Lecture Re-Scheduled for Saturday  7:30 PM

Workshop Registration Available On Saturday Morning

In Honor of Earth Day 

Memnosyne Foundation

Presents

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

April 23 & 24, 2010 

Northaven United Methodist Church

11211 Preston Rd -  Dallas, TX 75230

 Lecture Friday, April 23, 2010   7:30 PM   

The Giving Tree:  Mother Earth, Caretakers and Takers
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is a childhood classic and a metaphor for humanity’s relationship to Mother Earth. It is also a model for co-dependent and narcissistic pairs.   The planet and humanity is at a crossroad. Will we pull back from the brink?  For individuals, this may also be a time for consciousness and choice. Jean Bolen is a speaker who brings together insights and reflections as a Jungian analyst and an activist for women and the environment.  

 
Workshop, Saturday, April 24, 2010   9:30 AM to 5:00 PM    
Love vs. Power: From Family Psychology to the Fate of the Earth
We all come into world seeking to be loved and if we are not loved, we settle for power. Drawing archetypal psychology, patterns emerge: trauma, neglect, and bullying, identifying with the aggressor, chronic victimization, emotional numbness and addictions. The roles are the authoritarian father, the disempowered feminine, and the neglected child—which play out within the psyche, in dysfunctional families, and in war and commerce. When Jean Shinoda Bolen tells us themes from the Grail Legend, the Abduction of Persephone, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle, these mythic stories come to life and provide insights into ourselves, dysfunctional family psychology and patriarchy. The missing feminine principle needs to be brought into the psyche of men and women, family and culture. Fierce compassion, tenderness, mother bear protectiveness, grandmother wisdom, “enough is enough” crone activism are qualities of an empowered feminine principle.  All of which can be nurtured and supported in circles with a sacred center. 
     In this workshop, Jean will tell stories that reverberate in our psyches, lead a guided meditation and provide a small circle experience and information. She will encourage the formation of ongoing support and activist circles. 

   

JEAN SHINODA BOLEN M.D.   
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco and an internationally known 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. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a former 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.  Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD was a keynote speaker at The 3rd International Women's Peace Conference in Dallas (2007) and is an advocate for a 5th UN World Conference on Women. Websites: www.jeanbolen.com , www.5wcw.org , www.millionthcircle.org

The Memnosyne Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2007 by Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk and her husband Joshua Frenk to pave a more humanitarian path toward globalization.  www.memnosyne.org

Information:  info@memnosyne.org        1-800-981-5849