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Richmond IONS February 2022 Meeting

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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Central VA IONS Community Group Meeting November 18, 2017

Featuring a talk by Dr. Elena Mustakova-Possardt

Where: River Road Church – Baptist, 8000 River Road (NW corner of River and Ridge Roads),

When: Saturday, November 18, 2017, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by potluck lunch at the conclusion of the program.

Central Virginia IONS Community Group Program Title:

“A Systemic Approach to Health in a Troubled World.”

Our November 18, 2017 program will feature a talk by Arlington author, clinical researcher, developmental psychologist, and spiritually oriented psychotherapist, philosopher and metaphysician, Elena Mustakova-Possardt, Ed. D., LPC.

Dr. Mustakova addressed our group in September 2015 and is back by popular demand. As previously, her talk will focus on the multitude of existential, metaphysical, moral and spiritual
challenges we face in the modern world that often, if not surmounted, impede, impair or undermine our efforts to build healthy lives for ourselves, our families, and our local, regional, national and international communities.

More and more, we recognize that our modern world is creating the context for what the World Health Organization has identified since the year 2000 as a Global Social Breakdown Syndrome. This syndrome is ubiquitous and cross-cultural. No socio-economic group, no matter how privileged or well-heeled, is beyond its reach or immune to it.

While we may see its most extreme forms today in places like the Middle East and parts of Africa, we also see its effects across Europe and the United States at individual, community and societal levels.

Our homegrown epidemics of mass shootings, gun violence, suicide, opioid addiction and the extreme and unsustainable polarization of our social, economic and political systems are among the many ways this syndrome is manifesting itself in our own culture.

In 2015 Dr. Mustakova explored the implications of understanding a healthy life in terms of physiological, relational and social coherence. Now she will offer an integrated systemic framework within which to consider what a balanced approach to health may look like for ourselves, our families and our society in our deeply divided and dysfunctional modern world.

Dr. Mustakova is in great demand as a speaker both in the U.S. and abroad, and we are very pleased and grateful to have her for a return engagement as our November 18 guest speaker.

About Dr. Elena Mustakova-Possardt, Our Richmond IONS Presenter:

Dr. Mustakova 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 devotes 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), and recently co-authored a volume entitled Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era. See www.elenamustakova.net for her full bio.

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Richmond IONS Meeting, September 19, 2015

Featuring a Talk by Dr. Elena Mustakova-Possardt

“Can We Experience Healthy Lives in Our Troubled World?”

Our September program will feature a talk by Arlington author, clinical researcher, developmental psychologist, and spiritually oriented psychotherapist, philosopher and metaphysician, Elena Mustakova-Possardt, Ed. D., LPC.

Her talk will focus on and explore the multitude of existential, metaphysical, moral and spiritual challenges we face in the modern world that often, if not surmounted, impede, impair or undermine our efforts to build healthy lives for ourselves, our families, and our local, regional, national and international communities.

More and more we recognize that our modern world is creating the context for what the World Health Organization has identified since the year 2000 as a Global Social Breakdown Syndrome. This syndrome is ubiquitous and cross-cultural. No socio-economic group, no matter how privileged or well-heeled, is beyond its reach or immune to it.

While we see its most extreme forms today in places like the Middle East and parts of Africa, we also see its effects across Europe and the United States at individual, community and societal levels.

Dr. Mustakova will examine with us the implications of understanding a healthy life on several levels: physiological coherence, as measured by coherent heart rhythms; relational coherence, as measured by coherence of relationships; and societal coherence, as measured by a systemic “social health” approach to creating a framework for mental health and well-being for all.

She brings a unique focus on the nexus between mindfulness as a path to health and dialectical historical understanding as a path to personal empowerment and well-being in an age of anxiety. Dr. Mustakova is in great demand for speaking engagements both in the U.S. and abroad, and we are very pleased and fortunate to have her as our September 19 guest speaker.

About Our 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 fifteen years of clinical experience with individuals, couples and families dealing with anxiety and depression, relational dynamics, addictions, and severe mental illnesses.