Center for Action and Contemplation

GENDER HEALING:  THE POWER OF RECONCILIATION
Thursday, July 21, 2011
 9 am - 4:30 pm       
“The gender crisis is a collective spiritual crisis,
and transforming relations between
feminine and masculine dimensions of human society
is fundamental to creating lasting, positive social change.”

No society on earth is free of gender imbalance between the masculine and feminine. Both women and men are afflicted by gender injustice, and each needs the other for a true and complete healing. 

The Power of Reconciliation fosters new dimensions of transformational healing and reconciliation between women and men, developing skillful new ways to work together in jointly embracing challenging issues around gender, sexuality, and related cultural conditioning.  Developed over 19 years, Power of Reconciliation is a spiritually grounded process that fosters deep healing and renewed harmony between the sexes.

This day will be an introductory experience of the Power of Reconciliation, and will show the potential that can be unleashed as men and women come together for healing.  Through prayerful ritual and skillful experiential exercises, participants will be invited to begin healing the split, both in word and in experience. 

Presenter Bios:

William Keepin, Ph.D. and Cynthia Brix, M.A., M.Div are directors of the Satyana Institute (www.satyana.org) and founders of its Power of Reconciliation International project, which has convened 65 gatherings on five continents for healing and reconciliation between women and men.  They recently completed training of 33 professional facilitators in Power of Reconciliation in South Africa, and they are currently launching new trainings in Kenya and India.  Will and Cynthia are authors of Divine Duality: the Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men (Hohm Press, 2007) and Women Healing Women: A Model of Hope for Oppressed Women Everywhere (Hohm Press, 2009), endorsed by Richard Rohr as “pure Gospel.”  Will and Cynthia are adjunct faculty at Holy Names University, and are launching a new training in Power of Reconciliation for seasoned professionals in North America, to begin in late 2011.

Will is a physicist and retreat leader in interfaith spirituality with a background in environmental science and transpersonal psychology.  He is co-author of Song of the Earth: The Emerging Synthesis of Spiritual and Scientific Worldviews (Permanent Publications, UK, 2011).  He was a whistleblower on nuclear science policy (recounted in Cultural Creatives, P. Ray and S. Anderson, Harmony Books, 2000), and presented his research on global warming in testimonies to the U.S. House of Representatives and the parliaments of several countries.  Will is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation, certified facilitator of Holotropic Breathwork, and he leads interspiritual retreats in South Africa, India, and North America.

Cynthia is an interfaith minister and spiritual director with a background in wellness and gerontology.  She was formerly a campus minister at the University of Colorado, and she co-chaired the Race Relations Committee in Muncie, Indiana. Cynthia co-founded the Women’s Spiritual Mastery project, which convenes gatherings to bring leading women spiritual masters together with women seekers across the faith traditions, and produced a conference DVD in 2009, Cultivating Women’s Spiritual Mastery.  A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran, Cynthia has led meditation workshops and taught courses on women mystics.