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From Spiritual Emergency to Spiritual Emergence:
A Transpersonal Self Psychology Approach to PTSD Recovery
Sunday August 28th with Judy Schavrien, Ph.D., MFT.
The workshop will review characteristics of Post Trauma Stress and bring Transpersonal Self Psychology to a discussion of understanding and healing from PTSD. The self shatters. It reconstitutes, often in a hasty manner, attempting to establish business-as-usual. It either re-opens to digest, at a bearable pace, the new and shocking perceptions; or it constricts and suffers from ongoing hauntings and disclocations. The self that digests and incorporates traumatic information can move into spiritual insight and an enhanced, expanded mode of being.
How does the individual paradigm apply, or fall short, when one is addressing a population, a cultural “self,” that is suffering from Post Trauma Stress?
If time permits, the mind/body technique called Focusing will be introduced. Focusing helps to absorb what would otherwise be overwhelming material—often held in those time-capsules called “flashbacks”—in small and well-paced steps.
Judy
Schavrien, Ph.D., MFT
Judy is the Chair of the online Global Ph.D. Program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She began working with incest survivors early on, helping to bring the issue to national attention in the United States. She served as an ongoing audience consultant to the Oprah Winfrey show and appeared in her show about alternative sexualities. She also served on the Executive Committee of the international AHP Board (Association for Humanistic Psychology); the Committee undertook a reorganization to encourage pluralism.
Judy, who had been treating post-trauma stress in others, contracted it
after a mugging in which she was shot in the face. But she had foreseen
the event in a dream: there was awe to stare down the despair. Her healing
journey, which led to residence in India and the Far East, filled out
her transpersonal understanding. So did pursuant years of practice with
the Ven. Sogyal Rinpoche, a Tibetan teacher of Dzogchen, who is known
as the laughing lama. As a result, she created and taught such courses
as "Reincarnation and Past Life Therapy," "Feminist Transpersonal
Psychology" and "Writing Spiritual Autobiography."
Recently she has been speaking at international venues about recovery from Post Trauma Stress; she seeks to raise awareness about the much more than physical damage that is left in the wake of catastrophe, and also about the spiritual opportunity that accompanies individual or cultural efforts to heal.
Her scholarship builds on knowledge of the classics: "The rage, healing, and daemonic death of Oedipus: A self-in-relation theory" and “Shot Awake: A transpersonal self psychology approach to PTSD recovery.” She also translated from Dutch and wrote a cultural history introduction to "What Rhymes with Cancer?" As a published painter and critic, and an anthologized poet, she received 14 national and international prizes. Most recently she was nominated Oakland Artist of the Year.
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