Institute Workshops and Seminars
Creative Expression Sunday Series (January 24, February 21, March 14)
Book Release: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (April 16)
Decoding the Poetry of Zoroaster: Inner Revelation and the Outer Limits of Cognition (April 23)
Global Seminars (Thrice annually)
Workshops & Events:
Book Release:
A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook
Friday, April 16
7:00-9:00pm
Great Sophia Classroom, ITP Campus
Co-authors and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teachers Elisha Goldstein and Bob Stahl will speak and give examples from their new book: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, with forward by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the father of MBSR.
Bob Stahl, Ph.D. directs Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs at Camino Medical Group in Sunnyvale, El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, and Santa Cruz Medical Foundation. He is a long time practitioner of mindfulness meditation, having practiced for over eight years in a Buddhist monastery. Bob completed training with Jon Kabat-Zinn and is a certified mindfulness-based stress reduction teacher.
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. graduated from ITP in 2006 with a degree in Clinical Psychology. Since then, as a licensed psychologist, he has been in private practice in West L.A. and teaches mindfulness-based programs on his own and through InsightLA. He has spoken at the UCLA Semel Institute and Anxiety Disorder Clinic, the UCLA Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Conference headlining Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, and Dr. Daniel Siegel, among others, and is the author of blogs on Psychcentral.com and Mentalhelp.net. He has been published in The Journal of Clinical Psychology and quoted in the New York Daily News, Reuters, NPR, UCLA Today, Beliefnet.com, and The Week Magazine.
ITP Creative Expression
Sunday Series
One Sunday a Month, January – March 2010
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Samadhi Classroom, ITP Campus
ITP’s Creative Expression Department invites you to their first workshop in their “Sunday Series” program. The series of three workshops are designed to refresh and renew your spirit by exploring how life can deepen and expand through the arts.
January 24 – Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT
Healing the Wounds of History:
Drama Therapy in Intercultural Conflict Resolution and
Collective Trauma
Using interweaving drama therapy, theatre and creative ritual, the facilitator shares how he works with cultures in conflict and collective trauma.
Online Registration: http://www.itp.edu/bursar/product-info.php?pid97.html
February 21 – Andy Couturier, MA
Accessing the Intuitive Mind Through Writing:
Creative Ways to Get Yourself and Others Unstuck
This workshop will explore ways to bypass the domination of the rational-linear mind in the drafting process and give the brain “yes” messages when writing and in life.
Online Registration: http://www.itp.edu/bursar/product-info.php?pid98.html
March 14 – Martha Snider, M.D.
Back to the Body Through the Arts:
Using Images from the Unconscious to Metabolize Emotion
and Make Life-Changing Decisions
Using various creative art techniques; drawing, painting, dance, and writing, the attendee will be guided towards making a closer connection with their authentic selves and therefore making life-changing choices.
Online Registration: http://www.itp.edu/bursar/product-info.php?pid99.html
Program Fee:
General: $20 (for each workshop)
ITP Alumni/Faculty: $15 (for each workshop)
Students: Free
Registration for Students Only: Please contact Kim Jeska at kjeska@itp.edu
On-line Registration: You can register online using the links above, or browse our event list on the Bursar page.
Creative Expression units will be given to those students who register and attend all three workshops. Please contact Kim Jeska at kjeska@itp.edu to enroll to receive the units.
WWLE – Evening Presentation
Decoding the Poetry of Zoroaster:
Inner Revelation and the Outer Limits of Cognition
Friday, April 23
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:00-9:00 pm -- Lecture
Great Sophia Classroom, ITP Campus
The evening will address the esoteric dimension of the Gathas , the ancient Iranian oral poetry of Zoroaster, whose teachings greatly impacted world wisdom traditions.
Martin Schwartz, Ph.D., is a Professor of Iranian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Berkeley. His seminal research in Pre-Islamic Iranian/Central Asiatic languages and literatures led him to discover the esoteric dimension and complex compositional structures in the Gathas, the poetry of Zoroaster. Dr. Schwartz has published groundbreaking articles on magic and the occult in Late Antiquity, and co-authored the book, Haoma and Harmaline, a multidisciplinary identification of the use of the psychotropic plant in Indo-Iranian religion.
Fee: Free. RSVP IS REQUIRED BY APRIL 16th. Event is limited to 50 attendees.
Registration: Katherine Coder at Freda.and.danto@mac.com or (650) 302-1751
Additional Event Information: Dinner will be vegetarian and drinks will be provided. Please be on time.
Global Seminars:
Putting Wisdom to Work in the World:
A Thousand Days of Effort
August 20 – 26, 2010
Presentation Center, Los Gatos, California
Program Details
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