Frequently Asked Questions about our Mindfulness

📚 Resource Bibliography

Acknowledging the Wisdom Traditions, Voices, and Lineages that Inform Our Work

The following thinkers, traditions, and frameworks have contributed to the broader field of mindfulness, cultural integration, and developmental leadership. While the programs offered by Integral Partnerships are original and distinct, we honor and acknowledge the influence of the following sources and visionaries:

✨ Mindfulness & Contemplative Lineages

• Thích Nhất Hạnh – The Miracle of Mindfulness, Engaged Buddhism
• Jon Kabat-Zinn – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
• Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield – Vipassana and Western Insight traditions
• Tara Brach – Radical Acceptance, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
• The Pali Canon – Foundational Buddhist texts on mindfulness (Sati)

🌀 Trauma-Informed & Somatic Awareness

• Peter Levine – Somatic Experiencing
• Resmaa Menakem – My Grandmother's Hands, somatic abolitionism
• Bessel van der Kolk – The Body Keeps the Score
• Rhonda Magee – The Inner Work of Racial Justice
• David Treleaven – Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

🌱 Cultural & Identity-Based Mindfulness

• Ruth King – Mindful of Race
• Larry Ward – America’s Racial Karma
• Rev. angel Kyodo williams – Radical Dharma
• Carl Lorenz Cervantes, Dr. Rogelia Pe-Pua, Dr. Virgilio Enriquez – Sikolohiyang Pilipino and the ontology of Kapwa
• Decolonizing Yoga / Healing Justice movements – community-based, embodied practices for resilience and liberation

🧭 Leadership & Complexity Thinking

• Otto Scharmer – Theory U, Presencing Institute
• Peter Senge – The Fifth Discipline, systems thinking
• Margaret Wheatley – Leadership and the New Science
• Bill Torbert, Susanne Cook-Greuter, Robert Kegan, Terri O’Fallon – Adult vertical development and leadership maturity
• Paul H. Ray & Sherry Anderson – Cultural Creatives and transformation-oriented values

🔖 Original to Integral Partnerships

The following frameworks and voices are original to Integral Partnerships and have been developed through lived inquiry, direct application, and co-creative exploration:

• The Triad™ – Fluidity of Commitment, The Relational Field (Kapwa), and Producere
• The Rooted Lotus™ – Four Domains of Integral Development: Inner, Intra, Inter, Exter
• Belonging in Awareness™, The Mindful Executive™, and Mindfulness for the Modern Human™
• Language including: Presence as Leadership Practice, Mindfulness as Re-entry, Relational Willingness, Ontological Regeneration, Becoming Native to the Living Field

These original works are offered with humility and in the spirit of shared evolution. © 2025 Integral Partnerships, LLC and Dixon de Leña. All rights reserved.