Policies

The Learning Process: Reflection, conceptualization, and experiencing begn with the NEITC application. The 4-day residencies are significant stepping stones in the learning process. Each residency bulds on the previous ones. The themes, skills, and activities are developed by the mentor and participants. The program has core themes which evolve in an organic and individualized way.

Reports to your mentor: Between residencies you are engaged in activities in 7 areas: consciousness, life-long learning skills, communications and helping skills, internships, reading, applying learnings to life and work, and developing a Consciousness Project. Your report includes reflection, insights and new skills in the 7 areas. Your mentor responds in detail. This feedback is integrated into your next report.

NEITC mentor: This person is your primary link with the Institute for academic and administrative needs. The participant is expected to submit three reports or packets of materials each semester.Your mentor is expected to respond in a timely and detailed manner. Communication may be written, e-mail, by phone or in person.

Consciousness Project: Criteria The project is to be personally and/or professionally meaningful to the learner, grow out of a long-term or significant interest, relate to transforming consciousness and the specialization the learner has chosen, have practical implications for life and/or work, be based on a combination of experience and understanding, and show reflection, creativity, growth, depth of understanding and originality. The form must have both experiential and written elements. Examples of experiential methods include: a presentation, leading an experience, a video, a play, a workshop, a multimedia program, a social action project, a creative artistic work, music etc. The written elements may take the form of reflective writing, an empirical study, a novel, a play, a book of poetry, a research project, a training manual, etc.

Internships: They may be related to your current work and interests, but are ideally at least partly in a new learning environment. An internship may vary from learning from a mentor to learning in an organizational setting. It should provide hands on experience related to your specialization(s) and interests.

Evaluation and evidence of learning: Learners receive specific, individualized evaluation in written form. NEITC does not give grades. Courses and projects are considered complete or incomplete in the time allotted. Mentors may extend time if course work is at least half completed, of passing quality. If there is any question if your work meets the criteria to satisfy course requirements, evidence of learning is reviewed by two NEITC mentors.

Other NEITC Programs: The first 4-day residency is open to people who would like to experience the core elements of the NEITC program. We also offer open programs in topics such as Transforming Tension, Deepening Communications, Personal Thinking Patterns, Family Constellation Work, Multidimensional Coaching (send for free Self-Rreflection Packet), active meditation or silent retreats.

Recommended computer for communications and research: It is recommended that each learner have a late-model personal computer (laptop or desktop) with a high-speed modem and services from an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The computer should have a Web-browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, 63-128 MB Ram, 10 GB Hard Drive, CD Rom Drive, 56K modem, 3.5” 1.44MB Floppy Drive and an ink-jet printer.

Suggested readings:
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Flow, NY: Harper & Row, 1990.
Dove, Pragito, Lunchtime Enlightenment ,NY: Viking Compass, 2001.
Heider, John, The Tao of Leadership, Atlanta, GA: Humanics, 1997.
Katie, Byron, Loving What Is, NY: Harmony Books, 2002.
Markova, Dawna, The Open Mind, Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1996.
Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999.
Osho, Intelligence: The Creative Response to Now, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004.
Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Palmer, Helen, Inner Knowing, NY: Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam, 1998.
Tolle, Eckhart, Stillness Speaks, Novato, CA: New World Library, 2003.
Wilber, Ken, No Boundary, Boston: Shambala, 2001.
Wilber, Ken, A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business,
Politics, Science and Spirituality, Boston: Shambala, 2000.

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Registration and Institute Policies

Fees: Application fee: $40, Non-refundable.
Admissions deposit: $100, Non-refundable, applied to fee.
Tuition: Contact us for more information.
Late tuition payment: $25 a week or part thereof.
Late Consciousness Project fee: $200 a month or part thereof.
Residency room and board: $60-80 a day depending on facilities.
Materials fee: $40.
Leave of absence: $200 a semester.
Returned check fee: $25.

NEITC has three residencies a year. Registration and fee payment or arrangements must be made no later than the first day of each residency.

Payments: Please pay by check or money order payable to “NEITC." Deferred payment plan: To pay monthly installments contact NEITC to arrange for a written agreement. If a participant has not paid on time this agreement will be terminated.

Withdrawal: If you wish to withdraw from your Diploma program, send a letter in writing to the NEITC office.

Leave of Absence: Send a letter at least two weeks before a residency describing the reason for the leave and the length of time.

Dismissal: NEITC can terminate a participant for violation of Institute standards such as plagiarism, not meeting agreed upon deadlines on a consistent basis, or for failure to meet financial obligations.

Refund policy: The effective date of a withdrawal is based on the date of an e-mail or letter. If a participant withdraws after payment but before a residency begins the monies are returned minus $100 and the application fee. Once a residency has begun there is no refund for the residency. In the case of withdrawal 1-7 days after the residency 70% of the remainder of the fee is refunded. If withdrawal is 8-15 days after the residency 40% of the remainder of the fee is refunded. After 15 days from the end of the residency, no fee is refunded.

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What NEITC has to Offer

The New England Institute for the Transformation of Consciousness offers Diplomas in Consciousness which deeply support a person's life and work. The two year sequence includes a variety of skills and understandings not available in a more traditional program. We are always looing for new, deeper, more far-reaching understandings and tools for life and work. The program is individualized, can be of support to every aspect of your life - relating, communicating, health, spirit, purpose, and work.

Comments of NEITC Participants

The program is expansive. It can hold a lot.

I love the experience. It's a dream come true.

There is a good balance of experiential and didactic learning.

We "lived" the program. It's flexible, oganic and responsive.

I came to know my pure self -- unlike any other experience.

The program is like popcorn. It provides heat to open things.

There was a great ripple effect with famly and friends.

Many uncertainties in my life became clearer.

I began to realize the capacity of who I really am.

I am more able to be with "what is" and move on.
I equate the changes in my work to this program.

We were allowed to grow at our own pace.

I am very different in my work with people.

I am more able to be with myself while with another.

The program is about "teaching them to fish,"
not feeding them fish food.

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NEITC Board Members

Karuna Kress Ed.D., BA Skidmore College, Sociology; M.Ed. and Ed.D. Boston University, Adult Education; MM and D.Phil.M. RIMU, Pune, India, Meditation. Founder and Director of the Boston University Leadership Consulting Service, The Associates for Human Resources, and The Osho Center for Consciousness in Organizations. Karuna has been a faculty member at Antioch College, Keene, NH; Oblate College, MA; Cambridge College, Cambridge and Springfield, MA. She was the Vice Chancellor of the Osho Multiversity, Pune, India. She has started and coordinated two degree programs. She has also been a consultant, trainer and seminar leader for 30 years. She has been a meditator for over 30 years.

Roshani Shay Ph.D., BA, MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oregon. She is a Danforth Scholar; listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers; named National Pre-law Advisor of the Year by Phi Alpha Delta; Oregon’s Nonprofit Board Member of the Year; Western Oregon University’s Teacher of the Year and Advisor of the Year. Roshani has been a faculty member at Willamette University, Oregon State University and Lewis and Clark College, all in Oregon. She most recently served as the Chair of the Social Science Division and Professor of Political Science at Western Oregon University. She has been a meditator for over 15 years and has been on the faculty of several programs that are based on consciousness in teaching and learning.

Ram (James) Ballen, Ph.D., BA Sonoma State College, Ph.D. The Union Institute. He has been trained and has practiced for 20 years in Hakoma Body-Centered Therapy, Intense Feeling Process, Gestalt Therapy, Relational Counseling, Psychoanalytic Methods, and Transpersonal Psychotherapy. For nearly 30 years he has been a practitioner of Postural Integration (Deep Tissue/Reichian Body Work), The Alexander Technique, Polarity Therapy and Shiatsu. Ram has been on staff and an associate at the DiMele Center for Psychology since 1986, having also been featured on the nationally syndicated radio show The Positive Mind. He conducts numerous seminars and workshops on The Art of Intimate Relating throughout New York and New England. His meditation practice of thirty years is an integral part of his psychotherapeutic/somatic work.

Anne Black, Ph.D. holds a doctoral degree in thanatology and community psychology from The Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, a master's degree in education from Shippensburg State University in Pennsylvania, a bachelor of science degree from Taylor University in Indiana. She also holds certificates of training from The New England Art Therapy Institute in Sunderland, Massachusetts and the Person-Centered Expressive Arts Institute in Santa Rosa, California. Anne has served as adjunct faculty for Norwich University, The Union Institute, and Vermont College. In 1990, Anne co-founded The HEALS Program, a school-based bereavement project and in 1993 The Center for Creative Healing, a non-profit organization committed to childhood loss and transition. Since 1996, Anne has been serving as president of CBI, a condolence gift business founded by her, to help men, women and children move through the grieving process. For over 30 years, Anne has explored numerous spiritual paths discovering the common threads that link all teachings.

Watch when you are going for a morning walk tomorrow:
the body moves, but something in you remains unmoving.
(That is consciousness.)

Osho

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