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Holy hell,
"CIIS as an institution neither desires to add another fundamentalism to public discourse nor to reflexively replicate the status quo of separation between disciplines, between theory and practice, and between intellect and spirit that characterizes and continually recreates a world in crisis (Bronson, 2004: Bronson & Gangadean, 2004). The vision is not merely a rejection of what is, for this would place CIIS in the unfortunate situation of being merely another alternative school, one where integral means simply "not mainstream" (Montuori, 2004). What we are naming integral education at its best encompasses what is normally sought in a good education with an added emphasis on personal and societal relevance, transdisciplinarity, and a mutual honoring of the modes of knowing glossed under mind, body, and spirit and inner and outer (or subjective and objective) realities (Ferrer, 2007). Intigral education, like this inquiry, highlights metacognition, the ability to reflect critically on one's own thinking, identify limitations and address gaps by accessing multiple models and perspectives."
AND,
"In Brant Cortright’s Transpersonal and Integral Psychotherapy Class, students are required to write a 20- to 30-page paper in which they research and explicate a clinical topic through an integral lens. Some examples are: eating disorders viewed integrally, integral treatment modalities for addiction, wilderness therapy from an integral perspective.
A student wrote on integrating therapy with wilderness experiences; in his research, he began to draw on different spiritual traditions as well as psychotherapeutic benefits. He has gone on to create a major organization in Marin County that offers vision quests to adolescents and adults. His paper allowed him a chance to put together his ideas about body, heart, mind, and spirit to create a therapeutic approach that is highly successful."
For a month or two at the end of freshman year, I thought about training to be a leader on those Outward Bound type retreats for troubled youth, or I guess troubled anyone. This is inspiring :)
"CIIS as an institution neither desires to add another fundamentalism to public discourse nor to reflexively replicate the status quo of separation between disciplines, between theory and practice, and between intellect and spirit that characterizes and continually recreates a world in crisis (Bronson, 2004: Bronson & Gangadean, 2004). The vision is not merely a rejection of what is, for this would place CIIS in the unfortunate situation of being merely another alternative school, one where integral means simply "not mainstream" (Montuori, 2004). What we are naming integral education at its best encompasses what is normally sought in a good education with an added emphasis on personal and societal relevance, transdisciplinarity, and a mutual honoring of the modes of knowing glossed under mind, body, and spirit and inner and outer (or subjective and objective) realities (Ferrer, 2007). Intigral education, like this inquiry, highlights metacognition, the ability to reflect critically on one's own thinking, identify limitations and address gaps by accessing multiple models and perspectives."
AND,
"In Brant Cortright’s Transpersonal and Integral Psychotherapy Class, students are required to write a 20- to 30-page paper in which they research and explicate a clinical topic through an integral lens. Some examples are: eating disorders viewed integrally, integral treatment modalities for addiction, wilderness therapy from an integral perspective.
A student wrote on integrating therapy with wilderness experiences; in his research, he began to draw on different spiritual traditions as well as psychotherapeutic benefits. He has gone on to create a major organization in Marin County that offers vision quests to adolescents and adults. His paper allowed him a chance to put together his ideas about body, heart, mind, and spirit to create a therapeutic approach that is highly successful."
For a month or two at the end of freshman year, I thought about training to be a leader on those Outward Bound type retreats for troubled youth, or I guess troubled anyone. This is inspiring :)