I’m an advocate for the evolution of love, possibility, freedom, and service. This shows up in my roles as a psychologist, retreat leader, father, musician, writer, entrepreneur, & mystic.

I founded The Integral Company in 2002 to serve as a vehicle to promote the conscious participation in the evolution of Love. The offerings that you'll find here include The Whole-Being Growth and Healing Experience, conversations, retreats, and links to resources (written, audio, and video), all of which are in the service of love.

It's simply about advancing our capacity to love. I hope you find what I offer here of service to your own journey.

I was blessed to grow up in a family where the only discernible creed was love. While we attended church regularly, it seemed to me that the only reason to go to church was to renew our inspiration to love and as a venue to receive and give the gift of music. Beyond that, no dogma ever stuck. In fact, when I came home from Sunday School one day at age eleven, worried by something my teacher that day had said about eternal torture for those who didn’t believe exactly the way he believed, my mother, thank goodness, dismissed such thinking as ridiculous. Love was universal, and not the possession of one group of people.

As so often happens in college, I was exposed to ways of thinking, feeling, and believing other than those I heard from pulpits in my youth. Buddhism, yogic philosophy, Taoism, and other ancient wisdom teachings began to show up and inspire me. The notion of the centrality of regular spiritual practice firmly took hold when I was twenty, a notion I haven’t shaken in nearly a half-century since.

After a dozen years of work in law and public policy, I was exposed to the world of experiential, embodied learning and transformation, and decided to shift my professional attention to deeper issues. I returned to school to get a doctorate in psychology, and began gobbling up as much training as I could find in the diverse worlds of spiritual practice, psychology, body-centered healing, and counseling.

All this has converged in the last dozen or so years in an integrative approach to learning, healing, and transformation, one that involves, body, mind, spirit, and community. My greatest professional joy now is to co-create with my clients and retreat participants as we explore together new possibilities for joy, pleasure, and meaning.

Tom Ronen Goddard, PhD