![]() ![]() There are clues in the Octavia Butler Archives, a collection of 9,062 items filling 386 boxes that was donated to the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA after Butler’s death. How could an intensely shy little girl become a world-renowned, award-winning writer? How could an impoverished and overworked young woman emerge as a powerful prophet of the future? ![]() Her shyness combined with slight dyslexia made schoolwork difficult as well.Įstelle’s answer was to turn inward – to her own imagination – and outward, to the Pasadena Central Library, where she would spend countless hours reading fairy tales and horse stories, and later, the fantasy and science-fiction novels that would inspire her to become a writer.ĭespite so much stacked against her, this young woman would eventually become one of the most successful and influential science-fiction writers of her generation, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and in 1995 becoming the first sci-fi writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (known as the “Genius Grant”). Painfully shy and introverted from a young age, Estelle became an easy target for bullying at school. Known in her early years as “Estelle,” she was raised by a single, widowed mother who worked domestic jobs to make ends meet. Refund Policy: Refunds less a $15 handling fee will be given up until one week before the presentation.Octavia Estelle Butler was born in 1947 in Pasadena, CA. To better understand how we as clinicians can utilize narrative fiction as a means to examine unsettling social and political conditions with clients in an ethical manner.To increase understanding of the role of mythology and creative writing as channels for social critique.To increase critical thinking skills in order to apply interdisciplinary knowledge to clinical work and practice.Saturday, October 2nd, 2021, from 10:00 AM to 12:15 PM Pacific time– via ZoomĬost: $65.00 for the practitioners and $30.00 for students/candidates.ĬEU Learning Objectives (2 CEUs offered – including ethics): Participants will be sent a Zoom link in advance. Registration will close 24-hours before the start of the seminar. Butler’s Fictions. She is an organizer, educator, and teaches ethnic studies courses at California State University Polytechnic, Pomona. Her dissertation is entitled, ‘Certainty of the Flesh’: A Biomythographical Reading of Octavia E. The Legacy Network grew out of Ayana’s research for her doctoral work about Butler’s life. Butler Legacy Network, a global community committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work while creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. The Mythology and Depth Psychology of Octavia ButlerĪyana Jamieson is a Depth Psychologist and is the founder of the Octavia E. NEW DATE: Saturday, October 2nd, 2021, from 10:00 AM to 12:15 PM Pacific time– via Zoom ![]() In addition to her role as founder of the Legacy Network, Ayana is also an expert on Butler’s life and work, the Butler archives at the Butler’s life and work serve as a case study for moving toward psychological wholeness, surviving trauma and developing resilient narratives in unprecedented times. Butler’s empathetic and remarkable science fiction. Butler Legacy Network, Ayana Jamieson, we’ll explore the mythology and meaning of Octavia E. In this session with Depth Psychologist and founder of the Octavia E. Set in the 2020s in Los Angeles, this novel references a nation beset by climate change, widespread illness, economic collapse, scarcity of necessities, and yes, a zealot politician running on the platform to “Make America Great Again.” Over the last several decades, Butler’s prescience in Parable of the Sower has not gone unnoticed. Her novel Parable of the Sower, written in 1993, just hit the New York Times Best Seller’s list for the first time in September 2020, while Ava Duverney, Viola Davis, and others continue to work to bring her works to the small screen, adapting her novels Dawn, Wild Seed and Kindredfor television. Butler, passed away nearly fifteen years ago, 2020 has been a big year in her career. While award-winning speculative and science fiction author, Octavia E. Together we will seek new perspectives that may help us move into an open future. Stepping back from the present situation, we will reflect on the current moment through trans-disciplinary lenses including philosophy, theology, history, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and anthropology. In this intimate Saturday morning seminar, our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm, or pretend hopes. The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest. ![]()
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