Please schedule your appointment with the Advisor who serves your primary intended major see below. Don't forget that you can always email your Advisor as well, and may get a quicker reply that way! Envisioning with Intention 2 hours. Tuesday, January 18th, 3 pm - 5 pm.
Join us for a virtual workshop and kick off the semester by bringing awareness and intention to what you value and creating a blueprint of your life to guide you back to your purpose. Register here for the link. The Academic Coaching team is bringing you a free online workshop to help you untangle procrastination.
Join us Wednesday, January 26th from pm - pm. Open to all Naropa students. Upon registering for this event, you will receive a confirmation email and the Zoom link and information. In-person session will resume beginning Monday, January 24, Students meet one-on-one with an Academic Coach for support relating to academic goals and challenges in powerful new ways.
One-off and on-going appointments available. From home, students virtually connect with an Academic Coach to receive one-on-one support relating to academic goals and challenges in powerful new ways.
Let's start strong together with a focused, productive, and supportive coworking session! Join for as much as you can! Our time will center on simple, effective practices: celebrating our successes, making clear and achievable promises, and working in short, focused bursts followed by quick breaks.
You'll receive support to develop these practices so you'll have new productivity tools to use during the entire week! This is a great one-on-one opportunity to speak with Peter and get your questions answered about Naropa's unique undergraduate majors, life in Boulder, and so much more. Appointments are conducted via phone or video. This appointment will take place in Mountain Time on our Arapahoe Campus.
Students in the Somatic Studies specialization integrate the insights of depth psychology with a somatic perspective in order to bring body and soul into the evolving conversation about what it means to be human. Focused on real world issues across a range of academic and professional domains, students develop new understandings and create innovative practices with the potential to transform the communities in which they live and work.
Faculty in the Somatics Studies specialization bring a passion for research and a wealth of interdisciplinary expertise into the classroom. Students are given a thorough grounding in depth psychology, including Jungian, Freudian, and archetypal orientations. They are also introduced to the fundamentals of a somatic perspective, and how that perspective has informed scholarly and professional work across a range of territories.
Although students are introduced to a wide range of professional skills over three years of coursework, these skills fall into a relatively small number of categories: strategies for accessing and identifying unconscious material particularly in the form of dreams, body sensations, or physical symptoms , skills for transforming charged, undeveloped, or painful material including dreamwork, movement, and active imagination , and strategies for containing and contextualizing material.
Perhaps most importantly, students learn how to think critically and strategically, and to synthesize material across a range of domains in order to create new ideas and practices.
Each student is mentored by a designated faculty member to develop a project that harnesses their existing talents and interests to address a community issue or need. Examples of current student fieldwork projects include the study of interspecies embodiment with rescue elephants in Cambodia, using homeopathy to treat autism, embodied archetypes in substance abuse treatment, and yoga with sex trade survivors in India.
Fieldwork projects may also evolve into dissertation research at the doctoral level. Many traditions within depth psychology understand the process of personal transformation as inherently relational, typically held within the container of a therapeutic relationship with a professional counselor or psychotherapist. These traditions are dynamically linked to the transformative nature of the course material contained within this curriculum.
In order to effectively support their transformative journey, students are expected to engage in a minimum of 50 hours of individual counseling or psychotherapy during their coursework. Students must have an approved proposal for these depth transformative practice hours by the end of the fall quarter of the first year and submit documentation of 25 hours of completed therapy by the end of the first year. The remaining 25 hours are to be completed in order to be awarded the MA degree.
Courses in scholarly writing and dissertation development support students to engage in the task of developing a research question, conducting an original study, and writing a doctoral dissertation. Given the interdisciplinary focus of the program, students are drawn from the full range of somatic practices as well as from psychology. Current students include massage therapists, yoga teachers, and bodyworkers; others are counselors, therapists, or coaches. Acupuncturists, homeopaths, and physical therapists are attracted to the program for its inclusion of holistic health perspectives.
Students come from other backgrounds as well, including visual and performing arts, writing, public media, environmental studies, and community activism. Many of our students are already qualified to practice in a profession such as counseling, health care, or education that they further develop through their graduate studies. They continue to practice within those professions upon graduation, but at an advanced level that may include training or supervising other professionals.
Other students use the program to cultivate current passions in order to apply them to a particular project, such as a community non-profit or a consulting practice. Graduates of the doctoral program may choose to pursue academic careers, teaching in higher education or engaging in post-doctoral research.
Like the other programs at Pacifica, students in the somatic studies concentration learn in cohorts during three-day monthly residential sessions. They rave about the beautiful natural surroundings of the Pacifica campus, the intimacy and warmth of cohort-based learning, the quality of the teaching faculty, and the opportunity to engage in somatic depth transformative practice while earning a graduate degree.
Most of our students do not live in Santa Barbara. They travel from a wide variety of states and countries to attend nine 3-day sessions October-July each year. Pacifica has this unusual design to allow people to carry on their work , community, and family commitments in their home locations. Students attend classes for three years. Classes are held mornings, afternoons, and some evenings. As indicated above, the M. Dissertation work is ordinarily accomplished in the 4th and 5th years and does not require on campus presence, except for the oral defense.
Most courses are a combination of lecture, discussion formats, and experiential activities. Some include a partial seminar format in which students make short presentations on topics they are researching for the course. Human beings are, at birth, equipped with the rudimentary ability to discriminate between what is unhealthy and what is nurturing for them. A therapist provides an environment of structure, safety, and skill through which the client helps themselves.
Healing skills include attention, empathy, compassion, nonaggressive behavior, an appreciation for uncertainty, an ability to tolerate discomfort and a basic commitment to do no harm.
Healing is always a system process involving self, environment and the interaction between both. Expressive and natural movement is a powerful tool that serves to synchronize healing.
Contemplative disciplines are powerful tools in healing. In the training of therapists, they cultivate the qualities of presence, attention, awareness, and compassion. The Somatic Counseling Department values: A fundamental view of humanity as whole and oriented towards growth. Training our students to grow, develop, and support the wellness and sanity in their clients rather than to focus only on eliminating their illness.
Learning experiences that synchronize and integrate experience and expression on a physical, emotional, cognitive, energetic, and spiritual level.
Developing a sense of community and an environment of co-creativity within the department, the University and the surrounding community. Communication based on an acknowledgment of individuality and diversity. We believe that understanding and working with others is ultimately based on understanding and working with one's own personal dynamic. Suggested Reading. Suggested Reading We recommend the following reading in order to gain exposure to somatic counseling psychology concepts before beginning the program.
Body Psychotherapy Aposhyan, S. Keleman, S. Your body speaks its mind. Berkeley, CA: Center Press. Somatic Arts Concert. Somatic Arts Concert, Alumni Careers. Learning Outcomes. Students demonstrate knowledge of core counseling curriculum. Students demonstrate proficiency in clinical counseling skills. Students demonstrate professional competence in counseling.
Additionally, students attend at least two weeklong onsite residential labs per academic year. Virtual labs are also available for students who choose not to travel to residential labs. Students can select lab dates, locations, and formats based on their personal circumstances and professional aspirations. Department of Education.
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