April 2011 Events and Updates

"Most issues can be resolved if we start thinking outside ourselves." Tom with his family at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. His wife, Hari Kirin, and her colleague, Susan Q. Brown, recently opened a new show at BMAC, Wherever You Are is the Center of the World. To learn more about Tom's upcoming talk, "Art & Dream," at BMAC,   please click here.  "Spirituality and Care of the Soul in Psychotherapy" July 11 - 15, 2011 New England Educational Institute, Cape Cod Whether you are a mental health or medical professional, your main job is to heal wounded hearts, minds, and bodies. This symposium will focus on the calling to help people in physical, emotional, and spiritual trouble. Participants will reflect on their own spiritual journeys and explore ways of meditation and contemplation. They will learn the difference between soul and spirit and see how they can blend psychological counseling with spiritual guidance. The shadow elements in psychotherapy and spirituality will be examined both personally and theoretically. The role of dreams and the arts in therapy will also be explored. finally, participants will consider ways to care for themselves spiritually and emotionally and prepare themselves as persons for the deep work of psychotherapy. In this symposium, Thomas Moore will offer a way to practice therapy with a rich and positive philosophy to life while including paradoxes and challenges.  www.neei.org    April 2011 To bring you up to date, Care of the Soul in Medicine and The Guru of Golf will be out in paperback this summer. I'm still looking for a publisher for GOSPEL, my translation and commentary on the New Testament Gospels. I am working on a video to help patients and healthcare providers in hospitals and medical centers. I need some funding for that good project. If you are looking for a good cause . . . And it appears that the theme, the soul of education, is putting a claim on me. In one way or another I expect to write about it seriously during the next year. I was so inspired by my experiences at the London congress on gynecology where I spoke in March that I hope to continue working in that area. Finally, as I write, my close friend James Hillman is suffering a relapse of cancer and is heavily on my mind. I paid him a visit, at the time of his radiation treatments, that was tender, reflective and crackling with wit. Oh, and my wife's superb book Art & Yoga will be out June 21st and her amazing show of huge paintings, Wherever You Are is the Center of the World is at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont until July 3rd.                                       EVENTS AT A GLANCE DERBY, CT April 27, 2011. "The Soulful Healthcare Professional" 10:30 am - 12:00 pm "A Place of Healing" 1:30 - 3:00 pm Grassy Hill Lodge 77 Sodom Lane Derby, CT 06418 For more information, please contact: St. Vincent's Parish Nurse Office at (203) 576-5558 ROCKLAND, ME April 28, 2011, 8 am "Primary Care Providers - Today's Healthcare Heroes" At the Maine Nurse Practitioner Association Annual Conference, Thomas Moore will be talking about Care of the Soul in Medicine. For more information or to download a registration form, please click here. ALBUQUERQUE, NM May 19 - 20, 2011. "Healing People, Healing Places" & "Care of the Soul in Medicine" Osler Symposia, Doctoring 2011: Embracing the Challenge You can find this non-profit group on Facebook under "Osler Symposia" Tom in Donegal, Ireland  1960. BRATTLEBORO, VT May 26, 2011, 7:30 pm "Art and Dream"  Hari Kirin, Thomas Moore's wife, and her colleague Susan Q. Brown created eight paintings, themed Wherever You Are Is the Center of the World. Thomas will be delving into art and dream images in our personal and social lives at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. To see BMAC's calendar for more information about the talk or other related events, please click here. BOSTON, MA  June 21, 2011, 12 pm Psychiatric Grand Rounds, Tufts Medical Center, Wolff Auditorium, 800 Washington Street CAPE COD, MA  July 11-15, 2011 "Care of the Soul and Spirituality in Psychotherapy" New England Educational Institute For more information on or to register for this inspiring week-long event, please click here. LONDON September 23 - 25, 2011 I Can Do It! 2011 For more information or to register, please click here.