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.FRIDAY
| 11:00 - 13:00 | REGISTRATION AND COFFEE | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Conference Opening | |
| 14:15 – 15:45 |
PAPERS: Mindfulness is not meditation, just self-awareness John ROWAN Mindfulness--Awareness through Conceptual Analysis: An Approach by the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug School Unjyn PARK |
PAPERS: A Phenomenological Investigation of Trance Mediumship: Toward an understanding of meaning making Anita Sian HICKISH Care & compassion - Two sides of one coin perhaps? Alex GARDNER |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | COFFEE | |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Poster Session | |
| 17:15– 18:15 |
KEYNOTE Can mindfulness training really be secular? Tamara RUSSELL |
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| 19:00 | DINNER | |
SATURDAY
| 9:15 - 10:45 |
PAPERS: Psychedelic Possession: Incorporating incorporation into plant shamanism David LUKE What can we learn from an exploration of the phenomenology of Spiritualist Mental Mediumship? Chris ROE & Liz ROXBURGH |
PAPER & DISCUSSION GROUP: Intention and presence in the practice of IRECA: mindfulness as a means, not an end? Chris PIKE Understanding Loving Kindness Meditation; A Q-study with practitioners Kim SHEFFIELD |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | COFFEE | |
| 11:15 - 12:45 |
WORKSHOP: The Hold and Release Practice: A Transpersonal Exploration Elliot COHEN |
PAPERS: Spirituality in Person-Centred Perspective Tony LAWRENCE Spirituality as an Integration of Psychology and Religion: Problems and Possibilities Fraser WATTS |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 |
KEYNOTE Mindfulness: Sacred or Secular - does it really matter? Michael CHASKALSON |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
WORKSHOP: Creativity & Mindfulness for Health Jessica BOCKLER |
PAPERS: Mindfulness in schools, with due care and attention Jacqueline STONE "Will this make a difference?": Is there a place for mindfulness with the primary trainee teacher? Ellie HILL & Scott BUCKLER |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
KEYNOTE Mindfulness and the transpersonal traditions: beyond reductionism Geoffrey SAMUEL |
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| 18:00-19:00 | Panel Discussion | |
| 19:00 | DINNER | |
| 21:00 |
EVENING ENTERTAINMENT Followed by Wine reception |
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SUNDAY
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Annual General Meeting of the BPS Transpersonal Psychology Section |
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| 9:45 - 11:15 |
PAPERS: The Compassionate University: Policy, Rhetoric, or Reality? Scott BUCKLER Searching for Afro-Spirituality: Creating a space for African spiritual traditions and meaning within the Transpersonal Dwight TURNER, Jane CALLAGHAN, & Alasdair GORDON-FINLAYSON |
PAPERS: Clinical parapsychology in the UK: Counselling for Anomalous experiences Rachel EVENDEN & Liz ROXBURGH Monkeys' paws, poppets, sheep and goats; or, the necessary components of successful spells Charmaine SONNEX |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | COFFEE | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11:45 - 12:45 |
KEYNOTE: From caves to laboratories: Buddhist meditation practices in contemporary society Peter MALINOWSKI |
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| 12:45 - 13:00 |
Conference farewell |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14:00 | Departures | |||||||||||||||||||
