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Laurance S. Rockefeller Grants $190,000 for Faculty Projects Support for "New Story of the Universe" Projects
One project will be a video focusing on the connections between science and religion. Brian says, "I'm grateful to Mr. Rockefeller for supporting this work. The video will explore both the similarities and the differences in accounts of the universe given by science and by religion. It may be that the new story of the evolving universe can serve as a link in creating an organizing mythic framework for the new millennium." The grant also will support a conference Brian will plan in coordination with the Harvard Forum on Religion and Ecology. In response to the global environmental crisis, The Forum on Religion and Ecology initiated interdisciplinary dialogue that brings the field of religious studies together with academic and activist discourse on the environment. The forum hopes to find new ways to revision future human-earth relations. Brian explains, "It will be a very exciting conference, because key scholars in world religions who are concerned with environmental crises will come into dialogue with evolutionary scientists who are interested in the notion of a new story of the universe. We hope that our work will become part of a growing movement as religions awaken to the possibilities of drawing upon the resources of their own traditions in addressing these challenges." For upcoming events with Dr. Brian Swimme go to www.brianswimme.org.
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Compassionate Transformation East-West Psychology doctoral candidate Vanissar Tarakali has found a creative way to combine her interests in Buddhism and in transforming racism. She recently taught a three-month class entitled"Compassionate Transformation: A Buddhist Way to Unlearn Racism," which was sponsored by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Vanissar says,"'Compassionate Transformation' is a course for white people that is designed to move us beyond denial, guilt, and isolation into taking action. The course as a whole was an exercise in developing 'compassionate racial consciousness,' which refers to the ability to sustain awareness of and empathy about the effects of racism and white privilege on people of color, while maintaining a sense of kindness and patience towards oneself and other white people. This approach is an antidote to responses of white people to racism that are often characterized by guilt, denial, and isolation. People reported that they experienced a shift in the way they saw the world and themselves—in their capacity to see the racism and white privilege that exists within and around them, in an increased tendency to challenge racist speech or behavior, and in greater compassion towards themselves and other white people around these issues." There is an action component to the class, and participants spontaneously decided to continue meeting to support each other's antiracist work. Vanissar says, "The group has taken on a life of its own. It doesn't need me anymore—it's wonderful!" Vanissar is a BASE (Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement) graduate, a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, and an organizer of Healing Racism in Our Sanghas. Vanissar has facilitated numerous trainings and group processes, including incest survivor groups, meditation groups, sexual assault service trainings, and community action groups. She has participated for over three years in anti-racist group processes, including Untraining with Robert Horton, White Consciousness at CIIS, and workshops with Stir Fry Seminars, and Todos. For information about her next class beginning February 11, call Vanissar at 510-594-6812 or email vanissart@ciis.edu.
Dear Colleagues: I have just returned from a week-long trip that included attending the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and visiting Laurance S. Rockefeller, honorary trustee of CIIS. In both meetings, the conversation focused on technology and online education. Like many CIIS initiatives, our online programs have made us pioneers in American higher education: the Institute is among the first universities to offer an online doctorate. Through the efforts of many CIIS faculty, especially professor Liz Campbell, the Institute has earned deserved recognition as a leader in quality online education. While the competition in online education has dramatically increased in the past decade, CIIS continues to maintain its academic niche by what it offers (the integration of Eastern and Western wisdom traditions); our efforts continue to improve how we offer it. In the coming months, we will accelerate our development of a comprehensive strategic initiative regarding online education that will advance our distinct educational mission in both degree-granting and continuing education programs. As a critical part of our efforts, we will explore a broad range of pedagogic styles that will keep us current in online education. The CIIS website is serving to attract many prospective students and friends to the Institute. Thanks to Susanna Spiro, web coordinator, and Anne Teich, director of the Bachelor of Arts Completion Program, we now have an online catalog. Technology also needs to play a more critical role in enhancing our face-to-face academic programs. Building on the work of Lionel Chan and a number of faculty members, we need to explore and expand our use of technology in enriching all academic programs. As we are becoming increasingly aware, technology can assist us in implementing innovative teaching and learning techniques as well as in enhancing traditional methods. At the core of CIIS is a spirit of educational creativity—let us work together to nurture our heritage. Let us strive to lead higher education not only in the what but also in the how.
Keeping in Touch with Student Alliance Meetings Guest Housing Bulletin Board
New Student Recruitment Underway As the spring semester begins, the Admissions Office staff is already involved in recruiting students for the fall semester. The admissions recruitment team, through increased outreach and networking at local and national college fairs, projects that fall student enrollment will continue its upward trend. The staff already is gearing up for local recruiting fairs in Oakland, Concord, Santa Clara and San Francisco. These local recruitment events are being coordinated by the Bay Area Graduate Admissions Professionals (BAGAP) and the East Bay Partners for Higher Education. CIIS is a member of both of these organizations, with staff member Greg Canada serving as co-chair of BAGAP. In addition, CIIS will host its annual Spring Open House on February 17 from 10:00a.m.-2:00 p.m. here at the Institute. Contact the admissions staff for more information on any of these events. CIIS OPEN HOUSE
Reminder: Bicycle Cage Available There is a bicycle cage for the use of the CIIS community in the Minna Street parking lot. This is much safer than parking your bike on the street. Bikes should not be left in the neighborhood overnight, even in the cage. When you step up to the cage to use the combination lock, a light will automatically come on. You may sign up to use the cage and get the combination through the greeter or the Dean of Students Office by presenting your student ID card. Thank you and happy bicycling!
Professionally Speaking Steven Goodman, Asian & Comparative Studies; Gallery talk with Sheila Braufman, and Carol Marie Garcia (artist) "Marking Time through Art," Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, February 4, 2001. Joseph L. Subbiondo, President In Print Alfonso Montuori, Transformative Learning & Change; Unusual Associates: A Festschrift in Honor of Frank Barron (Hampton Press, 1997) received a favorable review in Contemporary Psychology. ___ Social Creativity, Volumes 1-2 (Hampton Press, 1999), reviewed in Human Relations, was called "highly readable volumes which can foster contributions across disciplines, itself a route to creative process, and the possibility of putting insights on creativity to work, that is changing the ways in which we organize our work and relationships." ___ "Humanistic Psychology in the Workplace," co-authored with Ronald Purser, Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, edited by Bugenthal, Schneider, and Pierson (Sage Publications). Stuart Sovatsky '84, East-West Psychology adjunct faculty;" Spirituality and Psychotherapy: The Matter of Separation Anxiety," The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, winter 2000-2001. ___" Too-vivid Impermanence: Psychopathology & DSM-IV Religious Issues," Review of Existential Psychiatry and Psychology, winter 2000-2001. Alumni
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Sage Perspectives: Theodore Roszak
Dr. Roszak's most recent book is The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (Conari Press, 1999), in which he discusses his belief that compulsive masculinity has distorted our relationship with nature. He says, "I believe that we need to have a major conference on feminist psychology, especially as it applies to the environment. Most scientists still believe that there is no bias in their work, that the scientific method protects them from it. What they don't realize is that the method itself was shaped in a context of gender bias. Even the concept of the atom is a gendered concept. In my book, I am proposing a gender-free science." Dr. Roszak also is passionately interested in the subject of aging. In April his new book, The Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders, will be published. He proposes that demographics are now creating a powerful basis for social change. As a higher proportion of the population reaches their middle and later years, he says, "Social values will be changing. Our society is aging beyond the values that created it. The old values include the ability to change quickly, the ability to work hard, and the ability to compete. Those values are inappropriate for an aging population. The competitive marketplace is coming to have less meaning and purpose for people." When asked how this might affect institutions such as CIIS he responded, "As more people come to schools with needs and interests beyond preparing for a career, the curricula need to change. An aging population will be more interested in values, philosophy, religion, meaning, purpose, mortality, and preparing for their later years. One of the values most people can now agree upon is the need to preserve the health of the planet. We need a curriculum that's appropriate to the making of an elder culture, a culture that can shift our values."
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Sicily, May 22-June 6 Turkey, June 8-June 21 Greece, June 24-July 8
Honors, Appointments & Announcements Faculty Stu Sovatsky '84, adjunct professor, has been chosen as co-president, with David Lukoff, of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Stu says,"We want to create an organization that will serve spiritually-inclined activists, researchers, and clinical professionals. SEN@CIIS will, of course be a big part of such work, as will be the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, which is edited by CIIS professor Kaisa Puhakka." ATP and CIIS will be co-sponsoring a conference in August 2001 on"Anomalous Experiences." Stuart also has been chosen by The Infinity Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey to co-convene a seven- day conference in January 2002 at Columbia University with Robert Thurman on"Indic Influences in the Contemporary World." Stu explains,"As the first of ten such events planned over the next decade worldwide, the goal is to create a community of scholars, healers, and activists who will join in a multicultural world renaissance." Staff Greg Canada, senior admissions officer, has been elected to co-chair the Bay Area Admissions Professionals organization, which supports the professional development of its members and serves as a forum for sharing knowledge and strategies for student recruitment.
A Tokyo-San Francisco Connection On March 23, 2000, Inner Eye announced the initiation of collaboration between CIIS and Tokyo mental health service agency Japan Institute of Psychotherapy (JIP) that would explore U.S. and Japanese contributions to the field of psychotherapy. Somatics professor Don Hanlon Johnson and Haru Murakawa '90 (East-West Psychology) are the project coordinators. In an update on the project Don says, "Haru and I just returned from a trip to Japan. I gave the lecture that formally opened the JIP at the Green Goddess Hotel in Tokyo on January 7, entitled 'Psychotherapy as a Practice of Ordinary Life.' We also visited the Toshiba Foundation, which is helping to fund a San Francisco visit in summer 2001 by Dr. Hayao Kawai. Dr. Kawai is the first Jungian analyst in Japan and director of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto." In July 2001, several seminars, co-sponsored by CIIS and the San Francisco Jung Institute, will be held in San Francisco. Dr. Hayao Kawai will participate in two seminars, one on clinical sand play therapy and another that will be an intramural seminar for analysts and candidates. He will also give two public lectures/symposia. The first will address Asian spiritual traditions and Jungian psychology. The second will cover the topic of Japanese culture and Western psychology. Watch future issues of Inner Eye and the CIIS Website for additional details. These workshops are available for continuing education credit. Read Don Hanlon Johnson's lecture, delivered at the Japan Institute of Psychotherapy on January 7, 2001.
Major Reconstructive Surgery by Lionel Chan, Chief Information Officer InnerLight Bookstore Save the Date! March 31, 2001—Eckhart Tolle Returns to
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Welcome to: Michael Szkotak as director of financial aid. Michael is returning to this position at the Institute which he formerly held from 1991 to 1998. Since then he has been director of financial aid at Pacifica Graduate Institute and California College of Arts and Crafts. Transitions: Correction:
March 7, 3:00-5:00 pm Wednesday, February 21, 6:30-8:30 pm February 22, 5:00-7:00 pm
HINT: Who would have thought that this little rascal would take on one of the leaders in transpersonal psychology and find a way to get paid for his interest in sexuality?! ANSWER AT: InnerGate-mail.ciis.edu. Each issue of the Inner Eye features a photograph of staff or faculty from another time in their lives. (Please submit photos along with a "hint" to Candice Chase in Communications.) |
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Dr. Brian Swimme with Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker will present on "Cosmocentric Consciousness in an Evolving Universe" at the International Conference on Science and Consciousness; for details, call 505-474-0998 or 505-474-7604, or e-mail: message@nets.com. website: www.bizspirit.com. Friday, April 27 May 22 - June 6 June 15-17 July 2001 For additional details on these events, go to www.ciis.edu, unless other contact information is given. Events are at CIIS unless otherwise indicated. For a complete, detailed listing of Spring 2001 Continuing Education programs, or to register for a program, visit the website at www.ciis.edu.
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Professor
An
incisive interpreter of cultural, philosophical, and scientific trends, Theodore
Roszak is professor of history and director of the Ecopsychology Institute
at California State University, Hayward. He has twice been nominated for the National
Book Award and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also a member of the
CIIS Council of Sages. Among his books are The Voice of the Earth and The
Making of a Counterculture.
We
have completed our first 2001 project: the redesign of our entire computer network.
Jon Morgan, director of the Information Systems and Technology Office, best described
the procedure as follows: "With biomedical engineering training in a previous
incarnation, I can't resist physiological metaphors. Our work was analogous to
a heart transplant. We replaced SATURN (the previous heart) with JUPITER (a new
server). We then instructed all of the computers, printers, and other servers
to exchange 'blood' with JUPITER. We further improved our cardiovascular system
with a new central networking switch. We also put a new external skin (firewall)
on our network to protect us from the external environment (internet security).
Finally, we improved our immune system by installing new anti-virus protection
software on all nine CIIS servers. The main benefit of this critical project is
the increased security of our networked resources from outside forces, more reliable
network server hardware, and better backup mechanisms for CIIS institutional data."
