Meditation Exercise
Discussion & Group Work: Assessment of Learning

Group Assignment due for Study Guide #3 due: View the film The Big Kahuna. Analyze the three main characters in the film. What does each character represent? What are the main themes? How do the fantasies they each have created for themselves shape the ways they are living, and not living, their lives? How would you interpret their lives in the terms of humanistic psychology?

Meditation Exercise
Lecture: The Politics of Teaching -- Aileen McLeod
Discussion of Careers in Psychology

Meditation Exercise
Discussion: Transpersonal Psychology

•Reading due in Psychology 307 Reader #2:
Roger Walsh & Frances Vaughan. The Emergence of the Transpersonal Perspective. From Beyond Ego. J.P. Tarcher, 1980.
Ken Wilber. Introduction: Who Am I? From No Boundary. Boston: Shambala, 1985.

•Reading due in Psychology 307 Reader #1:
A. Warmoth. Primer of Humanistic & Transpersonal Psychology.

Individual Assignment for Study Guide #3 due: Compare Maslow's concept of "self-actualization," Rogers' "congruence," and Bugental's "authenticity." Are these essentially the same concept? What is the value of this (these) concept(s) in facilitating the personal growth and development of oneself and others?

Meditation Exercise
Ecopsychology -- Mary Gomes, Ph.D.
 

Reading assignment due in Psychology 307 Reader #2:

From Krishna Kripalani, Ed. Gandhi. Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Publishing House.
Excerpts from Lao Tsu. Tao Te Ching (Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English, Ed. & tr.). New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1972.

Meditation Exercise
Discussion of Lao Tzu & Gandhi
Group Work

Transpersonal Work through Expressive Media - Jane Vogel-Riley, M.A.

Hypnosis - Janet MacLaughlin, Certified Hypnotherapist

• Reading assignment due (in Psychology 307 Reader #2):

Carl Gustav Jung. On Life After Death. FromMemories, Dreams, Reflections. New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1963.
Thomas Moore. Introduction & Honoring Symptoms as a Voice of the Soul. From Care of the Soul.New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Meditation Exercise
Film: Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini). Pt. 1

Group Assignment due for Study Guide #3 Due: Create a Glossary of the Key Terms of Transpersonal Psychology. Include definitions and two examples of usage (one from a bibliographic source & one that is original). Cite references to definitions and examples using APA format.

Film: Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini). Pt. 2
Discussion: Archetypal & Imaginal Psychology
"Can we talk like transpersonal psychologists yet?"
 

Reading assignment due (in Psychology 307 Reader #2):

Excerpts From B. Hoff. The Tao of Pooh. Penguin Books, 1982.
Excerpts from John Heider. The Tao of Leadership. Atlanta, GA: Humanics New Age, 1985.

Individual Assignment due May 20: "Who am I?" Frame you answer using at least five (5) key concepts from transpersonal psychology. You may also use key concepts from existential and humanistic psychology. (All concepts must be defined/explained using references in APA reference style.) How does your answer to this question reflect your self today and where you are taking your self into the future?

Wednesday, May 8 - Wednesday, May 15

Monday, May 20 - Individual Assignment due for Study Guide #3.