Open Path provides people in need with access to transformative and affordable mental health care.
Our lecture series is designed to spotlight culturally impactful voices who pull from the pools of psychological and ancestral wisdom often overshadowed by mainstream values. In conversation with our audience of member therapists and other mental health professionals, our goal is to continue to weave rich dialogue into the conversation of what it is to be a human in all of its complexity, pain, confusion, search for meaning, and playful exuberance.
Here’s a taste of our lecture series:
Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D.
How do you rehabilitate a zombie? Abtherapy at the End of Time
“With dominant practices of psychotherapy focused on treatment, behavioral change, and healing, there is a sense in which therapy might become a holding place for bodies – a reproduction of stable identities along problematic lines and practices now called into question by civilizational crises.”
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Navigating Uncertainty with Courage and Tenderness
“With so many aspects of our lives impacted and disrupted by insecurity and change, we will create space to care for our nervous systems, deepen connection to ourselves and others, and become intimate with the real unreliability of our circumstances and where we can nevertheless find true refuge.”
Michael Meade, D.H.L.
Myth and Psychology at the End of an Era
“The conflicts and uncertainties of contemporary life can be seen as a spiritual crisis in which we must find a greater sense of self or become more subject to feelings of anxiety and helplessness. Amidst increasing social and personal disorientation, one of the few ways to find meaning and purpose is to awaken to the inner order, the shape and style of one’s own being.”
Toko–pa Turner
Dreaming: The World Behind This World
“Dreams are the living bridge to this otherworld, and like connective tissue to the wisdom of nature, are meant to shape us as individuals and as a species. Tending to this relationship between psyche and nature, we can learn to follow our inner wisdom to meet with the social, psychological, and ecological challenges of our time.”
Watch past lectures here.
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