavis.com


Brian Berger


Brian Berger has lived a unique and bohemian blend of life-schooling since dropping out of high school in 1995.  He is dedicated to play through and with the emergent textures of the age towards custodianship of a mature human race.  Brian is deeply honored to be currently occupied as a personal assistant to Ken Wilber.


Barrett C. Brown

Barrett C. Brown is a senior organization development consultant for Stagen, a management consulting firm which helps mid-market companies to scale. Since 1995, Barrett has worked in nine countries as a consultant and entrepreneur in the areas of leadership, human development, communications, and sustainability. He has helped launch a dozen organizations, delivered leadership initiatives for senior executives in Fortune 500 corporations, and briefed high-level officials at the United Nations Development Programme headquarters and the US State Department. A member of Integral Institute (I-I) since 2002, Barrett is a senior consultant in the application of the Integral framework. He also serves as Co-Director of the Integral Sustainability Center at I-I, which leverages the Integral framework to help advance sustainable development issues. Barrett represents Kosmos Journal and the Integral framework at the United Nations, holding UN consultative status through the Center for Psychology and Social Change. He is an advisory board member for: US-based Kosmos Journal, an integrally informed journal on global issues; the Australian-based Shift Foundation, which works with young global leaders; and Canadian-based IntegralCity.com, focusing on urban sustainability issues. In addition to consulting, mentoring, and research, he also regularly contributes articles to AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Barrett has presented and trained widely, including at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (side event), US State Department, John F. Kennedy University, the School for International Training, the Bioneers conference, and the Spiral Dynamics Integral Conference on Natural Design. He has completed advanced training and certification programs in Integral Organizational Leadership, Integral Life Practice, the Leadership Development Framework, Spiral Dynamics, and Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI). Barrett's undergraduate studies include English Literature and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese and is currently engaged in an executive Ph.D. program in Human and Organizational Development through Fielding Graduate University. Barrett, his wife, Rita, and daughter, Sophia, live in Dallas, Texas.


Jeff Carreira

Jeff Carreira, Director of Education, first met Andrew Cohen in 1992 and became one of the founding members of the EnlightenNext Center in Boston soon after. Carreira has worked for EnlightenNext in several capacities including being the organizations Marketing Director and since 2001 acting as Andrew Cohen's personal assistant. During many years of close association with Andrew Cohen and EnlightenNext, Carreira has given lectures, conducted seminars and lead retreats in the United States and abroad.

Prior to his association with EnlightenNext, Carreira spent five years working as a research engineer before obtaining a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction. He then spent eight years teaching school at the secondary level including four years as the director of a residential school in Boston. During his years working in the field of education he conducted seminars for educators through the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services.

Carreira has combined his years of dedicated work with Andrew Cohen and his background in education to produce this introductory course on Evolutionary Enlightenment.


Allison Conte

For nearly 20 years, Allison Conte, MSPODC, has worked with organizations of all sizes -- from entrepreneurial ventures to Fortune 50 multinational corporations -- across a variety of industries, including energy, manufacturing, publishing, higher education and health care. As a leadership advisor and organization development consultant, Allison supports individuals, teams and organizations to solve complex problems, reach their full potential and realize their ideal future. Allison also is a contributing member of the Integral Institute Business and Leadership Center and a lecturer at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.


Clint Fuhs

Clint Fuhs: After five years of working with Integral Institute, Clint currently serves as the Associate Managing Editor of Integrallife.com, lead trainer on Integral Theory, and President of the Board of Integral Institute. Additionally, he conducts workshops nationally and offers individual coaching that focuses on the written and verbal communication and comprehension of Integral theory. He is currently completing his PhD in human and organizational development at Fielding Graduate University.


Gary Hawke

Gary Hawke first became aware of the work of Ken Wilber over 10 years ago – he followed up his interest in applying Integral Methodology whilst training as a Dramatherapist – during his training Gary developed and added an Integral lens to his professional Dramatherapy practice. The research he undertook developing his approach lead him to explore Integral Life Practice as a group activity.

He has been successfully running the London Integral Life Practice group for two years - aiming to deepen ILP - allowing a group of strangers to come together in an open and safe We space and through shared practice experience a liberation of self.


Ross Hostetter

Ross Hostetter was born in Monticello, Illinois on September 5, 1954. He grew in a farming community in northwestern Illinois as part of a family of four who embodied the unchanging Midwestern values of the 1950’s.

At the age of 18 Ross left small town life and began a robust and open- hearted exploration of new possibilities that culminated in a profound mystical experience in the Canadian Wilderness. This experience triggered a lifelong passion for spirituality and religion which began with New Age spirituality, deepened into a formal and sustained study and practice of Christianity, led to the co-founding of an intentional spiritual community and retreat center in Texas, and finally to the discovery of the Integral reality frame and the remarkable people who share it. Ross is currently a Director of Boulder, Integral, Inc., which has created the Boulder Center for Integral Living as one of its projects. The mission of the Boulder Center is to provide space for the awakening and embodiment of the Integral Vision in community.
In 1997 Ross retired from a distinguished career as a lawyer and mediator spanning 27 years. He has conducted over 3,000 mediations, trained over a thousand lawyers the mediation process, worked as a consultant for Chevron Corp, the FDIC, and many law firms. Ross Received numerous awards for his mediation work, including being voted one of the best lawyers in Dallas by his clients and being recognized as a Texas “Super Lawyer” on four different occasions. He was most recently General Counsel for the Integral Institute during its transition into a new relationship with Integral Life. All of this is secondary to his role as a partner and co-creator with Mary, his wife of 19 years, and as a father to their three children. They live together in north Boulder.

Larry Kiehl

Larry Kiehl   refers to himself as an "evolutional consciousness evocateur", especially as regards "interpersonal consciousness". He has an extensive background in human development which includes an M.A. in Interpersonal Communication and over three decades of individual, team, and organizational development consulting, training, and coaching across the U.S. and in Asia. After five years of progressive metaphysical practices he had a spiritual awakening in 1983, the first of several, what he eventually learned to identify as natural evolutional shifts in "stages" of consciousness. A shake-out was to leave business-as-usual in 1986 to further evolve his capacities in understanding and capability for facilitating others in their consciousness development journeys. He is currently finishing a book, Evolutional Consciousness in Business and Being: Becoming in The Now, Opening into Presence as Nascence-Consciousness, Emerging Higher Advantage and Higher Wellbeing (working title). www.evolutionalconsciousness.com



Michael McElhenie

Michael McElhenie, PhD. works with leaders to manage individual, team, and organizational change through executive coaching and collaborative leadership development.  Michael’s key area of expertise is helping executives assess the organization’s culture, discover optimal mission-alignment and bridge the gap through intentional, resonant leadership.  He looks past management fads and beyond what’s popular to leverage both historical and contemporary approaches to drive better results. Michael uses an integral approach that considers the multi-dimensional aspects of people, business and the socio-economic environment.  This approach integrates key facets of human development (interpersonal, emotional, intellectual, ethical, physical and spiritual) to accelerate the development of leaders and teams.  He helps leaders better manage the complexity of an ever-changing world, and when clients embrace their complexity, they gain a critical edge over the competition and a greater possibility of meeting their mission.

As managing director of Metatropia Institute, a Dallas-based leadership development and change management firm, Michael leverages nearly two decades of consulting experience.  He is a faculty member for Duke Corporate Education’s Global Learning Resource Network, a senior associate for Teleos Leadership Institute and senior consultant for Stagen.  His key value in every engagement is the breadth and depth of his consulting competence and global experience.  He frequently delivers workshops on emotional intelligence and has extensive experience helping senior-level leaders develop the values-centered leadership and relational competencies necessary for success. His work globally has brought key resources together to successfully leverage collective wisdom and increase creative collaboration in order to raise focused, productive energy and help solve seemingly intractable problems.


Dan Noble

Dan Noble is President/CEO of Noble Resources Group, a sustainable resource market development firm, based in Southern California.  He is also Executive Director of the Association of Compost Producers (ACP) (www.healthysoil.org).  He recently became a partner in Burton & Noble, Sustainability Consultants, helping enterprises enhance their journey to co-creating a sustainable economy, and is on the Board of Directors of Entrust Environmental Corporation, issuers of EcoBonds™, a new sustainable economic development financial instrument.

Since discovering integral philosophy and practices, via Ken Wilber’s works starting in 2000, and attending Integral Institute’s first Integral Leadership Seminar, in Boulder, February 2004, Dan has had a deep passion for implementing integral principles and practices in his sustainable leadership work.  Through his various leadership endeavors, formerly in science education, environmental protection business and now sustainable development initiatives, Dan endeavors to at once understand, communicate and, most importantly, practice integral leadership within various government, non-profit, for-profit and public/private enterprises, engaged in the journey toward integrated resource, social and economic sustainability.



Terry Patten

Terry Patten has been walking the path for over thirty years, and has guided hundreds of people in discovering and deepening their practice, and in actualizing their higher potentials.

Terry worked with Ken Wilber and a core team at Integral Institute to develop Integral Life Practice, which distills ancient and modern practices into an intelligent contemporary transformational lifestyle. Terry was an early and longtime student and editor for the brilliant and controversial American spiritual teacher, Adi Da Samraj. He was also the founder and guiding spirit behind the Tools For Exploration catalog, which first presented and educated about the many emerging brain-mind machines, subtle energy tools, and other cutting-edge technologies for expanding awareness. He is also a grassroots conservationist involved in supporting the wise stewardship of restorative Redwood forestry. Terry is a practitioner, writer, teacher, trainer, coach, and entrepreneur. He  currently lives in San Rafael, California with his wife and son, where he recently finished a book, with Ken Wilber: Integral Life  Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening. He is deeply involved with the evolution of Integral spirituality, and is currently working on new projects on Integral Buddhism, Integral Coaching, and Character Education, through Delphi Academy. Terry is a student and friend of Genpo Roshi, who has trained and certified him to lead groups of people into Big Mind, to meet their Original Face. 



Carter Phipps

Carter Phipps is executive editor of What Is Enlightenment? magazine. In his eight years with WIE he has been responsible for some of its most in-depth investigative features, including the acclaimed “Is God A Pacifist?”, a philosophical analysis of war, peace, and non-violence, and the “The Real Evolution Debate”, a spiritual and scientific analysis of evolutionary worldviews. Phipps has also helped to forge the magazine’s reputation as the premier popular magazine espousing the ideas of integral philosophy, including feature articles on the work of Ken Wilber, “A Philosopher of Everything” and Steve McIntosh, “Integral Politics Comes of Age”. From metaphysics to politics to science and technology, Phipps’s work combines the careful rigor of contemporary journalism with a passionate concern for the development of human culture.

Phipps is also a speaker and educator and has presented on various themes covered in What Is Enlightenment? around the world. He has been a guest speaker at Brown University, JFK University, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, as well as at conferences sponsored by Praxis Peace Institute, Wisdom University, and the Integral Institute. In 2004, he represented the magazine at the invitation-only assembly of religious leaders at Montserrat, Spain, convened by the 2004 Parliament of the World's Religions. He has been featured on the globally syndicated New Dimensions radio show and he is a regular guest on Deepak Chopra’s Wellness Radio on Sirius. Phipps is an experienced workshop and seminar leader and is active among the small but growing group of scholars and thinkers who are defining the new fields of collective intelligence, evolutionary spirituality and integral philosophy.  

Phipps received his BA in Business Economics from the University of Oklahoma, and worked as a computer engineer for a number of years. He currently lives with his wife in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts where he practices the Evolutionary Enlightenment teachings of Andrew Cohen. 




Robb Smith

Robb Smith, Chairman and CEO of Integral Life, Inc. and CEO of Integral Institute, Inc.


Rollie Stanich

Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Rollie Stanich graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Management of the University of Calgary in 1990.  He taught at the University's Faculty of Continuing Education for several years, then worked for ten years in software development in Montreal.  Rollie joined Integral Institute as a Managing Editor in 2004, and a year later, began in his current position as Chief Facilitator of Integral Spiritual Center.  Rollie's spiritual path is that of contemplative Christianity.  He is a longtime student of Fr. Thomas Keating, and has written for numerous Catholic newspapers across Canada.  He has taught at numerous seminars and spiritual gatherings in the Denver/Boulder area.


Cindy Graves Wigglesworth

Cindy Graves Wigglesworth. President, Conscious Pursuits, Inc. www.consciouspursuits.com "Bringing Spiritual Intelligence to Life"

Creator: the first faith-neutral skills-based Spiritual Intelligence Assessment Instrument
Co-Author: Grown-Up Children Who Won't Grow Up (with Dr. Larry Stockman) - as seen on Oprah.
Board Member: International Center for Spirit at Work (www.SpiritatWork.org)

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Victoria Wilson-Jones

Victoria Wilson-Jones is an experienced mind/body/spirit educator. She has spent the last 23 years creating and facilitating classes, Soul Quest trips and intensives that instruct individuals in soul connection and self empowerment from the heart of compassion.

She has traveled extensively in search of sacred sites and has led groups on Soul Quests to Peru, France, Italy and Brazil, as well as multiple trips to the Southwest in the US.

Victoria has a Master's of Science degree in Metaphysical Philosophy from the American Institute of Holistic Theology. She is the founder and director of Sacred Circle™, In the Company of Spirit and Soul Quest to Sacred Spaces. Along with her colleague Beverly Joy Combs, MTS, she has co-created Hearts Afire Retreats. She is also a member of the adjunctive faculty with Integral Institute in Boulder CO, and is on the.
Victoria has a private practice that focuses on spiritual emergence and heart centered practices of awakening. She has offices in Ft Wayne, IN and Cincinnati, OH. www.vlwilson.com