Program Description: What wisdom do you have that you can pass on? Have the difficult times in your life left you bitter, seeking someone to blame? Or have they left you juicy with self-awareness, purpose, and humor? Have you become a crone? Join author and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen as she explores the enormous potential for wisdom in the last third of your life. "Any person who has made a deep connection to nurturing or sustaining others, any person who has been through vulnerability and suffering and has learned some wisdom from it," she explains, can embrace their later years with a depth of understanding that is of value to us all. (Hosted by Justine Willis Toms)
Dr. Bolen is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Her books include Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women (Conari 2003), The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World—The Essential Guide to Women's Circles (Conari 1999), Goddesses in Every Woman: A New Psychology of Women (HarperCollins 1984) and Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World (Conari Press, 2005). To Learn more about the work of Jean Shinoda Bolen go to www. jeanshinodabolen.com
Topics explored in this dialogue:
What it means for you to claim the title of crone
What is the freedom that comes with being a crone
How being in a woman's body affects her relationship to other citizens of the world
How men and women respond differently to stress
What it takes for a man to be a crone
What is the Millionth Circle Movement and why coming together in circles is important
