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A Day on Transpersonal Psychotherapy

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Dr Connie Zweig - The Weekend University

Meeting the Shadow: Jung's Discovery of Gold in the Dark Side - Dr Connie Zweig, PhD

Dr Connie Zweig, PhD
Dr Alfried Längle - The Weekend University

Victor Frankl, Logotherapy, Existential Analysis & The Meaning of Life- Dr Alfried Längle, M.D., PhD

Dr Alfried Längle, PhD
Jules Evans - The Weekend University

The History & Future of Psychedelic Therapy - Jules Evans

Jules Evans
Transpersonal Psychotherapy

A fascinating series of talks exploring the transformative potential of transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy.

The term “transpersonal psychology” was first introduced by humanistic psychologists such as Victor Frankl and Abraham Maslow in the 1960s. As a field of study, transpersonal psychology is concerned with the totality of human experience, aiming to integrate spiritual and transcendent elements within the framework of modern psychological science. Unlike other traditions, it values wholeness, and sees an individual’s wellbeing as inseparable from, and interconnected with, the entire pattern of being of which they are apart. According to the transpersonal view, your mental health doesn’t just exist “in your head” as many other approaches assume. Instead, transpersonal psychology views human beings in the broadest possible context; taking mental, spiritual, emotional, physical, and social considerations into account. Transpersonal approaches are increasingly being utilised in a wide range of psychological therapies to help clients heal, self-actualise, and live with a greater sense of meaning, purpose, and connection in day-to-day life.

Content

In this online conference, we’ll explore three of these approaches, with talks on:
  • Victor Frankl, Logotherapy, Existential Analysis & The Meaning of Life; How Frankl’s experiences in Nazi concentration camps informed the development of logotherapy and existential analysis (EA), why the search for meaning is our deepest motivation, and how EA brings philosophy, psychotherapy and spirituality together through a scientific methodology to help individuals unlock a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in their lives – Dr Alfried Längle, M.D., PhD
  • The History and Future of Psychedelic Therapy; The fascinating history of how psychedelic plant medicines have been used as tools for healing and transformation in human cultures for millennia, how they are being integrated with modern psychotherapy to catalyse the therapeutic process, and what role these mysterious compounds are likely to play in the future of psychological therapy – Jules Evans
  • Meeting the Shadow: Carl Jung's Discovery of Gold in the Dark Side; How the shadow forms in childhood, the common ways we experience it in day-to-day life, and how ‘shadow-work’ can lead to deeper self-knowledge, greater authenticity, and more freedom over our thoughts and behaviours – Dr Connie Zweig, PhD
You’ll learn how these insights can benefit your own life, but also your ability to help others too.

Event Schedule:

  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Victor Frankl, Logotherapy, Existential Analysis & The Meaning of Life - Dr Alfried Längle, PhD
  • 12:00 pm - 1:00pm: Lunch break
  • 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: The History & Future of Psychedelic Therapy - Jules Evans
  • 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Afternoon break
  • 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Meeting the Shadow: Carl Jung's Discovery of Gold in the Dark Side - Dr Connie Zweig, PhD

Lectures & Speakers

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The History & Future of Psychedelic Therapy - Jules Evans

Psychedelic therapy is at a historic moment, as the US state of Oregon prepares to legalize it next year, and other US states look set to follow. Companies preparing to offer psychedelic therapy have raised over $5 billion on US stock markets. Hundreds of people are training to be psychedelic therapists or facilitators, and thousands more are on waiting lists for training programs.

What shape will the psychedelic future take and what opportunities do they hold for patients and practitioners?

What theories underline psychedelic therapy?

What are the risks?

This talk will be in four parts. First, it will look at the history of psychedelic therapy, focusing particularly on the 1950s and early 1960s in the US. Second, it will look at the contemporary psychedelic renaissance, and how it builds on the research ideas of the 1950s and 60s. Third, it will speculate on how the field will develop into two different paths – medicalized psychedelic therapy, and psychedelic spirituality. Fourth, it will consider difficult psychedelic experiences and the challenge of integration.

Jules Evans - The Weekend University
Jules Evans

The History & Future of Psychedelic Therapy - Jules Evans

Jules Evans is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. He also teaches the History of Psychedelics at the Synthesis Institute in Holland. He is the author of Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations (2012), The Art of Losing Control (2017) and Holiday from the Self (2019) and the co-editor of Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency (2021). You can sign up for his newsletter at www.philosophyforlife.org

Reading Recommendations:

  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
  • Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research by Stanislav Grof
  • Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream  by Jay Stevens
  • Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher
  • Holiday from the Self: An Accidental Ayahuasca Adventure by Jules Evans
  • BBC, The Psychedelic Drug Trial

Victor Frankl, Logotherapy, Existential Analysis & The Meaning of Life- Dr Alfried Längle, M.D., PhD

The presentation gives a brief introduction to Frankl’s life and work, my collaboration with him, and the background development of Frankl’s Logotherapy. With this meaning-centered approach, Frankl made a substantial contribution to psychotherapy. Then will be outlined how it came to a new onset through a process-oriented different paradigm on the basis of strict use of phenomenological openness. This led to a complex, fourfold motivation theory in which meaning and becoming are just one existential motivation, besides securing and expanding one’s being, enriching one’s life with pleasure and values, and finding and asserting oneself by encounter.

The development of these four dimensions of existence laid the ground for fully-fledged psychotherapy: the modern Existential Analysis which provides broad access to the treatment of psychic suffering. We will outline the key to a fulfilling life, together with a short glimpse into the work with these existential motivations, including giving a tool to how individuals can live with a greater sense of meaning and purpose in their life.

Dr Alfried Längle - The Weekend University
Dr Alfried Längle, PhD

Victor Frankl, Logotherapy, Existential Analysis & The Meaning of Life- Dr Alfried Längle, M.D., PhD

Alfried LÄNGLE, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. h.c.mult., professor and honorary professor, was born in 1951 in Austria where he still lives. He studied medicine and psychology at the Universities of Innsbruck, Rome, Toulouse, and Vienna. After years of hospital work in general medicine and psychiatry and in an outpatient department of social psychiatry, in 1982 he started a private practice in psychotherapy, general medicine, and clinical psychology in Vienna.

At the same time, he came into close collaboration with Viktor Frankl (1983-1991). He assisted Frankl’s lectures at the university for years and worked together with him in many relevant fields of Logotherapy. He is the founder and president (1983-2017) of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis in Vienna (www.existenzanalyse.org), whose honorary president was Viktor Frankl until 1990. By this date, Frankl resigned from his honorary presidency because of Längle’s new developments in the field of existential analysis (methods, implication of existential self-experience in the training and seminars, rejecting the exclusive use of the meaning paradigm in psychotherapy and enlarging its theoretical basis, implementation of biographical work). Dr. Längle is a Professor at the University of Vienna (Sigmund Freud University), Klagenfurt and Moscow (HSE). He has over 400 publications, 2 honorary doctorships, and 6 honorary professorships, as well as a gold medal from the Republic of Austria for scientifically high contributions. 

Reading Recommendations:

  • Längle S, Wurm C (2016) (ed) Living your own life. Existential Analysis in Action. London: Karnac
  • Längle A, Sykes B-M (2006) Viktor Frankl – Advocate for Humanity: On his 100th Birthday. In: Journal of Humanistic Psychology 46, 1, 36-47
  • Längle A (2012) The Viennese School of Existential Analysis. The search for Meaning and Affirmation of Life. Barnett L, Madison G (Eds) Existential Therapy: Legacy, vibrancy, and dialogue. New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 159-170
  • Längle A (2003) The Search for Meaning in Life and the Fundamental Existential Motivations. In: Psychotherapy in Australia, 10, 1, 22-27
  • The Viennese School of Existential Analysis 

Meeting the Shadow: Jung's Discovery of Gold in the Dark Side - Dr Connie Zweig, PhD

Within us, the dim cavern of the unconscious holds our forbidden feelings, secret wishes, destructive impulses, and creative urges. Over time, these “dark” forces take on a life of their own, forming the Shadow. A recurring theme in literature and legend, the Shadow is like an invisible twin, a stranger that is us, yet not us. When it acts out, we hurt ourselves or others. 

As we bring it into awareness with shadow-work, it loses its grip on us and we experience deeper self-knowledge, greater authenticity, and greater choice over our thoughts and behaviors. We also discover that the contents of the Shadow are not all bad; even our undeveloped gifts, talents, and dreams lie dormant there–the gold in the dark side.

This talk will explore the formation of shadow in childhood, the common ways we encounter the shadow in life, and how to “romance” it, or make a conscious relationship with it.

The Shadow is not a problem to be solved; it’s a mystery to be faced.

Dr Connie Zweig – The Weekend University
Dr Connie Zweig, PhD

Meeting the Shadow: Jung's Discovery of Gold in the Dark Side - Dr Connie Zweig, PhD

Dr. Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist, co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow, author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality, and a novel entitled ‘A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi’. Her new book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends shadow-work into late life and teaches aging as a spiritual practice. 

Connie has been doing contemplative practices for 50 years. She is a wife and grandmother and was initiated as an Elder by Sage-ing International in 2017. After investing in all these roles, she is practicing the shift from role to soul.

Reading Recommendations:

  • Becker, Ernest. Escape from Evil (1985), Free Press.
  • Bly, Robert. Little Book on the Human Shadow (1988), HarperCollins.
  • Hillman, James. “Cure of the Shadow.” Insearch: Psychology and Religion, (1967), by author.
  • Jung, C.G. “The Problem of Evil Today.” Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961), Random House.
  • Zweig, Connie and Jeremiah Abrams. Meeting the Shadow, (1991), Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.
  • Zweig, Connie and Steve Wolf. Romancing the Shadow, (1997), Ballantine.
  • Zweig, Connie. Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality, (2017), iUniverse.
  • Zweig, Connie. The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, (2021), Inner Traditions.

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