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Conferences & Certificates
The 5th Annual Integrating
Spirit & Caregiving Conference
Integral and Transpersonal Approaches to Elder Care, Catastrophic Illness and End of Life Care
The Integrating Spirit & Caregiving Conference brings together leading clinicians, thought leaders and teachers of contemplative, transpersonal and integral approaches to catastrophic illness and the full spectrum of end of life and elder care, from healing interventions to pain and symptom management, to spiritual care and bereavement counseling. This year’s conference also offers a special focus on integral and transpersonal approaches to the practices of medicine and nursing with plenary presentations by leading palliative care physicians Porter Storey, MD, and James Duffy, MD, critical care expert Mitchell Levy, MD, and author, clinician and educator, Barbie Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN.
Friday night keynote: Joan Halifax
Saturday night keynote: Frank Ostaseski
Other leading experts in elder care, catastrophic illness and end of life care, including Marcia Latanzi-Licht, RN, will offer a rich selection of concurrent session workshops.
Fleet Maull, MA, PhD Candidate, is a senior student of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, and an ordained priest in the Zen Peacemaker Order. He is the founder of both Prison Dharma Network and National Prison Hospice Association. He is also director the Colorado Peacemaker Circle and Peacemake Institute and directs Contemplative End of Life & elder care programming for the Naropa University School of Extended Studies. Fleet has been teaching meditation for more than twenty years.
May 18–20, 2007
Conference Price: $350
($295 if registered by April 18)
Wilderness Therapy Symposium
The Wilderness Therapy Symposium at Naropa University brings together clinicians, field instructors, rites of passage guides, referring professionals, university professors, students and personnel from residential programs. The interactive, experiential workshops encourage intensive collaboration between the fields of adventure therapy, ecopsychology and clinical psychology. Skills, knowledge and ideas are shared in an open and safe atmosphere that promotes a deep level of sharing among a wide variety of professionals, scholars and programs.
Where: Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado
When: Friday, Sept. 7 @ 4 p.m.—
Sunday, Sept 9 @ 4 p.m.
Cost: $325; $275 before August 21*
Please click here to register online
Contemplative End of Life
Care Certificate Program
A Seventeen-Week Certificate Program for Health Care Professionals
Naropa University’s Center for Contemplative End of Life Care, in partnership with Rigpa’s Spiritual Care Program, presents a professional certificate program for health care professionals providing in-depth training in spiritually-grounded and compassionate approaches to the full spectrum of end of life care practice, and offering the opportunity to fully integrate spirituality and caregiving. The program is presented in a unique seventeen-week, low-residency format that includes two, week-long residential training intensives and fifteen weeks of online instruction.
January 6–May 18, 2007
Noncredit: $4,750
Authentic Leadership Certificate
Susan Skjei, Mark Wilding, Arawana Hayashi, Micki McMillan, Julio Olalla and Mark Gerzon
A Marpa Center Program
Times of uncertainty and tumultuous change have stretched traditional leadership and managerial models beyond capacity. A new kind of leader is needed—one who can respond creatively and effectively in the midst of change and step beyond conventional approaches to planning and strategy.
Launched in 1999, Naropa’s Authentic Leadership program is a transformative leadership course that integrates ancient wisdom with effective, modern approaches to management. Onsite sessions encourage deep, personal learning and help participants assimilate and apply ideas and concepts at an accelerated pace. Online instruction enables participants to share ideas and participate in group learning from anywhere in the world.
January 16–May 5, 2007
Residential Seminars:
Jan. 29–Feb. 2 and April 9–13
Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Basic Price: $5,200. Discounts apply.
See www.naropa.edu/marpa/leadership
Holistic Centers Gathering
Naropa University Extended Studies is proud to host this unique retreat, which brings together centers of alternative learning from around the globe to explore fresh ideas and best practices in a collaborative environment.
May 17–21, 2007
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