Immersive Evening: The Enchanted Self with Brooke Williams

Brooke Williams is joining us! Author of five powerful books from his solitary journeys through nature, he brings us into our own deep inner wilderness as he speaks on The Enchanted Self.

His latest book, Encountering Dragonfly (releasing April 8, and available early at our event), will be weaving some new magic to ask us to venture further into nature, listening for our own encounters.

Join us as Brooke Williams, the final presenter of our season and a pied piper of conscious wonder and inquiry leads us into our own enchanted world.

We sat around the table at our monthly board meeting a year ago. Brooke had popped in for us to meet each other and discuss "possibilities." It's how he is. In-person, thoughtful, eternally inquisitive, and far-flung in the vast universe of ideas and deep connection with all the living things of the world.

We laughed, told stories, shared Chris' amazing cocktails, and found ourselves transported to some alchemical dimension an immeasurable distance from that dining room table... And our own bright-eyed curiosity and wonder have lingered ever since.

How fortunate we are to welcome this dear fellow-traveler on the road of consciousness and possibility. His playground is the natural world, his teachers are dragonflies, his friends are the eons of the earth's history, good questions, and, by great good fortune, each of us.

Immersive Evening: The Enchanted Self

Friday, April 4th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

UMOCA Theater

20 S. West Temple, SLC UT 84113

Opening Poet: Jess Gainer

Live Music: Scott Wright Instagram

Community Art Exhibition: DRAGONFLY

Submit your dragonfly art here.

Schedule:

6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle

7:00 – 8:30 pm: Immersive Talk with Geneen Marie Haugen

8:30 – 9:00 pm: Community Social

TICKETS: $20 Advance Tickets | $25 Same Day, if available (Free for Members)

1.5 CEUs available for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)

Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!

Interested in this topic? Join us for the companion Depth Workshop on Saturday at FULL CIRCLE YOGA & THERAPY.

Workshop Saturday April 5th, 1pm - 5pm

Spreading Enchantment: How the Planet might make best use of us

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About Brooke Williams:

Utah-based author, Brooke Williams, (Instagram: @brookusi) writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. His new book, Encountering Dragonfly chronicles his journey toward re-enchantment by following dragonflies into a new relationship with the natural world, and into conscious evolution of our day-to-day reality.

In his own words...

For most of my life I’ve been passionate about the wild world. Earlier, this meant skiing and climbing in some of the great mountains of America, wandering the cliffs and canyons of the Colorado Plateau or naturalizing in some of the planet’s last great Edens.

Lately, during long solo walks I’ve discovered my own vast and complex inner wilderness. I write in an effort to understand the importance of inner and outer wildness in modern life.

Years ago, after encouragement from my mentor, the great teacher, William Kitteridge, I realized that the one story I would tell over and over again for the rest of my life would be this:

“We live in bodies that are largely unchanged since the Pleistocene, trying to make them work in a world which is vastly different from the one for which evolution designed us. Perhaps acknowledging this is a big step toward solving some of our current problems.”

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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Goldenbraid Books, The Nomad Literary Magazine, Vivia Baldwin, and Amanda Butler LMFT

Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, Christian West Photography & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy

Host or Publisher Jung Society of Utah