Surfing Chaos: Six Human Capacities for Navigating Change Susan Campbell, PhD Change isn't what it used to be. People today face an unprecedented rate of change and upheaval in their workplaces. As a result, they often feel insecure and stressed to the limit. We all need a sense of control in our lives, but we are faced with a profound paradox: the more you try to exert control over the events of your life, the less in control you feel. Thus, as leaders, managers, consultants, and workers, we are being called to develop an entirely new definition of what it means to be in control if we are to thrive in the world of the future. In this workshop participants will learn about six "new human capacities" that enable them to transcend the commonly held notion of control, so they can "surf chaos" instead of trying to "manage change." Presenter Bio: Susan is a relationship coach, seminar leader, and author of nine books including The Everything Great Sex Book and Truth in Dating: Finding Love by Getting Real. She is also creator of the comprehensive self-paced Sex and Intimacy Enrichment Kit and the games Truth in Dating and Truth in Sex. She is a regular content contributor to tantra.com. A nationally respected authority on interpersonal and group communication, she has appeared on such talk shows as CNN’s “NewsNight” and “Good Morning America.” Articles about her work have appeared in New Woman, Seventeen, Cosmo, New Age and Yoga Journal. www.susancampbell.com

The Varieties of Dissociative Experience Stanley Krippner, PhD Stanley's workshop will present a traspersonal model of dissociative experiences that have been used for cross-cultural comparisons. It asks whether the experience is controlled or uncontrolled, if the flow of experience is interrupted or uninterrrupted, if one's ego self is intact or whether it is replaced by another ego self, or by contact with the All Self. Cases of dissociative identity disorder (e.g., "Three Faces of Ever"), spirit incorporation (e.g., mediums of Haiti), spirit possession (e.g., by "low" spirits in Brazil), spirit incorporation (e.g., Maria Sabina of Mexico), and fiction (e.g., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) will be compared and discussed. Presenter Bio: Stanley is Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School. In a dozen volumes and more than 500 scientific articles, he has investigated and reported on developments in consciousness research, the education of exceptional children, and native healing systems. He has served as President of the Association for the Study of Dreams, the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and the Parapsychological Association. He served as Director of the Dream Laboratory at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City and as the Director of the Child Study Center, Kent State University. Stanley is coauthor of many books including Dream Telepathy, Dreamworking, The Mythic Path, Personal Mythology, The Realms of Healing, Healing States, and Spiritual Dimensions of Healing. He is editor of Dreamtime and Dreamwork and Advances in Parapsychological Research (8 volumes) and is co-editor of A Psychiatrist in Paradise: Treating Mental Illness in Bali. www.stanleykrippner.com

Make Your Own Reality Roger Hart Professor Roger Hart experienced separation of mind and body, telekinesis, and precognition during extraordinary states of consciousness on Mt Everest, in Tierra del Fuego, and in India. He uses animated illusions and self-organizing structures to illustrate how the human mind constructs personal reality from interconnected field information. Much of the information processing is predetermined but a substantial amount can be rewritten. Using the metaphor of the collapse of the wave function - the scientific description for the conversion of information and energy into matter - he will suggest how we can remake our own reality. Goal: You will learn how you participate in the creation of your personal reality. -- name and understand different types of consciousness. -- identify and understand the processes the brain uses to construct personal (phenomenal) reality, and -- identify the main types of information used to construct personal reality from exterior (universal) reality. Presenter Bio: A former research professor at Oregon State University, Roger is author of The Phaselock Code and Through Time, Death, and Reality: The Metaphysical Adventures of the Man Who Fell Off Everest. He was a member of the first American expedition to Mount Everest. For Professor Hart, life truly began after he almost lost his. A horrific fall off the slopes of Mount Everest, that he miraculously survived, sparked a desire to study how consciousness constructs reality. www.timedeathandreality.net

Introduction to the Visionary DVD Club Richard Startzman Richard Startzman (cofounder of the Visionary DVD Club along with James Berry of The Message Company), briefly outlines the scope and direction of the Visionary DVD Club by reviewing some of the profound questions that our speakers address. Questions like: Does consciousness exist outside of our physical being or is it a result of our physical being. Is thought an energy? What form of energy does thought take? Can ‘intention’ heal? Physics, Shamanism, Philosophy, all explorations of consciousness are considered in the Visionary DVD Club. Each month we chip away at what Peter Russell refers to as the ‘hard’ question by sharing the profound insights of some of the greatest visionaries of our time.

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