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Join us for a special online event that will spark your curiosity and renew your spirit! Learn more about Naropa's GSCP programs as you get the chance to learn and interact with our esteemed GSCP faculty. You'll be able to meet and interact with faculty in Nature-Based Transpersonal Counseling program!
The Spotlight Series Virtual Open House offers a brief, engaging program where you'll meet staff and faculty who are changing our world for the better. Come for the answers to your questions and learn how our graduate programs will serve you to enter into the world of counseling.
Our sample class will be Nature-Based Transpersonal Counseling: Centering Healing in its Rightful Place with esteemed faculty member, Dr. Mica Graves
Open a children's book, and all sorts of life forms come spilling out--trees, dogs, lamas, and the occasional chupacabra or spirit. And, yet, when you open a psychology book, references to where we live are seldom mentioned. As ecopsychologist Andy Fisher quips, judging by all those textbooks, you might be hard-pressed to even tell on what planet we live. Clearly, relationships with animals, plants, and places are central to how we develop in the world, and they deserve more consideration. In this talk, we will explore the centrality of nature to our wellbeing. We will describe how observing, moving in, and relating to the natural world can lead to increased physical and mental health. We will discuss how reciprocal interactions with the more than human world can give rise to new metaphors and new ways of seeing ourselves, our problems, and our solutions. Finally, we will engage in a partnered exercise to draw upon and amplify our own sense of attachment to the world.
Mica Graves is a graduate of Naropa's Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy Program and Chair of the Nature-Based Transpersonal Counseling Program. Having grown up on a working farm, she finds nothing more energizing than bringing groups of people together in nature. She is a licensed professional counselor and specializes in equine-assisted counseling.
TO THOSE WHO KNOW COMPASSION, MINDFULNESS, AND A LITTLE EDGE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
You are ready to experience a different way of learning that will help you be the leader—the changemaker—you are meant to be. You are ready for Naropa, where experiential learning meets academic rigor. And we are ready for you.
https://www.naropa.edu/you-are-ready/bachelors/index.php
Join us for a special online event that will spark your curiosity and renew your spirit! Learn more about Naropa's GSCP programs as you get the chance to learn and interact with our esteemed GSCP faculty. You'll be able to meet and interact with faculty in Nature-Based Transpersonal Counseling program!
The Spotlight Series Virtual Open House offers a brief, engaging program where you'll meet staff and faculty who are changing our world for the better. Come for the answers to your questions and learn how our graduate programs will serve you to enter into the world of counseling.
Our sample class will be Nature-Based Transpersonal Counseling: Centering Healing in its Rightful Place with esteemed faculty member, Dr. Mica Graves
Open a children's book, and all sorts of life forms come spilling out--trees, dogs, lamas, and the occasional chupacabra or spirit. And, yet, when you open a psychology book, references to where we live are seldom mentioned. As ecopsychologist Andy Fisher quips, judging by all those textbooks, you might be hard-pressed to even tell on what planet we live. Clearly, relationships with animals, plants, and places are central to how we develop in the world, and they deserve more consideration. In this talk, we will explore the centrality of nature to our wellbeing. We will describe how observing, moving in, and relating to the natural world can lead to increased physical and mental health. We will discuss how reciprocal interactions with the more than human world can give rise to new metaphors and new ways of seeing ourselves, our problems, and our solutions. Finally, we will engage in a partnered exercise to draw upon and amplify our own sense of attachment to the world.
Mica Graves is a graduate of Naropa's Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy Program and Chair of the Nature-Based Transpersonal Counseling Program. Having grown up on a working farm, she finds nothing more energizing than bringing groups of people together in nature. She is a licensed professional counselor and specializes in equine-assisted counseling.
TO THOSE WHO KNOW COMPASSION, MINDFULNESS, AND A LITTLE EDGE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
You are ready to experience a different way of learning that will help you be the leader—the changemaker—you are meant to be. You are ready for Naropa, where experiential learning meets academic rigor. And we are ready for you.
https://www.naropa.edu/you-are-ready/bachelors/index.php
