Listen to a free teleseminar recording with Jungian analyst Michael Conforti, PhD on "Trauma and Patterns of the Psyche" in moving forward from trauma.
(This special teleseminar is the first in a 7-Part series on Trauma and Healing)
HOW TO LISTEN: Go to www.assisiinstitute.com and scroll down the page until you see this the following image(s). Then simply click the small arrow in the black bar to play the recording.
About the Teleseminar:
We live with the collective hope and belief that "time heals all wounds". This collective illusion strikes at the dignity of the human soul, asking us to look the other way when we are face to face with the reality of our traumatic experiences.
Our delusions and immature attitudes about life ill prepare us for this journey, especially one encountering terrible trauma and loss. The prudent sailor prepares well for their journey into the depths, yet knows that the day may come when the storm, unlike any other, may hit. So we pray, for grace, for strength, for the gift of learning how to make a life amidst these experiences.
With our current global climate of terrorist atrocities, this may be a meaningful and opportune moment to arrive at a new understanding of healing, one that encompasses the ability to live with the tragedies of life, and to build a psyche strong enough to carry what we have seen, felt and lived through. And so too, to live a creative life. While each person's journey through the world of trauma is uniquely their own, there are archetypal and consistently patterned responses to these tragedies which can either keep us imprisoned in the trauma or which can help us move forward to a meaningful life. Identifying and understanding these archetypal patterns can help us move towards a generative re-emergence into the world. To do so is truly an experience of a secular miracle.
About Dr. Conforti
Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst and the founder and Director of The Assisi Institute. He has been a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston, the C.G Jung Foundation 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 Venezuela, Denmark, Italy and Canada. He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche. His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, San Francisco Jung Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring.
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