COURSE

Unlock Your Human Potential

Learn how to get the most out of Insight Timer, as, over the next 10 sessions, Ken Wilber and Dustin DiPerna show you how the Integral Framework can help you optimize your transformation. Drawing from our world’s great wisdom traditions, developmental psychology, and contemplative science, Ken and Dustin balance theoretical maps of consciousness with meditative practices designed to help you wake up, grow up, clean up, and show up.

Contemplation Consciousness Spirituality Awakening Spiritual Self-Observation Spirituality

Meet your Teacher

Ken Wilber

Denver, CO, USA

Ken Wilber is a world-renowned author and theorist, whose books have been published in over 30 languages. Known as the “Einstein of Consciousness,” Ken has spent the past 40 years developing Integral Theory, a comprehensive map of human development and potential. His most recent book is 'Religion of Tomorrow'. Dustin DiPerna earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and his graduate degree from Harvard University. He is a recognized expert in both world religions and meditation. Dustin is author of the books: 'Streams of Wisdom', 'Evolution's Ally', and 'Earth is Eden'. He currently teaches at Stanford University.

10 Days

3.5k students

4.6 stars

13 min / day

Awakening

English

Lesson 1

An Introduction To The Integral Operating System

Learn the four keys that unlock human evolution. In Day 1, Ken and Dustin describe the emergence of Integral Theory and why it’s so vital to understand for your own transformation. They summarize the four keys: wake up, grow up, clean up and show up, and give you a few simple tips for how to get the most out of this 10-day course.

Lesson 2

The First Key: Waking Up

“Waking Up” relates to discovering your true nature. Your true nature is a universal awarenes; it’s ever-present, unbounded, non-dual, and deeply connected to everyone and everything. This awareness is at the heart of your very own self, and when realized, it serves as the foundation of living an awakened life. Day 2 is led by Ken.

Lesson 3

A Practice for Waking Up

Learn how a simple meditative practice, using the tool of impermanence, can start to shift your awareness. This meditation is designed to give you a taste of the power of becoming aware of the present moment. By the end of the session you’ll understand some of the aspects of your awareness that are constantly changing, as well as recognising that aspects of your awareness are always right here, and available to access. Day 3 is led by Dustin.

Lesson 4

The Second Key: Growing Up

“Growing up” relates to learning how to live from higher levels of complexity and care. As we grow up, we develop a consciousness capable of understanding and addressing our world’s most wicked challenges. Understanding the stages of growing up, provides a basic foundation for you to participate in the evolution of consciousness and culture. Day 4 is led by Ken.

Lesson 5

A Practice for Growing Up

In this practice, you will learn how to better understand the stages of growing up in your own life. Through a series of visualizations, you’ll come to know the difference between traditional consciousness, modern consciousness, postmodern consciousness, and integral consciousness. We will then explore, how these various levels of consciousness show up in everyday life. Day 5 is led by Dustin.

Lesson 6

The Third Key: Cleaning Up

“Cleaning up” involves a deep integration of our shadow self. As we come into deeper contact with ourselves, we learn that we all contain unresolved trauma and unfinished emotional business. Cleaning up, brings us into contact with the necessary process of healing and integration. In this session, you’ll learn about how 'shadow' is formed, and what you can do to start working on integrating it. Day 6 is led by Ken.

Lesson 7

A Practice for Cleaning Up

There are countless practices that can help you clean up. But arguably, none are as simple, or as powerful as the 3-2-1 process. In today’s session, you’ll learn how to use situations and people who trigger you, to help you discover your own shadow, and bring it back into your conscious experience. You’ll also learn how to reclaim projections and help move them from a 3 rd person (It) to a 2 nd person (You), to a 1 st person (I) or 3-2-1. Day 7 is led by Dustin.

Lesson 8

The Fourth Key: Showing Up

At some point on the spiritual path, it becomes obvious that we do the work of transformation and healing, not just for your own benefit, but so that we can “show up” in the world, for maximum impact. We show up through our behavior, through our impact on social systems, through our influence in culture, and through an ever-increasing intention to be of benefit in the world. Day 8 is led by Ken.

Lesson 9

A Practice for Showing Up

If we want maximum benefit in our practice and in the world, it can helpful to discover our own biases and blind spots. Today’s session explores how we can more fully show up in our own spiritual life, by including multiple perspectives. We’ll explore how our own relationship with the Divine can be viewed through multiple lenses: God as Self, God as relationship, and god as our web of interconnectedness, in a practice called the Three Faces of God. Day 9 is led by Dustin.

Lesson 10

Building an Integral Life Practice with Insight Timer

Learn how to build your own customized Integral Life Practice using the content on Insight Timer. By the end of the session, you’ll be equipped with the tools you need to maximize your own growth and development. We’ll introduce you to the basics of an Integral Life Practice, what makes it unique, and how you can supercharge your life, using the principle of integral cross-training. This final session is led by both Ken and Dustin.

Ask your teacher

This course includes 77 community questions and 25 audio replies from Ken Wilber. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

4.6 (307)

Recent Reviews

Yana

May 27, 2025

Worthy topic and I agree in principle, but the language used by the presenters is over complicated and so steeped in professional terms that it's hard to follow.

Nazym

September 21, 2024

Самый лучший курс!

Daniel

April 13, 2023

Erin

October 26, 2021

This course brings together so much. It’s a pleasure to have an introduction to integral theory. With this framework I feel more validated that I’m looking in the right direction with all these courses on Insight Timer. Thank you!

Helen

June 1, 2021

Ken and Dustin. Thank you for sharing your informative and interesting course describing Integral theory and practice. I enjoyed the pace, explanations and practices and will certainly be coming back to this course alongside looking into the model, books and resources. I would highly recommend this course. Again, thank you. Namaste 🙏

Charlotte

May 30, 2021

I am confused. I thought you started off with the premise of sharing the world religions that shared the same basic tenets. And that shifted to waking up, growing up, cleaning up, and showing up. So are those the same things. I don’t get the connection.

Janine

May 9, 2021

Jules

April 9, 2021

Well paced exploration with grounded guidance

Alessandro

February 27, 2021

Amazing comprehensive journey❣️🙏🏼

Kristian

January 10, 2021

Great introduction to integral theory and practice. Because the practice is so comprehensive it can only be a scratch under the surface.

Dustin

December 26, 2020

Beautiful course. I appreciate the framework provided of Waking Up, Growing up, Clearing up and Showing up. So much nuance and insight here. 🙏 Thank you for these recordings Ken and Dustin.

Peter

November 19, 2020

🙏🏻 Thank you

Tatramountain

November 5, 2020

Sheila

October 6, 2020

Fantastic thumbnail framework utilizing integral theory practice. So much to build upon. Peace and well being!

Gerardine

September 22, 2020

This is the best course ever! It just brought everything together for me. Clear explanations. The guided practices are excellent. A great big thank you to these wonderful men.

Natalia

September 18, 2020

Very informative! Took two lessons a day to enjoy the practice after the learning. Thank you.

Michelle

September 9, 2020

Excellent. Is there a follow up course.

Andi

August 9, 2020

Best introduction to Integral Life Practice. Thank you so much.

Claudia

July 24, 2020

a complex topic made available in a nutshell. wow. a very good Framework to use on a meta Level....Gold for every on the journey to a true and impactful life

Alex

May 28, 2020

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