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.

www.magellancourses.org

Bonnitta Roy in Kosmos

Open Group Practice: Eight Social Selves

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.

Published in Fall | Winter 2016, Volume 16 Issue 2

The Phenomenology of the Self: Revealing the Universal Life Force at the Heart of Human Experience

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.

Published in Spring | Summer 2015, Volume 15 Issue 1

Coming Soon

The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,