Testimonials

“Whether collaborating on an art project with Library Access Services or playing basketball after work with Accounts Payable, here is a community that goes beyond workplace interactions. Have an idea about your job? Here is a place where you will find open ears and likely some common interest. Have a quick question you feel only the president of the university can answer? It is not uncommon to receive a personal reply whether you sit on senior staff or in the basement mail room. I have loved my experience here: the benefits go beyond the monthly paycheck and medical coverage. I have enjoyed stimulating afternoon talks by world renowned presenters, free classes, trips to the mountains, inexpensive bike maintenance, and more all because I work here and not anywhere else.”

Sam Mason
Transportation Coordinator

“Naropa is the only place I know of that embraces education of the heart and mind, even as it welcomes people from all spiritual paths. I’ve never worked in a place that so openly encourages ‘the journey’, and I truly cannot envision working anywhere else.”

Chris Dwyer
Vice President for Institutional Advancement

“I work at Naropa University because it is an organization that I feel values integrity, awareness, and communication, supports a process that is sometimes messy, and holds a lens of creative honest perspective over the phenomenon of education and all the facets therein. It is an institution that understands that our professional journeys are often our personal ones and it supports its Instructors and staff to teach and learn from the inside out. It is an institution that is committed to working with and in community and supports meeting what arises in the present moment as essential to our professional training as well as to continuing the important “unfinished conversations” that we, as responsible people must have, where diversity and dynamics of power and privilege are concerned. Naropa University is a place where creativity is viewed as a birth right and the skills of the artist are translated to the advanced clinical skills of professional work.”

Leah D’Abate
Graduate Advisor
Somatic Counseling Psychology