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Spring Conference
Annual Symposium
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Thursday Lectures
Programs Outside the Center
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Clinical Conference
October 5, 2007
Changing Emotional Beliefs that
Guide How We Live
Priscilla J. Friesen, LICSW
9:30-3:30
Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church
3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW Washington, DC
All lives are guided by “emotional beliefs” developed early in life in the family emotional process. These consist of persistent ideas that affect a lifetime. “I am bad” and “It’s my fault” are two examples of emotional beliefs. How one responds organizes the physiology of the brain as demonstrated by biofeedback technology. This day will explore “emotional beliefs,” perception, and the development of the brain in the family process. Bowen family systems theory serves as the broader framework for change and neurofeedback provides information about emotional beliefs at the level of brain activity. With neurofeedback people can interrupt brain patterns and old scripts. This process assists the larger goal of working on differentiation of self.
Thursday Professional Lecture
October 4, 2007
Belongingness and the Origins of Religion:
Thinking Beyond the Genes
Barbara King, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
7:30 PM
Georgetown Family Center
Thinking systems about the deepest roots of human religious behavior is a challenging but rewarding task. Drawing on my recent book, Evolving God, I argue that a key to understanding the prehistory of religion centers around belongingness, the primate need to matter to others. Evidence from anthropology, ranging from ape empathy to Neanderthal burials to early human art, reveals what happens when primates come together in the processes of emotional “meaning-making.” This focus escapes reducing religion to the God genes or God memes of recent popular science.
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