with Dr. Humberto Maturana and Ximena Davila

POSTPONED TO 2011 - Due to unforeseen circumstance the Reflective Circles in Cultural Biology course will be postponed to a future date in mid 2011.  If you would like to receive information regarding the rescheduling of the please provide us with you email address.  We apologize for any inconveniences that this might have cost you.

Please check back soon with additional details as we welcome the Matriztica Institute to Portland, Oregon in 2011.

Join us for a special event this September where you will explore relationships and collaboration by looking at our "cultural biology." As managers, active participants in community activities, and members of your own families - explore this exciting field with experts from the Matriztica School of Santiago, Chile.

Registration for 2011 will be available soon.

A message from Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer at MIT; Founder of the Society for Organizational Learning on Reflective Circles in Cultural Biology in Portland

The purpose of this workshop is to create a transformation process through reflective coexistence with Ximena Dávila Yáñez and Humberto Maturana Romesin, co-founders of the School Matríztica of Santiago. They will fully participate in the emergent discussions and reflections along with all partners and participants.

We are a human community of people who co-exist in a continuously changing present. We gather to deepen our understanding of the process of living and of what it means to be human, especially in today’s world.  By doing so, we open the possibility of an expansion of well-being through a reflective process that can guide us to a greater understanding of the fundamentals of our identity as biological and cultural beings. We invite you to engage in a community of other people from a place of respect for yourselves, others and of what surrounds us. This community of people will explore what we want to conserve as reflective and ethical-action in our human living, contributing from a serious, responsible and bold place of ‘doing’ and collaboration with others.

We are a human community of people who want to move in our different areas of action in a steady expansion of understanding of the living and humanness, which in turn opens the possibility of an expansion of the well-being everyday through a reflective process that can guide us to the understanding of the fundamentals of the kind of beings we are as biological and cultural beings and that cultural biology brings forth.

We are a community of people who know that we know that this cannot be done without moving from the pain of our lives and co-exist in this culture that we live. We are a community of people who can look at the systemic happening of their lives from the accepting that we live in a continuous changing present.

We are a community of people who want to encounter other people from our perspective, the perspective of others and the perspective of what surrounds us. We are a community of people that from our origin we want to conserve a reflective and action-oriented ethical axis in human habitat and to contribute from a serious, responsible and bold doing to the reflection, research/action and collaboration around to understand of life and human living.

Download the Invitation from Escuela Matriztica de Santiago

Location: Willamette University Portland Center 1120 NW Couch Street, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97209 [Map]

Registration for 2011 will be available soon.

The Presenters: Dr. Humberto Maturana and Ximena Davila

The Matriztic School was founded by Dr. Humberto Maturana and Ximena Davila in the year 2000 in Santiago, Chile (read more about the school online).

The school was created to collaborate and co-inspire with others through reflective conversations and experiences.  In so doing, it is possible for us to comprehend how we operate as cultural-biological beings that in our origin emerged as loving beings, as people who can live in this loving and ethical manner but who are also capable of creating the opposite. We follow a history of our own flow of reflecting upon our loving nature and the well-being that emerges whenever and however we reflect together conserving our caring for others and for their well-being.

Expand your thinking as a manager, community member, family member. Release the illusion of transcendent notions and concepts such as control, domination and logical-sequential order in favor of living in the concreteness of our daily living. Attending this program, we hope you will realize that love and well-being inside the dynamic ethical matrix is the source of human progress, business profit, and transformation from a world of pain and suffering that we no longer wish to bring forth.

What we hope you will experience:
We hope that for those that join us, you will use Reflective Circles to experience a growth of our consciousness and understanding of our cultural-biological nature as loving and ethical primate beings, able to be responsible in the psychic, philosophical and relational domains of our own living.

Together we can have this be a source of energy for realizing this work, and living that which we wish to realize, knowing that our ethical and loving nature will bring us together as an ethical human community to take care of ourselves, each other and all that surrounds and nurtures us.

Join us to better understand the cultural-biological matrix of human existence, and see the extraordinary of the ordinary and the ordinary of the extraordinary, in our operating as observers in our daily living.

Your program environment:
The opening of a space of reflection and authenticity: this is patience. You will be conscious and aware of the living that is lived and wants to be lived. Finally, we are inviting to you to discover within ourselves the three pillars of the spontaneous ethical-social conduct: knowing, understanding and adequate action at hand.

Program Schedule:
Day 1: 3:00pm-6:00pm
Day 2: 9:00am-1:30pm and 3:00pm-6:00pm
Day 3: 9:00am-1:30pm and 3:00pm-6:00pm
Day 4: 9:00am-1:30pm and 3:00pm-6:00pm
Day 5: 9:00am-1:30pm

Program Costs:
$3000 (US) per person, or $2750 (US) each, for teams of 4 or more, registering as a group. Cancellation fees may apply.

Student discount of $500 ($2,250 for Early Bird and $2,500) with proof (current student id) . Cancellation fees may apply.

For those traveling from out of town, a block of rooms have been held at our preferred hotel, The Hotel Vintage Plaza (a Kimpton Hotel) in Downtown Portland. It is within walking distance of the Willamette University Portland Center. Hotel information is available at the Vintage Plaza website.

To reserve your room use code: WUNVS0907
URL:https://gc.synxis.com/rez.aspx?Hotel=26766&Chain=10179&arrive=9/7/2010&depart=9/11/2010&adult=1&child=0&group=WUNVS0907

For more information about the Portland metro area, please visit Travel Portland's website.

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Registration for 2011 will be available soon.

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Download the Invitation from Escuela Matriztica de Santiago

About the Willamette University Executive Development Center:

The Willamette University Executive Development Center is housed at the main campus in Salem, Oregon. However, many of the EDC programs are held at the Willamette University Portland Center, on-site at different organizations, or at other locations.

More Information: Please contact the EDC at 503.370.6094 or call us at edc@willamette.edu.