JOHN KESLER
For many years in addition to practicing law, I have shared an awareness and meditation practice, and have been a social activist through writing, speaking, facilitating and consulting. I always closely link working on internal awareness, integration and growth with social activism in the world, as a part of my own life practice and as a core aspect of what I share with others.
An Integral Approach
You will note that in all of these aspects I stress an “integral approach”. One of the simplest descriptions of “integral” is that: “everyone is right….but everyone is partial”. That is, everyone’s perspectives should be honored, but no one has the whole picture. The integral task is to evaluate how to put all the perspectives together in a more holistic manner, with an understanding that although we must embrace everyone where they are at, there are legitimate hierarchies of context, competence, maturity, etc.
Integral Polarity Practice
The awareness and meditation practice which I share, integral polarity practice (IPP), has benefited from influences of multiple traditions including my own, as well as Western developmental psychology, which have been integrally woven together with my own insights. The leading integral philosopher with a comprehensive grasp of psychology and the wisdom traditions of East and West, Ken Wilber has stated:
There is nobody doing more leading-edge work on the integration of Eastern and Western approaches to consciousness and growth than John Kesler. His fully integral approach includes conventional and contemplative dimensions of psychology and spirituality, spanning body and mind and spirit and shadow, a truly remarkable and effective approach. I give his work my highest recommendation.
Integral Social and Political Transformation
I have been described as a radical, which is true, but I am radically moderate. I am not a moderate in the sense that I encourage moving to the mushy middle, but rather there are “integral” approaches for taking account of everyone’s concerns, and to achieve optimal interconnected individual and societal flourishing and transformation, which are more inclusive than and superior to, yet include both liberal and conservative perspectives. This integral approach is indeed a radical change from the current polarized state of affairs. Please join me and many others in a new integral social and political movement.
I am available
to share IPP and to be of assistance to promote this new integral social and political movement in interconnected ways. I also speak, teach, facilitate and consult with regard to societal flourishing and transformation. In addition, my colleagues and I mentor communities in the context of a global environment through the non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, which I founded and chair, the Salt Lake Center for Engaging Communities (SLCEC) You will find additional information on this web site, and regarding SLCEC.