The challenges and opportunities of technology and the frenetic pace which our current culture demands present a conundrum for modern humans. While there is much to gain, we also find ourselves ever more frequently co-opted by a culture that demands speed and breadth of engagement over reflection and depth.
January 2016 brings a new opportunity to slow down and re-engage the imagination to start the new year off in a different way. These 4 online interactive seminars will make a wonderful gift for yourself or a loved one.
In this 4-week online course, Robert, Brian, and Bonnie will discuss technology, ecology, poetry, and dreams, and identify ways to creatively engage with all life has to offer when one is willing to surrender to poetic sensibility.
Each week you will receive designated readings and inspiring exercises that will help you reconnect with your greater self, with others, and to your own inherent poetic sensibility. There will also be group discussion and the chance to share about your experiences in each session.
Join us for the following topics:
Wed, 1/6—Week 1: Soul Work, Poetry, Homecoming
Wed, 1/13—Week 2: The Dream & the Poem
Wed, 1/20—Week 3: Technology: TV, PC’s & the Mythic Poetic Landscape
Wed, 1/27—Week 4: Ecology: Poems of the Earth
Don't miss your chance to start the new year by accessing a more soulful way of being in the midst of the distractions of the modern world
COST
$89, Depth Psychology Alliance members by December 26, 2015
$99, General public by December 26, 2015
$99, Depth Psychology Alliance members AFTER December 26, 2015
$110, General public AFTER December 26, 2015
Robert Romanyshyn is the author of 7 books, most recently Leaning Toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life. He has published more than 40 articles in psychology, philosophy, & education journals & his poems have appeared in several on-line & print magazines. He is presently Emeritus Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He is currently working on a book, The Frankenstein Prophecies
Brian Michael Tracy is the author of 3 books of poetry, most recently Opaque Traveler: A Dream Sequence in Verse and two CD’s of poetry & music: Midnight Tea and Blackbird Ballads. His work has appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Plainsongs, California Quarterly, Depth Insights, & on spoken word radio programs in the US & Canada including stations KPFK in L.A. & CIUT in Toronto. He is currently working on his 3rd CD of poetry & music
Bonnie Bright is the host of Depth Insights radio podcast, the editor of Depth Insights scholarly eZine, & the principle & founder of Depth Psychology Alliance. She holds MA degrees in Psychology from Sonoma State University & in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she also received her PhD
Recordings will be available to all registrants, though we encourage you to attend live as the course it meant to be interactive.
Comments
Hi Laura--and everyone. Each class, as shown above, will run 1 hour from 5pm PT to 6pm PT. No experience writing poetry is required: quite the opposite, in fact. It is the goal of the program to help everyone access the poetic realm--that is, the realm of imagination and metaphor, regardless of how busy or how technology minded one might be!
how long are the classes?
Do you need experience writing poetry?