Ethnoautobiography Workshop with Leny Strobel & Jürgen Kremer

Ethnoautobiography (EA) is the practice of radical presence. Our modern life has led to disconnection and dissociation from the elements that now necessitate the recovery of this radical presence and our sense of wholeness and well-being. Through the centering of indigenous perspectives, EA offers a framework for reconnecting with: Ancestors, History, Community, Place, Nature, Mythic Stories, Dreams, Holosexuality, and Spirituality. In this workshop, we will center the storytelling self and we'll share exercises and recommend practices that you can integrate into your daily walk. Ethnoautobiography sees Ethnic Studies and the Psychology of Identity as the critical and transdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, border-crossings, migration, and indigeneity.  Leny's BioLeny Mendoza Strobel is Kapampangan from the Philippines and is currently a settler on Pomo and Coast Miwok lands (Sonoma County, Ca). Her work has focused on the process of decolonization and re-indigenization. Most recently, she facilitates a local place-based cohort with the vision of "repair and reparations" with local indigenous communities. She is a founding Elder at the Center for Babaylan Studies and is Professor Emeritus of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She tends a garden and chickens with Cal.www.lenystrobel.com@lenystrobelJurgen's BioJürgen W. Kremer received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Universität Hamburg, Germany. In 1982 Jürgen settled in the San Francisco Bay Area to teach full time and serve as dean at Saybrook University and at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His teaching and research interests range from general psychology, clinical psychology and research methods to the relevance of indigenous knowledge and shamanism for today as well as ethno-autobiography. For many years now he has developed conferences and other events for the Society for Indigenous and Ancestral Wisdom and Healing. His research has focused on his ancestral traditions and he has spent much time visiting with the Sami of the European Arctic. For four years he co-directed, with Dr. Apela Colorado, a program for Native American students and others concerned with indigenous roots and origins. He is a consultant for psychology of indigenous mind with the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network. Jürgen is widely published and he is the editor of the journal ReVision (revisionpublishing.org). One of his current projects is the development of a program for Indigenous Science and Peace Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica.