Bill Cornell, Friday, June 19th, 12:00-1:15 pm ET / 6:00  70 mins

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Come join us for an enlivening and inspiring conversation with Bill Cornell.   We will offer this broadcast live on Crowdcast -an interactive webcast platform.

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About Bill

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Join us for an Essential Conversation with therapist and teacher Bill Cornell. 

Being part of the transactional analysis community for over forty years now, Bill Cornell has contributed to the weaving of its fabric in various forms and he has engaged vigorously with its members in further developing TA theory and technique. He is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (in the field of psychotherapy), a co-editor for the Transactional Analysis Journal, and the author of a rich series of books and journal articles.

His background includes having studied behavioral psychology (at Reed College in Portland, Oregon) and phenomenological psychology (at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA). At the same time as training in transactional analysis, he trained in Radix, a neo-Reichian body psychotherapy. The intricate relations between these frames of reference have influenced Bill’s own approach to theory and practice.

He was awarded the Eric Berne Memorial Award in 2010 for the contributions he made to transactional analysis theory regarding the notions of life script, the Child ego state, and protocol.

 

Writing and supporting references

HI Bob,

I wanted to check back with you to make sure you will still be free to do another Essential Conversation this Saturday at 12 Noon ET.  

I am really interested in a conversation about The Return Home stage of the HJ:

  • Of how our prior awareness of and participation in The Hero’s Journey myth may now be calling us back to a return – perhaps how some of us may have delayed or cut off from this stage of the journey, or maybe just got lost on the way home.  Has there also been a refusal of the call to return home?   What is the price of ignoring this now?  
  • How much are we still railing against and still rejecting the world as it is?  Are we still too much caught up in our emotional reactions to what is taking place right now – by the virus, by world leaders, by the divisiveness we encounter and participate in – to know our deepest values, and our most authentic responses to what we are now facing?
  • Campbell once said the following:  “The boon bestowed upon a worshiper is always scaled to his or her stature and the nature of one’s dominant desire: the boon is simply a symbol of life energy stepped down to the requirements of a certain specific case.  The irony, of course, lies in the fact that, whereas the hero who has won the favor of the god may be for the boon of perfect illumination, what he or she generally seeks are longer years to live, weapons with which to slay the neighbor, or the health of one’s child.”
  • How is this not also true in terms of how we are to now take stock of what we have to contribute to the circumstances we face?  How do we refuse to do the work of considering our most authentic response to what is now taking place in the world, based upon the lessons we have learned thus far, and the gifts we have been given – given that this world may be in short supply of what we have to give, or in dire need of those capable of living between polarizing opposites – just like the PPEs that are desperately needed in hospital ERs.  How are we to be Emergence Room nurses, for the ones who make it to there?
  • I keep on coming back to the emerging myth of the Ensemble Hero.  How are we to participate as ‘one among the many’ in ways that help us to contribute towards what is needed, and set aside our petty self interests, and excessive self-concerns?  How can we best dance between the sacred and the profane, and do so with one another, while also sheltering in our places?  Is this indeed the ‘journey of a lifetime’ for many of us now?  Are we indeed the ones we have been waiting for?

Eager to know and hear your thoughts on any or all of these portals, Bob.  And want to make sure you are available for Saturday!

I had initially gotten in touch with Coleman Barks for this broadcast as well, to hear what Rumi would most want to be saying to us in times like these.  We was on board, but hasn’t responded back to my follow up emails.  So his participation on Saturday remains an unknown.

Look forward to hearing from you as always Bob.  I can talk some more on Friday, if you like, to set the stage for Saturday.

Warm greetings from Pittsburgh,

Michael

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Guest Preparations for Use of Crowdcast Software for Online Video Broadcasting

https://www.crowdcast.io/setup – This is the “test” feature, to make sure your computer’s microphone and camera are working properly.

http://www.speedtest.net/ – this is the internet speed test, to check speeds.

https://tlk.io/herosjourney – this is the link to chat for tech support. (open a new tab)

Event Preparation – ½ Hour Before Event

  • Host, Community Chat Hosts and Guest(s) get on Crowdcast.
  • Guests are welcomed to the “Green Room” – check headsets and view of the background, make any other audio or video adjustments.
  • Chat hosts deal with pre-welcome, tech questions etc.

Event Launch – Going ‘Live’

  1. Pre-welcome by Hosts in the Chat: Thank people for joining and let them know what time things will kick off. Ask people to share what locations they are joining from as they enter the chat, and while they’re waiting.
  2. Welcome: HJF Rep introduces Event, Michael and guest- Mention guest’s name and the topic. Thanks attendees for joining.
  3. Instructions: Introduce Crowdcast forum, walk them through the features and where to participate. If they are to hold questions until later in the event, let viewers/audience know; tell them where to submit questions.
  4. Formal introduction of Guest: Introduce Bob and give perhaps a short bio? Introduce the topic and it’s relevance to today’s life, and our own evolution.
  5. Bring Bob live online.
  6. Janet to Host Community Chat, Anna to host tech support on a separate chat. https://tlk.io/herosjourney
  7. Q&A and wrap-up: We will provide a link to stay informed about our ongoing Essential Conversation series, and to any books or workshops Bob would like to promote!