The Role of Psyche in your Psychotherapy Practice: What every new counsellor/ psychotherapist should know

Please join us on Thursday, February 6, for a special lecture and discussion with leading Jungian analyst and lecturer Dr. Michael Conforti (Assisi Institute), introduced by Dr. Ara Parker (Martin Luther University College at Wilfrid Laurier University). This lecture will address the gap between formal graduate counselling training and the imperative depth psychology developmental work required for effective "Use of Self" in therapy.

"The whole process of therapy is a process of self-exploration, of getting acquainted with one's own feelings and coming to accept them as a part of the self" (Baldwin, 2013, p. 30). 1.5 hour professional development educational offering (applicable to professional development hours). This event will take place over Zoom and will be recorded. 

$25 for General Admission: 
*Keep your receipt/registration to use towards your professional associations/ colleges' professional development hours.
$0 for MLU students: 
*Includes a full discounted scholarship for current MLU students. Keep your receipt/registration to use towards your professional associations/colleges' professional development hours.

Thursday, February 6, 2025
5:00 pm (Eastern)  
Intro: 5:00 - 5:15
Lecture: 5:15 - 6:15
Q&A: 6:15 - 6:30 
Total: 90 minutes

Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, and for the past 40 years, has been actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.

He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Israel, Italy, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the Ukraine and Venezuela.

He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal. His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and Spanish, hopefully next year in Portuguese.