Events

Psychotherapy & Spirituality Summit is a free online summit that begins on October 30 through November 8. Promotions begin on October 17.

• 10 day summit: 3 sessions/day at 12pm, 4pm, 8pm EST.
• Each session is a 30 minute presentation (including a teaching and practice) followed by a QA, between 45-60 minutes.
• Live Summit presentations free, and available for bundled purchase and transcripts with bonuses. Priced at $297 (discounted from $497)

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Join us to learn more about

• How both psychotherapy and spirituality contain “blind spots”
• Traumatic experience as the gateway to the dimensions of spirit
• Embracing an mature, psychologically informed spirituality
• Turning to the body for guidance
• Exploring the furthest reaches of our human potential

Presenters: A.H. Almaas, Ashley Turner, Bill Plotkin, Bo Forbes, Bruce Tift, DaRa Williams, Diane Poole Heller, Dorothy Hunt, Gabor Mate, Jack Kornfield, James Hollis, John Prendergast, John Welwood, Judith Blackstone, Ken Wilber, Lama Palden Drolma, Loch Kelly, Mariana Caplan, Pat Ogden, Peter Fenner, Pilar Jennings, Richard Miller, Richard Schwartz, Robert Augustus Masters, Ron Siegel, Sandra Maitri, Stanislav Grof, Susan Pollak, Thomas Moore, Trudy Goodman

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Join Dr. Pilar Jennings as she explores the vibrant intersection of Psychoanalysis and the practices of Tibetan Buddhism.

4 MONDAY NIGHTS: OCTOBER 16, 23, 30, NOVEMBER 7

Given the widespread interest in mindfulness and its clinical applications, this course will focus more specifically on the unique practices found within the Tibetan tradition, including the use of archetypal imagery and visualizations, and how such methods intersect with a psychoanalytic focus on unconscious material, and early relational experience.

For clinicians, this course will provide a nuanced exploration of how the analytic treatment of common psychological struggles including depression and anxiety, as well as more complex forms of trauma, may be supported and enhanced by Buddhist insights and methods for both patients and therapists.  For meditators, this course will offer ways to more fully understand and address the psychological content that can arise in one’s spiritual practice through a psychodynamic approach to internal life and its development.

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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

• A Psychoanalytic and Buddhist understanding of self and identity formation.
• The role of the unconscious in psychoanalytic work and Buddhist meditation.
• Increased understanding of key relational dynamics between therapists and patients and Buddhist teachers and their students.
• The role of transference and countertransference in psychodynamic work and spiritual practice.
• The cultivation of compassion for self and other in clinical work and Buddhist spirituality.
• How Buddhist psychology and psychoanalytic theory describe and approach human development.

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Dr. Jennings will give a talk at All Souls Church in New York Sunday, October 8th at 1:30pm

All are welcome — this group is for those who are curious to learn more about meditation, for both beginners and practicing Buddhists. A sangha is a community of people who come together to meditate and study the practice of Buddhism. Our teacher, Dr. Pilar Jennings, is a frequent contributor to the All Souls Adult Education program, and a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Dr. Jennings will be instructing “Communing with One and All: Making All Well with Love’s Body of Light” at Tibet House on Saturday, April 15th 10am – 5pm.

This final retreat in the Four-Year Program in Sustainable Happiness with Dr. Pilar Jennings and Desirée Caban immerses participants in the blissful art of communing with life that is the culmination of the whole gradual path of contemplative healing preserved in India and Tibet.

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