Patricia Albere is an internationally recognized transformational educator and contemporary spiritual teacher passionate about turning people onto the power of Evolutionary Relationships, as well as the large-scale transformation available through new forms of collective consciousness. For the last 40 years, she has taught from the emerging edge of consciousness, awakening others to the profound depths and infinite wisdom accessed by way of two or more people connected to larger and more powerful evolutionary forces.
Albere is the founder of the Evolutionary Collective (EC), a new model for awakened community. The EC marks the creation and ongoing expansion of an inter-subjective field of intimacy, truth, mutuality and depth that allows participants to transform inside an intense and accelerated collective field.
She is also the host of the popular Evolutionary Collective Conversations (ECC), a weekly global webcast and talk show in which today’s top evolutionary leaders join Patricia for dynamic on-line dialogues.
Albere honed her extraordinary mastery with both individuals and groups while working with over 150,000 people during the course of her 40plus-year career. It all started in 1971, when Albere unknowingly found herself at the leading edge of the human potential movement, as a core member of the est organization (currently called the Landmark Education). Working closely with cultural icon and transformational movement pioneer, Werner Erhard, Albere played a key role in developing and training the organization’s leaders. Her work with Erhard laid the foundation for Albere’s passionate commitment to facilitating real transformation, which, she affirms, is at the heart of what makes human life meaningful—“ real transformation means that a person’s life is irrevocably changed in a way that empowers them to fulfill their highest potentials.”
By age 33, Albere was highly revered as a public speaker, transformational teacher and workshop leader, having already touched the lives of thousands of people. Her inquiry into human transformation was catapulted to an entirely new level by way of a profound personal relationship that forever changed her, while seeding her current work with evolutionary relationships and mutuality.
A chance meeting with the man who would become her partner of four years opened up new experiential pathways for Albere to discover life-transforming potential of intimacy and wholehearted commitment, as well as the evolutionary magic that arises in the deep, multi-dimensional connection between two people – the evolutionary magic that activates spiritual awakening and conscious evolution.
“For the first time I experienced the limitless potential that exists between two human beings,” said Albere. ”We pushed the boundaries of love, moving through all the challenges that arise in any relationship, while traversing previously untapped potentials of our own consciousness. And from there, I was shown a new paradigm of relating possible for all human beings.”
In addition to offering ongoing intensives, retreats and workshops, Albere spent the next twenty years immersing herself in the study of various ancient spiritual traditions, including both eastern and western thought, as well as such contemporary wisdom teachings as Diamond Heart (A.H Almaas) and the Enneagram, which she turned into a five-year mastery intensive program. Most recently, she has been studying about and with her contemporaries on the leading edge of evolutionary transformation such as Andrew Cohen (Evolutionary Enlightenment), Don Beck (Spiral Dynamics) and Ken Wilbur (Integral Theory), to name a few.
Albere’s awakening to this new paradigm of relatedness catapulted her onto the forefront of an evolutionary, spiritual and cultural movement, while inspiring her to create the Evolutionary Collective (EC), a transformational educational institute focused on discovering, cultivating and materializing what we’ve not yet imagined possible by way of creativity, connection, relationship and collective consciousness. Through talks, teachings, web-casts, live & virtual workshops, and collaboration with others, the Evolutionary Collective is opening people to a radical shift in perspective, inviting them to step out of self-contained “me” consciousness and into the profound interconnectedness and larger service to the well-being of the whole.
In addition to running and facilitating the EC and hosting her radio show, Albere teaches Evolutionary Relationships, an initial 7-week course that allows people to step into a different realm of relating. The follow-up course, Evolutionary Relationships Immersion, is a four-month virtual weekly seminar in which she supports participants in delving deeply into the study and direct experience of true mutuality and inter-relatedness.
“It’s a really exciting time for humanity to explore what’s possible in all forms of relationship,” said Albere, “because it’s the action of coming together that is allowing us to push way beyond the edges of our own personal growth and liberation into a truly inspired and expansive unknown by way of authentic relatedness, mutuality and love. There are a handful of us who are ready to connect beyond the limitations of the ego and survival consciousness. Evolutionary relatedness demands integrity, it demands that we accept responsibility for the inescapable influence we have on one another, and it demands a wholehearted commitment to serve more than our individual selves. It’s from that orientation that we are discovering and creating the tools, techniques and means for the innovative action the planet is urgently inviting; and the reality is: those pieces can only be created together.”
Albere recently brought the EC model into joint partnership with philosopher, teacher and writer, Jeff Carreira, long-time student and colleague of spiritual evolutionary, Andrew Cohen. Together for the first time, these two change-agents are merging their respective gifts, strengths, and combined 60 years of teaching in the fields of personal and group evolutionary transformation. Their work creates a powerful field of shared consciousness that reveals previously unimagined potentials for human development that can and is moving humanity far beyond the limits of personal growth.
Albere resides in New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her highly anticipated book, Evolutionary Relationships, will be released in 2013.