CCI News: Jack Petranker to Give Talks at Brandeis and UVA
Theme: Stories
We tell stories to make sense of what is happening. When the stories we tell about our lives substitute for the immediacy of experience, this can be deeply problematic. Caught in our stories, we live on the surface of our lives. But we do not have to set our stories aside. We can inhabit them and let them come alive.
That approach makes good sense in these times, because we have a love affair with stories, from the entertainments we consume voraciously, the explanations that science offers up in the name of truth, or the founding story that each of us enacts—the story of the self. Contemplative traditions sometimes ask us to let go of our stories, but the real trick is not to get lost in their content, and instead use the power of stories in creative and healing ways.
Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Mindfulness, Identity Politics, and the Construction of the Self
Talk on Monday, March 17 @ 2:30 pm
Shiffman Hall
The Self as Story
Experiential Workshop on Tuesday, March 18 @ 10:00 am
Golding Center
Both programs are sponsored by the Religious Studies Program and
Center for Spiritual Life.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville Virginia
Stories
Salon on Thursday, March 20 @ 3:30-5:00 pm
Contemplative Sciences Center, Contemplative Commons
Salons are monthly open dialogues on cutting-edge research related to contemplation and flourishing with UVA and local community members in the Contemplative Commons, hosted by the Contemplative Sciences Center's CIRCL: Contemplative Innovation + Research Co-Lab. Centered on a single word, these gatherings bring together scholars, scientists, and practitioners from diverse perspectives to exchange ideas, generate knowledge, and seek solutions to global challenges.
