The Surprising Creativity of Grief: A Seminar for the Bereaved and the Curious by Dr. Betty J. Kovacs October 17, 2009

When someone we love dies, we are changed forever. Yet grief is a healing mechanism that can transform our lives in surprising and creative ways. Grief can focus our attention and inspire us to move beyond the present limits of our sight. We can adjust our senses to experience new ways of hearing, seeing and knowing what is real. We can learn that life and death, joy and sorrow, matter and spirit are inseparably intertwined. Grief can guide us into deeper orders of reality where we can live by the wisdom of our own experience rather than by our culture’s limited and outmoded definition of “reality.”

This seminar will focus on methods of working creatively with grief. Dr. Kovacs will also share some of her family’s precognitive dreams, visions, after-death communications and synchronistic events that surrounded the multiple deaths in her family. In addition, she will discuss new scientific insights on the survival of consciousness as well as cultural limitations that we must confront as we embark on our journey into deeper orders of reality. Q&A to follow the presentation.

PRESENTER BIO:

Betty J. Kovacs received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. She has studied and taught literature, mythology and symbolic language in Europe and the United States. She has studied the spiritual traditions of prehistory and indigenous cultures and has worked with shamans from the Amazon and the Andes in Peru. Dr. Kovacs has also served many years on the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont in California. She is author of The Miracle of Death; and “Journey of the Mothers” in Earthwalking Sky Dancers. She has presented numerous seminars on The Miracle of Death, The Surprising Creativity of Grief, Deeper Orders of Reality: Creating Our Future, and The Feminine Dimension of the Divine. Dr. Kovacs is gifted speaker, writer, and frequent radio guest. Visit her website at http://www.kamlak.com for upcoming events, articles, sample chapter of The Miracle of Death, and links to radio shows, and more.

LOCATION: Bodhi Tree Bookstore ANNEX
(Separate building next to bookstore, enter on Melrose)
8585 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069

REGISTRATION:
Register online (http://www.kamlak.com/kamlak_events.html), via phone, or at the door. For more information, contact Kimberly Saavedra at (909-282-2455).