Bridging Transpersonal Theories,
Practices and Applications
Sunday, August 15, 2010, 12:00 noon (PT)
to Friday, August 20, 2010, 9:30 AM (PT)
Presentation Center, Los Gatos, California
In our Global Master's Program, our foremost mission and goal is to provide our students a strong background in theories, practices, and applications of Transpersonal Psychology. Our second mission and goal is to help all of us to bridge our transpersonal studies, practices, and applications with areas of personal and professional specialization.
In order to help further our personal as well as professional specialization, we will invite specialists from the fields of Creativity and Innovation, Health and Wellness, and Spiritual Psychology and Guidance to serve as model teachers, mentors, and presenters for this seminar. Together we will explore different approaches to both personally embody and professionally enliven our transpersonal specialization. In this end, we shall seek to expand our study, practice, and application of Transpersonal Psychology beyond Self -- to interpersonal, communal, and global systems.
Faculty & Presenters
Keynote Speaker
Clay as a Spiritual Practice
Kat McIver, Ph.D., REAT
Monday, August 16, 2010
2:00 – 5:00 pm and 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Clay, earth itself, is a natural medium with which to connect to the earth, our bodies, and our hearts. In this workshop, we will embrace our own earth through clay and bring forth what needs to be heard in the way of prayer. Through movement, meditation and the clay we will invite what is deep within us to come forth. We will explore how art can be a radical response to and for life. In the silent spaciousness of the heart center we can listen to what calls us to love, compassion and action.
Kat McIver, Ph.D., REAT is an artist, expressive arts/spiritual guidance counselor whose work emphasizes the importance of the heart center. She believes the qualities of the heart - compassion, unconditional love, innate harmony and healing presence - forge a spaciousness for healing, both in ourselves and for world. Kat received a Masters degree in Spirituality from Holy Names College, a Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology, with an emphasis on creative expression and spiritual guidance, from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She currently resides in Asheville, North Carolina and is an active studio artist at Odyssey Center for Ceramics. She also offers private sessions and workshops in Conscious Creative Elderhood.
Other Presenters and Faculty:
Heart to Heart, Wild to Wild: Connecting to the Spirit of Place
Nancy Mangano Rowe, Ph.D.
Monday, August 16, 2010
9:00 am – 12 noon
The Presentation Retreat Center is deeply ensouled. It is filled with life, spirit, and great beauty. We are called not only to participate in this seminar, but also to be conscious of our relationship to Spirit's creation. During this experience, we will explore sacred ecology and what it means to be in intimate relationship with Gaia. Through discussion, experiential activities, and contemplative walkabouts we will renew our appreciation for the sacredness of the landscape, connect with our Earth friends, and become more aware of our interconnectedness with life's participants.
Nancy Mangano Rowe, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and a licensed Mental Health Counselor and Creative Arts Therapist. She was recently ordained as a Minister of Walking Prayer through the Center of Sacred Studies, an earth-based prayer ministry program. Her passion is helping others to reconnect to Earth, to their imaginations, and to their creative, intuitive selves. Her website is wisdomheart.com.
Embodying Spirit in Community through Traditional West African Dance
Caro Diallo (with Ingrid Sell)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
9:00 am – 12 noon
In Africa, community embraces every member as an integral part of the whole. This is most evident in communal celebrations of dance and drumming, where the unique movements of each person are appreciated equally along with the enjoyment of gifted performers' prowess. Diallo will lead the group in a rigorous exhilarating workout. His fluid, accessible style of teaching is appropriate for ALL levels of proficiency. From absolute beginner (even if you have never taken a step of any sort of dance) to seasoned dancers, offering a truly experiential embodiment of the spirit that is called in by the particular rhythms of the drums. We will process from his celebrated warm-up that is virtual catalog of West African dance movements, through a simple choreography, followed by a circle in with the gifts of all who are part of this community will be honored. This will be followed later by time in which there will be an opportunity to connect with Diallo and discover the ways in which spirit, song, storytelling, art and community converge in West African culture.
Wear comfortable clothing that you can move in and bring water to drink. Optional: A sarong or wrap skirt around the hips is traditional for women.
Caro Diallo, master dancer/choreographer, grew up in the subtropical Casamanceregion of Senegal, West Africa leaning the different native dances of multiple tribal groups of Senegal, New Guinea and surrounding countries. At 20 he moved to the capital, Dakar, where he studied under acclaimed Master Joe Bouschanzi. As a member of the celebrated national dance company Foret Sacré, he traveled and performed extensively throughout Africa and Europe.
In 1992, Diallo established his own company, Black Soofa, which has been performing around West Africa and Europe since then, as well as annually performing at the Senegalese festivals in Abene, Kafountine and Ziguinchor. In 1996, Diallo established a cultural center in the coastal village of Abene, where there already was a concentration of interest in traditional West African dance and drumming, and an annual festival of these arts takes place each December.
For two months each year, Black Soofa trains at his cultural center while performing at the Abene Festival as well as in Ziguinchor. Diallo makes his home in Bern, Switzerland. He regularly performs and teaches African dance classes and workshops year-round in Europe.
Being Transpersonal: The Siren Call of Transformational Coaching
Karen Gallant, MAT, PCC
Thursday, August 19, 2010
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Living from a transpersonal perspective demands that we wake up. Coaching is a new discipline that offers a dynamic, powerful, and irresistible invitation to live into our full potential. Transformational Coaching teaches us how to "be-with" ourselves and our clients in practical and productive ways. It is hard work waking up! Transformational coaching shows us how to do it. During the presentation, you'll experience some of the basic strategies of coaching, and learn more about how it works.
Karen Gallant, MATS, PCC is the Coaching coordinator for the transformational Coaching Profession Training. She is also an artist, ITP mentor (C & I specialization) and an ICF certified creativity coach. Throughout her career as an educator, artist, and coach, she has worked with individuals, groups, non-profit organizations, and at-risk populations. She is author of the handbook, "Art for the Heart: Becoming a Skillful Creative Arts Facilitator," and has exhibited her paintings widely. She currently lives In Berkeley with her husband of 35 years.
