Alliance for Students with Disability Status

Alliance for Students with Disability Status empowers students with disabilities to cultivate resources and to create a community.

Contact:
Jordan marks mrjmarks@sbcglobal.net

CIIStories Project

This project is intended to gradually develop an anthology of stories by students, staff and faculty in which are related extraordinary experiences they encountered that led to their arrival at CIIS, or which developed since they came here, or both. This project is predicated on the thesis that CIIS is more than just another graduate school. As stories accumulate, a portrait will begin to emerge of our school as not only an innovative leader in such revolutionary concepts of the academic world as integral education and the latest vision of transpersonal theory, but also as an alchemical retort wherein the awakening and transformation of human beings take place.

The CIIStories Group has been formed to monitor and administer the CIIStories Project, so that the Project can be perpetuated over time. The Project has the character of a literary effort, so the Group will function as an editorial board. They are responsible for first, selecting the stories that clearly exhibit the characteristics which evoke amazement and provoke thought; second, proofreading; third, possibly proposing minor editing of the stories to the authors with the aim of highlighting or clarifying the special character of the stories; and finally, archiving and – with the author’s permission – presenting the stories.

Contact: Adrian Auler
Email: adrian@techwerke.com

Martial Artists of CIIS

Martial Artists of CIIS is open to any student or faculty member who is a practicing martial artist or who is interested in learning more about the martial arts. Our purpose is to provide a place for discussion of the various arts and styles, demonstration of applications and techniques, and commraderie among artists regardless of style or tradition.

Contact:
David Hill David.R.Hill@gmail.com

Meditation Group
Mission Statement: Discerning, harmonizing, embodying and integrating.

Contact: Jeremy Zhu
Email: beijing_cambridge@yahoo.com

MULTIPeopLES

MULTIPeopLES (the group) will serve as a support group for students, faculty and staff at CIIS who identify as multi-racial. This term encompasses people who identify as multi-ethnic, bi-racial, bi-cultural, or mixed. The purpose of the group will be to:

•Explore how the multiracial experience can contribute to the understanding and unlearning of racism
•Foster connection between people who identify as multiracial
•Provide a forum for multi people to share stories, explore identity and offer support
•Create awareness at CIIS about the existence of multiracial people
•Contribute to CIIS’ ongoing dialogue on diversity from a multiracial perspective
•Protect the right of multiracial individuals to self-identify
•Protect the right of multiracial individuals to have their full identity acknowledged
•Protect the right of multiracial individuals to not be forced to “choose one” identity
•Participate in meetings with the POC and White People Working Against Racism groups to dialogue about racism, privilege and diversity

Members need not utilize multiracial as their primary or only definition. People may choose to find support here as well as other campus groups addressing issues of diversity and privilege. This is also a space for those whose identity does not fit into that of the POC or White People Working Against Racism groups.

Contact: Susan Leksander
Email: suzq77@aol.com
Phone: 415.425.8174

People of Color Group

The People of Color Group is open to faculty, staff, and students of color. The group meets weekly to discuss issues of diversity at the Institute and to provide ongoing support to the community of color at CIIS. A major goal of the group is to promote cultural diversity and awareness in the CIIS community.

Contacts:
Shirley Strong sstrong@ciis.edu
Yvette Coronado-Mercer coronado.mercer@yahoo.com

Psycho Dharma

Psycho Dharma explores the integration of Psychology and Buddhism.

Contact:
Gal Szekley gal.sekely@gmail.com

Queer@CIIS Group

Discussion forum and support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning members of the CIIS community.

Contact: Group
Email: TBA

Species Alliance

Species Alliance is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that birthed out of the Sixth Extinction Support Group at CIIS. Our mission is to raise public awareness of the impending mass extinction and the threat to Earth's life support systems due to this loss of biodiversity. Through our films and other media, website, and outreach, we seek to ignite a new sense of community empowerment and purpose, in order to stimulate creative and effective changes in public policies and human behavior that will assure a healthy future for all life on Earth. Website: speciesalliance.org

Contact: David Ulansey
Phone: 415.575.6274. Email: dulansey@ciis.edu

Student Alliance

Student Alliance is a student-run organization that facilitates communication, sponsors events, and allocates funding to help students and student groups actualize the seven institute ideals. Listening to student voices, we build alliances, cultivate student leadership, and advocate for social change and transformation of existing power structures.

Student Alliance Website
Contact: Shirley Strong, Dean of Students
Phone: 415/575-6171, Email: sstrong@ciis.edu or studentalliance@ciis.edu

Theatre for Change

We are committed to using theatrical performance to give voice and representation to people of color; to open dialogue within the community on issues of race, racism, and equality; and to encourage our audience to fight inequality on a personal, institutional, and societal level.

Contact:
Renee Emunah (Faculty Advisor) remunah@ciis.edu

Unite!

To advocate for the building of alliances among diverse students To actively promote and work toward social justice and diversity goals at CIIS.

Contact:
Elijah Nella piquantly@gmail.com

White People Working Against Racism

The White People Working Against Racism group is open to students, faculty, and staff who want to participate in a process towards unlearning racism, examining their experience of white social privilege, confronting histories of silence, shame, and complicity, and moving towards alliance-building with people of color for racial justice at CIIS and beyond. Out of respect for people of color, we are meeting as a caucus group of white people. We consider it very important that we don’t impose on people of color the role of “teaching us how we are racist” or the need to care-take people who might be at various stages of their own consciousness around racism or oppression.

Contact:
Laurel Carangelo & Ellen Durst, no2racism@gmail.com