Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller opened the IEC 2025 with an inspiration to open the theme Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age. Christiane is a pioneering entrepreneur and a leading voice in transforming how humans relate to power and how they collaborate. With a career rooted in challenging the entrenched dominance hierarchies of society, she has dedicated over a decade to exploring how self-organization reshapes power dynamics and human interaction. Her life’s purpose—the unification of love and power—guides a deep personal and systemic journey that bridges individual transformation with collective evolution.

Christiane is the author of New Stories of Love, Power, and Purpose: A Global Invitation to Experiment with the Unknown (https://lovepowerandpurpose.com/book/), and is currently writing her second book, The Art of Conscious Collaboration. As she embraces her role as an Elder, she is deepening her inquiry into the role of the Matriarch in humanity’s evolution. She continues to inspire a global community through her writings, teachings, and mentorship—inviting us all to consciously co-create our collaborative endeavors to be spaces of being, doing, and becoming both individually and collectively in service to all of life.

Dear friends, fellow wayfarers, and stewards of the possible,  Welcome!

It is with great excitement and reverence that I stand here among you—not as a solitary voice, but as one note in the wider symphony that is this gathering.

And if, in some moments, I sound like I’m preaching to the choir—well, perhaps that’s exactly the point.Because this is no ordinary choir. This is a living field of

inquiry, intelligence, love and power. We have come together across languages, lineages, and lands to cohere around a deeper calling.

The theme we are exploring—Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age—resonates deeply with the arc of many of our lives. But let’s begin here: Wholeness is not a destination.

It is not something we will one day arrive at with enough effort, enlightenment, or expertise. Wholeness is what we already are. Wholeness is what life already is.

The work, if there is any, is to remember. To remember that what we often interpret as fragmentation—the sense of separation, of deficiency, of something broken—that so often is seen as a problem to fix is in fact a deeper invitation. These experiences may reflect stories shaped by old structures and inherited metaphors.

But what if we see them as expressions of life itself— disruption, decay, and dissolution as natural parts of the cycle?  The invitation is not to avoid these states, but to meet them without clinging to the stories we tell about them. To stay present with the full spectrum of life’s emergence.

This is why we gather—to WAKE UP, GROW UP, CLEAN UP, SHOW UP, and to OPEN UP.

To turn toward wholeness with deeper awareness. To sense it more fully, to participate in it more consciously, and to let it guide us into the living rhythm of being, doing, and becoming – as we meet ourselves, each other, the world, and the cosmos. And here, within this rhythm, we are a collective presence. A fractal of the greater whole. Each of us a portal, a pattern, a pulse within something vaster and tender. We are a SOURCE-FIELD.

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