What if the universal attitude was one of kinship with all dynamic beings?
About this Event

This educational course meets online every other Friday from January 17, 2025 - March 14, 2025, from 3:00PM - 4:30PM.
The dates are as follows: January 17, January 31, February 14, February 28, March 14, 2025

KINSHIP OBJECT: A Creation Engendered from the Bewilderment of a Pillaged World

Humankind is reaching a breaking point whereby the prevailing forces of relating are wholly characterized by greed, hate, and domination. This worldview objectifies and reduces other humans perceived as different, and animals, birds, insects, trees, and plants as lesser and expendable. What if the universal attitude was one of kinship with all dynamic beings? A stance that values all forms of living matter as one of us; where relationships are characterized by reverence, reciprocity, and the real sense that there is abundance. Possession of love, hate, and concern (Winnicott, Suttie, Fairbairn), selfhood and otherness (Laplanche, Goldin), and the thinking and kinship apparatuses (Bion) in equilibrium may engender abundant internal and therefore external space for all of earth’s creatures.

This course will offer contemplative space for being with and clinically organizing around the kinship object elements. Psychoanalytic and sociocultural synthesis may be incorporated into our clinical work as activism to help our clients (and us) experience greater wholeness and connection with the sentient world. Please come prepared for a deep, broad, and intimate discussion.

Fore more details about this event, CE, and general information, please visit https://ncspp.org/events/kinship-object-creation-engendered-bewilderment-pillaged-world