October 09, 2008
Vol. 12, #7

October

Friday, October 10, 2008
Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl’s Principles of Discovering Meaning
in Life and Work
With Alex Pattakos
October 10–12
Public Talk: Friday, October 10, 2008  7 p.m. Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

Psychiatrist and philosopher Viktor Frankl’s Man Search for Meaning is one of the most influential books in modern history. This workshop introduces you to Frankl’s wisdom by detailing the core principles that can help you find meaning in your life and work.

Saturday and Sunday, October 11–12, 2008
Katsura Kan's Butoh Notation Workshop Led by Butoh Artist Katsura Kan 
Offered by Extended Studies in collaboration with the Departments of Performing Arts and Somatic Counseling Psychology 
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. both days
Performing Arts Center
To Register: 303-245-4873; extend@naropa.edu  

Focusing on "Skouken," the initial path of the Buddha's Noble Eight Fold Path, participants will work on observation and patience. Through "moving and thinking," Kan will introduce his Butoh Notation. 

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Writing & Poetics Department Reading Series: Rae Armantrout and Maureen Owen
8 p.m.
Shambhala Hall

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Day of Gleaning at Local Farms with Dave Carlson of Community Food Share
9 a.m.–12 p.m. at Munson Farms or
2–5 p.m. at the Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Ranch
$15

With gas and food prices on the rise, more and more people in our community are becoming food insecure. Help reverse this trend by joining us in gathering the leftover harvest from Munson Farms and Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Ranch, and donating it to Community Food Share, a food bank serving Boulder and Broomfield Counties. Participants can sign-up for either session. You will receive a tour of the farm by the farmer and a grocery bag full of vegetables to take home at the end. Transportation will be provided via the Community Food Shares van. For more details and to secure a spot, call Transition Boulder County at 303-494-1521.

Monday, October 13–Friday, October 17, 2008
Coming Out Week

Please join us in celebrating Coming Out Week at Naropa! Come show your pride, support and allyship.

Monday, October 13, 2008
Coming Out Week: Raising the Rainbow Flag; meeting with David Atekpatzin from the Two-Spirit Society
12 p.m.
Outside Sycamore Student Lounge

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Community Practice Day
Nalanda Campus: 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Coming Out Week: "Speak Out" Trans Panel: A Conversation with Transgender Activists
12 p.m.
Goldfarb Student Center

This event is limited to 35. There is a sign-up sheet in Student Affairs or you may email sluther@naropa.edu.

Thursday, October 16– Monday, October 20, 2008
Exhibition by Rebecca Lange
Nalanda Campus

The artwork of Rebecca Lange has been exhibited in a variety of venues, including Hofstra University and Lesley University. Her work was featured at Naropa University as part of the exhibit entitled, The Art of Healing: A Performance and Exhibit of Healing Art by Women. At the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, she contributed work to The Drawing Show. She painted murals on the windows of the Longmont public library every summer for several years. She has had illustrations published in diverse periodicals, including Many Voices and Genewatch. In this show, a selection of drawings and paintings is presented. This collection spans works created from her entire adult life.

Friday, October 17, 2008
Coming Out Week: Bi-Party
11:30 a.m.
Lincoln 4140

Community get-together for bi-identified students, faculty and staff. Pizza served and maybe pie.

Friday, October 17, 2008
Coming Out Week: Open Mic
8 p.m.
Goldfarb Student Center

A sign-up sheet is available in Student Affairs during the week and a half hour before the event at the venue.

Friday, October 17, 2008
The Inner Lives of Animals
Panel Discussion: The Inner Lives of Animals
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

Join Marc Bekoff, author, animal behavioralist and co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Damian Ficca, equine education program director and Californio horse trainer; Joyce Leake, author and intuitive communicatorl; Faith Maloney, founder of Best Friends animal sanctuary in Kanab, Utah; and moderator Hildy Armour, director of Colorado Horse Rescue, for an incisive and thought-provoking discussion on the minds and emotions of animals.

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Workshop: Intuitive Communication with Animals
With Joyce Leake
October 18–19 Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

Intuitive communication is neither magic nor psychic; like out other senses, intuition—the driving force behind instinct—is a sense we are born with, but because it is less visible, less psychical, it is less trusted in the western world. The goal of this workshop is to provide you with the scientific foundation of intuitive communication and to share a set of tools that will help you develop your intuitive sense. Participants will work with horses and dogs to practice these skills.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Campus Sustainability Day
A Zero Waste Event
12–1:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Center

Join us as we celebrate Campus Sustainability Day with The World Cafe, a place to have conversations about questions that matter in a community that cares. We will look at sustainability in our personal lives and on our Naropa University campus. We'll also celebrate with live music and organic food from local farms and businesses (please bring your own eating utensils). This event touches on questions at the heart of the matter and opens up space for attendees to share and communicate their thoughts and feelings around the topic of sustainability. Contact Kimberlee Derhammer at kderhammer@students.naropa.edu for more information. 

Thursday, October 23–Saturday, October 25, 2008
Naropa's MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Performances
Original experimental works by 2nd yr MFA students
7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Campus, Studio Theatre (North end, room 9190) 
$7 general admission; Free to seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID 

Thursday, October 23 & Friday, October 24, 2008:
7:30 p.m. (Doublebill with Medea Unstrung and Fancy) 
Nalanda Studio Theater, Naropa University 

Medea Unstrung: An Operetta 
Created by Meyung Kim 

Exploring personal myths and the story of Medea through music, movement and media. 

Fancy 
Created by Nita Mickley 

A curious fairy-tale exploring the ins and outs of opposite minds. 

Friday, October 24, 2008
Theravada Vipassana Meditation and the Practice of Loving Kindness
With Sylvia Boorstein
October 24–26
Public Talk: Friday, October 24, 2008  7 p.m. Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

When mindfulness meditation is practiced, the exquisite  ordinariness of the movement of breath and the busyness of the mind and emotions is discovered. This intensive introduces insight meditation, vipassana, from the Theravada Buddhist tradition.

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Self-healing With the Five Elements
With Alexander Love, Founder and President of the Institute for the Medical Arts
The Chautuaqua Community House
10 a.m.–4 p.m.

As we head into the cold season, harness the wisdoms of water, wood, fire, earth and metal to increase balance and vibrancy in your life and the life of your community. In this class, Alexander will introduce you to the theory of the Five Elements, an ancient Chinese healing art, and guide you through activities that will help you to unleash your highest evolutionary potential. $45
For more information, contact don@transitionbouldercounty.org or call 303-494-1521
To purchase tickets, visit http://chautauqua.frontgatetickets.com/

Saturday, October 25, 2008
I Am Not What I Am 
Created and performed by Taavo Smith; Directed by Jeremy Williams 
7:30 p.m. 
Nalanda Studio Theater, Naropa University 

Shakespeare's perfect villain avenges himself against a non-existent god. A butoh comedy featuring words from Sophocles, Verdi, Lautréamont and others. 

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Writing & Poetics Special Event: Arielle Greenberg lectures on the Gurlesque
Lecture at 7 p.m., Reading at 8 p.m.
Shambhala Hall 

Friday, October 31, 2008
Creativity of Non-Doing
With Alok Hsu Kwang-han
October 31–November 2 
Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

With simple and effective energy and meditation exercises, this workshop is for artists and non-artists who are drawn to the adventure of being intimate with the unknown.

Friday, October 31, 2008
Naropa's MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Performances:
four more 
Co-created by Margot Bassett, Lauren Brenner, Sally Foster and Micha Frayne 
7:30 p.m. 
Nalanda Studio Theater (North end, room 9190) 
$7 general admission; Free to seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID 

Four beautiful and also incredibly unattractive artists invite you into their topsy-turvy world—a collage of music, heartache, dance, teacups and thunderstorms behind closed doors.   

Friday, October 31 & Saturday, November 1, 2008
New Student Preview Weekend 

Master class taught by Joan Bruemmer and Cara Reeser. Also, current BFA students will go the Coffee House and be available to talk to prospective students. 

November

Saturday, November 1, 2008  
Naropa's MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Performances
Original experimental works by 2nd yr MFA students
7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre (North end, room 9190) 
$7 general admission; Free to seniors, students and Naropa 
community w/ ID 

Saturday, November 1, 2008
four more 
Co-created by Margot Bassett, Lauren Brenner, Sally Foster and Micha Frayne 
7:30 p.m. 
Nalanda Studio Theater 

Four beautiful and also incredibly unattractive artists invite you into their topsy-turvy world—a collage of music, heartache, dance, teacups and thunderstorms behind closed doors. 

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
LIT @ Lunch Event: Mario Acevedo
12–1 p.m. Library Reading Room

Friday, November 7, 2008
Dream Yoga: The Dzogchen Teachings
With Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
November 7–9
Public Talk: Friday, November 7, 2008 
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

Lama Tharchin shares the teachings of dream yoga according to the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) view of Vajrayana Buddhism. Dream yoga is an ancient Tibetan practice that fosters lucid dreaming and the realization of luminous clear light awareness from the state of sleep.

Friday, November 14, 2008
The Path of the Heart: El Camino do Coracao
With Prem Baba
November 14–16
Public Talk: Friday, November 14, 2008  7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

Integrating teachings and meditations from the Satya lineage and the Brazilian Shamanic tradition, as well as western humanistic perspectives, Prem Baba will address how to open your heart, integrate your shadow and wounded child, and overcome obstacles to connecting with the divine.

Friday, November 21, 2008
BFA Open Classrooms 
3:30–6:00 p.m. 
Nalanda, 9185 

Open classrooms with invitation to undeclared undergraduates, prospective students, and high school students and drama teachers in the area. 

Friday, November 21, 2008
Six Minute Pieces: only the A section; 
MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance First Year Students' 
Performance Lab Showing 
Faculty Facilitated Work
7:30 p.m. 
Saturday, Nov. 22, 7:30pm 
Nalanda Studio Theater, Naropa University 

Thirteen beginnings created by MFACP first year students as a way to synthesize and experiment with MFA techniques of  creating performance. An answer to the questions: "What would happen if you were allowed to just begin and you didn't have to worry about the middle and the end; no 
worry about the B section; there is only the beginning? Sustainability is not an issue; what kind of freedom would  that unleash?" Free and open to the public. 

Ongoing Events

Mondays, 3–6 p.m.
Japanese Tea, “Open hearth” tea ceremony
Led by Michael Ricci
Teahouse, 2130 Arapahoe Ave.

Mondays, 5:15–6:30 p.m.
Zen Group
Led by the Great Mountain Zen Group and Gerry Wick Sensei 
Arapahoe Campus Meditation Hall

Tuesdays, Beginning November 4, 2008
Somatic Approaches to Change: A Systematic Approach to Shifting Your Mind
With Marcia Klump
November 4–December 2
Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

In choosing to offer more of our gifts and talents to the world, we must consciously shift our way of being. This course focuses on embodiment, which is often overlooked in the healing process, and will present information, techniques and actions that will help you set intentions and reinforce them through the body.

Tuesdays, 12–1:00 p.m.
Qigong Classes
Offered by Maureen O’Connor
Lincoln 4130  
Once the weather is warm, the class will be held directly south of the Café, past the parking lot on the grassy area of the CU Campus.

Anyone is welcome to join at any time, no experience necessary. This is strictly for fun and exercise, and an opportunity to spend time with other members of the Naropa community. It’s best to wear loose fitting clothing and flat-soled shoes or plan to go barefoot. Please eat a small amount of food prior to coming to class; too much energy in an empty stomach is actually not all that healing.

Tuesdays, 7–9 p.m.
Insight Meditation—Vipassana, A Buddhist Meditation tradition of Southeast Asia
Led by David Chernikoff a faculty member of Naropa University.
Unitarian Universalist Church, 5001 Pennsylvania. For more information, please see www.insightcolorado.org

Wednesdays, Beginning October 15, 2008
Sacred Sanskrit for Spiritual Practice
With Sreedevi Bringi
October 15–November 12 Nalanda Campus
Please call 303-245-4800 for more information or to register

This immersion course introduces participants to the oral and written Sanskrit alphabet through the sacred framework of Indian teachings. Pronunciation, reading, writing and the Roman transliteration system are combined with a beginning awareness of Sanskrit grammar.

Wednesdays 3:30-5:30; Fridays 1:30-3:30
Naropa Healing Group
On the Sycamore green if it is nice, Goldfarb in inclement weather

The Healing Group and all interested, certified healers will gather to offer healings to the community.  Light and local refirst-year studentsts will be offered. Modalities one might expect are reiki, spiritual healings, massage, zero-balancing, and whatever else our healing community brings to the table. Contact jurchek@students.naropa.edu for more information.

Wednesdays, 6–7:30 p.m.
Zen Peace-Makers Meditation Group, samatha-vipashyana, pranayama, metta, and tonglen meditation practices
Led by Sensei Fleet Maull
Paramita Meditation Hall

Thursdays, 1–2 p.m.
Riding the Energy of Emotions
With Acharya Dale Asrael
Paramita Meditation Hall

Saturdays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Sitting and Walking Meditation and Guided Bodywork Practice and/or Dharma Talk
Led by the members of Dhyanasangha and the Dharma Ocean Foundation
Sitting and Walking Mediation Saturdays 10 a.m.–12 p.m.
Guided Bodywork Practice and/or Dharma Talk Saturdays 12 p.m.–1 p.m.
Arapahoe Campus Meditation Hall  

First Sunday of the Month, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Group Sitting and Walking Meditation
Led by Phil Karl
Arapahoe Campus Meditation Hall

Every other Friday, starting September 29, 2008. 5–7 p.m.
Vimalakirti Cult, A full group reading of the Second Turning popular text
Arapahoe Meditation Hall

Resources

Ongoing throughout the Fall Semester
Registration for Text Messaging
http://webreg.naropa.edu

For the safety and well-being of its community, Naropa University will implement numerous tools to alert faculty, staff and students to campus emergencies, as well as keep them informed of snow-day closures and related events. Voicemail, email and an on-campus public address system will be utilized along with the single most critical component, text messaging, which allows you to be instantly notified by cell phone or personal digital assistant (PDA).

Registration for the text messaging service starts now. All Naropa students and faculty are strongly encouraged to log in to Naropa's web registration page, from which you may access a secure site and add your personal information to the text messaging alert system. Staff will receive additional instructions via email.

When registering, it is necessary to have your phone with you and turned on. Please opt in now; it only takes a minute.

Tuesdays through Thursdays
Drop-in Counseling Center
11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.
In the Snow Lion Building (entrance on the East side)

Need Some Support? Having a Hard Time Adjusting? Wondering About Community Resources? Just Want To Talk? Drop By the Naropa Counseling Center. For more information or to set up an appointment, call 303-245-4697.

Career Services
Monday-Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and by appointment

Career Services is a free service for Naropa students and alumni and can assist you in making meaningful and positive academic and career decisions.  The process of career development and planning can be difficult, and they are here to help you:

• Explore your interests, values, skills, and talents
• Identify potential academic and career paths
• Develop internship and job search strategies
• Plan your graduate school or other educational application process
• Learn how to write effective cover letters and resumes
• Prepare for the interview process
• Or assist you if you have any other concerns, questions, or need information about your career

If you would like to schedule an appointment, please call 303-245-4863 or email ssteward@naropa.edu

Naropa Writing Center Open
Sycamore Hall across from the student lounge
Monday–Thursday 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Friday: 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
303-245-4606

The NWC offers a respectful, collaborative environment for all writers. We can assist you with essays, scholarship applications, cover letters, creative work, theses and more. Come in at any stage of the writing process from brainstorming and organization to revising and documenting sources. Appointments are available on the hour and half-hour, for 25 or 50 minutes. Citation workshops will be offered this semester. Location, dates, and times will be announced as soon as they are available.

Volunteer work with Moving to End Sexual Assault

Rape Crisis Hotline
For more information, or a volunteer application, please check out our website, call 303/443-0400 x102 or email Julie Washnock at julie@movingtoendsexualassault.org. Training dates are listed below.

Men's Prevention Education Program
For more information, a training schedule and a volunteer application, please check out our website, call 303-443-0400 x103 and ask for Marti Hopper or email her at marti@movingtoendsexualassault.org.

Go to MESA for more information on required training dates, job descriptions and application forms.

Service-Learning Opportunities with Prison Dharma Network
Prison Dharma Network (PDN), an international interfaith network founded by Naropa adjunct faculty member Fleet Maull is always in need of service-learning participants for its various programs working with prisoners and youth at risk in the Boulder area. PDN is also in need of people to respond to prisoner's book and information requests, as well as teach yoga and meditation at the Boulder County Jail. We support thousands of prisoners in the practice of all forms of the contemplative path: meditation, yoga, centering prayer, chi kung, etc. Please contact Sarah Gurganus at pdn2@indra.com or visit Prison Dharma Network for more information.

Volunteer Work with Shambhala Prison Community
The Shambhala Prison Community works in about sixty prisons nationwide and is looking for dedicated practitioners of meditation to work with prisoners who are themselves practicing meditation and studying the Dharma. Current need also involves volunteers who can assist with shipping literature from our libraries to prisoners. If you are interested in this extraordinarily rewarding work, we would be delighted to discuss with you the possibilities of your becoming a volunteer.

To find out more about how you can help ease the suffering of the incarcerated, email the Shambhala Prison Community at prison@indra.com, or call 303-544-5923. Please identify your interest in volunteering in the subject line.

Student Discounts

Naropa University Extended Studies offers increased discounts for Naropa community members.
Alumni: 15%
Students: 30%
Full-time Faculty/Staff: 50%
Adjunct Faculty: 50%
MI & TA: 30%

Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) Student Discount
An hour before any performance, students can purchase tickets at DCPA for only $10.