The
European Transpersonal Association
Newsletter Number 19
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Newsletter
Editor: John Drew
20
April 2004
Dear
Friends,
Please,
please send this Newsletter to your contacts to develop the EUROTAS
network and to invite them to the London Conference. The newsletter
and Conference details are available to pull down from the Eurotas.org
and the www citizenshipconference.com websites.
Please
help now with the Conference by signing up yourself and inviting your
friends. Thank You.
1.
The London EUROTAS and CTP Conference
2.
Message from Moldova
3.
Sharing Art and Religiosity
4.
A note from Frank Visser from the Netherlands
5.
News from the UK. The Centre for Transpersonal Psychology and Perspectives
6.
Bulgaria wants to join EUROTAS
7.
The Ian Gordon Brown Commemorative Lecture
8.
A note from Chris Hall about the website
9.
The Spiritual University
10.
Research in Eurotas
11.
A Last Thought
1.
The London Eurotas & CTP Conference
Citizenship in an Interconnected World
A transpersonal approach.
Regents Park London,
Tuesday 17 –Friday 20 August 2004
This
note comes to remind you to register for the EUROTAS and CTP Conference
which takes place from 17-20 August 2004 in the centre of London in
lovely Regent's Park. There is already a wonderful offering of lectures
by distinguished speakers and a fine selection of workshops from professional,
very special people from all over Europe, Russia and the United States.
We have participants from countries across Europe and also this time
from Moldova, Bulgaria and Lithuania.
You
should please sign up as soon as possible as this will ensure that you
have accommodation in Regents College and help the Conference administration.
Please let Sue Lewis know that you intend to come even if you do not
have your own financial arrangements in place as this will help our
conference planning. Please contact me also if you need any advice about
finance or travel.
Enrolment
details and the updated programme can be taken from www.citizenshipconference.org
or from www.eurotas.org. Please contact Sue Lewis for a conference brochure
(tel: 4420 7724 9842) and about payment at: enquiries@transpersonalcentre.co.uk
or Centre for Transpersonal Psychology, 101 Crawford Street, London
W1H 2HP. You can also email Kari Hall at karihall@alumedia.com
Please
tell your friends! You are warmly invited to take part in this central
London Conference during the summer of 2004 in the lovely surroundings
of Regent’s Park. It is for all those in Europe and elsewhere
who are interested in the relation between the inner aspects of their
lives and the outward living of them. It brings together like
minded people from many different countries. The emphasis will be on
our meeting together and learning from one another. It is not a conference
at which you will just sit at the feet of great people and hear their
views, although there will be expert lecturers and workshops offered
from all over Europe and elsewhere. It will be a time for personal reflection
on the contribution we might make in our own special ways to the complexity
of the fast changing global, regional and local. We'd like to introduce
you to some online resources we have developed in order to keep you
up to date with the latest information.
Visit
www.eurotas.org
The
Eurotas site offers links to our member associations.
Visit www.transpersonalcentre.co.uk
CTP
offers professional preparation for transpersonal psychotherapists and
accreditation in the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy Section
of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
Visit www.citizenshipconference.org
The
Citizenship Conference web site will give regular updates on the conference
schedules, workshops, accommodation, meals, and directions. Also featured
are a secure online registration system and a Discussion Board to preview
some of the proposed topics.
Register
NOW!
Please
register for the conference as soon as you can.
There are limited places available for this conference so visit the
web site now to register
online or see below for further information on how to register by
fax or post.
Conference &
Workshop Schedule
We
are pleased that already there are a wide range of seminars/workshops which
have already been offered. If you wish to present a workshop, then
visit the web site and fill out the Workshop Presenter Form
to register your interest. It is important that you show how your work
would fit in with the theme of the Conference. The number of remaining
presentation slots is very limited.
While
you can find the information online, please find attached to this email,
the latest Conference Brochure which includes a Registration Form for
the conference if you would like to register by fax or post.
More on how to
register!
Please
register for the conference as soon as you can.
This helps us to cover the up front costs of the conference and also
ensures that you have a place. There are a maximum number of 350 participants
and although we cannot say at this stage for sure, we believe that the
Conference will be oversubscribed, so please do not leave things too
late as we will take bookings in the order they are sent to us.
Cost:
£190*
This
fee is refundable up to the 1st June less 15% to cover administration.
After June 1st 50% of the cost of the conference is returnable and
after 15 July the fee is forfeit unless a person can be taken from
the waiting list. *The cost of the conference is £190 until
June 1, 2004. After June 1, 2004 the fee will be £220.
Register Online
Visit www.citizenshipconference.org
to go through the secure online registration.
Register by Fax
or Post
You
may send a copy of the registration form (see attachment) by mail or
fax to Sue Lewis at the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology 101 Crawford
Street, London W1 2HP Tel: 44(0)20 7724 9842
Fax: 7724 9243. Bank drafts are acceptable but please bear
in mind that you must cover the exchange costs into £ sterling
from other currencies.
Accommodation
One
the web site you can find more information on the onsite accommodation
available at the residence halls at Regent's College, as well as a list
of other accommodation local to Regent's Park. Prices range from £23-£38.
2.
Message from Moldova
Dear
John,
We
are glad to inform you about the establishment and existence of the
Transpersonal Association in Moldova which began on the 12th of September,
2003.Presently we have as many as 40 members of the Association.
We
are most grateful to EUROTAS for the support and help you gave us in
Sinaia and hope to be at the London Conference in August.
Yours
sincerely
President
of the Transpersonal Association of Moldova
Scortescu
Liudmila.
3.
Sharing Art and Religiosity
This
Conference was due to take place in March 2004. It is always offered
during the last week of March at the Mandala Wisata, in the area of
Pura Samuan Tiga-Bedulu, Bali.
In
the Balinese culture Barong is a mystical lion-like animal that appears
in a dancing pilgrimage to support peace and goodness.
Peace
Barong" in support of the longevity of peace on earth. We have
received materials from villages and cities in Bali, Solo & Bandung-Java,
France, Germany, Peru, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Greece,
For
more information, to join or to send materials for the World Peace
Barong
Organizing Committee: Sharing Art & Religiosity IV
No.
1 Pura Samuan Tiga
Bedulu,
Gianyar, Bali 80551 Indonesia
e-mail:
dharmasamuantiga@hotmail.com
4.
A note from Frank Visser from the Netherlands
Amsterdam, February 24 2004
http://www.worldofkenwilber.com
Dear
Wilber Friends,
The
US edition of THOUGHT AS PASSION (Suny Press, 2003) has been #2 on the
best-seller list of the State University of New York over the past half
year. The Spanish edition of KEN WILBER: THOUGHT AS PASSION has been
released by Kairos, Barcelona.
In
May I will attend a Wilber conference in Madrid, giving a talk on "Integralism
and Perennialism". On March 13 I gave a talk on integral psychology
at the Dutch seminar “Voices from the Edge” featuring the
visions of Brian Swimme, Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen.
Frank
Visser
5.
News from the UK. The Centre for Transpersonal Psychology and Perspectives
The
Centre for Transpersonal Psychology has been a driving force in the
development of transpersonal psychology in Great Britain since 1973,
and today is situated at the very heart of new, progressive transpersonal
ideas, activities and innovation. It was founded by Ian Gordon-Brown
and Barbara Somers, who initiated a series of workshops and later a
professional preparation in transpersonal perspectives and techniques
that combined transpersonal theory and an understanding of consciousness
with structured experiential work. This created an informal network
of counseling and psychotherapy practitioners and allied professionals
who work from a transpersonal orientation. Currently it is an accrediting
organisation within the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
which prepares individuals to be integrative psychotherapists in a transpersonal
context, and offers a counseling certificate and diploma as well as
a wide ranging and vibrant studies programme to trainees and psychotherapists
seeking continuing professional development. More information can be
found at the CTP website: www.transpersonalcentre.co.uk CTP is managing
with EUROTAS the August 17-20 2004 Transpersonal Conference in London.
Perspectives. There is a studies programme with three workshops during
the next few months.
Being
an Edge-Walker – Liz McCormick, the Shadow of the Spirit –
Roger Coward and Emergence – John Mulligan
Perspectives
are an Association which will offer the Workshops 1, 2 and 3 of the
CTP training in their original form and a range of other workshops.
Its mission is to maintain, develop and disseminate the core values
of the transpersonal approach in which warmth; love and trust coexist
with clear thinking and creativity. It is an independent meeting point,
networking base and spiritual home for transpersonal psychology in the
UK. More details from Dorothy Allen at dorothyallan@supanet.com
The
European Certificate of Psychotherapy is now administered in the UK
through the UKCP. About 4000 psychotherapists already hold the ECP from
over 30 European countries. Details in the UK from Mikeb@psychotherapy.org,uk
6.
Bulgaria wants to join EUROTAS
Simeon
Simov and Mihaela Mihaylova write a lovely letter and at least one of
them will join the London 17-20 EUROTAS Conference:
We
are very glad for your message! We have been in contact with ARPT in
Romania. We are very interested in your invitation to come to the Conference
in London and for the possibilities of developing our experience and
education in the sphere of transpersonal psychology as well.
Our
dream is to have a transpersonal psychology in Bulgaria and we are very
interested to start a Bulgarian Transpersonal Association.
Visiting
the EUROTAS website we found out that there exists a Croatian transpersonal
association. Because our second mother tongue is Serbo-Croatian and
because it is very close to our language would it be admissible for
Eurotas and ARPT although our first contact was ARPT, to make a contact
the Croatian Association? We ask about this because our intention is
not to prolong in time the start of the Bulgarian transpersonal association,
because of the language barrier.
We
hope it’s not a problem and in future for all Association in this
Region to help each other for the development of transpersonal psychology
in the Balkans.
Best
wishes,
Simeon
Simov
MIhaela
Mihaylova
7.
The Ian Gordon Brown Commemorative Lecture
The
first Ian Gordon Brown Commemorative lecture will be given by Professor
David Fontana at 5.30 pm on Thursday 19 August during the London EUROTAS
Conference. It will be ten years almost to the day since Ian ran the
Third EUROTAS Conference at the same venue in Regent’s Park. Many
of you will remember it well and we hope that you will come to the Lecture
even if you cannot come to the Conference to honour him and his contribution
to the transpersonal movement in Europe.
8. A note from Chris Hall about the website
The
Eurotas website continues to grow and receive more attention from all
corners of the world. The website has been instrumental in linking our
organizations with related associations in North and South America and
in the Far East.
While
the information contained on the website serves as a useful promotional
and reference tool for all Eurotas members to spread their messages
to the online community, it would be a good time for all members to
review their individual sections on the EUROTAS site to ensure a timely
and relevant presence is maintained Please continue to keep your
contributions, stories and pictures flowing to webmaster@Eurotas.org
We
have now added Discussion Board and we hope you will all use this in
the lead up to the London August Conference. There will also be a member’s
only section where Eurotas members can to post non public information.
We look forward to your continued participation.
Best
wishes,
Chris
Hall
9.
The Spiritual University
Dear
Professor Drew,
We
met several years ago at the International Transpersonal Psychology
Conference in Assisi, where you talked about the idea of starting
a spiritual university. I'd just like to check in again at this point
to find out if anything like that has evolved. I have been looking in
particular for a transpersonal psychology community (an actual
community where people live and work together if possible) integrating
spiritual, psychological, energetic and social transformation approaches
to personal and planetary healing. Ideally this would involve
research as well as practice and workshops or courses. Do
you happen to know if anything like this exists or is forming?
Many thanks for your help and the wonderful work you are doing!
--
Peace
and all blessings,
Kavita
Byrd
Kavita,
you will be pleased to know there are several initiatives, at the University
of Durham, by the Scientific and Medical Network and by the Wrekin Trust.
You will be pleased to know that Janice Dolley, the Director of the
Wrekin Trust will give a workshop at the London EUROTAS Conference:
“ The University for Spirit Initiative: bringing the spiritual
dimension into education at all levels.” Hope to see you there.
10. Research in Eurotas
The
London Conference Research Seminars - Towards an integral strategy for
consciousness research
Transpersonal
psychology is rapidly developing evidence based, research oriented culture
of enquiry. There will be Research Seminars each afternoon for specialists
and professionals interested in issues of transpersonal research. Presentations,
workshops case studies and posters will provide an opportunity to introduce
your own research and/or hear the state of the art work in countries
across Europe and in other parts of the world.
Both
research methodology and applications will be covered. The interfaces
between science, Para psychological research and spirituality will be
reviewed and the growing interest in qualitative research will be discussed
and presented. The Research Committee led by Professor Wilfried Belschner
is currently drawing up the detailed nature of these Seminars. You can
contribute to the discussion and make offers through him and through
the research discussion Forum via the Eurotas Web Page (www.eurotas.org
) or directly by clicking this link: http://www.eurotas.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi
The
Four Seminars will cover:
(1) Principles and Foundations
(2)
Experimental and quantitative research methods
(3)
Qualitative research methods
(4)
Research strategies and instruments:
Leading
to:
-
How to organize a European / world wide data base for research tools?
-
The Eurotas Blue Print for Integral Research Tools - A Proposal
Each
seminar will up to three hours. The conference issues of health, education,
society and consciousness will be used as examples of research projects
which some distinguished presentations and the posters will inform.
Participation
is open to all conference delegates. The Research Committee Chaired
by Professor Wilfried Belschner has five members including Ovidiu Brazdau,
Romania, Professor Olga Louchakova, U.S. and Jason Wright, UK Those
who will contribute through presentations and other contributions include
Anne Carroll Decker, Harris Friedman, Evgueny Faidych, Jurgen Bantelmann,
Sarah Langen, Harald Walach, Nina Buchheld, Harald
Piron Gudrun Kock-Goppert, Amy Louise Miller, Stefan Schmidt, Christine Rosenberger, Martin Koch
A
discussion board has been put onto the Conference website –
www.citizenshipconference.org
and this can be accessed direct via the website or via Eurotas.org.
The President of EUROTAS, Professor Dr Wilfried Belschner supports warmly
the proposal by Ovidiu Brazdau of Romania and the discussions with Olga
Louchakova, David Lukoff and others. The aim is to bring together those
professionals in EUROTAS interested in research in both transpersonal
subjects and methodology through discussions during the year via the
discussion board and then at the London Conference. This development
came from the Creative Initiative established by Rumold Mol and others
some years ago & the proposal for a discussion board on the EUROTAS
website agreed in Portugal & Sinaia.
11.
A Last Thought
Greetings
to you at the beginning of Spring my thoughts and best wishes to you
for your new projects and visions. You come from many different countries,
cultures and occupations, but there is a uniting vision that many of
us share. Please let us have information about your Associations and
news of you personally for the next newsletter. May I leave you with
the following which I think underlines the theme of our London conference?
Citizenship in an Interconnected World: A Transpersonal Approach
“Working
within our separate arenas, progressive artists, educators and organisers
have hit a wall in our ability to move society towards a vision of a
healthier, more equitable world. No longer can we think about social
change as a revolution of only the body (organising), the mind (education)
or the spirit (art). It is all three at once in concert, and this calls
for nothing less than a revolution in how we think about and practice
social change” -- Grace Lee Boggs, Detroit, USA
Love.
As ever
John
John
Drew, Newsletter Editor
Email: Profdrew@eurotas.org
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