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Dear CIHS community, The weather has changed in Southern California as if summer is already here. Our May newsletter has several articles. First, Dr. Hope Umansky introduces our Summer Quarter schedule, which includes our CIHS' Subtle Energy Research (SER) One Day Event, "SER*Talks CIHS Student Research Symposium," which takes place on our beautiful campus, Saturday, June 20, from 9 am to 6 pm (dinner after to 730 pm). SER*Talks is open to the public for a small registration fee. There is no charge for students or faculty. Registration week for Summer quarter classes is June 15 to 19. We are also hosting an open forum dissertation defense for PhD candidate, Mr. Daniel Harner on Friday, June 19, from 2pm to 5 pm in the Conference Hall on campus. His dissertation is entitled, Proposal for a Non-Distance-Time Framework for the Healing Arts: Context and Content in the Therapeutic Encounter. Dr. William Tiller, Dr. Nisha Manek, and Dr. Hope Umansky will facilitate Mr. Harner's dissertation defense preceded by a presentation by Mr. Harner. There will be time for an open forum discussion and Q and A. The defense is open to students and community members to see the presentation, witness the defense, and participate in the Q and A. CIHS is proud of the work Mr. Harner has done, and we are confident it will serve as a great contribution to the field of information medicine and psychology. I hope you will join us. The second article is a review of our annual yoga workshop with Mr. Takeshima and Paul & Suzee Grilley, which occurred on the weekend of April 18 & 19. The focus of the yoga workshop this year was on the ajna (eyebrow) chakra. In the following two articles, CIHS faculties describe two newly developed courses for Summer quarter. The first one is from Dr. Sheldon Kramer, who we are welcoming as adjunct professor. Dr. Kramer is a licensed clinical psychologist who is passionate about east/west integration in the healing arts. He is introducing a newly developed course that is a first time offering at CIHS, "Intake Assessments: Integrating Psycho-Social/Spiritual Perspectives." In his article, Dr. Kramer describes the course, its objectives, and the practical nature of the subject. This class will be taught utilizing a formal and innovative approach to the art of intake assessments and interviews for therapists, practitioners, and counselors. Key clinical and more nontraditional skill sets will be explored from both an academic and experiential viewpoint. Secondly, Dr. Randy Fauver describes his revision on the course, "Christian Mysticism." In this course, he will teach esoteric aspects of Christianity from an academic and experiential viewpoint. Dr. Fauver has valued personal experience as well as an esteemed academic background on this particular aspect of mysticism. We hope you will join him on this journey. Lastly, for our SER Conference, we will concretize our speaker schedule and announce them on our website as well as on our Facebook page. Please check our page: http://www.facebook.com/cihs.edu If you are an outside community member (non-student) and want to attend the SER*Talks, there is a nominal $20 registration fee for the day. Lunch can be purchased and dinner will be hosted by CIHS. If you would like to register for the day, please email Thomas_Brophy@cihs.edu with the subject line SER Registration. You can bring the fee with you the day of the event. 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 are local 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. Many of our classes can be taken as an audit course if you are interested in seeing what CIHS classes are like or are passionate about a particular topic. Please do not hesitate to ask us about this process. We welcome all like-minded inquires. Sincerely, Hideki Baba, Ph.D. Hideki_Baba@cihs.edu
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Message from the Dean:
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Hi CIHS Community,
Spring has sprung! We are very busy preparing for CIHS' first student research symposium, SER*Talks, Saturday, June 20, from 9am-6 pm. We received so many exciting, innovative proposals. It was challenging to choose! The day will be launched by Dr. Paul Mills and closed by Dr. Bill Tiller, after Dr. Thomas Brophy addresses the community. The rest will be fast-paced twenty-minute student presentations. Dr. Mills and Dr. Tiller will attend throughout the day, as will CIHS faculty, students, alumni, and community members. If you are interested in the work CIHS students are currently doing in the industries represented by our programs, please join us. Community members are welcome for a $20 registration fee. Please simply RSVP with the Subject Line SER Talks Registration to Thomas_Brophy@cihs.edu
Lunch can be purchased on campus and dinner will be hosted by CIHS during the celebratory hour after the day's speeches are complete (6-730 pm). It will be an informal, fun, and exciting day to experience CIHS' research pioneers.
Spring quarter ends June 5, 2015. Summer quarter begins July 6. Registration for Summer quarter courses is June 15-19. We have 3 newly developed courses this summer and many exciting offerings. Among our regular course and program requirements, we have two Topic of Special Interest Courses. One developed and taught by Dr. Roger Cavnaugh entitled, Considerations on Compassion in Clinical and Integral Practice (open to all programs).
The second course will be taught by Dr. Sheldon Kramer entitled, Intake Assessments: Integrating the Psychosocial/Spiritual Perspectives. This course will cover those practical skills all people working in private practice or clinic/hospital settings need to subjectively and objectively assess the people in need of healing. Traditional and nontraditional aspects of intake interviews will be explored academically and experientially and this course is appropriate for all levels of students in all degree programs.
Additionally, Dr. Randy Fauver has revised the CRP programs traditional Christianity class and will be teaching a theoretical and experiential online course entitled, Christian Mysticism (please see his article description).
Lastly, as we do every summer, we will be offering an innovative lab class. This summer it will be Electrophysiology & Biofeedback taught by Dr. Gaetan Chevalier. It will be on campus every other Thursday evening throughout the quarter and will include work on traditional and nontraditional (subtle energy devices) biofeedback measures.
As always, CIHS regular core and program requirements are offered as well. Hybrid on campus/online classes are available to distance students. In general, all courses are open as intra or interdisciplinary electives, as long as you confirm there is room in your program or you are passionate enough to take an extra elective. It is important to be thoughtful about this. No knowledge is wasted knowledge when it can all be applied to your conceptual and foundational academic and applied professional skills.
The Summer Quarter 2015 Courses are as follows (Registration is June 15-19):
Advanced Quantitative Statistics, Dr. Ron Strader, hybrid, requirement PhD Programs except CRP.
Psychopharmacology, online, Dr. Sam Aganov, Psy Licensure requirement.
Aging, Long-Term Care, & Grief, online, Dr. Sharon Mijares, Psy Licensure Requirement.
Meditation, Guided Imagery, and Alternative Treatments to Complement Psychotherapy (BIS 422 Meditation), hybrid, Dr. Michelle Dexter.
Subtle Energy System I, online, Dr. Mali Burgess, Integral Health requirement.
Foundations of Energy Psychology, hybrid, Dr. Michelle Dexter, Integral Psych requirement.
Topic of Special Interest: Intake Assessments: Integrating Psychosocial/Spiritual Perspectives, hybrid primarily on campus, Dr. Sheldon Kramer, elective all programs.
Topic of Special Interest: Considerations on Compassion in Clinical & Integral Practice, hybrid, Dr. Roger Cavnaugh, elective all programs.
Quantum Concepts in Biology and Consciousness, hybrid, Dr. Thomas Brophy, elective all programs.
Hatha Yoga: Philosophy, Practice and Liberation, Dr. Tim Laporte, on campus, Comparative Religion and Philosophy program course and elective Integral health/Studies programs.
Christian Mysticism(formerly Christianity), Dr. Randy Fauver, online. CRP students, elective other programs.
TOS: Subtle Energy Research Academic Practicum, 2 units: This specially designed practicum is for those students who submitted research proposals, execute the presentation, and formally complete an article to memorialize the talk for the CIHS SER*Talks Journal commemorating the event, under direction of Dr. Thomas Brophy & Dr. Tim Laporte.
At the end of every quarter, Dr. Baba sends an updated transcript to you so you can ensure you are taking what you need to fulfill your program and course requirements. Please compare it to the program requirements in the catalog. Ultimately, this task is up to you. However, I am here for course advisement (psychology and/or other programs as a whole) as is Dr. Thomas Brophy (Thomas_Brophy@cihs.edu) for Integral Health/Life Physics, and Dr. Tim Laporte (Tim_Laporte@cihs.edu) for Comparative Religion and Philosophy students. We are here to help guide your academic path. We are all available to you. Thus, although it is ultimately your responsibility to take what you need within your program, we are here to answer questions and point you in the right direction. If you are in need of course advisement, please contact us. I am happy to set aside time to meet in person, converse via email or speak by phone. I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at CIHS' SER*Talks June 20, 2015.
Happy Spring!
Sincerely,
Hope Umansky, PhD
Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu
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Ajna Chakra Awakening Workshop Review
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CIHS' enjoyed its Annual Yoga Workshop with master teachers, Mr. Takeshima and Paul & Suzee Grilley, during the weekend of April 18 and 19. This year, the focused chakra was the ajna chakra (sixth chakra and also known as the "eyebrow" chakra.) Mr. Takeshima, a disciple of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama and an advanced meditation instructor from Japan, led the class introducing exercises and techniques to focus on the ajna chakra, and Paul and Suzee Grilley, well-known yoga teachers (Paul is the founder of Yin Yoga), as well as well-versed anatomy teachers, assisted Takeshima during the whole workshop. Together, with those experienced teachers, this annual workshop is a great opportunity to experience one of CIHS' principles, "To Understand Human Existence from the Total Perspective of Body, Mind and Spirit."
The class started with a meridian exercise. The meridian exercise is a series of physical exercises to mobilize all the joints in the body. Dr. Motoyama teaches that it is important to keep a healthy balance in the physical body through harmony with the mind and spirit in order to attain spiritual development. The meridian exercise devised by Dr. Motoyama is designed to release stagnation of ki (prana) and to lead the physical body to optimized balance. Especially during the course of long held immobilized meditation practice, ki energy will be stagnated in the joints, which results in discomfort in the body. Thus, it might be difficult for the practitioner to meditate longer. By learning and practicing this exercise method, the practitioner can regularize the flow of ki energy in the body and build a firm foundation for longer meditation practice, which leads to spiritual growth.
After the meridian exercise, Paul lectured on Dr. Motoyama's theories of multiple dimensions of beings that includes organized theories of the chakras and meridian systems as well as the systematic practice of Yin Yoga. In the afternoon, Mr. Takeshima instructed us on breathing techniques and meditation focusing on ajna chakra, then closed the first day.
The second day began with review of the first day, and we practiced together under the guidance of Mr. Takeshima. Both in the morning and afternoon, we spent more time on meditation. Together we chanted the Heart Sutra for world peace and closed our 2-day annual workshop.
It was great workshop, and we all learned on many different levels from those experienced teachers. For CIHS' next workshop in 2016, the workshop's focus will be the last chakra, sahasrara chakra. We have not decided the dates yet, but we will announce them as soon we finalize it. We hope to see you all in the next year. We really appreciate the support of those who came to the workshop, and those who have been continually coming throughout this entire process. For those who were not able to come to the workshop this year, we hope to see you next year. It is a wonderful opportunity to experience the CIHS community from yoga masters who are also Dr. Motoyama's disciples. If you have any questions, please contact me anytime at hideki_baba@cihs.edu
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Course Announcement and Message from
the Instructor
"Intake Assessments: Integrating the Psychosocial/Spiritual Perspectives"
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Greetings CIHS Community:
I am happy to reunite with CIHS after 20 years. In 1994, I co-facilitated a workshop on campus as part of a panel with other teachers on Christian, Kabbalistic, Buddhist, and Taoist Mysticism. It was a very well attended and successful event.
Currently, I am excited to become an adjunct professor at CIHS this summer! I am going to teach a Topic of Special Interest course open to all psychology and integral health students (BIS students may take this course with permission from the Dean). The TOS is entitled: Intake Assessments: Integrating Psycho-Social/Spiritual Perspectives. It is a course that is congruent with my own theoretical and practical clinical methodologies. This cutting edge course is open to CIHS students as well as Therapists, Counselors, Practitioners, and Current Traditional and Alternative Health Care Practitioners from different disciplines and backgrounds. This course offering will bridge and integrate traditional Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry with alternative Humanistic and Transpersonal/ Spiritual as well as Relational Systems schools of thought and practices including use of ancient mind-body maps to deepen the understanding of how to assess, diagnose and begin to formulate treatment plans that will aid in potential healing. There will be live demonstrations by Instructor as well as role-play by students depicting a wide range of presenting problems.
I have a PhD in Clinical Psychology and was the first Neuro and Clinical Psychology Intern at UCSD Department of Psychiatry in 1982. I am licensed as a Clinical Psychologist in California and have a private practice in Encinitas as well as La Mesa. Additionally, I have privileges as a Clinical Psychologist at Scripps Encinitas and consult and do brief counseling with inpatients in the Neuro-Rehab Center as well as in the main hospital.
Currently, I am assistant professor on volunteer faculty at UCSD School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry in San Diego where I teach and supervise psychiatric residents how to Integrate Individual and Relational Systemic Assessments with psychotherapeutic interventions. I am the Founder of the Institute for Transformations(TM) in San Diego. I train local, national and international health care practitioners and have set up training programs in Italy, Turkey and Israel on the Integration of Individual and Relational Systems Psychotherapy with emphasis on my own work called, Mind- Body Systems Therapy (TM).
During my career, I have had the privilege of authoring two books, Transforming the Inner and Outer Family: Humanistic and Spiritual Approaches to Mind- Body Systems Therapy. The other book, Hidden Faces of the Soul: Ten Secrets for Mind Body Healing from Kabbalah's Lost Tree of Life is a self help book on how to reach personal and spiritual balance based on Old Testament Mysticism.
I am very thrilled and excited to bring my life's/work passion and interest on east/west integration in healing and psychotherapy to CIHS and look forward to collaborating with you on your academic journey. I look forward to from the students' varied personal and professional backgrounds. I hope to see you in the class. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. I look forward to working with students from varied personal and professional backgrounds.
Sheldon Kramer, PhD
skramerphd@aol.com
Course Description
Intake Assessment: Integrating the Psychosocial/Spiritual Perspectives: This course takes a formal and innovative approach to the art of intake assessments and interviews. Key clinical and more nontraditional skill sets will be explored from both an academic and experiential viewpoint. The course will comprehensively cover both objective and subjective information, integrating psychosocial measures and intuition. It will seek to integrate traditional concepts from clinical psychology/psychotherapy along with a wide range of complementary/alternative mind -body principles with a wide range of alternative treatments currently utilized in practice.
Focus of the course will focus on an eclectic approach to understanding and formulating clients presenting problems and symptoms especially with a focus on classical diagnosis with simultaneously integrating the personal /psycho- social with transpersonal/ spiritual perspectives from a non-pathology based perspective. Time will be spent on the use of ancient mind- body maps of the body along with the intuitive use of the self of the healer to determine beginning treatment strategies to facilitate healing of the whole person. Objectives of the class will be achieved through lectures, class discussion, and instructor's live demonstration of working with potential clients along with the use of student role-playing with vignettes with a wide-range of client issues. Once a week on campus course. Open to distance students via Skype.
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Course Announcement and Message from
the Instructor
"Christian Mysticism"
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By Dr. Randy Fauver
Hello to all of you in the CIHS community. I want to let you know how excited and pleased I am that Hope asked me to teach Christian Mysticism this Summer Quarter. I spent several years in a mystical Christian order that honored Mary and Jesus equally, and even trained for the priesthood with them while simultaneously pursuing a Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology, the only branch of psychology directly studying mystical experiences. We will begin with an understanding of some academic frameworks for interpreting mysticism, and then you will be invited to enter directly into the heart of the Divine. What tools and practices have the mystics used who've entered into that Divine union? What are the markers and signs along the way? Please come join us for this enlightening class. We'll learn about the men and women who've ventured down the mystical path, their trials and tribulations, their ecstasies, and how what they've experienced can be relevant in your life today! I look forward to sharing with you some of their wisdom and insights. This course will be online. It will include many experiential exercises as well as more traditional academic components. If you have any questions about the class, open to all Comparative Religion and Philosophy, Integral Health, and BIS students, please feel free to email me. ~Randy Fauver, Ph.D.
fauver.cihs@gmail.com
Course Description Christian Mysticism: This course will focus on Christian mystics and mysticism, with the goal of deepening your understanding of the principles and practices used by Western mystics through the ages. We will begin with an understanding of some academic frameworks for interpreting mysticism, and then you will be invited to enter directly into the heart of the Divine through the same tools and practices used by others who've entered into that Divine union. We will explore the writings of men and women who followed the mystical Christian path - from the Essenes, through the burgeoning era of the middle ages, and into the current day - discovering through their words the glorious, burning, ecstasy of Divine passion, and how what they've experienced can be relevant in your life today.
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Dr. Motoyama's New Publication
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"The World of Religious Experiences"
We are pleased to announce Dr. Motoyama's new publication.
Dr. Motoyama had his eighty-eighth birthday celebration on December 2013 in Japan, and as one of the commemoration projects of his birthday, we published The World of Religious Experiences in English.
The World of Religious Experiences is a collection of articles written by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama from about 1955 until the beginning of 1960. The articles were first brought together for the purposes of his doctoral dissertation, and for which he received his Doctor of Literature degree (philosophy, electrophysiology) in March 1962. In 1963, the articles were published together as a book under the title, The World of Religious Experiences, which was Dr. Motoyama's first book length publication.
Through these articles, Dr. Motoyama has tried to research into the existence the characteristics of religious experiences with metaphysical-ontological elucidation and statistical analysis of electrophysiological experiments based upon his own religious experiences. This collection of research articles is the foundation of the "Motoyama Philosophy." The articles clarify that the world of religious experiences are a true world, which sincerely relates to the basis of human existence. This insight comes from the integration of his deepened religious practices and physiological-physical-experimental studies.
We believe that it is very meaningful to have this publication, the foundation of "Motoyama Philosophy," available to the world in time for his eighty-eighth birthday.
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CIHS' Subtle Energy Research (SER) Conference
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SER*Talks, Student Research Symposium 2015
June 20, 2015, 9 am - 6 p.m.
Social hour, 6 pm- 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate our Student's Research on the Frontline of Change in the Fields of Education, Neuroscience, Homeopathy, Yoga Philosophy, & Subtle Energy Studies. As a school community, we are excited to celebrate your successes and discoveries. The outside community is welcome to attend as well.
SER*Talks 2015 will be launched by Dr. Paul Mills, PhD, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry at UC San Diego, and Director of the newly established UC San Diego Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health. Dr. William Tiller will be attending and speaking on the role of forefront education. Dr. Thomas Brophy will close the conference with a summation of the true integral nature that this conference represents. The body of the day will have several 20 minute student presentations (somewhat modeled after Ted Talks).
The Symposium is open to the community for a nominal $20 Registration fee. We will be having lunch and dinner food trucks coming into the cul-de-sac for our social times (lunch and then the social hour from 6 pm- 7:30 pm).
Be amongst like-minds and experience the work of CIHS' subtle energy pioneers.
CIHS subtle energy science conference will resume in 2016.
Please kindly direct any questions to Thomas_Brophy@cihs.edu
Sincerely,
Dr. Brophy and Dr. Umansky
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Sound Meditation at CIHS - 2015
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by Tamara Goldsby, Ph.D.
CIHS is pleased to invite you to experience wonderful sound healing meditations. Relax in the soothing sounds and vibrations produced by Tibetan singing bowls, crystal bowls, gongs, and bells. Please visit http://deepsoundmeditation.org/ for more information about sound meditations.
- Sound meditations are every Wednesday from 6:30pm - 8pm at CIHS through the first Wednesday in June. A $10 donation is requested.
- While these gatherings are called sound meditations, the beneficial energy is created by the attendees, as well as the sound healers. We call these attendees the Bishwa Seva Community. This community is a gathering of regular meditators, yoga practitioners, experienced healers, artists, musicians, international travelers, community volunteers, conscious self-healers, and old souls. We welcome the CIHS community at these powerful sound healing events.
Proceeds of the meditation events go to the Bishwa Seva Foundation (founded by master sound healer Deep Deoja) which supports a school and orphanage in Nepal: http://bishwaseva.org/
Namaste.
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Announcing New Speaker Events
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Lunch and Learn
Mission Statement:
To educate, integrate and expand our scope of knowledge in a group setting
Call to Action: Bring your friends, colleagues and patients
July 22nd = Christine Peterson Microbiome for the practitioner and the Lay-Person - Answering what you need to know
Oct. 21st = History & Research - Debunking the myth of Medical Thermal Imaging
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