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80-659: CIIS may refer to: California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco , United States China Institute of International Studies in Beijing , China College of Innovation and Industry Skills in Perth , Australia Continental Institute of International Studies in India Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

160-447: A "Gestalt Awareness" process that is still taught and followed by many today. Price and Murphy wanted to create a venue where non-traditional workshops and lecturers could present their ideas free of the dogma associated with traditional education. The two began drawing up plans for a forum that would be open to ways of thinking beyond the constraints of mainstream academia while avoiding the dogma so often seen in groups organized around

240-720: A direct line from Integral Yoga through [the Cultural Integration Fellowship] to two of the major centers of the Human Potential movement and the transpersonal psychology field it birthed: Esalen and California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)." Gleig and Flores further explain that: CIIS's distinctive signature is the development of an integral education that combines academic scholarship with spiritual transformation and through its student body, faculty publications, and popular public program it has significantly shaped contemporary East-West spiritualities. As with

320-596: A group of resident scholars led by Ananda Claude Dalenberg including Shien, Feng, and Snyder also left the Academy and founded an intentional community called East-West House . Kerouac's visits there too resulted in characters for his books. East-West House residents also included Knute Stiles , Joanne Kyger , and other leading artists, poets and writers of the Beat Generation interested in Asian thought, who would no longer see

400-604: A land patent under the Homestead Act of 1862. The settlement became known as Slates Hot Springs . It was the first tourist-oriented business in Big Sur, frequented by people seeking relief from physical ailments. In 1910, the land was purchased by Henry Murphy, a Salinas, California , physician. The official business name was "Big Sur Hot Springs" although it was more generally referred to as "Slate's Hot Springs". Michael Murphy and Dick Price both attended Stanford University in

480-551: A mental hospital for a year, ending on November 26, 1957. He hated the experience and thought he would like to create an environment where people could explore new ideas and thoughts without judgment and influence from the outside world. In May 1960, Price returned to San Francisco and lived at the East-West House with Taoist teacher Gia-Fu Feng . That year he met fellow Stanford University graduate Michael Murphy at Haridas Chaudhuri ’s Cultural Integration Fellowship where Murphy

560-460: A non-profit named Esalen Institute in 1963. Murphy and Price were assisted by Spiegelberg, Watts, Huxley and his wife Laura, as well as by Gerald Heard and Gregory Bateson . They modeled the concept of Esalen partially upon Trabuco College , founded by Heard as a quasi-monastic experiment in the mountains east of Irvine, California , and later donated to the Vedanta Society . Their intent

640-412: A perspective that sought a holistic view of the human being; an integration of material and spiritual values; as well as an integration of Eastern and Western philosophies and worldviews. By the mid-eighties this model of education was firmly established. In 1985 Voigt reported on the graduate programs at CIIS and elaborated on the experience of integral education at the institute. In the late 1990s, CIIS

720-692: A popular yearly event at Esalen. Encouraged by Dick Price , the Schizophrenia Research Project was conducted over a three-year period at Agnews State Hospital in San Jose, California , involving 80 young males diagnosed with schizophrenia . Funded in part by Esalen Institute, this program was co-sponsored by the California Department of Mental Hygiene (reorganized: CMHSA ) and the National Institute of Mental Health . It explored

800-418: A private room for $ 730 per person. Week-long workshops begin at $ 900 and couples are charged $ 1,700 per person to stay in a private room. In 2013, the institute charges participants in its month-long, residential licensed massage practitioner training programs, $ 4910, including board and room. In 1987, a weekend workshop along with a single room and meals cost $ 270, and a five-day workshop cost $ 530. In 2013,

880-546: A separate institution, while CIF itself would continue as a meditation, learning, and event center at the same location on Fulton Street well into the twenty-first century. In 1968, Chaudhuri was instrumental in the founding and development of a new institution called the California Institute of Asian Studies, which grew out of the education branch of the Cultural Integration Fellowship and built upon

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960-403: A series of encounter groups focused on racial prejudice. Early leaders included many well-known individuals, including Ansel Adams , Gia-fu Feng , Buckminster Fuller , Timothy Leary , Robert Nadeau , Linus Pauling , Carl Rogers , Virginia Satir , B.F. Skinner , and Arnold Toynbee . Rather than merely lecturing, many leaders experimented with what Huxley called the non-verbal humanities:

1040-483: A significant part of the Esalen experience. In the late 1990s, the "EMBA" was organized as a semi-autonomous Esalen association for the regulation of Esalen massage practitioners. Esalen Institute has sponsored many research initiatives, educational projects, and invitational conferences. The Big Sur facility has been used for these events, as well as other locations, including international sites. In 1964, Joan Baez led

1120-540: A single idea promoted by a charismatic leader. They envisioned offering a wide range of philosophies, religious disciplines and psychological techniques. In 1961, they went to look at property owned by the Murphy family at Slates Hot Springs in Big Sur . It included a run-down hotel occupied in part by members of a Pentecostal church. The property was patrolled by gun-toting Hunter S. Thompson . Gay men from San Francisco filled

1200-550: A small library of Russian philosophical and theological books. In 1979, Esalen began the Soviet–American Exchange Program (later renamed: Track Two, an institute for citizen diplomacy). This initiative came at a time when Cold War tensions were at their peak. The program was credited with substantial success in fostering peaceful private exchanges between citizens of the "super powers". In the 1980s, Michael Murphy and his wife Dulce were instrumental in organizing

1280-850: A spiritual orientation, including influences from a broad spectrum of mystical or esoteric traditions. CIIS is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission . In addition, degrees offered through ACTCM are accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (ACAHM). In 2018, The Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS), California's state regulatory agency responsible for licensing, examination, and enforcement of Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs), released statistics for its January 1, 2018 through June 30, 2018 exam cycle. The Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) program in Clinical Psychology

1360-486: A teacher of Eastern mysticism, established the academy as a meeting place for counter-cultural movements, also known as the San Francisco Renaissance . Chaudhuri, a scholar of Aurobindo, developed the field of Integral counseling psychology, an integration of eastern philosophy with the growing field of counseling psychology. According to sources "Chaudhuri’s vision of integral education, like that of Alan Watts,

1440-480: A wide range of subjects including arts, health, Gestalt practice, integral thought, martial arts, massage, dance, mythology, philosophical inquiry , somatics, spiritual and religious studies , ecopsychology , wilderness experience , yoga, tai chi , mindfulness practice , and meditation. The institute was closed for the first half of 2017 and forced to drastically reduce staff. They also decided to revamp their offerings upon reopening to include topics more relevant to

1520-601: A workshop entitled "The New Folk Music" which included a free performance. This was the first of seven "Big Sur Folk Festivals" featuring many of the era's music legends. The 1969 concert included musicians who had just come from the Woodstock Festival . This event was featured in a documentary movie, Celebration at Big Sur , which was released in 1971. John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg performed together at Esalen. Robert Bly , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Allen Ginsberg , Michael McClure , Kenneth Rexroth (who led one of

1600-468: A younger generation. In 1998, Esalen launched the Center for Theory and Research to initiate new areas of practice and action which foster social change and realization of the human potential. It is the research and development arm of Esalen Institute. As of 2016 , Michael Cornwall, who previously worked in the institutes' Schizophrenia Research Project at Agnews State Hospital, was conducting workshops titled

1680-504: Is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur , California , which focuses on humanistic alternative education . The institute played a key role in the Human Potential Movement beginning in the 1960s. Its innovative use of encounter groups, a focus on the mind-body connection, and their ongoing experimentation in personal awareness introduced many ideas that later became mainstream. Esalen

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1760-1289: Is not accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). The program received APA accreditation in 2003, but accreditation was revoked in 2011, and CIIS's appeal of the revocation was denied in 2012 on the basis that it was "not fully consistent with the Guidelines and Principles for Accreditation of Programs in Professional Psychology", notably "several requirements in the following areas: Domain B: Program Philosophy, Objectives, and Curriculum Plan; Domain C: Program Resources; Domain E: Student-Faculty Relations; Domain F: Program Self-Assessment and Quality Enhancement." CIIS applied for APA accreditation in June 2016, but voluntarily withdrew its application in June 2017. Esalen Institute The Esalen Institute , commonly called Esalen ,

1840-496: The Alternative Views and Approaches to Psychosis Initiative at Esalen. He was inviting leaders in the field of psychosis treatment to attend the workshops. Esalen has been making changes to respond to internal and external factors. Dick Price was the key leader of the institute until his sudden death in a hiking accident in late 1985 brought about many changes in personnel and programming. Steven Donovan became president of

1920-497: The R.D. Laing Symposium and workshops on compassionately responding to psychosis. Starting in 1969, in association with Viking Press , the institute published a series of 17 books about Esalen-related topics, including the first edition of Michael Murphy 's novel, Golf in the Kingdom (1971). Some of these books remain in print. In the mid-1980s, Esalen entered into a joint publishing arrangement with Lindisfarne Press to publish

2000-596: The Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi ; and leading figures of the Beat Generation including poet Gary Snyder . Price, Feng, and Snyder were among a core group of students that lived at the school. Jack Kerouac visited frequently, and based characters in The Dharma Bums on Watts and Snyder. By 1952 the Academy was in financial decline, after Gainsborough suffered serious business losses. For support and accreditation,

2080-406: The thesis that the health of certain patients would permanently improve if their psychotic process was not interrupted by administration of antipsychotic pharmaceutical drugs . Julian Silverman was chief of research for the project. He also served as Esalen's general manager in the 1970s. The Agnews double blind study was the largest first-episode psychosis research project ever conducted in

2160-569: The "relating dimension" the survey returned a score of 18%, compared to a desired 88%. It also produced strongly dissonant scores in measures of community welfare, relating with interpersonal intelligence , clearly communicating vision, and building a sense of personal worth within the community. It ranked management as overly compliant and lacking authenticity. However, the survey found that Esalen closely matched its overall goal for customer focus. Gordon Wheeler dramatically restructured Esalen management. These changes prompted Christine Stewart Price,

2240-479: The 1960s and 1970s before coming home talking psychobabble and dangling crystals." The Human Potential Movement was criticized for espousing an ethic that the inner-self should be freely expressed in order to reach a person's true potential. Some people saw this ethic as an aspect of Esalen's culture. The historian Christopher Lasch wrote that humanistic techniques encourage narcissistic, spiritual materialistic or self-obsessive thoughts and behaviors. In 1990

2320-575: The Academy and Spiegelberg's lectures at Stanford in years past. Murphy had been at the Sri Aurobindo ashram in India from June 1956 to October 1957, and was now living, meditating, and studying at the CIF house, where he invited Price to room with him. Within a year they established what would become Esalen Institute in Big Sur. The Cultural Integration Fellowship developed an education branch that would evolve into

2400-560: The Academy as a resource. This added to the financial strain on the school, which closed within the year. Following the Academy's collapse, Chaudhuri and his wife Bina established the Cultural Integration Fellowship (CIF), which for many decades offered a place for meditation, learning, and events in a house on Fulton Street across from Golden Gate Park, in the Inner Richmond District of San Francisco. CIF

2480-526: The Academy entered into an agreement to serve as the graduate school of Asian studies for the College of the Pacific . Spiegelberg stepped down and focused on his work at Stanford, while Watts became head of the school and operated it on a shoestring budget for the next four years. But the conservative college administration became dissatisfied with Watts' leadership and pushed him out in 1956. Due to Watts' departure

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2560-488: The California Institute of Integral Studies. Central to the early history of the institute is a model of so-called integral education . Originally set up to study Eastern culture and philosophy in the beginning of the 1950s, the Institute developed further in this direction with the arrival of Haridas Chaudhuri. Chaudhuri introduced the integral philosophy of Sri Aurobindo as a navigating principle for education and established

2640-559: The Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge reopens in September 2017. In 2012, 600 Esalen workshops were attended by more than 12,000 people. Topics ranged from sustainable business practices to hypnosis to "The Holy Fool: Crazy Wisdom From Van Gogh to Tina Fey and The Big Lebowski." As of 2015 , a weekend workshop, including the program, meals, and a place for a sleeping bag in a communal area, cost a minimum of $ 405 per person. A couple could rent

2720-548: The Soviet Union, Garrison helped establish The State of the World Forum, with Gorbachev as its convening chairman. These successes led to other Esalen citizen diplomacy programs, including exchanges with China, an initiative to further understanding among Jews, Christians and Muslims, as well as further work on Russian-American relations. On February 12, 2017, a number of mud and land slides closed Highway 1 in several locations to

2800-493: The United States. In 1989, Esalen brought Boris Yeltsin on his first trip to the United States, although Yeltsin did not visit the Esalen facility in Big Sur. Esalen arranged meetings for Yeltsin with then President George H. W. Bush as well as many other leaders in business and government. Two former presidents of the exchange program included Jim Garrison and Jim Hickman. After Gorbachev stepped down, and effectively dissolved

2880-466: The United States. It demonstrated that the young men given a placebo had a 75 percent lower re-hospitalization rate and much better outcomes than the men who received anti-psychotic medication. These results were used as justification for medication-free programs in the San Francisco Bay Area . Esalen has recently begun to revive some of this interest in schizophrenia and psychosis, and hosted

2960-526: The baths on the weekends. Henry Murphy's widow and Michael's grandmother Vinnie "Bunnie" MacDonald Murphy, who owned the property, lived 62 miles (100 km) away in Salinas. She had previously refused to lease the property to anyone, even turning down an earlier request from Michael. She was afraid her grandson was going to "give the hotel to the Hindus," Murphy later said. Not long after, Thompson attempted to visit

3040-422: The baths with friends and got into a fistfight after antagonizing some of the gay men present. The men almost tossed him over the cliff. Murphy's father, a lawyer, finally persuaded his mother to allow her grandson to take over and she agreed to lease the property to them in 1962. The two men used capital that Price obtained from his father, who was a vice-president at Sears . They incorporated their business as

3120-755: The beginning and for many years collectively contributed to the character of the institute. The community has been steeped in a form of Gestalt practice that pervades all aspects of daily life, including meeting structures, workplace practices, and individual language styles. There is a preschool on site called the Gazebo, serving the children of staff, some program participants, and affiliated local residents. Esalen has sponsored long-term resident scholars, including notable individuals such as Gregory Bateson , Joseph Campbell , Stanislav Grof , Sam Keen , George Leonard , Fritz Perls , Ida Rolf , Virginia Satir , William Schutz , and Alan Watts . Bodywork has always been

3200-406: The cost of the lease is highly discounted, and that the terms of the lease allow the trust to re-assess the lease terms in 2017. This could potentially increase the institute's rent to market value. Past guest teachers include: Esalen has been cited as having played a key role in the cultural transformations of the 1960s. In its beginnings as a "laboratory for new thought", it was seen by some as

3280-564: The counseling psychology program, and the East/West psychology program. Several new programs were also launched in the 1985–1986 academic year, including the organizational development program and transformation certificate program, and the external studies program. Other services, available to students at this time, included an extensive library, as well as the Integral Counseling Center, a community-based service facility that supported

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3360-670: The dance platform was used by Esalen teachers for dance and martial arts. The platform was later covered by a dome and renamed the Leonard Pavilion after deceased Esalen past president and board member, George Leonard . In 1995 and 1996, Esalen hosted two arts festivals which gathered together artists, poets, musicians, photographers and performers, including artist Margot McLean, psychotherapist James Hillman , guitarist Michael Hedges and Joan Baez . All staff members were allowed to attend every class and performance that did not interfere with their schedules. Arts festivals have since become

3440-431: The education of the body, the senses, and the emotions. Their intention was to help individuals develop awareness of their present flow of experience, to express this fully and accurately, and to listen to feedback. These "experiential" workshops were particularly well attended and were influential in shaping Esalen's future course. Because of Esalen's isolated location, its operational staff members have lived on site from

3520-558: The experience of the former American Academy of Asian Studies. In this period several developments took place. Paul Herman continued the work of Chaudhuri and also designed the institute's first graduate degree in Integral Psychology, the Integral Counseling Psychology (ICP) degree, which was established in 1973. Frederic Spiegelberg, who helped found the predecessor American Academy of Asian Studies, served as

3600-459: The fall of 1962 was "The Human Potentiality," based on a lecture by Huxley. In 1964, Fritz Perls began what became a five-year long residency at Esalen, leaving a lasting influence. Perls offered many Gestalt therapy seminars at the institute until he left in July 1969. Jim Simkin and Perls led Gestalt training courses at Esalen. Simkin started a Gestalt training center on property next door that

3680-440: The first Esalen staff members. In the middle of that same year Abraham Maslow , a prominent humanistic psychologist, just happened to drive into the grounds and soon became an important figure at the institute. In the fall of 1962, they published a catalog advertising workshops with such titles as "Individual and Cultural Definitions of Rationality," "The Expanding Vision" and "Drug-Induced Mysticism". Their first seminar series in

3760-460: The first workshops), Gary Snyder and others held poetry readings and workshops. In 1994, president and CEO Sharon Thom created an artist-in-residence program to provide artists with a two-week retreat in which to focus upon works in progress. These artists interacted with the staff, offered informal gatherings, and staged performances on the newly created dance platform. Located next to the Art Barn,

3840-560: The founding of the academy include Frederic Spiegelberg . The academy was an independent educational institution set up to study Eastern culture and philosophy and improve the dialogue between east and west. Soon after the founding of the institution, Gainsborough was joined by Alan Watts and Haridas Chaudhuri , two persons that played a crucial role in the development of the academy's academic profile. Both Watts and Chaudhuri were oriented towards Eastern religions and philosophy and integrated this into their teaching and colloquia. Watts,

3920-582: The headquarters of the human potential movement. Its use of encounter groups, a focus on the mind-body connection, and their ongoing experimentation in personal awareness introduced many ideas to American society that later became mainstream. In its early years, guest lecturers and workshop leaders included many leading thinkers, psychologists, and philosophers including Erik Erikson , Ken Kesey , Alan Watts , John C. Lilly , Buckminster Fuller , Aldous Huxley , Linus Pauling , Fritz Perls , Joseph Campbell , Robert Bly and Carl Rogers . Esalen has also been

4000-462: The idea that "the cosmos, the universe itself, the whole evolutionary unfoldment is what a lot of philosophers call slumbering spirit. The divine is incarnate in the world and is present in us and is trying to manifest," according to Murphy. Alan Watts gave the first lecture at Esalen in January 1962. Gia-fu Feng joined Price and Murphy, along with Bob Breckenridge, Bob Nash, Alice and Jim Sellers, as

4080-596: The institute and developed his own form he called Gestalt practice, which he taught at Esalen until his death in a hiking accident in 1985. Michael Murphy lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and wrote non-fiction books about Esalen-related topics, as well as several novels. Esalen gained popularity quickly and started to regularly publish catalogs full of programs. The facility was large enough to run multiple programs simultaneously, so Esalen created numerous resident teacher positions. Murphy recruited Will Schutz ,

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4160-463: The institute commissioned the company Beyond the Leading Edge to conduct a Leadership Culture Survey to assess the quality of its leadership culture. The results were negative. The survey measured how well the leadership "builds quality relationships, fosters teamwork, collaborates, develops people, involves people in decision making and planning, and demonstrates a high level of interpersonal skill." In

4240-526: The institute has no official spiritual path, some of its historical roots lie among followers of the Bengali sage Sri Aurobindo . The term "Integral", in the school's name, refers to Aurobindo's Integral Yoga ( purnayoga ), here interpreted as the integration of mind, body, and spirit . The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) grew out of the earlier American Academy of Asian Studies, founded by Louis Gainsborough in 1951. Other early contributors to

4320-437: The institute reported revenue of $ 18,513,254, $ 13,066,407 from programs, and after expenses of $ 13,515,552 a net income of $ 4,997,702. In that year it paid CEO Patricia McEntee $ 152,077 In 2014, it reported total revenue of $ 15,934,586, expenses totalling $ 14,472,201, and net income of $ 1,462,385. McEntee was paid $ 157,839. The company spent nearly $ 10 million for renovations from 2014 to 2016, including $ 7.4 million to renovate

4400-440: The institute until he died in a hiking accident in 1985. In 2012, the board hired professional executives to help raise money and keep the institute profitable. Until 2016, Esalen offered over 500 workshops yearly in areas including Gestalt practice, personal growth , meditation , massage , yoga , psychology , ecology , spirituality , and organic food . In 2016, about 15,000 people attended its workshops. In February 2017,

4480-431: The institute was cut off when Highway 1 was closed by a mud slide on either side of the hot springs. It closed its doors, evacuated guests via helicopter, and was forced to lay off 90% of its staff through at least July, when they reopened with limited workshop offerings. It also decided to revamp its offerings to include topics more relevant to a younger generation. As of July 2017, due to the limited access resulting from

4560-412: The institute's second president, from 1976 to 1978. In 1980 the Institute underwent a change of name, now emerging as the California Institute of Integral Studies. In 1981, the institute was granted regional accreditation and became a member of the national community of colleges and universities. By the mid-eighties several academic programs were available, including the clinical psychology program,

4640-437: The institute, and Brian Lyke served as general manager. Nancy Lunney became the director of programming, and Dick Price's son David Price served as general manager of Esalen beginning in the mid-1990s. The baths were destroyed in 1998 by severe weather and were rebuilt at great expense, but this caused severe institutional stress. Afterward, Andy Nusbaum developed an economic plan to stabilize Esalen's finances. In 2011,

4720-570: The late 1940s and early 1950s. Both had developed an interest in human psychology and earned degrees in the subject in 1952. Price was influenced by a lecture he heard Aldous Huxley give in 1960 titled "Human Potentialities". After graduating from Stanford, Price attended Harvard University to continue studying psychology . Murphy, meanwhile, traveled to Sri Aurobindo 's ashram in India where he resided for several months before returning to San Francisco. Price's parents involuntarily committed him to

4800-541: The main lodge and add a cafe and bar. It also spent $ 1.8 million on a six-room guesthouse. There is only limited internet cellular service available, but Esalen is planning to make some of its workshops available to online participants. The annual cost of its 87-year lease for the 27-acre site from the Vinnie A. Murphy Trust—which extends through 2049—was $ 344,704 in 2014. McEntee told the Monterey County Weekly that

4880-458: The other main creative lineage centers – Esalen and CIF – CIIS is committed to a pluralistic spiritual vision and its Aurobindo roots are somewhat hidden. According to Jim Ryan, CIIS, as developed by the founder (Chaudhuri), "had a very wide academic reach, far beyond its basic East-West philosophy concentration. Theses and dissertations were done over many years on the politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, and area studies of many nations of

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4960-418: The program with Soviet citizen Joseph Goldin, in order to provide a vehicle for citizen-to-citizen relations between Russians and Americans. In 1982, Esalen and Goldin pioneered the first U.S.–Soviet Space Bridge , allowing Soviet and American citizens to speak directly with one another via satellite communication. In 1988, Esalen brought Abel Aganbegyan , one of Mikhail Gorbachev 's chief economic advisors, to

5040-765: The resort. These articles increased the media and the public's awareness of the institute in the U.S. and abroad. Esalen responded by holding large-scale conferences in Midwestern and East Coast cities, as well as in Europe. Esalen opened a satellite center in San Francisco that offered extensive programming until it closed in the mid-1970s for financial reasons. The institute continues to offer workshops about humanistic psychology , physical wellness , and spiritual awareness. The institute has also added workshops on permaculture and ecological sustainability . Other workshops cover

5120-525: The road closures, the hot springs are only open to Esalen guests. The grounds of the Esalen Institute were first home to a Native American tribe known as the Esselen , from whom the institute adopted its name. Carbon dating tests of artifacts found on Esalen's property have indicated a human presence as early as 2600 BCE. The location was homesteaded by Thomas Slate on September 9, 1882, when he filed

5200-472: The south and north of the hot springs and caused Esalen to partially shut down. On February 18, 2017, shifting earth damaged a pier supporting the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge north of Esalen and forced CalTrans to close Highway 1. CalTrans determined that the bridge was damaged beyond repair and announced an accelerated project to replace the bridge by September. Following closure of the bridge, Esalen

5280-456: The subject of some criticism and controversy. The Economist wrote, "For many others in America and around the world, Esalen stands more vaguely for that metaphorical point where ‘East meets West’ and is transformed into something uniquely and mystically American or New Agey. And for a great many others yet, Esalen is simply that notorious bagno-bordello where people had sex and got high throughout

5360-475: The title CIIS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CIIS&oldid=829211511 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages California Institute of Integral Studies Although

5440-652: The training needs of clinical and counseling students. In 2008, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that psychology students at the New College of California were transferring to the California Institute of Integral Studies, due to the closing of the former institution. In 2012, CIIS, with support from the Aetna Foundation, announced that it was introducing its new onsite Health and Wellness Coaching program to San Francisco's Mid-Market District. The program

5520-713: The well-known encounter group leader, to take up permanent residence at Esalen. All this combined to firmly position Esalen in the nexus of the counterculture of the 1960s . The institute gained increased attention in 1966 when several magazines wrote about it. George Leonard published an article in Look magazine about the California scene which mentioned Esalen and included a picture of Murphy. Time magazine published an article about Esalen in September 1967. The New York Times Magazine published an article by Leo E. Litwak in late December. Life also published an article about

5600-562: The widow of Dick Price, to withdraw from the institute, and found an organization named the Tribal Ground Circle with the intention to preserve Dick Price's legacy. In the few years after its founding, many of the seminars like "The Value of Psychotic Experience" attempted to challenge the status quo . There were even Esalen programs that questioned the movement of which Esalen itself was a part—for instance, "Spiritual and Therapeutic Tyranny: The Willingness To Submit". There were also

5680-777: The world." CIIS consists of four schools: the School of Professional Psychology & Health, the School of Consciousness and Transformation (mainly humanities subjects), the School of Undergraduate Studies, and the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM). ACTCM became the fourth school after merging with CIIS on July 1, 2015. The institute offers interdisciplinary and cross-cultural graduate studies in psychology, counseling, philosophy, religion, cultural anthropology, transformative studies and leadership, integrative health, women's spirituality, and community mental health. Many courses combine mainstream academic curricula with

5760-682: Was based on connecting the cultural traditions of the East and the West". In addition to Watts, Chaudhuri, and Spiegelberg, others offering classes and special lectures at the Academy included C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer , Judith Tyberg , Rom Landau , Saburo Hasegawa , G. P. Malalasekhara , and Gi-ming Shien . Graduate students included Michael Murphy and Dick Price , future cofounders of the Esalen Institute ; Gia-Fu Feng who translated Chinese classics for Watts and would go on to write bestselling translations of

5840-549: Was cut off, and resorted to evacuating dozens of guests by helicopter. A landslide at Mud Creek south of the hot springs severely restricted vehicle access to the resort, and Esalen temporarily closed its doors. Then, on May 20, 2017, a new slide at Mud Creek closed Highway 1 for at least a year. On June 20, Esalen announced that it would lay off 45 staff members through at least July, leaving only about 10 percent of its staff. Esalen partially reopened on July 28, 2017, offering limited workshops. It plans to add more seminars after

5920-517: Was founded by Michael Murphy and Dick Price in 1962. Their intention was to support alternative methods for exploring human consciousness, what Aldous Huxley described as "human potentialities". Over the next few years, Esalen became the center of practices and beliefs that make up the New Age movement , from Eastern religions / philosophy , to alternative medicine and mind-body interventions , from transpersonal to Gestalt practice . Price ran

6000-510: Was founded on the ideals of Sri Aurobindo's integral philosophy and the practice of Integral Yoga, while the East-West House community maintained a connection with Watts, his Beat Zen, and later also Shunryū Suzuki and the San Francisco Zen Center . The Esalen Institute would feature seminars by both Chaudhuri and Watts. And it was at CIF in 1960 that the future Esalen cofounders, Murphy and Price, first met despite having both attended

6080-570: Was in residence. They met at the suggestion of Frederic Spiegelberg , a Stanford professor of comparative religion and Indic studies, with whom both had studied. By then they had both dropped out of their graduate programs (Price at Harvard and Murphy at Stanford), and had served time in the military. Their similar experiences and interests were the basis for the partnership that created Esalen. Inspired by Buddhist practices, and based on his own understanding of Taoism, Price developed his teachings. He took what Fritz Perls had taught him and created

6160-451: Was later incorporated into Esalen's main campus. When Perls left Esalen he considered it to be "in crisis again". He saw young people without any training leading encounter groups and he feared that charlatans would take the lead. Later, Grogan would write that Perls’ practice at Esalen had been ethically "questionable", and according to Kripal, Perls insulted Abraham Maslow. Dick Price became one of Perls' closest students. Price managed

6240-495: Was one of several institutions in the United States associated with the study of Holism and Consciousness. There is also a connection between the roots of CIIS and the Human Potential Movement . Among the students who attended the colloquia at the American Academy of Asian Studies in the 1950s was Michael Murphy and Dick Price , founders of the Esalen Institute at Big Sur . According to Gleig and Floress, "one can trace

6320-633: Was to be of benefit to children and families living at 10th & Mission Family Housing, a supportive housing project run by Mercy Housing California. In 2013 Jordan published a case report that summarized the experiences from the Integrative Wellness Coaching (IWC) project among homeless and low-income individuals in San Francisco. The IWC model was, at this time, included in the Master of Arts program in Integrative Health Studies at

6400-467: Was to provide "a forum to bring together a wide variety of approaches to enhancement of the human potential... including experiential sessions involving encounter groups, sensory awakening, gestalt awareness training, related disciplines." They stated that they did not want to be viewed as a "cult" or a new church but that it was to be a center where people could explore the concepts that Price and Murphy were passionate about. The philosophy of Esalen lies in

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