Love and Rage: Weapons for Fighting Evil in the Modern Age

The upheaval and change permeating our public and personal lives can leave us feeling anxious, enraged, hopeless, and depressed.

This prerecorded interactive webinar offers you practical tools for coping.

We start with a radical premise: what is happening in the world today is much bigger than any one crisis, leader, political party, or ideology. It is symptomatic of a dark, destructive force sweeping across the world.

That force is getting us to demonize one another by blinding us to our shared human-ness. As it succeeds in pitting person against person, group against group, the ensuing chaos distracts each of us from the important work we should be doing—the inner mission for which we were created. And as a result, we become passive—glued to our screens and paralyzed with anxiety, helplessness, and impotent rage.

For most of human history, this force has been called the force of evil. It, more than any particular person or ideology, is the real enemy. In our view, as horrifying as it is to confront evil, doing so holds the greatest opportunity for personal growth and effective social action.

Guided by Barry Michels and Kristan Sargeant, you learn how to identify evil and how to use Cosmic Rage and Active Love to combat it in your life.

Barry Michels is coauthor of The Tools, a New York Times bestseller, and its sequel, Coming Alive. The resident therapist for goop.com, he has appeared on Nightline, Charlie Rose, and The Dr. Oz Show, has given a Google Talk, and has been featured in The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Psychology Today, and Vanity Fair. Barry has a BA from Harvard, a law degree from University of California, Berkeley, and an MSW from the University of Southern California. He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1986.

Kristan Sargeant is a coach and therapist committed to helping individuals and organizations realize their full potential. A passionate advocate for women, she has produced three TEDxWomen events and coached more than 30 TEDx speakers. Prior to starting her private practice in 2007, she built an international wellness company from the ground up and grew it to over $500m in revenue. Kristan has a BA from Columbia University, an MA in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and spent a year studying Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge University.

Date of original webinar: June 27, 2020