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Dear CIHS Community,
Happy August! This year CIHS had record success with its annual subtle energy science conference. We had 120 people here on campus and had a wait list of people who wanted to attend but could not. I want to thank all of the speakers, community members, students, CIHS facuty and administration, who lent their energy and passion to this lively community event. The interconnectedness of the community clearly emerged this year. It was rewarding to see the community in action: Students working with researchers, presenters recruiting students for research, students pitching research to be done in the future or here at CIHS. There are many exciting events unfolding at CIHS. I hope you will be a part of our exciting future.
Every year, a theme always emerges, separate and apart from the conference's topic. This year, the theme was one of creative exploration. CIHS is really a community of fearless intellectual and spiritual explorers. Innovation takes the willingness to fail and creatively explore the unknown. This is something CIHS students and the larger CIHS community excels at doing. For example, Dr. William Tiller's autism project represents the true integration of the community. Dr. Tiller has created a breathtaking study working with autistic children, intention, and consciousness. One of our doctoral students in Clinical Psychology has been working with Dr. Tiller and is finishing his dissertation as part of this project. This type of fearless exploration into the field of psychology, integral health, consciousness studies, and comparative religion and philosophy is how CIHS is on the new frontier of the healing arts.
Fall quarter is around the corner. Registration for Fall quarter courses is September 15-19, and the quarter officially begins September 29 and runs through December 5, 2014. The official course schedule will be released at the end of August. The initial fall quarter schedule will be as follows:
Introduction to Integral Studies, Dr. Thomas Brophy, BIS program requirement, unless you have had Foundations of Integral Studies.
Foundations of Integral Studies, Dr. Roger Cavnaugh, CIHS core class all MA/PhD programs.
Advanced Qualitative Research Methods, Dr. Sharon Mijares, PhD requirement all programs. CRP students may take this course or Research Methods for Religious Study.
Substance Abuse: Assessment, Intervention, and Treatment, Dr. Sam Aganov, PhD Clinical Psychology licensure track core requirement.
Psychology of Personality, Dr. Tamara Goldsby, Clinical Psychology core class, both clinical licensure track and Integral focus.
Transpersonal Psychology, Dr. Michelle Dexter, elective all programs.
Paradigms of Health and Disease, Dr. Mali Burgess. PhD Integral Health core class, elective other programs. *With the Program Director's approval, clinical psychology licensure track students can take this course to fulfill the spiritual education requirement.
Topic of Special Interest: Forefront Issues with the Mind/Body Problem, Dr. Thomas Brophy. Elective all programs.
Hinduism, Dr. Randy Fauver, CRP Elective. Open to all programs as an elective.
*Dr. Fauver is new to CIHS. He holds faculty positions at Sofia University and John F. Kennedy University. Dr. Fauver also holds a position as Research Coordinator of the Family Medicine department at Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Welcome Dr. Fauver!** See below for Dr. Fauver's background information.
Pranic Healing, Dr. Mary Clark, fulfills spiritual education requirement all programs. 2 weekends on campus, September 20-21 AND November 7 through the 9th.
If you are interested in seeing how CIHS' innovative MA and PhD programs (as well as our Bachelor completion program) can help support you in your fearless intellectual, academic, and spiritual expiation of subtle energy studies and consciousness in the various disciplines that we offer, please feel free to email me. I am happy to set up a time to meet with you on campus or a phone appointment. I can be reached at Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Hope Umansky, PhD
** Randy Fauver earned a double major B.S. from Bastyr University in Health Psychology and Spirituality and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Psychology with specializations in education and research, and additional training in clinical psychology. He has a certification in Mind Body Medicine from Harvard University and additional coursework in statistics and integrative medicine from Stanford University. He spent several years living in Native American communities in Colorado training under their spiritual leaders and also spent several years training for the priesthood in a mystical Christian order. After early work as a paramedic, he began working with alternative healing modalities, becoming a massage therapist, energy healer, and spiritual healer. He opened an alternative healing center, which grew to have offices in three towns, each associated with a conventional medical center. He teaches psychology, consciousness studies, and research methods at Sofia University and John F. Kennedy University, has taught and done NIH-funded research in Stanford University's School of Medicine, developed an Integral Health research and education program at Stanford University and is founding director of Sofia University's Embodied Consciousness Research Group.
Welcome Dr. Fauver!!
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