Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education

Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education
Integrative Learning for Compassionate Action in an Interconnected World

A conference sponsored by the Fetzer Institute, in partnership with California Institute of Integral Studies. The Center is a featured education program, offering a pre-conference institute, “The Contemplative Transformation of Higher Education,” and 10 workshops.

February 22-25, 2007
Hotel Nikko | San Francisco, California

Do current education efforts address the whole human being—mind, heart, and spirit—in ways that contribute best to our future on this fragile planet? What steps can we take to make our colleges and universities places that awaken the deepest potential in students, faculty, and staff? This conference for administrators, student life professionals, chaplains, and educators will address the relationships between:

· Curriculum and values
· Intellectual, aesthetic, and moral intelligences
· Technical competency and compassionate action
· Critical reasoning and contemplative inquiry
· Vocation and life purpose

Keynote speakers will include Alice Walker, Parker Palmer, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Robert Kegan, and Diana Chapman Walsh.

Center workshop leaders include Mirabai Bush, Arthur Zajonc, Andre Delbecq, Deborah Haynes, Mary Rose O’Reilly, Marilyn Nelson, Ed Sarath

Registration begins August 2006. Registration cost: $350 general, $300 for undergraduates.

Partnering Organizations

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco • Associated New American Colleges • Association of American Colleges and Universities • Council of Independent Colleges • League for Innovation in the Community Colleges • National Association of Student Personnel Administrators