Dear CIHS Community Members,

In the second newsletter of 2014, Dr. Hope Umansky announces the initial course schedule for the Spring quarter, and she provides a July Subtle Energy Conference update. We will be formally announcing the course schedule for the spring quarter in our upcoming March newsletter. We have interesting and timely courses planned, so please stay in touch with us to ensure you receive the most updated information about CIHS' academic and research activities.

Next, CIHS faculty, Dr. Mali Burgess, Ph.D., introduces a newly designed Topic of Special Interest course that will be offered in the Spring, entitled "Teachings on Non-Dual Awareness." This course introduces students to nondual approaches to awareness from philosophical, spiritual, ontological, and phenomenological perspectives. This is a great course to explore self-awareness as well as deepening awareness for your professional and personal practice. 

Additionally, there are a few event announcements. One is the opportunity to see an Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) demonstration (in Del Mar) February 17, before the class held at CIHS March 14 to 16. If you want to learn more about AIT, this is a great way to experience it during an evening. Please see details below. This course is open to psychology/counseling students and non-students. There are also details about CIHS' popular annual yoga workshop May 31 and June 1. Please see below.

If you are interested in CIHS or have questions about any of our programs, please visit our website (www.cihs.edu) or directly contact Dr. Hope Umansky (hope_umansky@cihs.edu) for any assistance. If you missed our open house last week and would like to visit our campus and discuss our exciting and unique graduate programs and research opportunities in person, we will be happy to schedule a time. We welcome all like-minded inquires for graduate school, research, and/or workshop opportunities.

Have a wonderful February.

Sincerely,

Happy February CIHS community,  

Winter quarter is well underway, and it is time to begin thinking about Spring quarter courses. Although spring quarter registration is March 24-28, I am providing an initial course announcement. Additionally, I am providing the subtle energy science (Life Physics) lab class details for Summer quarter so those of you who are in different states and countries can plan if you want to come. As always, the on campus portion of this course is designed to coincide with the week of the CIHS subtle energy conference (July 18-20), so you attend and receive academic credit for both.  

Spring Quarter Courses Initial Announcement. Spring quarter begins April 7.

Consciousness Studies, Dr. Roger Cavnaugh, PhD ** CIHS core requirement

Child Abuse/Family Violence: Assessment & Intervention, Dr. Sam Aganov, PhD ** Clinical Psychology licensure requirement.

Sociocultural Intervention & Strategies,

Psychoacoustics,

Psychology of Shamanism, Dr. Michelle Dexter, Psy.D. Integral Psychology, elective all programs.

Biofield Science: Philosophy and Reality, Dr. Thomas Brophy, PhD

Annual Yoga Workshop, on campus May 31 and June 1, Paul and Suzee Grilley, Mr. Yukihiro Takeshima

Topic of Special Interest: Teachings on Non Dual Awareness, Dr. Mali Burgess, PhD

Summer quarter dates for conference and lab class for travel plans.

Introduction to Biophoton Research and Biophysics Concepts, Dr. Thomas Brophy, lab portion of class on campus Monday, July 14, through July 18. After the lab component of this course, the duration of the course will be online.

Subtle Energy Science Conference, "Science, Spirituality, & the Healing Arts: View from the Edge of a New Frontier," on campus, July 18-20

If you are interested in exploring how one of CIHS' unique graduate programs or BA degree completion program can help support your professional, academic, and personal goals, please email me at Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu

I look forward to hearing from you. The annual summer conference is a wonderful way to become connected to the CIHS student and larger community. Information is below. I hope to see you there!

Science, Spirituality, & the Healing Arts: View from the Edge of a New Frontier, CIHS Conference 2014, Friday, July 18 through Sunday July 20, on CIHS' beautiful Encinitas campus.

In honor and with deep respect for Dr. Motoyama's pioneering vision of integrating science and spirituality, you are welcome to join the California Institute for Human Science's graduate school, research center, and larger scientific community's annual innovative summer conference. In addition to dynamic presentations, there will be ample opportunities for direct interaction and community building with key researchers in the field. These are scientists, doctors, psychologists, and researchers at the frontlines of transforming the paradigm of allopathic medicine and the healing arts toward integral methods of holistic health, consciousness, and healing.

CIHS' Science, Spirituality, & the Healing Arts: View from the Edge of a New Frontier will present cutting-edge research and current new practices in the medical, healthcare, psychological, and research communities demonstrating revolutionary findings and applications in the field. The Community will celebrate and emphasize work pushing the boundaries of traditional practice in healthcare and the healing arts. Join us to connect and become an integral part of the subtle energy science and healing arts community.

Keynotes Dr. Bill Tiller, Dr. Gary Schwartz, Dr. Beverly Rubik, Dr. David Gruder, among many other leaders in the medical, scientific, and healthcare research fields.

*CIHS is happy to announce the conference will be catered with organic, gluten free and vegetarian options, including Friday dinner, breakfast and lunch Saturday and Sunday, and a social hour with heavy appetizers Saturday early evening.

Early Registration April 1 through June 30, 2014, $375

Regular Registration July 1-July 17, 2014,   $425

At the door without prior reservations, July 18-July 20, $465

*Pricing includes all meals, Friday dinner, Breakfast and Lunch Saturday and Sunday, Dinner appetizers Saturday evening.

*Certificate of Completion for Advanced Study at California Institute for Human Science's annual Conference upon request. $10 certificate and mailing fee.

*Continuing Education Units

Nurses: Provider # CEP10319

This course is approved for 20 hours by the Board of Registered Nursing.

LCSW's and MFT's: Provider #PCE2938

This course is approved for 20 hours by the Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Academic credit is available to CIHS students attending the conference. Please speak to the Dean. CIHS alumni discount available.

Cancellation policy

75% before July 1; 50% through July 10;

No refunds after July 11 midnight.

*If you are interested in having an exhibit/table, there are only a few spots left. This is a great opportunity to attend the conference and network with your community. Please email admin@cihs.edu for more information and to reserve your space.

[Titles to be announced soon]

Friday, July 18

Registration 4:00 pm -5:00 pm

Dinner 5:30-6:30

Welcome, Hope Umansky, PhD, Dean of Academic Affairs & Administration, 6:30 pm-7:00 pm

Tiffany Barsotti, M.Th., 7:00 pm-8 pm

Saturday, July 19

9am -12 pm, Dr. Bill Tiller, PhD

2:00 -1:00 pm Lunch

1-2 Dr. Nisha Manek, MD

2:10-4:14 Dr. David Gruder, PhD, America's Integrity Expert

415-545 Dr. Beverly Rubik, PhD

6:00 pm -7:30pm Celebrating the Community, Social Hour & Dinner Appetizers

Sunday July 20

9:00 am -1130 am Dr. Gary Schwartz, PhD

11:30 am -12:30 pm Lunch

12:35-1:45 Dr. Bob Alcorn, MD, & Dr. Barbara Stone, PhD, LISW, DCEP

2:00-3:30 Dr. Kamyar Hedayat, MD

335-4:50 Dr. Charles Krebs, PhD

5:00 pm-545 Dr. Thomas Brophy, PhD

5:45- 6:00 pm Goodbye, Until Next Year, Hope Umansky, PhD, CIHS Dean

Sincerely  

Hope Umansky, PhD

hope_umansky@cihs.edu

Nondual awareness, variously described as clear, empty, primordial, pure awareness, the natural state, is foundational to many spiritual traditions, and at the heart of the major religions. In Sanskrit, Advaita, meaning not dual or nondual, refers to pure consciousness. From Tat Tvam Asi, Thou Art That, in the Chandogya Upanishad to the interpenetration of phenomena of Indra's Net in Huayan Buddhism, approaches to nondual awareness can be found within Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Sufism, Kabbalah, Bon, Dzogchen, Vedanta, Jainism, Theosophy, Vipassana, Unitarian Universalism,Transpersonal Psychology, other ancient traditions, contemporary teachings, and current scientific, neurological, and health research. Nagarjuna, the preeminent Buddhist scholar, utilized classical Indian four-fold logic, to which he added a fifth, as a form of skillful teaching to dissolve logic. Ramana Maharshi emphasized self-inquiry. Dzogchen focuses on direct experience, the natural state, clear light, and pure mind.  

The course, Teachings on Nondual Awareness, will be offered Spring Quarter. This course will explore nondual teachings, and nondual approaches to awareness, truth, presence, and consciousness. It will involve the study of nondual states from philosophical, spiritual, ontological, and phenomenological perspectives, and in scientific, neurological, and health research. The course will review the teachings of Nagarjuna, Dzogchen, Ramana Maharshi, H.W.L. Poonja, Jean Klein, and several contemporary teachers.  

with Mary Clark, Ph.D., Victoria Danzig, LCSW,
and Enid Singer, Ph.D 

 

CIHS students register for this class for academic credit. Non-CIHS students can register as directed below. AIT is offered March 14-16, 2014 at the California Institute for Human Science.

 

If you are interested in a demonstration of the class. Please see information below.

Advanced Integrative Therapy

Basics Seminar

Presented by

Mary D. Clark, Ph.D.

Victoria J. Danzig, LCSW

Enid V. Singer, Ph.D.

March 14th- 16th, 2014    9:00- 5:30 p m

21 CEs available for MFTs, LCSWs, and Nurses

California Institute for Human Science

701 Garden View Court

Encinitas, CA 92024

Advanced Integrative Therapy is a dynamic new energy psychotherapy that provides individuals lasting relief from a range of intractable psychological disorders. Starting from the premise that all upsetting events are types of trauma, and that they are housed within the body, mind and spirit, Advanced Integrative Therapy quickly removes the aftereffects of such traumatic events.

Come to the 8th West Coast AIT Basics Training in beautiful Encinitas (San Diego), California. March is a beautiful time to get away from the cold, take a walk on the beach, or visit the meditation gardens at the Self Realization Center. Have your family enjoy the San Diego Zoo, Sea World, Wild Animal Park and Legoland.

In the Basics class, you will learn how to access unconscious material through ideomotor cueing (muscle testing), and how to move energy through the body's major energy centers (chakras) to eliminate symptoms, their cause and after-effects.  By the end of 3 days, you will be able to treat originating traumas and resulting lifelong repetitive painful emotions and behaviors.  You will be able to convert negative core beliefs and desires into healthy beliefs, instill and develop positive qualities, and develop effective strategies for self-care.  At the end of three days, you will be able to:

• Implement AIT into your practice immediately with ready-to-use, step-by-step protocols.
• Heal old wounds with new tools.
• Convert clients' self-sabotage into healthy beliefs and positive self-care.
• Achieve faster healing at deeper levels.
• Move your clients from surviving to thriving, quickly and effectively.
• Re-awaken your dream of psychotherapy as a healing art.

Registration fee:                   $545.   

If registered by March 1st:      $495

To register, go to:                  admin@cihs.edu

For more info about workshop:  Victoria Danzig, LCSW

    victoriadanzig@msn.com  858-550-9977

For more info on AIT:         www.aitenergyhealing.com

Introduction & Demonstration Information  

WHEN:

Monday

February 17th, 2014

6:30pm to 7:45pm

WHERE:

The Hacienda

12625 High Bluff Drive

San Diego, CA 92130

Conference Room

R.S.V.P. Requested

858-755-7541

Bring a colleague!

No charge

May 31 (Sat.) & June 1 (Sun.)

  Workshop Description 

The Vishuddhi chakra is said to be a chakra which enables us to achieve non-attachment. This chakra, however, cannot be awakened if we do not transcend ourselves to a higher dimension that is beyond the physical and astral dimension, where emotions and images mostly function. It is also considered as a gateway or barrier, as we transcend our being solely human and reach to become a higher, broader dimensional being.

Vishuddhi is derived from the word "shuddhi," which means to purify. It is considered the chakra of purification, where the purification of body, thought, emotion, and karma may take place.

In the physical body, the vishuddhi is located in the throat and thyroid gland, and it is related to the respiratory system, which includes the lungs, bronchi and nose. Additionally, in the oriental meridian theory, it relates mostly to the lung and large intestine.

Currently, in our modern society, we tend to be egoistic due to the influence of the astral dimension, where emotion and thoughts dominantly function. In order for us to be free from self-centered ego and to grow to a being which is able to harmonize with others, awakening of the vishuddhi chakra is necessary. Our purpose of living is to evolve spiritually and contribute ourselves to actualizing world peace and harmony.

We hope you will join us for CIHS' Annual yoga workshop, May 31 & June 1, 2014, with the focus on the vishuddhi chakra taught by Mr. Takeshima and Paul & Suzee Grilley.