We can pull ourselves back together.
By using psychological practice, we can activate community leadership, cultivate fellowship, and reestablish the essential experience of belonging.
Moving from an ideological to a psychological worldview.
We gather together to cultivate fellowship and belonging. This is how we will develop the community leadership needed to renew our democracies while maintaining helpful traditions. On this basis, we will be able to address issues of climate change and social and economic injustice.
This is how we will harness rather than demonize our differences. By approaching our differences psychologically, we can draw from their value while containing their limitations.
Where there is no vision, the people perish. (29:80)
Peter T. Dunlap
Bridging Politics and Psychology
Peter T. Dunlap was raised by a psychologically minded mother and a father who was a liberal California legislator. He brings their disparate worldviews together as a psychologist working in private and political practice.
In his groups and workshops, Peter supports participants to cultivate the fierce, loving, and intelligent heart needed in our communities.
Peter also works one-on-one with community leaders, activists, psychotherapists, and others interested in strengthening their voices of citizenship. Through individual and group work Peter supports us to extend our emotional intelligence toward our communities, thus forming a public emotional intelligence. This work changes how we treat one another and enables us to explore the differences in our values for the sake of remembering how to be a people, whether in the struggle of conflict or in shared enjoyment.
Peter has worked as a psychotherapist since 1990. He focuses on helping people find meaning in their personal lives and vocations, work through challenges with the people they love, and find the paths that lead them to becoming their best selves. (Learn more about Peter’s psychotherapy practice.) Peter is the author of Awakening our Faith in the Future: The Advent of Psychological Liberalism (Routledge, 2008) and many other book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews. He is also a contributing author to Tikkun magazine. Peter lives and works in beautiful Sonoma County, California.
Want to get involved? Try one of Peter’s workshops.
