Richmond IONS February 2022 Meeting (February 19) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Elena Mustakova-Possardt, Ed.D., LPC.
Where: Online and in person, through ZOOM (Meeting ID: 865 1815 1952, Passcode: 142841) and in person at River Road United Methodist Church, Contemporary Worship Center, 8800 River Road, Richmond, VA 23229.
When: On Saturday, February 19, 2022, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
Richmond IONS February 2022 Meeting
“Global Unitive Healing”
Our February 19, 2022 program will feature a talk by Elena
Mustakova-Possardt, Ed.D., LPC, an Arlington author, clinical researcher, developmental psychologist, and spiritually oriented psychotherapist, philosopher and metaphysician. Dr. Mustakova addressed our group in September 2015 and November 2017 and is back to discuss her new book, Global Unitive Healing (Fall 2021).
In her new book, Dr. Mustakova introduces a practical healing methodology for individual lives and nations in an ailing world. Her mission is no less than to awaken humanity to a collective authenticity and a unifying language of the heart for a diverse and interdependent global society.
Step by step,she weaves a path informed by the way of unity – a mid-19th century evolutionary leap of consciousness, which integrates Eastern and Western spiritual thought.
Claudia Weiss, IONS Board Chairman, contributed the Afterword for her book, and observes: “In her call for global unitive healing, Dr. Mustakova points to the need for a new ‘organizing paradigm that helps us understand and navigate global change and restructuring.’ That may be what will manifest the ‘Golden Age of Humanity’ she invokes.”
Dr. Mustakova will review with our group the multiple forms of wisdom she discusses in her book and how they may be combined into an integrated vision and accessible blueprint for inner and outer transformation.
She will share real life case studies to show how individuals can emerge from shattered lives and experience the journey
from confinement to wholeness and universal interrelatedness.
She also combines philosophical and mystical traditions as seemingly diverse as Ken Wilber’s integral philosophy with the teachings of the Baha’i faith. (Baha’i was a spiritual offshoot of Islam in Iran in the mid-19th century, which in many ways parallels the New Thought movement in the West that originated around the same time.)
In addition to her many other gifts, Dr. Mustakova is an exceptionally gifted and compelling speaker, and we are very pleased to have her back in person.
About Elena Mustakova, our Richmond IONS February 2022 Meeting Presenter
Dr. Elena Mustakova-Possardt is an Arlington-based psychotherapist and native of Bulgaria, who emigrated to the United States at 29. She has taught clinical psychology and related subjects at five universities in four countries (Zimbabwe, Switzerland, Bulgaria and the U.S.).
Now, she devotes herself full-time to private practice and has over seventeen years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, and families dealing with anxiety and depression, relational dynamics, addictions, and severe mental illnesses.
As a scholar and educator she has authored Critical Moral Consciousness: A Study of Morality in a Global Historical Context (Praeger, 2003), co-authored a volume entitled Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era, and her most recent book, Global Unitive Healing (2021). See www.elenamustakova.net for her full bio.
About Central VA IONS Community Group:
Central VA IONS Community Group is an unincorporated association and a local community group of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, an international association based in Petaluma, California (www.noetic.org).
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