“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       ​
Central to our work as therapists is the hunger to understand the ways of Psyche and to cultivate a sense of wonder. To be fascinated, disturbed, and still hopeful when seeing how Psyche, can imbue a life with beauty and the greatest acts of kindness while also reminding us of the proliferation of suffering, and crimes against humanity.  Then, side by side with our own passion for Psyche and soul, there is the ongoing pain, disappointments, and yes, the harm we unknowingly do to those we love. Each speaks to the existence of autonomous, irruptive, archetypal forces within the Psyche. 

It was the pioneers in psychology and especially Jungian Psychology who taught us to look behind the veil of consciousness to understand something of the workings of Psyche.  Especially today in a world of so much personal and global crisis, coupled with increasing restrictions on clinical practice such as time limited therapies, we need to follow in the footsteps of our clinical   grandparents and carry this sense of wonder and a highly developed clinical 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 our client’s defense mechanisms are  innate and archetypal, ultimately they not only fail but pull us back into the lion’s den of  repeated and 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 archetypes in our clients’ lives.

Through a series of presentations and live supervision of participants’ cases, inclusive of  their clients' dreams, we will work closely with these personal and archetypal dynamics to see the presence of the numinous in this work, while understanding  why the sages and dreamers understood the spiritual nature of this work. Please join us on the Island of Giglio, located in the Tuscan Archipelago and one of Italy’s most beautiful islands for the Giglio Clinical Seminars.

​The Conference Fee includes:
  • Four nights - double occupancy at La Guardia Hotel, a 4-star hotel on the Island of Giglio 
  • Transportation by chartered bus from Rome (FCO Airport) to Porto Santo Stefano/Giglio
  • Roundtrip ferry crossing from Porto Santo Stefano to Giglio
  • Opening and Closing multi-course Tuscan dinners served with local wines.
  • Daily full Tuscan breakfast with home-made bread, pastries, meats, cereals, fruits and assorted cheeses
  • Daily refreshments with coffee, juice and pastries​
  • Taxes and gratuities
*The conference fee does not include flights.
(For all of you participating in the Giglio Seminar and planning to attend the Assisi Conference, we will be chartering a bus to take us from Giglio 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
16 CE hours: available $110
Follow this link to view which Boards of Approval recognize Continuing Education hours offered for this program. ​

About the presenter:

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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, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the Ukraine and Venezuela.
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​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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