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Parents/Family Weekend
October 14 & 15, 2011
Dear Parents and Families of Naropa Students,
Please join us for Parent and Family Weekend! We invite you to this opportunity to share in your student's Naropa educational experience, meet the president and other key Naropa faculty and staff. We look forward to seeing you on campus as part of our beautiful Naropa community.
To register online click here.
There is a $25 registration fee per guest (no cost for your Naropa student or children 17 or younger)
For information regarding travel, directions, and lodging, click here.
Please contact Bob Cillo, dean of students, at 303-546-3506 or bcillo@naropa.edu if you have any further questions. We look forward to seeing you!
Bob Cillo
Dean of Students
Friday, October 14, 2011
(All Friday events will be held at the Nalanda Events Center, 6230 Arapahoe Avenue)
3:00 p.m. Registration/check-in Location: Nalanda Campus/Nalanda Events Center
3:30–6:00 p.m. Welcome Reception with President followed by Student Performances Location: Nalanda Campus/Nalanda Events Center
Saturday, October 15, 2011
(All Saturday events will be held at the Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue)
9:30 a.m. Check-in/Coffee/Tea Location: 2130 Arapahoe Ave, Administration Bldg/1st floor
10:00–11:30 a.m. Workshop Offerings - Arapahoe Campus
A. "East meets West": Location: Shambhala Hall
A discussion on the unique contemplative pedagogy of Naropa University.
Presenters:
Sue Hammond West is a painter and mixed media artist who explores consciousness, quantum physics, and the phenomenology of being. Her exhibitions include Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago; and University of Notre Dame Isis Gallery. Her art has appeared in Surface Design Journal, Shambhala Times, and not enough night. Recipient of an NEA grant, Hammond West has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Steamboat Springs Mixed Media Painting School. Currently, she is associate professor and director of the School of the Arts at Naropa University.
Alan Hartway has taught at Naropa University for thirteen years in interdisciplinarystudies, religious studies, and CORE courses. His academic background is in poetics, classics, and Greek. As program lead for interdisciplinary studies he has developed, implemented, and assessed a mentorship program for the past six years at Naropa.
Dr. Peter Grossenbacher teaches courses in mindfulness meditation, cognitive psychology, perception, personality, research methods, and neuroscience. A practitioner of meditation since 1980, he earned his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Oregon. Peter has conducted original scientific research at the University of Cambridge, the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, and Naropa University, making discoveries that shed light on attention, reflective awareness, synesthesia, meditation, instruction, and learning. Peter has published numerous articles on education, meditation, attention, and perception; reports on his work have appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Discover Magazine.
B. "Parents as Partners in Student Development: Supporting Students While
Fostering Autonomy" Location: Center for Student Excellence and Engagement, 2nd floor of the Administration Building
This workshop will address parents as partners in their students’ educational process. A key component of that process is the work that occurs outside of the classroom. Research has proven that students who are actively and mindfully engaged in their co-curricular experience complete their degrees more effectively and graduate with more transferable skills that will benefit them in their careers. Please come and join me if you are interested in learning about student services, co-curricular (out-of-class) learning, and how to be a resource in those pursuits with your students.
Presenter:
Matt Peterson, MS, is the director of student leadership and engagement at Naropa University, where he works with students’ co-curricular learning and campus involvement. Prior to coming to Naropa, Matt worked for eight years in residential learning programs in middle-level and higher education, where he incorporated experiential learning in support of students’ spiritual, emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development. He also has experience working with major events, service-learning, academic support programs, diversity and social justice education, and athletics. Matt can be reached at mpeterson@naropa.edu or 303-546-3549.
12:00 p.m. BBQ Lunch; Location: 2nd floor of the Administration Building
1:30–3:00 p.m. Workshops Offerings
A. "Introduction to Contemplative Practice" Location: Shambhala Hall
An overview of contemplative practice with an opportunity for hands-on experiential offerings.
Presenter:
Sherry Ellms has worked in a number of capacities at Naropa over the past nineteen years. Through Student Affairs, as the contemplative practice coordinator, she can provide students support for the spiritual aspects of their education and development, by providing them with a meditation instructor/mentor and giving referrals for mentors in many of the world wisdom traditions. At the universitywide level, she coordinates Community Practice Day each semester and does programming that reflects the various spiritual traditions that are available in the area. She assists with ritual and ceremonies and serves on the Contemplative Practices Pedagogy Committee which addresses the overall contemplative atmosphere of the university. Sherry has a BA in psychology from UCLA and an MA in environmental leadership from Naropa. She has trained with Marshall Rosenberg, in Nonviolent Communication and with Jon Kabat-Zinn in Mind-Body Stress Reduction. She is a longtime student of the founder, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and has taught meditation and led retreats for twenty-five years. She is assistant professor in the Environmental Studies Department where she teaches courses in ecopsychology, meditation, and communication skills. She also teaches in the graduate Ecopsychology program.
B. "How to Explain a Nontraditional Academic Program in a Traditional World"
Location: Lincoln 4130
Naropa alumni discuss the benefits of an experiential education and share their Naropa experience to help parents/families understand why a Naropa education is an outstanding way to prepare for the future world and career opportunities after graduation.
Presenters:
Robert Cooper, BA in Religious Studies, Spring 2006
Zachary Weinzetl, BA Contemplative Psychology, Fall 2006
Linda Faucheux, MA Contemplative Psychotherapy, Fall 1993
3:15 p.m. President’s Tea and Closing Location: 2nd floor of the Administration Building
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