Announcement:

Friday - February 9 - PBS showing

Tutu and Franklin - A Journey Towards Peace

Filmed in Senegal, South Africa and the United States. Archbishop Tutu and Dr. John Hope Franklin in conversations with each other about their personal struggles to guide South Africa and the US towards racial peace and reconciliation, joined by an international interracial group of 21 teens confronting their ethnic stereotypes of each other.

Middle Age Development

Bennet Stage Model

Racism - Cancer

Both are often not acknowledged until they are in advanced stages

Disease model of racism - Rutstein

Chronos - time speeding up, severance from natural world

The faster we go, our connections with the natural world lessen

Ecopsychology

Crisis = danger/opportunity

Midlife issues -

Midlife crisis

Sandwich generation - role reversal - "Lifeline" song

Compassion fatigue/burnout/ respite

Gender roles

Sexuality

Partners