Spiritual and Depth Psychology, Antioch University, Los Angeles

Racism in America: Integrating the Shadow A Free Community Conversation Saturday, June 27th 1pm PDT... Featuring Jungian analyst and author Dr. Fanny Brewster Join DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY ALLIANCE this coming Saturday (June 27th, 1pm PDT) for a community conversation and discussion of how depth psychology might contribute to the conversation on racism in our culture. Are we entering a new period in the history of racism in America? Are we really beginning to integrate the shadow of systemic racism into a higher awareness that will change things in new ways? What perspectives can depth psychology provide us from an objective, psycho-spiritual level, without becoming mired in partisan and emotional debates? From Depth Psychology Alliance: ...Pacifica professor Dr. Fanny Brewster has said that we have learned to live out Jung’s theory of Opposites in a sociological as well as a psychological manner through our racial complexes. Join us as we explore our racial complexes and as we ask what depth psychological insights might help to move us forward in our efforts to overcome racism. Our featured panelist will be Pacifica Graduate Institute core faculty member and Jungian analyst Dr. Fanny Brewster. Depth Psychology Alliance director, James Newell, will moderate the discussion with all contributions from a depth psychological perspective welcome.. TO REGISTER: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg

COMMUNITY EVENT WITH DR. BREWSTER THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH! Please join us! Amidst the current uprising in protest of anti-black police violence, we understand more than ever the need for dialogue about issues of race in the U.S. We feel enormously privileged to hear from Dr. Fanny Brewster, a leader in the field of depth psychology, race, and culture. and author of groundbreaking works: Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss, African Americans and ...Jungian Pyschology: Leaving the Shadows, and The Racial Complex. Join Dr. Brewster this coming Sunday 2pm for community discussion. Details here: https://www.smore.com/t7kux

PODCAST: COVID 19 and underlying racial conditions: a depth psychological perspective with Dr. Fanny Brewster On May 15th Dr. Brewster was interviewed by Dr. Matt Silverstein, director of Spiritual and Depth Psychology Specialization at the Antioch University, Los Angeles. Watch Part 1 https://youtu.be/1-kR9tJDa6c... Watch Part 2 https://youtu.be/J5wI2aRvRR4 Topics of conversation: What is a depth psychological view of illness, symptom, and the trauma represented by COVID-19? What in your eyes needs to be better understood about the underlying racial conditions of this environmental and biological crisis and socioeconomic factors that influence our psychological trauma around COVID-19? How are we to understand the pandemic in a way that can help us heal, find meaning, take care of ourselves and loved ones, and cope with the traumatic impacts? Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Jungian analyst and author of poetry and nonfiction. Her books include African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows has recently been published by Routledge (2017). Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss (2018) and most recently The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race. Her poems from Journey: The Middle Passage have appeared in the Psychological Perspectives Journal (2016) in which she was Featured Poet. Dr. Brewster is a Core Faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She is an international lecturer and workshop presenter on Jungian Psychology related topics. #drfannybrewster #racialcomplex #covid

The MA in Clinical Psychology Program and Spiritual and Depth Psychology Specialization are excited to share a podcast: COVID-19 and underlying racial conditions: a depth psychological perspective with Dr. Fanny Brewster and to invite you to a full-day virtual event on June 7th in which Dr. Brewster will offer two community classes (1) dream work in the time of COVID-19 (2) Racial Complex community discussion. See registration information and podcast in the link below. Dr. Fa...nny Brewster is a Jungian analyst and author of poetry and nonfiction. Her books include African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows has recently been published by Routledge (2017). Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss (2018) and most recently The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race. SPACE IS LIMITED for the morning workshop, please register early. Participation is free for current Antioch students and alumni. Share with your colleagues and community at large, all are welcome! 5 CEUs offered! 2 CEUs are offered for each session and 1 CEU offered for completion of the podcast. CEU discount code for those experiencing financial hardship is SDPAULA40. Email [email protected] for more information

Dear SDP Community, please join our community gathering and potluck this coming Sunday, March 1st, 1-4pm at AULA Campus. For more details and to RSVP, please see our SDP Community Announcements newsletter below. We hope to see you this Sunday!

Our SDP specialization fall/winter 2019/20 newsletter is out. Take a look!

Dear Community, thank you for attending Visioning Healing in the Latinx Community on October 30th at Antioch University Los Angeles. Your participation was appreciated! We were so honored and grateful to present the panel of speakers who addressed in different ways the striking need to celebrate the rich diversity and history of the Latinx community, as well as to attend to the systemic oppression that confronts the community. We heard about the atrocities of the treatment of... immigrants at the Southern border, the "pre-school to incarceration" pipeline, and the need to find ways to come together in remembrance and also in joy to resist such practices, building toward healing, restorative, and social justice. We look forward to continued community conversation and visioning. We welcome your feedback, suggestions, and recommendations. Please stay in touch with us! We would welcome any contributions and reflections on the evening for our online publication, SDP Ezine. Contact [email protected] See more

Our program for SDP specialization fall community event "Visioning Healing in the Latinx Community". October 30th 6-9:30pm, Antioch University Los Angeles, 400 Corporate pointe, Culver City, Room A1000. *2 CEU’S OFFERED FOR LMFT, LPCC, LCSW’S All are invited!

SDP Fall event! October 30th, 6-9:30pm. Join us for our first Latinx Panel discussion hosted by the SDP Specialization with intention to bring light to the impact of historical and current trauma in the Latinx Community. You are invited to partake in community dinner and creation of a community altar- Altar a Mis Seres Queridos (Altar to my Beloved Ones) by bringing photos of loved ones or symbolic items to display on the Ofrenda. A panel of diverse Latinx leaders will speak to their areas of expertise in the field of healing. All are invited!

"Mindfulness Interrupted. People of Color, Mindfulness Meditation and Radical Resilience in the Era of Ferguson." You are invited to a discussion by Nalika Gajaweera, PhD, a research associate with the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC. Dr Gajaweera will share her research on mindfulness, race and American Buddhism. Lecture is on Nov. 6, 2019, 12-1:30pm, at USC, ACB 238. All are welcome. "Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted in California between 2016 and 2...019 with People of Color practitioners of mindfulness meditation, this paper examines their efforts to create "safe spaces." It examines their efforts to foster what I term a form of "radical resilience" by creating People of Color groups and programs that encourage practitioners to empathize with the intersubjectivity of their lived experiences as racialized Others and the shared socio-political context to their emotions. By cultivating a collective awareness of racialized suffering based on joint experiences, "safe spaces" resist the mainstream mindfulness' disposition towards personalizing such emotions, fostering instead an understanding of emotions as situated within histories of race, racism and whiteness. For my interlocutors, being aware of one's own subjective experience as intersubjectively linked with the collective experience as People of Color, this process ultimately enables a form of personal resilience, liberation and healing. ~ Nalika Gajaweera, PhD #safespaces #mindfulnessmeditation #meditation #radicalresilience #USC See more

We would be interested in hearing from you with your thoughts on this article. https://www.psychologytoday.com//even-mindfulness-meditati

Please share this information about a meditation gathering this weekend. Come one come all.

Has anyone attended an Aniwa Gathering? We are thinking about this for next year. https://www.aniwa.co/schedule