Cultivating Vitality in Body, Mind, and Spirit: The Ecosystem of Mental Well-Being

What is vitality? Exuberance, vibrance, sparkle, spirit, and verve — terms rarely found in psychology textbooks. Vulnerability to depression and anxiety is widespread, and our culture traditionally emphasizes reducing symptoms with drugs that alter certain neurotransmitters, which is only part of the picture. We are living in a new era where vulnerabilities can become strengths, and what used to be stigma becomes common humanity. Good mental health is being redefined in terms of stress resilience, post-traumatic growth, and vitality.

This workshop explores evidence-based tools for living a vibrant life, even in the presence of stress, depression, anxiety, or any pain we may be carrying. We will help you build your own ecosystem of mental well-being — including new ways to foster vitality and purpose through caring for the brain, body, and gut. In this workshop, we’ll review the latest scientific findings on practices such as:

  • Hot and cold exposures
  • Optimal physical challenges
  • Breathing techniques
  • Meditation
  • Embodied movement

A mental health renaissance is underway. Mental well-being is being redefined, and a range of evidence-based, whole-person approaches are gaining ground. Learn from renowned authors and cutting-edge scientists to create a flourishing ecosystem of mental well-being for yourself and your clients.

Cultivating Vitality in Body, Mind, and Spirit: The Ecosystem of Mental Well-Being
May 26 – 29, 2023
The Esalen Institute

This workshop is hosted by the Esalen Institute. Please visit their website for more information.

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How We Change and Why We Don’t: The Art and Science of Transformation at the Esalen Institute

Have you ever worked hard to make a change, only to find yourself slipping back into old habits? Want to supercharge your ability to stimulate behavior change in others when it comes to the issues you care about the most? Is it time to break free from old patterns and build your next chapter? This workshop is for people in the process of change and those who work as change agents with individuals, groups, and organizations and in society.

Through dialogue, experiential practice, and creative process, we will bridge the science of breakthroughs with indigenous, religious, spiritual, and secular models of transformation. You will:

  • Learn what works and what doesn’t to inspire lasting change in yourself and others.
  • Explore how peak experiences, a-ha! moments and awe can stimulate change.
  • Examine how we and those we work with can get stuck or lost, and find ways to shake free from periods of inertia or patterns that prevent us from moving forward.
  • Investigate the transformative potential of pain, hitting bottom, and post-traumatic growth.
  • Delve into stories, symbols, and metaphors of transformation to guide your path.

Join IONS Fellow Cassandra Vieten, PhD, for this transformational exploration of our most deeply entrenched behaviors. Learn how to break free from the patterns that no longer serve you — and create new habits that will change your life.

Recommended reading: Schlitz, Vieten and Amorok, Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life.

How We Change and Why We Don’t: The Art and Science of Transformation
May 29 – June 2, 2023
The Esalen Institute

This workshop is hosted by the Esalen Institute. Please visit their website for more information.

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How We Change and Why We Don’t: The Art and Science of Transformation at the Sivandra Ashram Yoga Retreat

Have you ever worked hard to make a change, only to find yourself slipping back into old habits? Want to supercharge your ability to stimulate behavior change in others when it comes to the issues you care about the most? Is it time to break free from old patterns and build your next chapter? This workshop is for people in the process of change and those who work as change agents with individuals, groups, and organizations and in society.

Through dialogue, experiential practice, and creative process, we will bridge the science of breakthroughs with indigenous, religious, spiritual, and secular models of transformation. You will:

  • Learn what works and what doesn’t to inspire lasting change in yourself and others.
  • Explore how peak experiences, a-ha! moments and awe can stimulate change.
  • Examine how we and those we work with can get stuck or lost, and find ways to shake free from periods of inertia or patterns that prevent us from moving forward.
  • Investigate the transformative potential of pain, hitting bottom, and post-traumatic growth.
  • Delve into stories, symbols, and metaphors of transformation to guide your path.

Join IONS Fellow Cassandra Vieten, PhD, for this transformational exploration of our most deeply entrenched behaviors. Learn how to break free from the patterns that no longer serve you — and create new habits that will change your life.

Recommended reading: Schlitz, Vieten and Amorok, Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life.

How We Change and Why We Don’t: The Art and Science of Transformation
April 21 – 23, 2023
Nassau, Bahamas

This workshop is hosted by the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Reatreat. Please visit their website for more information.

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Miracle Money Manifesting

It’s not really the money you want, it’s the freedom and creativity that money gives you. Now you can learn how to use Universal Principles to manifest the life of your dreams.

When you attend this 4-hour virtual retreat you will:

  • Learn a step-by-step method to tune you into the Miracle Zone where you attract money and the fulfillment of your desires
  • Discover what’s keeping you from the freedom and joy of living the life of your dreams
  • Experience breakthroughs in clarity regarding your life design and most profitable path
  • Pass through the veil of limitation and step into freedom where manifesting for yourself and others becomes easy
  • Connect with other Miracle Manifestors on the journey

Come experience a time-tested approach to MANIFESTING MIRACLE MONEY with Christi Corriandi and her magical friends, including IONS Fellow Marilyn Schlitz, PhD.

Miracle Money Manifesting
February 24, 2023,
12:00pm – 4:00pm PST

This event is hosted by Mastering The Art of Life. Please visit their website for more information.

LEARN MORE AND REGISTER AT MASTERING THE ART OF LIFE’S WEBSITE

TEDxSanDiego: Let’s Build a World That Supports True Mental Health

The future of mental health is here. From indigenous wisdom practices to mind-body science to psychedelics to virtual reality, a vast array of mental health-enhancing practices are emerging and converging, promising to empower people with entirely new potentials for enhancing mental and emotional wellness. Find out what’s going on in the new mental health, and how you can immediately apply it to your life.

Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at IONS, Director of Research and Associate Scientist at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Executive Director of the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation, co-founder and Clinical Psychology Director at the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UCSD. She is a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research has focused on spirituality and health, transformative experiences and practices, the development of mindfulness-based interventions for emotional well-being, and the development of media technologies to inspire awe. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She was a Scientist at the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group for 12 years and worked at IONS for 18 years, including serving as president. She has authored three books and has published numerous articles in scientific journals.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

TEDxSanDiego: Let’s Build a World That Supports True Mental Health
October 13, 2022
Online

This course is produced by TEDx and shared on October 13th!

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Waging Peace: Building Humanity’s Golden Peace

Waging Peace celebrates the extraordinary achievements of a multigenerational, global cohort of leaders, changemakers and wisdom keepers. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from IONS Founder Edgar Mitchell through exclusive video recordings. Learn from an impressive line-up of speakers, including Ervin Laszlo, Jane Goodall and many more, as they share their wisdom and strategies for action to secure a peaceful, sustainable future.

This experience delivers the message of our connection as a Human Community beyond the barriers of nation, belief, and race. It will be a timeless, organic performance with original music, multigenerational choirs, audience engagement, and the inspiration of extraordinary wisdom. You will have the opportunity to receive the tools needed to create your own Visioneer Leadership Circles to carry out good work projects, tell wonderful stories, and create positive solutions in your own community and the larger world.

Register free to be a part of this important event laying the foundation for Humanity’s Golden Peace. Invite your friends, colleagues, and mentors to join you to watch together.

Waging Peace
October 9, 2022 11:00 AM PDT
In-Person & Virtual

This event is presented by The International Foundation of Learning and The Visioneers International Network.
Please visit their website for more information.

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Mindfulness and Compassion Symposium

A robust body of research supports benefits of mindfulness practices across multiple populations for a variety of conditions. Mindfulness training appears to play role in prevention, well-being, and optimal performance. Now there is a strong focus in the mindfulness field on adapting existing mindfulness-based interventions for special populations and conditions, as well as increasing access, diversity and inclusion with people of color and underrepresented teachers and students.

Join The Sanford Institute & the Center for Mindfulness for a day of science, clinical best practice recommendations, and new directions. Featuring IONS Fellow Cassandra Vieten as a presenter.

The event will be located at the UC San Diego-Rady School of Management (Room 2S117).  Please use this google map to lead you to the building.  The building does not have a physical address.

Mindfulness and Compassion Symposium
September 24, 2022
Online

This event is hosted by the Sanford Institute & the Center for Mindfulness. Please visit their website for more information.

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How To Transform Science: Six Potential Breakthroughs

Rupert Sheldrake’s scientific curiosity is drawn to areas of research where very little is known, but which have the potential for opening up whole new fields of inquiry. Questions that are neglected because they do not fit in with the prevailing orthodoxies are often the most fruitful. They open hidden doorways into new realms of the sciences. Taken together they can lead us into a more holistic, interconnected vision of nature.

In this series of talks, Rupert discusses six open questions that have occupied and preoccupied him for many years and suggests how they could be answered by new experiments, most of which are inexpensive. Some could be student or citizen science projects, and all could help overcome the ‘innovation deficit’ within scientific institutions, where cultural and funding systems favor incremental advances along familiar lines.

The rate of innovation has slowed down in recent decades, despite ever-increasing levels of funding, known to think tanks as ‘the innovation deficit’. The law of diminishing returns holds institutional science in its thrall. These talks point toward breakthroughs.

How to Transform Science: Six Potential Breakthroughs
Recordings of All Sessions Available Until March 1, 2023
Online

This course is produced by Rupert Sheldrake. Please visit their event page for more information!

LEARN MORE at the Rupert’s Event Page

This exciting course features six professionally recorded new talks, each 35-45 minutes long, ending with a live Q&A session. Recordings of all sessions will remain available until March 1, 2023.

Spirit Plant Medicine Conference 2022

Life on planet Earth is changing faster than most of us could possibly have imagined only a few short years ago. The need for new (and ancient) visions of wisdom and compassion is greater than ever. When understood and used in optimal conditions and effectively integrated into the daily walk, the psychedelic, sacramental healing, and awakening plants and related substances are arguably the most potent allies and tools available to struggling humanity in these tumultuous times.

But these powerful substances are not the story itself. At their best, they are in service of this overarching vision and urgent need for a “turning of the wheel.” The Spirit Plant Medicine Conference is passionately committed to providing a platform for the sharing of insight and wisdom toward this vision and prayer for humanity, for all inhabitants of the planet, and for the Earth itself.

You are warmly invited to attend this seminal and potentially life-altering event, for yourself and for all our relatives on the beautiful blue planet.

One of the defining and all but unique features of the beloved Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, now in its 11th year in Vancouver, Canada, is its diversity and its range of perspectives on psychedelics and consciousness transformation. Each year features a more or less equal balance of female and male presenters with significant indigenous and BIPOC representation.

Speakers include Christopher M. Bache, IONS Emeritus Fellow, and influential ceremonialists, therapists, philosophers, visionary mystics, advocates, activists, and academics – always with a keen eye on sharing “actionable” information and inspiration for individual and collective healing for a planet in transition.

Spirit Plant Medicine Conference 2022
November 4 – 6, 2022
Online

This event is hosted by The Conscious Living Network. Please visit their website for more information.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER AT THE SpiriT Plant Medicine Website

IRVA 2022 Conference – “Visions for the Future” Celebrating 50 Years of Remote Viewing

What if you could see the location of a submarine or satellite or even a soul mate… from your living room? Find a missing child, a long-lost lover, or your car keys, by closing your eyes, relaxing, and drawing a detailed picture? Know the winning sports team or roulette numbers before arriving at the table?

Remote viewing is a systematic process for the application of intuitive abilities, that you can learn. It is done individually, in teams, and in groups, and this form of controlled intuition offers exciting and delightful community-building opportunities. This landmark conference is intellectually rigorous so it will satisfy educational goals, but also the social and spiritual yearnings of participants.

At this intensive 3-day and evening “Visions for the Future” conference, participants will be led through remote viewing “outbounder” experiments emulating those carried out in the early days of the research program around Menlo Park. One workshop will include how to conduct psychological profiling with remote viewing, led by IRVA board member Patty Gallagher. There will even be an experimental research room open throughout the conference where participants can have fun participating in remote viewing tasks!

This event will also feature a presentation on some of the latest work done by IONS Scientists and Fellows. Damon Abraham will discuss the work he, Cedric Cannard, Julia Mossbridge, and Helané Wahbeh have done developing an open-sourced database of images for use in both parapsychological and traditional psychological research. Learn about how the project aims to generate normative ratings for around 2000 unique images that vary across 18 separate subjective dimensions or classes.

IONS is pleased to share that three IONS Fellows will be presenters. Marilyn Schlitz will be speaking on July 22nd. Peter Bancel will be speaking on Parapsychology on July 24th. Julia Mossbridge will be speaking on Operational Precognitive Remote Viewing on July 24th.

IRVA 2022 Conference – “Visions for the Future” Celebrating 50 Years of Remote Viewing
July 22-24, 2022
Online and In-Person

This event is hosted by The International Remote Viewing Association. Please visit their website for more information.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER AT THE INTERNATIONAL REMOTE VIEWING ASSOCIATION

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