In Person Seminar as part of two-day retreat

Montville, QLD, Australia.

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A two-day seminar-retreat in Montville with Safron Rossi, Ph.D.

What returns a sense of soul to the world? Amidst the psycho-social fragmentation of the digital age, how can we care for our ecology of mind?

In a peaceful natural setting fostering community and reflection, this seminar-retreat weekend will engage these questions. We will explore perspectives and ideas from depth psychology, philosophy, mythology, and the arts and humanities to revitalize the connections between our inner and outer lives in a rapidly fragmenting world.

Working from the themes of his recent book, Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age, Dr Glen Slater will explore the challenges posed by the digital world that now encompasses us and set out some pathways through these challenges. We will consider the psychosocial implications of present and pending technologies, which suggest we find ourselves at an historical pivot point.

We have begun to experience a disruption of our inner ecology that is analogous to the disruption of our outer ecology, one that also portends a posthuman merger of human and artificial intelligence. Leaning on the ideas of C.G. Jung for a deeper understanding of this predicament, Dr Slater guides us to see the nascent stirring of other ways forward.

This one-day seminar will focus on the greater appreciation of the differences between consciousness and intelligence, the need for a more enchanted mode of being in the world, as well as the prospect of a “co-creative” engagement with broader forms of intelligence—particularly those that make us more fully and deeply human. Writing reflection exercises and discussion will be part of our process.