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Authentic Leadership GRAD Clnc Authentic Leadership habitual patterns of mind may lead to addictive patterns of behavior. Meditation practice is introduced both as a method of MAR500E self-care and of self-awareness and inquiry. Self-understanding Authentic Leadership (6.0) is emphasized as the basis for ethical and helpful counseling Naropa University's Authentic Leadership program is a relationships. Additional fee for one-on-one meditation instruction. transformative leadership course that integrates ancient wisdom with effective, modern approaches to management. The format CNSC609 encourages deep, personal learning in an environment that makes Group Process I (0.5) it possible to assimilate ideas and concepts at an accelerated A cohort of students participates in a small group throughout their pace. Leadership coaching with experienced professionals is tenure in the program. Emphasis is on providing support for the a central component. Students taking the course for credit will students' journey, while providing the students the opportunity receive a "certificate of completion" and 6 graduate credits upon to study the many dimensions of small group dynamics as these successful completion of the course. Students taking it for non-credit develop in their respective groups. will receive a "certificate of completion" upon successful completion of the course. Course Fee. CNSC610 Social and Multicultural Foundations (3.0) GRAD Clnc Mntl Hlth Coun In this class, students study theories of community; work with the CNSG871 skills and qualities necessary to understand and foster a cohesive, Extended Internship I (0.0) compassionate, and creative learning community; and establish This course provides supervision for students who need additional the ground for studying oneself in relationship. Particular attention time to complete their internship placement in their final year is paid to systems of privilege and oppression and multicultural of coursework. Students are supported in the application of competence. Advocacy and public policy in terms of their effect counseling knowledge and skills, including methods unique to their on access and equity are explored. The course also provides the concentration. Prerequisite: completion of Internship II specific to theoretical and experiential ground for working skillfully with diverse program. identities such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, education, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ability, including mental CNSG891 illness. Buddhist principles of non-duality and the coexistence of Extended Internship II (0.0) relative and absolute truth provide the conceptual basis from which This course provides supervision for students who need additional students learn to bring a sense of maitri and nonaggression to their time to complete their Internship placement in their final year work. of coursework. Students are supported in the application of counseling knowledge and skills, including methods unique to their CNSC620 concentration. Prerequisites: Completion of CNSS790 Counseling Human Growth and Development: Contemplative View Practicum, CNSC790 Counseling Practicum, or CNST790 (3.0) Counseling Practicum. An exploration of human experience and psychological development throughout the trajectory of a lifetime. Key events, life passages, human nature, needs, and development will be GRAD Contemplative Psych explored. Seminal theories of Western psychology, together with CNSC600 key concepts and practices of Buddhism, provide a context within Opening Retreat (0.0) which we will consider an integrative view of human development. An introduction to the fundamental principles of contemplative Understanding of these subjects will be deepened through self- counseling psychology, this weekend intensive provides the reflection, meditation, observation, and a consideration of what opportunity for community building, an introduction to meditation, supports health and development. A major goal of the class is to and the marking of the transition into the MA Contemplative arouse interest in human experience and development. Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology concentration. Additional fee for weekend supplies. CNSC623 Buddhist Psychology II: Abhidharma and the Psychology of CNSC603 Confusion (2.0) Buddhist Psychology I: Foundations of Practice (2.0) The abhidharma teachings on the five skandhas and the six Contemplative Counseling is based on the view of Brilliant Sanity or "realms" provide precise understanding of the development Buddha Nature, the idea that health is intrinsic and unconditional. of a false sense of self and how this mistaken view leads to a This course presents teachings from Buddhist psychology on the variety of styles of confusion and suffering. The study of karmic mind in both sanity and confusion. In particular, we examine the cause and effect leads to an understanding of how habitual mistaken notion of a solid, separate self as the foundation of patterns and addictive behaviors develop and may be interrupted. suffering and misunderstanding. The importance of impermanence Pratityasamutpada is studied as an approach to understanding and transition is highlighted. We begin an exploration of how interdependence and systems thinking. The early ethical teachings 1 Naropa Course Catalog 2018—2019 of the Buddha are studied, and the practice of mindfulness- CNSC699 awareness sitting meditation is explored further, both experientially Independent Study: Contemplative Psychotherapy & and intellectually. Additional fee for one-on-one meditation Buddhist Psychology (0.5-4.0) instruction. This course offering is an opportunity for students to engage in in-depth, concentrated study with a particular faculty member CNSC629 for a semester. The design of study and course work is decided Group Process II (0.5) upon by the student and faculty member. Independent Studies will This is a continuation of Group Process I. count for a standard 3 credits. If a variable credit (0.5 - 4 credits) Independent Study is desired, a student must receive additional CNSC631 approval. See the Independent Study Application for further details. Counseling & Helping Relationships: Skills Practice I (3.0) Introductory exploration of the professional practice of counseling, CNSC700 which is seen as the joining of the personal discipline of mindfulness- Assessment (3.0) awareness practice that cultivates self-understanding with the An overview of individual and group approaches to assessment interpersonal discipline of cultivating healing relationships. The and evaluation, as these have developed historically from a course includes both experiential and intellectual components, traditional educational and psychological perspective, through a and emphasizes current counseling theories and their applications, more focused counseling perspective, with suggested applications a culturally sensitive orientation to the fundamental health of the appropriate for contemplative practitioners. The course covers basic human mind, and contemplative self-care strategies for working topics of standardized and non-standardized testing and other with human suffering and cultivating wellness. The course utilizes assessment techniques, including inventories, observations, and experiential training and practice in clinical skills and on-the-spot computer-managed methods. Topics include psychometric statistics, feedback. factors related to the assessment and evaluation of individuals, groups, and special populations, case conceptualization, CNSC638 assessment, and diagnosis. Ethical and legal considerations are Lineages of Understanding: Buddhist & Western integrated throughout the course. Issues of diversity related to Perspectives on Well-being and Disorder (3.0) development of and selection of assessment instruments are also Intrinsic health is the ground of experience, yet one repeatedly loses explored. The course also provides an understanding of basic touch with it. This course explores the sequence of events through classifications, indications, and contraindications of commonly which one can become absorbed in "storylines." The painful prescribed psychopharmacological medications for referrals and nature of this experience, which is a patchwork of events real and identification of side effects. Course fee. imagined, is explored. Emphasis is on recognizing the experience of sanity within pathology. Students experience the personal and CNSC703 painful nature of such psychopathology as it occurs in their own Buddhist Psychology III: Compassion and the Heart of lives and in the lives of others. The recovery stages of health are Emptiness (2.0) introduced, along with an introduction to diagnosis and the use of An introduction to the Mahayana teachings with their emphasis testing in appraisal. on skillfully helping others, the teachings on bodhicitta, awakened mind, and the four brahmaviharas as methods for cultivating CNSC660 compassion. The Buddhist teachings on sunyata (emptiness) are Maitri I (1.0) explored with respect to their implications for clinical work. Students A two-week residential intensive focusing on the practice of intensive apply these teachings both to their own personal experience and to sitting and walking meditation. Students refine their understanding of clinical work. Additional fee for one-on-one meditation instruction. meditation practice. Self-understanding is emphasized as the basis for ethical and helpful counseling relationships. Additional fee for CNSC709 room and board. Group Process III (0.5) This course is a continuation
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