Angeles Arrien
is interviewed by cohosts Kat Tansey & Nancy Marriott
on the Finding Magic In Midlife show
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Dr. Angeles Arrien is an anthropologist, educator, award-winning author, and consultant to many organizations and businesses, including the Fetzer Institute. She lectures nationally and internationally; conducting workshops that bridge cultural anthropology, psychology, and mediation skills. Read more.
Requests for her expertise have taken her to Bali, China, Indonesia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Germany, Ireland, South Africa, and Canada. Her work with multi-cultural issues, mediation, and conflict resolution has been used with the International Rights Commission and the World Indigenous Council.
For over 30 years, Dr. Arrien has examined the way diverse cultures handle the challenges that are unique to the 'great crossing' at midlife. In The Second Half of Life, she retrieves the world’s vital wisdom teachings that have opened people at midlife to the deeper mysteries of who they are and why they are truly here. Her work has been featured on CNN and her books, including The Four-Fold Way and The Second Half of Life (Winner of the 2007 Nautilus Award for Best Book on Aging), have been translated into 13 languages. She has received three honorary doctorate degrees in recognition of her work.
Dr. Arrien has taught in the University of California at Berkeley, Los Angeles, Irvine, Davis, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco. She is an associate professor at two Bay Area graduate schools, the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is the founder and president of the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research, and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
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