Jean Houston, PhD
scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. Along with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston also began The Foundation for Mind Research. She is the founder and principal teacher of the Mystery School, a school of human development and program of cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies, dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the New Physics, psychology, anthropology, myth and the many dimensions of human potential. She is the Founder as well as the Program Director of the International Institute for Social Artistry. As advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development, she has worked to implement some of their extensive educational and health programs. With other international agencies, she has implemented the social development of indigenous people through the integration of their unique cultural gifts into their health and educational systems. She is one of the distinguished group chosen to work with the Dalai Lama in an advisory capacity, as well as serving as advisor to US presidents and corporations. To encourage the creation of new ways for people to work together to help solve societal problems, Jean created a national not-for-profit organization, The Possible Society.
Author of twenty-six books including, A Passion for the Possible, Search for the Beloved, Life Force, The Possible Human, Public Like a Frog, A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story, and Manual of the Peacemaker, her book Jump Time explores a new Global Paradigm and speaks of a re-genesis of human society. Her PBS Special, A Passion for the Possible, has been widely shown. Jean Houston’s ability to inspire and invigorate people enables her to readily convey her vision - the finest possible achievement of the individual potential.
Keynote: An Inner Space Odyssey: Exploring the Transformative Vision
Saturday, March 28 - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
These are the mythic years. We are an emerging species, gestating in the womb of time, gods in hiding, growing the capacities to serve the Earth. To accomplish this intent, we must explore the outer reaches of inner space. This is where we will learn to travel the worlds of myth, symbol and creative imagination: the building blocks that can incite our lives to grow to match our dreams. You are invited to explore and populate the vast imaginative dimensions of your inner spaces. These inner realities provide a primary source for all creativity, allowing you to enrich and enhance all your physical, mental and emotional capacities as you learn techniques to awaken previously latent potentials. You will discover your place in the collective New Story.
Goal: To explore the art and science of inner space – individual and collective, personal and transpersonal.
Learning Objectives:
- To explore alternative cognitive modes of thinking and imaging as gateways to latent human potentials in the therapeutic arena,
- To learn to use mind, imagination and will to design and create a fuller and richer inner life that can manifest in the everyday world, and
- To access the mind-body process of genius and high-level creativity.
Workshop: Re-Visioning Ourselves, Transforming Our World
Saturday, March 28 - 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
These are exciting times, with great potential for a collaborative multicultural global society. Leadership is ill prepared for the seemingly endless and overwhelming challenges facing us today. Training is insufficient, the systems in place are inadequate and the THINKING behind it all is ineffective in the long-term. It is up to us to do our part in ensuring the vision for the kind of peaceful, collaborative, non-exploitive world we want is realized. A world civilization – one that works for everyone – will maintain fierce and respectful individuation of cultures and peoples, coupled with an earth-centered, buoyant awareness of the spiritual dimensions within all things. We will come together to develop the inner skills that allow us to co-create this emergent paradigm.
Goal: To apply the holographic model of reality and the new physics of consciousness to everyday life – to expand the mind-brain system.
Learning Objectives:
- To utilize ancient as well as futuristic mind/body techniques to step outside of usual perceptions to see new solutions and possibilities,
- To explore ways in which we can become an evoker of new ways of being and meaning in cultural and community networks, and
- To craft a blueprint for a new paradigm to optimize individual/cultural/global potentialities.
