CIIS Transformative Inquiry Department

Join us for an enlightening and insightful panel discussion celebrating the achievements and exploring the unique challenges faced by women of color in leadership. This online panel discussion, hosted by the Transformative Leadership M.A. program and facilitated by Transformative Leadership alumni, will delve into the challenges, experiences, and successes of women of color in leadership roles within transformative leadership contexts.

Whether you’re looking to learn, connect with like-minded individuals, or be inspired, this event promises to be a powerful and enriching experience.

This panel discussion, facilitated by Estrella Gonzales, will feature TLD alumni Sha’Toya Williamson, Giang Nguyen, and Kristen Flowers.

Register Today! 👉 https://www.ciis.edu/events/women-color-leadership

If you’re someone who escapes into your spiritual practice as a means of solace amidst a world of chaos, you’re not alone. The pandemic, global warming, job insecurity, gun violence, racism, homophobia, and misogyny, war, inflation, reduced access to healthcare, and inequity across nearly every sector of society can leave all of us feeling untethered if not downright lost.

But when does escape become escapism? When our spiritual practices call us to cultivate and connect with our common divinity, why do we choose to distance ourselves from our humanity? Instead of contextualizing spirituality as only one part of our lives, how do live into our paths in an expansive, embodied way that awakens vibrancy, self-awareness, and liberation in others?

Through storytelling, community dialogue, reflective inquiry, and practical practice, Zoraiz invites you to embrace transformative leadership as an alchemical spiritual practice. Join them in an exploration of how leadership can serve as a means by which we can usher the base, heavy aspects of our humanity—power, fear, greed, indifference—into the light for transmutation and drive the evolution of our collective consciousness forward.

👉 REGISTER HERE: https://www.ciis.edu/events/living-your-path-transformative-leadership-spiritual-practice

Dr. Nick Walker is an author, educator, transdisciplinary scholar, and futurist whose work explores the edges and intersections of somatic psychology, transpersonal psychology, q***r theory, neurodiversity, and creativity. She is best known for her foundational work in Neurodiversity Studies and Neuroq***r Theory, and her influential essay collection Neuroq***r Heresies. She also writes speculative fiction, including the urban fantasy webcomic Weird Luck, and has co-edited multiple volumes of the annual neuroq***r lit anthology Spoon Knife. Dr. Walker is senior aikido instructor at the Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley, Managing Editor at the worker-owned indie publishing collective Autonomous Press, a Consulting Editor for the journal World Futures, a popular speaker on various facets of creative personal and social transformation, and a longtime practitioner and teacher of aikido, zen, and transformative embodiment work. She is currently core faculty in the undergraduate Psychology program at CIIS, and has previously taught in the Interdisciplinary Studies, Counseling Psychotherapy, and Somatic Psychology programs.

Happening Tomorrow: Transformative Studies & Students’ Deep Learning - An Online Course Example with Professor Connie Jones.

When: June 18th from 5-6 PM PT
To Register, head to: https://www.ciis.edu/events/transformative-studies-students-deep-learning

🌺 To learn more about our asynchronous online Transformative Leadership M.A. & Transformative Studies Ph.D. programs, head to https://www.ciis.edu/academics/department-transformative-inquiry

Congratulations to recent Transformative Leadership MA. graduate, Cori Franco, on her inspiring speech at commencement for CIIS’ class of 2024!

https://www.ciis.edu/academics/department-transformative-inquiry

Join us tomorrow! This event, presented by Celiane Camargo-Borges, starts at 12 PM PT.

👉 Register using the link below:
https://www.ciis.edu/events/leading-purpose-journey-systemic-leadership

Congratulations to the class of 2024!

This interactive event hosted by the Transformative Leadership M.A. program focuses on the power of systemic leadership. The first part of the workshop delves into conceptual aspects, during which you will learn about the transformative principles inspired by ‘bien vivir,’ a systemic cosmovision rooted in Indigenous wisdom that celebrates interconnectedness and holistic inclusion. Together, we will challenge conventional paradigms and embrace a systemic, integral, and relational approach to leadership, paving the way for a harmonious and sustainable future. The second part is more applied, where you will be invited to engage in exercises exploring core skills for navigating complex systems with grace and efficacy.

👉 To register for this free workshop, please use the link below!

https://www.ciis.edu/events/leading-purpose-journey-systemic-leadership

We salute TSD alum Dr. Dee for her accomplishments during her time at CIIS.

Transformative Leadership MA Graduates, Class of 2024, we salute you! Congratulations!

The Transformative Inquiry Department announces the new Creative Futures Focus, an offering for both Transformative Leadership M.A. and Transformative Studies Ph.D. student.

🌐 https://www.ciis.edu/academics/department-transformative-inquiry

Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. Previously, she was a professor of Environmental Studies at Naropa University, a Buddhist inspired institution, started her teaching career as a core faculty at Prescott College, an experiential learning institution, and still guest teaches at both institutions.

A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is both editor and contributor to the books Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises. Her newest book is Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet (Shambhala Publications, 2022).

Other selected works have been featured in A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and The Work of Our Time, The Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, The Body and Oppression: Its Roots, its Voices, and its Resolutions, Shadows and Light: Principles, Practices, Pedagogy, and Multicultural Perspectives of Contemporary Transpersonal Counseling. She is a certified meditation instruction as well as a Wilderness First Responder (WFR).

🌐 https://www.ciis.edu/academics/department-transformative-inquiry

Kerubo Abuya, Ph.D., is an Organizational and Change Leadership Scholar-Practitioner. As a social scientist, educator, consultant, coach, intersectional Afro-feminist, and diversity, equity, inclusive and belonging, Utu/Ubuntu/Obomwanyabanto consciousness Activist-Scholar-Practitioner, she utilizes participatory action research/emancipatory praxis, complexity and systems theory, critical theory, critical feminism, critical pedagogy, partnership theory, transformative learning, dialogue, public narrative/stories, organizing, and other transformative pedagogies and interventions, to develop or enhance leaders’ capacity to lead transformative social systems change and cultural transformation. Some of her work explores multilayered intersections of complexity, social systems design/analysis/change, values-based leadership, caring economics, spirituality, consciousness, culture, gender, and human rights. She earned a PhD in Organizational Systems (Organizational Leadership and Transformation) from Saybrook University.

➡️ Click the link in our bio to register today, or head to:

https://www.ciis.edu/events/exploring-intersection-identity-consciousness-and-transformative-leadership

To learn more about Estrella’s presentation at the upcoming Latin(a/x/o) Studies Association Conference, visit:
https://latinxstudiesassociation.org/2024-conference-program/

Alfonso Montuori is Professor in the Transformative Inquiry Department at California Institute of Integral Studies. An Italian citizen, Alfonso grew up in living in the Netherlands, Lebanon, Greece, and England and settled in the United States in the mid-1980s. He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University in Oxford Ohio, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Psychology at the University of Rome. In 1985-1986 he taught at the Central South University in Hunan, China. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the future, creativity, leadership, culture, complexity, and education. He is the co-editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, and on the editorial board of several journals. An active performer on saxophones, flute and electronic wind instruments, he lives in San Francisco with his wife, award-winning jazz singer Kitty Margolis, with whom he performs and records.

🎓Pursue your Ph.D. from anywhere! 🌍

🔔 Today, April 2nd at 2 PM PT, we are opening the doors to discovery with a FREE one-hour info session. Our esteemed Transformative Studies professor, Dr. Jennifer Wells, will be hosting this event.

🔗 Click the link in our bio to register and secure your spot in this not-to-be-missed info session!

Come hear Conversation Starter Jeanine Canty, Professor of Transformative Studies at CIIS, at the Bioneers Conference.

Community Conversations: Becoming Change Agents by Fostering Skillful Transformation - Bioneers Conference Bioneers brings together a very diverse, discerning, engaged and reflective community, and the curated conversations around crucial topics we have been hosting recently (“Conversation Cafes”) have proven highly popular and stimulating. Each session begins with a very brief presentation by one of...

Join Allan Leslie Combs, emeritus professor Transformative Studies, Ken Wilber, Elizabeth Debold, and many more leaders in integral theory at the Integral Conference of North America.

JOIN US at ICON 2024: Future Human in Denver, CO, May 16-19 Hi there!This is Paul Bloch, one of ICON’s cofounders. I wanted to let you know that pre-sale tickets are soon coming to an end and we would love to have you join us for ICON 2024: Future Human, taking place from May 16-19 in Denver, Colorado. We have tried to make this conference as affordable as...

Congratulations to TSD alum Elizabeth Krasnoff on founding her new sound medicine company!

Sound-Medicine | Healing Music | Binaural Beats | HeartMath | Composer-Producer Healing Music Composer | Producer Binaural Beat Tracks and World Healing Music Explore Her Adventures Transformational Sound Revitalizing & Scientific

CFP (call for papers)
WOSC 19th Congress 2024
Shaping collaborative ecosystems for tomorrow

The complexity of interactions and relationships in our world have consistently surpassed our ability to fully comprehend and govern. The presence of intelligent tools, both in the digital and physical realms, is progressively enhancing our capacities to act on personal, organizational, national, and international levels, leading to both intended and unintended consequences. Collectively, these changes are reshaping our primary habitat—the planet Earth—at a speed and scale that necessitate earnest consideration. In the midst of uncertainty, the development and utilization of these new capabilities would greatly benefit from CyberSystemic approaches and methods of learning. This advancement is crucial for fostering a sustainable understanding and taking actions to avert major threats to our civilization.

Therefore, Congress's submissions are encouraged but not constrained by the following themes:

Enhancing Active Citizenship and democratic processes
Integrating ecological, social, and economic dimensions of organizational governance and management
Combining Physical, Digital, Natural, and Artificial worlds into CyberSystemic ontologies
Learning to develop new personal and organisational capabilities

Home WOSC actively facilitates the organization of triennial congresses across diverse regions globally, aiming to enhance its local presence and foster collaboration among members of the systems and cybernetic communities. These congresses are orchestrated and overseen by local institutions, including u...

TSD alum Mary Baxter will be guest speaking on Intuition and the Akashic Records on a summit called Happy, Healthy and Successful, hosted by Maria Martinez. Dr. Baxter will be sharing valuable insights on using intuition in all aspects of our lives, making friends of our rational and intuitive minds and offering strategies to enhance your well-being and success. Secure your spot now and be part of a vibrant community dedicated to growth and well-being.

Get ready to transform your life and embrace your best self! Our purpose is to curate an immersive experience filled with expert insights, practical strategies, and inspirational stories.

Announcing a 5-session course, Awakening Wonder, facilitated by TSD graduate, Renée Eli. In this course, we will gather by Zoom in intimate circles to explore wonder as a distinct mode of being; explore unknowing to let wonder sweep in; exploring wonder as intimacy with the world and Other; inquire with wonder as meaning-making in times of pain and sorrow; and dialogue about the significance of wonder in our lives and in these urgent times. Renée’s weekly publication, Beyond the Comfort Zone, a 2023 Feature Publication on Substack, invites penetrating questions about life, body, and being human, written while exploring wild reaches of North America.

Awakening Wonder I’m excited to announce a new course on wonder.

https://ciis.zoom.us/j/4039624602

Join us for a live conversation with Arawana Hayashi & Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves, authors of the chapter "Awareness-Based Collective Creativity: A Studio-Based Practice for Social Future-Making" in the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures, as they explore the challenges of thinking about compelling futures with Transformative Inquiry Department faculty, co-hosts and co-editors, Dr. Gabrielle Donnelly and Dr. Alfonso Montuori.
https://ciis.zoom.us/j/4039624602

https://www.ciis.edu/news/round-table-creative-futures?fbclid=IwAR2dMAPuF-xFwy3spoG_FB7BJyS5sIZtmzlZBbbbXGPOqaHc5T2S5d8THZ0

Round Table for Creative Futures | CIIS The world feels overwhelming these days. From local to global news, there are many present causes for concern—but how do present concerns impact how we engage with the future? Experts were already weighing this question before the pandemic, but in 2020 it took on new complexity and urgency. CIIS P...

Join us for a live conversation with Dana Klisanin, author of the chapter "Psychological Futures: Antifragility and the Imperative of Interdependence" in the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures, as she explores the challenges of thinking about compelling futures with Transformative Inquiry Department faculty, co-hosts and co-editors, Dr. Gabrielle Donnelly and Dr. Alfonso Montuori, co-editors of the volume and faculty in the Transformative Inquiry Department at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Here's the link: https://cils.zoom.us/j/4039624602

Join Gabrielle Donnelly and Alfonso Montuori in a dialogue with author Anneke Campbell and Bioneers co-founder and author Nina Simons on November 7th.
Nina and Anneke are contributors to the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures Gabrielle and Alfonso edited, and this event is part of a series of dialogues with contributors to the book. Here's the link: https://lnkd.in/dgSJ_NGM

Join Gabrielle Donnelly and me for a discussion with noted consciousness researcher Allan Leslie Combs about the future of human potential and the role of human potential for the future.

Shout out to TSD alums Debby Flickinger and Martha Braumburgh for their workshop titled "Reimagining DEIB Leadership in a Non-Responsive World: How Caring Sustainability™ Practices and Feminine Consciousness Can Bridge Communities" at the ILA DEIB summit:

2023 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging - International Leadership Association Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Virtual Summit A Call to Awareness, Advocacy, Action, and Transformation for Inclusive Leadership! Join the ILA community and others who are passionate and purposeful about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) from a global perspective as we e...