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Advocating for Transgender Rights
No full textTransgender activist and pioneer Theresa Sparks in conversation with transgender CIIS professor, Dr. Jamison Green.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1028/thumbnail.jp
Musical Creativity and Mindfulness Meditation: Can the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation Enhance Perceived Musical Creativity?
Get PDFThe relationship between musical creativity and mindfulness meditation is explored through a qualitative study of three composers’ individual experiences of musical creativity and participation in eight guided mindfulness meditation sessions. Through qualitative interviews conducted before and after completion of a mindfulness course, data was analyzed and categorized into themes in order to identify whether the practice of mindfulness meditation had enhanced participants’ perceived musical creativity. Themes from the first set of interviews (Expression, Harmony, Intuition) represent the participants’ subjective experience of musical creativity, while themes from the second set (Enhanced focus and awareness, Nonstriving) outline subjective changes reported by each participant. The study re-acknowledges the importance of the subjective experience in musical creativity research, which frequently includes transpersonal and spiritual components
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Fall 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integrative-healthnewsletter/1032/thumbnail.jp
The Mind/Body Connection
No full textPhysician and award winning author, Dr Gabor Mate, discusses his research at the intersection of addiction, science, psychology, and compassionhttps://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1030/thumbnail.jp
Feminist and Liberation Psychology
No full textThis conversation is part of the Expanding The Frame series of talks sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/diversityandinclusion-lectures/1002/thumbnail.jp
Psychology, Therapy and Neurodiversity
No full textThis lecture is part of the Expanding The Frame series of talks sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/diversityandinclusion-lectures/1005/thumbnail.jp
Further Developing Transpersonal Psychology as a Science: Building and Testing Middle-Range Transpersonal Theories
Get PDFFurther developing transpersonal psychology as a science has been impeded by the over emphasis on two approaches to building theory, namely grand theories that attempt to explain everything and mini-theories that avoid explaining much of anything. In between these extremes are “middle-range” transpersonal psychology theories that can better allow for scientific progress. They bracket metaphysical and supernatural approaches common in transpersonal grand theories, and accept the possible generalizability of findings commonly rejected by transpersonal mini-theories. The transpersonal construct of self-expansiveness illustrates one way that middle-range transpersonal theories can lead to a program of cumulative empirical research and empirically informed practices. Other transpersonal constructs, such as awe, can also be good candidates for building and testing middle-range transpersonal psychology theories