Tantra Talks – Conversations of Consciousness with Deb Merchant
$22.00
As a person who identifies as (pun intended) a visionary, mystic, agent of change, and even cultural evolutionary, I see identity as a leverage point for individual, cultural and global change. In other words, my call to pay attention to identity is but one way in a collaborative collective of ways to bring humanity to its next, life-enhancing whole. I’ve been called to address identity as an access point to reawaken and re-establish unity in human nature. If I’m going to facilitate renewing and restoration of identity, I’m going to give every opportunity for a person to use various building blocks to generate a new world for themselves and thus for everyone whose lives they touch.
As a clinical psychologist, I have seen changes in self-perception or identity be the difference between a young person believing they could make it out of their poverty-stricken, violent neighborhood or remaining stuck in life-defeating circumstances. I’ve seen changes in identity make the difference in a person healing from PTSD, restoring their relationships with spouses, children, and other elements of society so they could find a meaningful, satisfying life again. I’ve seen changes in identity be the source of a person becoming able to be kind, vulnerable, and to operate in mostly life-enhancing ways. This changes the individual’s life but also influences and thus changes, even upgrades, many facets of the world around that person.
-Deb Merchant
About Deborah Merchant:
Deborah Merchant is completing her PsyD degree at Saybrook University. She is finishing her dissertation, showing that the Language of Creation, among its other benefits, helps renew or restore identity after traumatic experience. Researchers have demonstrated that being able to bridge into a new or renewed identity after traumatic experience significantly reduces debilitating symptoms and helps people restore connections with the world around them.
Deborah has known and worked with Tantra since 1988, being extended family as well as business partners during this time. Over all the time they worked together, most of the questions and issues brought by clients were transformative matters. In other words, people searched for input providing concrete or logistical answers, but also sought to be a different person on the other side of their issues, and to find a sense of belonging and community. This resulted in almost all of Deb and Tantra’s work to be focused on awakening and restoring unity based consciousness as a response to individual and collective issues, allowing people to move individual and collective matters to new paradigms of response and interaction.
Deborah lives near San Francisco, CA in a lopsided 107-year old craftsman house with a marvelous yard cooperating in its restoration to being a beautiful natural space again. She lives with her husband, grown children, grandson, several animals who claim them as their humans, all of whom are on the path to fulfilling their dreams.
Tantra Talks – Conversations of Consciousness with Deb Merchant
$22.00
As a person who identifies as (pun intended) a visionary, mystic, agent of change, and even cultural evolutionary, I see identity as a leverage point for individual, cultural and global change. In other words, my call to pay attention to identity is but one way in a collaborative collective of ways to bring humanity to its next, life-enhancing whole. I’ve been called to address identity as an access point to reawaken and re-establish unity in human nature. If I’m going to facilitate renewing and restoration of identity, I’m going to give every opportunity for a person to use various building blocks to generate a new world for themselves and thus for everyone whose lives they touch.
As a clinical psychologist, I have seen changes in self-perception or identity be the difference between a young person believing they could make it out of their poverty-stricken, violent neighborhood or remaining stuck in life-defeating circumstances. I’ve seen changes in identity make the difference in a person healing from PTSD, restoring their relationships with spouses, children, and other elements of society so they could find a meaningful, satisfying life again. I’ve seen changes in identity be the source of a person becoming able to be kind, vulnerable, and to operate in mostly life-enhancing ways. This changes the individual’s life but also influences and thus changes, even upgrades, many facets of the world around that person.
-Deb Merchant
About Deborah Merchant:
Deborah Merchant is completing her PsyD degree at Saybrook University. She is finishing her dissertation, showing that the Language of Creation, among its other benefits, helps renew or restore identity after traumatic experience. Researchers have demonstrated that being able to bridge into a new or renewed identity after traumatic experience significantly reduces debilitating symptoms and helps people restore connections with the world around them.
Deborah has known and worked with Tantra since 1988, being extended family as well as business partners during this time. Over all the time they worked together, most of the questions and issues brought by clients were transformative matters. In other words, people searched for input providing concrete or logistical answers, but also sought to be a different person on the other side of their issues, and to find a sense of belonging and community. This resulted in almost all of Deb and Tantra’s work to be focused on awakening and restoring unity based consciousness as a response to individual and collective issues, allowing people to move individual and collective matters to new paradigms of response and interaction.
Deborah lives near San Francisco, CA in a lopsided 107-year old craftsman house with a marvelous yard cooperating in its restoration to being a beautiful natural space again. She lives with her husband, grown children, grandson, several animals who claim them as their humans, all of whom are on the path to fulfilling their dreams.
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Title: Tantra Talks with Deb Merchant
Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
5:00-6:00 PM