🌟 What is Integral Wholeness?

A journey into a more whole way of being human

Many approaches to personal growth focus on only one part of being human.

Some help us heal emotional wounds. Others develop the mind. Some aim for profound spiritual experiences. Others teach practical ways of building healthier relationships, organizations, and communities.

What happens when we combine these and intentionally grow across different dimensions together?

This question sits at the heart of Integral Wholeness.

Integral Wholeness is a series of experiential weekend courses inspired by Integral Theory, the life’s work of Ken Wilber, which combines the wisdom of many developmental researchers, psychologists, and contemplative traditions around the world.

A key realization is that human growth is multidimensional. To become more whole, it helps to grow not only in one direction, but in several.

🧭 A map for the journey

When you're exploring a new territory, like hiking up a mountain range in a natural park or arriving at a new city, it’s very helpful to have a good map.

A map is not the territory. You won’t get anywhere by just reading it.

Yet a good map can help you understand where you are, where you might want to go, and what paths are available. Even better if you can study the map with people who have walked some of those paths before.

One of the greatest gifts of the integral approach is that it offers a really useful and comprehensive map. It brings together insights from modern psychology, developmental science, contemplative traditions, embodiment practices, trauma work, and many other fields into one coherent framework.

🤩 Learning through experience

Studying a map, even with experienced guides, is not going to take you anywhere if you don’t actually step on the territory.

The Integral Wholeness weekends are focused on hands-on exercises and experiential discoveries, which help you take actual steps on your growth path. We include some sessions of theory, which helps you get the mental concept of the integral map and enables you to choose yourself, which directions you want to grow.

In other words, we spend a moment studying the map, before we venture on the territory together.

Every exercise and session in these courses is voluntary. We built the program so that the courses are easy and safe to attend without any previous experience of meditation, coaching, or spiritual practices.

On the other hand, thanks to the comprehensiveness of the integral map and the possible growth paths it points out, these courses are likely to offer something new in the forms of theory and experience, even to people who have a long history of personal development or some contemplative practice.

The Zen tradition encourages everyone to have “a beginner’s mind” when approaching new topics. Bringing that and your curiosity is enough equipment for this journey.

📊 Three dimensions of growth

The course series is built around three important dimensions of human development.

Each weekend focuses on one of them.

You can attend individual modules separately, but together they create a richer and more complete picture of human growth.

1️⃣ Waking Up

Exploring states of consciousness

The first module focuses on what Integral Theory calls Waking Up.

Throughout history, many contemplative traditions have explored the possibility that human consciousness can experience perspectives beyond our ordinary day-to-day awareness.

Whether called flow states, mystical experiences, peak experiences, or moments of deep presence, many people have encountered brief glimpses of a reality that feels larger, more connected, or more alive than usual.

These experiences cannot be forced or guaranteed. But there are many practices that make such experiences more accessible.

During this weekend, we explore approaches that use movement, music, breath, silence, temperature, and group processes to support shifts in awareness.

A temporary glimpse does not solve all of life's challenges. Yet seeing ourselves and our lives from a wider perspective can sometimes change the course of a journey. Imagine a mountain hiker who gets a temporary lift by a helicopter to see the surrounding landscape from a higher viewpoint. Even after landing, the memory of the view helps in navigation - and motivates to keep climbing. 🏔️

2️⃣ Growing Up

Exploring human development and maturity

The second module focuses on Growing Up.

Most people are familiar with childhood development. We recognize that children move through various stages as they grow.

What is less widely known is that adult development continues throughout life.

Researchers from multiple fields have discovered recurring patterns in how human beings can mature in their thinking, relationships, values, leadership, and worldview.

Growing Up is about learning to see ourselves, others, and the world through increasingly wider and more inclusive perspectives.

This dimension helps us understand not only our own development, but also the evolution of cultures, organizations, and societies.

As a co-founder of Sharetribe, the main course facilitator, Antti, has spent over a decade building an organization inspired by many of these developmental ideas. At the same time, he has spent years studying meditation, embodiment, coaching, and spiritual practices.

One of Antti’s passions is building bridges between these worlds. Between entrepreneurship and spirituality. Between intellectual understanding and lived experience.

The dimension of Growing Up helps us transcend and include seemingly separate areas, and to see life from a higher, more whole perspective.

3️⃣ Cleaning Up

Healing the patterns that hold us back

The third module focuses on Cleaning Up.

Even with a good map and a clear direction, growth can become difficult if old wounds and unconscious patterns continue pulling us back.

Most of us carry experiences from earlier stages of life that shaped how we relate to ourselves, other people, and the world.

Many of the protective strategies we developed were intelligent adaptations at the time. But years later, they may limit us more than they help us.

Perhaps speaking up did not feel safe. Perhaps vulnerability led to disappointment or bullying. Perhaps belonging required hiding parts of ourselves.

These patterns often continue operating long after the original situation has passed.

The good news is that change is possible.

During this weekend, we explore approaches such as shadow work, embodiment practices, relational exercises, and trauma-informed methods like TRE® (Tension, Stress & Trauma Releasing Exercises) that help bring greater awareness, freedom, and choice into our lives.

The intention is not to "fix" ourselves. It is to become more whole by bringing awareness, compassion, and acceptance to our past and the survival strategies we had to create.

🚥 Combining the dimensions

One of the key insights of Integral Theory is that these dimensions are highly distinct. Training well in one may not result in much progress in the others. 

For example, eastern meditating monks in the past may have reached persistent high states of consciousness (Waking Up), and yet still treated women or foreigners badly due to their lack of Growing Up or Cleaning Up.

Western therapy practitioners may Clean Up well, but reach a ceiling in their human growth and fulfillment if they never venture into the field of Waking Up, due to their prejudice about anything religious-sounding.

While the dimensions are distinct, they still bring some support to each other when combined. For example, stepping forward in the Growing Up path helps us realize the difference of religion and spirituality, thus making us more open to Waking Up. And Waking Up to higher states of consciousness often speeds up our Growing Up path as well, as the wider view can grow our circle of care and compassion.

The integral map actually has more than 3 dimensions of growth, which we’ll talk more about when we study the map together.

💁 Who are these courses for?

This course may be a good fit if you:

• are genuinely interested in personal growth

• have curiosity, or at least openness, towards psychology and spirituality presented without attachments to any religion

• appreciate experiential learning and hands-on group and pair exercises

• want to learn helpful concepts and practical tools rather than rigid beliefs or one-size-fits-all advice

• enjoy exploring life with open-minded and growth-oriented people

You do not need to agree with any particular worldview to participate. We are strict about holding a safer space where a diversity of backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, worldviews, and opinions can be expressed without fear of judgment or exclusion.

The invitation is to get curious and explore together with respect.

💞 A journey shared with others

One valuable aspect of longer course journeys is the community that forms around them.

There is something very powerful about learning alongside people who are also willing to look honestly at themselves and their lives.

After each weekend, the participants will get access to Integral Wholeness Signal group where conversations, reflections, and connections can continue.

Many people discover that the relationships formed during a course may become as valuable as the course experience itself, as they can support our path long after the course has ended.

All of us have valuable life experiences under our belt and inspiring stories to share. All of us also have wonderful new paths still waiting to be explored. This is one gift, and a reason to do this kind of work in a group setting.

Having a good map for the journey is essential to get where you want to go. But having great company on the road, is what makes the adventure enjoyable. 

Traveling deeper together. Join at: https://forms.gle/uosgziJhHbLoDfJy7

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ℹ️ Practical course information

📅  The dates of the weekend course modules

23.-25.10.2026   Waking up (By Antti Virolainen & Ilo Saarela)

8.-10.1.2027       Growing up (By Antti Virolainen)

2.-4.4.2027         Cleaning up (by Antti Virolainen & Aliisa Ihmemaa)

All course modules start at 17:00 on Friday and end at 17:00 on Sunday

🏡 Course venue

All courses are held at the beautiful Villa Christine, in Raasepori, Finland.

Villa Christine is an old wooden village school transformed into a course center. It is located in the beautiful Tenhola area, under 1,5h drive away from Helsinki and Turku.

Antti has organized courses at Villa Christine for years and chose it again as the location for these courses due to its great atmosphere, friendly staff, and (perhaps most of all) delicious food. 😋

🇬🇧/(🇫🇮) Course language

🇬🇧 The primary language of the course is English. Knowing that many Finns speak English well, we wanted to make these courses accessible to Finland's growing non-Finnish-speaking population as well.

(🇫🇮) There are a few arrangements to make the course accessible also to Finnish speakers with limited English skills:

• A big part of the course is based on experiences and exercises. You can always ask for a Finnish translation of the exercise instructions.

• You can use Finnish when doing writing exercises or pair/group exercises with other Finnish speakers. You can also request to be grouped with Finnish speakers for such exercises.

We ask your language preferences in the application form, in order to prepare for the particular group. You can find the application form at: https://forms.gle/uosgziJhHbLoDfJy7

💶 Pricing

📙Normal pricing  

One course weekend 280€

Accommodation and food for one weekend 208€ (invoiced separately by the event venue)

(In total 488€ with accommodation and food)

📚 Bundle pricing

All three weekends: 670€ (in total 1294€ with accommodation and food) 

🦜 Early bird pricing 😍

🥚Super Early Bird - For the first 10 tickets or until 10.7.2026 (whichever is reached first)

One Course weekend: 160€ (in total 368€ with accommodation and food)

All three weekends bundle: 375€ (in total 999€ with accommodation and food) 

⭐️The super early bird bundle is 465€ cheaper than 3 modules bought separately and about 300€ cheaper than the normal bundle. Act fast if you'd like to secure this deal with the best discount! ⭐️

🙌 To attend the courses, fill in the application form at: https://forms.gle/uosgziJhHbLoDfJy7

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🧙🏼Facilitators 

Antti Virolainen

Antti is passionate about learning and teaching the art of fulfilled living. He is a bridge builder between the formal society and the wisdom traditions, between startup enthusiasts and tantric explorers. He believes no one has it all figured out, but all schools of thought have something valuable to share, and something to learn from others. This is also a core thought in Integral Theory, which Antti has studied with Ken Wilber, Dustin DiPerna, Lennart Hennig and Sergey Kupriyanov since 2014.

Antti has a Master’s Degree from Aalto University in the Information Networks study program. He co-founded an IT startup, Sharetribe, in 2011, which is currently one of the leading examples of steward-ownership, co-leadership/”teal” practices, and employee-owned governance in Finland.

Antti has formal coaching education with ICF (2013) and Tantric Life Coach (2020) certifications. He is also Innerdance and AUM-meditation facilitator. Antti has been running in-person and online courses since 2021, and he’s been one of the main teachers of the long-running annual neotantra course Wild Heart Transformation for 5 years.

Antti lives in the beautiful village of Fiskars with his partner and twin boys. He works part-time as Chief Financial Officer at Sharetribe and part-time as a life coach and course organizer. This dual role puts him in a great position to share the theory and practice of a wholesome and fulfilled human life in a way that is approachable to everyone.

Ilo Saarela

Ilo Saarela is a certified Grof® Breathwork and Psychedelic Therapy Facilitator, a certified Ecstatic Dance DJ & Ceremony Leader (Heart of Dance, NL, 2019), and a seasoned spaceholder for transformational experiences. He completed the 3-year Grof Legacy Training in 2025, and has been holding therapeutic spaces — from breathwork sessions and group retreats to private healing work — for over a decade.

Central to Ilo’s approach is the creation of a safe, trusted container—a principle deeply embedded in the Grof methodology and essential for any profound inner work. His professional background in UX and Service Design adds a powerful dimension to his facilitation, allowing him to apply participatory design and systems thinking to the architecture of healing spaces.

Ilo's xploration of consciousness work began in 2000. Since 2005, he has immersed himself in the transformative power of breath through Ashtanga yoga, including several years of practice at its source in Mysore, India. In 2011, he expanded into shamanic practices. His commitment to experiential learning deepened during an intensive 4-day Vision Quest with the Guaraní tribe in the Brazilian jungle—a pivotal experience that changed his understanding of traditional healing cultures and the power of prayer.

A sonic alchemist at heart, Ilo has been DJing and creating immersive soundscapes since 2005. He uses breath, sound, and movement as gateways to deeper awareness, weaving rich musical landscapes that guide participants through altered states. This unique fusion of ancestral wisdom and contemporary therapeutic frameworks provides the perfect vessel for exploring elevated states of consciousness in workshops and retreats.

Aliisa Ihmemaa

Aliisa Ihmemaa is a Tantric Life Coach, Zen Coach, TRE®️ provider, Innerdance facilitator, and sex counselor.

Her work centers around presence and authenticity: cultivating a deep connection to oneself and an honest acceptance of the present moment. Her approach emphasizes gentleness, openness, and a trauma-informed way of working that helps create a safe and supportive space for every participant. She has also studied sensorimotor coaching and bodywork practices.

She has been facilitating workshops since 2018. In Turku, she regularly organizes tantric workshops, women’s empowerment circles, and small groups focused on embodiment and reconnecting with the body.

In addition, she facilitates free movement dance sessions and introductory TRE courses. She works individually with clients through tremor work, coaching, tantra, and a holistic support treatment called “Kannattelu,” as well as offering dearmouring sessions.

She plays the kantele, sings, writes, and draws — and is passionate about bringing more creativity, wonder, pleasure, and playfulness into life.

She teaches practices and perspectives that have supported her own journey of recovering from burnout, developmental trauma, and people-pleasing patterns.

The intention behind her work is to offer moments where people can pause, listen deeply to themselves, and discover greater meaning and pleasure in their lives. She hopes to inspire others to live more courageously as their authentic selves while supporting them on the path toward their own inner power.

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You’ve reached the end of the course description. If you have open questions, reach out to Antti at antti@goodlifemaps.com.

If you are ready to join us on this journey towards deeper wholeness, continue to the application form at: https://forms.gle/uosgziJhHbLoDfJy7