Dreaming Peace
|
The Mountaineers Building, 300 Third Avenue West, Seattle, WA Purpose : |
|||
|
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you; if you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you - Gospel of Thomas Our theme is that peace may be truly served by allowing ourselves to 'dream' it. If we cannot imagine peace, we cannot make it happen. Violence, state oppression and general fear and anxiety have radically shrunk the 'doors of perception' and human imagination has been withering through lack of nourishment. When mind and imagination are marginalized and disparaged, everyone suffers, mistakes are repeated and we live needlessly constricted lives.
|
|||
|
Seminar - Dialogue - Inner worlds The legend of the labyrinth represents our inability to find peaceful solutions- Pierre Levy Since 1996, the DuVersity has run a series of seminar-dialogues to bring people together to participate in unfolding new meanings. In this event we venture further into bridging between the conscious and unconscious worlds.The key facilitator in Dreaming Peace will be Gordon Lawrence, who has pioneered the Social Dreaming Matrix in which people share dreams through association and amplification. Gordon discovered Social Dreaming at the Tavistock Institute in the late 1970s and early '80s. He works in organizations as diverse as Catholic orders, government bodies, industry and commercial organizations. |
Author of Social Dreaming @ Work, and Tongued with Fire, Lawrence's Roots in a Northern Landscape describe childhood memories of Scotland. He is now at the University of Northumberland and the New University in Bulgaria. The world of dreams is an access to the unconscious that has a different logic to our conceptual minds. Unless we can 'dream together' it is likely that we will remain subject to the dreams or nightmares that presently seem to rule our world. |
||
|
The work of Patrick de Mare on the 'median group' is also to be used. His concern is with how people can attain a state of 'koinonia' or 'impersonal fellowship' by transforming frustration and hate. Karen Stefano, co-founder of the DuVersity is a close student of Patrick and will act as convener for the dialogue sessions together with Anthony Blake. |
 |
||
| Music is the epitome of contact with the muse and will be represented by Robert Fripp, leading avant garde musician and founder of King Crimson, who will make unique Soundscapes for us. Throughout his career, guitarist Robert Fripp has continually pushed the boundaries of pop music, as well as pursuing many avant-garde and experimental musical ideas. He created the bands King Crimson and League of Gentlemen and taught Guitar Craft In his words "Soundscapes are based on delay, repetition, and hazard" and are "improvised and largely governed by the time, place, audience and the performer's response to them". |
 |
||
| Phyllis Molline Laursen is a practicing healer and clairvoyant. She works with both humans and animals. For the past 20 years the focus of her work has been centered on differentiating fact from feeling and developing her own system of transmuting chaos in our world. She works with artists, musicians, writers and healers developing new forms of symbology in language. She also specializes in vertical communication as well as interspecies communication. Most recently jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and writer Carl Vigeland have dedicated their book Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life to her.. |
 Jack de Johnette, Phyllis Laursen and Karen Steafano in 2000 |
||
| Participants will make collages under the direction of Karen Stefano. Karen is an artist and practicing psychotherapist. She worked with Jungian analyst Dr. Edith Wallace on the tissue paper collage method for many years. Karen has worked with groups in a variety of settings, which include Gurdjieff/Fourth way, psychodynamic and Median approaches. Karen is co-founder of the DuVersity and organizes its educational events. |
 |
||
|
Movement and meditation will be led by Anthony Blake, Director of Studies of the DuVersity. Anthony was a student of John Bennett and studied with David Bohm. He is involved in innovations in systematics, dialogue and psychology. Author of Intelligent Enneagram and Structures of Meaning. |
 |
||
| LOCATION and CHECK IN TIME: |
The Mountaineers Building, 300 Third Avenue West, Seattle, WA |
||
| COSTS: | $495, including buffet lunches | ||
|
Make checks payable in US Currency or international money order to: DUVERSITY SEMINARS. We can also accept Visa or Mastercard Lodging is not included in seminar fee. Here are some local hotels which are offering a discount to attendees of the Dreaming Peace seminar. You must mention the Dreaming peace promotion when booking rooms. Please contact Cyrena Stefano for more information.
Cyrena Stefano
2227 5th Ave Seattle, WA 98121 (206) 448-2181 1) Hotel Andra 2) Ramada Inn |
|||
