We need a new worldview based on a psychological consciousness.
The culture wars that haunt every society are made worse by the threats of climate change. As religious, conservative, liberal, and progressive worldviews conflict, the environment is collapsing. Hunger, displacement, insurgency, and civil war mark the overt political and social crises. We are also more overtly surfacing systemic racism, prejudice against women, and the disparity between rich and poor. Yet what we have not surfaced adequately is the disparity between worldviews that tears at our social fabric, keeping us from developing the generational attention needed to respond to climate change and pervasive injustice.
We need a new worldview based on a psychological consciousness capable of including the values of each and every worldview while transcending their limitations. This is the basis of a psychological century, and our current opportunity to find the thread that helps us weave ourselves back together — that helps us remember how to be a people.
The psychological consciousness began in the early 20th century, helping individuals and families to undo past injuries. It is extending its reach. We are learning to use it in organizations and whole communities to engage the existential threats of multigenerational trauma, as well as the current cultural traumas such as systemic racism and climate change.
Many unique uses of the psychological consciousness are being brought to bear on public problems in almost every community. Now is the time to consolidate these within a new story of our shared humanity while exploring new ways of gathering together that support our development of the fellowship needed to reconstitute the core experience of belonging.
In this workshop, we will reflect on the current social and political crisis in the world from the lens of the emerging psychological consciousness. We will begin to imagine the role we each can play in embodying this consciousness in our lives, as new types of community practitioners and as citizens.
WORKSHOP HELD IN COLLABORATION WITH onlineevents.co.uk, The Voice of the Practitioner, an online platform offering CPD to counselors and psychotherapists from the comfort of home.
Peter T. Dunlap, PhD, is a clinical and political psychologist focused on helping psychologically minded citizens to identify and explore their unique leadership capacities and to develop the public emotional intelligence called for by our time. His group trainings support participants to cultivate this self-awareness and to learn how to foster the fellowship needed for group and community development. Peter is the author of Awakening Our Faith in the Future: The Advent of Psychological Liberalism (Routledge, 2008) as well as many other journal articles, book chapters, blog posts, and an occasional rant on one list server or another.
How can I attend?
To reserve a place in the workshop, please register through Eventbrite using this link.
How can I get a recording?
This 2-hour workshop will be recorded, and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch again.
Who is this workshop for? Psychotherapists, community leaders and activists, mediators, educators, organizational development consultants, coaches and other psychologically minded citizens interested in forming work groups that focus simultaneously on personal, group, and community development.
Zoom details This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform, where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
Fee To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee. The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00 (~$28 USD), however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.