Trees and Tree People-A Lecture with Jean Shinoda Bolen

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Presented by CIIS Public Programs & Performances

Part of the lecture series 'Bending Towards Justice: Exploring Individual and Social Transformation'

The learning experience that led to this talk and Jean Shinoda Bolen's latest book, Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet, began when a huge, beautiful tree in front of her house was cut down through a vote by a homeowner's association. The tree came down while she was at the United Nations, where in a conversation about her unsuccessful effort to save the tree, Gloria Steinem remarked; "Remember Jean, you are a writer, and a writer has the last word." That there is a difference between "tree people" and "not-tree people" was a beginning insight. Her words will lead us from knowledge of what trees are and what they do, to the symbolic, sacred meaning, soulfulness, and wisdom of trees. She invites us to be mystical activists, visionary activists, and sacred-feminine feminists - to heed a call that touches heart and soul.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine, Urgent Message from Mother, and Like a Tree. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. http://www.jeanbolen.com

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