The Integral system is a meta-theory that organizes all other theories. Learning this system is psychoactive – it literally changes your consciousness and expands your understanding in ways that will blow your mind and improve everything in your life.

The challenges to superior parenting are enormous with all the demands and stresses of modern life, but we also have decades of research to teach us what helps children and families thrive. This work represents the best knowledge and processes I’ve discovered over more than fifty years of study, practice, research, and parenting my own children.

Trauma is ubiquitous and necessary. Some shocks to our systems, some ordeals overcome, make us more resilient. This is Martial Arts, Navy Seal training, and ballet. Meet a challenge or shocking setback, resolve it, and walk away wiser and stronger, is a recipe for success and happiness.

Life, love, sexuality, parenting, and dealing with a crazy world require principles and techniques to determine what is right for us to think and do in every moment. Luckily, Integral understanding can provide us with those principles and techniques.

With the advent of brain imaging technologies and the expanding discipline of Interpersonal Neurobiology, we’ve discovered how the unconscious really works. There are vast stores of memories, experiences, tendencies, and habits in our adaptive unconscious based in our integrated brain trying to guide us to having a life worth living.

Our most intimate relationships are often with life partners like husbands, wives, lovers, and sweethearts. These primary relationships are built on three foundations – the couple’s friendship, love affair, and problem-solving capabilities. Every couple has different levels of satisfaction and ability with friendship, love affair, and problem solving, and we are always getting better or worse in each dimension.