About The Living Institute

The Living Institute is a teaching centre committed to exploring humanistic, psychodynamic, existential and mythological themes in individual, cultural and cosmological evolution. The basis for this work is the Holistic Experiential Process Method (HEP). HEP is a model for understanding systemic management and growth that is both social and personal, providing a method for facilitating the evolutionary emergence of self-organizing complexity from apparently chaotic disorder.

The Living Institute recognizes the importance of spiritual and human values in institutional and organizational functions that serve society and culture, based on the interdependence of humans with each other and the natural world.

The Living Institute is also participating in the current re-emergence of spiritual models that draw on ancient cosmologies, from both eastern and western mystical traditions, where nature is seen to embody patterns of integration that link the part with the whole, so that everything is understood to be interconnected.

What makes the Living Institute exceptional is the depth and breadth of our faculty. They are leaders and innovators in their fields.

Psychotherapy with Caroline Mardon

Living Institute Leadership Program Lecture and Award

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Date: Friday, June 4 2010
7:00 pm Creative Leadership for the 21st Century
9:00 pm Living Institute Cultural Innovator Award 2010
Location: Hart House Debates Room, University of Toronto
Cost: $25

This event will highlight the need for creative leadership in addressing the global ecological crisis and the evolutionary challenge this brings to Western culture in understanding who we are in an interdependent planetary ecosystem, recognize two leading figures in the field, Dr Dennis O'Hara and Alice Klein, with the Living Institute Cultural Innovator Award.

Living Institute Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy Diploma

Practical, hands-on psychotherapy training Three year part time training program Evening and weekend classes Academic learning - Personal experience - Practical skills This experiential, competency based program draws on the humanistic, existential, transpersonal, psychodynamic, archetypal and somatic depth traditions. We offer consciousness development, a service orientation toward cultural evolution and an appreciation of the spiritual dimension of nature. Clinical Director Caroline Mardon info@livinginstitute.org 416-515-0404

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Cultural Leadership in the Networked Revolution

The Living Institute Leadership Program will be a one or two year certificate program that educates people to be leaders in the tradition of cultural activism. This training could be applied in many fields, including facilitating general cultural change, environmental activism, sustainability, social justice, political activism, organizational development, social entrepreneurship, education, health care, the arts. Lectures, workshops and conferences will be part of this program. We are negotiating with the Dharma Centre of Canada (www.dharmacentre.org) to create a Green Leaders conference for Spring 2010, focusing on environmental issues through ecospirituality (drawing on the work of Thomas Berry and others) and ecopsychology (drawing on archetypal psychology). Read More

Living Institute Wilderness Program

The Living Institute Wilderness Program is designing various lectures, workshops and programs with a focus to educate and integrate wilderness experience, knowledge and practices into daily life. This would draw from traditional cultural and green living practices, ecopsychology and ecospirituality. The LIWP would include Toronto based lectures and workshops, workshops within 2-3 hours of Toronto, and destination based workshops that would be more remote. Read More