About this Event
As we turn the page into a new year, this gathering offers dedicated space to pause, look ahead, and consciously shape the path you want to walk in 2026. What do you long to cultivate? What qualities do you want to embody? What direction feels most alive, wise, and true?
Carving out intentional time at the beginning of the year helps align your choices with your deeper values, strengthens your sense of agency, and reduces the drift that happens when unconscious habits or outside agendas fill the space for you. Doing this together — in community — brings clarity, inspiration, accountability, and a sense of shared momentum.
This evening is an invitation to orient toward what matters most and to set the tone for the year ahead with presence, integrity, and heart.
What to Expect
We’ll draw on the same complementary approaches used in December’s reflection gathering — now focused on looking forward:
• Integral Theory tools
to help you vision across all dimensions of life (inner and outer, individual and collective), so your intentions are grounded, comprehensive, and free from common blindspots.
• Year Compass intention-setting practices
to clarify what you want to grow, shift, nurture, or begin in 2026 — turning insights into clear, meaningful commitments.
The evening will include reflective writing, interactive activities, and supportive small-group sharing to help you deepen your clarity and translate it into aligned action.
If you are planning to attend, RSVPing helps us prepare enough printed materials for everyone.
General Description of Monthly Gatherings
Conscious Transformation Collective gatherings focus on both inner development (deepening our connection with calm, peace, joy, and non-clinging awareness) and the practical ways we bring that clarity into the world. We draw on wisdom traditions such as Buddhadharma and the Western Mysteries, as well as the comprehensive lens of Integral Theory. Each session includes practical tools, embodied insights, and interactive activities.
Facilitator
This session will be led by Christopher Lawley, who has been practicing and training in the universalist Namgyal lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism and Western Mysteries for close to 2 decades with the Clear Sky Center sangha and Planet Dharma. Christopher is steeped in Integral Theory and uses it to inform his work with individuals, teams, and groups. He is a trained coach and convener who designs and facilitates group processes using frameworks such as the Art of Hosting. Christopher is also on the organizing committee of the Integral Conference of North America (ICON) which will be taking place in May 2026 in Denver, Colorado.
Dāna - Pay from the Heart
Everyone is welcome to participate regardless of financial circumstances. Please join us and offer whatever your situation allows. There will be a bowl at the door.
Learn more about dāna (the Pali word for generosity) here.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Congress Coffee Company, 215 36 Avenue Northeast, Calgary, Canada
CAD 0.00
