You Were Born for Such a Time As This!
Navigating Personal Transition
&
High Evolutionary Stress

Sponsored by Association for Humanistic Psychology

REGRETS: This event is cancelled until further notice.

Please contact Susan Burns

OCTOBER 24, 9AM-9PM
9 AM - 9 PM

EXTENDED WORKSHOP
WITH
JAMES O'DEA  & SUSAN BURNS

Global Transformation & Leadership
Learn How to Navigate Change
Social Transformation
Workshop

Professionals/Public/Social Change Leaders Are Invited

All Day Workshop Location
 The Grotto Retreat Center
Portland, OR

FEES: $125
Includes Catered Lunch and Dinner
AHP & IONS Members:$110
Scholarships/student discounts.
9.0 CEC's - Continuing Education Units

Discover How!

This community intensive with Global Transformation Leaders, Saturday October 24
will show how to work with change.

Sponsored by
Association for Humanistic Psychology



9.0 CEC's

Nurses,
Social Workers, Counselors,
Marriage & Family Therapists

CEC's paid on site: $10
9.0 Continuing Education Units

Understand the principals needed to midwife the old paradigm of consumption to a new era of global transformation.

Learn how you can effectively help others through chaotic, troubled times.

Discover personal essential skills for dealing with change.

Immerse yourself in a 12 hour experiential retreat with James O'Dea and Susan Burns, where consciousness informs personal and collective transformation. James is a noted global transformation leader and world change catalyst who is known for social healing. Recent Past President of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and consultant to several global change initiatives.Discover how templates for social healing and social synergy and social transformation apply to your own work.  In a time of high evolutionary stress and transition, as change accelerates and emerging worldviews have greater space for inclusion and acceptance in broader social contexts, we will explore our own assimilation of change and deeper transformation.

This will be an interactive exploration into what it spells for how we collaborate with others and experience greater synergy. Open to professionals/public/social change leaders.

Immerse yourself in a 12 hour experiential retreat where consciousness informs personal & collective transformation. Learn how to work with collective intelligence. Find out how to work effectively with personal and global change. Discover how to activate your authentic paradigm shift and become a world catalyst in critical times.

What Are Templates for Social Healing?
James works on international and domestic social healing projects and has along history of work in this arena. The workshop will cover best practices and issues in this emerging field including: mutual acknowledgment work; accessing dimensions of truth; reconciliation, atonement, forgiveness, healing of memories, compassionate listening and restorative justice and victim/perpetrator issues.

How Does Social Synergy and Social Transformation Relate?
James is part of an evolutionary leaders group with prominent leaders in evolutionary theory, social change and transformational leadership and has considerable professional experience working with researchers, theorists and practitioners in this areas. The workshop will cover social neuroscience and social contagion theories and how synergy is catalyzed...as well as" synergistic convergence".

What Do We Mean by Evolutionary Stress and Whole Systems Transition
James is engaged with a broad cross-sector of multi-disciplinary colleagues on initiatives around whole systems transition. The workshop will cover how we map evolutionary change and how we manage the interfaces of current social, historical and evolutionary stresses that go from system wide collapse and transition to personal crisis and breakthrough.

Link to past participants'  list of personal insights on intention

Read James Latest Article
Leaving the Forbidden City

James O'Dea & Dr. Pat Interview

Link directly to James O'Dea Luminary page on Shift in Action

Susan Burns MA DAPA FNBCCH is  a Washington State licensed mental health counselor and advanced clinical hypnotherapist in Bellevue, WA in private practice since 1989, serving the needs of adults, families, children and groups. She integrates a rich array of therapeutic approaches and modalities acquired from over 35 years of human service work, professional training, as well as her own depth work. She is also licensed and experienced as a special educator/learning specialist. Susan is practiced in family systems, somatic psychotherapy, energy psychology, anxiety and trauma relief, art and movement therapy, process-oriented psychology, expressive psychotherapy, and career consultation and life transition. In addition to her private practice she is deeply involved with community building. She organized and supported a bioregional hub of community groups for The Institute of Noetic Sciences for the last 15 years and has recently retired. She now leads Transformative Groups, endorsed by the Association for Humanistic Psychology to offer professional training to practitioners. She organized the workshops listed below with James O'Dea and other noted community leaders, among others, in addition to years of convening leaders at the grass roots level of community building. She currently leads her own professional continuing education workshops which are open to the public and consults within a global community.

    Collaborating with The Global Systems Initiatives in Washington DC , a project which brings together diverse systems theorists and experts to help shape government policy from a systems perspective.

    Engaged in an international team doing depth reconciliation work with 40 Israeli and Palestinian psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.

    Offering lectures and workshops on conscious evolution, spiritual activism, social healing, and social synergy. His 2009 schedule includes keynote conference presentations with Andrew Harvey and Marianne Williamson on Sacred Activism, with Brian Swimme on Cosmology, and John Major Jenkins on understanding the era of 2012.

    Working with a newly formed group of 40 evolutionary leaders convened by Deepak Chopra to unify efforts in support of evolutionary changes in political, economic, ecological, scientific and health and healing arenas.

James O'Dea is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and was until recently its President.  IONS is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell which explores the frontiers of consciousness and global paradigm change. James O'Dea was President of IONS from April 2003 to September 2008.

He spent ten years as the Director of the Washington Office of Amnesty International, where he testified before Congress, met with two U.S. presidents and numerous foreign heads of state and government leaders, and represented Amnesty International to the State Department, the White House, and the World Conference on Human Rights.

Subsequently, he spent five years as Executive Director of the Seva Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to international health & development issues in Latin America, Asia , and on American Indian reservations.  Seva is a Sanskrit word meaning service.  Prior to that James lived and worked in Turkey and Lebanon , and witnessed
civil conflict, war and massacre, which influenced him deeply.  .

James founded and co-led an international series of "Compassion and Social Healing" dialogues funded by The Fetzer Institute. The dialogues, spanning a five year period, brought together leaders and activists in a variety of fields related to human rights, peace, and social reconciliation initiatives.

James is a member of the World Wisdom Council.  This council is a coalescing of international leaders in diverse fields banding together to formulate a structure and support system that furthers the realization that we are one family of humankind.  He works with emerging young leaders and the development of their initiatives, is engaged in intergenerational dialogue, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Children of the Earth.

He lectures all over the world, and has essays published in numerous magazines and books including currently the Mystery of 2012 (Sounds True) Consciousness and Healing: An Integral Approach to Mind Body Medicine (Elsevier) and Earthrise: The Dawning of a New Civilization in the 21st Century ( Goi). He is currently writing a chapter for a book on Creative Atonement.

Also see this page of a past workshop on Conscious Universe where James O'Dea's bio includes links to recent works.

James O'Dea's Web Site.

Link directly to James O'Dea Luminary page on Shift in Action.
 

This Workshop Inspired An Article in The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities James O'Dea Wrote The Last Chapter entitled, "You Were Born For Such A Time As This!" with Contributing authors: John Major Jenkins, José Argüelles, Carl Calleman, Robert Sitler, Arjuna Ardagh, Gill Edwards, Lawrence Joseph, Llewelyn Vaughn Lee, Janosh, Sharron Rose, Christine Page, John Petersen, Karl Maret, Corrine McLaughlin, Gregg Braden, Jay Weidner, Ervin Laszlo, James O'Dea, Geoff Stray, Peter Russell, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Dr. Meg Blackburn Losey, Joanna Macy, Jean Houston, Daniel Pinchbeck

See description in August 2009 News Susan Burns MA LMHC