Mindful U at Naropa University
Thoughts and Instruction on Mindfulness in Higher Education
We found 2 episodes of Mindful U at Naropa University with the tag “transpersonal psychology”.
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Jayson Gaddis: Exploring the Dynamics of Interpersonal Relationships
November 19th, 2018 | 38 mins 16 secs
psychology, transpersonal psychology
Being a better person within the dynamics of relationships really starts with our relationship to ourselves. We constantly cultivate our amazing relationship with who we are in the context of relationships. We can learn to have a better relationship with ourselves sitting on the cushion, and that's super useful, but getting the day in and day out feedback from other human beings telling me what an asshole I am is also powerful.
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Deborah Bowman: Naropa's Transpersonal Therapy Program
May 28th, 2018 | 30 mins 29 secs
abraham maslow, carl jung, transpersonal psychology
The work of Carl Jung and of Stanislav Grof - as well as many others - have been under an umbrella of "transpersonal psychology," a field that was developed in the '50s as an extension of humanistic psychology. Abraham Maslow first developed humanistic psychology - a framework around many other professionals who were developing that branch of psychology, such as Fritz Perls and Carl Rogers, but Maslow defined the field. However, when Maslow studied individuals who were exceptional, he found that they all described mystical experiences. All of his subjects described experiences beyond the "little self" or the ego that gave them a connection to everything. Experiences where they weren't separate from others, and that helped them to understand that they were either not separate, or that we all share a unitive experience. When Maslow studied these people, he realized that there was a vast new field beyond humanistic psychology that included it, but went well beyond. This is the field of transpersonal psychology, and Naropa's program is among the best in the world.