January Programs
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Lecture and Demonstration
Friday, January 19 7–9pm
CIIS Main Building
$10
Workshop
Saturday, January 20
10am–5pm
Sunday, January 21
9am–Noon
CIIS Main Building
$175/$150 preregister by January 12
9 CEUs (MFT, LCSW, RN) |
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 Finding Your Inner Musician
David Darling
Each of us is born with an innate musical ability. Rekindle your personal relationship with music making—no matter which instrument or skill level. Regardless of age or musical background, you will be guided toward a deeper, more powerful level of experience as you connect with your natural capacity to create unique sounds and rhythms.
Through movement, chanting, and drumming, you will explore how to hear and receive musical vibration, claim your innate rhythms and timing, and improve your musical self-image. You also will unveil the musician within and develop a method for approaching music on a daily basis. This is an opportunity to experience the joy of personal musical expression and invent a new attitude for thriving on your musical journey.
| David Darling, cellist, composer, and educator, has been opening hearts to the mystery of sound for four decades. He is celebrated for his energetic, loving, and accepting style in emancipating the musical soul in those he teaches. David has produced numerous recordings, as well as released eight solo albums, and more than three dozen collaborative efforts with such diverse artists as Paul Winter and Jan Garbarek. |
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Tickets at the door!
Lecture
Friday, January 26, 7–9pm
CIIS Main Building
$10
Workshop
Saturday, January 27
1–4pm
Cultural Integration Fellowship
$60/$50 preregister by January 19
3 CEUs (MFT, LCSW, RN) |
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 The Alphabet Versus the Goddess:
Brain Lateralization and its Effect on History, Culture, and Gender
Leonard Schlain
The rise of alphabetic literacy—the process of reading and writing—fundamentally reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Writing, particularly alphabets, influenced cultures toward linear left-brain thinking. Such a shift upset the gender balance, initiating the decline of the feminine by upholding the reign of patriarchy and misogyny. In making remarkable connections among brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Leonard Schlain shows why preliterate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the goddess, feminine values, and images. This visually arresting presentation, combined with a lively and intellectual discussion, will transform your view of history and the mind
| Leonard Schlain, MD, is the chairman of laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is an associate clinical professor of surgery at UCSF. He lectures widely throughout the United States and Europe, and has authored three critically acclaimed, national-bestselling, and award-winning books. |
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Weekend Intensive
Friday, January 26,
6:15–9:15pm
Saturday and Sunday,
January 27–28;
10:30am–5:30pm
$200/$175 preregister by
January 19
Extended Weekend
Intensive
Friday, February 2
6:15–9:15pm
Sunday, February 4
10:30am–5:30pm
$300/$275 preregister by
January 19 for January
26–28 and February 2–4
Weekend Intensives and
Weekday Series
Thursdays,
February 8 and 22;
March 1, 8, 15, and 29;
and April 12
6:15–9:15pm
CIIS Main Building
$375/$350
preregister by February 1
12 CEUs
(MFT, LCSW, RN) |
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 Introduction to The Diamond Approach®
Sanjen Miedzinski
The Diamond Approach®, developed by A. H. Almaas, is a modern spiritual path that uses insights from Western psychotherapy to work with blocks to the realization of Essential Aspects, such as love, compassion, peace, strength, will, and joy. It works with obscurations that block access to the formless/boundless dimensions of Being, such as Pure Awareness, Unity, or the Absolute. Through lectures, meditations, practice of presence, and inquiry into one’s moment-by-moment experience, The Diamond Approach supports the soul’s journey from its unconscious identification with the personality to find its home in the mysterious ground of True Nature and then mature into a Person of Being who arises from this ground.
(www.ahalmaas.com)
| Sanjen Miedzinski, PhD, is an ordained teacher of The Diamond Approach and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from City University of New York. She coteaches the Pacific Northwest Diamond Approach Group in Seattle and leads small groups, including private sessions, for Diamond Approach® Groups in the Bay Area and New York. Sanjen is a cofounder and core faculty member for CIIS’s master’s in Counseling Psychology program (offering a concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy), as well as a former director of the Transpersonal Psychology program and associate dean for the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University. |
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