What Matters: Conversations

How can psychology, science and spirituality contribute to the healing of our souls and our planet? How can we draw upon our inner resources of wisdom, strength, acceptance, peace and joy?“What Matters: Conversations” explores how, in these uncertain times, we can connect with the richness of our inner world and make a difference in the outer world through the framework of the transpersonal psychology: psychosynthesis. Dr. Roberto Assagioli, the 20th century Italian psychiatrist and founder of psychosynthesis, called his approach "a spiritual psychology founded in the synthesis of western positive science and eastern esoteric wisdom." Through the theory, maps and tools of psychosynthesis we become better able to align and ignite our inner resources, live more harmoniously and cooperatively with others, and honor both humanity and the earth that is our home. Join us with our hosts, Craig Behenna and Christina Gustafson, in conversation with psychosynthesis practitioners in the fields of coaching, health and healing, business, spirituality, education and the arts - conversations to inform and inspire, to awaken your purpose and create your life.

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What Matters: Conversations

What Matters Conversations with Molly Young Brown

September 28, 2021 • Craig Behenna and Christina Gustafson hosted by Synthesis Center San Francisco • Season 1 • Episode 4

How can we come to terms with personal and cultural challenges and transform our fear and grief into action that inspire us to channel our gifts to make a positive difference in the world?

How can we discover the fluid nature of purpose through expanding our awareness, tuning in and being informed by our own experience and live life joyfully?

Join us for our interview with long time Psychosynthesis psychotherapist, author and The Work That Reconnects instructor to learn more about how she discovered Psychosynthesis, studied with Roberto Assagioli and delved more deeply into systems thinking and the ecological self to help bring Psychosynthesis principles from the personal to larger arenas of the environment, social issues and the body politic that impact us all.

Learn more about how Psychosynthesis has informed Molly's contributions to The Work That Reconnects and how important this work is for the myriad challenges we have been and continue to face in our world.

We discuss the Great Unraveling, facing uncertainty and fear and stepping into our deeper calling. "The call is always there, we are often just making too much noise to hear it."

About Molly Young Brown:
Molly Young Brown, M.A., M.Div. lives in Mt Shasta, CA with her husband Jim. In her work as a writer, workshop facilitator, and life coach, she draws on the Work That Reconnects, psychosynthesis, and systems thinking, and specializes in working with activists. She co-authored with Joanna Macy both editions of Coming Back to Life (1998, 2014) and edits an online journal, Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects. Her other publications include: Growing Whole: Self-realization for the Great Turning; Unfolding Self: The Practice of Psychosynthesis, Held in Love: Life Stories To Inspire Us Through Times of Change (co-editor Carolyn Treadway); and Lighting A Candle: Collected Reflections on a Spiritual Life. Website: MollyYoungBrown.com

Recorded January 8, 2021

Your Hosts:
Craig Behenna is an Australian Psychosynthesis Life Coach and facilitator with the Synthesis Center San Francisco's Coaching Practice Group. He is also a filmmaker, screenwriter, former psychotherapist and, in a much earlier life, a lapsed accountant. Craig began practicing meditation with Thich Nhat Nanh and the community at Plum Village, France. He is also a member of Zen Peacemakers International.
Christina Gustafson is a is a Board Certified Coach and Psychosynthesis Life Coach. She is also Certified Massage Practitioner with advanced training in Myofascial Release, a Level III
Reiki Practitioner and a glass artist.

About Synthesis Center San Francisco and The Synthesis Center, Amherst, Massachusetts:
Synthesis Center San Francisco is a global community of students, teachers, practitioners and facilitators committed to supporting the next generation of psychosynthesis. We offer distance learning programs, including: Board Certified Life Coach training in psychosynthesis in collaboration with The Synthesis Center, personal development programs, continuing education, workshops, group and individual coaching.
https://SynthesisCenterSF.com

The Synthesis Center, based in Amherst, Massachusetts, has trained hundreds of individuals from across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Mexico, Asia and South Africa through their in-person and distance learning Psychosynthesis Training Programs. Under the direction of Dr. Dorothy (Didi) Firman, The Synthesis Center has been an international resources to the psychos