Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she's always pursued the same deeply personal mission: to embrace the revolutionary belief that every human being, no matter how hateful or horrible, is intrinsically sacred.
Through her work and life experience she has both witnessed and celebrated the beauty of humanity but has also been overwhelmed by the viciousness between people. Faced with these realities, her work and writing has turned to navigating a looming crisis of faith. How can anyone cling to the values and ideals of justice, hope, love, and healing? What might happen if we imagine loving the people-and the parts of ourselves-that we do not believe are worthy of love?
Her latest book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human, is a transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path toward compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. Whether prayers or spells or poems-and whether there's a difference-she writes to affirm the outcasts and runaways she calls her kin. She writes to flawed but nonetheless lovable men, to people with good intentions who harm their own, and to racists and transphobes seemingly beyond saving. What emerges is a blueprint for falling back in love with being human.
Join Kai Cheng and QWOC, expressive arts therapist, and CIIS Counseling Psychology programs professor Jenna Robinson in a conversation about love, and what it means to truly embrace the beauty of being human.
Sliding Scale - $20-$0.
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Through her work and life experience she has both witnessed and celebrated the beauty of humanity but has also been overwhelmed by the viciousness between people. Faced with these realities, her work and writing has turned to navigating a looming crisis of faith. How can anyone cling to the values and ideals of justice, hope, love, and healing? What might happen if we imagine loving the people-and the parts of ourselves-that we do not believe are worthy of love?
Her latest book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human, is a transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path toward compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. Whether prayers or spells or poems-and whether there's a difference-she writes to affirm the outcasts and runaways she calls her kin. She writes to flawed but nonetheless lovable men, to people with good intentions who harm their own, and to racists and transphobes seemingly beyond saving. What emerges is a blueprint for falling back in love with being human.
Join Kai Cheng and QWOC, expressive arts therapist, and CIIS Counseling Psychology programs professor Jenna Robinson in a conversation about love, and what it means to truly embrace the beauty of being human.
Sliding Scale - $20-$0.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she's always pursued the same deeply personal mission: to embrace the revolutionary belief that every human being, no matter how hateful or horrible, is intrinsically sacred.
Through her work and life experience she has both witnessed and celebrated the beauty of humanity but has also been overwhelmed by the viciousness between people. Faced with these realities, her work and writing has turned to navigating a looming crisis of faith. How can anyone cling to the values and ideals of justice, hope, love, and healing? What might happen if we imagine loving the people-and the parts of ourselves-that we do not believe are worthy of love?
Her latest book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human, is a transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path toward compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. Whether prayers or spells or poems-and whether there's a difference-she writes to affirm the outcasts and runaways she calls her kin. She writes to flawed but nonetheless lovable men, to people with good intentions who harm their own, and to racists and transphobes seemingly beyond saving. What emerges is a blueprint for falling back in love with being human.
Join Kai Cheng and QWOC, expressive arts therapist, and CIIS Counseling Psychology programs professor Jenna Robinson in a conversation about love, and what it means to truly embrace the beauty of being human.
Sliding Scale - $20-$0.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
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Through her work and life experience she has both witnessed and celebrated the beauty of humanity but has also been overwhelmed by the viciousness between people. Faced with these realities, her work and writing has turned to navigating a looming crisis of faith. How can anyone cling to the values and ideals of justice, hope, love, and healing? What might happen if we imagine loving the people-and the parts of ourselves-that we do not believe are worthy of love?
Her latest book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human, is a transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path toward compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. Whether prayers or spells or poems-and whether there's a difference-she writes to affirm the outcasts and runaways she calls her kin. She writes to flawed but nonetheless lovable men, to people with good intentions who harm their own, and to racists and transphobes seemingly beyond saving. What emerges is a blueprint for falling back in love with being human.
Join Kai Cheng and QWOC, expressive arts therapist, and CIIS Counseling Psychology programs professor Jenna Robinson in a conversation about love, and what it means to truly embrace the beauty of being human.
Sliding Scale - $20-$0.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
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