THE BUZZ
A newsletter for the Transformative Inquiry Community
Issue 9, February 2022
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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
JOCELYN CHAPMAN, PhD
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Greetings! We just had our fourth online Intensive, yet I still marvel at just how intellectually, spiritually, and community nourishing these zoom events are. I’m grateful to Mayra and our faculty for their planning and presence. Many participants said they were greatly touched and informed by Dr. Michael Yellow Bird’s presentation, “Neurodecolonization and Decolonizing Mindfulness.” Leslie Combs’ interview with Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow was joyful and quite inspiring, too. I was especially impressed by how brightly students shone–from setting the tone with a heartfelt Land Acknowledgement and moving Invocation, to bringing us closer together through the leadership of the Diversity & Belonging Book Committee and in sharing the Dagara Medicine Wheel, to the Closing Ceremony in which we lit a candle and loved ourselves and one another a little more.
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We are thrilled that Kathy Littles, PhD, has returned to CIIS to assume the position of provost. Among many roles at CIIS, Kathy has been the Director of the Transformative Inquiry Department so we are especially heartened by her return. We wish her a very warm welcome back.
Read Kathy’s full story here: https://www.ciis.edu/ciis-news-and-events/blog/new-provost
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The CWS Launches New Peer Support Program for Doctoral Students (P2PODs)!
Peer-to-Peer Organized Dialogs (P2PODs) empowers doctoral students to navigate CIIS and the Ph.D. academic process. P2PODs Facilitators are fellow travelers, a little farther down the path, The weekly Wednesday and Friday calls offer collaborative group and break-out spaces where everyone shares questions and experiences. For information please contact Heidi Fraser Hageman at cws@ciis.edu. Call links are at: CIIS Student Events Calendar!
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Vince Brown - global educational climate documentary
Once You Know
Transformative Studies 2020 alum Dr. Vince Brown recently participated in the global release of the educational climate documentary Once You Know, winner of seven international film awards. Vince and other Work That Reconnects facilitators hosted 21 screenings in 8 countries, in 4 languages, to participants from 23 countries. This film explores an imperiled world, resource depletion, social disobedience, and how impacted communities are adapting to the crisis.Vince recommends this important film for schools and community groups concerned with the climate crisis. Contact Vince at Vbrown@ciis.ciis.edu for film viewing and facilitated sessions using the Work That Reconnects, or visit https://www.videoproject.org/once-you-know.html for more information.
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Consciousness Explained Better
A January 22nd Conversation with Allan Leslie Combs and Deepak Chopra. Allan Leslie Combs, Ph.D. Professor of Consciousness Studies - Watch it now!
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Faculty member, Jeanine Canty, gave a talk on Ecodharma on February 5th, titled Ecological Narcissism: Acknowledging Egocentricity and REawakening our Ecological Self. Dr. Canty just completed her first semester as a core faculty member in the Transformative Studies Department. To learn more about the Ecodharma talk go to https://www.taramandala.org/programs-2/14314/ecological-narcissism-acknowledging-egocentricity-and-reawakening-our-ecological-self-a-virtual-dharma-talk/
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Dr. Kristi L. Anderson, Transformative Leadership adjunct faculty, is the Scholar in Residence for the Dillard University Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center for the 2021-2022 academic year. Through this year-long program, Dr. Anderson will create a program with a mix of art, music and medicine highlighting residents' talents and gifts and providing understanding of how health disparities and inequities are situated within the Dillard community. The program collaborates with A Studio in the Woods, a program of Tulane University’s ByWater Institute - one of the leading artistic and academic residency programs in the Gulf South region. For more information please visit: https://www.astudiointhewoods.org/series/inspiring-health-justice/
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Dr. Allan Leslie Combs Opening Keynote at International Phygital Conference.
Dr. Combs presented at the Garden City University on 11/9 as a keynote contributor opening the International Phygital Conference on the Themeibee (Innovation-Business-Employment-Entrepeneurship). You can contact Dr. Combs at acombs@ciis.edu.
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Alfonso Montuori on Interdependence is the Key.
Alfonso Montuori published an article entitled “Interdependence is the Key. Mary Catherine Bateson and the myth of individualism” in a special issue of the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing dedicated to the work of the late Mary Catherine Bateson. In 1999 Mary Catherine had contributed a chapter to Alfonso’s co-edited volume Social Creativity. Alfonso re-issued two books by Mary Catherine, In Our Own Metaphor, as well as Angels Fear, the latter co-authored with her father, Gregory Bateson, in the book series on Systems, Complexity, and the Human Sciences he started at Hampton Press.
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CIIS Alum, Dr. Amy Anderson to present at upcoming conferences
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Dr. Amy Anderson will be presenting at The Qualitative Report's 13th Annual Conference: Research "For a Change". Amy received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Seventeenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, and presents there in July on the topic "Pedagogies of the Arts."
Amy is also teaching a new graduate course, The Transformative Potential of Art, at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
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The Qualitative Review publishes TSD Alum Bryan Jennewein, PhD.
"Following graduation from CIIS's Transformative Studies PhD program in 2020, I had the pleasure of joining The Qualitative Review (TQR)'s annual conference as both a presenter and workshop facilitator and also have been recently published in the December edition of their peer-review journal. Most of this work has focused on sharing my research and practical experience employing Appreciative Inquiry as a methodology, with my workshop focused on transdisciplinary infusions and my article focused on practical strategies for resolving paradigmatic or methodological conflicts that may arise for practitioners."
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Debby Flickinger - IGI-Global e-Book release
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TSD student and TQR Editorial Board member, Dwayne Custer, published in Vol. 27. Dwayne is a published author in the field of autoethnography and qualitative research.
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The deep wounds that exist from long-standing conflicts between Turks, Kurds, and Armenians have not yet been sufficiently addressed and healed. Nermin Soyalp explains the collective traumas and their significant psychosocial impacts in terms of the potential for reconciliation among these politically conflicted groups.
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Congratulations to TSD student Dr. Ashley Tomasino, LAc. She recently published "Between Zen and Now: A Journey Through the Modern Shamanic Matrix!
Between Zen and Now made it to best seller in four categories!
Follow the link if you would like to purchase!
https://www.amazon.ca/BETWEEN-ZEN-NOW.../dp/B09LZ4D1X2
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Sarah Apedaile publishes new book on Ethics.
Sarah Apedaile has co-authored a new illustrated primer titled Ethics: The Art of Doing the Right Thing. The book includes a dynamic four-part framework that shows how to empower one's self and others to be fully authentic, based on Nurturing Ethics in Governance: Taming our Rascals Within by L.P. Apedaile. You can find out more and reach Sara at sapedaile@mymail.ciis.edu.
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TLD student Megan Quinn was hired as adjunct faculty for Drexel University’s Dance Department, teaching courses for their somatics minor. This weekend, she spoke on a panel for incoming freshman dancers about somatics as a pathway towards embodied leadership. Whichever career track the dancers chose, from physical therapy to dance movement to education, performance, or entrepreneurship, Quinn believes studies in somatics can be a pathway to intentional leadership. Utilizing what she learned in TLD’s Ways of Knowing course, she positions somatics as embodied knowing and culture building, inviting Drexel’s dance majors to articulate how they want to show up in the world and how they want to advocate for movement as a vehicle for personal and collective values.
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Dr. Gerry Ebalaroza-Tunnell, TSD Alum to lead Feb. 26th HeartMath’s Resilience Advantage Workshop
Conference, Webinar, Call for Papers
The HeartMath's Resilience Advantage workshop will teach you to strengthen your resilience and cope with life's challenges more effectively by building the capacity to prepare for, recover from and adapt in the face of stress, challenge, or adversity.
Led by a certified trainer and Indigenous scholar, Dr. Gerry Ebalaroza-Tunnell will teach you the power of AloHā and share the scientific tools to help bring your body back into coherence.
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TID’s Nick Walker Publishes New Book
TID alumna and CIIS faculty member Dr. Nick Walker has come out with a new book, Neuroqueer Heresies. Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's influential writings on neurodiversity, along with brand new material on Neuroqueer Theory. The book is currently available for pre-order in the USA, and will be available internationally when it ships in December. Get advance info at Nick’s link: https://neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-heresies/
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BIRTH OF LANGUAGE
There's a language that we speak
Before we can talk
Before we are awake to the world
Before we are guilty or forgotten
When all is belonging
And the light of the stars
Shines from behind the night
It's something like music
A drumbeat that vibrates
From my navel to the roots of my hair
From my toes to my groin
My skin listens in
And when I respond
I am altogether heard
In the moments when
I can speak that language
That arose in the birth of the world
When volcanoes were gods
And the earth split open
Rejoicing.
~Susan S. Standen, TLD student
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Photo by Julie Morley, Transformative Studies student and photographer
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