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Society for Consciousness Studies 2021 Conference Presentation Title:
Igniting the wisdom of feminine consciousness: A conversation with three women scholars
Abstract: In a time of pandemic isolation, polarity and shrinking woman’s rights, how can we expand and amplify feminine consciousness in a feminine way? Feminine attributes of receptivity, acceptance, self-reflection, holistic awareness, inclusiveness and whole systems thinking help us to form community, heal polarity and share information in a caring and sustainable way. Holistic awareness and receptivity allows us to be in the present moment, able to open to the powers of our consciousness, which flows out in a nurturing and supportive energy to those around us.
Acceptance allows us to surrender to the unknown and arising uncertainty, trusting that we can and will move forward to balance and create solutions beyond our current knowing. Agency, autonomy, respect and collaboration are all hallmarks of what we purport as feminine consciousness, allowing for each person’s integral individual process whilst promoting and honoring the expression of one’s innate gifts, unique genius, wisdom, emotional intelligence and authentic self.
The feminine consciousness offers stillness and reflection that is crucial to integration and integral thinking while also holding the active principle of shakti creating advocacy for inclusivity and community well-being. It is a wellspring of hope and inspiration in a world that is deeply imbalanced by a controlling and dominating sociocultural paradigm. Feminine Consciousness in action within societal systems expresses that each person becomes part of an open flow of information between the individual and community honoring the “complex sense of place” that exists within the ever-evolving, “creative cosmos”. While men and women approach power in equally important and different ways it is this dance of how we hold and use personal and positional power that determines the health and well-being of society.
PRESENTERS...
Dr. Elizabeth W. Krasnoff
Visiting Scientist, California Institute for Human Science
Bio: Dr. Krasnoff was born and raised in New York, living now on the west coast in San Francisco and in NY city. Her doctorate is in Transformative Studies, with a focus in Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her dissertation reviews the transformative effects of sound, specifically “The Effects of Auditory Binaural Beats on Consciousness and the Human Nervous System.” In 2015, she became a certified Energy Healer through the Academy of Intuition Medicine® Master Certification program (MIM), and received her Sound Healing and Therapy Certificate from the Globe Institute. Elizabeth is also a certified Heartmath® Practitioner. Her MA is in Depth Psychology and Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her BA in English with a Russian concentration was received from Boston College, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa cum laude. From 1994-1998 she lived abroad in Russia refining her comprehension of the Russian language.
Dr. Debby Flickinger
Affiliated Faculty, Union Institute & University
Bio: Dr. Flickinger is affiliated faculty at Union Institute and University (UIU) teaching doctoral courses on social justice, engaging difference, and sustainability through a caring science lens. She received her doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her dissertation was titled Learning with Hearts in the Trees (Transformation, Reflective, Education, Enlightenment, Sustainability): A Transdisciplinary Inquiry into Teaching Caring Sustainability to Children. Dr. Flickinger has contributed a chapter in Miracles and Mysteries Witnessed by Nurses, a collection of stories edited by Jean Watson, Ph.D., facilitated workshops, and participated on panels at various conferences around the globe, including Riga, Latvia, White Rock, BC, Canada, and Prague, Czech Republic.
Alethea Nerad
PhD Candidate, California Institute of Integral Studies
Bio: Ms. Nerad, MBC, CPC, is an eco-systemic scholar, alchemist in Heart Consciousness, transformative master coach in Women’s Empowerment and healing and a passionate advocate for civil rights and social justice. Alethea has a deep and extensive background in organizational/ systemic consciousness and is also known for her energy/healing work related to heart consciousness through facilitation of Women’s healing circles and ceremony.
She graduated with her Bachelor’s Degree from Occidental College-Los Angeles and received her Masters Degree from the University of St. Thomas-St Paul, MN where she focused on the cutting edge of non-profit/for-profit partnerships. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation entitled, Separation from the Real: The Power of Story at the Heart of the Civil Commitment Process at the California Institute of Integral Studies-San Francisco, CA in Transformative Studies.
Society for Consciousness Studies 2021 Conference Presentation Title:
Igniting the wisdom of feminine consciousness: A conversation with three women scholars
Abstract: In a time of pandemic isolation, polarity and shrinking woman’s rights, how can we expand and amplify feminine consciousness in a feminine way? Feminine attributes of receptivity, acceptance, self-reflection, holistic awareness, inclusiveness and whole systems thinking help us to form community, heal polarity and share information in a caring and sustainable way. Holistic awareness and receptivity allows us to be in the present moment, able to open to the powers of our consciousness, which flows out in a nurturing and supportive energy to those around us.
Acceptance allows us to surrender to the unknown and arising uncertainty, trusting that we can and will move forward to balance and create solutions beyond our current knowing. Agency, autonomy, respect and collaboration are all hallmarks of what we purport as feminine consciousness, allowing for each person’s integral individual process whilst promoting and honoring the expression of one’s innate gifts, unique genius, wisdom, emotional intelligence and authentic self.
The feminine consciousness offers stillness and reflection that is crucial to integration and integral thinking while also holding the active principle of shakti creating advocacy for inclusivity and community well-being. It is a wellspring of hope and inspiration in a world that is deeply imbalanced by a controlling and dominating sociocultural paradigm. Feminine Consciousness in action within societal systems expresses that each person becomes part of an open flow of information between the individual and community honoring the “complex sense of place” that exists within the ever-evolving, “creative cosmos”. While men and women approach power in equally important and different ways it is this dance of how we hold and use personal and positional power that determines the health and well-being of society.
PRESENTERS...
Dr. Elizabeth W. Krasnoff
Visiting Scientist, California Institute for Human Science
Bio: Dr. Krasnoff was born and raised in New York, living now on the west coast in San Francisco and in NY city. Her doctorate is in Transformative Studies, with a focus in Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her dissertation reviews the transformative effects of sound, specifically “The Effects of Auditory Binaural Beats on Consciousness and the Human Nervous System.” In 2015, she became a certified Energy Healer through the Academy of Intuition Medicine® Master Certification program (MIM), and received her Sound Healing and Therapy Certificate from the Globe Institute. Elizabeth is also a certified Heartmath® Practitioner. Her MA is in Depth Psychology and Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her BA in English with a Russian concentration was received from Boston College, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa cum laude. From 1994-1998 she lived abroad in Russia refining her comprehension of the Russian language.
Dr. Debby Flickinger
Affiliated Faculty, Union Institute & University
Bio: Dr. Flickinger is affiliated faculty at Union Institute and University (UIU) teaching doctoral courses on social justice, engaging difference, and sustainability through a caring science lens. She received her doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her dissertation was titled Learning with Hearts in the Trees (Transformation, Reflective, Education, Enlightenment, Sustainability): A Transdisciplinary Inquiry into Teaching Caring Sustainability to Children. Dr. Flickinger has contributed a chapter in Miracles and Mysteries Witnessed by Nurses, a collection of stories edited by Jean Watson, Ph.D., facilitated workshops, and participated on panels at various conferences around the globe, including Riga, Latvia, White Rock, BC, Canada, and Prague, Czech Republic.
Alethea Nerad
PhD Candidate, California Institute of Integral Studies
Bio: Ms. Nerad, MBC, CPC, is an eco-systemic scholar, alchemist in Heart Consciousness, transformative master coach in Women’s Empowerment and healing and a passionate advocate for civil rights and social justice. Alethea has a deep and extensive background in organizational/ systemic consciousness and is also known for her energy/healing work related to heart consciousness through facilitation of Women’s healing circles and ceremony.
She graduated with her Bachelor’s Degree from Occidental College-Los Angeles and received her Masters Degree from the University of St. Thomas-St Paul, MN where she focused on the cutting edge of non-profit/for-profit partnerships. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation entitled, Separation from the Real: The Power of Story at the Heart of the Civil Commitment Process at the California Institute of Integral Studies-San Francisco, CA in Transformative Studies.
