Bonnitta Roy
Bonnitta Roy is an award-winning author, philosopher and insight guide. She is a life coach for individuals entering post-formal levels of consciousness. She founder of Alderlore Insight Center whose mission is to catalyze insight in individuals and groups in order to accelerate transformation in education, business, and governance
In 2014 Bonnitta launched a summer SOLE program for young adults based on principles of clarity, complexity thinking, emotional awareness, and generative life practice. She is an associate editor of Integral Review Journal, and a guest faculty for the Masters course in Consciousness Studies at The Graduate Institute. Since 2012 she has been curator of The Magellan Courses – a free online learning community focusing on post-synthetic-dialectic reasoning. In her forthcoming book, Open to Participate, Bonnitta describes the emergence of the “Open Participatory Organization,” and shows how groups can achieve collective insight and cognitive flow.
Open Group Practice: Eight Social Selves
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Through co-operative inquiry, observation, and collective reflection, we began to track patterns of social behavior that seemed to follow a typology. This eventually led to the naming of eight ‘indigenous social selves’ that masquerade around as human beings in conventionally structured environments. The eight social selves are derived from alternative coping mechanisms at three levels of being: an inner core primary psychological schema, an outer social processing temperament, and an interpretive ideology.
The Phenomenology of the Self: Revealing the Universal Life Force at the Heart of Human Experience
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There are times when we feel most fully alive, and we yearn to live like that all the time. There is a way to live a more authentic, awakened life by learning how to shift the modes of experience— feeling, perception, and knowing—from their passive to active expressions, and enter into full, joyous participation with all life. In this article, I invite you to explore the nature of your own self and the subtle qualities of experience, to reveal the universal life force at the heart of human experience. This article asks you to allow my words to help journey you there.