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USD $2,400 (double occupancy)
USD $2,750 (single occupancy)


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20 CE Credits - USD $110

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“… the objective Psyche is a reality ... From the objective Psyche arise those symbols that have the power to transform; the individuation process stems from a right attitude to it ..." 
- Esther Harding, (1968) -

Join us for the Assisi Institute’s 35th Annual Conference in Assisi, Italy, where our passion and recognition for the workings of Psyche encourages us to see how archetypal dynamics are influencing the pressing issues of our time, and the need to restore our connection with the numinous aspects of life.

We are shocked by and fear the current movements occurring within the personal and collective Psyche. From the oppression of women’s reproductive rights, to the infringement and killing of so many individuals throughout the world. Once again, we are banning books, attempting to reframe slavery as an enriching experience, while we are witnessing a world-wide escalation of dictatorship. And the workings of powerful unconscious dynamics have resulted in far too many of us willing to accept the blatant lies, distortions, and ongoing abuses by our leaders.  

We are experiencing an activation of the dark unconscious, irrupting into the world without conscious understanding or restraint, bringing with it the stench of ongoing Crimes Against Humanity. Each of these are disturbing archetypal issues enacted on the world stage, urgently needing to be understood and addressed. These irruptions speak to the consequences of our estrangement from Psyche and Soul creating, yet again, a horrific disregard for the sanctity of life.

As Elie Wiesel once warned, silence in the face of oppression empowers the oppressors, and never the victims, emphasizing the importance of an individual response to injustice. The absence of Psyche's wisdom in political decision-making is increasingly evident. We are brought to our knees by the events playing out on the world stage, and are forced to ask; "where are those song birds and their melodious sounds that fill our heart and soul with peace and joy? Where there was song and a dancing of their lyrical trill, now there is only a deafening silence in the woods. 

However much we may care for Psyche, these appalling world events are silencing the call of the birds, and the songs in our soul. Far too many of our world leaders see the world only through the eyes of their own unresolved complexes. Their lack of eros drives their ongoing compulsion to conquer and destroy while never caring enough that many of our sons and daughters will never return home to us. Politicians, ministers, and teachers caught in the throes of an archetypal inflation, claim to know the ways of some elusive God, proselytize a morality of abuse. Yet we stand in saluted attention to these lifeless, seemingly soulless figures. 

With this ongoing escalation of abuses to humanity we need to return to the wisdom of Jung and von Franz regarding the ways of the Psyche, and the consequences of a life estranged from the Self. Jung’s work on the "Symbolic Life" and the Objective Psyche needs to be heard anew, and rescued from the banalities of a world driven by this desperate need for illusionary power. 

Jung taught us that; “where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking.” It is time to find a way to make the importance of this work accessible to the greater international community with the hopes that there may be some antidote to the abuses against humanity and the blatant disregard for Psyche and Soul.

Globally Renowned Conference Faculty

Distinguished scholars and analysts including James Hollis, Hansueli Etter, Jacqueline Dürmüller, Eduardo Carvallo, Magda DiRenzo, Maureen Kuehler, Claudio Widmann, and Michael Conforti will present their work on the nature of Psyche, archetypal projections, possessions, and pathways to healing at this year’s Annual Conference in Assisi, Italy. 

Special Excursion
(Included in the Conference tuition fee)

Especially fitting for this year’s program is a special excursion, "In the Footsteps of St. Francis to his Sacred Places in the Umbrian Hills," sponsored by the Foundation for Jungian Psychology. This immersive journey offers an opportunity to reconnect with nature and explore sacred sites, echoing Jung's profound understanding of the relationship between Psyche and the natural world.

Conference Presenters

Eduardo Carvallo, MD (Colombia, South America)

​​Eduardo Carvallo is a Venezuelan psychiatrist and Senior Training Analyst whose work is deeply influenced by his relationship with Rafel Lopez-Pedraza, one of the co-founders of Archetypal Psychology. During the last 15 years, Eduardo has participated in the IAAP Routers Training Program of different Latin American countries as supervisor and analyst. For the last 20 years, he has lectured on cultural, archetypal and symbolic themes and its applications in clinics in Latin America, North America and Europe. He is a Senior Faculty member at The Assisi Institute and the International Association for Expressive Sandwork, and served as past President of the Venezuelan Society of Jungian Analysts and the current Vice President of the Colombian Society of Jungian Analyst and has emerged as leader in the field of Jungian Psychology throughout Latin America. He lives with his family in Bogota, Colombia, where he has his clinical practice.

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Michael Conforti, PhD (USA)

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, for the past 40 years, he has been actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences. 

His work is presented to a wide ranging international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Indonesia, Italy, Romania, 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. 

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Jacqueline Dürmüller, MA (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 Institute, 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, PhD (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 Küsnacht. 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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Magda Di Renzo, PhD (Italy)

Magda Di Renzo, psychologist, developmental psychotherapist, Jungian analyst, 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 of the developmental age of the Institute of Orthophonology (IdO) of Rome.  She is in charge of the Developmental Age Psychotherapy Service of IdO, and has consistently researched in the field of childhood and adolescent pathologies, including the Turtle Project for children with autism.  Magda is a well-respected lecturer and the author and co-author of numerous publications.

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James Hollis, PhD (USA) - Virtual Presentation

James Hollis, Ph.D. is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst, and Senior Training Analyst in Washington, D.C. He is one of the most highly regarded and esteemed Jungian analysts of our time, having lectured throughout the world.  A prolific author, his books have been translated into 20 languages. One of his most recent books is:A Life of Meaning: Relocating your Center of Spiritual Gravity (2003), and a forthcoming book Living With Borrowed Dust: Reflections on Life, Love, and Other Disturbances.

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Maureen Kuehler, MA (USA)

Maureen Kuehler is a professional actor, coach and lecturer. She has worked with the Assisi Institute since 2017. She holds a Master’s degree in Shakespeare and Theatre from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Her area of interest lies in the intersection of C.G. Jung and performance with a particular focus on the ways performance draws on and informs the embodied access of archetypes. One of her many gifts is the recognition of universal and archetypal themes in    Shakespearean literature.

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Claudio Widmann, PhD (Italy)

Claudio Widmann is a Jungian psychoanalyst, associated as a senior analyst, with teaching and supervisory functions at the Centro Italiano Psicologia Analitica (Italian Centre for Analytical Psychology) (CIPA) and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). He is an honorary member of the Società di Psicoanalisi Critica (Society of Critical Psychoanalysis) (SPC) and Istituto Mediterraneo di Psicologia Archetipica (Mediterranean Institute of Archetypal Psychology) (IMMPA).

He has published fifteen monographs and the symbolism of colors was a finalist in the Carver Prize for the essays section (2007). The Divine Comedy as a Path of Life was awarded a special mention in the Gradiva Prize, promoted by the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) in the Freudian place of Lavarone (2021).​

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