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Candace Walworth on the Peace Studies at Naropa University student blog: "I’ve been thinking about what it means for Naropa to participate in the Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project. Naropa's mission states that we prepare graduates '…both to meet the world as it is and to change it for the better.' The DMW School Theatre Project is an attempt to build a university and community-wide learning community that strikes both chords."

Inside Higher Ed: "It is true that 40-year-old Hampshire did not have a chaplaincy program for its first 33 years. It is true that politics on campus are progressive, challenging, and fervent. It is true that Hampshire students, like college-age students elsewhere, examine, question, and possibly eschew ideas they were raised with. It is not true that these realities are mutually exclusive with a rich and deep spiritual life."

Via The SIXTIES:

"Poet Amiri Baraka escaped a tremendous snowstorm on one of the last flights out of Newark, New Jersey to take questions in an open forum at the University of Colorado’s Memorial Center in Boulder on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010...He’ll return during the second week of July as part of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics’ Summer Writing Program at Naropa University."

I went to the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) conference in February and it was great! A lot of Naropa students and faculty from the Contemplative Psychotherapy program attend every year. This year, was in San Diego which made it much more fun! In this conference, you not only had the opportunity to see experienced therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists working on demo groups, but you also had the chance to notice how much contemplative education makes you a very insightful, and courageous professional. I saw how being in a program that focus in community and group work has trained me to be a skillful group psychotherapist! The conference boosted my confidence. I could see clearly how valuable contemplative education is.

I am also in the process of working on my resume and looking for jobs. Being a bilingual therapists is very valuable so I strongly recommend future student to learn Spanish and to people from other Spanish speaking countries to please come to Naropa. We need more contemplative Spanish speaking therapist!