Event Details

Political-economic chaos, climate change, and profound social issues are the context of everyday life in a globalized world as we approach the 2008 Presidential elections. This symposium explores what contribution psychology can make in both responding to the current cultural crisis as well as harvesting its potentials. Themes to be explored in the symposium include: the culture of terror as exemplified by the "War on Terror"; the mainstreaming and appropriation of the vision of sustainability; emotion and religion in the political landscape; and identity conflict and the culture of consumerism.

Presenters Include:

Susan Griffin - Author of A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War and Made from this Earth

Shepherd Bliss - Contributor to Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace and Professor of Psychology, University of Hawaii

Larry Robinson - Poet, City Council member, and former Mayor of Sebastopol, CA

Natalie Rogers - Author of The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing and Emerging Woman

Arthur Warmoth - Professor and former Chair of Psychology Department, Sonoma State University

John Conger - Clinical Psychologist and author of The Body as Shadow

Donald Rothberg - Author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World

Justine Toms - Author of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do and Co-founder of New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network

Aftab Omer - President, Institute of Imaginal Studies

Location

IIS Downtown Campus

47 Sixth Street

Petaluma, CA, 94952

United States

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