Psychotherapy, Spirituality and the Soul

I have been teaching for the New England Educational Institute for eighteen years, and this year I have two week-long programs with them:  the first in Santa Fe, October 18-20, 2013 and the other in Galway, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014. The course is called Psychotherapy, Spirituality and the Soul. It is aimed at psychiatrists and psychotherapists, but since I define psychotherapy sensitive to its origins as "care of the soul," anyone can benefit from the course. For many participants I know that it has been a life-changing experience, and I put everything of myself into it. The program in Ireland, of course, is special, given my love of Ireland and lifelong attachment to it. The Galway area is especially close to the heart of my family. I've been going to Ireland since I was nineteen and feel that it is my home away from home. Relatives and friends will be helping us enjoy the Burren, a beautiful part of the country, and Connemara. I'm happy to be doing this program with Dr. Robert Guerette, head of NEEI, who has become a friend and colleague over the years we've worked together. He really knows how to make a program work. Santa Fe is a perfect place to go for a long weekend, as my wife and I do almost every October. We arrive early in the week and leave late. It's a beautiful, friendly, artistic and spiritual place. I really believe it's like nowhere else on earth. So consider joining me in these two extraordinary places for some deep education in therapy and care of your soul. I know that it will be a wonderful time for you. You couldn't have a better program in better places. Psychotherapy, Spirituality and the Soul October 18-20, 2013 Santa Fe, New Mexico May 19-23, 2014 Galway, Ireland www.neei.org In this symposium, Thomas Moore will offer a way to practice soul-based psychotherapy, an approach that has ancient roots and has been developed by C. G. Jung, James Hillman and Thomas Moore. It is primarily for psychotherapists of all kinds, but since psycho-therapy here means caring for the soul in distress, which can include physical and social symptoms, the course is also designed for anyone looking for meaning and a release from suffering. Thomas Moore will also discuss ancient's myths related to therapy: Artemis, Daphne, Chiron, Acteon, Hermes, Aphrodite, Asklepios. A presentation on Jung will focus on his own methods of self-therapy, including play, active imagination, personification and artistic expression. Participants will learn James Hillman's work on images, his ideas on therapy, anima mundi (soul in the world), the polytheistic psyche, and the role of beauty. Additionally, participants will learn how to use dreams and the arts in therapy and how to employ deep intuition and other traditional, mysterious ways of knowing. This is a spiritual, intuitive, artistic and truly depth approach to therapy that requires personal work on the part of the therapist. Therefore, the accent will be on becoming a person of soul and spirit while helping others deal with their own mysteries, challenges and initiations.   Click on the title to learn more or to register.  Thomas Moore states, "My life work is an attempt to ground the pure, visionary spirit in the imperfect, intoxicating sensuousness of worldly life." He is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and eighteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. He lectures frequently in Ireland and has a special love of Irish culture. He has a Ph. D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University and the Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University.