Bring your urgent questions to this seminar and join me in exploring:

• What is the purpose of my life?
• What ought I to do?
• For what may I hope?
• Whom do I love? Why?
• What curtails my freedom?
• How can I escape from the constricting social, political, sexual, and economic myths that were imposed on me by my family and culture?
• To what cause, ideal, faith may I surrender without destroying the integrity of my self?
• What does it mean to experience the sacred?
• How can I live a spirited life in a world dominated by a secular-technological-economic vision of reality?
• What is my credo? My philosophy of life?

In this workshop you will:

• Explore the myths, scripts, stories, and hidden assumptions that shape and control your life.
• Share stories about your heroes, enemies, wounds, gifts, fears, and hopes.
• Re/member the people, places and pivotal events that informed your life.
• Recover childhood dreams and project your fondest hopes into the future.
• Create an outline of your autobiography, a narrative of what your life has been about.

Please bring a large journal in which you can draw and write, a box of crayons or colored pencils, and photograph album containing pictures from various times and places in your life. You may want to read Your Mythic Journey by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox. Jeremy Tarcher Books.

In this workshop you will explore:

• Where you are in your life-cycle.
• What you have accomplished and experienced thus far.
• What's old, stale, worn-out, boring.
• What new, Interesting, exciting,appealing.
• What decisions you need to make.
• What destructive patterns you repeat.
• What debts of gratitude you have not repaid?
• What future you foresee for yourself.
• What hasn't happened yet.
• What promises and potentials are still unfulfilled.
• What your legacy will be.
• Your dreams, values, visions.

To help in this review and revision assemble objects that might be useful to a biographer who was going to write the story of your life. Photos from different times. Diaries that show how you have changed over the years. Newspaper clippings about your accomplishments. Objects that were especially important to you. Songs that moved you. Bring a blank book and colored pencils.

Some lecture/seminars on this theme

The Art of Making Enemies
Demystifying the rhetoric of war. Deciphering propaganda. Exploring the psycho pathology of enmity and the archetypes of the hostile imagination, the images used to dehumanize enemies and justify discrimination, warfare, and genocide.

The New Enemy. 9/11 and Beyond
Confronting Islamic terrorists. Why do they hate us? How do they view us? How do they view themselves. How do we view them? How do we view ourselves?

Our Clandestine Love Affair With Violence
Exploring our cultural fascination with the myth of redemptive violence. Contrary to popular opinion, far from hating violence, we are involved in a perverse love affair with political, personal and symbolic forms of violence because they satisfy certain essential human needs. In short, our mythology of violence is a pseudo-religion that provides us with a dramatic view of life, a world that is understandable and the (illusory) possibility of eliminating evil

Killing for God: Jihad, Holy War
A lecture illustrating the unholy relationship between religion and warfare, the ways in which warfare is always turned into a crusade, a holy war, a battle against an evil empire and religious institutions cooperate in the process of sanctioning the killing of enemies. It also raises the question of what religious institutions might do to end the habit of using violence as a tool of political policy.

Men, Women and Warfare
A lecture making use of images of the ways men and women appear in the war and peace propaganda of various nations to examine the relationship of gender to violence. Why is it that war is nearly always a man's game? What do men pay for being warriors who are expected to kill and women for being exempt from military service? Is the warfare between the sexes a result of male specialization in violence and the female specialization in nurturing? Would we be a more peaceful species if males and females shared the burden of violence more equally?

Taming the Monster: Deconstructing the Warfare System
How might we go beyond the myth and practice of war? Wake up from the nightmare of violence? See through the illusion created by the propaganda of warfare? Create a moral equivalent of war? Who are the individuals and NGO's that are already creating alternatives to war?

• A reverent way of being in the world.
• Religion without superstition.
• Spirituality without sentimentality.
• Personal epiphanies
• The endless path of the unfathomable psyche
• Approaches to the unknowable God.
• Recovering a Sense of the Sublime.
• The Return to Enchantment.

In this workshop we will examine the more poetic, mystical, psychologically sophisticated, liberal strands in the Christian tradition to see what treasures we might find buried under our own hearth.

• Ways the psyche is in-formed and mis-informed by the stories, scripts and myths that are imposed on us by our families and our culture;
• How psychotherapy can aid us in re-membering our "fated" past and free us to create a more satisfying future;
• The nature of spirit as the human capacity to transcend the psyche, to go beyond the limits imposed on us by the myths and social conditioning that have in-formed us;
• The disciplines necessary for undertaking a spiritual quest; constructing a spiritual bullshit detector;
• Mapping the geography of the spirit;
• The limits of psychotherapy and psychotherapists;
• The nature of spiritual author-ity, companionship and guidance.

• Men and women post 9/11
• Gender and the politics of anxiety
• New metaphors and myths
• Metrosexual men and executive women
• The New Woman Warrior
• Women in body bags
• The future of gender, the future of war

In this workshop we will examine:

• The myth that informs your corporation
• Stories, rituals, rites of passage and insignia of power
• Stories your company--corporation tells about itself
• Corporate goals, visions, values
• What you sacrifice for success?
• How you deal with conflict
• Standards by which you judge a corporation to be healthy
• Kinds of power
• When should a corporation change? Merge? Die? How may it be reborn?
• What kind of future do you desire?

Bring a portfolio of stories, gossip, a willingness to think about business and corporate life in new ways, and a playful spirit.

To visit Bhutan is to step back into a way of life that is rich in tradition, pervaded by a sense of the sacred, and filled with a kind of contentment that is beyond the imagination of most modern people. It is a rare privilege to be among the high mountains, the fertile valleys and the gentle people. It is a journey that you will remember for a lifetime.

If you are interested please contact: Sam Keen at 707-996-9010 or Brent Olson at Geographic Expeditions: 1-800-777-8183