FREE WEBINAR: Mythic Activism with Alliance Board Member Craig Chalquist Ph.D. -- August 28. (optional donation to help cover costs welcomed)
Summer 2013: Seeing the Shadow—The Importance of Depth Psychology in Leadership: Written Interview with David A. Laveman & Bonnie Bright for Depth Insights™. We need more depth in business! Please come share your comments and lets start a discussion.
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APRIL 30, 2013: Free Teleconference "Creating a Masterpiece of your Life" with Thomas Moore
January 2013: Interview, Depth Insights Radio: The Roots of Mass Shootings: A Depth Psychological Look at Gun Violence in America--Bonnie Bright with Dr. Glen Slater as they discuss his article "The Mythology of Bullets" (Spring Journal Issue 81, (2009), "The Psychology of Violence)
INTERVIEW: "Big Mind, Big Heart with Roshi Genpo Merzel" - SHRINK RAP RADIO™ Featured Interview of the Month
Special Study Group: "Genpo Merzel: 4-Week Introduction to "Big Mind as Western Zen"-- A concept rooted in Jungian Psychology and in Eastern Zen-- Starts March 2
 | Runs through January: JANUARY 2013 Online Book Club: "The War of the Gods in Addiction" with David E. Schoen online written discussion group. Also check out the weekly teleseminars with David Schoen--(See next) |
| January 30th--FINAL in the series: 4-week teleconference series with |
| February 1, 2013: Ancestral Influence in Psychological Healing and Transformation with Daniel Foor, Ph.D., MFT, SF Bay Area Hive Meetup & Speaker Evening |
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4-Week Master Teleseminar Lecture Series EXTENDED 3 more weeks! An Archetypal Perspective on Clinical Practice with Dr. Michael Conforti. Runs on Monday eves at 8pm ET from through Dec. 17.
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March 9, 2011
Neuroscience and Converge at the
March 2011 Workshop “How We Change the Brain to Change the Culture:
Facilitating Creative Consciousness with Art, Beauty, & Truth in Psychotherapy”
with Ernest and Kathryn ,
March 9, 2011 - Alliance is pleased to announce their promotional support for the Institute for Cultural Change in the March 2011 workshop “How We Change the Brain to Change the Culture: Facilitating Creative Consciousness with Art, Beauty, & Truth in Psychotherapy,” led by Ernest , Ph.D. and Kathryn , which takes place in Los Osos, CA, March 18-20, 2011.
As the burgeoning field of Neuroscience continues its dramatic impact on the arena of by corroborating the power of transformation and changing the way we think and understand the concept of consciousness and the connection between mind and body, this workshop offers an opportunity to work in a close setting with two of the leaders in mind body healing and neuroscience of psychotherapy, therapeutic hypnosis, and rehabilitation.
Ernest , Ph.D., psychotherapist and pioneer in the psychobiology of mind-body healing and hypnotherapy, is an internationally renowned therapist, teacher, and researcher who worked with Milton Erickson for eight years and co-authored three classic volumes on therapeutic hypnosis with him. He is a Diplomate in Clinical and the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award For Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Psychotherapy by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, the American Association of Psychotherapy, and The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He is a Jungian Analyst, the Science Editor of Psychological Perspectives and the author of 36 professional books and more than 170 published scientific papers in the areas of neuroscience, psychotherapy, dreams, and therapeutic hypnosis.
Kathryn L. Ph.D. is a Founding Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of the California Central Coast (MHE-CCC). She has edited, authored, or co-authored more than 15 books and 25 scientific articles. She is a Professor at the Neuroscience Institute for Psychotherapists of San Lorenzo Maggiore, Italy and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Vice President for The Ernest Lawrence Non-Profit Foundation for Psychosocial Genomics Research. Kathryn is a psychologist in private practice, a certified yoga teacher, and has spoken at major conferences, universities and teaching hospitals on such topics as experiential psychotherapy, yoga and psychotherapy, the PsychoSocial Genomics Healing Experience, mind-brain-body healing, hypnosis, brief therapy, and sex and couples therapy.
New startling research attests that art, beauty, and truth can turn on gene expression and brain growth during creative experiences suggesting our highest and most inspired states of consciousness can facilitate optimal gene expression and brain plasticity, while stress and trauma can distort and suppress it. In the upcoming workshop, Ernest and Kathryn will work intimately with participants to explain how and why changing our brain is vital to our quest for self-understanding and well-being and to train them how to change brain patterning for themselves and/or for clients. Participants will learn the 4-stage creative process for optimizing of gene expression, brain plasticity, problem solving, and mind-body healing. Ernest and Kathryn recently sat down with Bonnie Bright, founder of Alliance, for a video interview. Details/Registration for the workshop can be found athttp://www.instituteforculturalchange.org/events.php. Registration is $195 plus lodging & and meals at Sea Pines Resort, Los Osos, CA.
The Institute for Cultural Change, founded and directed by Lori Pye, PhD, seeks to promote individual, ecological, and cultural evolution through the development of educational models that foster curiosity, imagination, personal reflection, and cross-cultural dialogue and to create and connect an impassioned global community committed to altering how we humans might relate to our self, each other and the natural world less destructively, to discover ways to interact in less violent, racist and sexist ways, and to work toward augmenting conscious change in a challenging world. Alliance, founded by Bonnie Bright, M.A., is the first global online community for academic discussion, research, and development of ideas and views, allowing interested individuals to connect with each other, share their work, find and promote professional events, and to learn. In February, the Institute for Cultural Change and Alliance teamed up to promote greater awareness of --ecopsychological and cross-cultural issues that impact the way we live in contemporary culture today.
View a small 1.5 minute excerpt from the video interview with Bonnie Bright and Ernest as they discuss Neuroscience, Creativity, and Consciousness
: Alliance Offers Promotional Support for the Ernest and Kathryn Workshop, “How We Change the Brain to Change the Culture: Facilitating Creative Consciousness with Art, Beauty, & Truth in Psychotherapy” produced by the Institute for Cultural Change
Where: Sea Pines Resort, Los Osos, CA
When: March 18-20
Register: http://www.instituteforculturalchange.org/events.php.
More Info: www.ernest.com, www.instituteforculturalchange.org,
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Contact:
Bonnie Bright: bonniebright@insights.com
Lori Pye: lori@instituteforculturalchange.org
February 4, 2011 – The Institute for Cultural Change and Alliance are partnering to promote greater awareness of --ecopsychological and cross-cultural issues that impact the way we live in contemporary culture today.
The goal of this timely initiative is to increase awareness and opportunities to connect and work together, as well as to offer increased support to those who are studying and practicing in the fields of , eco and liberation .
The partnership comes at an important juncture as the Institute for Cultural Change ramps up plans for the exciting upcoming March 2011 workshop with Ernest and Kathryn . “How We Change the Brain to Change the Culture: Facilitating Creative Consciousness with Art, Beauty, & Truth in Psychotherapy” will take place in Ojai, CA, March 18-20, 2011. Ernest , psychotherapist and pioneer in mind body healing and hypnotherapy, will work intimately with participants to train them how to change brain patterning for themselves and/or their clients. It is a formal training for psychotherapists as well as a great opportunity to the general public to learn how and why changing our brain is vital to our quest for self-understanding and well-being.
Alliance will offer specially designated pricing generously established by The Institute for Cultural Change for the March event to members of its online interactive community and will continue to spread the word about upcoming initiatives through ongoing promotional outreach.
Alliance will support ICC’s March Workshop with Ernest and Kathryn , as well as additional upcoming events, including “These Women,” a June conference honoring eight stellar women in the field of —including Pat Berry, Lyn Cowan, Christine Downing, Nor Hall, Ginette Paris, Hendrika de Vries, Mary Watkins, & Marion Woodman. The two organizations kicked off the new alliance with an exclusive recorded conversation between the founders, Lori Pye, PhD, of the Institute for Cultural Change, and Bonnie Bright of Alliance where they discussed , Eco, events in Egypt, as well as the value of alliance and community.
The Institute for Cultural Change seeks to promote individual, ecological, and cultural evolution through the development of educational models that foster curiosity, imagination, personal reflection, and cross-cultural dialogue and to create and connect an impassioned global community committed to altering how we humans might relate to our self, each other and the natural world less destructively, to discover ways to interact in less violent, racist and sexist ways, and to work toward augmenting conscious change in a challenging world.
Lori Pye, Director and Founder, received her Bachelor's of Science from Texas A& M University, and her M.A and in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California. As an environmentalist, Dr. Pye worked with NGOs around the world to co-develop the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape Corridor. She has founded several international nonprofit organizations and worked in executive management with marine conservation organizations. She has also led international conferences on diverse issues such as Nature & Human Nature (2007), featuring James Hillman, David Abrams, Susan Griffin, Ginette Paris, Dennis Slattery, yn Merchant, Dick Russell, Rick Tarnas, Edgar Casey; and The Mythology of Violence (2008) featuring Thomas Moore, Chris Hedges, Melissa Farley, Sarah Husain; and most recently The Aesthetic Nature of Change (2010) featuring John Ehrenfeld, Andrew Beath, Ernest , Evans Lansing Smith, Hendrika de Vries, and James Hollis. Dr. Pye teaches Eco at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), Ecology Concepts and Applications for Eco at Naropa University, Human Ecology at Antioch University, and Mythology & at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Alliance, founded in 2010 by Bonnie Bright, M.A., is the first global online community for academic discussion, research, and development of ideas and views, allowing interested individuals to connect with each other, share their work, find and promote professional events, and to learn. , developed from the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, explores the deeper parts of human experience through inquiry into the unconscious and the symbolic meaning of dreams, myths, nature, and archetypal patterns which affect how we relate to ourselves, each other, our culture, and our planet. extends to the disciplines of Eco, Cross-cultural , Neuroscience, Technology, and Media as these arenas increasingly impact the role of psyche and the unconscious in the world.
Bonnie Bright received a Master’s degree in at Sonoma State University, having completed her thesis on the symbolic nature of Colony Collapse Disorder, the mysterious disappearance of the honeybees. After a 15-year career in Marketing Communications serving clients in technology, media, music, software, and nonprofit, she is recently completed a second M.A in and is pursuing a PhD at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. Bonnie’s writing appears in the 2010 anthology, Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled (World Soul Books). She is an active board member for AHBI, the Association for Holotropic Breathwork, and has trained extensively in the Enneagram, a psycho-spiritual personality typology system.
This new and exciting coalition enhances the strategic January 2011 union between Alliance and Assisi Institute, an educational center dedicated to the study and application of Archetypal Pattern Analysis founded by Jungian Analyst, author, and consultant Dr. Michael Conforti.
: Institute for Cultural Change and Alliance team up to promote greater awareness of ecopsycological/cross-cultural and psychologies
Where: www.instituteforculturalchange.org and www.alliance.com
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Contact:
Bonnie Bright
Lori Pye
Lori@instituteforculturalchange.org
Media Release
Assisi Institute and Alliance Announce Strategic Partnership
January 10, 2011 –Assisi Institute and Alliance are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to increase availability ofJungian studies and .
The goal of this powerful andtimely initiative is to provide increased opportunities forlearning, training, and connection among those who are interested in the fields of Jungian and psychologies and to better equip and support existing individuals practicing Jungian and around the world.
The partnership comes at an important moment as Assisi Institute prepares for its 23rd annual conference, “Transcendent Wonder: Peering Beyond The Veil” to be held in Assisi, Italy, July 12-19, 2011. Alliance will sponsor and support the Assisi conference (which features keynote Jungian analyst and author James Hollis, and internationally recognized artist Makoto Fujimura among others) as well as other upcoming initiatives through its online interactive community and through ongoing promotional efforts. The Assisi Institute is also offering Alliance members a 10% discount on tuition for the internationally recognized Assisi conference in 2011. The two organizations will kick off the new alliance with a complimentary teleseminar on C.G. Jung's Red Book offered Monday, January 10, 2011, by Dr. Michael Conforti, with details available on the Alliance "events" page.
Assisi Institute, an educational center dedicated to the study and application of Archetypal Pattern Analysis, with 20,000 members around the world, was founded in 1989 by Jungian Analyst, Michael Conforti, PhD. It is an international focalpoint for leading thinkers and groundbreaking research on therelationship between psyche and matter, the work of C.G. Jung, discoveries in the new sciences, as well as eternal truths of theworld's great wisdom traditions. Featuring a 2-year certificate program in Archetypal Pattern Analysis, a 9-month certificate program in Dream Pattern Analysis and a series of educational teleseminars on Jung’s Red Book, the institute also sponsors a series of public conferences in Assisi,Italy, andBrattleboro, VT. The non-profit arm of the organization, Assisi Foundation, was founded in 2003 to explore the connection ofarts, archetypes and the transcendent and to foster greater awareness of archetypal patterns underlying our cultural, socialand global systems through public programs, research projects, and publications. Assisi Institute will be launching a new and improved web site which features the partnership with Alliance in early 2011.
Dr.Conforti is an author,consultant, and pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian and the New Sciences. Hehas been afaculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston, the C.G Jung Foundation of New York, and served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral andMaster's Programs in Clinical at Antioch New England for many years. Dr. Conforti maintains a private practice in Vermont, where he also serves as a state-appointed advisor to the Board of Psychoanalysts. He provides his insights as a sought-after consultant to businesses,government institutions,and the film industry.
, developed from the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, explores the deeper parts of human experience through inquiry into the unconscious and the symbolic meaning of dreams, myths, nature, andarchetypal patterns which affect how we relate to ourselves, eachother, our culture, and our planet. Founded in 2010 by Bonnie Bright, M.A., Alliance is the first global online community for academic discussion, research, and development of ideas and views, allowing interested individuals to connect with each other, share their work, find and promote professional events, and to learn.
Bonnie Bright holds a Master’s degree in , having completed her thesis on the symbolic nature of Colony Collapse Disorder, the mysterious disappearance of the honeybees. After a 15-year career in Marketing Communications serving clients in technology, media, music, software, and nonprofit, she is currently completing a PhD in at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. Bonnie’s writing most recently appeared in the 2010 anthology, Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled (World SoulBooks). She is an active board member for AHBI, the Association for Holotropic Breathwork, and has trained extensively in the Enneagram, a psycho-spiritual personality typology system.
: Assisi Institute and Alliance team up to extendJungian and psychologies
Where: www.alliance.com,www.assisiconferences.com
Contact:
Bonnie Bright
info@psychalliance.com
MichaelConforti
assisi@together.net
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