Psyche and Politics, Evening #1:
Seeding the Possibility of a New Story

CRAIG BARNES, J.D.

We live in a world that to a substantial degree esteems truth telling and survives commercially and politically through the practice of nonviolence, fair treatment for strangers and rewards for competence. I will suggest that these values are foundational and, further, that they are kept in the psyche by telling stories of kings and privateers, peasants and presidents. However, such stories are not, by contrast,
those of the feudal world which still retains personal government, corruption, clan, and violence as normal and essential. In conversations such as ours we are therefore in the process of crafting a story that sees the feudal world for what it is, and recognizes that the idea of the common good is not a slogan but a discipline, not a
restraint but a liberation.
Community Dialogue #1

Friday, September 16, 2009
7:00 - 9:30 PM

Santa Fe
Center for Spiritual Living
505 Camino de los Marquez

$10 - 2CEUs

For more information contact:

Jan Arsenault 505.983.2137.
Craig Barnes, J.D. "The work of a trial lawyer is to tell the court a compelling story; the art of a politician to weave his people into a larger history; the craft of a playwright to bundle moral crisis into a two hour story and the work of a mediator is to offer a new story out of the confusion of the old."

Craig Barnes has done all these, been a civil rights lawyer, negotiator of nuclear issues, mediated ethnic cleansing, is an author, playwright, radio commentator, husband of 51 years and challenged
grandfather of eleven.

Julie Kilpatrick, M.D., a Jungian analyst in private practice in Albuquerque, will be the conversationalist.
Three Evenings on Psyche and Politics

This year we are featuring, once again, a series of three evenings on "Psyche and Politics." This time the evenings will each be initiated by an invited speaker from the community who is Jungian in orientation while being actively engaged in various political realms. This year's invited speakers are Craig Barnes, Kathleen O'Malley, and David Barton. After their presentations there will be an interaction/conversation time with an analyst from the Institute, to be followed by an extended time for open discussion with an emphasis upon psychoanalytic reflections about our world.