IEC - Integral European Conference

IEC 2025 – DAY 1: A Sacred Beginning
May 28, Wednesday

📸 With this final post, we complete our backwards-in-time photo series of the IEC 2025. Let’s return to where it all began, Day 1, the ceremonial opening of our shared journey.

The conference officially opened with an inspiring orientation led by Bence Gánti, Hanna Hündorf, and Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller, welcoming participants from around the globe into the integral field.

We then explored Wyrd Technologies with Peter Merry and Michael Oswald, setting a tone of innovation and depth. This flowed into the Global Sharing Circle, held by Bence Gánti, where hearts met across cultures in a wave of connection.

The afternoon unfolded with profound keynotes:
– Susanne Cook-Greuter was challenging us with What’s Problematic with Grand Integral Theories?
– Tom Habib on Integral’s Charismatic Presence
– Ken Wilber, live via Zoom, on Finding Radical Wholeness

The evening closed with a deeply moving Memorial Event, honoring integral pioneers and departed souls, held by Christine Baser Habib, Said Dawlabani, Craig Hamilton, and Marco Morelli.

And then came the Opening Dinner…
A sacred feast for body and spirit, accompanied by mesmerizing Sufi swirling and the transcendent music of Gozlan Fatu and her band. A ritual of arrival, celebration, and remembrance, the integral tribe gathering once more.

View the photo album to return to the beginning, where presence, purpose, and love first met in this year’s circle.

IEC 2025 – DAY 3: The Miracle of WE and a Global Field of Connection
May 30, Friday

📸 We continue our journey backwards in time through the days of IEC 2025. Today, we revisit Day 3, rich in depth, connection, and global resonance.

The morning began with Raul Aramayo’s moving keynote, The Miracle of WE, highlighting the power of facilitated dialogue in Latin America. Then came the Elevator Pitches of all Friday presenters, opening the door to another full day of workshops and exploration.

Next, Bence Gánti shared a powerful message with Radical Wholeness needs Radical Integral Work, grounding the community in the inner and outer demands of integral living. And Santiago Jiménez guided us through A Journey of Sound through the Stages, offering a sonic initiation through layers of consciousness.

In the evening, we entered a deeply co-created space:
The International Constellation Process, held by Bence Gánti, Anne-Marie Voorhoeve and the constellation team, brought the whole IEC field into a shared, embodied experience of the global community. A sacred, collective ritual that touched many hearts and awakened something greater than ourselves.

Dive into the photo album and feel the miracle of this day.

IEC is next to the lake Balaton.
As Raul Aramayo said: "great things are always happening next to the water"

Here are some beautiful moments from the biggest lake in Central Europe.

📷 Krisztián Bódis

4th day's KEYNOTE

Craig Hamilton
Invoking Wholeness Through Collective Awakening

Closing the keynote series, Craig Hamilton spoke to the power of awakening together. Inviting us beyond solo spiritual practice, he explored the generative field that emerges when consciousness becomes a shared act—a collective unfolding. He pointed to wholeness not only as an inner experience but as a mutual resonance we co-create. With his elegant clarity and decades of teaching, Craig reminded us: our awakening is incomplete without each other. It was a resonant close to a morning of luminous insights.

"You matter more than you think."
This was the core message from Karen O’Brien’s powerful keynote at IEC 2025: Fractals of Change.

Speaking to a full house on Saturday morning, Karen invited us to rethink change—not as something linear or top-down, but as something quantum, relational, and deeply personal. Drawing on climate science, social theory, and quantum physics, she reminded us that transformation happens through each of us, and spreads like fractals: repeating patterns that ripple through the whole.

Change isn’t just about systems.
It’s about consciousness. It’s about relationships.
It’s about vibration, resonance, and participation.

In a world facing complex, compounding crises, Karen offered a perspective that is at once scientifically grounded and profoundly hopeful:

🌱 “Every initiative, every activity is a space for transforming the whole.”

She called on us to act from universal values—equity, dignity, integrity, compassion, oneness—and to step into our role as agents of quantum social change.

It was a keynote that didn’t just inform—it shifted something.