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Friday Evening Lecture
Integral Optimism and the Postmodern Hero’s Journey: How to Approach our Epic Challenges with Informed Hope and Faith
| Date: | May 11, 2012 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
| Presenter: | Bert Parlee, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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Global warming, nuclear proliferation, extinctions, ethnic cleansing, poverty, … the nightmare list appears never-ending. Everyone seems to agree: something bad, possibly catastrophic, is happening even as we speak.
This stark assessment prompts a surprising range of attitudes and responses, ranging from hopeful to dire. Those working within the “Big Picture” models and maps draw on spiritual wisdom and scientific research, hoping to engender higher levels of awareness and functioning. Many Integral and Evolutionary advocates, for example, believe adoption of certain meta-perspectives by the right people will engender a shift in consciousness that transforms the culture, making it possible to navigate a way through these critical times without significant loss of life or damage to vital institutions.
A compelling vision of a new cultural consciousness was also integral to the Depth Psychology movement engendered by Freud, C.G. Jung, and other leaders at the beginning of the 20th century. They believed that excavating repressed shadow forces lurking within would allow us to work through the worst within us, permitting us to process, and thus liberate ourselves, from our most destructive forces.
The purpose of this talk is to question some of the assumptions behind the various responses to global crisis and show how they sometimes skew our attitudes toward our own potentials. We will discuss how we can move toward a more authentic sense of hopefulness to what Dr. Parlee calls "Integral Optimism."
Voice Dialogue, "Big Mind," and the Psychology of the Selves
| Date: | May 12, 2012 9:30 a.m. – noon |
| Presenter: |
Bert Parlee, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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Jung discovered that “ourselves” are populated by a wide range of sub-personalities and associated complexes, themselves discrete “selves,” whose dynamics represent the core energies of the collective human unconscious. This workshop will combine the Voice Dialogue process, which gives voice to the “primary selves,” with the Big Mind/Big Heart approaches to Integration and Individuation. Participants will be invited to speak from the full range of their voices to discover and articulate the progressive fullness of being, from the sacred to the profane.
Offering leadership and culture change trainings around the world, Dr. Parlee is a senior advisor, leadership facilitator, mediator, and executive coach located in Dallas,. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice. A founding member and for several years chief of staff of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute in Colorado, he has also served as lead trainer of many different I-I professional seminars. A published author, Dr. Parlee received his MA in contemplative psychotherapy from Naropa University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
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