Embodying the Dream: Imagination, Intuition, and Direct Knowing
Saturday, January 29, 2011, 12:00 noon (PT) to
Thursday, February 3, 2010, 10:30 AM (PT)
Presentation Center, Los Gatos, California
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.- Rumi
Rumi reminds us, there are so many ways to know, understand, to express, to connect, to "kiss the ground." At times teachers share their knowledge, thoughts, and ideas, inspire us. At other times, we enter into awareness through our imagination, our stories, or by listening to the voice of our inner stirrings. In these times, deeper levels of understanding often blossom wordlessly and are later understood as we ground them through reflection and inquiry. We become enlivened and transformed.
This seminar will focus on ways of knowing that emerge as we cultivate and engage our imagination, intuition, and transpersonal processes. We will access our inner knowing through dream work, archetypal exploration, reflection, philosophy, creative expression, and collective awareness. Our seminar facilitators will provide the fertile ground for embodying the deep intelligence that emerges through image, the heart, and other indirect ways of knowing.
Come to the seminar and meet the ITP community and begin to understand why we refer to our learning communities as co-hearts!
Keynote Speaker
Dreams: Portal to Inner Knowing
Jeremy Taylor,D. Min.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:00 – 5:00 pm and
Monday, January 31, 2011 9:00 a.m. – 12 Noon
All dreams come in service of our health and wholeness and are important portals to self-awareness and personal transformation. Jeremy Taylor will speak to us about what dreams are, why they matter, and guide us in dream exploration. At this experiential workshop, we will explore the deeper meanings and the many layers of dreams. Please come prepared to offer a dream at this workshop if you would like.
Jeremy Taylor,D. Min., an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked with dreams for over thirty years. He blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. Founding member and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, he has written four books integrating dream symbolism, mythology, and archetypal energy including: The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap Into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life, The Living Labyrinth: Universal Themes in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life; Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill; and Dream Work. His website is http://www.jeremytaylor.com
Day Passes Available: $75, includes:
1/30/11 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
1/31/11 9:00 a.m. – 12 noon (includes lunch)
Register Online for the Day Pass
Other Presenters and Faculty:
Entering the Sacred Garden: Awakening to the Way of Heart
Nancy Mangano Rowe, Ph.D.
(No passes available)
These chaotic times invite us to enter the Sacred Garden, a place of closer relationship with our selves, our communities, and our Earth Mother. The Sacred Garden requires us to welcome our instinctual knowledge, our intuition, and our imagination, to balance intellect with direct revelation, and to find clear ways of discerning truth from fantasy. From this heart-place, we can dream, open to intuition, and feel more connected with Gaia.
In this experiential workshop, we will explore the ways of the heart. We will open to awareness through inner sensing, and experience how this deepens our connection with Earth and with each other. Together we will tend the Sacred Garden of heart-centered self and community.
Nancy Mangano Rowe, Ph.D. is a member of the Core Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and is licensed as a Mental Health Counselor and a Creative Arts Therapist. She has also been ordained as a Minister of Walking Prayer though the Center for Sacred Studies. Nancy writes curriculum for the Master's global program and teaches courses in ecospirituality, dreams, creativity, spirituality, and ecopsychology. Her goal is to help others to fully connect to their intuitive, embodied, creative, and natural selves. She is currently researching and writing about people's spiritual connection to the natural world. Nancy has led spiritual retreats, seminars, workshops, and pilgrimages across the United States and in Greece. Her website is wisdomheart.com
Ch'an (Chinese Zen) Buddhism and its Direct Path of Knowing
Henry Poon, Ph.D., L.M.F.T.
(No passes available)
We will explore and share the Direct Path of Knowing, or Sudden Enlightenment, through the wisdom approach of the sixth patriarch and founder of Ch'an Buddhism. It is most important in this present age of insecurity and relativity to recover our sense of Direct Knowing, to realize our center of True Nature, and to reconnect the original source of our Heart-Mind through our everyday Life and relations. During our exploration together, we will both refer and recite from The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng (Trans. by A.F. Price & Wong Mou-lam, 1990).
Henry Poon, Ph.D. , L.M.F.T., is the Chair of the Global Certificate, Master's, and Ph.D. Programs at ITP. He is presently a licensed therapist in California. He has been a certified clinical psychologist and a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health in Japan. Henry is interested in the study, practice, and application of Self-cultivation as an integrative healing approach to wisdom, health, and wholeness. His goal is to inspire students and clients to actively transform in order to include a higher sense of integration and integrity in their everyday lives, helping to transmute mundane concerns into a sacred art of living.
Archetypal Images and the Individuation Journey
Patricia Sohl, M.D., M.P.H
(No passes available)
Archetypal images journey to our ego consciousness through dreams, creative expression, imagination, and intuition. These images invite us to dialog between our daily life and our deeper authenticity. In this workshop we will explore the individuation process and respond to various aspects of the archetypal invitation.
Patricia Sohl, M.D., M.P.H is a member of the Residential Core Faculty as an Associate Professor and Director of the Creative Expression Specialization. She is a certified Jungian Analyst (graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, and a member of I.A.A.P.) whose special interest is in the role of symbolic _expression in healing. She is Curator of the ARAS collection (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Clinic.
Trance Dance for Peace, Passion, and Prayer
Rosalyn Grady, D.Min., M.A.
(No passes available)
TranceDance is a dynamic experience that begins with dance of prayer that invites connection and celebration with all of creation. The TranceDance experience is an opportunity to hold intention and receive wisdom, experience and insight while our bodies move and our spirits soar! In this workshop we will use music, breath and blindfolds to assist us with our personal intentions and to create a rich environment of trance, celebration and prayer.
Rosalyn Grady, D.Min., M.A., is a Faculty Mentor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and teaches internationally. She has a Doctorate degree in Spiritual Studies from University of Creation Spirituality and is ordained through the Center of Sacred Studies. Rosalyn has explored indigenous practices and ceremony in a variety of cultures including North America, Mexico, Bali, Peru and India. Rosalyn has completed her TranceDance facilitator training and is an attendant to the Council of Grandmothers.
Shamanic Journey Circle
Steven Schmitz, Ph.D.
(No passes; Year 2 Students Only)
Steven Schmitz, Ph.D. , has a private practice of shamanic counseling, spiritual guidance, and dream work. He facilitates shamanic journey circles and drum circles at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and internationally. Steven also is an international speaker and workshop leader, a member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners, and a board member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. He is currently working with Q'ero shamans in the Andes of Peru.
Shamanic Journey Circles deepen our practice and understanding of shamanism and can enliven and transform our daily lives. The shamanic journey is an ancient spiritual practice of shifting consciousness so our souls can connect with helping spirits. This practice of consciously entering the "dreamtime" empowers participants, through direct revelation, to accessing transpersonal knowledge during ecstatic experience. This circle specifically designed for students entering the second year of the Master's program, provides an opportunity to share sacred space, clarify intentions and journey to live drumming. Bring a drum or rattle, an eye-covering, and a notebook.
