Facing Fear and Loss (In-Person)

Fear is an inevitable life experience, and a natural response to loss and to threats to safety and wellbeing of self or others. Ignoring these threats is not helpful and often exacerbates problems. What if, instead of running away from negative or unwanted experiences, we learn to face them? Facing these challenges directly is a doorway to creative potentials, new possibilities for improved mental health, and personal safety. Using an interactive process and contemplative methods, we will share personal experiences of fear and loss and practice opening to the present moment – even if it’s full of dread. Join us as we learn to welcome difference and change, and find ways to live with life just as it presents itself.

Mary Rees, PhD, investigates creativity and subtle levels of consciousness. She has been practicing contemplative awareness since 1975 and teaching awareness since 1989. Her programs facilitate individual and group discovery processes with focus on embodied consciousness and emergent knowing. Mary is the author of Being Prayer (2004) – a book about living fully on the cusp of unfolding experience – and is exploring access to emergent knowing in human experience and scientific research.

This program is being offered IN-PERSON only, and will NOT be recorded.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.