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06/02/2026

How can members of a community practice Beloved Community? In September 2025, we hosted our first fall 2025 transformation series session with Beloved Community consultant Shirley Strong focusing on how to practice Beloved Community and the benefits and challenges of doing so.

CIIS students, staff, and faculty have access to the one hour conversation via CIIS’ Intrasite, CIIS Connect, and an edited version of the conversation is available on our YouTube channel, which you can access at the Linktree in our bio.

Vide Description: Shirley Strong, who is a Black woman with curly, short hair, who is seated is in close up as she discusses the practices of Beloved Community. She is seated in a room that appears to be her home.

05/18/2026

We just launched our spring reflection newsletter available to CIIS students, staff, and faculty!

We were so excited, why not give a peek to our IG community too! Learn all about our semester of engagement and programming and we hope to be in Beloved Community with you this summer and fall!

Our crafty events continue this summer! Find us for Mindful Makers June 18, July 16, August 20 and take an artsy break f...
05/15/2026

Our crafty events continue this summer! Find us for Mindful Makers June 18, July 16, August 20 and take an artsy break from 2:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m. in CIIS’ Awakenings Cafe!

We also have special crafts for June and August. On June 18, decorate mini terracotta pots and take home a herb packet to grow in your yard or windowsill. August 20 come create intricate origami with us! Participants are welcome to bring their own crafts, color some of the coloring pages we have on hand, or just hang out and enjoy the crafty company and yummy snacks!

🎨All supplies are included.
🧵 Open to CIIS students, staff, and faculty
🧶No RSVP needed, come as you are!

and CIIS Facilities/Business Operations at this week! We had wonderful, fruitful, and supportive in-person day at the ...
05/14/2026

and CIIS Facilities/Business Operations at this week! We had wonderful, fruitful, and supportive in-person day at the Festival Pavillon in San Francisco.

We learned so much about pace, scale, and durability in every conversation and breakout room and how to slow down, ask the why of any project and process, and to work together to lift each other’s work!

Hope to be back next year! Swipe to see Patty Pforte (she/her), experiences at Together Bay Area Conference.



Image Description: Abigail and Patty from CIIS posing in front of a big Bay Area map where people shared places of importance to them. Patty’s conference badge, covered in stickers and first time tag, Taylor Pennewell (Berry Creek Rancheria Band of Maidu Indians) from Redbud Resource Group
Annie Burke from TOGETHER Bay Area in conversation on the main stage, storytelling from Tiśina Ta-till-ium Parker (Yosemite Southern Sierra Miwuk/Kutzadika’a Mono Lake Paiute and Kashia Pomo & Coast Miwuk), all the storytellers on the main stage, breakout session on engagement strategies around climate storytelling, final panel, and All Together Now: Unlikely Partnerships for Enduring Progress panelists wearing 30x30 t-shirts!

05/11/2026

CIIS Community! Our spring events newsletter just came out! We wanted to give everyone a sneak peek.

Rooted in the Integral principles that form the foundation and core identity California Institute of Integral Studies (C...
04/28/2026

Rooted in the Integral principles that form the foundation and core identity California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), this series offers a reflective and experiential space for parents.

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Approaching parenting through a whole-person lens, the workshops explore the five dimensions of being—physical, vital, mental, psychic, and spiritual—inviting both individual insight and collective dialogue.

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Participants engage in integrative practices such as free writing, dyad reflection, group sharing, transformative imagery, nonviolent communication, and creative art-making.

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Together, these sessions aim to cultivate deeper self-awareness, relational presence, and embodied wisdom in the lived experience of parenting.

The purpose of the series is to:

🪷Provide a space for both individual and communal integral self-reflection

🪷Provide a safe space for discovery and mutual support

🪷Offer a moment of reset and decompression amid parenting + general life demands

🌳For CIIS Staff and Students, register for this free online series at the Linktree in our bio.

About Our Host: Adriana Beltrame dos Santos is a mother, DCEB Program Coordinator, and East-West Psychology PhD student. Her research focuses on Integral Education in Early Childhood and the role of multidimensional development in fostering whole-person maturity and spiritual integration.



Image Description: two image cards, each is a rectangular image in soft pink colors and a white banner with pink lotuses at the top and dark-colored line drawings of different families. The light yellow text in the banner reads, “Integral Parenting Workshop. A Virtual Series For CIIS Students and Staff. Below that is Adriana’s portrait and then dark-colored text that provides workshop dates, “April 29 for single and co-parents, and final session May 13 from 12:00 p.m.—1:15 p.m. PDT.”

04/21/2026

🌎Looking ahead to Happy Earth Justice Day🌎

Our Student Coordinator .b.rose interviewed author, eco-psychology educator, and CIIS faculty member all about Earth Day, specifically about Earth Justice, and how each of us can tend to the many animal, plant, and human communities on our Earth.

Earth Month pics from our Associate Director of Communications and Community Engagement, Patty Pforte (she/her).For Patt...
04/16/2026

Earth Month pics from our Associate Director of Communications and Community Engagement, Patty Pforte (she/her).

For Patty, celebrating our Earth is an everyday practice. She loves slowing down and watching a bird or a bloom, hearing bird and insects call, and enjoys being in nature in her garden.

How do you celebrate Earth Month? Share your thoughts and practices in the comments.

Image descriptions-first picture, Ruth Asawa artwork outside Oakland Museum and below it is California native plants. Second picture: Patty’s ancestral, community, and inner self artwork, made ’ Jeanine Canty and Sara Salazar’s season. Third picture: CIIS’ new Bike and Scooter enclosure, pic taken from between the fence. Fourth Picture: A beautiful blue bird rests on a newly planted tree. Fifth picture: CIIS’ expanded on 4th and 5th floors. The pink and blue bags are hanging above the compost bin. Sixth picture: Our floral mandala from Founders Day, a day-long collaboration between students, staff, and faculty, blooms, herbs and leaves, seeds, and more surrounded CIIS Sri Yantra. Patty’s tabling to help save Bay Area public transit.

04/11/2026

Welcome to our series on Community Belonging and Fashion!

This short series is all about how what we wear connects us to who we are, to our communities, and to our Earth!

In this first episode Patty and Sunflower talk about Fashion and Community, referencing clothing swaps, and many other ways fashion and community interconnect.

If you are a CIIS student, faculty, or staff member, our Division hosts clothing swaps during fall and spring kickoff, and during Career Fair week in March/April.

If you are just enjoying our social media posts, continue to follow us here for more community, more fashion, more sustainability, and events open to the public!

In the Division of Community Engagement and Belonging we are so grateful for our wonderful student, staff, and faculty c...
04/08/2026

In the Division of Community Engagement and Belonging we are so grateful for our wonderful student, staff, and faculty community, and we are reminded of special days like today.

Today, April 8 is CIIS’ founders day, where we honor Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri and his wife, Bina Chaudhuri, and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother whose was a powerful teacher of Integral Yoga and an activist for an independent India.

Our team was able to host activities for Founders Day. One was a activity celebrating prayer, specifically a gratitude to share with the world. The second was inspired by our time , which was an intentional communal floral mandala with florals from .flowers and gathered from our yards and our community connections.

Sharing our gratitude for CIIS Office of Events for leading Founders Day, for our marketing team who hosted an online and in-person “what is integral” activity, for all the speakers, for everyone who attended, and to our Earth this Earth Month.

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