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Discussion: Arts Based Research as Collaborative Practice
$10.00
One time

With Elena Solano

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Arts Based Research creates a space for a collection of subjectivities, for spontaneous visioning and public dreaming, allowing synchronicity, non-linearity and complexity to lead the way.

We are also able to find ourselves and each other through art and image.

Elena Solano talks about her work incorporating Arts Based Reseach as a group and collaboration process that de-centers colonial communication practices such as argument, persuasion, debate, judgment, case-building, verbal sparring, defining, categorizing and opining.

Arts Based Research as a community practice allows participants to engage in a process that centers rest, silence, reflection, play, self-regulation, amplification, intuition, meaning making, and imagination and image and to hold these functions up as forms of power and ways of knowing.

Discussion: Dream Work, Active Imagination as Creative Dialogue
$10.00
One time

With Martha Crawford & Elizabeth Honer

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What does it mean to contemplate our dreams? How can art, illustration, and virtual reality become a practice for creative integration? What does it mean to make art for the primary purpose self-reflection, self-awareness and personal growth? How can visual art practices help us enter into a healthy, grounded dialogue with our dreams and engage with what Jung calls “the voice of nature within us”?

Visual artist Elizabeth Honer and Martha Crawford invite you to join us in a conversation about art, animation, virtual reality and contemplative immersive dream work.

Elizabeth Honer is a graphic artist and animator with over 10 years experience of exploration into the world of dreams and dreaming. Her work will be featured at this year's Annual Dream Conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

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Facing Ruthlessness & Ourselves
$25.00
One time

a ninety minute community discussion via Zoom


✓ recording will be made available for registrants

With Janine de Novais writer, sociologist and teacher committed to education as the practice of freedom. She is the author of Brave Community: Teaching for a Post Racist Imagination.”

The Trump administration is  “flooding the zone,” overwhelming us with ruthlessness as a matter of practice, with every executive order and policy change meant to show us their teeth, and terrify us. Ruthlessness is a human quality for better or worse and in this session, we will explore what we can know and understand about it, how to face and how to face ourselves…


Discussion: Teaching in the Mess
$25.00
One time

Ninety minute Community Discussion via Zoom.


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With Janine de Novais, writer, sociologist and teacher committed to education as the practice of freedom. She is the author of Brave Community: Teaching for a Post Racist Imagination.”

How might we respond to students in compassionate, realistic and en-couraging ways in the face of danger and uncertainty? What do we do when our own grief, despair, confusion, and fear are activated in the room?

What are our various tasks in this moment, as instructors, compatriots, colleagues, peers, elders, role models and initiators?


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The work of grief, loss, and aging is profoundly shaped by the dominant cultural myths of individuality and community, failure and success, power and weakness, victory and surrender.

  • A link to my recorded module from Pacifica’s Extension Course on Conscious Aging will be made available to those who register to view at their convenience. This presentation examines prevalent myths of age and eldering in the dominant culture and as they emerged in the 2024 election.

  • a recording of a live 90 discussion that was held on Zoom examining some of those myths that shape and misshape our beliefs about ourselves and others as we navigate elderhood.

  • I will be drawing on these texts, although there is no required or necessary reading to participate.

    • The Old Fool and the Corruption of Myth by Adolph Guggenbühl-Craig

    • Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliviera.

Old Fools and Incomplete Myths
$40.00
One time

Access to a one hour recorded presentation, & a recorded 90 minute live discussion via Zoom


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Fate and Resilience Fundraiser #4
$25.00
One time

All proceeds from this event and recording go to support a former foster youth and first generation college student:

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Discernment and Emotional Function
$12.00
One time

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Meaning and Choice At the Turning Point - Community Discussion
$10.00
One time

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Return to the Root Virtual Retreat Recording
$84.00
One time

8 hours of recorded retreat programming 6 facilitators - reflecting on community care, resting, breathing, imagining, dreaming, and visioning a healing world.

Scholarship price Return to the Root Virtual Retreat Recording
$42.00
One time

8 hours of recorded retreat programming 6 facilitators - reflecting on community care, resting, breathing, imagining, dreaming, and visioning a healing world. Our goal for this retreat was to be as financially inclusive as possible - so this scholarship is offered for those who are experiencing financial hardship


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Dream work requires encountering the structures of whiteness, colonization, supremacy, domination, and control as they move through the body/psyche.

Dream Work as Praxis
$10.00
One time


A recorded discussion exploring our collective discomfort and resistances to living with uncertainty

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The Uncertain Path: Evening Discussion
$10.00
One time


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A recorded discussion exploring strategies and frames for withstanding the existential trauma of violated values.

Negotiating Moral Injury: Evening Discussion Archives
$10.00
One time


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A recorded discussion exploring the implications of our cultural death anxiety and death denia

Living with Mortality: Evening Discussion Archive
$10.00
One time


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A recorded discussion exploring the necessity and methods of building community groups and peer groups of all kinds

A Common Relation to the Center
$10.00
One time