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Resourcing Across the Lifespan
No full textHow might a client\u27s age and stage of life influence the resources chosen in therapy? How does the maturing body-mind experience the Ground of Being? How best can we utilize those spiritual resources a client himself may bring to therapy, i.e. beliefs, practices and experiences, in order to facilitate not only their resolution of past trauma but also the greater unfolding of their movement towards Wholeness? To explore these questions three male clients (child, young adult, adult) are presented and intervention highlights discussed
Why We Study the Universe
No full textCIIS Professor Brian Swimme explores why trying to make sense of the universe is one of the oldest projects around and how these questions lead us to regularly reinvent what it means to be human. This talk is part of our Big Ideas at CIIS series.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1016/thumbnail.jp
This Writing Life
No full textPeabody Award-winning author Richard Rodriguez is joined in conversation by CIIS writing professor Carolyn Cook for a discussion on writing and the writer\u27s life.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1014/thumbnail.jp
New Discoveries in Health Science
No full textCIIS Professor Meg Jordan explores some of the most compelling new ideas in health from the world of science.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1006/thumbnail.jp
Neurodiversity and Creativity
No full textOne of the leading thinkers in the emergent field of neurodiversity, CIIS faculty member Nick Walker, discusses the benefits of a more neurodiverse world. This talk was part of the Big Ideas at CIIS series.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1004/thumbnail.jp
A Critical Analysis of African-Centered Psychology: From Ism to Praxis
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to critically evaluate what is perceived as shortcomings in the scholarly field of African-centered psychology and mode of transcendence, specifically in terms of the existence of an African identity. A great number of scholars advocate a total embrace of a universal African identity that unites Africans in the diaspora and those on the continent and that can be used as a remedy to a Eurocentric domination of psychology at the detriment of Black communities’ specific needs. Another group of scholars argue for a relative African identity, emphasizing diversity and differences among African people both on the continent and in the diaspora. Considering that the earlier works in the field focused on laying its ideological foundation, this paper suggests that African-centered psychology and mode of transcendence should: (a) move beyond discussions on ideologies and identities, (b) concentrate on developing practical applications of its guiding principles, and (c) reclaim the relevance of an African history, memory, and past. In other words, having reclaimed African history, memory, and past, African-centered psychology can move away from ism and advance toward more praxis
On the Significance of Psychodynamic Discourse for the Field of Consciousness Studies
Get PDFDespite the obvious confluence of concerns between psychodynamic psychology and the emerging field of consciousness studies, the extent to which psychodynamic thinking has factored into the consciousness literature has been limited. With widespread interest in “the unconscious” having significantly diminished, the present paper asks what might be implied in the shift towards the notion of “consciousness”—what about this cross-disciplinary designation has come to attract attention not only within the academic world, but also in the popular press? That the term does indeed invite contributions from a variety of disciplines makes the field both a meeting space, and a battleground. It is posited that the field of consciousness studies can be considered both a reaction to, and a reflection of, the evolving nature of psychoanalysis in the English-speaking world. After demonstrating the ways in which depth psychological discourse is implicated in the debates around consciousness, the author suggests why the notion of an unconscious mind might profitably be adopted in the consciousness literature. Stressing the clinical and ethical significance of an assumed capacity for creative autonomy in individuals, this paper grounds itself in a fundamental concern for the sociopolitical dimensions of the consciousness debates
COMMENTARIES ON DEEPAK CHOPRA AND MENAS KAFATOS’ BOOK, “YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE”; 2017, HARMONY BOOKS.
Get PDFRestoring the Earth to the Center of Our Universe
No full textThe Copernican revolution was by all accounts one of the most brilliant, vast, and consequential of all paradigms shifts in the history of human thought - indeed, for Kuhn, it was the very paradigm of paradigm shifts. It was also one of the most complex, filled with paradoxes both leading to and unfolding from its dramatic concrescence in the 16th and 17th centuries. Two of these paradoxes in particular may hold special relevance for our current evolutionary crisis. Unpacking these may offer us unexpected diagnostic insights and help point toward a potential path through the great threshold of transformation humankind now faces
California Institute of Integral Studies--Catalog 2016-2017
Get PDFThis is the 2016-2017 catalog of courses, staff and faculty for the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/academiccatalogs/1031/thumbnail.jp