Unfreezing the Future
Dealing with Change by Riding the Dynamic of Time
with Jack Petranker
Today, more than ever, change is the only constant. We try to deal with it by making plans and trying to make them happen: I’ll live here; I’ll succeed in my career; I’ll have great children. But how does that work out in practice? Right now, are you where you thought you would be? Have you accomplished what you hoped to do? Are you surprised by how things have gone? By what is going on right now in the U.S.?
Look at your own life, and you will see that the future seldom unfolds the way we thought it would. Trying to freeze the future in place with our plans is a hopeless task.
We can do it differently. Instead of trying to make things turn out the way we want, we can let the dynamic of the always-arriving future power our lives from moment to moment—an endless source of creativity and an unending resource for fulfillment.
Date and Time
Thursday, January 29th, 5:00-6:00 pm, one session
Location
2210 Harold Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Price
This event is FREE and open to the public!
Instructor
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Jack PetrankerInstructor
Jack Petranker (he/him) is the founder of CCI and regularly offers courses and retreats. He is the author of When It Rains, Does Space Get Wet? (Dharma Publishing 2006), and has written numerous academic articles in consciousness studies, organizational change, political transformation, and the value of work as a spiritual practice. Jack holds an MA in political theory from UC Berkeley, and a JD from Yale Law School. He is also the Director of Mangalam Research Center in Berkeley, CA.
