Joyous Living and Aging
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AN EXISTENTIAL-HUMANISTIC INSTITUTE WORKSHOP:
Envisioning Eldership: Embracing a Joyous View of Life and Living – An Existential, Process-Oriented Approach
A Day-Long Workshop Developed & Facilitated by EHI Core Instructor Dr. Nader Shabahangi, MFT, RCFE
Date: Saturday, Dec 7th, 2019 Time: 10:15am-4:45pm
Location: The Center SF, 548 Fillmore St., San Francisco
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Sacred Journeys of Nurse Healers Here There be Soul-Eaters: Sacred Journeys of Nurse Healers By Martin Hemsley, Ph.D. Eldership Academy Press (2019) Paper back edition Cost: $21.00 USD, $30.00 AUD + shipping (varies between booksellers) E-book format to follow shortly from 20 online stores worldwide! Also available from: Barnes And Noble Amazon Australia Booktopia or from your local online bookstore For signed copies and/or to purchase direct from us at above price, email Julia here In Here There be Soul-Eaters, a fascinating, deep dive into the interviews of eleven nurse healers from Australia and other countries, Dr. Martin Hemsley explores the “awesomeness, brokenness and ordinary joy” of their mysterious inner and outer journeys of becoming and living as healers. What is revealed is, “a spiritual path, over the edge of ordinary reality … living in multiple worlds, hard against the edge of madness”. Read, in these first-hand accounts, as women and men come to be a healer or shaman how they drop their personal history and trust the gifted empowerment. For some it is connected to the ancient shamanism […]
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THE EXISTENTIAL-HUMANISTIC INSTITUTE PRESENTS:
Envisioning Eldership: Embracing the Long View of Life and Living – An Existential, Process-Oriented Approach
A Day-Long Workshop
Developed & Facilitated by EHI Core Instructor Dr. Nader Shabahangi, MFT, RCFE
Date: Saturday, Dec 7th, 2019
Read MoreThe thesis here is a simple one and not original: some of today’s challenges, environmental degradation, national conflicts, dehumanization of the workplace, youth violence, the absence of spirit – to name but a few of today’s more pressing issues – could be helped through the restoration of eldership within our Western societies. Eldership here means: those who have lived into their retirement age and have valued their emotional and spiritual understanding as much as their advancement on the material level are given the important place of counselors and advisers to those younger in age. This place has been given up by today’s elders. Read the full article on Restoring Eldership here>>
Read MoreThe Evolving Elder Applying What Really Matters to Life By David “Lucky” Goff Eldership Academy Press (2017) $18.95 USD Softcover, plus shipping Now Available in Paperback! Purchasing Details: For USA and international customers- Buy on Amazon! Congratulations! Your curiosity has led you to stumble onto something extraordinary. Once in a while, a passionate and poignant description of something that is happening on a global and evolutionary scale occurs. The Evolving Elder captures a transition that is preparing the way for a new phase in humanity’s life. By focusing upon the changes that are occurring in the longer lives of some old people, the movement of evolution is being revealed. Instead of dwelling on the prejudices that impede the old, this work describes elderhood in fresh terms, which reveal the many positive aspects of this important stage of human life. There are gains, which make the losses that accompany aging meaningful and essential to human well being. There are many surprises involved with aging —developments that enhance life, and expansions that change […]
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