Attention * Intention * Awareness
Living with Joy and Aliveness
Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:00 noon (PT) to
Thursday, August 18, 2011, 11:00 am (PT)
Presentation Center, Los Gatos, California
Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.
- Terry Tempest
Each morning we awake to a new day of possibility. How can we fill this day with greater awareness and authenticity? Perhaps we decide that we will face our day with hope and optimism – no matter what our circumstances- or that we will step into our community in ways that reflect our essential nature and that also benefit the greater whole. Maybe we choose to pay attention to noticing moments of grace and synchronicity that guide our paths. Where we put our attention forms our day. How do we choose to greet this day?
This seminar centers on the transpersonal qualities of attention, intention, and awareness. Participants will explore how being present to self, to others, to our planet aligns us with possibilities for greater wholeness and health. Workshops will be experiential, philosophical, embodied, and creative. In this seminar, we will discover how to bring our full and authentic selves into the moment so that we can create a balanced life that includes meaningful work that is aligned with our dreams and purpose.
Come to the seminar and meet the ITP community and begin to understand why we refer to our learning communities as co-hearts!
Creating the Work You Love
Keynote Speaker: E.H. Rick Jarow, PhD
Sunday, August 14, 2011, 2:00 – 5:00 PM and
Monday, August 15, 2011, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon (lunch)
Day Pass: $75 (includes admission to both days and lunch on Monday)
Click here for day pass online registration
How would your life change if you honored your life's calling rather than settling for yet another job? What if you could build a self-sustaining career that resonates with your deepest levels of integrity, passion, and purpose… even in these tough economic times?
In this richly experiential workshop, you will gain clarity and definition of your authentic vocation while receiving both the internal processes and practical applications to discern your true priorities, manifest your creative visions into the physical world, and develop a career aligned with your entire being. Taught within a meditative format employing internal exercises to uncover your "embodied" vocation, this workshop will open the doors to your greatest inspiration and motivation while offering step-by-step methods for moving those inspirations into action. The result is an inner readiness and practical preparedness to manifest your authentic vocation and cultivate sources of income that are in alignment your entire being.
E.H. Rick Jarow, Ph.D. , professor of religious studies at Vassar College. Rick is a former Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Columbia University, and chair of the Carolyn Grant '36 Endowment Committee on embodied learning and the mythic imagination, Rick has a rich background in the world of academia, as well as years of personal, in-depth study in eastern and western spiritual traditions, mythology, astrology and shamanism. He is author of many books, including Creating the Work You Love, Your Life's Work, and Alchemy of Abundance. His workshops are offered at Esalen, Omega, and across the world. His website is at rickjarow.com.
Additional Seminar Faculty
Discovering Your Authentic Voice
Kay Kleinerman
Monday, August 15, 2011, 2:00-4:30 PM
(No Day Passes available)
Why is voice important to you? What would you like to express and experience with your voice? What is your greatest vocal challenge?
These questions and others are the focus of this workshop. Together we'll explore how voice is integrally linked to identity, and to developing personal leadership capabilities. We'll engage in small and large group discussion, journaling, breath work, movement, drawing, and singing.
Singing is that unique endeavor that allows you to fully access your voice with freedom, openness and joy. You'll gain a new understanding of your voice that will foster self-discovery and a sense of well-being. No prior singing experience is necessary.
Kay Kleinerman, Ed.D. , has pioneered the use of singing to foster personal transformation and leadership development. She is Adjunct Faculty at ITP and has been guest instructor at CIIS. Kay was also on the faculties of UC Santa Cruz and San Jose State Extended Studies Divisions, and the San Francisco Community Music Center. Kay's on-going curiosity about the voice - its capabilities and link to personal identity – is the focus of her research. She has presented her work at national and international conferences, and has published articles in Gender, Education, Music & Society, and Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, among other publications. Her website address is: http://www.kaykleinerman.com/
Nature Writing as Wilderness: Cultivating Wonder, Awe and Presence
Nancy Rowe with Adam Heifetz
Sunday, August 14, 2011, 9:00-11:30 AM
(No Day Passes Available)
This workshop focuses on how intentional engagement with nature can help us to cultivate the spiritual qualities of wonder, awe and presence in our daily lives. Opening to intimacy with the natural world attunes us to our own wildness and increases our feelings of aliveness. In this workshop, Nancy and Adam will share how writing in relationship with nature has cultivated their own intimacy with the living landscape. Participants will spend time with the earth exploring how the art of nature writing is a portal to greater communion with all living beings.
Nancy Mangano Rowe, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, an ordained Minister of Walking Prayer though the Center for Sacred Studies, and a licensed creative arts therapist. She is currently researching, teaching, and writing about our spiritual connection with Earth. Her passion is in helping others to reconnect to Earth, to their imaginations, and to their creative, intuitive selves. Nancy has led spiritual retreats, seminars, workshops, and pilgrimages across the United States and in Greece. http://www.itp.edu/academics/faculty/rowe.php
Adam Muir Heifetz is a doctoral student in the Transpersonal Psychology program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He has trained in the spiritual guidance specialization at ITP, and he has studied dream work through the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work (MIPD). His work is in the area of Ecospirituality—holding stillness and presence in nature to incubate deep remembrance and soul work. Adam is a practicing spiritual guide and dream worker.
Listening to the Wisdom of Your Body
Merry Coburn
Sunday, August 14, 2011, 7:30-9:00 PM
(No Day Passes Available)
Movement flows with the power of intention to foster a profound sense of inner knowing. This workshop will lead you to discover an expanded, more holistic state of consciousness, one that arises from a deeper integration with your body. This workshop is an experiential introduction to Phoenix Rising Yoga, a whole-person, therapeutic intervention and spiritual practice. We will first engage in movement. Then we will integrate your body's emerging wisdom- first as images, then in journaling, and finally as spoken words.
Merry Coburn, Ph.D. , is a Global Faculty Mentor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist. She has been a student at the Temple of Kriya Yoga Seminary and anticipates being ordained as a householder Swami soon. Hiking in wilderness and various forms of hatha yoga have been her longtime passions, priceless pathways to grounding and integrating knowledge. She enthusiastically shares these practices with others.
How Can We Fill This Day with Greater Awareness and Authenticity?
Henry Poon
Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 9:00-11:30 AM
"How Can We Fill This Day with Greater Awareness and Authenticity?" will serve as the guiding question and exploration for this seminar presentation. We will study, practice, and apply "Wisdom Approaches" of Neo-Confucian Psychology to further our understanding and cultivation towards a greater awareness and authenticity in our everyday life. We will examine the work of Wang Yang-Ming and his various Neo-Confucian writings, to shed light in how we can tap into our "Higher Conscience" as a transpersonal discipline and practice in order to enliven our innate awareness and authenticity, to improve our Real Life, Real Self, Real Time practical living.
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. http://www.itp.edu/academics/faculty/poon.php
