Consciousness
The second Ratna Ling Conference on First Person Methodologies was held in March-April 2007. Participants from the UK hope to organize a similar conference there in 2009. In July, Urban Kordes, Matej Cernigoj, and Jack Petranker led a workshop at the Budapest Science of Consciousness Conference on First-Person Methodologies, attended by 40 people (You can listen to a recording here.) And a report on the Ratna Ling conference, written by Walt Anderson, was published in Journal of Consciousness Studies 14(8). Finally, an online forum hosted on this site is in the works: download information here.  

Time, Space, and Knowledge  
The nine-month online Study Program concluded successfully in June, and was followed by a week long retreat at Ratna Ling. Three short-term programs are planned to start this fall. To learn more, click here.

Mind in Nature
A report on last summer’s CCI Ratna Ling workshop (Mind in Nature: Gregory Bateson and the Ecology of Experience) has been published in the Newsletter of the Institute for Intercultural Studies, See “A Meeting in the Meta-forest,” by Nora Bateson; available online at: http://www.interculturalstudies.org/
newsletters/spring2007.pdf

Other
A new program will be offered at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center at the end of September. Called "Embrace the World: Tools for Sustainable Activism," it is led by Larry Robinson, former mayor of Sebastopol, and Jack Petranker.