“There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly
​ for the divine gift of the creative fire." 

C.G. Jung, ​Modern Man in Search of Soul, p.169

It was in 1933 that C.G. Jung wrote his great work titled Modern Man in Search of Soul. Now in 2022 - almost 100 years since its publication - we not only continue to hunger for a connection to soul, but personally and collectively we desperately need to start listening to its wisdom.  
 
In the first half of  life we live with an intimation, perhaps a whispered presence of the destiny accompanying our life. However, the work of living as a younger person - busy in securing an education, a career, a family or more - demands virtually all of our energy, leaving very little time to attend to the soul. Then, as if time suddenly stood still for a moment, we look at our past with the eyes of one who has aged. No longer young nor ascending to yet another ambition, we reflect back on our life as if all those events happened yesterday. When did our children become parents? And when and how did we start looking so much older? Yet, simultaneously realizing that this is the way it needs to  be. 
 
When we were younger, finding our "sentiero sacro" - our sacred path - was either an idealistic fantasy or something that we would get to later in life. But for many of us this time has now come. 
 
Jung's message about finding Soul - finding the sacred - resounds in our hearts and and our soul. As if hearing the profound wisdom of his writings about the search for soul anew, we can almost clearly hear Jung saying: "I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions from every age has given to their followers, and none of them have really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook". (Jung, pg. 229)
 
Suddenly everything about life is different as we age. And this need, coming from some other deeper domain, calls for us to live a more symbolic and sacred life that honors our soul’s calling.
Ever so clearly we now see the enormous costs involved in continuing to live out those unresolved mid-life complexes. 
 
Now is the time to stand face to face with our destiny. To step forward with courage to change the contours of our life and to live in greater relationship with what is most sacred in our heart and our soul.
 
What You can Expect From Attending the Conference
 
Drawing together an internationally acclaimed faculty, you will learn to recognize the shape and form of Psyche as it speaks to us of the soul waiting for our embrace. So too we will discuss the courage needed to allow many past preoccupations and desires to fade into the realm of memory, as we consciously take on the challenge of this new way of life. 
 
The ultimate purpose of this conference is to offer insights from some of the Jungian world’s most respected minds, and give you a framework of how to listen to and live in accord with the needs of your soul, whatever this may entail.​

Since space is also limited for this conference, we are also accepting deposits of $200 which can secure your seat until March 31, 2022. Should you change your mind, your deposit will be fully refundable by that date too. Payment of the full conference fee is due by April 5, 2022.
In the unlikely event of any Covid-related cancellation of the Conference, all payments will be refunded.

Please note: Conference costs include access to all presentations and discussions, accommodation costs, daily breakfasts and a select number of lunches and dinners, airport transfers to and from the hotel, as well as tax and gratuities. It excludes flight and transportation costs.

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About the presenters:

EDUARDO CARVALLO  (Venezuela/Colombia)
Eduardo Carvallo,​ MD, is a psychiatrist and a Jungian analyst. His analysis was conducted by Rafael López-Pedraza, one of the founders of Archetypal Psychology and with whom he studied with for more than 15 years.
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Eduardo is actively involved in training candidates from around the world in Jungian Analysis, including Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. He also supervises analysts and candidates/routers in Argentina, Chile, Panama, Spain, and the USA. This experience has allowed him to move deeply into different aspects of the cultural Psyche, and he has published many articles in Jungian journals about clinical, cultural and political issues from the Jungian perspective.

He completed his training as an Archetypal Pattern Analyst at Assisi Institute, and now serves as a Senior Faculty Member teaching in our programs in Latin-America, Russia, and the United States.

Currently, he is the President of the Colombian Society of Jungian Analysts and the elected president of the Latin American Committee for Analytical Psychology and serves on the Ethics Committee of the IAAP.
  
Since 2011, after leaving his home country Venezuela, he maintains a private practice in Bogotá, Colombia while lecturing internationally.

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MICHAEL CONFORTI (USA)
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, Dr. Conforti is 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, Italy, Russia, South Africa, 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 includes a soon to be released Spanish edition of his work. 

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MAGDA DI RENZO (Rome, Italy)
Magda Di Renzo is a Jungian Analyst, Psychologist, developmental psychotherapist, member of the ARPA (Association for Research in Analytical Psychology) and of the IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology), director of the School of Specialization in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy -and has created The Institute of Orthophonology of Rome.  Dr. Di Renzo is an international leader in the field of  Jungian Child Analysis, and has promoted many researches in the field of childhood and adolescent pathologies and autism, and lectures in many schools of specialization in psychotherapy.  She is the author and co-author of numerous publications, including Il colore vissuto (1998), Fiaba, disegno, gesto e racconto (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).

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JACQUELINE DüRMüLLER (Switzerland)
Jacqueline Dürmüller is a Jungian Analyst who, for more than twenty (20) years, has worked with children and adults in a private practice and also includes the use of Sand-Play in her clinical practice. She graduated from The Adler Institut, Zürich, and from the Research and Training Centre in Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louse von Franz, Zürich. She is a published author and lectures internationally. Her main interest is in the symbolic understanding of inner and outer human experiences. 
Jacqueline is also a mother and grandmother. She and her husband - Jungian Analyst, Hansueli Etter - live in the former house of Marie-Louise von Franz and Barbara Hannah in Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland.

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HANSUELI ETTER (Switzerland) 
Hansueli F. Etter is a long-time colleague of M.L. von Franz, and founding member of The Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Zürich. He is also the president of the Foundation for Jungian Psychology in Kusnacht. Dr. Etter has a PhD in Anthropology and lectured for many years at the University of Basel. He graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich in 1982 and works in private practice. His main interest and research lies in the topics of the religious dimension of Jungian psychology and in the secret relation between psyche and matter. He is a published author of many books and papers in German and in English.

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