Reggie
My work in the world is helping others live fully into who they truly are—through an authentic, integral approach that is designed to alleviate unnecessary suffering. I’m motivated by commitments to ongoing development, compassionate wisdom, conscious awareness, gratitude, forgiveness, equanimity, joy and love. I believe the ability to hold paradox is an essential tool for adults in the 21st Century.
Right now my personal practices include writing, strength training, meditation, integral inquiry, wandering in nature, drumming and shadow work. I like to think I’d still be a competitive age-group runner if I hadn’t had both hips replaced in 2003.
My worldview is informed by the bulleted elements below (in some subtle and not-so-subtle ways).
The bullets notwithstanding, I believe in and practice both humor and imagination (among other things), and am comfortable with those wonderful tensions along the wisdom/compassion, justice/mercy, intimacy/solitude, masculine/feminine, and other fun continua.
The bullets:
- Integral Coaching® – I’m a Professional Integral Coach™ and engage Integral Coaching Canada‘s coaching model, method and process.
- 21 years in secondary and higher education, primarily at Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers, and Iona College in New Rochelle, both in New York.
- Since 1996 I’ve operated in the world as Integral Journeys for Pilgrims, Poets, Fools and Saints, which describes my work with poetry, writing as a transformative practice, integral theory and application, and human beings in general.
- I’ve published four books—two volumes of poetry, and two of nonfiction:
- The Quality of Effort: Integrity in Sport and Life for Student-Athletes, Parents and Coaches (nonfiction, 1991)
- Who Lives Better Than We Do? (poetry, 2001)
- Living Poems, Writing Lives: Spirit, Self and the Art of Poetry (nonfiction, 2004)
- This Open Eye: Seeing What We Do (poetry, 2006)
- I’ve studied and applied Ken Wilber’s work since 1996. This was a key factor in my choosing Integral Coaching Canada’s certification program.
- I’ve facilitated, tricked, bludgeoned and guided folks from “senior citizens” to post-doctoral professionals to first-graders in poetry writing (most of the bludgeoning was done in middle schools).
- I enacted a vision quest in 1998, and subsequent Soulcraft™ practices (dream work, shadow work, council, ceremonial design, etc.) with Bill Plotkin and the folks at Animas Valley Institute, and Trebbe Johnson through her work at Vision Arrow.
- I’ve completed Level One and Level Two Certifications in Spiral Dynamics Integral with Don Beck.
- I’ve been a husband to Marianela and stepdad to Noé since 2000, and may have learned (and continue to learn) more from those two experiences than from all the good stuff above.
- I “returned home” after my dad’s death in 1996 and served as my mom’s primary caregiver for the final 3 1/2 years of her life. About a third of the poems in Who Lives Better Than We Do? emerged from that time.
- On March 17, 2009 I discovered my sister, Anne Marie, deceased in her home at the age of 55. I continue to negotiate the emotional, psychological, spiritual, intellectual, legal and financial ramifications of her death as I celebrate her life and grieve her loss.
- My traditional education includes a B.S. in Marketing from St. John’s University and an M.A. in English from Iona College, both in New York.
Each of these, all of them together, and a whole lot more, inform the presence I bring to my work as a coach, presenter, poet, husband, stepdad, and whatever else is called for in any given moment.
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Contact:
rmarra@paradoxedge.com
203.723.1421
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