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ATP NEWSLETTERCONFERENCEANNOUNCEMEN

AIKIDO AND PSYCHOTHERAPY CE WORKSHOP

May 19, 2013, Palo Alto, CA

Aikido can be describedas moving meditation.It requires stilling o themind even as the body is

in action. Aikido provides an em-bodied, practical, and spirituallybased practice that aids cliniciansin conducting and understanding

psychotherapy.Aikido is a mindulness prac-tice that can be applied by psy-chotherapists both with clientsand or sel-care. Experiencing thediference between being of bal-ance and in balance and the enjoy-ment o learning to roll with thepunches and return to a centeredstance is a practice o resilienceand learned optimism.

In this workshop we will prac-

tice Aikido techniques that are o-cused on developing therapeuticpresence, staying centered whenchallenged by clients, and blend-ing empathically with clients. Telow impact section will create anideal introduction or non Aiki-doists who want to learn: aiki practices or cultivating

compassion aiki practices or developing

unconditional positive regard

blending as empathy getting of the line o clients

intense emotionsAs with meditation, the prac-

tices in Aikido induce states oharmony (ai) and spirit (ki) thatcan also be described as ow,higher states o consciousness, andpeak experiences. Tus, Aikido

can provide therapists with anexperiential grounding in spiritu-ality. As Wendy Palmer points outin Te Practice of Freedom, AikidoPrinciples as a Spiritual Guide (p. 5)

I have ound the body to be themost revealing and rewarding ocal

point or exploring the ecumeni-cal nature o the spiritual path,or it is through the body that anindividual maniests the ideas orinspirations o this path.

In addition, Aikido increasesyour ability to read bodiesincluding social/emotional is-sues embodied in our clients. Asa sel-care skill, Aikido includestechniques or rebalancing yoursel

physically, spiritually, and emo-

tionally.Te workshop will be held at

the Soa University Dojo locatedat 1069 E. Meadow Circle PaloAlto CA 94303. ime is 105:30with a 90 minute potluck lunch.Te instructors will be RobertFrager, Ph.D., David Lukof,Ph.D., Jamal Granick, Ph.D.,

Patrick Faggianelli, Ph.D., Bethabakin, Ph.D., and Paul Rest.CE credits will be available orpsychologists, MFs, LCSWs, andnurses through the Spiritual Com-petency Resource Centerwww.spiritualcompetency.com. Cost is$100 with CEs, and by donation

or non-CE participants.Te workshop will be a und-raiser or Aiki Extensions, a non-prot dedicated to extending aikiprinciples and practices to noveltraining sites, problem situations,and areas o conict, and or thenew Soa University Aikido Cen-ter in Memory o Aikido MasterHiroshi Kato. Te lateKato Senseihad visited the university twice ayear since 2000 to teach Aikido.

Soa University ounder Dr.Robert Frager trained with KatoSensei in Japan starting in 1965,then later studied with him in theU.S. rom 1996 onward. BothFrager and Kato were students othe original Founder o Aikido,Morihei Ueshiba. Te new AikidoCenter at Soa University willhouse two exclusive multimediaarchives: the Morihei Ueshiba

Archive and the Hiroshi Kato

Archive. In addition, the AikidoCenter will sponsor Aikido eventssuch as trainings, conerences,and publications, and sponsorAikido researchor example, thepsychological and spiritual efectso Aikido training, working withAikido and conict resolution, andother topics.

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DAVID LUKOFF


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Anew Aikido center atSoa University wasnamed to honor thespecial connection that

Soa University ounder RobertFrager had with Hiroshi Kato Sen-sei. Frager trained with Kato Sen-sei in Japan starting in 1965, thenlater studied with him in the U.S.rom 1996 onward. Both Frager

and Kato were students underthe original Founder o Aikido,Morihei Ueshiba (OSensei).

Hiroshi Kato Sensei Aikido Center Founded

Kato Sensei passed on in Decem-ber 2012.

Te new Aikido center atSoa University will house twomultimedia archives: the Mori-hei Ueshiba archive eaturingmore than 5,000 photographs othe Founder o Aikido, and theHiroshi Kato archive eaturingboth video and photo collections.

In addition, the Aikido centerwill sponsor Aikido events suchas trainings, conerences, and

publications, as well as sponsoringAikido researchor example, thepsychological and spiritual efectso Aikido training, working withAikido and conict resolution,and other related topics. Te Aiki-Extensions Conerence will behosted at the Hiroshi Kato SenseiAikido Center October 2527,2013. For more inormation con-

tact racy Byars at [email protected]

ROBERT FRAGERSENSEIAND HIROSHI KATO SENSEI


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CONFERENCEANNOUNCEMEN

15th EUROTAS Meeting: Global Knowledge Sharing

Human Potential, Education, and Consciousness EvolutioCHISINAU, MOLDOVA, SEPTEMBER 1922, 2013

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The mission o the 15thEUROAS conerence(European ranspersonalAssociation) is to share

the knowledge we have gainedabout human potential andconsciousness evolution romyears o practice and research

in ranspersonal Studies toinorm educational systemshow to encourage individualand societal transormation oruture generations. We invitepresentations rom scholars,researchers, and practitionersin the elds o psychology,sociology, education, anthro-

pology, and consciousness studies.Each year the Eurotas

conerence is held in a diferentcountry. Te conerence organizersprovide an introduction tothe culture, art, and spiritualtraditions o the host country.Moldova is a beautiul small

state in the southeast o Europe,a neighbor o Ukraine andRomania. It is multiculturaland multiethnic. Moldaviansoil possesses rich nutrients aswell as rich spiritual traditionsthat began seven thousand yearsago. Te Moldavian populationreects the synthesis o various

cultures: EuropeansMoldavians,Romanians, Ukrainians, Russians,and Bulgarians; Asians and urks;representatives o Indian cultureGypsies; and Armenian and Jewishsettlements. All these cultures joinin one small point o the earthin Moldova! Te diversity o

culture brings about tremendousand extraordinary energetic ows.It is the place o traditions meetingand blending.

We invite you to come andexperience Moldova. Call orProposals rom presenters andregistration or attendees are atwww.eurotas2013.com

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P Board MemberSteven Schmitz, Ph.D.,

has been involvedwith humanistic and

transpersonal psychology sincehe received his B.A. degree inHumanistic Psychology romSonoma State University in 1975.He earned his Ph.D. in ransper-sonal Psychology rom the Insti-tute o ranspersonal Psychologywith a ERS (transpersonal edu-cation and research studies) spe-cialization in 2009. His doctoralresearch was on the therapeuticbenets o participants learningthe shamanic journey. He has aprivate practice in transpersonalcounseling, shamanic healing, anddream work. His training includes

Gestalt, Bioener-getic, Family, Exis-

tentialHumanisticpsychotherapy, andspiritual guidance.Steven was initiatedinto the practices ozazen and shamanicjourneying in 1974.

Dr. Schmitzteaches at the Soa UniversityGlobal Ph.D. Program in PaloAlto, Caliornia, the Integralranspersonal Institute in Milan,Italy, and the Institute or Human-istic Psychology and Consciousnessin Bern/Zurich, Switzerland. Heteaches classes on transpersonal psy-chology, shamanism, and consciouscouple relationships. He is writing

a book blending theancient practice o

shamanism with thecontemporary practiceo transpersonal psy-chology.

Dr. Schmitz isinterested in nationaland internationalnetworking and

supporting transpersonal studiesglobally. Steven enjoys travelingand is involved with severaltranspersonal projects in Europe.He is also a board member othe European ranspersonal As-sociation, writes editorials or theEUROAS Integral ranspersonalJournal, and is on the EUROASConerence Advisory Committee.

Prole o the New ATP Co-President Steven Schmitz


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ATP NEWSLETTERDistinguished Contribution to Psychology Award

Goes to ATP Board Member Fred Luskin

Congratulations to APboard member FrederickLuskin who received theCaliornia Psychological

Association (CPA) DistinguishedContribution to Psychology Awardat the 2013 CPA Convention inNewport Beach where he was akeynote speaker.

Te Distinguished Contribu-tion to Psychology Award honors

a psychologist or non-psychologistwho has improved the imageo psychology by increasing thepublics understanding o thediscipline and/or the proessiono psychology. Tis award is opento all Caliornians and is intendedto promote good will and broaderunderstanding o the eld. Teperson nominated might be awriter (both print and electronic),teacher, manager/administrator,

health proessional, mental healthadvocate, or the like.

Happiness is wanting what youhave. When you spend timewanting something diferent,you start knocking on the door tostressul living. Fred Luskin

Fred is the embodiment owhat he teaches. I rst noticedhim more than ten years ago

at an AP board meeting. Wewere in the middle o a veryserious discussion when Dr.Luskin glanced at the wall clock,stood up, and said, My son isplaying in a basketball game, andi I dont leave now I will missthe beginning o the game. Iappreciated the act that it was

important to him to see theentire game and not just putin an appearance. Dr. Luskinsbest-selling books include Forgiveor Good, Stress Free or Good,and Forgive or Love: Te MissingIngredient or a Healthy and LovingRelationship

Dr. Luskin is Director oForgiveness Projects and a Senior

Consultant o Health Promotionat Stanord University and aProessor o Clinical Psychologyat Soa University. He conductsresearch on the efects oorgiveness education and therapy.

BEH COOPER ABAKIN, Ph.D., is alicensed psychologist in private practice inSan Anselmo, Caliornia.

PROFESSOR EUGENE

TAYLOR DIES

Saybrook Graduate Schoolannounced the deatho Dr. Eugene aylor, anoted scholar and 20-year

member o its executive acultyon January 30, 2013. aylor wasa prominent historian o psychol-ogy and author o books including

Shadow Culture: Psychology andSpirituality in America; Te Mysteryo Personality: A History o Psycho-dynamic Teories; and WilliamJames on Consciousness Beyond theMargins. He was a research histo-rian at Harvard Medical School,the curator o Gordon Allportspapers, and an internationally

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renowned scholar on the work oWilliam James. He was also theounder o the Cambridge Insti-tute o Psychology and Religion,a board member o the PhilemonFoundation, and a ellowin two APA divisions.

An early student ohumanistic psychol-ogy, aylor was presentat some o the earliesttranspersonal psychol-ogy conerences in the1970s. Combined withhis long-standing interest

in Eastern religions, thisexposure helped develop his schol-arly interest in the study o con-sciousness itsel, which he placedat the center o the psychologicalexperience.

Tere is no science anywhere thatdoes not involve someones per-sonal consciousness somewhere.

Eugene aylor

Eugene ounded the AikidoClub at Harvard which he headedor 25 years and he wrote a classicpaper on the evolution o Aikidorom a martial art to a spiritual dis-cipline. He and I taught experientialseminars on Aikido and psychother-apy at Saybrook or 15 years.

He was a true scholar but alsoa drummer in Haight Ashbury inthe 1960s and had a 4th degreeblack belt in Aikido.

How important his wise, honest,lively presence was, how unassum-ingly collegial and riendly he was,how sae it elt to be around hisintellectual guidance and clarity, andhow rare was the intellectual horizonhe possessed and natural leadershiphe carried. Olga Louchakova


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Sangeetha Menon, Neuroscience Explorer andSpiritual Scientist of the Self and Transformation

Transpersonal Psychologyin South Arica

Transpersonal TerapistZana Marovic hasworked or years inpost-apartheid South

Arica to bridge cultural gaps,bringing needed services to thepoorest o the poor and also toconnect Arican shamans, knownas Sangoma, such as Zandi Nkosi,with transpersonal therapists.

DR. ZANAMAROVIC

ZANDI NKOSI (RIGHT)NAPO MASHEANESTOMPIE SELIBE

Sangeetha Menon is aphilosopherpsycholo-gist working in the areao consciousness studies

and Indian psychology. She is aProessor at the National Instituteo Advanced Studies at the IndianInstitute o Science in Bangalore,and heads the Consciousness

http://www.drzana.co.za/node/44Drumming, ancestor-

connections, sacred and ancientrituals join with yoga, Jungianmethods, and amily therapyinterventions spanning thousandso years o human knowledge.Her work with Arican traditionalpoet and perormerNapoMasheane andvisual artist and

musician Stompie Selibe wasshared during 2012 in elaboratecross-cultural events (e.g., urban

hip-hop rapping combined withSangomaancestral trance rituals)at Nirox Institute in the SouthArican countryside, a ew milesrom the most ancient site ohuman origins at the Cradle oHumanity.

Studies Programme there. Herpublished work highlights theimportance o understanding thenature o complex experiencesin the light o global humanisticvalues such as well-being and sel-transormation. Her work ocuseson the comparative study o emo-tions, the nature o human agency,

and o immediate experience. Inher orthcoming book she empha-sizes the centrality o sel in brainand consciousness studies.

How does experience get organizedso that we eel it as a sel eels it,instead o as a mere ow o sightsand sounds, tastes and odors?


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ATP NEWSLETTERTus, her work oten reveals thatthere is, indeed, a basis to claimthat sel exists. Her books

include Te Beyond Experience:Consciousness in Bhagavad Gita(2007), Consciousness, Experience,and Ways o Knowing: Perspectivesrom Science, Philosophy, and theArts(2006, NIAS), Science andBeyond: Cosmology, Consciousness,and echnology in Indic raditions(2004, NIAS), Consciousness andGenetics(2002, NIAS), Scien-tifc and Philosophical Studies onConsciousness(1999, NIAS), andDialogues: Philosopher Meets theSeer(2003) which is a set o ninedialogues with her spiritual teacherHH Swami Bodhananda on so-ciocultural issues o contemporaryimportance and the commonconcerns o science and spiritualquest.

Apart rom her academic work,she is an artist and is interested inpoetry, ction, classical dances,

design, and photography. She wel-comes collegial contact on topics

o mutual interest at [email protected],www.consciousnesss-hop.com

Shani Robins, Ph.D., haspioneered the eld oWisdom Terapy ormore than a decade and

has empirically demonstrated itse cacy in boosting perormance,reducing stress, anger, anxiety, anddepression, and improving healthin both clinical and organizationalsettings. Wisdom Terapy (www.wisdomtherapy.com) is an integra-tion o Western Psychological Sci-ence and Eastern raditions andincludes Emotional Intelligence,CognitiveBehavioral therapy,mindulness, humility, empathy,and gratitude. Wise decisionsin lie lead to greater happiness,success, and well-being, whereasless-wise perspectives and deci-sions lead to anger, workplace and

relationship arguments, anxiety,social conict, job loss, and hyper-tension. Gaining wisdom howevercan take many decades o painul,costly mistakes. Wisdom Terapyis an empirically established pro-gram that has identied thesewisdom skills and the practicalmethods or learning them soonerrather than later.

Dr. Robins applies this work inhis consulting practice or Fortune

100 companies, and in publishingprolically on these topics. He hasalso applied his work to develop-ing, rom the ground up, one othe largest Adult Day Health CareCenters in the State o Calior-nia. From conception to businessplan, to $3 million in undraisingand 200 admissions in less than 2

years, Dr. Robins has demonstrat-ed the Wisdom ADHC Centerse cacy as an integrative modelthat can holistically and scallymeet the coming baby boomertsunami o healthcare needs. Teprograms integrative mission

provides not only physical andoccupational therapy, medicationassistance, psychological and socialwork interventions, dietician ser-vices and meals, and door-to-doortransportation, but also medita-tion and tai chi classes, as well asscheduled spiritual discussions.Participants as old as 95 learn tobe mindul instead o dwelling onthe past, and to practice gratituderegardless o physical and mental

challenges.Shani Robins, Ph.D., has

recently relocated back to theSan Francisco Bay Area, wherehe teaches at Stanord and PaloAlto Universities, and is active inhis Wisdom Terapy clinical andorganizational consulting practice.www.wisdomtherapy.com

SHANI ROBINS

WISDOM THERAPY IN CLINICAL

AND ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS

SANGEETHAMENON

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