Thursday, July 14, 2011

ITP Doctoral Symposium Videos Online

During Spring 2011, ITP students prepared and presented the first doctoral symposium. The theme was "Socially Engaged Transpersonal Research." Keynotes were Dorothy Fadiman and Judy Grahn. The result was an impressive series of lectures which were recorded and posted to the Web to share with the larger research community.

Check out the Discussion Panel videos, the Keynote Presentations videos and the Student Presentation videos.

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Transpersonal TED Talks

TED Talks are a wonderful collection of video presentations on a wide range of topics; they are thought-provoking, positive and well worth checking out.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. ...
TED ...believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.  - From the Site
Doesn't it sound like fun? Here are some links to a few of our faves:

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness