Schedule
2014
November 7-9 Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
What’s Next? Reviewing and Revisioning Our Lives
What’s Next? Reviewing and Revisioning Our Lives
Periodically, we need to review and revision our lives. Every decade of the life-cycle brings new challenges, goals, pleasures, and horizons. Every crisis—divorce, illness, tragedy, success, failure, retirement—requires us to make a new beginning, take stock of our past, and look for a new vision to guide us toward a more hopeful future. In this workshop, join Sam Keen to explore: • Where are you in your life-cycle? What have you accomplished? • What hasn’t happened yet? What haven’t you done, been, or experienced? • What have you given? Whom have you loved? • What’s old, stale, worn-out, boring? What destructive patterns do you repeat? • What infantile guilt and shame lingers? Whom have you not forgiven? • What’s new, interesting, exciting, appealing? • What decisions do you need to make? What future do you see for yourself? • What are your emerging passions? What promises and potentials are still unfulfilled? • What are your dreams, values, visions? Where do you look to find what’s next for you?
CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs.
2015
March 13-15, 2015 and Nov 6-8, 2015 Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
What’s Next? Reviewing and Revisioning Our Lives
Periodically, we need to review and revision our lives. Every decade of the life-cycle brings new challenges, goals, pleasures, and horizons. Every crisis—divorce, illness, tragedy, success, failure, retirement—requires us to make a new beginning, take stock of our past, and look for a new vision to guide us toward a more hopeful future. In this workshop, join Sam Keen to explore: • Where are you in your life-cycle? What have you accomplished? • What hasn’t happened yet? What haven’t you done, been, or experienced? • What have you given? Whom have you loved? • What’s old, stale, worn-out, boring? What destructive patterns do you repeat? • What infantile guilt and shame lingers? Whom have you not forgiven? • What’s new, interesting, exciting, appealing? • What decisions do you need to make? What future do you see for yourself? • What are your emerging passions? What promises and potentials are still unfulfilled? • What are your dreams, values, visions? Where do you look to find what’s next for you?
CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs.
October 16-18, 2015 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
What’s Next? Reviewing and Revisioning Our Lives
Phone: 845-266-4444
Completed Workshops
October 3-5, 2014 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
What’s Next? Reviewing and Revisioning Our Lives
February 11, 2012 –Berkeley Public Library
March 2-5, 2012 Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA What’s Next? Reviewing and Revisioning Our Lives
May 15, 2012 Iran: The Making of an Enemy (Sonoma)
Iran: The Making of an Enemy
Keen is an astute interpreter of propaganda, cultural myths, and the power of imagery in shaping public opinion. This information is essential in order to understand how perception is manipulated and how we can counter it.
Sam Keen is an author, philosopher, and expert on propaganda and the roles myths play in our lives and culture. He hold Ph.D’s in philosophy and theology from Harvard and has authored several best selling books, including Fire in the Belly, Faces of the Enemy (which was made into a PBS special), Hymns to an Unknown God,and In the Absence of God. Keen was also a contributing editor at Psychology Today magazine for 20 years. He will show us the path of pre-war propaganda with the idea that foreknowledge might be able to prevent it.in Petaluma
October 14-15, 2011 – A Spirited Life in a Secular Age, Wilmington, DE
Paul Tillich taught me that there are three questions any philosophical, religious or political system must ask and answer.
1. What’s wrong? What is the dis-ease?
2. What’s ideally possible? What is health?
3. What are the means of moving from dis-ease to health?
I will follow this outline in my presentations. The first thing we must do is give some definitions and descriptions of what we mean by secular and sacred-they are much thrown around in vague, judgmental and sentimental ways. Both words are shorthand for a narrative, a boss story, a myth. We are biomythic animals autobiographical animals who may become our own storytellers,
Secular–Its organizing myths
Secular–“the world” as opposed to the church. In essence, the opposite of sacred.
Sacred–from sacrere—holy.
November 3, 2011 Honoring Sam Keen – 6th Annual Marin Visionary Mill Valley Community Center 6:00 -8:30 pm
Sam will speak on Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred with reception, culinary delights and a silent auction to follow.
July 1-3, 2011 – Emerald City Trapeze Arts, Seattle, WA
Join renowned author and philosopher Sam Keen for a 3-day flying trapeze workshop series! Best known for his book, Learning to Fly, Sam Keen will guide you through this unique inward-outward adventure in self-exploration. This is a great challenge for spirit and body, a chance to take stock of your life, discover where fear holds you back, and define the risks you want to take.
Flying trapeze provides an ideal environment in which to learn about
courage and trust, and experiment with letting go and moving on. This controlled danger provides a safe opportunity to confront and transform fear.
Each day we will practice the art of the flying trapeze on a full circus
trapeze rig complete with safety lines and a net. Beginners welcome! All abilities and ages (above 6) are encouraged. With professional instructors, a safety belt and net, you will be as safe as is possible but will experience the joy of flying.
Following each flying session, you will be invited to discuss how you
dealt with fear, terror and courage. We will also explore what the
practice of trapeze might teach us about emotions and skills that are
necessary for creative living – confronting fear, gaining courage, letting
go, trusting, balancing, remaining centered.
May 4-9, 2010 The Polarity Center, Zurich Switzerland
- May 4. Lecture. Myth, Body and Disease
- May 5. Workshop. Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
- May 7-9. Workshop. Reclaiming Your Body
June 25-27, 2010 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck New York
- What’s Next? Reviewing and Revisioning your life.
July 30-31 , 2010 1st Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA
Brother David Steindl-Rast and Sam Keen, both incisive thinkers and spiritual explorers, will headline an event called“A Spirited Life in the Secular World,” on July 30 & 31, 2010, at First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Together they will explore this fundamental question: What does it mean to get beyond the veneer of gratitude in popular culture and live a spirited life?
