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What is the relationship between art and spirit? How do artists relate to the spirit world? Is a creative process essentially a spiritual process? What are noetic approaches to this rather wide topic? This month we will be exploring these and other inquiries with a special guest, Robbi Firestone, a "spirit capture" portrait artist from Tacoma. She writes:

Exploring the Noetic Sciences

Dean Radin

Nestled in exquisite an exquisite mountain setting with hot springs abounding, the Breath of Light healing is offered Friday evening, March 26 as an interactive group session/workshop at a lovely yoga studio in downtown Ouray. This powerful modality rejuvenates health on all levels by clearing the chakra system of the body with intentional breath, illumination of your Higher Self, and the Divine Light, Love and Intelligence interacting through the session.

Current economic and social trends require a new kind of leader who is more aware, can see situations from multiple perspectives, fosters a culture of trust and collaboration, and employs social intelligence within a pragmatic approach. The leader’s ability to collaborate in project and learning networks while engaging the needs and interests of stakeholders in creating a mutual chain of value and commitment is central. This course will include reflective practices for cultivating awareness and experiential learning exercises and case studies to develop conscious and collaborative leadership capabilities.

Help Chi-IONS envision and plan for 2013, and be part of the shift to new-found coherence as we shape what we would like to create for the future! Noetic principles are at the heart of the strategic planning process we will employ to create a new pathway to 2013 for our Community Group. We would like to widen the circle of involvement to include diverse voices to enrich the quality of our experience and attain clarity of purpose, vision and a sense of our shared values.

Exploring the Noetic Sciences

Host Elizabeth Miller is Program Coordinator for IONS' Worldview Literacy Project, a multi-media learning program grounded in an interactive global collaboration that invites high school students and teachers to co-create curriculum while developing an understanding of and appreciation for their own and others’ worldviews through guided classroom activities and immersive learning experiences. Her guest will be Educational Philosopher Matthew Davis. They will discuss their experiences in the classroom during the pilot program for the Worldview Literacy Project.

Wisdom Healing Qigong: The Ancient Science of Energy Healing with Master Mingtong Gu Saturday & Sunday, April 3 & 4 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM CIIS Main Building 1453 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103

You are invited to the next meeting of Baltimore IONS: MEETING: Date: Monday, April 12, 2010 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm Location: breathe books, 810 W. 36th Street.

Wisdom Healing Qigong Retreat plus optional Teacher Training With Master Mingtong Gu Retreat April 14-21, 2010 Optional Instructor Training: April 21-30, 2010 8:30 am to 5:30 pm each day About the Retreat:

Please join the Chicago Community Group of IONS for a guided discussion with Brother John E. Dornbos, CFC. We will explore: • The Widening scientific, astronomical sense • Our environment and global warming

Book: TBD Date: Monday, April 19, 2010 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm Location: breathe books, 810 W. 36th Street. Note that members receive a 20% discount from breathe books on texts selected by the Book Club! Purchase in store or call to have shipped to you, 410-235-READ.

Learn to teach Wisdom Healing Qigong. Please email admin@chicenter.com for more information.

Our life and work find their joy, meaning, and purpose to the degree that we hear the call to create. This workshop offers practices to live out “the call” as we encounter the necessities and possibilities that meet us, moment-to-moment, on the river of life. When approached skillfully and imaginatively, both personal and professional relationships can be a context for creative collaboration. This course is an introduction to experiential practices which serve to develop the skills and capacities required to respond creatively to the complexities, uncertainties, and trials of our time.

The dynamics of power and intimacy entailed in women’s relationships are of primary concern in the psychotherapy of women. Drawing on the work of key theorists in the field of psychology of women, this course offers ways to work with women on issues of identity, victimization, and compulsivity in the context of relationship and psychotherapy.

You are invited to the next meeting of Baltimore IONS: MEETING: Date: Monday, May 10, 2010 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm Location: breathe books, 810 W. 36th Street.

May 12-16, 2010, a meeting of members and friends of IONS in France will take place in a beautiful chateau on the Loire (http://www.sci-le-pin.com/). The gathering will be conducted primarily in French and is intended to a) bring French members face-to-face for the first time, b) broaden their acquaintance with IONS history and mission, c) present topics related to noetic sciences, and d) energize the participants to initiate and enlarge a community of French-language IONS members.

May 12-16 a meeting of members and friends of IONS in France will take place in a beautiful chateau on the Loire (http://www.sci-le-pin.com/). The gathering will be conducted primarily in French and is intended to a) bring French members face-to-face for the first time, b) broaden their acquaintance with IONS history and mission, c) present topics related to noetic sciences, and d) energize the participants to initiate and enlarge a community of French-language IONS members..

CHI-IONS invites you to join us to discuss "The Rise of Global Civil Society" and how you can make a difference. We will cover the significant shifts in worldwide awareness about global warming, planetary instability, decline in trusting governments along with a strong and growing trust in nongovernmental organizations and groups actively working to bring positive change. We may be seeing the beginning of new cultures, economies and industries.

Book: TBD Date: Monday, May 17, 2010 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm Location: breathe books, 810 W. 36th Street. Note that members receive a 20% discount from breathe books on texts selected by the Book Club! Purchase in store or call to have shipped to

Wisdom Healing Qigong for Health and Happiness With Master Mingtong Gu A Benefit Weekend for Wisdom Healing Foundation and Spirit Rock Scholarship Fund Saturday May 22, 10am-5pm and Sunday May 23, 10am-5pm

Wisdom Healing Qigong - Healing Canopy with Master Mingtong Gu A Benefit Evening for Wisdom Healing Foundation and the Spirit Rock Scholarship Fund. Sat, May 22, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Spirit Rock Meditation Center

This unique One-Day Introduction is designed to introduce prospective students to the principles and practices that guide Transformative Learning at Meridian University as well as orient participants to Meridian's graduate degree programs. At this One-Day Introduction, prospective students will have the opportunity to:

"Annual Summer Institute":http://www.aliainstitute.org/programs/2010summer/index.html June 6-12, 2010 Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax, Nova Scotia The five-day leadership program takes you into the "innovation zone"—the zone between too much open-ended process and too much command-and-control; the zone of creativity, collaboration, and accountability in environments of complexity. Learn with masters, boost your authentic leadership presence and skills, and leave with your own maps and methods for shifting your workplace culture or multi-stakeholder project into a more engaged and productive zone.

Moscow, June 23-27, 2010 Speakers at the 17th International Transpersonal Conference will include Dean Radin, Stanislav Grof, Michael Murphy, Alex Grey, Ervin Laszlo, Ralph Metzner, Amit Goswami, Andrew Cohen and many more.

Choosing Conscious Elderhood, presented by long-time rite of passage guides Ron Pevny and Nancy Jane, is a six day retreat for people who feel the call to name and claim their elderhood and seek support in doing so. This is a nature-based retreat held at a retreat center in a magnificent setting in western Colorado. It is grounded in the understanding that it is in the natural world that we can most easily remember that which is authentic and natural in ourselves, and thus gain an eagle's eye view of our place and potential in the larger web of life.

Integral Education / Integral Ecology & Sustainability Seminar Deepening our Practice Through Integral Awareness August 3rd to the 8th, 2010 at Mount Madonna Retreat Center, Watsonville, CA -

I founded the Medical Renaissance Groupm www.medicalrenaissance.org several years ago with Dr Jager Holly and we have currently over 100 members around the world, They are doctors and health professionals .