The Real LIFE Bootcamp
2 1/2 Days
May 26 - 28, 2023
Two Arrows Zen - Artspace City Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Thank you so much for your interest in the Real LIFE Bootcamp.
Real means seeing things as they actually are. LIFE stands for Leadership, Integral, Facilitation, and Energy.
The Bootcamp is a 2 1⁄2 day in-person skill-building intensive for working with people. The proposition underlying this training is that bettering your people skills means bettering your relationship to yourself. It involves awareness, work, play, and not knowing.
FEEDBACK, POINTING OUT AND PRACTICE
This training is based on action-learning: learning by doing in a feedback-rich environment. It is highly experiential and engages the group in dialogue and exercises to awaken our understanding and capacity to work with challenging occasions, turning them to opportunities for deeper bonding and growth.
This experience weaves in live demonstrations and unique “pointing out” instructions, making the subtle group dynamics more visible to everyone. Like a sports team reviewing the last play on the sidelines, you will have the opportunity to freeze frame and zoom in and out of the group dynamics.
Lastly, because this is a training environment you will have opportunities to practice facilitating group conversations and receive real-time coaching and feedback from your lead trainers, coaches, and peers.
BOOTCAMP SKILLS
- INTEGRAL PRACTICE. The ability to seek, take, and integrate perspectives
- SELF DEVELOPMENT. Using your own awareness, emotional intelligence, and presence as a barometer for working with your group
- ATTENTION TO ENERGY. Sensing the energetic qualities in the room (more than what people say) such as coherence, differentiation, vitality, or sluggishness, in order to better serve the whole.
With a special emphasis on conversation in the culture wars because us-versus-them is one of the deadliest forces on the planet, fracturing our relationships and fragmenting our meaning-making.
WE WILL PRIORITIZE
- Seeing clearly over group think
- Creative tension over polarization
- Meaningful expression over policing of speech
- Flex flow over identity politics
- Productive over damaging conflict
- Human contact rather than ideology
YOU WILL RECEIVE
- 18 hours of live instruction, practice, and Q&A with gifted facilitators Diane Musho Hamilton and Gabriel Wilson
- Live demonstrations with real-time commentary to make group dynamics visible
- Sessions to practice group facilitation and receive real-time coaching and feedback
- Access to mp3 audio files of all teaching sessions
LOGISTICS
2 1/2 DAYS
May 26 - 28, 2023
9:00 am - 5:30 pm (except May 28 when we end at 12:30 pm)
Two Arrows Zen - Artspace City Center
230 S 500 W, Suite 155, Salt Lake City, UT, 84101
YOUR COMMITMENT
You must participate in 100% of the Bootcamp (no stepping out to take a work call, etc).
The Bootcamp ends at 12:30 p.m. on the last day, so please arrange your flights accordingly. In other words, do not leave the Bootcamp early.
Registration
$1499 USD EARLY REGISTRATION (Until March 24)
$1999 USD REGULAR PRICE
Registration is limited to 24 participants. Scholarship opportunities are available for those under 30, people of color, and those with a negative currency exchange against the US dollar.
REFUND POLICY
The Real LIFE Bootcamp will process a full refund of program fee deposits, less a $250.00 admin fee, when a written request for withdrawal is received by April 28, 2023. The program will process a 50% refund of fees paid when a written request for withdrawal is received between April 29 and May 12, 2023. After May 12, 2023 if a registered participant withdraws from the Real LIFE Bootcamp there are no refunds for any reason, unless the space fills from a wait list.
Diane Musho Hamilton
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
I am a mediator and a meditator. Mediation deepens our relationship to oneness; mediation puts it into action. I was the Director of Dispute Resolution for the Judiciary in Utah, mediating many kinds of matters, but was recognized for my skills in facilitating the more difficult conversations. I enjoy the intimacy of conflict, and its creative potential. I began to work with Ken Wilber in 2004, and for fifteen years held transformative containers for many people interested in their own development. I teach meditation in the Soto lineage of Zen. I’ve written three books, most recently Compassionate Conversations, co-authored with Gabe and Kim.
Gabriel Wilson
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH AND RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
I am an Integral facilitator, advisor, and co-author of Compassionate Conversations. I grew up in New York City and in Rio de Janeiro; my father is Black and my mother is White, so my life naturally led me to explore the power of radical collaboration in committed, diverse relationships. Through Stanford’s Masters program in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies (POLS) I studied design thinking, adult developmental psychology, and leadership. Recently, I founded “Freedom and Fairness”, a program devoted to helping individuals and groups enact greater freedom, fairness, and compassion. I practice Zen at Two Arrows Zen.
TRAVEL & LODGING INFORMATION
The venue for the Real LIFE Boot Camp is Two Arrows Zen, 230 South 500 West, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101. The location is in downtown Salt Lake City. There are many hotels nearby. If searching Airbnb, listings in the Marmalade District, Downtown listings that reference the Salt Palace and Vivint Center, or the Capitol Hill district might be fruitful. Listings that say "near Gateway" are very close.
Please arrange flights to arrive in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 25. Departing flights can be booked for an afternoon or evening departure on Sunday, May 28. The airport is about 15 minutes from the venue. Most airlines require check-in 2 hours before flight time.
COVID PROTOCOLS
Because of the pandemic, it is a challenging time to travel and to attend seminars in person. In an effort to keep everyone safe, we are asking all participants to agree to the following:
- To be fully vaccinated and boosted.
- To take a Covid PCR test 72 hours prior to departure. Upon a negative result, to mask and to social distance before leaving home and during travel.
- Upon arrival, to continue to mask and social distance.
- Once the seminar commences, to remain in the bubble of the seminar by masking outside the seminar room/space and by ordering lunch and eating outside (vs eating inside restaurants).
- In the case the local public health authority recommends masking indoors for groups, masks will be worn in the seminar.
Covid protocols will be updated according to the current conditions.
Should anyone get sick or display symptoms, they will immediately leave the seminar to get PCR tested at their own expense, and they will quarantine until the test results come back. If the test results are negative, they may return to the seminar. If the test results are positive, they will quarantine until it is safe to travel. Vaccinated staff will provide care and meals to anyone who needs support with illness. Anyone who is concerned about exposure should also quarantine until the test results come in.