Demaris Wehr PhD
Author
Peacebuilder
Speaker and Workshop Leader
Jungian Psychotherapist and Spiritual Counselor
FALL 2021
In Finding Our Way Home you will learn:
- A clearer sense of your own values that are essential to resilience
- How to identify and prioritize what sustains you through chaos and crisis
- How to cultivate inner strengths you didn’t know you had
- The Power of Connection – by becoming part of an intimate community of fellow learners on this same journey
Using ritual, reflective writing and artistic creative prompts from her peace building work in Bosnia, Demaris will help you identify your unique “centerpost,” the core values that you unconsciously hold that are essential to finding your way home to that centered place within.
THEMES
Finding Your Centerpost
Forgiveness
Is it possible to move beyond hate, revenge, and/or dissociation . . . even in the face of genocide? Is authentic forgiveness of the perpetrators even a possibility? What would the process look like?
Topics range from owning feelings of hate, revenge, and aggression, and the ultimate task of working toward authentic forgiveness of oneself and perpetrators. Demaris will cover the psychological implications of a lack of true forgiveness: a lifelong “possession” by a murderous hatred and an unquenchable longing for retribution, or a permanent wall of denial and dissociation.
Archived Presentations
Core Faculty of “Seeing Red: The Emerging Feminine in Turbulent Times,” 2016-2019
Core Faculty of “The Sophia Center for Transformative Education,” 2019-present
April 2019
Speaker and Workshop Leader
The Harmony Institute
St. Petersburg, Russia
Finding Your Centerpost
Making It Home
2016 -2019
Webinars for Seeing Red
The Lives of the Bosnians;
Jung and Feminism;
Facing Mortality;
Forgiveness: Even in the Face of Genocide;
and other topics
February 2019
Lecture at Hanover Friends Meeting,
Hanover, NH
Making It Through
April 2019
Speaker and Workshop Leader
The Harmony Institute
St. Petersburg, Russia
Finding Your Centerpost;
Making It Home
April 2018
Speaker and Workshop Leader
The Harmony Institute
St. Petersburg, Russia
Making It Through
November 2017
Keynote Speaker for conference sponsored by Seeing Red
The Emerging Feminine in Turbulent Times
September 2017
Webinair sponsored by
Seeing Red
The Emerging Feminine in Turbulent Times;
Making it Through
November 2016
Keynote Speaker for conference sponsored by Seeing Red
The Emerging Feminine in Turbulent Times
October 6-9, 2016
Featured Speaker
Seeing Red Conference
Stonington, CT
Sponsored by the Assisi Institute
Seeing Red in Bosnia:
The Birth of the Feminine
in the
Midst of Genocide
January 2015
Vineyard Haven
Library
Vineyard Haven
Making It Through
January 2015
Vineyard Haven, MA
Forgiveness: Even in the Teeth of Genocide?
February 2015
Center for Spiritual Living
Santa Fe, NM
Sponsored by the Jung Institute
Forgiveness: Even in the Teeth of Genocide?
February 2015
Center for Spiritual Living
Santa Fe, NM
Sponsored by the Jung Institute
Workshop: The Psychology of Forgiveness
February 2015
Han University
Tucson, AZ
Sponsored by the Tucson Friends of Jung
Forgiveness: Even in the Teeth of Genocide?
February 2015
Han University
Tucson, AZ
Sponsored by the Tucson Friends of Jung
The Making and Unmaking of a Perpetrator
April 2015
Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting,
Black Mountain, NC
Sponsored by the SVFM
Forgiveness: Even in the Teeth of Genocide?
Excellent presentation last night, Demaris. Very moving and informative and thought/feeling provocative. Thank you for helping us to extend our hearts to others in the world and helping us to find our common humanity.
Gail Tipton Artist, videographer and dancer; Martha's Vineyard