Held on Tuesday, July 16th, 2024, this Lyceum was hosted by AAN Community Leader Liz Farr around gender equity with special guests, Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix.
As accountants, and as people moving through the world, we’ve all experienced trauma. The oldest wounds come from our collective experiences of dysfunctional gender norms and relations. For over 30 years, Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix, co-founders of Gender Equity Reconciliation International (GERI) have been working with groups of men and women and LGBTQ+ individuals around the world to heal that most ancient trauma. Liz Farr will lead a conversation with Will and Cynthia to introduce their work to the AAN and how healing gender trauma can help us heal as accountants.
Learn more about the Gender Equity Reconciliation International org here: https://www.genderreconciliationinternational.org/
Meet Our Host & Guests:
Elizabeth “Liz” Farr, Farr Communications, has been a CPA since 2005 and spent 15 years working as an accountant with a focus on tax work. She also worked on audits, business valuations, and litigation support. Since 2018, she’s been a full-time freelance writer, and has written articles on technical accounting topics, blog posts, case studies, white papers, web content, and full-length books for accountants and bookkeepers around the world. Her current specialty is ghostwriting for thought leaders in accounting. She also hosts The Disruptors podcast for CPA Trendlines.
William Keepin, PhD, is co-founder of the Gender Equity and Reconciliation International project. A mathematical physicist widely published in the fields of sustainable energy, global warming, archetypal cosmology, comparative mysticism, and the intersection of science and spirituality, Will has presented testimony to European and Australian parliaments, and the US House of Representatives. He became a whistleblower in nuclear science policy, recounted in The Cultural Creatives (Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson, Harmony Books, 2000).
Will co-founded the Satyana Institute, and together with Rev. Cynthia Brix organized five international conferences to facilitate dialogue, interspiritual practice, and collaboration across the major religions and science. Will trained extensively in spiritual traditions East and West, and holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, M.S. in mathematical physics, M.A. in East-West psychology, and honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation, and has facilitated Grof® breathwork since 1989.
Will is author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men (Hohm Press, 2007), and Belonging to God: Spirituality, Science, and a Universal Path of Divine Love (SkyLight Paths, Turner Publishing, 2016). He is co-author of Women Healing Women (Hohm Press, 2009); and Song of the Earth: The Emerging Synthesis of Spiritual and Scientific Worldviews (Permanent Publications, London, UK, 2012).
Rev. Cynthia Brix, PhD (hon), is co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International, which has organized 280 intensive trainings in twelve countries for healing and reconciliation between women and men, and people of all genders. She is an ordained interfaith minister and Co-Director of Satyana Institute.
She was formerly a campus minister at the University of Colorado for United Ministries of Higher Education. Cynthia co-chaired the Race Relations Committee for the City of Muncie, Indiana, and served in numerous leadership positions for Planned Parenthood in Dallas and in Indiana. A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran’s Passage Meditation, Cynthia leads retreats on interfaith spirituality.
She co-organized five international conferences on interspirituality, one of which brought women spiritual masters together from Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu traditions, and she produced a DVD video from this conference entitled Cultivating Women’s Spiritual Mastery. Cynthia holds an M.Div. from Iliff School of Theology (2006), a double M.A. in wellness management and applied gerontology, and an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
She is contributing author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men (Hohm Press, 2007), and co-author of Women Healing Women: A Model of Hope for Oppressed Women Everywhere (Hohm Press, 2009).