Event Details

Genuine intimacy requires that two autonomous, powerful persons lay down their entrenched habits of self-protectiveness and participate deeply in the vulnerability of relationship. Many women find themselves in an internal bind of wanting intimacy but of not wanting to take on the inner power that true intimacy requires. This program explores the resistance women have to embodying power and offers resources that can empower women within intimate relationships. (This program is for women.)

This experiential program is an introduction to the principles and practices that guide Transformative Learning at the Institute of Imaginal Studies. Potential themes for the day include:

• Power, accountability, and co-dependence
• The cultural obstacles to vulnerability and intimacy
• The importance of initiatory experience Imagination as a source of power
  
• Fear and trauma as barriers to autonomy
• Cultivating empowerment in relationship to self, others, and intimate partners

Melissa Schwartz, Ph.D. is Academic Dean and core faculty at the Institute of Imaginal Studies. Formerly a faculty member in both the Psychology and Counseling departments at Sonoma State University, she is in private practice as a Licensed Psychologist and Marriage & Family Therapist. Her interests include the psychology of women, eating disorders, couples therapy, and the Enneagram in psychotherapy.

Location

47 Sixth Street

Petaluma, CA, 94952

United States

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