Module 5: Morning Session 2: May 10, 2025
Mapping your personal Landscape: Activated & Dormant Zones in the Quadrants
Objective:
Reflect on the terrain of your inner and outer life using Ken Wilber’s Quadrants. You'll identify areas that feel activated—alive, evolving, and resourced—and areas that feel dormant—paused, untended, or quietly awaiting attention.
Session Flow (Total: 70 minutes)
Framing of Exercise – 3 minutes
Private Self-Mapping (Study Hall) – 12 minutes
Triads: Sharing & Witnessing – 35 minutes
Large Group Harvest & Integration – 20 minutes
Framing the exercise (3 Minutes)
We’re taking a moment to reflect on the four domains of our experience through Wilber’s Quadrants. We’ll each map out where we feel activated—where growth, clarity, or aliveness is present—and where we sense dormant zones—areas that are paused, hidden, or not yet integrated. This isn’t about judgment or achievement. It’s about compassionate clarity, seeing what’s asking for our attention now. Use this as an invitation into balance, self-acceptance, and intentional growth.
For each quadrant, answer:
What feels activated here—alive, resourced, or evolving?
What feels dormant—neglected, paused, or in need of care?
What practices, choices, or conditions are contributing to either state?
Part 1: study hall - Quadrant Self Reflection Prompts - 12 minutes
Upper Left – Interior Individual (“I”)
Inner world, emotions, beliefs, spiritual life
What inner qualities or insights feel alive and available to me now?
Are there beliefs or emotional patterns that feel stuck, buried, or unexamined?
Do I have regular practices (meditation, journaling, prayer) that help me access myself?
What inner voice is the most prominent right now—critic, seeker, witness, child, other?
What feels spacious and evolving? What feels shut down?
Upper Right – Exterior Individual (“It”)
Body, habits, actions, lifestyle
How is my body speaking to me lately? Is it energized, ignored, or in pain?
What health or behavioral habits are supporting activation?
What routines or somatic practices feel nourishing—or absent?
What’s the state of my home, workspace, or physical environment?
Where am I procrastinating or avoiding embodied action?
Lower Left – Interior Collective (“We”)
Relationships, shared meaning, culture
What relationships feel alive, vulnerable, or growth-promoting?
Where do I experience trust, mutual seeing, or shared values?
Are there social dynamics where I withhold, armor, or conform?
Am I involved in cultural change?
What parts of me come forward in community—and what stays hidden?
Where do I feel a longing to be seen, known, or belong?
Lower Right – Exterior Collective (“Its”)
Systems, structures, roles, societal dynamics
What outer systems (work, finances, schedule) are functioning well?
Where is my energy drained by systems that feel misaligned?
Are the structures of my life designed to support my dharma?
Am I contributing to building new systems of cultural change?
Where is stability holding me—and where is rigidity limiting me?
Part 2: Sharing & Witnessing – 35 minutes
Take 5 minutes to introduce yourselves and get to know each other:
Name, where your from, assign a timekeeper…etc…
Each person shares a few key insights from their quadrant map (7 minutes per person).
The other two offer simple reflections: “What I heard…”, “What struck me was…”, or silent witnessing. (1.5 minutes per person)
Hold the space with presence. No advice-giving, just mirroring and resonance.
Part 3: Large Group Integration (20 min)
What did we learn about our inner terrain through this mapping?
Did any quadrant surprise you with its dormancy or activation?
What patterns are emerging across the sangha?
What is one dormant zone you feel called to tend gently?