Date: August 8, 15, 22 & 29 2024
All classes take place weekly on Thursdays, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm US Eastern Time
All classes take place weekly on Thursdays, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm US Eastern Time
Tuition: $175
4 CE Hours: $50 (in addition to tuition fee)
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Continuing Education hours offered for this program.
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Continuing Education hours offered for this program.
If you are not able to join the live sessions, the lectures will be recorded and all registered participants will receive the recordings afterwards.
Please note: All currently enrolled Archetypal Patterning Analysis (APA) students receive a 20% discount on this course. Email [email protected] to receive your discount code.
Please note: All currently enrolled Archetypal Patterning Analysis (APA) students receive a 20% discount on this course. Email [email protected] to receive your discount code.
“The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neurosis but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experiences, you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.”
-CG Jung Letters 1, Pg. 377
-CG Jung Letters 1, Pg. 377
About the course:
We are fascinated by the process of psychotherapy. Since its inception by the Asclepiads in 46 AD, we have experienced treatment as truly transformative, good enough, or utterly disastrous. The pioneers in the field have sought to understand the nature of these inherent, archetypal processes which create conditions for healing or exacerbate our client’s pain, all occurring within one of humanity's most perplexing relationships.
The therapeutic relationship is inexorably entwined in psyche’s dance, choreographed by The Self to manifest archetypal dynamics into matter. Here matter is the actual relationship between therapist and client serving as the canvas upon which Psyche tells its story about life and destiny.
Within this therapeutic temenos, the ancient alchemical discoveries are once again recognized by the findings of the New Sciences, where in some mysterious ways, past, present, and future collapse into a moment, into an archetypal pattern. No longer are these enactments understood as transference, countertransference, or some form of iatrogenic dynamics. Instead, they reflect the self's understanding that within treatment, the archetype must be experienced as a living reality to allow for an experience of the numinous.
In understanding these archetypal, interactive dynamics, we see that much of life is literally structured by the workings of both generative and non-generative archetypal alignments and complexes. It is through an understanding of these dynamics, that allows us to move beyond the constraints of a non-generative archetypal field, and to live more fully into a benevolent life.
It is this expression of Psyche that moved Teilhard de Chardin to see that "Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen". And we can now add that spirit is made visible through the creation of archetypal patterns. Jung grasped this unified backdrop writing that "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).
Here we truly enter into the domain the ancients referred to as "unus mundus" - the one world - where this confluence of matter and spirit flows into the life blood of every one of us.
While we need to learn as much as possible about Psyche’s role in the therapeutic process, ultimately however, we must acknowledge that psychotherapy is a mystery as well as an archetypal, spiritual experience worthy of our attention, dedication - and perhaps even our awe.
What to Expect During the Course
Building on the shoulders of the pioneering work of Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Robert Langs and Yoram Kaufmann, this clinical seminar series will focus on:
Cancellations and Refunds
A full refund minus a $50 administrative fee, is given if cancellation is made prior to one week (January 25th, 2024) before the beginning of the series. A 50% refund is given if cancellation is made less than one week before the course begins.
The therapeutic relationship is inexorably entwined in psyche’s dance, choreographed by The Self to manifest archetypal dynamics into matter. Here matter is the actual relationship between therapist and client serving as the canvas upon which Psyche tells its story about life and destiny.
Within this therapeutic temenos, the ancient alchemical discoveries are once again recognized by the findings of the New Sciences, where in some mysterious ways, past, present, and future collapse into a moment, into an archetypal pattern. No longer are these enactments understood as transference, countertransference, or some form of iatrogenic dynamics. Instead, they reflect the self's understanding that within treatment, the archetype must be experienced as a living reality to allow for an experience of the numinous.
In understanding these archetypal, interactive dynamics, we see that much of life is literally structured by the workings of both generative and non-generative archetypal alignments and complexes. It is through an understanding of these dynamics, that allows us to move beyond the constraints of a non-generative archetypal field, and to live more fully into a benevolent life.
It is this expression of Psyche that moved Teilhard de Chardin to see that "Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen". And we can now add that spirit is made visible through the creation of archetypal patterns. Jung grasped this unified backdrop writing that "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).
Here we truly enter into the domain the ancients referred to as "unus mundus" - the one world - where this confluence of matter and spirit flows into the life blood of every one of us.
While we need to learn as much as possible about Psyche’s role in the therapeutic process, ultimately however, we must acknowledge that psychotherapy is a mystery as well as an archetypal, spiritual experience worthy of our attention, dedication - and perhaps even our awe.
What to Expect During the Course
Building on the shoulders of the pioneering work of Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Robert Langs and Yoram Kaufmann, this clinical seminar series will focus on:
- The archetypal dimensions of treatment.
- An archetypal understanding of transference and countertransference.
- Learning how the actual conditions of treatment serve as the medium within which archetypes make their presence in treatment.
- Learning to recognize the manifestation of archetypal dynamics within the client-therapist interactional field.
- Learning to recognize the expressive nature and meaning of replicative patterns.
- Learning how to understand and translate The Voice of Psyche, as presented through unconscious communication, and unconscious perception.
- Learning to differentiate between conscious and unconscious experience
- Learning to understand the meaning of these interactional dynamics and unconscious communications, and how to create meaningful responses to them.
- Learning to discern the presence of trauma through images, therapeutic interactions and unconscious communication.
- Learning about the role of defenses to both ward off conscious recognition of our pain, while also serving to re-activate the very trauma we are seeking to avoid.
Cancellations and Refunds
A full refund minus a $50 administrative fee, is given if cancellation is made prior to one week (January 25th, 2024) before the beginning of the series. A 50% refund is given if cancellation is made less than one week before the course begins.
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Course Presenter:
Dr. 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, 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.
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, Indonesia, Italy, 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.
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.
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, Indonesia, Italy, 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.