In A New Republic of the Heart, Terry Patten introduced the idea of the “yin hero”, a feminine model of leadership. It expresses not the yang masculine dominating capacities of the warrior hero, but the heroic humility and care associated with saints.
In this special 60-minute online teaching event, Terry will share wisdom you can use about how you can activate this kind of leadership in your life, and about how we all can bring it to bear on behalf of the human future.This teaching event will offer you needed uplift and hope — and a path toward your own personal empowerment .
You’re invited to join Terry Patten share what he considers to be an important message in the online video event:
A Call for Yin Leadership
Yin Leadership can be a way that our deep longing can actually meet the keen hunger of the word. And it’s why the years ahead may be much fuller and happier than we can even imagine!
If your heart has sometimes been pierced, broken or horrified by the rising prevalence of conflict and cruelty in our fragmenting world, this teaching event will offer you needed uplift and hope — and a path toward your own personal empowerment — helping you see how you can bring a different kind of leadership to bear in the weeks and months ahead.
What people are saying about Terry Patten…
In a stunning marriage of wild heart and cool mind, Terry Patten turns the black diamond of our global darkness to illuminate our hearts, hone our wills for selfless service, and resplendently deepen our commitment to enact our divine identity and its joy, whatever happens. This is a major work of pioneering originality accomplished with great intellectual grace and profound sacred passion.
—Andrew Harvey, Author -The Hope – A Guide to Sacred Activism (from the Foreword)Like all true spiritual guides, Terry Patten shows us how to open our hearts and respond to this suffering world. His book is thoughtful, careful, and joyful.
—Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, author The Zen of You and Me, Everything is Workable
The world is changing now, rapidly and radically.Terry Patten imparts a challenging insight to us all—helping us feel and understand how the world is calling us to transform our interior lives as well as our behaviors relating to our immediate urgent evolutionary challenges.
—Thomas Hübl, international teacher of practical mystical competence and founder of the Academy of Inner Science
From students who’ve worked with Terry…
After 30 years of searching and experimentation, it was Terry Patten’s course that finally helped me evolve from being a spiritual seeker to being a spiritual practitioner.
—Grant Hunter, Silicon Valley, CA
After studying with Terry I had a completely different view of the events of my life. I no longer saw my life as a victim story, but rather as the soul journey of a heroine.
—Maria Baes, Ontario, Canada
I’ve been a student and practitioner of Integral Theory and philosophy for 15 years, and Terry´s teachings are… what my soul was deeply asking and yearning for—for 51 years.
—Jochen Becker, Dusseldorf, Germany
About Terry
Terry Patten is a philosopher, activist, consultant, coach, teacher, and social entrepreneur. He is the author of the bestselling book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries, as well as Integral Life Practice, which he co-wrote with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute. As a teacher, he created the acclaimed online courses Integral Spiritual Practice, Living the Integral Heart, The Integral Soul Work Journey, and Awakening your Revolutionary Heart. For the past seven years he’s guided Circles of Mutuality which focus on deep “we-space” and relational work.
Terry is the founder of the “Beyond Awakening” teleseminar series and Bay Area Integral. As a social entrepreneur, he founded the pioneering consciousness technology company Tools For Exploration, led the team at the HeartMath Institute that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor, and co-leads initiatives in restorative redwood forestry, fossil-fuel alternatives, and transforming collective trauma.