Plan on joining us for the 3rd annual Paradoxica Nondual Psychology Conference June 14 & 15, 2012 in beautiful Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. We already have booked some feature nondual authors and presenters. New this year will be "Leap" film director Chad Cameron who is on the edge of new ways of looking at nondual awakening, and entertaining presenter Chuck Hillig, author of Enlightenment for Beginners and other nondual books. Scott Kiloby, author of Love's Quiet Revolution, and a big hit at our 2011 conferene will be back as well as Karen McPhee, long time Echhart Tolle teacher,  who talked so passionately and humorously about authentic surrender at the end of seeking. Conference organizer Gary Nixon who invited us to embrace the ongoing art of dying and surrendering after "awakening" will be back as well as other presenters such as Brian Theriault with his work on nondual love and relationships, Will Joel Friedman with his nondual tales of awakening, and nondual psychotherapist Jason Solowoniuk. We also are pleased to have Christine Wuschke, yoga, meditation and nondual teacher joining us this year.  Stay tuned for further announcements.

2012 Paradoxica Nondual Psychology Conference
June 14 & 15
Anderson Hall 100, University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta
CANADA

(preliminary program)

Thursday -- June 16

9:00 a.m.  Opening

9:10 a.m.  Gary Nixon, Ph.D. University of Lethbridge, Alberta.

10:10 a.m. Break

10:30  a.m. KEYNOTE PRESENTATON:  Chuck Hillig, Nondual Awareness in the Marketplace: From being the "dreaming-dreamer" to becoming the "awakened-dreamer."

Noon  Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. Brian Theriault, MEd., Winnipeg, Manitoba.  

2:00 p.m.  Jason Solowoniuk, MEd

3:00 p.m. Will Joel Friedman, Ph.D. Psychologist, Pleasanton, California.  Love and the Killer: Being Inside Four Extreme Healing Nondual Tales

4:00 p.m. KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Chad Cameron

5:30 p.m. Wrap up for day

Friday -- June 17

9:00 a.m.  KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Scott Kiloby. Natural Rest: Finding Recovery Through Presence.

10:30a.m. Break

10:45 a.m.  KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Tom Crockett. That Far From Bliss: 3 Questions to Crack Open Your Heart

Noon Lunch Break

1:00  p.m.  TBA

2: 00 p.m. Christine Wuschke.  Freely Human

3:00 to 4:15 p.m. Karen McPhee.  Self-Less Living: Moving Beyond Separation into the Joy of Unity.

4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Wine and Cheese Closing Celebration.

In Order of Appearance:

1) Gary Nixon, PhD, is a nondual transpersonal psychologist who is an associate profesor of addictions counselling at the University of Lethbridge. After a journey starting with Osho, and moving through Krishnamurti, Trungpa, Papaji, and Nisargadatta, as well as western teachers like Almsas and Wilber, Gary came to the place of surrender at the end of seeking. He has been leading nondual groups over the last ten years, as well as embracing the ongoing process of abiding in nondual being. 

Title:TBA

2) Chuck Hillig is a modern spiritual teacher, author and state-licensed psychotherapist whose clairity of expression has earned him the admiration and praise of many nondual writers and teachers. Chuck speaks and writes personally and directly about the essence of nondual spirtuailty and presents its astonishing truths in compelling ways that are totally uniuque, completely accessible, and absolutely life-changing. Using his studies in both eartern philosophy and western psychology, Chuck's five books present a worldview about living an enlightened and authentic life in the 21st Century by waking up to who you really are. Website: www.chuckhiillig.com

Title: Non-dual awareness in the  marketplace: From being the "dreaming-dreamer" to becoming the "awakened dreamer."

But what are really the astonishing and mind-blowing implications of experiencing the world from such a radical perspective?  Can a nondual Consciousness ever really be compatible with the ordinary, day-to-day struggles to pay bills, to pass tests, to plan a future career, and, generally, to endure the “…slings and arrows…” that inevitably show up in the ongoing melodrama better known as “your life?” There’s a core, fundamental truth that lies at the very heart of each of the great religions and spiritual philosophies: all perceived separation is really illusory, and that, in spite of all outward appearances, everything is, quintessentially, only one.  In short, is it really possible to balance and integrate such a nondual Awareness with actually living a fully authentic and interactive human life "down-in-the-marketplace?”

Using Powerpoint, exercises and dialogue, we'll explore how to move your awareness from being the "dreaming-dreamer" to becoming the "awakened-dreamer."



3) Brian Theriault



4) Jason Solowoniuk



5) Will Joel Friedman, Ph.D. practices as a journeyman psychologist, licensed since 1987 and in the field of Psychology since 1977, doing what works in standing in awareness, honoring intuitive wisdom, and moving with the flow of Spirit. He practices Presence-centered therapy in private practice located in Pleasanton, California, in the East San Francisco Bay with strong emphasis upon nondual presence. witnessing, inquiry approaches (e.g., belief-role-story-pattern-identity deconstruction), EMDR, building strong internal resources and emotional capacities, taking in the good, and sensory awareness/ experiencing. This one still know nothing, welcomes, surrenders and celebrates everything, purely engaging in being and doing what is loved. I am not here, only This. 
No one in particular home, only Home. He is on the Editorial Board of Paradoxica: Journal of Nondual Psychology. Will welcomes feedback directly—email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and his website is: www.willjoelfriedman.com.

Title: LOVE AND THE KILLER: Being Inside Four Extreme Nondual Healing Tales

Four riveting tales make the audience a participant in psychodramas showing nondual themes of dying before you die, complete loving surrender, facing death and presence. Each vignette’s resolution demands unprecedented love and killer energy in the hell realms to make the transformation essential to inhabit being no one.

6) Chad Cameron



7) Scott Kiloby is the creator of The Natural Rest Method, a book that speaks to overcoming addiction through non-dual presence. He is the author of the print books, “Love’s Quiet Revolution: The End of the Spiritual Search” and “Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment.” He is also the author of two e-books available at www.livingrealization.org called “Living Realization” and “Doorway to Total Liberation: Conversations with ‘What Is.’”

Scott’s main website is www.kiloby.com. It contains writings, videos, and audio interviews with a wide diversity of teachers, authors, scientists, and psychologists. Scott travels across the U.S. and overseas giving talks in which those attending experience nondual presence. In these meetings, every position and belief gets challenged, including every belief about the self, others, and the world, and also all of our ideas about spirituality. This leaves those attending completely open to allow the present moment to unfold in a new way, free of identification with thought. The point of the meetings is allow each person attending to go home and discover for themselves the freedom inherent in presence.

Title: The Natural Rest Method

After a twenty year battle with addiction, Scott Kiloby began looking in a different way. Instead of turning away from negative thoughts and feelings from the past and looking for release in the future, he began to face his suffering directly. He began to allow all negative and positive energies of thought, emotion, and sensation to be as they are. He began to rest and recognize presence as the stable foundation in which these energies temporarily come and go. Through inquiring into the nature of the belief in separation, and how it arises, and making presence primary in his life, Scott discovered that the key to release from the addictive cycle exists in the one place addicts refuse to look—the present moment. Through the years, ss Scott began to write and talk on the subject of non-duality around the United States and overseas, he kept quiet about what he had discovered regarding freedom from addiction. He couldn’t find the right words. In the Spring of 2010, those words began to flow, culminating in a new book called, “The Natural Rest Method.” Scott will be speaking on this topic at the Paradoxica Nondual Psychology conference in 2012.

8) Tom Crockett

Title: That Far From Bliss: 3 Questions to Crack Open Open Your Heart

What if there were three questions that could guide yoiu into the heart of your suffering, and prove that your suffering is built on a misunderstanding? This talk proposes that there are three simple questions. If you answer them as deeply and as honestly as you can, they can then be used to more authentically respond to what arises moment-by-moment. Of course what will really cahge is not your life at all but your realization of your ture nature as a self that can only really exist in the present moment, experience pleasure and pain without chasing after happiness or choosing to add suffering to your experience.

9) TBA

10) Christine Wushke is a yoga and meditation teacher from Alberta, Canada. At the age of six she began to experience heightened and altered states of consciousness. In her curiosity to understand these ‘tastes of the infinite,’ and to uncover the magic of what we are on all levels, she has devoted her life to studying the mysteries and the mystical. After a series of transformative and life changing experiences starting in her twenties, Christine began to understand the importance of the integration of pure consciousness and the absolute, with ordinary human experience. Merging the two into one has become her focus and life’s work.
 

Title: Freely Human

“Form is emptiness and emptiness is form” – The Heart Sutra
Being freely human is about being undivided in all ways. Being undivided from life means that everything is seen as precious and all aspects of humanity are sacred; nothing is rejected or left out. Living as an awake and free human means we are not separate from anything; Christine loves to point to the seamless nature of unbounded consciousness within the mundane and the ordinary.

Christine talks about the deep integration of the places within us that may seem conflicted or divided. In easy to follow and simple down to earth approaches, she encourages listeners to reconcile any remaining feelings of conflict, merging areas of division into one seamless whole. Through self awareness and acceptance we can find a way to live our day-to-day lives being free within the full spectrum of human experience.

“Unity consciousness has become an important topic for many people on our planet right now; it is my wish to contribute to the quest for true and lasting peace on this planet, both within and without. I see all life as precious, every leaf on every tree as sacred, and the twinkle in a child’s eye as magical. I see the experience of being human as a rare and precious gift, and feel that each moment here is full of potential for expansion, expression, and appreciation for life as it is. I see you as a gift, a treasure, and a unique expression of life itself, and I honor all that you are.”


11) Karen McPhee spent many years on a spiritual path, eventually finding her way to the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. In 1999, Eckhart invited Karen to teach on his behalf. Since that time, she has continued to deepen her understanding of the true nature of existence. Her message is that freedom is here now as one’s abiding nature. Through direct investigation, this nature is recognized. Karen’s no-nonsense approach supports getting directly to the core of suffering and bringing an end to seeking.

Title: Self-less Living: Moving Beyond Separation into the Joy of Unity

The experience of life is ever freer and more joyful as we move beyond the sense of being a separate self, isolated from the whole. Our true nature is ONE. Seeing this is liberating. As the recognition deepens, the remaining sense of separation dissolves and life is lived more fully. In this satsang, Karen will invite you into the recognition of your natural state of ever-present, radiant freedom. There is no theory or teaching offered, but rather the direct experience of the non-dual state.