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The official website for Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy
The Conference on Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy
History of the conference
- The first conference was held in the summer of 1998 at
the Mt. Madonna Center in Watsonville, California, a few
hours south of San Francisco. It was hosted by The Center For Timeless Wisdom, a
non-profit organization established by Peter Fenner,
Ph.D.. Subsequent conferences have been held annually
since 2000 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 2005
Conference was hosted by the Institute of
Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. The
2006 Conference was hosted by John F. Kennedy University
in Pleasant Hill, California. The 2007 Conference
was hosted by the California Institute of Integral
Studies in San Francisco, which is now the permanent home
of the Conference..
Who can attend? - Anyone is welcome to
attend. While the conference presentations are geared
towards the theory and practice of psychotherapy and are
available to be taken for continuing education units,
they are accessible to the interested public. Many
graduate students and psychology interns attend along
with licensed psychotherapists. Clergy, bodyworkers, and
students of nondual teachings will also find the
presentations of special interest.
Upcoming conference and contact information
- The 2008 conference will be hosted by the California
Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco,
California on October 31-Nov 2. Please contact CIIS at http://www.ciis.edu/publicprograms/fall08/embodied-conf.html
in order to register online. There will be pre-conference
workshops held on Thursday, October 30th and
Friday, October 31st. In addition there will
be a special free lecture by spiritual teacher Loch Kelly
on Friday evening. There will be a music and poetry
recitation by Roger Housden with Gary Malkin on piano,
Saturday afternoon. The main conference will be held
Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2. Please see
details below.
Who can present? - A call for
presentations is generally sent out by email well in
advance of each conference. If you are interested in
being a presenter for future conferences (2009 and
beyond), please contact Bob Cowart at bob@cowart.com.
Conference co-sponsors ~~ For a number
of years of years the conference has been co-sponsored by
The Center for Timeless Wisdom, the Association for
Transpersonal Psychology, the Institute of Transpersonal
Psychology, the California Institute of Integral Studies,
Association of Humanistic Psychology, and John F. Kennedy
University.
“Embodied
Awakening”
Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference 2008
October 31 - November 2, 2008
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street, San Francisco
Bios & Presentations
| PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS | ||
| Nondual
Psychotherapy: Listening and speaking from
no-mind Peter Fenner, Ph.D. 6 CEUs (MFT, LCSW)
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In
1983 Peter Fenner completed a
PhD in the philosophical psychology of the
Madhyamika school of Mahayana Buddhism. After
nine years as a celibate monk, Peter handed back
his ordination. In 1986 he began offering
adaptations of Mahayana wisdom to mental health
professionals. He subsequently founded the Center
for Timeless Wisdom (wisdom.org), a Californian
nonprofit organization, which offers
contemplative dialogues and retreats in
Australia, USA, Europe and Israel. Peter’s books include Radiant Mind; The Ontology of the Middle Way; Reasoning into Reality; Essential Wisdom Teachings; The Edge of Certainty: Paradoxes on the Buddhist Path; Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy. |
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| What
is the wonder of all wonders? - Pure Awareness:
On Becoming the Field Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D 6 CEUs (MFT, LCSW)  |
Rudolph Bauer, PhD
- Diplomate in Clinical Psychology; Consultant,
American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; has
written over 30 papers on psychotherapy topics.
Postdoctoral studies: Gestalt, Phenomenology,
psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is Director of The
Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Center of
Washington, DC, and Co-director of The
Washington Center for Consciousness Studies.
He sees individuals and groups in private
practice, and teaches courses to psychotherapists
in meditation and the phenomenology of awareness.
He has studied for over 30 years with Masters of
Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism and Daoist Qi Gong. |
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| FRIDAY EVENING SPIRITUAL TALK | ||
| The Heart of Awakening:
Experiencing Embodied Awareness Loch Kelly. MDiv., LCSW |
Loch Kelly, MDiv., LCSW,
is the founder of the Natural Wakefulness Center
in New York City. He is a non-dual spiritual
teacher who was asked to teach by Mingyur
Rinpoche and Adyashanti. Loch developed Awareness
Psychotherapy, and offers a unique experiential
way of sharing the direct-path approach to
recognizing true nature. |
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| MAIN CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
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| Big Mind Diane Musho Hamilton 2 CEUs (MFT, LCSW) |
Diane Hamilton
has practiced meditation for over 20 years. She
began her studies at Naropa Institute in 1983
with Trungpa Rinpoche. The most important thing
she learned from him was to “Be yourself.
The world will give you feedback.” She had
the extreme good fortune to become a Zen student
of Genpo Merzel Roshi in 1997. In 2003, she
received ordination, with her husband, as a Zen
priest. She is also a facilitator of the Big
Mind, a process developed by Roshi to elicit the
insights of Zen in Western audiences. In 2004,
she met remarkable Ken Wilber, and has been
working for the Integral Institute as a teacher
since then. |
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| The
Body’s Sense of the Truth John J. Prendergast, PhD 2 CEUs (MFT, LCSW) |
John J. Prendergast,
Ph.D., is an Adjunct Associate Professor
of Psychology at CIIS and maintains a private
practice in San Rafael. He studied for many years
with the European sage, Dr. Jean Klein, as well
as with Adyashanti, and has published several
articles on transpersonal psychology. He is the
senior editor of and a contributing author to
both The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and
Psychotherapy (with P. Fenner & S. Krystal)
and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual
Wisdom and Psychotherapy, vol. 2 (with K.
Bradford ). |
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| Re-Patterning - Deep
Transformation through Non-Dual Wisdom: Tuning Into and Influencing the Life-Patterns and Epistemological Confusions of our Clients Peter Wrycza, PhD 2 CEUs (MFT, LCSW) |
Peter Wrycza, Ph.D.,
(formerly UK) began exploring non-dual wisdom in
1970 with meditation, subsequently researching
the role of higher states of consciousness in
literary creativity. He is founder of the Nirarta
Centre for Living Awareness in Bali, where he
lives, and the International Academy for
Transformational Coaching and Leadership in
Indonesia and Russia. Author of Living
Awareness, he runs retreats and offers
personal and professional development seminars
internationally. His Re-Patterning process
supports deep transformation through the
resolution of epistemological confusions, which
split source awareness and divide the body
energetically. |
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| Transforming Self, Transforming
World David Loy 2 CEUs (MFT, LCSW) |
David R. Loy, Ph.D.,
is Besl Chair Professor of Ethics/Religion and
Society at Xavier University in Cincinnati. His
books include Nonduality: a study in
comparative philosophy (1988), Lack and
Transcendence: death and life in psychotherapy,
existentialism and Buddhism(1996), A
Buddhist History of the West: studies in lack
(2002), The Great Awakening: a Buddhist
social theory (2003), and Money, Sex,
War, Karma: notes for a Buddhist revolution
(2008). He is qualified as a Zen teacher in the
Sanbo Kyodan lineage. |
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| Realization Process: Attuning
to Essence in Relationships Judith Blackstone, PhD 2 CEUs
(MFT, LCSW) |
Judith Blackstone,
Ph.D., developed Realization Process and
has taught it in workshops and teacher trainings
throughout the United States and Europe, and at
Esalen Institute since 1987. She is a
psychotherapist in New York City and Woodstock,
NY, and is on the faculty of the Institute of
Transpersonal Psychology. She is the author of The
Enlightenment Process, Living Intimately, The
Subtle Self, The Empathic Ground, and
“Intersubjectivity and Nonduality in the
Psychotherapeutic Relationship” in Listening
from the Heart of Silence (Paragon House,
2007) and the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology
(2006). |
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| Tapping Into the Source for
Transforming Trauma: An Introduction to EMDR and Resource Tapping From a Non-Dual Perspective Laura Parnell, PhD 2 CEUs (MFT, LCSW) |
Laurel Parnell, Ph. D., is
a psychologist, teacher and author with over
thirty years experience as a meditator and
spiritual practitioner. Laurel has
been actively integrating psychological and
spiritual work throughout her career. She served
on the faculty of the California Institute for
Integral Studies and John F. Kennedy University
and presents at conferences in the United States
and abroad. An innovator and expert in EMDR (Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) she
has trained thousands of clinicians in the United
States and abroad. She is the author of four
books; Tapping In, A Therapist's Guide to
EMDR, Transforming Trauma: EMDR, and
EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused as
Children. Her article, “Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and
Spiritual Unfolding” was published in The
Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. |
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| Nonduality and
Neuroscience—promises and perils Zoran Josipovic, PhD 1 CEU (MFT, LCSW) |
Zoran Josipovic, Ph.D.,
is a research scientist and an adjunct professor
at the Center for Neural Science and Psychology
Dept., New York University. His main interests
are the nature of consciousness and its relation
to the brain, global versus local theories of
consciousness, and the functioning of
anti-correlated neural networks. Zoran is a
long-term practitioner of meditation in the
nondual traditions of Dzogchen, Mahamudra and
Advaita Vedanta. He has also worked as a
psychotherapist and a bodyworker and has taught
meditation at Esalen Institute for many years. |
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| Integral Awakening Practice and
the Soul Centric Developmental Wheel:
Transcendent and Descendent Paths of Spiritual
Awakening Using the Voice Dialogue Method. Jonathan Gustin, MFT 1 CEU (MFT, LCSW) |
Jonathan Gustin, MFT,
teaches twin paths in spirituality: the path
of transcendence, where we go beyond the
boundaries of our everyday personalities to
experience non-separation from all of life, and
the path of descendence, a burrowing
down into our depths where we encounter soul, the
essence of our specific life purpose. Jonathan is the founder of Green
Sangha and San Francisco Integral Life Practice,
where he teaches meditation and integral
spirituality. He is a psychotherapist and
integral mentor in private practice in San
Francisco and San Rafael. www.jonathangustin.com |
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| Zen and the Art of Mandalas: Tools for Nondual Inquiry and Expression Prema Maja Rode, PhD 1 CEU (MFT, LCSW) |
Prema Maja Rode
holds a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and is
the Creative Director of Open Gate Sangha, the
organization that supports the Zen-inspired
teachings of Adyashanti. She is the managing
editor of Adyashanti’s books and
publications, and her music and poetry have been
a highlight at his silent retreats since 1999.
Prema began drawing mandalas, facilitating
creative processes, and exploring nondual
teachings in the early 90’s. Her nondual
creative expressions take many forms including
drawing, collage, poetry, singing, graphic
design, and even rap music. www.shivalotus.com |
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| The Interface between Spiritual
Teaching and Psychotherapy in the Unfolding of
Spiritual Awakening – Panel Discussion Dorothy Hunt, LCSW; Loch Kelly, MDiv., LCSW; Marlies Cocheret de la Morinière 2 CEUs (MFT, LCSW)
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Dorothy Hunt, LCSW,
currently serves as Spiritual Director of Moon
Mountain Sangha, Inc., teaching at the request
and in the spiritual lineage of Adyashanti. She
is the founder of the San Francisco Center for
Meditation and Psychotherapy and has practiced
psychotherapy since 1967. Dorothy is the author
of Only This!, and a contributing author
to both The Sacred Mirror and Listening
from the Heart of Silence. www.dorothyhunt.org Loch Kelly, MDiv., LCSW,
is the founder of the Natural Wakefulness Center
in New York City. He is a non-dual teacher who
was asked to teach by Adyashanti and Mingyur
Rinpoche. Loch has practiced spiritual
psychotherapy and taught meditation for 25 years.
Loch offers a unique experiential way of sharing
the direct-path approach to recognizing true
nature. www.lochkelly.org |
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