The Climate Psychology Alliance -North America 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 Bateson’s Climate, Psychology, and Change: Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and Climate Anxiety. 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.
Jun. 28, 2024
9:00 - 10:30 AM Pacific
With Nora Bateson & Steffi Bednarek
Cost:
$10 - CPA-NA Members
$20 - CPA-NA Non-Members
Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”. An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles, released by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity. Read more
Steffi Bednarek works at the intersection between climate change, complexity theory, and the human psyche. With 25 years of experience in systemic change, complexity thinking, and climate psychology, combined with her own experience of leading teams and consulting organizations, Steffi addresses the urgent need for regenerative change in ways that go beyond the mere correction of what is visible and measurable on the surface. Her work delves into the deeper conditions that hold a problem in place. Read more.
This dialogue is offered through Climate Psychology Alliance - North America.