Visiting Scholar Bruce Reis
February 21st, 2026
Second Fridays – March
March 13th, 2026
Second Fridays – February
Tell A Story/Create Action
Jen Bradwell, Discussant Lee Slome, PhD
Friday Feb 13, 6:30 PM – 8:45 PM
2nd Fridays
In the documentary film, Make A Circle, Jen Bradwell and her co-director engage the audience in a process that builds from the personal to the political. Focusing on childcare workers and how they are extremely valuable, culturally competent, and caring while simultaneously being underpaid and undervalued by our society. With this story as a background, we explore the process of telling a story in such a way that it creates action. In other words, how do we develop ideas to create a feeling of generativity and action. Bradwell will discuss her ideas of story development and we will link it to the work of PINC’s Community Psychoanalysis Track & Consortium (CPT&C). We will explore parallels between the film's story and the CPT&C — the power of unconscious processes within and between nested groups; how to build and thicken community; and ways to galvanize organized movements that facilitate social and psychoanalytic change.
CE Credits offered: 2
Course Objectives
After completing this course participants will be able to:
- Using Winnicott’s concept of potential space, participants will list five elements of storytelling and how these elements can be used to symbolize and then catalyze social change.
- Building upon a relational understanding of psychoanalysis, participants will investigate the how to make storytelling impactful through thinking about editing structures and narrative arcs.
- Participants will learn how critical film viewing might reveal the ways in which foundational concepts in psychoanalysis are being rethought and sometimes challenged by contemporary, interdisciplinary theory.
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Event Start
Location
Online via Zoom (Pacific Time Zone)
CA
United States
CA
United States
Event Fee(s)
| No fee | $0.00 |
| Suggested donation | |
| General | $20.00 |
| Member | $10.00 |
| Student | $5.00 |
| CE Credits (2) | $20.00 |