Golden Gate Center for Spiritual Living
proudly presents...

James O'Dea
“Creative Stress, a Path for Evolving Souls Living through Personal & Planetary Upheaval”

Sunday, August 29th

Service
10 -11:30am • Tithe (optional)
Corte Madera Recreation Center
498 Tamalpais in Corte Madera

Workshop
Discover how to work with stress as a catalyst!
1 - 4pm • $20 advance / $25 door
GGCSL Learning Center
199 Greenfield in San Rafael

The more we build our self awareness and inhabit our own in-the-present consciousness, the more we will see that stress is not designed to take away free choice—in fact, more than anything else, it can serve to rivet your attention to the moment of choice.

Stress reveals the fault lines of our psyche and the bedrock of our character like no power on earth. It traces the contours of our phobias and inhibitions, and it also marks with precision, the places where we go beyond our fears to create new experience and to live to our highest potential. It is often the spur to deep self-discovery.

James O'Dea is the former President of IONS and a native of Ireland. He created and currently co-leads a series of dialogues on social healing, and has just released a new book: Creative Stress, a Path for Evolving Souls Living Through Personal and Planetary Upheaval.

TESTIMONIALS!

It is a well-known truism that it takes a deep commitment to change; it takes an even deeper commitment to grow. In this brilliant and evocative book, the author makes the stunning if surprising case for creative stress as a major force behind growth and transformation. As readers we experience a mythic turnabout as we are lured into a state of being larger than our sorrows and more complex and satisfying than all our dreams. Truly, a wildly original and critically important work for our time and the unique challenges we face. --- Jean Houston, Author, A Mythic Life

James O'Dea has a uniquely kind and peaceful presence, and now he shares how we can find that for ourselves. This book delivers the medicine for our times. --- Marianne Williamson, Author, A Return to Love and The Age of Miracles

Every word of James O’Dea’s fabulous exploration into creative stress is an opening to our maturation and indeed fulfillment as a species. His book touched the very essence of my being; he radiates his presence, a loving and profound friend who really knows what he is talking about because he has been there! I felt him with us...warm and wise, intimately encouraging, challenging and illuminating our lives. He is a companion who guides us through the most difficult challenges as the actual energy to help us realize our ever emergent potential as cocreative humans. A great gift. --- Barbara Marx Hubbard, Founder, Foundation for Conscious Evolution and Author, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential

For info and reservations (preferred), please call 415-721-2492

BIOGRAPHY:

James O’Dea is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and was until recently its President. The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell which explores the frontiers of consciousness and global paradigm change.

James also spent ten years as the Director of the Washington Office of Amnesty International, where he testified before Congress, met with U.S. presidents and numerous foreign heads of state and government leaders, and represented Amnesty International to the State Department, the White House, and the World Conference on Human Rights.

Subsequently, he spent five years as Executive Director of the Seva Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to international health & development issues in Latin America, Asia, and on American Indian reservations. Seva is a Sanskrit word meaning service. Prior to that James lived and worked in Turkey and Lebanon, and witnessed civil conflict, war and massacre, which influenced him deeply.

James founded and co-led with Dr. Judith Thompson an international series of "Compassion and Social Healing" dialogues funded by The Fetzer Institute. The dialogues, spanning a seven year period, brought together leaders and activists in a variety of fields related to human rights, peace, and social reconciliation initiatives. James and Judith are currently involved in a major initiative to expand the theory and practice of social healing funded by the Kalliopeia Foundation.

Since 2008, James has been a member of the Evolutionary Leaders, a group convened by Deepak Chopra and Diane Williams to unify efforts in support of evolutionary changes in political, economic, ecological, scientific and health and healing arenas. He is also a member of the Global Systems Initiatives, an organization bringing a whole-systems approach to complex global issues, founded by Louise Diamond. He regularly participates in the Language of Spirit Dialogues which are convened by the SEED Graduate Institute for Native Americans, Physicists, and thought leaders.

He lectures all over the world, and has essays published in numerous magazines and books including currently the Mystery of 2012 (Sounds True); Consciousness and Healing: An Integral Approach to Mind Body Medicine (Elsevier) and Earthrise: The Dawning of a New Civilization in the 21 st Century (Goi).

Meet James! for complete details please visit https://www.jamesodea.com/

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Directions to Corte Madera Rec Center: SUNDAY SERVICE at 10am -
From Hwy 101, exit Paradise Drive/Tamalpais and head west on Tamalpais several blocks (just past Pet Club on your right). Free lot and street parking. (Wheelchair accessible facility)

Directions to GGCSL Learning Center, 2nd Floor: WORKSHOP at 1pm -
From Hwy 101, exit Central San Rafael and head West on Third Street approximately 1.3 miles. From left turn only lane (across from Bedrock Music in mini mall), turn left onto Ross Valley, go one block and turn left onto Greenfield and park (please do not park on Ross Valley). Walk to corner of Ross Valley and Greenfield and turn left (building entrance is on Ross Valley) then take stairs to 2nd floor.