2017 Schedule
Event Title
Transformative Action in the Individual, Social and Global Spheres
Location
Namaste Hall
Start Date
21-4-2017 10:20 AM
End Date
21-4-2017 11:10 AM
Description
Integral education equally emphasizes personal and social development, and aspires for a collective transformation of life on Earth. This conversation explores how CIIS can contribute to addressing today’s social challenges within this integral vision. We will discuss how the notion of a whole-person approach to education can be expanded to become a whole-community, whole-world, and fully diverse system that can open paths to engaged, compassionate, and truly transformative action.
Event Type
Panel Discussion
Transformative Action in the Individual, Social and Global Spheres
Namaste Hall
Integral education equally emphasizes personal and social development, and aspires for a collective transformation of life on Earth. This conversation explores how CIIS can contribute to addressing today’s social challenges within this integral vision. We will discuss how the notion of a whole-person approach to education can be expanded to become a whole-community, whole-world, and fully diverse system that can open paths to engaged, compassionate, and truly transformative action.
Comments
Panelists:
Denise Boston, PhD, RDT currently serves as the Dean of Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Counseling Psychology at CIIS. She received her doctorate in counseling psychology from Walden University. Denise has presented NTU (African-centered) psychotherapy a culturally responsive training practice for supervisors, interns, and service providers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been a visiting lecturer at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Her research interests include diversity-centered programming, community-based collaborative care, and arts-based interventions. In addition to her teaching and consulting work, she is a mentor to African American college students and interns.
Rachel Bryant, M.A. MFT Intern, believes in the innate wisdom and intelligence of everyone to be his or her own healer. Rachel became a clinician to bring culturally responsive services to their local community and has worked closely with consumers and indigenous practitioners to help redefine community mental health practices. Rachel brings more than 15-years of advocacy and social justice experience to her current role as the Mental Health Services Act, Grant Director at CIIS.
Moderator:
Felipe Restrepo is the Program Coordinator for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and a student in the BAC program. Felipe is interested in embodying an active, engaged spirituality which recognizes unity through diversity. He is an artist and a musician, a meditator, and a spiritual seeker/finder. Felipe plans on continuing his education after the BAC by earning an MA is counseling psychology.