Conference Fees: $150
Saturday July 23 - Sunday July 24, 2022 from 11 am - 2:30 pm US Eastern Time
Offered as a multilingual program with simultaneous translations in English,
Russian and Spanish.
The conference takes place live via Zoom.
If you are not able to join the live online conference, please note that all sessions will be recorded,
and all registered participants will receive recordings afterwards.
Saturday July 23 - Sunday July 24, 2022 from 11 am - 2:30 pm US Eastern Time
Offered as a multilingual program with simultaneous translations in English,
Russian and Spanish.
The conference takes place live via Zoom.
If you are not able to join the live online conference, please note that all sessions will be recorded,
and all registered participants will receive recordings afterwards.
"Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world… it is not only possible but fairly probable…that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.”
C.G. Jung CW vol VIII P. 215.
C.G. Jung CW vol VIII P. 215.
Originally scheduled to be held in-person on the enchanted island of Giglio in Italy’s Tuscan Archipelago, this conference was recently postponed until the summer of 2023. However, to accommodate the interest shown in the conference and to make it available to our greater international community, The Assisi Institute has decided to continue with the program and to change the format to an online conference.
We are fascinated by the process of psychotherapy. Since its inception in 46 AD with the Asclepiads, we have experienced treatment as truly transformative, good enough, or utterly disastrous. The pioneers in the field have sought to understand something of those inherent, archetypal processes which create conditions for healing, occurring within one of the most perplexing and transformative relationships humanity has ever known.
This therapeutic relationship is inexorably entwined in psyche’s dance, choreographed for the purpose of manifesting archetypal dynamics into matter. Here the client-therapist relationship becomes the canvas upon which Psyche paints its story. Now, as the archetype begins to literally structure the form evolving in the therapeutic relationship, the process begins and if not understood, we find an endless series of painful recreations of past troubles. However, if understood, the mystery of healing begins. Such is the responsibility thrust on the therapist's shoulders in this process.
While we often think of the therapeutic ground rules and conditions of treatment as some outdated set of guidelines, they are in fact archetypal energetic centers drawing the transpersonal drama into the therapeutic field. Here the archetypal devouring mother or father, the Puer or Puella, as well as the manic and other forms of defenses are expressed and re-created by the very conditions of treatment.
Through presentations and actual supervision of participant’s clinical work, we will discuss ways to understand how these archetypal constellations are re-created and lived within the client-therapist relationship.
This therapeutic relationship is inexorably entwined in psyche’s dance, choreographed for the purpose of manifesting archetypal dynamics into matter. Here the client-therapist relationship becomes the canvas upon which Psyche paints its story. Now, as the archetype begins to literally structure the form evolving in the therapeutic relationship, the process begins and if not understood, we find an endless series of painful recreations of past troubles. However, if understood, the mystery of healing begins. Such is the responsibility thrust on the therapist's shoulders in this process.
While we often think of the therapeutic ground rules and conditions of treatment as some outdated set of guidelines, they are in fact archetypal energetic centers drawing the transpersonal drama into the therapeutic field. Here the archetypal devouring mother or father, the Puer or Puella, as well as the manic and other forms of defenses are expressed and re-created by the very conditions of treatment.
Through presentations and actual supervision of participant’s clinical work, we will discuss ways to understand how these archetypal constellations are re-created and lived within the client-therapist relationship.
Themes to be addressed during the conference:
- The archetypal dimensions of treatment.
- An archetypal understanding of transference and countertransference.
- Learning to recognize the manifestation of archetypal dynamics within the client-therapist interactional field.
- Learning how to understand and translate The Voice of Psyche, as presented through unconscious communication, and unconscious perception.
- Learning to understand the meaning of these interactional dynamics and unconscious communications, as well as ways to create meaningful responses to them.
- Learning to discern the presence of trauma through: images, therapeutic interactions and unconscious communication.
Download the Conference Program below:
| 2022_voice_of_psyche_conference_program.pdf |
“Matter is Spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”
De Chardin
De Chardin
The Voice of Psyche Clinical Conference is a wonderful precursor to The Assisi Institute’s July Conference taking place the following weekend (July 28 - 31, 2022). Read more about the July Conference 2022 Modern Man & Woman Still in Search of Soul Conference here.
Faculty:
MICHAEL CONFORTI
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.
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.
SILVIA BEHREND
Dr. Silvia Behrend is Director of International Studies of the Assisi Institute: The International Center for the Study of Archetypal Patterns. She develops, supports, teaches and maintains programs in Latin America, Russia, Australia and Italy. She has presented international webinars and lectures in English and in Spanish and currently serves as translator and faculty in the Latin American program. She has a private practice in Olympia, Wa as a Certified Archetypal Pattern Analyst, mentor and educator. As a clinical leader, Silvia has co-developed and co-implemented programs and retreats for the Assisi Institute, for Gonzaga University in the Doctoral Leadership Program, as well as many intergenerational programs utilizing the arts as a means of individual and collective transformation. As senior faculty of the Assisi Institute, she hosts national and international webinars on many subjects; dream pattern analysis, the field of leadership, psychological development, the creative, unconscious communication, voice of psyche and others. She has researched and published articles on the transformational power of art, the archetypal fields of leadership and exile.
Dr. Silvia Behrend is Director of International Studies of the Assisi Institute: The International Center for the Study of Archetypal Patterns. She develops, supports, teaches and maintains programs in Latin America, Russia, Australia and Italy. She has presented international webinars and lectures in English and in Spanish and currently serves as translator and faculty in the Latin American program. She has a private practice in Olympia, Wa as a Certified Archetypal Pattern Analyst, mentor and educator. As a clinical leader, Silvia has co-developed and co-implemented programs and retreats for the Assisi Institute, for Gonzaga University in the Doctoral Leadership Program, as well as many intergenerational programs utilizing the arts as a means of individual and collective transformation. As senior faculty of the Assisi Institute, she hosts national and international webinars on many subjects; dream pattern analysis, the field of leadership, psychological development, the creative, unconscious communication, voice of psyche and others. She has researched and published articles on the transformational power of art, the archetypal fields of leadership and exile.