For Our Grandchildren and Theirs:
Navigating Shadow, Us-vs.-Them, & Other Threats to Democracy
This course is for:
Folks who are committed to truth, truthfulness, and the difference between fact and opinion
Folks who are anxious, scared, or concerned about the state of the nation (and the planet) and experience bouts of deep sadness, rage, hope, and despair
Folks who agree with, or embody, the belief that all humans deserve equal rights and opportunities to live free, healthy, responsible, and creative lives—that do no harm to others—of their choosing
Folks who oppose bullying in any iteration and at any scale
Folks who are open to exploring or are already engaged with the relationships among history/current events, developmental psychology, culture, spirituality, and other disciplines and how these are relevant to and essential for democracy
Folks who have an inkling, or a deep understanding that we’re currently not facing policy disagreements, but the dismantling of the democratic structures of the United States
Folks who understand, or are willing to consider, that all of us who work toward progress in specific areas like climate, health, violence, wealth disparity, race, gender, orientation, identity, and (add yours here___) are called to come together in solidarity to defend and improve the democratic institutions that allow us, however imperfectly, to do our ongoing work toward progress
Folks who are able and willing to look at, recognize, own, and integrate both the dignities and disasters of the United States—currently, and throughout its history
Folks who are open to, or already engaged with, their own ongoing development
Folks who are willing to explore in good faith questions and statements such as Who am I, really? How do I choose to be? Everything is a story. What am I missing?—especially, but not only, in the context of the dignities and disasters of the U.S.
Folks who are willing to stand as witness to their own and others’ suffering (and joy)
Folks who have a sense of humor amid the goofiness and gravitas of Life
“All social structures that male society has built so far have included within them the suppression of other men…. What a relatively few men in our advanced society have
been able to build has been at the great expense of other men.”
– Jean Baker Miller, Toward a New Psychology of Women, (1976)
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