| Making Peace with Conflict
Ralph Metzner and Martine Amita Algier
Combining didactic theory and experiential practice, this
workshop is designed to help you bring about more balance
and peace in both your inner states and in your relations
with others. Participants will learn and practice intrapsychic
peacemaking through the meditative divination methods developed
by psychotherapist Ralph Metzner. As described in his book,
The Unfolding Self, these methods help to “integrate
the shadow” and “reconcile with the inner enemy.”
Participants will then learn and practice interpersonal peacemaking
through the processes of nonviolent empathic communication,
developed by Marshall Rosenberg in his book Nonviolent Communication.
Working with the “shadow” or “inner enemy”
is a key component of Jungian transpersonal psychotherapy
and of most spiritual growth practices. In this way, you learn
to come to terms with that elusive part of yourself associated
with feelings of fear, rage, frustration, threat, or despair,
and thus release hidden reservoirs of self-knowledge and creative
self-expression.
|  Ralph
Metzner, PhD, is a psychotherapist who
has been exploring states of consciousness and
transformational practices for more than 30 years.
He is a professor at CIIS, where he teaches courses
on ecopsychology and ecological worldviews. Ralph
is the author of several books, including The
Psychedelic Experience (with Timothy Leary
and Richard Alpert); Maps of Consciousness;
Know Your Type; Opening to Inner Light; and
The Well of Remembrance: Rediscovering the
Earth Wisdom Mythology of Northern Europe.
 Martine
Amita Algier is a certified trainer with
The Center for Nonviolent Communication and a
member of the West Marin Community Mediation Board.
She has 25 years of experience in consulting and
teaching transpersonal psychology, holistic healing,
and conflict resolution as key components in community
building.
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