Future Primitive

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. She is the author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don’t Whine and Urgent Message from Mother, and Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet.

She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing’s “Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award”, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She was in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film Women—For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board’s Goddess Remembered.

www.jeanbolen.com

Jean speaks with Joanna about the “tree persons”; nurturing a heart-connected activism; morphic fields, circles of support and critical mass; gnostic knowledge…

Music: “At The Zeergen-Grassy Mountain” from World Music Library – Mongolian Songs

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Speaker at Bioneers By The Bay Connecting For Change (2011)

Destined from birth to teach the ancient wisdom, ritual and practices of her ancestors to those in the West, Sobonfu, whose name means “keeper of the rituals” travels the world on a healing mission sharing the rich spiritual life and culture of her native land Burkina Faso, which ranks as one of the world’s poorest countries yet one of the richest in spiritual life and custom.

It is this reliance on spirit, community and ritual that has allowed Sobonfu’s personal and professional path to become one. Since the beginning of her journey in the West Sobonfu has traveled extensively throughout North America and Europe, conducting workshops on spirituality, ritual, the sacred and intimacy.

Sobonfu has written two books, The Spirit of Intimacy, and Welcoming Spirit Home, her newest offering which draws on rituals and practices involving community, birth miscarriage and children.

www.sobonfu.com

www.marioninstitute.org/connecting-for-change

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Speaker at Bioneers By The Bay Connecting For Change (2011)

Former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, Satish Kumar is the editor of Resurgence, the longest-running environmental magazine in Britain. He is the guiding spirit behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures in UK.

His books are No Destination (autobiography), You Are, Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence,The Buddha and the Terrorist, and Earth Pilgrim.

Satish is on the Advisory Board of Our Future Planet, a unique online community that enables people to share ideas, design the future and create global change in the real world. Satish teaches, lectures and runs workshops internationally on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity.

www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar
www.marioninstitute.org/connecting-for-change

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Martin Prechtel is a thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala where he became a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, and eventually served as a principal, responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rights of passage. Once again residing in his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s Kitchen.

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Nora Bateson is a media producer and educator. Her work includes documentaries, multimedia productions, magazine columns, and developing curriculum for elementary and high school students. Central to all her pursuits is the idea of utilizing media and storytelling to encourage cultural understanding, social justice, and environmental awareness. Ms. Bateson has a steadfast dedication to the possibilities of human evolution, starting with encouraging young children to see the interrelatedness of the natural world with that of the “human-made” world using all media.

www.anecologyofmind.com

Nora speaks with Joanna about the process of making the film , the concept of beauty for Gregory Bateson, story as a co-evolving relationship, art and beauty as ways of intimacy with Nature, the perception of life as a “dynamic web of interrelationships”, paradox, play, double bind, the ecological imperative of changing our way of thinking about the world…

Music: soundtrack of  the documentary “An Ecology of Mind” (voice: Nora Bateson,  original music composed and performed by: Dan Brubeck,  Miles Black, Jack Duncan, Rick Kilbourn, and Nora Bateson)

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Originally trained as a climate scientist (Ph.D. in the Atmospheric Sciences, climate change research for thirty years), Jeffrey Kiehl decided to return to school to get an M.A. in psychology from Regis University. He completed his analyst training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and he is a Diplomate Analyst with both the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association of Analytical Psychology. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado and have also received training in Gestalt therapy. Jeffrey gives workshops & lectures on various topics, including: Personal Myth and the Lord of the Rings, The Life & Psychology of C.G. Jung, The Anima in the World, and Psyche & Nature.

www.jtkiehl.com

Jeffrey speaks with Joanna about depth psychology and Nature: the different ways of relating to Nature, the Lord of the Rings as a story of reconnection to nature, imagination and beauty as healing dimensions, and retrieving our relationship with the primal energies of Life.

Music: “Seven Ancient Glaciers” (from Three Organic Experiences) by Aglaia

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Hella Neumann earned her MA in Art and Education from the University of Berlin. In 1975 she founded and directed (for 18 years) Atelier unterm Dach Art School in Germany. This work included Art Therapy, Bio Energetics and the Biodynamic Massage of Gerda Boyesen, London. In 1994 she began intensive study of Systemic Constellation Work in Germany with the founder, Bert Hellinger. Living and working nearly three years in a German monastery allowed for an intense period of meditation. This time away from the loud sounds of the world helped refine the sensitivity with which she now tunes in to the non-physical realms of the Ancestral Field. During two years in the Australian rainforest and an extended visit to South Africa she connected to indigenous ancestral wisdom and to the power of ritual which is an important part of her work. She began her own constellation work in 1997 under the name “Songs of the Ancestors,” leading Family Constellation workshops, private constellations and training facilitators. She remains in regular touch with Bert Hellinger and his evolving work and attends the national and international conferences in Germany. Hella lives in Germany and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

www.songsoftheancestors.com

Hella speaks with Joanna about the Systemic Constellation Work: ancestral roots, the family soul, the collective side of healing/change … through fascinating and moving examples.

Music: Troubled Water (from Karadenik [Black Sea]) by Enver Izmailov & Burhan Ocal

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Kim Rosen, MFA, has touched listeners around the world with poetry’s power to awaken, inspire and heal. She is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words (Hay House, 2009) and the co-creator of four CDs of spoken poetry and music, including Only Breath , an interweaving of spoken poems of ancient and modern poets with the music of cellist/composer Jami Sieber. Combining her devotion to poetry with her background as a spiritual teacher and therapist, she gives “Poetry Concerts”, inspirational lectures, and workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad.

http://www.kimrosen.net/

Kim Rosen speaks with Joanna about the many facets of poetry (right brain language, shamanic/biological medicine, prayer…), the 4th chamber of memory, the gnostic wisdom of “Thunder, Perfect Mind”…

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Craig Chalquist, PhD is a core faculty member in the School of holisitic Studies at John F. Kennedy University. He has worked as a family therapist, conflict resolution facilitator, lecturere, and group facilitator, He earned his PhD at PAcifica Graduate Institute, where he studied depth psychology with an ecological approach.

For his doctoral work he explored the history of California one mission city and county at a time while inspecting its geography, ecology, infraestructure, culture, lore, and imaginal life to synthesize a “psychoanalysis of place” to trace connections between the trauma and health of the land and the symptoms and syndromes of its inhabitants. He has written, among other books, “Terrapsychology: Reengaging the Soul of Place”, and is co-editor with Linda Buzzel-Saltzman, of “Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind”. See: http://www.chalquist.com/

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Lynne Twist is a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author and has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. Lynne founded the Soul of Money Institute to express her commitment to supporting and empowering people in finding peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money and the money culture. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Pachamama Alliance, an organization established to preserve the Earth’s tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians.

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Ann Weiser Cornell is recognized as one of the leading teachers of Focusing in the world. Since 1989, she has taught Focusing as a full time profession, in northern California and in fourteen states and seventeen countries on five continents, with a special emphasis on the language of process and inner relationship. Focusing is a special way of paying attention to yourself, so that you sense the whole way you are feeling about situations or issues in your life. It involves having a different kind of relationship with emotions and feelings. The result is greater calm, wiser choices, and a deeper sense of connection to your own life and being. See Focusing Resources.

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Martin Prechtel is a thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala where he became a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, and eventually served as a principal, responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rights of passage. Once again residing in his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s Kitchen.

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Antero Alli is a writer, performer and filmmaker. In 1977 he began developing a paratheatre medium combining techniques of physical theatre, dance and Zazen meditation for accessing the internal landscape; he is founder/director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch. Since 1993 Antero has been writing and directing his own feature-length art films, several of which have received high critical praise at prestigious filmthreat.com. He is also a practicing astrologer and the author of numerous books some of which serve as textbooks for courses he occasionally teaches online.

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Richard Tarnas is a best selling author and the founding director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he currently teaches. He also teaches on the faculty of the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, and gives many public lectures and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. His book Cosmos and Psyche addresses the crisis of the modern self and modern world view, and then introduces a body of evidence, a method of inquiry, and an emerging cosmological perspective he believes could help creatively engage that crisis, and our history itself, within a new horizon of possibility.

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Ruth Gendler is an artist, writer, and teacher committed to the transformational potential of the arts. Her experience with the rhythms of creativity is evidenced by a diverse background in art, writing, publishing, teaching, and lecturing. She is the author of The Book of Qualities and Notes on the Need for Beauty and the editor of Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day. The Book of Qualities, now in its 40th printing, has been adapted as a two act theater piece and translated into German, Japanese, and Chinese, as well as being widely excerpted in literary, psychological and educational publications.

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