We are awash in an array of deeply painful, systemic and seemingly intractable problems in our world. Geopolitical conflicts are finding their way to our communities and neighborhoods, supply chains hang in the balance of a warming and violent world, and social contracts are fraying. Our world’s tangle of troubles have found us, whether we like it or not.
Amidst all of this, we have a responsibility to update our own perceptions about why people respond the way they do. We often direct our anger, grief and sadness towards ourselves or others who are “not doing enough.” This session goes underneath this dynamic, to surface the psychology of facing existential crises that seem so intractable and out of control. We will explore frameworks and tools that help reset this looping of “I am not doing enough” and “they are not doing enough,” grounded in Dharma and evidence-based psychological practice. What possibilities might such a reset open up for us all?
