Week of August 22-27, 2010

The Art of Flourishing in Challenging Times

 This workshop has been CANCELLED

We live in remarkable–and challenging–times. Science and medicine have made vast inroads in mapping our genetic inheritance. New technology has made us a global village. We have greater human rights, faster communication, and are able to travel almost anywhere in the world within a day. Despite these advances and the resurgent hope generated by the promise of a forward-thinking administration, it is a time of profound upheaval. Unprecedented economic uncertainty, moral breakdown, and threats to our current way of life leave increasing numbers of people unsettled and adrift without meaning or direction.

Times of collective and personal crisis always afford the opportunity for great breakthroughs and transformations. In this workshop–a combination of lecture, dialogue, and experiential practices drawn from the Western psychological, Eastern meditative and yogic traditions–participants will gain tools to navigate this uncertain and generative time. We will learn how to:

• Discover sources of realistic hope indispensable in tackling the challenges in our path

• Cultivate clarity and equanimity, essential in detecting personal and social conditioning and skillfully adapting to change

• Access the unconscious wisdom of the mind and body to fashion new solutions to stubborn problems

• Compost painful – and uplifting – emotions to deepen insight, expand energy, and heighten empathy

• Develop life-affirming values

• Cultivate integrity-in-action to use as a guide through ethical complexity and confusion

• Dream together in imaginative ways about a more sustainable world

CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs.

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