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Topic: GLBTQI* Pride Month: A Celebration of Recovery, Mental Health and Wellness (*Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex)

Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010

Time: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time / 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Central Time

3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time / 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time 

Speaker:   Edward Schreiber

Edward Schreiber is a Trainer, Educator, Practitioner of Psychodrama and an author and editor of a number of books.  His life story is an example and an expression of our ability to access inner power and move through and beyond challenges and barriers.

Edward Schreiber has served as clinical director of the addiction services at Harvard Medical School, teaches a course at Lesley University, and originated a program at the Boston Living Center that teaches a method for awakening the autonomous healing center within the individual as well as within groups and organizations.

Edward is a person with a long and rich history of experience with and recovery from mental, physical and spiritual conditions, including extreme states involving trauma and addiction.

Introduction:

Long before the rise of the patriarchal structures of power there were 10 roles in indigenous or native societies.  In his book, Coming Out Spiritually, Christian de la Huerta identifies ten spiritual roles that the GLBTQI community has assumed throughout the course of history:  catalytic transformers, outsiders, consciousness scouts, sacred clowns, keepers of beauty, caregivers, mediators, shamans and priests, the Divine androgyne and gatekeepers. 

Drawing on these roles while acting as a guide to the GLBTQI community, the author shows how to look deeper inside; to reach higher than ever before; to step forth more fully into a rightful self.  An impassioned call to action, Coming Out Spiritually alternatively touches, challenges, encourages, and supports the community to fully reclaim its spiritual heritage.

It is time for us to look inside, to do the work of self-discovery and reclaim our spiritual nature as teachers, healers, prophets, artists, visionaries, mediators, messengers, entertainers, priests and priestesses, and keepers of beauty.

In this presentation we will offer participants the opportunity to discuss:

• Offer an overview of the original roles of GLBTQI people.
• How to reclaim these roles and their meanings around power based upon the work of Zerka and Jacob Moreno, founders of Psychodrama.
• The expanded expression of the psychodramatic method, called Sociatry:  the healing of self and society.
• A general framework for how to reclaim, work from and live with our real power, related to the source that animates life itself.  This is called the "autonomous healing center." 

Resources:

• Christian de la Huerta. Coming Out Spiritually.
• Moreno, Zerka, and Edward Schreiber. The Quintessential Zerka.

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