Upcoming Public Programs

Meridian offers a truly remarkable program for graduate studies. It's rare to find such a balance between innovation and rigor as well as scholarly precision and emotional depth. It is a privilege to teach in a setting where the atmosphere is so conducive to insight and creativity.
– Susan Griffin, Author of Woman and Nature and Made from This Earth

Upcoming Public Programs in 2010

For more program and presenter information click on the name of the program below.

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Date To Be Announced
The Matrix of Empathy: A Symposium on Restoring the Cultural Commons

Join us for a day-long Symposium that undertakes an inquiry into the vital, life-sustaining necessity of empathy. Together we will explore the culture of shamelessness and its devaluing of empathetic connection which has contributed to increased individualism, the bystander phenomenon, and an absence of belonging. We will also explore ways in which the threads of empathy might be repaired and re-woven and, as a result, how community might be re-imagined. More information to follow...

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November 19-21, 2010 - San Francisco, California
Engaging The Other: The Power of Compassion

Meridian University has co-sponsored this conference with the Common Bond Institute since 2006.
An international, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary conference, examining concepts of "The OTHER" from a universal, cross-cultural perspective to promote wider public dialogue about concepts of "Us and Them". More...

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Registration
To register online for a Public Program, click here. You may also register via telephone by calling Meridian at (707) 765-1836.

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Continuing Education Units (CEUs):
All workshops (except evening presentations) are approved for CEUs for MFT and LCSW licensees. Meridian is an approved Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) provider, number PCE 1391, a Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) provider, number CEP 14996, and an approved MCEP provider, number MER020. To check which Meridian programs are approved for CEUs by BRN and MCEP, please see each program’s individual flyer, or call 707-765-1836. There is a $20 CEU Certificate fee per workshop.

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Upcoming Vision Quests in 2010

Rites of Passage, a partner of Meridian University, is offering the following upcoming vision quests:

• Vision Quest for Transformative Leaders, Healers, and Evolutionaries, September 11-19.

For over 30 years, Rites of Passage has been guiding people on vision quests, retreats, and training programs to mark life transitions and to help discover their unique gifts, potentials, and purpose. Rites of Passage is partnering with Meridian University in our mutual work in transformative education and cultural leadership. ROP, is an approved continuing education provider for MFT's and LCSW's by the California BBS (PCE #3016).

To learn more and register for a Rites of Passage program, go to:
www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org or call 707-537-1927