with Connie Zweig, Ph.D.
“Elders are the jewels of humanity that have been mined from the earth, cut in the rough, then buffed and polished by the stonecutter’s art into precious gems that we recognize for their enduring value and beauty.”
— Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi
In the U.S. ten thousand people turn 65 every day. But institutional ageism, a destructive unconscious bias, is rampant in every sector of society. And internalized ageism, which I call “the inner ageist,” …
Environmental Trauma: Healing Our Split with Nature
Human development has now crossed an historic threshold, in which our activities are, literally, changing the course of Earth’s evolution. We have entered the age of the Anthropocene. Each year brings with it personal and collective trauma emerging from our behaviors towards the environment. We are finding it more and more difficult to psychologically mediate the results of our actions. Environmental disruptions h…
When she embarked on her dissertation research of Erich Neumann’s theory, Dr. Lidar Shany thought she would uncover only the part of the theory that describes early life development. Soon she was completely hooked and wanted to read and understand more. The more Dr. Shany researched and realized the extent of Neumann’s theory, the more she found herself thinking of therapy with children and adults alike, in terms of his formulations. She was astonished both by the potentia…
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Join us for this author spotlight with Nancy Furlotti as we discuss her book: Eternal Echoes: Erich Neumann’s Timeless Relevance to Consciousness, Creativity, and Evil, which explores the profundity of human nature and psychological development through the lens of Erich Neumann’s (1905-1960) expansive research. Prevalent themes explored encompass the issue of evil, the nature of consciousness, creativity, and the mystical experience…
After 120+ years of analytic experience, models of the psyche have proliferated in conjunction with developments with various other disciplines. As the nature of knowledge itself is being reconsidered in the 21st century, there is movement towards a new synthesis incorporating many levels of information and experience, in which the porosity of subjective and objective states transcends traditional binary views. As this opens into discoveries o…
with Best Selling Author Thomas Moore
Join celebrated author, Thomas Moore, in this four week webinar series, that will help you imagine your life not as a long, steady unraveling of years, but as a series of passages and turning points that demand courage and intelligent compassion. Drawing from the material in his two latest books, Soul Therapy and The Eloquence of Silence, this course integrates depth psychology, philosophy and spirituality to offer specific practice…
Menopause is a time between stories, when the old story fades and a new story is waiting to emerge. It’s a liminal time, when we hover on the brink of the profound transformation which ultimately leads to elderhood, and contemplate the work of gaining new perspectives on our life, of challenging and evolving our belief systems, of exploring our calling, of uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for a lifetime’s accumulation of wounds.
Nevertheless, the second …
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This course is designed for all those who are committed to ameliorating the spiritual, mental, emotional, psychological, and physical imbalances. We as medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, alternative healers, and ministers are constantly giving, giving, giving; yet, who gives to us. This course will help you overcome compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, as a preventive measure to encountering burno…
Youth and young adults are struggling with depression, anxiety, self-harming tendencies, eating disorders, substance misuse, and death by suicide at staggering rates. This is a global health crisis, one that requires the unearthing of the conscious, unconscious, and intergenerational trauma that contributes to the cyclical demise of self; when one’s mind unintentionally turns against the body as a way of coping with the here and now. The body and the mind are not separ…
Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM) is a collection of embodied practices that build resiliency and improve one’s physical, psychological (mental, emotional) and spiritual heath. Daily HRM practice, results in reduced blood pressure, improved immune response, increased lung capacity, an increased ability to regulate your emotions, and increased capacity to focus on what matters to you in life. Central to HRM practices is embodiment: identification and activation of s…
History of Psychology Through Symbols Author Spotlight with Jim Broderick
Volume 1
Through symbols and active engagement, Volume One provides the Historic Roots of modern Psychology through the Axial Age (800 BCE -200 BCE) which includes Greek thought, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism. The Volume explores the influence of the Christian and Islamic eras which resulted in the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Enlightenme…
The astounding omnipresence of the virtual in contemporary consciousness is radically restructuring our psychology, changing our societies and culture, and having profound effects on who we are, how we behave with one another, and on the kind of world we are inhabiting. The speed and instantaneousness of digital communication radically unsettles both time and space. “Real time” and “virtual space” are new categories in our existence that introduce dramatic transfor…