Conference Schedule: Consciousness and the Future of Psychology; incl. criminology & peace studies
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CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOLOGY
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Conference Schedule
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Thursday Evening, October 22
8:00-9:30 pm
Opening Remarks by President Bevan Morris
Ellen Langer, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
"Mindfulness: When West Meets East"
Reflections on Charles Alexander
Friday Morning
Poster Session
8:30-9:30 am
9:30 am - 12:15 pm
David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., Founding Chair, Department of Psychology,
Maharishi University of Management
"Developing Higher States of Consciousness in the Individual and the
Society: An Overview of Charles Alexander's Contribution to Psychology"
Juan Pascual-Leone, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, York University, Canada
"Mental Attention, Consciousness, and the Progressive Emergence of Wisdom"
Jeffrey Alexander, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, UCLA,
"Developmental Stages and Collective Consciousness: Sociological
Reflections on some of Skip Alexander's Most Challenging Ideas"
Discussant: Marion Perlmutter, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Research
Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor 11:50 am - 12:05 pm
Friday Afternoon
1:30-4:30 pm
Frederick Travis, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Psychology, Maharishi
University of Management
"The Maharishi Junction Point Model of States of Consciousness: A field model
that places ordinary waking, sleeping, and dreaming into the larger context of
higher states of consciousness"
Susanne Cook-Greuter, lic. phil. l., Independent scholar and author,
"Experiencing the Limits of the Rational Mind at the Highest Stages of Ego
Development: A Step Towards Ego-Transcendence?"
Lynne Mason, Ph.D., Research Associate and Visiting Scholar at the
University of Minnesota at the Center for Spirituality and Healing
"The Electrophysiological Correlates of Inner Awareness During Sleep as an
Indicator of Higher States of Consciousness"
Julia Guttmann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Iowa Wesleyan
College "Emotional Experience in Higher States of Consciousness"
James D. Grant, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Education, Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, Maharishi University of Management
"Redefining Education in Light of Consciousness Research: Education for
Enlightenment"
HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Friday Evening
8:00-9:30 pm
Robert Schneider, M.D., Dean of Maharishi University of Management-College of
Maharishi Vedic Medicine and Director of the Center for Health and Aging
Studies
"Consciousness and Health: Clinical Effectiveness of Maharishi Vedic Medicine"
Maya McNeilly, Ph.D., Director of the Mind, Body, Spirit Integrative Health
Program at Durham Regional Hospital Corporation and Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center "Effects of
Racism on Health: Potential Applications of Consciousness as Intervention"
Charlie M. Lollis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Family Medicine; Director of
Behavioral Medicine Research; Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
"Consciousness and Health Psychology: Perspectives on African-Americans'
Cardiovascular Health"
Sanford Nidich, Ed.D., Associate Professor in the College of Maharishi Vedic
Medicine at Maharishi University of Management
"Improving the Quality of Life through the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health:
Review of Dr. Alexander's Research" 9:10-9:25 pm
ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Saturday Morning, October 24
9:30 am - 12:15 pm
Dennis Heaton, Ed.D., Chairman of the School of Business and Public
Administration, Maharishi University of Management
"The Effect of Higher Stages of Individual Development on Performance in
Organizations"
Harald Harung, Ph.D., President of Harvest, a consulting firm based in Oslo,
Norway and author of Invincible Leadership.
"Higher Stages of Collective Development and Organizational Transformation"
William Torbert, Ph.D., Professor of Management at Boston College's Carroll
School of Management
"A Developmental Approach to Social Science: Integrating 1st, 2nd, and
3rd-Person Research/Practice through Single, Double, and Triple-Loop Learning"
Mary Martha Stevens, Ph.D., Acting Program Director, Health and Human
Services, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
"Promoting Corporate Development Through Transcendental Meditation: A Case
Study at Puritan-Bennett Corporation"
Discussant: Jane Schmidt-Wilk, Ph.D., Director, Center for Management
Research; Assistant Professor, School of Business and Public Affairs,
Maharishi University of Management
REHABILITATION
Saturday Afternoon
1:30-4:30 pm
Farrokh Anklesaria, Barrister at Law, Director of the Enlightened
Sentencing Project
"Overview and Practical Applications of Maharishi's Consciousness-Based
Rehabilitation Program"
Maxwell Rainforth , M.A., Instructor of Statistics in the Psychology
Department at Maharishi University of Management
"Effective Rehabilitation through the Transcendental Meditation Program:
Research and the Legacy of Dr. Charles Alexander"
David Magill, M.A.
"Cost Savings for the Criminal Justice System and Society through the
Transcendental Meditation Program"
Hon. David C. Mason, Judge, 22nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri
"Rehabilitation from Within: My Experience with the Transcendental
Meditation Program in Sentencing and a Vision of Future Possibilities"
Hon. Henry E. Autrey, Judge, 22nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri
"A Judge's Perspective on the Use of the Transcendental Meditation Program in
Criminal Justice"
Judges Panel
Chaired by Hon. Anna Forder, Judge, 22nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri
Robert Ferguson, former director Walpole Prison Project
"A View From the Inside: The Impact of the TM Program in the Lives of
Incarcerated Men"
Kofi A. Kondwani, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health, Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Department of
Epidemiology
"Rehabilitation From Inside Out: Using the TM Technique to Improve Inmate
Behavior and Recidivism"
Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D., editor of Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain:
Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming
"Consciousness Studies as Rehabilitation Among the Central Alberta Cree"
FIELD NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Saturday Evening
8:00-9:30 pm
John Hagelin, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Chair of the Physics
Department, Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy
at Maharishi University of Management
"The Quantum Physical Foundation of Consciousness"
Dean Radin, Ph.D., three times past President of the Parapsychological
Association and author of the award-winning, THE CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE
"The Nature of Causality and a Possible Future for Consciousness Research"
Roger Nelson, Ph.D., Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering
Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, Princeton University, and Director of
the Global Consciousness Project "Laboratory Studies of Consciousness-Related
Anomalies"
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
Sunday Morning
9:30 am - 12:15 pm
Robert M. Oates, Jr., M.A., author of 12 books, including CREATING HEAVEN ON
EARTH: THE MECHANICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
"Understanding the Maharishi Effect"
Rachel Goodman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology and Acting
Director of the Institute of World Peace at Maharishi University of
Management
"Creating Unity Amidst Diversity: The Maharishi Effect and Government"
John Davies, Ph.D., Director Global Events Data System Project and
Co-Director of the Partners in Conflict and Partners in Development
Project, Center for International Development and Conflict Management,
University of Maryland
"Political Culture, Collective Consciousness, and Strategies for Conflict
Management"
Nola Lewis, Ph.D., Research Program Manager at the Institute of Noetic
Sciences and author of THE HEART OF HEALING "Intentionality: A Force for the
Future"
All Conference Participants
Future Directions for Consciousness Research
Conference Fees and Registration
Full conference fee
$125
Student fee: $75
One-day fee
$50
Student fee: $30
To register call the Office of Continuing Education at 515-472-1135.
Payment by credit card is accepted.
Jamie Grant
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of Education Communication
numbers:
FM 1064 515.472.7000 x5022 (direct)
Maharishi University of Management 515.472.7884 (home & fax)
Fairfield, Iowa USA 52557 jgr...@mum.edu (email)
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