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Please note change in date and location for these programs.
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Friday Evening Presentation: (November 9, 2007)
Strange Weather on a Breathing Planet:
The Wild Horizons of Ecological Psychology
Join the Institute's community in an evening dialogue with David Abram.
Saturday Workshop: (November 10, 2007)
Shadowed Wonder:
Wild Language and the Ecology of Perception
The intensifying ecological crisis may usefully be considered a crisis of perception; many persons — indeed whole cultures —
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seem to have lost their ability to actually see surrounding nature with any clarity, or to hear as meaningful anything other than a human voice. This blindness and deafness have lodged themselves in ways of speaking that continually deny the expressive vitality of other animals, of oak trees and rushing rivers, and indeed of the living land itself. With depth ecologist David Abram we will explore the fluid, participatory nature of perception, and the ancient reciprocity between our senses and the sensuous earth. Weaving storytelling and poetics with insights from diverse indigenous, place-based cultures, we will ponder the ecological dimensions of language — the power possessed by our words to either enhance, or to stifle, the solidarity between the human animal and the elemental, animate earth.
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Sunday Workshop: (November 11, 2007)
Becoming Animal: Shapeshifting and the Ecology of Magic
In this workshop we will turn our awareness toward the earthly role of the magician — the medicine person or shapeshifter – in traditionally oral, indigenous cultures. We will explore various aspects of magic (as a uniquely embodied way of thinking, and as an elemental way of life) in hopes of glimpsing something of the relevance such a practice might have within contemporary civilization. Is there a new shape for the sacred, a radically immanent form of wonder that is struggling to be born at this precarious moment in the world's unfolding?
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Program Leader:
 David Abram is a cultural ecologist, philosopher, and the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics. He is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World, for which he received the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. An accomplished storyteller and sleight-of-hand magician who has lived and traded magic with indigenous sorcerers in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas, David lectures and teaches widely on several continents. Named by Utne Reader as one of a hundred visionaries currently transforming the world, David has been the recipient of numerous honors, including fellowships from the Rockefeller and Watson Foundations. His work engages the ecological depths of the imagination, exploring the ways in which sensory perception, poetics, and wonder inform our relation with the animate earth.
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Program Information:
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Continuing Education Information:
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| Date: |
November 9-11, 2007 (New Date) |
CE Hours: |
Saturday/Sunday (6.0 hours each) |
| Time: |
Friday, 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
CE Fee: |
There is a $15 CEU Certificate Fee for the Saturday workshop, Sunday Workshop, or both. |
| Location: |
Brescia Hall (New Location)
90 Ursuline Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Click for directions |
CE Approval:
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MFT/LCSWs: The Saturday and Sunday workshops each meet the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. (Provider number PCE1391) |
| Fee: |
Friday ($15) • Saturday ($95) • Sunday ($95 ) |
CE Registration: |
If you want continuing education units for this course, please pay the $15 CEU certificate fee at the time of registration. |
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Discount and Registration Information:
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| Single-Day Discounts: |
Senior/Student: 15% discount
IIS Community: 25% discount
Only one discount can be applied per program. Register Here for Single-Day Program |
Multi-Day Discounts: |
Friday & Saturday ($105)
Saturday & Sunday ($170)
Friday through Sunday ($180)
Register Here for Multi-Day Programs |
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