Join us on Zoom for two conversations with Michael Murphy and special guests, sure to inspire as we gear up for our 14th Annual Golf in the Kingdom event on Monday, September 30th at TPC Harding Golf Course in San Francisco.
Zoom Call 1 - August 9 | 9 – 10:00 am PT
Topic: How the Spirit of Golf and Sport Connect and Unite Us
Conversation with Michael Murphy, Ben Kline, Shivas Irons Society, and special guests, moderated by Barry Robbins
Zoom Call 2 - Sept 13 | 9 – 10:00 am PT
Topic: The Unseen Forces of Subtle Energy on Display in Golf and Sport, including the phenomenon of True Gravity, created by Michael Murphy in his best-selling book, Golf in the Kingdom.
Conversation with Michael Murphy, Champions Tour Player and National Sports Commentator, Bobby Clampett and PGA pro Mark Lye, moderated by Barry Robbins
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Michael Murphy is co-founder of Integral Transformative Practice®, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Esalen Institute and serves as Director of Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research (CTR). He has authored four novels: Golf in the Kingdom, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Jacob Atabet and An End to Ordinary History.
His nonfiction works, in addition to The Life We Are Given, include In the Zone, an anthology of extraordinary sports experience, co-authored with Rhea White, and The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature. Golf in the Kingdom, still a bestseller 50 years after it was published, has spawned the Shivas Irons Society, a nonprofit organization with members in the U.S. and in 20 countries as well.
Murphy was born in Salinas, California, graduated from Stanford University and lived at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India for one year. In 1980, he helped initiate Esalen’s Soviet-American Exchange Program, which was a premiere diplomacy vehicle for citizen-to-citizen relations.
During his long involvement in the human potential movement, Murphy and his work have been profiled in The New Yorker and featured in many magazines and journals worldwide.
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Barry Robbins is Vice President of ITP International. He co-founded Community ITP in Mill Valley, CA, and Palo Alto ITP. Barry is an ITP Mastery teacher and leads workshops at Esalen Institute and other venues in the US. He is a former nationally ranked athlete and heads up the ITPI initiative in the field of sports. He has also taken a lead role in climate change.