Seed-Planting for Post-Tragic Consciousness
a talk with Jeff Hilliard
6:15 - 7 pm
in the Community Wellness Tent
This 45-minute “seed-planting” is a pitch for how Post-Tragic Consciousness is a necessary upgrade in how we orient to the truth of suffering, harm and imperfection in human life. Through a process of “voice dialogue,” we’ll feel together three stances towards the Tragic: the Pre-Tragic (a form of forced innocence), the Tragic (a hard reckoning with the mean & broken) and the Post-Tragic (a mature awareness capable of effective, hope-free action). Across personal, social, political and environmental dimensions, stakes are high. The open-secret seed to the Post-Tragic paradigm is that the power necessary to sustain healing, restoration and justice only comes through spiritual practice.
Meet Jeff Hilliard
Jeff Hilliard is a counselor, group process leader; married with Shelly, father to Holly and Gwen, grandfather to Artemis; mentor and artist, compelled toward synthesis and intergenerational transmission.
“When we said we would focus on mental wellness at the festival, we meant it! And I couldn’t think of anyone better to bring in to talk about mental wellness than my own therapist, lol. So... it’s my great honor to introduce Jeff Hilliard.
Jeff is spiritually tapped in without dogma, emotionally present without judgement, and has become both a sounding board and a spiritual mentor for me. There are large chunks of my life I’m not sure I would’ve survived without Jeff.
I feel so incredibly lucky that he has agreed to share his wisdom with so many of you in our community this year at Soil & Sky.”