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 “Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel       ​

So much of life involves memories. Those wonderful times when we are safe in the world within the security of our family.  So too, there is the piercing of the veil between sanctuary and peril, where terrifying memories comes rushing towards us, flooding us with a pain that longs to be forgotten.  Like the intricate beauty of a bird’s nest, crafted over eons of memory now made manifest in this haven for their young, here too are threats.  But nature has its own ways, as when an intruder violates such sacred times and places.  From predator to prey, from benevolent to horrific memories, each is a necessary part of the rhythms of life of life, each calling for its own time and demanding that its needs are sated. It is here at such moments of intersection, that the irruptive force of memory meets the iron clad grip of denial.  And herein begins a central task of our clinical work, as we painstakingly work to help our patients realize how they have created these illusionary bastions of safety, so as to now look into the face of the ineffable where both the wonderful and terrifying memories live side by side within our soul.

It was the pioneers in psychology who taught us to look behind the veil of consciousness to understand something of the workings and language of the Psyche.  Especially today in a world of so much personal and global crisis, we need to follow in the footsteps of our clinical grandparents to carry this sense of wonder and acumen into the consulting room.  It is critical for us to deepen our understanding of Psyche’s motivations inherent in these patterns and relationships that bring so much pain, while also understanding that while defense mechanisms are innate and archetypal, ultimately, they not only fail but pull us back into the lion’s den of endless terrors.  It is time to see how Psyche imbues the actual client-therapist relationship with a sense of grace by allowing the therapeutic dyad to serve as the canvas upon which to tell the story of the presence and meaning of archetypal processes in our clients’ lives.

Through a series of presentations and live supervision of participants’ cases, we will work closely with these personal and archetypal dynamics to see the presence of the numinous in this work, and perhaps begin to see and feel why the sages and dreamers understood the spiritual nature of this work.  Please join us on the Island of Elba, located in the Tuscan Archipelago and one of Italy’s most beautiful islands for our Clinical Seminars.​

​The Conference Fee includes:

• Four nights - double occupancy at Hotel del Golfo, a 4-star hotel on the Island of Elba
• Transportation by chartered bus from Rome (FCO Airport) to Piombino
• Roundtrip ferry crossing from Piombino to Elba
• Roundtrip shuttle service from the ferry to Hotel del Golfo
• Daily full Tuscan breakfast with home-made bread, pastries, meats, cereals, fruits and assorted cheeses
• Three traditional lunches
• Opening multi-course Tuscan dinner served with local wines
• One additional dinner at the Hotel Restaurant
• Daily refreshments with coffee, juice and pastries
• Taxes and gratuities

*The conference fee does not include flights.
(For all participating in the Elba Seminar and planning to attend the Assisi Conference, we will be chartering a bus to take us from Elba to Assisi, and arranging with The Country House Hotel to offer special rates to all spending the Night of June 6th in Assisi as we await to begin the conference on June 7th)​

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CE Information:
Please send in your completed registration forms BEFORE registering for CE hours
16 CE hours: available $110
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About the presenter:

Michael Conforti (USA) - Jungian Analyst
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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. 
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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, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Romania, Russia, Singapore,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 Spanish. ​​

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