Wisdom Meditation: Resource for Soulful Activism with Gary Raucher, LMFT, RDT

How do we nurture perspective when hopes for progress "hit the wall?"
Many Wisdom and Spiritual traditions hold the paradox of Wholeness: The One in the many & The many in the One. An experience of Wholeness is easily lost, though, in reactive Us-Them polarization that can arise in well intentioned efforts to realize holistic ideals through activism, especially when systemic injustice appears to be gaining ground. Burn-out and depression can discourage those seeking social justice. How do we attain spiritual poise in conflictual, dispiriting times?

Wisdom Meditation is a contemplative path that nurtures practical inclusiveness and group consciousness - the intuitive and evolving recognition that one is simultaneously an individual AND a drop in humanity's collective spiritual being. Group consciousness is distinctively different than group-think, a contracted form of self-identification rooted in exclusionary, fear-based affiliations.
Gary will address Wisdom Meditation as a practice for aligning one's actions to guidance from the Soul. Such practice synthesizes, in consciousness, outward diversity and inward unity - a necessary perspective for activists. There will be a brief demo practice and Q&A.

Gary Raucher, core faculty CIIS Drama Therapy Program, has been a Certified Teacher of Wisdom Meditation since 2012.