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2008 Schedule of Classes
Class Date: March 31 - April 4, 2008

Location: Passionist Center NY City (Temporary Location) (4 credits) - Weather
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Seminar: Abraham's Curse - Cancelled
Faculty: Bruce Chilton
Class Number: 60150 

Seminar: The Emerging Wisdom Culture 
Faculty: Paul Ray
Class Number: 60113

This Seminar is a required Core Course for all students.

Art-as-Meditation: Cultivating the Sacred Practices of Forgiveness & Compassion
Faculty: Diane Berke
Class Number: 61130

Body Prayer leader: Diane Berke
Process Group leader:
Jim Garrison

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Class Date: April 7 - 11, 2008
 

Location: Mill Valley, CA: Ralston L. White Retreat Center (4 credits)  - Weather
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Seminar:
Doctoral Writing and Research Methods
Faculty: Jim Garrison
Class Number: 62004

Art-as-Meditation: Intuitive Imaging
Faculty: Tg Belcheir
Class Number: 61153

Body Prayer leader: Marcia Belcheir
Process Group leader:
Tg Belcheir 

This seminar is a required Core Course for all Ph.D. and DMin students.

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 Class Date: May 5 - 9, 2008
 

Location: Lake Merritt UMC, Oakland, CA (4 credits) - Directions - Weather
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Seminar and Art as Meditation: Conscious Evolution and Social Synergy: Toward an Evolutionary Politics
Faculty: Barbara Marx Hubbard with Carolyn Anderson and John Zwerver
Class Number: 60136

Dr. Hubbard and her assistants will lead the body prayer, seminar, art as meditation, and process portions of this Intensive as one continuous learning continuum. The schedule will vary from day to day.


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Class Date: June 9 - 13, 2008

Location: Lake Merritt UMC, Oakland, CA (4 credits) - Directions - Weather
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Seminar: The Universe Story
Faculty: Larry Edwards
Class Number: 60002
 

Seminar: Wisdom as a Way of Life: An Inquiry Into the Pursuit of Wisdom as a Spiritual Practice
Faculty: Jim Garrison and John Hanagan
Class Number: 62005

The ‘Wisdom as a Way of Life’ seminar is a required Core Course for all students. 

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Art as Meditation: The Wisdom of Nature: Practice of the Natural Mystic 
Faculty: Judith Yost and Will Taegel
Art as Meditation Class Number: 61154

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Art as Meditation:
From Drum Time to Dream Time
Faculty: Bruce Silverman
Art as Meditation Class Number: 61013

Body Prayer leader: Bruce Silverman
Process Group leader: We will have two process groups, one with Bruce Silverman and the other with Judith Yost

Seminar and Art As Meditation: Indigenous Mind: Introduction to Language and Consciousness; and Healing
Faculty: Apela Colorado
Class Number: 60110


Dr. Colorado and her assistants lead the body prayer, seminar, art as meditation, and process portions of this Intensive as one continuous learning continuum. The schedule will vary from day to day.

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June 21, 2008 - Graduation 
 Location: Lake Merritt UMC, Oakland, CA - Directions - Weather

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Graduation Ceremony –  4:00 P.M.

Class Date: July 6 - 12, 2008

Location: Chartres, France (Temporary Location) (4 credits) - Weather

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Seminar:
New Chartres School Intensive 3 - The Great Sacred Loves and the Poetry of Beauty
Faculty: Lauren Artress, Apela Colorado, Jim Garrison, Jean Houston, Caroline Myss, Colette van Praag, Peggy Rubin
Class Number: 60107


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Class Date: July 13 - 19, 2008 
 
Location: Pilgrimage to Glastonbury, England (Temporary Location) (4 units)

Pilgrimage: The Loves of Avalon: Exploring the Goddesses and Sacred Loves of the Arthurian Court 
Faculty: Apela Colorado, Jim Garrison, Kathy Jones, Caitlin Matthews
Class Number: 62150

This pilgrimage is directly linked thematically with the Intensive on Rhetorica, held the previous week in Chartres on the theme of the Great Sacred Loves of History. The pilgrimage will explore the goddesses and great loves of the Arthurian court, expressed so poignantly in Glastonbury, where legend places King Arthur and his knights of the Roundtable, and the deeper mysteries of the search for the Holy Grail.

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Class Date: July 28 - August 1, 2008  

Location: Passionist Center NY City  (4 credits) - Weather
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Seminar: Reinventing Faith in the Emerging Wisdom Culture
Faculty: Paul Ray and William Sinkford
Class Number: 
60153

Seminar: The Numinosity of Sacred Marriage of Soul and Spirit
Faculty: Marion Woodman
Class Number: 60154

This seminar can be taken as part of the Certificate in Art and Healing and/or as part of the Masters Program in Art and Healing.

Art-as-Meditation: Embodied Soul and Spirit
Faculty: Bruce Silverman
Class Number: 61151

Body Prayer leader: Bruce Silverman
Process Group leader: Bruce Silverman

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Class Date: August 11 - 15, 2008  
 

Location: Mill Valley, CA: Ralston L. White Retreat Center (4 credits)  - Weather
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Seminar and Art as Meditation: Transforming Trauma: Moving through the Denial and Domination of Overwhelming Experiences to Embrace the Healing Facets of the Soul 
Faculty:  Judith Yost and Will Taegel
Class Number: 60152 


This Intensive will launch the Wisdom University Certificate Program in Nature, Trauma and the Soul.   This is the first of four Intensives that can be taken toward this certificate or for credit in any other program. Drs. Yost and Taegel will lead the body prayer, seminar, art as meditation, and process portions of this Intensive as one continuous learning continuum. The schedule will vary from day to day.

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Class Date: August 25 - 29, 2008
 

       Location: Lake Merritt UMC, Oakland, CA (4 credits) - Directions - Weather
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Seminar: The Art of Spiritual Direction: The Spirituality of the Labyrinth
Faculty: Lauren Artress and Carol Vaccariello
Class Number: 60202


Art as Meditation: 
Walking the Labyrinth
Faculty: Lauren Artress and Carol Vaccariello
Class Number: 61150

This Intensive is part of The Art of Spiritual Direction Program, which is being developed in partnership with Caroline Myss Educational Institute (CMED) and Veriditas. This course can be taken toward a Certificate in The Art of Spiritual Direction and/or as part of a major in both the Masters and Doctoral programs.

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Class Date: September 24 - October 4, 2008

Location: Pilgrimage to Kyoto, Japan (temporary Location) (4 Units) - Weather

Pilgrimage: Sacred Kyoto: A Celebration of Shinto Beauty and Buddhist Wisdom 
Faculty: John Hanagan
Class Number: 62151

Dr. Hanagan will lead the body prayer, seminar, art as meditation, and process portions of this Intensive as one continuous learning continuum. The schedule will vary from day to day.

Note: Please plan to leave North America on September 24th, arriving Kyoto on the 25th.  The intensive classes will start on the morning of the 26th.

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Class Date: October 6 - 10, 2008

Location: Lake Merritt UMC, Oakland, CA (4 credits) - Directions - Weather 
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Seminar: Dreams, Archetypes, Personal Mythology, & the Search for Meaning
Faculty: Jeremy Taylor
Class Number: 60132

This seminar can be taken toward a certificate in Archetypal Studies and Projective Dream Work and/or as part of a major in both the Masters and Doctoral programs.

Seminar:  Art and Healing:  Creativity and the Healing of the Body
Faculty:  Mario Martinez
Class Number: 60157

This seminar can be taken as part of the Certificate in Art and Healing and/or as part of the Masters Program in Art and Healing

Art as Meditation*: Maskmaking: Embodying Your Personal Mythology
Faculty:  Kaleo Ching
Class Number: 61138


Body Prayer leader: Bruce Silverman
Process Group leader: Bruce Silverman

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 Class Date: October 20 - 24, 2008
Location: Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico - (Temporary Location) (4 credits)
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Seminar: Wisdom and Civilization  
Faculty: Jim Garrison
Class Number: 60151 

This seminar is a required Core Course for all students.

Art as Meditation: Let it Begin with Me: Wisdom, Civilization and the Self  
Faculty: Kim Rosen

Class Number: 61152

Body Prayer leader: Kim Rosen
Process Group leader: Kim Rosen

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Class Date: November 3 - 7, 2008

Location: Mill Valley, CA: Ralston L. White Retreat Center (4 credits)  - Weather
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Seminar and Art as Meditation: Psyche and Cosmos Transpersonal Psychology and Archetypal Astrology
Faculty: Stan Grof and Richard Tarnas
Class Number: 60121

Body Prayer leader: Kim Rosen 
Process Group leader:
Kim Rosen

Drs. Grof and Tarnas will lead the seminar and art as meditation portions of this Intensive as one continuous learning continuum. The schedule will vary from day to day.

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Class Date: November 10 - 14, 2008
 
Location: Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico - (Temporary Location) (4 credits)
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Seminar:  Life After Life: Probing the Last Frontier of Life Beyond Death
Faculty:  Raymond Moody
Class Number: 60155

Seminar: A Woman’s Ways of Knowing - Integrating Body, Mind and Spirit   
Faculty:  Carolyn Turner
Class Number: 60156

Art as Meditation: Voices of Truth:  Poetry as Passion, Prayer and Spiritual Practice
Faculty: Kim Rosen

Class Number: 60119 

Body Prayer leader: Kim Rosen
Process Group leader: Kim Rosen

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2009 Schedule of Classes
Class Date: January 19 - 23, 2009
 Location: Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico - (Temporary Location) (4 credits)
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Seminar:  Doctoral Writing and Research Methods
Faculty:  Jim Garrison
Class Number: 62004

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