Innate Patterns within Psyche: Unconscious Experience, Communication and Archetypal Dynamics in Treatment
-A 4-Month Intensive Clinical Training Seminar-
Dr. Michael Conforti, Jungian Analyst
Dott. Magda Di Renzo, (Rome) Jungian Child Analyst
Special Guest Faculty
Weekly, Thursdays 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM US Eastern Time (NYC)
January 9, 16, 23, 30
February 6, 13, 20, 27
March 6, 13, 20, 27
April 3, 10, 17, 24
Two Saturday Intensives 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM US Eastern Time (NYC)
February 8, April 12
Live via Zoom. Registered participants will receive all lecture recordings.
This course will be presented in English with simultaneous translation in Russian.
Tuition: $975
January 9, 16, 23, 30
February 6, 13, 20, 27
March 6, 13, 20, 27
April 3, 10, 17, 24
Two Saturday Intensives 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM US Eastern Time (NYC)
February 8, April 12
Live via Zoom. Registered participants will receive all lecture recordings.
This course will be presented in English with simultaneous translation in Russian.
Tuition: $975
Please note: All 2-Year APA program graduates as well as currently enrolled Archetypal Pattern Analysis (APA) students receive a 15% discount on this course. Email [email protected] to receive your discount code.
30 CE hours: available
$120
Follow this link to view which Boards of Approval recognize
Continuing Education hours offered for this program.
$120
Follow this link to view which Boards of Approval recognize
Continuing Education hours offered for this program.
-Cancellation policy: A full refund - minus a $50 administrative fee - is given if cancellations are made by January 9, 2025
-If you cannot attend the live sessions, these lectures will be recorded, and all registered participants will receive the recordings afterward.
-We offer payment plans to make budgeting easier. Please click the link below to explore our flexible payment options.
-If you cannot attend the live sessions, these lectures will be recorded, and all registered participants will receive the recordings afterward.
-We offer payment plans to make budgeting easier. Please click the link below to explore our flexible payment options.
All participants must have a minimum of two years in clinical practice to register for this course.
(please see below for details)
(please see below for details)
“The main interest of my work is not the treatment of neurosis, but rather with the approach to the numinous … But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy … and as you attain to the numinous you are released from the curse of pathology”
(C. G. Jung Letters 1, pg. 37)
In many mysterious ways, Psyche creates opportunities for transcendence and healing while also inhibiting our engagement with a bigger meaningful life. It was Jung’s hunger for this relationship to soul that motivated him to write these words about the ultimate and most important goal of therapy.
From the miraculous birth of a child to the magnificence of great art, each emerges in response to something very personal while orchestrated and guided by unseen, archetypal processes. So too, with those seemingly endless repetitions of pain and disappointments which brought us to our knees in desperation, fear that we are cursed with an unchangeable fate. M.L. von Franz explains how in many fairy tales the hero is in fact cursed and that “Redemption” is the breaking of the archetypal possession and being released from the curse.
The profundity of these discoveries informs our clinical work, in seeing that these innate, self-organizing processes literally structure the interactions actions occurring between client and therapist. These archetypal, formative dynamics are most active in the beginning of treatment, when the client and therapist “agree” on the therapeutic ground rules. Working outside of the conscious awareness of both, the Self creates conditions of treatment which provide the ground upon which the client’s personal and archetypal issues are made manifest and present as a living reality within the treatment. While this re-creation of the client’s archetypal field within the temenos is potentially redemptive, without an understanding of these dynamics, these archetypal possessions gain an even greater hold on the client’s life.
As we see how these archetypal dynamics are made manifest as a living, breathing reality within the therapeutic container we understand what moved De Chardin to write; “Matter is Spirit moving slowly enough to be seen” and Ervin Laszlo to realize that; “Field precedes form.
Mystics, sages, and dreamers hunger to understand something about these emergent energies that move matter and life, have brought us into domains as diverse as mysticism and science. D’Arcy Thompson, a renowned philosopher and scientist, took on this quest and writes; “The form of … matter, and the changes of form … apparent in its movement … are due to the action of force ... the form of an object is a diagram of forces” (1947, Pg 16).
The “forces” driving these therapeutic, interactional dynamics are a portrait of the movement of Psyche and archetypes, now creating form within the therapeutic relationship. This opportunity to literally see the contours and workings of archetypes in matter as manifested in these therapeutic dynamics, offers a promise of healing, and freedom from the shackles of such pain, and ultimately, a profound experience of the numinous
(C. G. Jung Letters 1, pg. 37)
In many mysterious ways, Psyche creates opportunities for transcendence and healing while also inhibiting our engagement with a bigger meaningful life. It was Jung’s hunger for this relationship to soul that motivated him to write these words about the ultimate and most important goal of therapy.
From the miraculous birth of a child to the magnificence of great art, each emerges in response to something very personal while orchestrated and guided by unseen, archetypal processes. So too, with those seemingly endless repetitions of pain and disappointments which brought us to our knees in desperation, fear that we are cursed with an unchangeable fate. M.L. von Franz explains how in many fairy tales the hero is in fact cursed and that “Redemption” is the breaking of the archetypal possession and being released from the curse.
The profundity of these discoveries informs our clinical work, in seeing that these innate, self-organizing processes literally structure the interactions actions occurring between client and therapist. These archetypal, formative dynamics are most active in the beginning of treatment, when the client and therapist “agree” on the therapeutic ground rules. Working outside of the conscious awareness of both, the Self creates conditions of treatment which provide the ground upon which the client’s personal and archetypal issues are made manifest and present as a living reality within the treatment. While this re-creation of the client’s archetypal field within the temenos is potentially redemptive, without an understanding of these dynamics, these archetypal possessions gain an even greater hold on the client’s life.
As we see how these archetypal dynamics are made manifest as a living, breathing reality within the therapeutic container we understand what moved De Chardin to write; “Matter is Spirit moving slowly enough to be seen” and Ervin Laszlo to realize that; “Field precedes form.
Mystics, sages, and dreamers hunger to understand something about these emergent energies that move matter and life, have brought us into domains as diverse as mysticism and science. D’Arcy Thompson, a renowned philosopher and scientist, took on this quest and writes; “The form of … matter, and the changes of form … apparent in its movement … are due to the action of force ... the form of an object is a diagram of forces” (1947, Pg 16).
The “forces” driving these therapeutic, interactional dynamics are a portrait of the movement of Psyche and archetypes, now creating form within the therapeutic relationship. This opportunity to literally see the contours and workings of archetypes in matter as manifested in these therapeutic dynamics, offers a promise of healing, and freedom from the shackles of such pain, and ultimately, a profound experience of the numinous
Specific themes to be addressed in this seminar:
- The presence of Archetypes in Clinical Practice
- Self-organization in the Psyche and the Natural World
- Threshold Experiences: The Beginning of Treatment
- The Archetypal Nature of the Therapeutic Ground Rules
- The Therapeutic Relationship: Psyches Canvas
- Unconscious Communication: Unconscious Perception and Unconscious Experience
- Making interventions and securing the Therapeutic Frame
- Learning to discern the archetypal issues present in our clients' lives
- Learning about the Ravages of Denial and the Migration of Forgotten Contents
- Taking an in-depth look at the activation of our “mechanisms of defense,” from a Jungian archetypal, ethological, and analytic perspective
- Dreams as an Objective Commentary on the Therapeutic Process
- The Therapeutic Experience of Working with Children (Dott Magda Di Renzo)
- Creating safety and meaning for the Child in Treatment (Dott Magda Di Renzo)
Faculty

Dr. Michael Conforti, Jungian Analyst
Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, and for the past 40 years, has been actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.
He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Indonesia, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the Ukraine and Venezuela.
He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal. His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, and for the past 40 years, has been actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.
He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Indonesia, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the Ukraine and Venezuela.
He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal. His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

Dott. Magda Di Renzo, (Rome) Jungian Child Analyst
Psychologist, developmental psychotherapist, Jungian analyst, member of ARPA (Association for Research in Analytical Psychology) and IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology), and director of the School of Specialization in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Developmental Age at the Institute of Orthophonology (IdO) in Rome. She oversees the Developmental Age Psychotherapy Service at IdO and has initiated numerous research projects in childhood and adolescent pathologies, including the Turtle Project for children with autism. She is also a lecturer in several schools of specialization in psychotherapy and has authored and co-authored numerous publications, including The Lived Color (1998), Fairy Tale, Drawing, Gesture, and Story (2005), The Meanings of Autism (2007), Supporting the Parent-Child Relationship in Autism (2011), Intellectual Potential in the Autistic Child (2011), The Graphic Process in the Autistic Child (2013), and Autism - Turtle Project (2020).
Psicologa, psicoterapeuta dell’età evolutiva, analista junghiana, membro dell’ARPA (Associazione per la Ricerca in Psicologia Analitica) e dell’IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology), direttrice della Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia psicodinamica dell’età evolutiva dell’Istituto di Ortofonologia (IdO) di Roma. Responsabile del Servizio di Psicoterapia dell’età evolutiva dell’IdO, ha promosso molte ricerche nell’ambito delle patologie infantili e adolescenziali, tra cui il Progetto Tartaruga per i bambini affetti da autismo. Docente nelle diverse scuole di specializzazione in psicoterapia, è autrice e coautrice di numerose pubblicazioni, tra cui per i tipi delle Edizioni Magi ricordiamo: Il colore vissuto (1998), Fiaba, disegno, gesto e racconto (2a ed. 2005), I significati dell’autismo (2007), Sostenere la relazione genitori-figlio nell’autismo (2011), Le potenzialità intellettive nel bambino autistico (2011), Il processo grafico nel bambino autistico (2013), Autismo Progetto Tartaruga (2020).
Psychologist, developmental psychotherapist, Jungian analyst, member of ARPA (Association for Research in Analytical Psychology) and IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology), and director of the School of Specialization in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Developmental Age at the Institute of Orthophonology (IdO) in Rome. She oversees the Developmental Age Psychotherapy Service at IdO and has initiated numerous research projects in childhood and adolescent pathologies, including the Turtle Project for children with autism. She is also a lecturer in several schools of specialization in psychotherapy and has authored and co-authored numerous publications, including The Lived Color (1998), Fairy Tale, Drawing, Gesture, and Story (2005), The Meanings of Autism (2007), Supporting the Parent-Child Relationship in Autism (2011), Intellectual Potential in the Autistic Child (2011), The Graphic Process in the Autistic Child (2013), and Autism - Turtle Project (2020).
Psicologa, psicoterapeuta dell’età evolutiva, analista junghiana, membro dell’ARPA (Associazione per la Ricerca in Psicologia Analitica) e dell’IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology), direttrice della Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia psicodinamica dell’età evolutiva dell’Istituto di Ortofonologia (IdO) di Roma. Responsabile del Servizio di Psicoterapia dell’età evolutiva dell’IdO, ha promosso molte ricerche nell’ambito delle patologie infantili e adolescenziali, tra cui il Progetto Tartaruga per i bambini affetti da autismo. Docente nelle diverse scuole di specializzazione in psicoterapia, è autrice e coautrice di numerose pubblicazioni, tra cui per i tipi delle Edizioni Magi ricordiamo: Il colore vissuto (1998), Fiaba, disegno, gesto e racconto (2a ed. 2005), I significati dell’autismo (2007), Sostenere la relazione genitori-figlio nell’autismo (2011), Le potenzialità intellettive nel bambino autistico (2011), Il processo grafico nel bambino autistico (2013), Autismo Progetto Tartaruga (2020).
All participants must have a minimum of two years in clinical practice to register for this course.
For clinicians with less than two years, it is suggested to enroll in the Fall 6-week Voice of Psyche course
beginning September 2025
For clinicians with less than two years, it is suggested to enroll in the Fall 6-week Voice of Psyche course
beginning September 2025
30 CE hours: available
$120
$120
Follow this link to view which Boards of Approval recognize
Continuing Education hours offered for this program.
Continuing Education hours offered for this program.
Also, participation in Wednesday Noon Clinicals is recommended.
Please follow this link to find out more.
Please follow this link to find out more.
-Cancellation policy: A full refund - minus a $50 administrative fee - is given if cancellations are made by January 9, 2025
-If you cannot attend the live sessions, these lectures will be recorded, and all registered participants will receive the recordings afterward.
-We offer payment plans to make budgeting easier. Please click the link below to explore our flexible payment options.
Please note: All 2-Year APA program graduates as well as currently enrolled Archetypal Pattern Analysis (APA) students receive a 15% discount on this course. Email [email protected] to receive your discount code.
-If you cannot attend the live sessions, these lectures will be recorded, and all registered participants will receive the recordings afterward.
-We offer payment plans to make budgeting easier. Please click the link below to explore our flexible payment options.
Please note: All 2-Year APA program graduates as well as currently enrolled Archetypal Pattern Analysis (APA) students receive a 15% discount on this course. Email [email protected] to receive your discount code.
Live via Zoom. Registered participants will receive all lecture recordings.
This course will be presented in English with simultaneous translation in Russian.
This course will be presented in English with simultaneous translation in Russian.