Our criteria for hiring faculty
Interested in finding out what kind of people will be teaching at Integral Life Institute (ILi)? We are bringing a team of teachers and experts together to tread new ground, to innovate, and to discover with students what meaningful education in the 21st Century is all about.
“What will transform education is not another theory or another book or another formula, but a transformed way of being in the world — a life illuminated by spirit and infused with soul”
At ILi, faculty members are chosen first of all for who they are, and how they are able to bring authentic engagement into the learning space. Other criteria and qualities we encourage and look for in our faculty include:
- Expertise in and passion for their area of teaching.
- A pedagogy that is integral, i.e. educating the whole human being (body, mind, heart and soul), encouraging the emergence of rgeater levels of complexity; and holding awareness of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of multiple subject areas and perspectives, as well as the meta-level of the learning/teaching dynamic.
- “Walking the talk”, commitment to the kind and quality of education in the faculty's own engagement with the subject that is expected in the students.
- Interest in developing integral education.
- Personal commitment to transformation.
- Appreciation of context and aware of how their area of focus relates to other aspects of the curriculum.
- Willingness to be at their own growing edge, to share what they know and to inquire into what is not already known to them.
- Interpersonal skills, a sense of humor, light-hearted, joyous and serious all in one
- Holding the practical applicability of their subject matter in mind and helping students bridge from classroom to life-out-there.
Bringing their soul, spirit, heart, mind and body into the teaching and learning space.
** For detailed information on who teaches what in which course see Upcoming Programs **