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Category Archives: Community Building
Place: Autonomy and Belonging
“When I hear ‘Place’ as a concept, my mind processes it on the macro level. It might be an awkward suggestion, because of its reduction to rhyme, but I see Place as a collection of spaces; of microcosms within the larger … Continue reading
Graduating Student Presentations at the 2013 Residency
Health Arts & Sciences Grad Presentations: A Peace of Maine–Multi-generational Community Retreat Center, with HAS graduating student Jill Smith. The goal of this presentation is to share how I am developing a multi-generational community retreat center. The center will integrate … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Coaching, Community Building, Creativity & Imagination, Cultural & Cross-Cultural Studies, Environmental, Sustainability & Place Studies, Feminism, Women's & Gender Studies, Fine Arts, Health Arts & Sciences, Identity, journal-Writing, Nutrition, Sustainability, Sustainable Businesses and Communities, Uncategorized, Yoga
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Thoreau, Twitter, Dust, Soul, Language, Sustainability, Imagination, and the Chestnut Trade: Workshops About Place at the Feb. 2013 Residency
Place: An Interdisciplinary Conversation for our Vibrant and Vulnerable Times, with faculty members Susan Pearson, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ralph Lutts, and returning students Josh Pollock & Sonja Swift. Join students and faculty from various programs and perspectives as we wander through … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Community Building, Consciousness Studies/Transpersonal Psychology, Creativity & Imagination, Cultural & Cross-Cultural Studies, Deep Ecology & Bioregionalism, Embodiment Studies & Body Image, Environmental, Sustainability & Place Studies, Faculty, History & Political Science
Tagged Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ellie Epp, Francis Charet, James Sparrell, Josh Pollock, Karen Campbell, Ralph Lutts, Sarah Bobrow-Williams, Sonja Swift, Susan Pearson
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Spring 2013 Residency Theme is Place
The theme for the Spring 2013 HAS/IMA/SBC residency is “Place.” Words and images in the residency schedule, and posted throughout campus and on our Worlds of Change blog reflect the myriad ways that HAS, IMA, and SBC students and faculty … Continue reading
New Queer Jewish Writing & Ezra Berkley Nepon
IMA student Ezra Berkley Nepon has had a busy year first with the publication of Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue: A History of New Jewish Agenda and a consequent book tour that brought together Jewish activists from the 1980s with … Continue reading
Hard Stone, Hard Choices: Memory, Community & Story with Scott Candage
Scott Candage, a new graduate of the Individualized MA program, explains to his local paper, The Working Waterfront, that his graduate thesis project looked deeply at community narratives that tell the community what it is and what stories matter most. … Continue reading
Posted in Community Building, Creativity & Imagination, Cultural & Cross-Cultural Studies, Epistemology (how we know what we know), Feminism, Women's & Gender Studies, History & Political Science, Identity, Transformative Language Arts, Visual Arts, Workshops
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Faculty Workshops for Our Fall 2012 Residency
Highlights of faculty workshops at our upcoming residency with Individualized MA, Socially Responsible Business & Communities and Health Arts & Sciences faculty in our combined residency Aug. 3-10. A Brief History of Sustainability, with faculty member Ralph H. Lutts: Sustainability … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Community Building, Consciousness Studies/Transpersonal Psychology, Creative Writing, Creativity & Imagination, Cultural & Cross-Cultural Studies, Deep Ecology & Bioregionalism, Embodiment Studies & Body Image, Environmental, Sustainability & Place Studies, Epistemology (how we know what we know), Faculty, Feminism, Women's & Gender Studies, Fiction, History & Political Science, Residencies, Theater, Drama & Playwriting, Transformative Language Arts, Transforming Trauma, Workshops
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Why Am I Here?: The Duende at the Heart of Place, Consciousness and Home with Claudia Guerra
IMA graduating student Claudia Guerra presented today on Duende, the Spanish word for “having soul,” or heightened expression, emotion and aliveness, often associated with Flamenco dancing. Yet Claudia, a consciousness studies student, drew this word to place that moment and place where consciousness, memory, … Continue reading
Graduating Student Presentations: Embodied Movement, Identity, Progressive Education, Moral Medicine, the Early Republic, Place & More
While some graduating presentations have been and will elaborated upon in other posts, here’s a listing of others that made for a fabulously integrating and interdisciplinary weekend for our new graduates: Myth of Unification: The Birth of the Early Republic and the … Continue reading

