Navigating New Directions with Keith Herron – G25120201
My journey across the arc of life is not at all unique. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end as Aristotle and Billy Collins and others have suggested as the basic building blocks of every story. The stories appear to be linear, one after the other, but at the same time they are cyclical and the cycle of stories are commonly experienced by others whose stories are intersected.
Linear, one after another, can purposefully take us from our beginnings, meander through the middleness of life, and come back to merge with one’s endings. The challenge of life can be tracked as part of a large cycle of challenges, from dependence to independence to interdependence and eventually circling back to dependence. These sessions will give us an opportunity to explore meaningful stories we hold within the library of our life’s stories and to explore how we change the direction of our lives by navigating in new directions. Life is a catena of choices, each with the power to pursue our goals or to change the direction of our lives.
We will explore those threshold moments of formation, integration, and intimacy as we integrate the parts into a meaningful whole.
Instructor
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Keith HerronKeith Herron has a foot in two worlds, the spirit and the psyche. He is a professor, a writer, and an occasional retired minister. In his studies in narrative psychology, he authored a book, Living a Narrative Life, Essays on the Power of Stories (Smyth & Helwys, 2019), a book of exploration and practice that narrative groups can use to delve into the stages of life and the stories we’ve held inside that help us understand ourselves and give meaning to our self-understanding. Along his journey, he has written widely for online publications and provided social commentary for several outlets. He teaches a doctoral class for Central Seminary, “Understanding Yourself and Others” and leads narrative workshops for groups wishing to explore life’s meanings.