We work with small groups of participants to facilitate processes of transformation and foster a deeper understanding of human potential.
Transformation and innovation require the audacity of presence, in the face of the unknown. These processes are not about mastering forms; they are about building rapport with generative states. This requires extraordinary presence without the automatic imposition of predictive algorithms culled from our earlier experiences. This can be extremely challenging. How do we resource our systems to tolerate that much presence? Particularly if our systems have suffered consequences for being so “open” in the past? In response to acute trauma, and /or social conditioning, our nervous systems have often learned to limit our behavior to a small subset of possibilities, which have been deemed as the most suitable responses to perceived threats. This well intentioned adaptation of our nervous systems can, over time, limit our full potential, even as it strives to “guarantee” our survival.
The Taoist canon, which at the outset informed classical Chinese medical practices, is extremely rich in practices for lifting the limitations imposed by social conditioning, and by long-term trauma-coping mechanisms, by reestablishing an individual’s agency over their own neurology.
Tools for Transformation is different from other body based techniques in that it deploys the praxis of Taoist cultivation in order to provide a comprehensive map for function recovery, allowing individuals to guide the process across multiple modalities (qi gong exercises, reflective conversation, manual manipulation, guided systemic inquiry…) and eventually at multiple scales (individual, organizational, communal).
Gain agency over processes of transformation to help vitalize your own physical and mental health, and sow the seeds for more integral, responsive, and adaptive structures at every level of our society.
Current Offerings:
At the heart of the intervention is a classical Taoist model for understanding how vital energies move and transform the natural world
In nature FORMS are never static, nor permanent. As the underlying ENERGY shifts, the resulting formal manifestations give way and transFORM, thus safeguarding their integrity.
So deciduous trees shed their leaves in fall as daylight diminishes, retract their life force to their roots during winter when sunlight hours are minimal, and then blossom anew in spring as warmth and light energy become abundant again.
As humans however, we have learned to resist such energetic shifts in an attempt to keep our cultures and economies in endless outward expansion mode. But this “progress” comes at a cost. No system can expand forever. Are our systems reaching their limits? And what effect is this having on the individuals within those systems?
Tools for Transformation provides intensive education/training experiences to help identify how our vitality can get compromised by the very patterns we adopt in order to survive various life circumstances, and then teaches specific, practical techniques for uncompromising that vitality.
Our Intention
Revitalize Systems at Multiple Scales
- Individual health
- Organizational health
- Community Health
By giving people back some of the “missing pages of the owner’s manual” for life in a human body, we can create a collaborative model for healthcare and a dynamically engaged citizenry which understands how processes of transformation occur.
Who We Are
Gregory L’o Beau
FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Gregory has spent decades exploring systems of transformation. He excels at helping individuals to embody the healing practices generated from classical Taoist cosmology, in concrete, and practical ways. His formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts in Semiotics from Brown University, a Master of Fine Arts in directing film from UCLA, and a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from the National University of Natural Medicine. Gregory has trained and taught in classical lineages of internal cultivation for more than 30 years. He trained for 15 years with Shadow Yoga founder Shandor Remete, and is one of only five non-Chinese nationals to be accepted as a formal disciple of Qi Gong and Taoist healing master Wang Qingyu. He is a senior teacher of the Jinjing Gong lineage of Qi Gong, an acupuncturist, author, dancer and facilitator of dynamic group educational experiences. He believes that the many crises we currently face arise from a single root cause: a lack of discernment (discernment being defined as the capacity to have a frank and practicable relation to the energy underlying the various forms with which we interact.) His work is based on the understanding that memorized cosmology gives rise to dogma, while embodied cosmology gives rise to discernment.
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Explore Early Case Studies
The current offerings in the Tools For Transformation program were honed over many years of working intensively with individuals whom Western medicine had largely given up on. I am forever indebted to these individuals who were willing to commit to a different approach back in 2013, and who proved that transformation is always possible.
In Their Own Words
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