CHANGE AS A CONSTANT:
Adapting, Surviving, Thriving
Thursday Half-Day Conferences
March 8, 2012
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES TO COMPETITION AND AGGRESSION
Setting the issue: Sarah Roche-Mahdi, CODEPINK
Anne Macksoud will show and discuss her film Missing Peace: Women of Faith and the Failure of War
March 15, 2012
THE POWER OF VOICES FROM OUR PAST: HAUNTING...INHIBITING...LIBERATING?
Setting the issue: Maryfrances Davis,* Charlene Brotman,* and Anna Donovan*
Lecture by Mary Catherine Bateson, writer & cultural anthropologist, author of Composing a Life and Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
March 22, 2012
HEALING OUR GRIEF: MOVING THROUGH MAJOR TRANSITIONS
Setting the issue: Joey DuBois*
Lecture by Jean Marchant, womanpriest, previously
director of healthcare ministry for the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
March 29, 2012
GLOBAL ALERT: HOW CAN WE PROSPER WITHOUT GROWTH?
Setting the issue: Annie Hoffman
Lecture by Julie Nelson, Chair UMass Boston Dept of Economics, research fellow Global Development & the Environment Institute, Tufts University
April 5, 2012—NO TOP LECTURES—Venue unavailable
April 12, 2012
PARTNERING AND UNPARTNERING AS LIFE CHANGES
Setting the issue: Marcia Miller Boehlke*
Lecture by Nancy Feth, relationship counselor
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April 19, 2012
SEXUALITY AND SENSUALITY THROUGHOUT LIFE
Setting the issue: Chris Farrow-Noble*
Lecture by Gina Ogden, sex therapist, researcher, author of The Return of Desire and The Heart and Soul of Sex
April 26, 2012
FREEING YOUR SPACE AND YOUR LIFE: THE EMOTIONAL PROCESS OF DECLUTTERING
Setting the issue: Jadzia Allison*
Lecture by Gail Steketee, Dean BU School of Social Work, co-author of Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things and Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding
May 3, 2012
RISKING CHANGE: CONFRONTING VERBAL ABUSE
Setting the issue: Paula Chandoha*
Lecture by Jan Bergstrom, relational and trauma therapist
May 10, 2012
FEELING "AT HOME" DURING YOUR LIFE'S JOURNEY
Lecture by Carol Johnson, Unitarian Universalist minister
Lecture by Macy DeLong, the founder and manager of Solutions at Work helping people move out of homelessness
May 17, 2012
MAINTAINING YOUR CENTER WITHIN CHAOS
Setting the issue: Beth Cohen
Lecture by Susan Trausch, former Boston Globe reporter,
author of Groping Toward Whatever – or How I Learned to Retire (Sort Of)
*- Advisory Committee member
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Thursdays 10am-12.30pm at University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop St, Cambridge MA - just east of JFK St near the Kennedy School of Government.
To register for the series or for more info: WE/TOP, 1130 Old Marlboro Road, Concord, MA 01742 • 978 505 7385 • ExecutiveDirector.TOP at gmail dot com
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February 2012 • WE/TOP, 1130 Old Marlboro Road, Concord, MA 01742 • 978 505 7385
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