Pacifica Graduate Institute Hosts – Response at the Radical Edge: Depth Psychology for the 21st Century

June 16-18, 2017:   In response to current global and national crises, Pacifica Graduate Institute presented this landmark conference featuring thought leaders and community partners standing together at the radical edge of depth psychology and social engagement.  Changing times call for a changing conference – and a conference on change – that is community-based, liberation-centered, and engages directly with the numerous threats now at the threshold of our political horizons.  Pre-conference workshops and keynote presentations on trauma, narcissism and rage, the role of “genius” and mythic thinking, as well as themes of embodiment, psyche and technology, archetypal activism, and war-induced trauma, weaved their way throughout this powerful weekend of shared vision and renewed mission.  Pacifica, with its distinctive soul-tending approach in engaging these topics, responded with depth psychologically-informed insight to both the plight of the present and the pull of the future