Transformative Stillness

A live virtual meditation experience led by Michael Lifshitz & Pam Kramer

December 14, 2025, 9:00 am – Noon PT
Online Event via Zoom

Join us for a few peaceful hours of stillness meditation before the holiday season begins and 2025 comes to a close. Enjoy spacious periods of silence and insights about practice from Michael Lifshitz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University. ITP teacher Pam Kramer will host and lead mindful movement segments during the session.

At this special gathering, Michael will guide us into deep, nourishing stillness and share emerging research on states of deep meditation, exploring how the brain can generate feelings of gentle contentment and even bliss. We’ll take science as a launching point to reflect on different approaches to meditation, emphasizing the value of a playful, exploratory approach to practice.

Bring your questions about the effects of meditation on healing, relationships, well being and ways to navigate the cultural spaces we inhabit with greater harmony.

"Plunge into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely 'understandable' world. The unseen region in question is not merely ideal, for it produces effects in this world.” – William James

Session Facilitator & Host

Michael Lifshitz

Michael Lifshitz, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, working at the intersection of contemplative practice, neuroscience, and anthropology. He studies practices that aim to transform subjective experience—from meditation and hypnosis to placebos, prayer, and psychedelics. He completed his PhD in Neuroscience at McGill and then a postdoc in Anthropology at Stanford.

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Pam Kramer

Pam Kramer is President of ITP International, the non-profit organization that stewards ITP and the work of its founders, George Leonard and Michael Murphy. Pam is an ITP Mastery teacher, is on the faculty of Esalen Institute, and presents workshops at venues in the US and abroad. She is engaged in training ITP teachers, helping to form ITP groups, and bringing integral principles and practices to the workplace. Pam is a performance consultant and executive coach for organizations and entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area.