The CPA-NA Film Committee is delighted to announce “Shift Happens, Broadening Awareness of 'Relating': A Conversation with Nora Bateson and Steffi Bednarek.”

Thought leaders and authors Nora Bateson and Steffi Bednarek riff around what is shaping their understanding of and our response to what it means to be psychotherapists and human beings in this time of collapse, transformation, and evolutionary shift.

Participants are encouraged to pre-screen the award-winning documentary An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson. The film showcases the important contributions that Gregory Bateson made to psychology, cybernetics and anthropology through his seminal work in the development of systems theory.

Expanding and deepening her father’s work into larger fields of relationality through People Need People gatherings and Warm Data Labs, Nora Bateson offers experiential practice in catalyzing and cultivating awareness of the multiple contexts in which all living beings exist. In this way, belief structures of individuality and separation dissolve as awareness of our interbeing with all living beings comes to light. Her recently published book, Combining, offers an enjivening array of essays, poetry, artwork, and inspirations of aliveness and relationship in the vast, miraculous web of Life.

CPA-NA is honored to host the North American launch of Steffi Bednarek’s Climate, Psychology, and Change: Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and Climate Anxiety. Steffi’s book is an anthology of contemporary psychologists and mental health workers offering guidance and inquiry for the field of psychotherapy through the uncharted waters of global transformation and collapse. In her work as a psychologist, consultant, speaker and writer, Steffi focuses on the “intersection between climate change, complexity theory, and the human psyche.”

As friends and colleagues, this dialogue and conversation with Nora and Steffi is sure to lead to an emergent, inspiring, and evocative exploration of living, working and being in relationship with our current circumstances.

This 90-minute event, “Shift Happens …” will be broadcast live, on-line on Friday, June 28, 6pm (CEST) / Noon (Eastern) / 11am (Central) / 9am (Pacific). Registration is $10 for CPA-NA Members; $20 Non-CPA-NA members.

Purchase your copy of Steffi's book on our Bookshop and CPA-NA will receive 10% of profits! (Grab Nora's book while you're there too!)

REFUND POLICY

We understand that things come up and can’t always be anticipated. We will grant refunds requested 48 hours ahead of the event. We will not honor refunds after the event has started.