A Gender Agenda

Men and Women

Blue or Pink? Man or Woman? A Gender Agenda?

Welcome to an evening to explore and share with each about gender. Is there such a thing as masculinity? Or femininity? If so, what are those male or female qualities? Are they universal? Are we programmed to behave as our perceived idea of how our gender behaves? There is so much pressure on us whether cultural or internalized within us to be a certain way, to emote in certain ways, to relate to anger or sensitivity in particular fashions that sometimes we can miss our own nature. Depending on interest in this evening we will also explore topics including the legacy of patriarchy, whether gender identity affects sexuality (or vice versa), the recent decision by Germany to identify a third ‘intersex’ for those of no gender, or how our views of gender affects us as parents.

“Gender uncertainty opens up a world of human experience, not male experience or female experience. It means as humans we are unlimited in our capacity and interest in being whole, not being split in a gender category that defines us…”
—Dawn Menken, PhD, “Raising Parents: Raising Kids”

“Take it like a man, don’t cry, don’t cry.
Take it like a man, hold your head up high.
Sure she broke your heart, when she said goodbye,
But you, you gotta take it like a man.”

—song by Walker brothers

“My experience informs me that there are certain feelings that are supported for boys, and others more for girls. Girls are still discouraged from expressing anger and being direct. Girls still receive the message early on to be ‘nice’ to accommodate, and to not hurt others. Boys get less support to show sensitive feelings, tenderness, and still get the message that crying is weak.”
—Dawn Menken, PhD, “Raising Parents: Raising Kids”

When

12 September 2014, 7 – 9pm

Where

Shakti Healing Circle,
701 Glenealy Tower, 1 Glenealy,
Central
Tel: 25215099

 

God and Therapy

The Eye of God

“In awareness work, the most divine thing is exactly what is happening right now, in the moment, inside of you and in front of your nose. From the awareness viewpoint, change is inherent in all life, you don’t have to work at it, change brings itself about.”
Arnold Mindell Ph.D, Deep Democracy of Open Forums

Welcome to an evening to share and talk about where spirituality and therapy overlap. For some people they are separate worlds, yet increasingly they cross over and inspire each other. It is the qualities that underlie psychotherapy, though, which appear to be the most applied spirituality. Qualities such as compassion, openness to the new, non-judgementalism and acceptance. The world of dreams and myth can influence our daily life and speak to our deeper yearnings to feel the presence of the divine.

Therapy brings up lots of questions as to contemporary spirituality. How does God speak to us? How do we incorporate the numinous into our worldview? Are we open to all of ourselves, including the parts of ourselves we don’t like? Can we be compassionate with the parts of ourselves that we struggle with such as being unforgiving, anger, jealousy?

When

7 April 2014, 7 – 9pm

Where

Shakti Healing Circle
701 Glenealy Tower, 1 Glenealy,
Central, Hong Kong

Tel: 2521 5099

Dreams and the Dreaming Process

Dreams and the Dreaming Process

“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.”
Talmud

Welcome to an evening to explore and share dreams. We all dream every night and have dreams of varying intensity and meaning. In this collaborative evening we will share our dreams, explore different approaches to understanding and why Jung and Freud called dreams the royal road to the unconscious. The Greeks turned to dreams for divination, and Mindell the founder of Process Work found that dreams reflect our body symptoms and dreaming process wishing to unfold.

In addition to night dreams, space will be made if wanted for other aspects of our dreaming – day dreams, sychronicities and other ways the dreaming world can call upon us.

“The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is.”
CG Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

When

25 January 2014 & 10 December 2014 , 7 – 9pm

Where

Shakti Healing Circle
701 Glenealy Tower, 1 Glenealy,
Central, Hong Kong

Tel: 2521 5099

Why Relationships Matter

Why Relationships Matter

A talk on relationships, meeting the world, yourself and others through relationships.

Using Process Work principles we will explore the different ways we can gain greater awareness of our relationship issues, and how they have meaning for us and can help us develop greater awareness and compassion for ourselves and others. We will explore many concepts including: conflicts, using inner work to work with external conflicts, projection, internal & external relationships, rank and privilege, different levels of relationships and how to use difficulties and disturbances in the different relationships we have in the world.

When

16 January 2014, 7 – 9pm

Where

Shakti Healing Circle
701 Glenealy Tower, 1 Glenealy,
Central, Hong Kong

Tel: 2521 5099

Introduction to Process Work

Introduction to Process Work

Process Work grew out of the work of Jung and is well known for its work with conflict resolution, deep democracy, dreams, the dreaming body, coma work, and embracing all parts of ourselves. Peter is an interfaith minister, Findhorn Fellow and former editor of Holistic Asia and Positive News Hong Kong. Topics that Peter will cover in this collaborative talk include extreme states, myths, shamanism, Taoism and quantum analogies to psychotherapy. Process Work is often described as a method for increasing self-awareness using psychotherapy.

When

29 August 2013

Where

Shakti Healing Circle, 701 Glenealy Tower, 1 Glenealy, Central, Hong Kong.