Saturday June 23, 2012
3:15 - 4:45 pm

D1
SVANTE BJÖRKLUND (Sverige)
Experience your role in keeping and furthering psychosynthesis in the world
An investigation will be made with the help of systemic constellations. The participants will cocreate the world of psychosynthesis in the Value Triangle, the universal values of Love, Knowledge and Order, also known as Goodness, Truth and Beauty.
Each one will then investigate the relationship between herself/himself and the various elements of psychosynthesis and the universal values.
We will explore fixed and movable values and also interrelationships of the participants.
There will be dynamics but the method is to slow it down to make it visible. Like a film in slow motion. The depth of presence is very intense and surprising results often get uncovered.
I have experience in leading constellations since five years most of them in Sweden but also at the AAP Conference in 2008 in Vermont, USA and at the EMCC Conference in Dublin, Ireland in 2010.
Experiential
Language: English

D2
ELENA DELAINI, RAFFAELLA DI SAVOIA (Italia)
Solve  COMPLETE
In the Buddhist tradition ignorance is considered to be one of the three mental poisons at the origin of suffering. Ignorance puts us in the condition of perceiving ourselves as separate beings, preventing us from realizing that what we are is profoundly interconnected and inseparable from what others are. The human being has always been immersed in a continuous process of recognizing his own affiliation to ever wider groups and the challenge at this time is to open to entire humanity.
In order to open to the new it is necessary to let the old go. That is difficult because it means meeting a sense of loss of what is known to us, making us vulnerable to something that we do not yet know and that we fear we will not be able to contain. This workshop is dedicated to those processes of the psyche and to those methods that allow us to meet with the unknown through letting go and dissolving fears, attachments and personal interests that keep us tied to old identities and sub-personalities and that prevent us from meeting with a new way of being that includes the other more and more.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: Italian

D3
DOROTHY FIRMAN (USA)
The Tears We Cry: Holding Joy and Sorrow
This workshop is an exploration of the deep experience of joy and sorrow as we embrace all that is wonderful and all that is painful in our lives. Coming to terms with the disparity of our emotional world and feeling safe in sitting with and sharing our feeling world allows us to be fully human. In a world filled with beauty and tragedy, we can be torn apart by conflicting experiences. We may find ourselves numbing against pain and in so doing numbing against joy as well. Psychosynthesis invites us to experience the whole of who we are, both personally and collectively. This polarity of feeling exists in our inner world as we struggle with our own historical and current experiences of joy and sorrow and it exists in our global world as we experience, at every turn, the pain and grandeur of our world and its citizens. Too easily we find ourselves moving away from complexity into seeing the world and our own lives through one lens or the other. We all know there is an unhealthy tendency to create polarity: this or that, good or bad, them or us, sadness or joy. But when we step into the acceptance and experience of "both/and" we are truly whole. This and that, good and bad, them and us, joy and sorrow tell us a deeper truth.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

D4
GROUP “AT THE SOURCE OF PSYCHOSYNTHESIS” (Firenze - the World)
Voices from the Assagioli Archives
This Group will hold a meeting to share the spirit that radiates and animates its work in the Assagioli Archives at the headquarters of the Institute in Florence. A rich and varied experience, it is particularly impressive because of the direct contact with R.A.’s original handwritten material emerging from the boxes bursting with papers that had been lying for years in the cellars of his house. The meeting will offer the opportunity to share the intense experiences flooding the minds of all those at work to interpret, catalogue and computerize those often tiny, faded notelets on which Assagioli recorded his thoughts. Lena Runge’s film made at the International Meeting in October 2011 will also be projected; it is a firsthand account - witness to the soul and working methods of this Group that is being enriched in time by new members and is open to possible future collaboration.
Experiential
Language: Italian / English

D5
EVA-LOUISE HAMER (Canada)
The impact of Gratitude
We will celebrate the full meaning of Roberto Assagioli's Star and Egg Diagram by experiencing the impact of gratitude inwardly and outwardly within our group. Participants will be invited to "Create a Will Project”. This can be practised immediately and throughout the Conference while interacting with others in order to experience the full impact and power of gratitude.
Experiential
Language: English

D6
PETER HUBBARD (New Zealand)
Redeeming a Colonial Legacy: Psychosynthesis in Aotearoa/New Zealand
In Aotearoa there is a unique and quite extraordinary political and social experiment unfolding. It involves how we as a nation meet head-on the experience and effects of colonisation. A founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840, arose out of the meeting of two distinct cultures - the indigenous Maori culture, and the British/European colonising cultures.
The task is how we make this document relevant to the 21st century.
It is one thing to simply declare that social and political life will henceforth be conducted according to the principles of this treaty, and to include such a declaration in government guidelines, requirements, and legislation. How this is to be done, is quite another.
A key understanding that is emerging concerns how we enter and engage the process of examining our own worldview and then how we come into relationship with the worldview of the other. This crucially underpins how our bi-cultural conversation is conducted.
The lens and processes of psychosynthesis have much to offer this conversation.
This workshop will synthesise some of the learning and practice arising from 25 years of practising and teaching psychosynthesis in a Pacific context.
Experiential -Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

D7 (& B10)
FREDRIK LUNDH, ROSIE MANTON (Sverige)
Feeling and dealing Part 2
Developing emotional intelligence, and in particular learning to deal with anger responsibly, constitutes a major challenge for our society. In this workshop we will explore the differences between constructive and destructive forms of emotional expression, and healthy or unhealty forms of emotional restraint. The experiential parts of the workshop are based mainly on working through the body with movement. The theoretical framework will focus on an understanding of disidentification that is informed by recent theories of mentalisation.
Part 1 of the workshop is an invitation to explore our individual relationship to anger, and can be seen as an aspect of personal psychosynthesis.
Part 2 of the workshop will focus on the world, and the emotions that are evoked by our current global situation. Allowing those emotions can strengthen our sense of purpose, and can be seen as an aspect of transpersonal psychosynthesis.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

D8
WILL PARFITT (UK)
Silence, Self and Service  COMPLETE
Inner silence is the quality of the Self described by Assagioli as completely beyond all duality. He stressed the temporary nature of reaching this state and how an individual, when returning to everyday consciousness after such an experience, is inevitably imbued with a sense of service and collective responsibility. Working to reach a state of inner silence aligns Psychosynthesis with Mystery Schools that ‘initiate’ aspirants to a level beyond which self initiation becomes key, and puts us in touch with long-standing spiritual traditions that both inform and ‘stand behind’ Psychosynthesis.
A statement ascribed to The Greek Mysteries and quoted by Assagioli reiterates the central theme in a more poetic form: “Be Silent, O strings, that a new melody may flow in me.”
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

D9
GAETANO RUSSO (Italia)
The Web of Change
Today we are faced with a series of interconnected and interdependent problems and every single effort to solve one of them is destined to fail. A radical change of thought is called for along with a shift in the very values on which our lives are based. We are beginning to realize that we can grasp the meaning of the qualities of parts only by studying and understanding the whole by which they are contained. This is an important break with the past that allows us to see parts within an indissoluble weft or web from which they draw their sense and meaning. Not only is each human being himself a web but the whole of the plan of life on our Planet is a vast web of what we call “humanity”. This shows us why it is important to work on ourselves: one’s own improvement gets transmitted and activates feedback that enriches the entire web.
Experiential
Language: Italian

D10
EVA SANNER (Sverige)
Death, a positive experience
In this workshop we investigate our experiences, notions and fears around death and being mortal and how we can be with clients in situations concerning death. We deepen our understanding of how we can live in presence, aware of our own (and others’) limited time span – and also what we long to create, experience and do personally and interpersonally before our time is up.
Eva Sanner is an experienced psychosynthesis therapist educated at PsykosyntesAkademin, Stockholm, Sweden, and also a well-known author in the field of psychology and personal development. She is presently member of the board of the PsykosyntesAkademin Foundation.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

D11
ANN SCHAFER (USA)
Honoring the Sacred Feminine: A Pilgrimage to the Soul
This workshop inspires strong women to rediscover, reclaim, and further develop an ongoing relationship with their individual sacred/divine feminine nature. Using Psychosynthesis and other important concepts, this session is designed to raise conscious awareness on the path to wholeness. It seeks to restore balance to a way of life that has been dominated by a patriarchal society by reviewing the transitional history and balance of power from matriarchal to patriarchal values, thought, expressions, art, and religion. The purpose of the workshop is to support strong women's current mid-life search for meaning and renewal and bring to consciousness the barriers to feminine growth so that they can be transformed, in the true spirit of Psychosynthesis. Participants will sample practices that manifest change by delving into the unconscious aspects of the Divine Feminine in order to remake and rechoose our conscious path to reconnect with the Soul.
Excerpts from the weekend workshops designed and held by Dr. Schafer and Dr. Lippmann highlight the courageous journey required for a deepening into one's "shadow" side, for this is the process that ultimately activates and engages the healing process.
Experiential
Language: English

D12
CLAUDIA SCHÖNFELDER (Italia)
Creating peace, every day COMPLETE
“We learn how to live in peace therefore how to give, emanate, peace all around us, everywhere we go. All of us wish to give peace, but if we want to be really able to do that we should first be at peace, live in the great peace, become peace.“ (Roberto Assagioli)
This workshop offers body, mind and spirit practices that can help us create peace in our inner and outside lives.
Experiential
Language: Italian / English

D13
JAN TAAL (Nederland)
Imagery Toolbox for coping with Cancer
In case of cancer, imagery can be a powerful means to cope with emotions, enhance well-being, self-strengthening and healing. The Imagery Toolbox has been developed to provide persons who are confronted with cancer or another serious illness with simple, accessible imagery tools they can use on their own and/or with little (or more) guidance. The Imagery Toolbox is meant to be available in hospitals and care centers.
The toolbox contains a set of various symbolic image photographs, three CD's with eight imagery exercises for well-being, healing, dealing with and supporting treatments, pain and the affected body, a CD with various kinds of music, drawing material, a note-book and a manual. The workshop consist of presentation of key-subjects and techniques, demonstration and exercises with the participants.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: English

D14
MARIA LETIZIA ZECCA (Italia)
Allowing oneself to dream projects for better living
...how to place ourselves within the huge changes of our time, favouring our intuitive and imaginative abilities, humanizing each sphere of life...
...we see the universe increasingly as cosmogenesis instead of cosmos. We perceive a long sequence of creative activities that emerge along extended periods of development leading eventually to the present time. We see ourselves as a creative process in emergence rather than fixed beings whose existence and whose functions are permanently stable.. (freely adapted from Thomas Berry)
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: Italian / English

Saturday June 23, 2012
9:45 am - 12:45 pm

C1
JOANN M. ANDERSON (USA)
Healing with unconditional love and forgiveness
This will be an experiential workshop of Edith Stauffer's original work . It will also include a variation which I have found to work with helping individuals realize the importance of forgiveness in relation to their personal health. As the first person to be certified by Dr. Stauffer in Unconditional Love and Forgiveness, I have first hand knowledge and experience with her system. At the same time, I understand other motivations than those which she used.
For example, in today's world, anger and resentment are predominant in all countries and all facets of life. It is well known that anger harms the physical body, as well as creating emotional distance between individuals. The process to be presented in this workshop demonstrates how such anger can be transformed into love and a broader understanding of life events - both personally and globally.
Handouts will be available and true stories will be told about using this method, on request from participants.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: English

C2
KRISTINA BRODE (Deutschland)
Archetypal Psychosynthesis. Mythology as a tool for Peacemaking and Reconciliation in the Collective Unconsciousness
Our biographic experience forms our life, builds strategies of coping, is responsible for success or failure in life. All these challenges and personal traits can be modified or even healed by therapy. Tapping into the memory of the human race, dealing with the myths of ages provides the material to let healing happen on a wider universal plane, healing of nations. Redemption of the imprints of pain and suffering of humanity is requested. The imprinted memory of deceit and betrayal at the turn from matrilineal cultures to patriarchy has to be looked at. Being in this wonderful city of Rome, we will work with the Myth of Romulus and Remus, its founders. The workshop will give you the opportunity to experience working with Archetypes, the sub-personalities of the Collective Unconsciousness.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

C3
MARK COLCLOUGH (Denmark)
When Stephen M. Johnson’s "Character Styles" meet Assagioli’s "Psychosynthesis Typologies": different disciplines, common ground
In this experiential workshop, psychotherapist Mark Colclough will engagingly present an interface between psychosynthesis and characterology. Specifically Mark will explore how Assagioli's "Psychosynthesis Typologies" interface with Johnson's "Character Styles". In doing so, Mark hopes to offer participants an opportunity to re-visit Assagioli's unfinished work on typologies and what Assagioli termed a "Differential Psychology". Further, Mark hopes to potentially synthesize these areas with Stephen M. Jonson's contemporary work in object relations and developmental psychology. The workshop is intended as an eclectic mix of theory, written and drawn exercises, as well as discussions in small groups or in plenum. Mark will speak in simple and clear English. Mark hopes that all participants will be afforded an opportunity to explore how seven typologies mixed with seven character styles can provide a deeper understanding of the client’s personality and psychopathology. Mark's goal is to facilitate group experiences and discussions and to creatively bring forward an integral understanding of our psychosynthesis work, as we seek to explore the mysteries of the human psyche.
Experiential
Language: English

C4
JANET DERWENT (UK), MICHAEL LINDFIELD (USA), MARINA BERNARDI (Italia)
The Science of Creative Meditation – Assagioli’s Other Legacy COMPLETE
Psychosynthesis offers a life-long journey of self-development. R.A. realised the need for a spiritual quest to remedy our ‘divine discontent’ and gifted us the Science of Creative Meditation. “It is not generally recognised that meditation is a form of action – inner action... I have sometimes called meditation ‘exploration of the inner worlds’ because these dimensions are full of energies... In a sense we are living in them all the time in part of our nature; the psychological life has tangible existence in these fields... In them originates all that happens in the outer world...” RA – from GCM Study Paper. In this workshop we will explore the science of creative meditation as a tool of service for the common good.
Experiential - Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

C5
LIVIA FRISCHER (Sverige)
Shalom – a call for peace from the depth of Roberto Assagioli’s archive
In 1954 R.A wrote a short article named ‘SHALOM’ in which he describes the true meaning of the word /concept of Shalom - Peace and its connection to Psychosynthesis. In this article R.A also elaborates on the 4 levels of systems where he calls for Shalom-peace to be applied. R.A's call for peace from 58 years ago, is as relevant today as it was then and even more so, his ideas, through Psychosynthesis, can offer a more holistic perspective for the process of peace making. In this workshop we will follow R.A.’s ideas of Shalom-Peace and the 4 levels of its application and engage in experiential reflections. Sharing and discussion will follow.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

C6
VINCENZO LIGUORI (Italia)
In taking care of yourself you take care of everything
Everything that takes place affects us and makes an impression on our minds and emotions. If we become aware of this and learn to modify the energy that flows within us positively, with loving compassion, we will contribute to the integration of peoples and cultures and reconcile ourselves with the whole of the planet in all its manifestations. This workshop offers exercises and the opportunity to practice for learning how we can improve ourselves and our planet.
Experiential
Language: Italian

C7
CATHERINE ANN LOMBARD (Deutschland)
Communicating Across Cultures
Your supervisor and your colleagues come from all over the world. You discuss, plan, and chat over coffee together, but are you really communicating? Intercultural sensitivity is not ‘natural’ to any single culture, and the development of this ability demands new awareness and attitudes. Psychosynthesis provides an ideal perspective, models and techniques for cutting through habitual patterns of defense, prejudices, expectations, and mindsets to open up to new levels of multicultural communication. In this workshop, we first talk about how critical incidents are a means to gaining new awareness about a different culture. We then discuss the barriers to successful communication, especially focusing on individualism vs. collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance. Based on this framework, we then look at differences between cultures with regard to etiquette, resolving conflict, non-verbal communication, and rules and conventions, and forms of address. Next we explore how to develop intercultural sensitivity with the key concept of difference – that cultures fundamentally differ in the way they create and maintain world views. Finally, these ideas are integrated with Assagioli’s understanding of polarities and the psychosynthesis concept of right relations.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

C8
MIKE MALAGRECA (Italia)
The (wonderful) complexity of our inner world. Integrating subpersonalities through Mandala Work in Psychosynthesis COMPLETE
This workshop explores the meaning and the use of mandalas in psychosynthesis, in particular in the work with subpersonalities, to understand the complexity of our inner world, and its unchangeable core. After a short presentation (20 minutes), the participants will be engaged in a series of drawing and meditative exercises (including one-to-one and pairs) that can be used in a variety of settings while exploring subpersonalities. An open group discussion concludes the experience. This workshop integrates for the first time the work of leading Junguian mandalist Judith Cornell with Assagiolian ideas and techniques. No previous art experience needed.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

C9
MARIA TERESA MARAFFA (Italia)
Heart Energy, a way to universality
In the ancient Eastern traditions the heart is considered the centre of wisdom and awareness.
This prevalently experiential workshop proposes some techniques such as meditation, visualization, Qi Gong and heart chakra exercises. These are specific for cultivating heart energy, and give attention to those qualities of the higher unconscious level: joy, presence, loving attention, compassion and others.
Through the mediation of the transpersonal Self these qualities make us aware of the interconnectedness or enmeshment that exists between ourselves and others, between ourselves and the world, and put us in relation with the Universe.
Cultivating heart energy promotes in us a sense of belonging to the world in which each may apply his personal will in aspects of wisdom, love, strength, aligning himself with the transpersonal and universal will.
Experiential
Language: Italian / English

C10
ANDREW MCDOWELL (UK), ANDREA CARDILLO, SANDRO MAZZI (Italia)
WYSE: World Youth Services & Enterprise - A program for Vision and Leadership
This is a 3-hour workshop which aims to stimulate participants to reflect and explore how they can use their visions and intuitions to play an active role in making a positive contribution in tackling some of the challenges humanity is facing today.
This experiential workshop will supply an opportunity to take vision to action through group work and discussion, guided visualization and coaching.
It provides a short example of some of the psychosynthetical techniques WYSE applies in training young leaders from all over the world and supporting them in making a positive difference in their communities.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

C11
TAN NGUYEN (France)
The heart slowly starts beating at its own pace COMPLETE
Our heart holds the memory of the wounds of the soul: past experiences of betrayal, abandonment, humiliation, loss. These memories prevent us from living the present opportunities of the here and now with confidence and fluidity. This workshop teaches tools to let go of past memories and isolation so that we can allow ourselves to be included again in the web of interrelated life. A workshop to experience the healing power of heart connected with the pulse of deeper conscious life.
Experiential
Language: English / French

C12
STEFANO PELLI (Italia)
So that Ulysses may return…
This workshop offers the opportunity to experiment the concept of “expanding and returning” on all levels of the personality. To this aim the journey of Ulysses will be used as a pre-text, from its motivational grounds to its ideal goal, its obstacles, conflicts and to the “construction” of the conditions for returning. On a physical level we will experiment the space and context of action within the body, through breathing and grounding (while still, as well as in movement). On an emotional level we will contact resources and obstacles through the recognition of our subpersonalities “mirrored” in the gestalt work that will take place in the circle of participants, in couples and/or in small groups, on the theme proposed. On the level of thought and of images we will contact the proactive abilities of our own creative process by formulating an aim and recognizing it symbolically. On the level of aspirations, the group may individuate a valuable goal and through that decide on one or more objectives to transform into new actions for a positive common cause. The dynamic nature of the workshop including the body-work calls for comfortable clothing.
Experiential
Language: Italian / English

C13
MARJOLEIN PIETERSON, MARIA VAN RAAK (Nederland)
The hidden right hand of the goddess Roma: What does our culture conceal from sight?
In this workshop we will work with one of the Greek Tragedies as an entrance to experience the ambiguity, complexity and dividedness of human life. In these tragedies we meet people who follow a path of struggle and suffering. Often they struggle with feelings of rage, grief and revenge in a context of war. Or they try to escape destiny to end up fulfilling fate by their own hand. As Aeschylos , the great Tragedian said: " we must suffer into truth ". There is no escape. Not only on the personal, but also on the national or global level.
These ancient myths can function as timeless windows on blind spots of our present time and culture : “From the eternal, out of the past, in the present, for the future”.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

C14
WALTER POLT (USA)
Mindfulness, Complementary Opposites and Normal Conflict  COMPLETE
This workshop focuses more on normal differences with normal people than on extreme problems or disorders. We will note results of standard conflict practices and explore new practices for greater success. Current brain research is confirming the effectiveness of approaches already familiar in psychosynthesis, and showing ways to enhance them.
So we will play with tools for modifying primitive fight-flee-freeze reactions to ordinary conflict, with a focus on disidentification and mindfulness - to transform the experience of conflict instead of avoiding it. We will encourage the pursuit of interpersonal and social psychosynthesis as organic processes by expanding attention to complementary opposites and reducing the pressure for instant synthesis. And we will look at six additional ways to retool painful prehistoric practices people often resort to in day-to-day conflicts.
We use lecture, games, fun, relaxation, and discussion. We hope to go home with practical insights, new options for handling daily-life issues, and effective clinical interventions. We welcome the challenges and delights of diversity and bringing to life the rich experience of the present moment.
We will offer a practical "toolbox" for expanding and enhancing conflict styles.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

C15
LUCE RAMORINO (Italia)
The utopia of psychosynthesis: one world for one humanity. One Humanity Project
This workshop is addressed to all individuals or groups with a psychosynthesis training who feel the relation of mankind deeply, beyond personal, interpersonal, social, idealistic differences, or who appertain to something specific and already work or would like to work towards promoting the awareness that we are all part of one humanity and the creativeness connected with it, therefore acting to favour the processes of unification and synthesis through internal and external ways.
The aim of the workshop is to create a common starting point in and with the group, for a project planned for a certain period of time and with this aim at heart, drawing inspiration from the psychosynthesis model and Roberto Assagioli’s work. The project will adhere to the trifocal vision and to the recognition of the intrinsic value of each “individuality” that can find and fully manifest its own function only within a synthetic context.
Use will be made of audio-visual stimuli.
Experiential
Language: Italian / English

C16
MARGRET RUEFFLER ( USA)
Unfolding the Heart-Self-Intelligence
An experiential approach to turn to the heart with appreciation and gratitude in order to establish a direct connection with it and its voice. Entering in relation with the heart opens a profound Self acceptance and acceptance of the other. The heart is the direct path to the deeper innermost Self with its infinite potential. This can be experienced on a physical-energetic level. It is a state of being. The heart carries the memories. Past trauma can be made aware through the heart and released.
Topics addressed:
- Exploring the inner space and appreciating the heart
- Becoming aware of the heart pulse
- Relating to the deeper innermost pulse
- Listening to the voice of the heart
- Connecting to the heart of the earth
Method: We will work mainly experientially, with meditation and movement.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

C17
BETTINA WALDTHAUSEN, GERTRAUD HANNA REICHERT (Italia)
Creative Consciousness in Daily Life - Inner Breath, Dance and Spiritual Psychosynthesis
Breath, dance and movement are primary motions of cosmic order and creativity. They reconnect us inwardly and outwardly and are both instruments, to express the quality of the soul within the body, making us fully alive in the very moment. Listening to the Inner Breath and observing its’ subtle natural flow in the body, deepens and expands our awareness of oneness. Expressing ourselves with dance and movement opens the sources of joy and life within us. In Breath and Dance together we can embrace and experience the Self, both, as a singular person and as part of a community, to which each one of us belongs.
The workshop combines “Contemplative Breath-Work” with dance and exercises from Spiritual Psychosynthesis, giving us new impulses and strength in our daily life.
Experiential
Language: German / English

C18
ROSEMARY WENTWORTH (USA)
Journeying to one Self
Musical Journey, combined with the Mandala Artwork, is an experiential process that fosters self exploration. Applying the tools of holotropic breathwork, and evocative music to enter an altered state of consciousness, one can initiate the innate healing mode of the psyche. The musical frequencies tap into the unique unconscious storyline of the individual and engage the body, mind, emotions and spirit. A mandala is created from the insights gained. Using these visual metaphors and symbols received from the Higher Self, the ego and soul can come together and move toward integration, bridging past and future.
Experiential
Language: English

Friday June 22, 2012
3:15-4:45 pm

B1
CAROL BLANCHARD (Portugal)
The symbol of unity at the heart of diversity: culture at the crossroads
We all live in multiple cultures, whether family, national, family birth group (race, class, gender, etc), or chosen group. The present world calls us to cross traditional boundaries, and to lose and reconstruct our identity. We leave our historical roots to take a journey where the unknown, the stranger, the other, and even the enemy, may be our teacher. This workshop is for those who are already travelling and those beginning to cross cultures. Where is home? Who am I? Who are You? are the first questions, along with for What and for Whom? The world as a whole is also at this crossroads. There is no way that may not lead to a potential synthesis if we develop certain awarenesses and qualities, and if we realize we travel not alone. This workshop will include personal reflection and sharing, leading to some theoretical discussion of transpersonal / transcultural consciousness and how it may be developed in education, therapy, the psychosynthesis community and world issues.
Experiential - Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

B2
PATRICIA BREEN (USA)
Psychosynthesis and the Path of Daily Transformation
With the inception of the Internet over a decade ago came a paradigm shift in technology that has changed the very nature of how the world works. This complex network has created what I imagine as an evolutionary global nervous system that ties us together in new ways. Yet, the effect of this network on our connection as human beings is only now being understood. In this pattern of constant and instantaneous connection with what we perceive as “everyone”, with life, with the world, I see a disappearance. As we hurl ourselves forward, what are we leaving behind? In this experiential workshop we will discuss the changing nature of transformation through the eyes of the Psychosynthesis model. We will: consider the polarity of distraction and depth and the effect on our daily choices; discuss what lies at the heart of uncertainty and how to walk through it while holding the fullness of our experience; and discover and practice simple exercises that focus on the Self, our relationship to the Self, our relationships to the world and ultimately a path of reclamation for our lives.
Theoretical
Language: English

B3
PHYLLIS CLAY (USA)
Across Multiple Worlds: Transformation in Relationship - Self and Others 
In this lively (and reflective) experiential workshop, you will learn and be invited to practice a beautifully simple and memorable approach to building, deepening, and transforming relationships. The approach will be introduced in words and pictures. It will then be extended by connecting it with the chakras, colors, and sound and by overlaying it with Assagioli's vision of human consciousness. As a participant, you will have an opportunity to practice the use of the multi-layered results across these multiple worlds to deepen your own relationship with yourself. You will receive handouts and are encouraged to bring a JOURNAL.
Workshop Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to identify stages of relationships presented.
2. Participants will be able to relate the stages to chakras and to colors.
3. Participants will discuss the overlay of Assagioli's vision of human consciousness onto the stages of relationships and the chakras.
4. Participants will practice applying the stages of relationship to their relationship with themselves.
5. Participants will reflect on and discuss ways to apply the stages of relationship in their lives
Sound intriguing…confusing? Come see for yourself … and enjoy!
Experiential - Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

B4
ANNA CUVA , MASSIMO STRACCALI (Italia)
Tango & Mindfulness COMPLETE
Each of us has the necessary potential for overcoming our difficulties. Trust and motivation are the fundamental elements of this personal development and they can be evoked through dancing the Tango. The Tango is a dialogue composed of movements, gestures, posture, expressions, sensations. It is a global relational experience involving our body, psyche and emotions. Through experience, inner changes take place characterizing the effectiveness of healing action. A dual opening process begins: towards others, and getting to know and appreciate oneself.
To favour the exploration of the sensations of both our body and emotions, in the workshop we will make use of some typical elements of the Tango such as the embrace, in which body dialogue with the other person helps us to recognize new energies and potentials of our being.
The Tango is therefore an instrument that increases our awareness. It aids the self-exploration of our inner world and animates positive elements such as trust, wisdom and kindness.
Experiential
Language: Italian

B5
LILIANA FANTINI (Italia)
A new biopsychosynthesis model: the Subtle Bodies COMPLETE
In my body-work practice, particularly biodynamic craniosacral therapy, I have developed a biopsychosynthesis model that helps me to evaluate the state of health and monitor progress in my clients’ sessions. In craniosacral therapy one works hands-on with clients, but the person is taken into consideration in his biosphere, i.e. that electromagnetic field that surrounds each one of us. Through my studies and experience in the energetic field I have widened my observation of my clients, taking into consideration also the person’s whole aura. According to recent studies, the aura is composed of 15 bodies (referring to 7 principal chakras and transpersonal centres). However my study covers 11 bodies (that I have included within the Assagiolian Egg). This model is presented in the workshop and the composition of the aura is explained. There will be the opportunity for directly experiencing these bodies through meditation.
Experiential -Theoretical
Language: Italian

B7
DAVIDE FUZZI (Italia)
Transforming our relations at work
The social field constellates the whole of our existence. Human relations are essential for the birth, development and the very maintenance of our lives.
Transforming oneself always implies a transformative turbulence in our relations. But the opposite is also true: consciously and beneficially transforming one’s relations naturally leads each individual to evolve. Specifically, working relations often reveal dysfunctional aspects and may become cause for slight or great suffering.
Psychosynthesis practice may intervene on various levels in the dynamics and dysfunctional processes that are determined in working organizations, operating both in the sphere of individual and group transformation. This experiential workshop aims at providing an example of how to approach such themes, linking the intra-psychic level to the relational level.
Experiential
Language: Italian

B8
ANNAMARIA GOBBO (Italia)
The journey and the dream of the soul in a 17th Century garden COMPLETE
There is a 17th Century garden on the Euganei hills near Padova, in Italy, where one can contemplate the symbolized journey of man from earth to sky created there. The slide show with pictures of the garden and of its various details, interpreted in an historical, artistic and symbolic sense, will give us the opportunity to travel inwardly through the language of Psychosynthesis: “Know, Possess, Transform into Beauty”.
Personal experiences and emotions pave the way towards a universal but conceivable dream of the soul.
Experiential
Language: Italian / English

B9
TATIANA IERI, RIVKA BARONE (Italia)
“Think with your heart” - a journey through symbols to encounter your feelings COMPLETE
This workshop gives participants the brief experience of a process for testing a deep form of work that through expressive therapies (associated with other techniques well known to psychosynthesis) leads to becoming acquainted with one’s feelings.
The aim of this work is to create an “abc” of emotions for the therapeutic area of eating disorders (emotional autism). It is nevertheless applicable to all unexpressed emotional uneasiness.
Starting with a short relaxation in which attention is focussed on the body (awareness), participants are invited to visualize an image freely. Materials and techniques are made available (and can be selected) and time is given for a creation to emerge (whether an image, a word, an expression of the body or a musical expression, etc., according to the materials or techniques chosen). This is then shared freely in the group in the second part of the experience and emotions evoked singly as well as those resonating in the group are discussed. The aim is to demonstrate how symbols can be linked with emotivity.
Experiential
Language: Italian

B10 (& D7)
FREDRIK LUNDH, ROSIE MANTON (Sverige)
Feeling and dealing Part 1
Developing emotional intelligence, and in particular learning to deal with anger responsibly, constitutes a major challenge for our society. In this workshop we will explore the differences between constructive and destructive forms of emotional expression, and healthy or unhealty forms of emotional restraint. The experiential parts of the workshop are based mainly on working through the body with movement. The theoretical framework will focus on an understanding of disidentification that is informed by recent theories of mentalisation.
Part 1 of the workshop is an invitation to explore our individual relationship to anger, and can be seen as an aspect of personal psychosynthesis.
Part 2 of the workshop will focus on the world, and the emotions that are evoked by our current global situation. Allowing those emotions can strengthen our sense of purpose, and can be seen as an aspect of transpersonal psychosynthesis.
Experiential - Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

B11
JOANN LUTZ (USA)
Bringing Yogic Techniques into the Psychosynthesis Session to Regulate the Nervous System
While presence is central to Psychosynthesis practice, its physiological correlatives have not received attention. New discoveries from the field of neurosciences, made by Peter Levine, Stephen Porges and others, stress the importance of nervous system regulation, for both the client and the therapist, to promote psychological healing, and shed light on the embodied nature of presence. Workshop participants will be introduced to key concepts in nervous system regulation and experience how it enhances presence through sensory awareness, breathing and meditative exercises.
Experiential - Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

B12
FRANCO SALVINI (France)
Awareness of the body, awareness of the soul  COMPLETE
In our current language the body and the soul are seen as a duality or separate polarities. The perception of our body is near at hand.
Our physical sensations, above all the painful ones, have a very strong impact on our emo-tions, thoughts, behaviour and personal identity. The body is visible. It is the symbol of our existence, the image with which we enter into relation with others. The body becomes the idol, fruit of desire, the way to success. But what should we say about the soul that we do not see? What is the soul? What is its’ relation to the body? Can we overcome the duality between body and soul? How can we make the soul visible? These questions can find their answers when we undertake a path to rediscover our own inner resources. It is then that the soul manifests itself and the body-soul dichotomy transforms into a body-soul unity.
Experiential
Language: Italian / French

B13
JULIE SIMONSEN (USA)
Expressive Movement, Art and Psychosynthesis
This experiential workshop introduces the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, a Holistic approach based on embodied creativity that highlights the principles of movement/dance and its inherent relationship with psychology and art. Participants will be guided to feel and deeply listen to the body’s wisdom, increasing physical, emotional and mental awareness while working with sub personalities through movement, drawing and writing. This synthesis is a way of developing a sense of personal and interpersonal self to create a more integrated personality aligned with the realization of the Higher Self. When we are able to become aware, accept and understand ourselves on a personal level we are better able to relate to others and offer our gifts to the world.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

B14
SAPHIRA WAHL (Norge)
Understanding the Dynamics of the Will in Addiction Treatment
A study aimed at exploring the dynamics of the will related to recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.
What would the implications be for substance abuse treatment to acquire further knowledge and understanding the dynamics of the will. What does main stream psychology say about the volitional act versus psychosynthesis understanding of the concept of ‘will’ related to addiction treatment. What does international research say about the dynamics of the will in addiction treatment? Can treatment of substance abuse be enhanced through further exploration of the dynamics of the so called personal free will in psychology versus a higher power as Alcoholics Anonymous (12-step treatment) terms it or the personal and transpersonal will as psychosynthesis would frame it? How do the concepts of conscious and unconscious will fit into this picture? Let’s explore these questions together.
This workshop is built on the present work for my doctoral thesis for the Doctorate in Psychotherapy by Professional Studies, Middlesex University, London.
Theoretical
Language: English

Friday June 22, 2012
9:45 am - 12:45 pm

A1
ROBERT ANDERSON (USA)
Exploring the Collective Unconscious COMPLETE
Roberto Assagioli and Carl Jung both touch on the Collective Unconscious. In recent decades, the limitations of conventional science have been eclipsed by published studies of controlled experiments in the effectiveness of prayer, powerful effects of imagery, confirmation of premonitions, and the effectiveness of a host of non-touch therapies such as therapeutic touch. Remote Viewing, documented dream coincidences, and the unexplainable phenomenon of the double-slit experiment call on us to expand our thinking. Open discussion of quanta of energy moving faster than the speed of light, the possibility of a multiverse, and the invocation of a probability wave in sub-particle physics also push us to expand the horizons of our experience outside the limits of the Psychosynthesis egg diagram. Personal experiences will also be included in this presentation. Participants will have an opportunity to share their own "outside the egg diagragm" experiences in the safety and full acceptance of the assembled group.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: English

A2
PENELOPE ANDRADE (USA)
Emotional Medicine Rx: A Bio-Psychosynthesis Approach
Emotions are designed by nature to be action imperatives, filled with important information for our survival as well as connecting us to what matters most for our lives and spirits. Even when we don’t act or acknowledge them, emotions cause subtle changes in our viscera, musculature, moods, relational and spiritual responsiveness. For some, fear of emotional flooding and irrationality and/or the neurobiologically frozen energy of trauma leads to shutting down awareness, splitting ourselves off from this essential human, spiritual resource. This workshop offers a new paradigm for healing this inner emotional split, as well as support for restoring our ability to take effective, embodied, spiritually aligned action in the world. Integrating John and Ann Gila Firman’s Immanent/Transcendent Self, Bioenergetic and Biodynamic emotional charge/discharge theory, and Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution, participants will have an opportunity both theoretically and experientially to learn how to let their bodies lead them to wholeness and transformation.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: English

A3
LORELLA P. BETTI, ALESSANDRA G. MARSON (Italia)
Sounds & Words
“Sounds & Words” is a lively and creative workshop. Writing and Musical Therapy are used as a means for putting participants in touch with their own psychological functions and the different aspects of their inner world.
There will be exercises of Creative Writing specifically designed for contacting and exploring the different aspects of one’s inner parts, as well as techniques of Musical Therapy for training awareness in listening to the infinite vibrations and resonance of the Soul.
The exercises are aimed at increasing one’s ability to observe and express parts of oneself through “Sounds & Words”, creating a “Resonant Poem” for each aspect contacted.
The workshop is conducted by two leaders from the professional backgrounds of the artistic areas represented: Music & Writing, a perfect pair for an explorative-evolutionary journey within oneself.
Experiential
Language: Italian

A4
MOLLY BROWN (USA)
Courage and Compassion in times of crisis
Today we see wide-spread evidence of a Great Unravelling throughout the world brought on primarily by human greed and arrogance. At the same time, untold numbers of people across the planet have taken to the streets, protesting the oppression and destruction, and calling for a Great Turning towards a just, cooperative, and sustainable world. In this workshop, we will draw on Psychosynthesis, eco-psychology, and the Work That Reconnects (as developed by Joanna Macy) to build our capacities for courage, compassion, and wisdom in this time of global crisis.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

A5
HAZEL CAREY (UK), MARIELLA LANCIA (Italia), ROSI ROBERTAZZI (Italia)
Wyse Elders programme: redefining the role of the elder in a changing world
I Presentation of the Wyse Elders programme: origins, aims, methods, links
with Psychosynthesis
II Experiencing exercises and techniques used in the Wyse Elders Programmes:
a) Circle of Concerns (exploring and facing our concerns and fears about ageing)
b) Meeting the Wise Elder exercise, to intuit how the role of the Elder ought to change to meet the needs of the next age followed by panel discussion
c) Deep Time Ceremony (outside) convening ancestors and beings of the future
d) Art work: drawing a symbol of being an Elder in a changing world.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

A6
GIOVANNI DE GREGORIO, MASSIMO RUSSO (Italia)
The path of what is possible. A model for welcoming socially disadvantaged minors:the “Namaskar” residential community.
The youngsters who come to the Community are often afraid of expressing themselves and have a sense of personal inadequacy. To lack confidence in their own possibilities has been imprinted in them. How can we hope to see them develop and transform if firstly we do not see what they may become?
Even the educator may feel disorientated initially towards “whom” he sees, but this may be overcome by looking ahead and taking into consideration not only what the youngster shows at that moment, but above all what he may really become. Bearing in mind the finished product that can be created, the educator must take account of the raw material in front of him for that purpose. No matter if the finished product is as yet unknown, what does matter is to favour the process that leads to its realization and that urges the spontaneous unveling of the different phases of actuation. Helping the youngster to blossom means, in fact, believing that, given certain conditions, he has that possibility and it is highly probable that those conditions have not yet been met. The residential Community then becomes the catalyzing instrument and the place for starting to make all that happen, favouring a synthesis between receptiveness, empathy, respect and authority for breaking the old viscious circles.
Experiential - Theoretical
Language: Italian

A7
UTA GABAY, EFRAT TENNENBAUM, YEOSHUA STARRET (Israel)
Psychosynthesis in Jerusalem
A less known aspect of Assagioli’s work is his application of the Psychosynthesis model to national entities, specifically to the Jewish people. As recent research into the Assagioli archives reveals, he dedicated much inner and public work to it over many years. A group in Jerusalem has taken up this seeding work on the Psychosynthesis of the Jewish people and is developing it further.
The workshop addresses:
• Assagioli’s research and public work concerning the Jewish People
• Psychosynthesis in Jerusalem
• ‘Psychoenergetic Inquiry’ - a meditative method we have developed to work with the personality and the soul potential of a group or national entity, in this case the Jewish people.
This will be a group presentation by members of the Hechal Centre for Universal Spirituality in Jerusalem, including lecture, a guided meditative exercise and discussion.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: English / Italian

A8
JOANNE GRAHAM-WILSON (France)
New Start
Unemployment is a daily subject in all the media and a major source of fear and worry among populations in every country. With a rising world population and increasing economic crises, unemployment is also rising.
Finding oneself unemployed, especially over a long period of time, becomes a period of such self-doubt that identity questions need to be addressed before practical issues on succeeding a job interview can be mastered.
This workshop condenses 42 hours of training sessions into a 3-hour experiential session showing how the unemployed can overcome personal insecurities so as to be clear in their needs and able to reassure a recruiter or future clients.
Before developing a strategy for prospecting the work market, candidates learn to identify:
• their qualities and successes and how to feel comfortable speaking of them
• the job that represents a conciliation between acquired competencies and realistic aspirations
• where and how to find the ideal job, strategic methodology and motivation aids
• attitudes that reassure recruiters and clients; preparating oneself psychologically and spiritually for an interview
• the sufficiency of their competencies as compared to an employer's needs; knowing how to say "No"
Experiential
Language: English

A9
STEPHANIE GUASTELLA LINDSAY, LORI RICHLOFF (USA)
Embodying our Subpersonalities COMPLETE
The expressive arts can be used to elicit our own and others’ sub-personalities and to transform our own and others’ relationships with their sub-personalities. Using movement/dance, improvisation, drawing, creative writing, and poetic dialogue, participants in this experiential workshop will be guided through a process of disidentification and then work in depth with a sub-personality of their choosing. Participants will discover that each sub-personality has its own story, its own personal mythology, to disclose.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

A10
INGRID GUNBERG (Sverige)
Constellation together with Psychosynthesis
In this workshop, we will focus on both the therapist involvement in their own system as well as that of the client in order to see where there is an opening to solutions. Using the practice of constellations around a live case, we will explore hidden forces that may impede the therapy-process such as entanglement, disengagement, support or the lack of it. Outcomes will be both personal and professional, focusing on what can emerge from hidden depths. There will be space for two or more issues.
Constellations are a powerful and unique way of resolving issues of great weight in ways that point sensitively and simply to seeing anew. The founder of constellations work Bert Hellinger also calls this work "Orders of Love" and says:
“When we understand the systemic laws that allow love to unfold, we may be able to help suffering families and individuals to find solutions. It’s profoundly moving to observe clients approach the Orders of Love and spontaneously melt into soft and intimate love, even after a lifetime of hate, anger and abuse.”
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

A11
ELKE GUT (Schweiz), ANTON FIECHTER (Italia)
Psychosynthesis and Astrology
Can we find a parallel between the Psychosynthesis method and astrology? Is there a relation between the three levels of the personality: physical, emotional and mental and the astrological planets Saturn, the Moon and the Sun? How can dis-identification be applied from the astrological point of view? The transpersonal planets Uranium, Neptune and Pluto – an attempt at a psychosynthesis interpretation. How can the will be interpreted with psychosynthesis astrology in an example regarding the theme of birth? These questions will be addressed and elaborated in the workshop.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: German / Italian

A12
MASSIMILIANA MOLINARI, ELODIE MIGLIORINI (Italia)
From stereotypes to archetypes: from dependence to Unity – a psychosynthesis proposal for emotional dependence
We propose a group experience in which participants will be invited to use body techniques, art and imagery for recognizing gender stereotypes. A process of disidentification from these will be actuated along a trail that will unravel to the point of awareness of the male and female archetypes resonating within the individual’s inner world. The workshop will end with a meditation on inner union and Universal Union, drawing also from the theory of quantum entanglement.
Experiential
Language: Italian

A13
FRANCESCA PECCI (Italia)
The myth of Persephone and the transmutation of limits through Developmental Drama
Developmental Drama is a process of Personal Growth. Initially it helps to develop an integrated personality; subsequently it renders service to going beyond the personality and accessing a higher dimension of Consciousness with one’s own Qualities, creating Harmony and Beauty. The substratum theory of the work proposed is the dimension of Greek Myths and the Eleusinian Mysteries, in particular the trial undergone in the Myth of Cyane and Persephone. The Myth describes symbolically the journey that human Consciousness must undergo in order to evolve and it reminds us of the contribution that Psychology can offer to that effect. During the Workshop participants will discuss the Myth and its subtle sense also through brain-storming; aided by the leader they will create a series of representations using improvisation and will be able both to express themselves and their tensions as well as nurture and activate a dimension of Group work.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: Italian

A14
PIERO RIGHELLI, NURIEL FRANSOSA (Italia)
Psychosynthesis and Coaching: building the future
Psychosynthesis and Coaching have many points in common regarding the process of change. Both may be proposed to people or groups who wish to reach new personal or existential objectives, to build their own future. Both facilitate the way from the present state to a desired state, placing the accent on the individual’s responsibility, on his creative capacities and on the use of the will (also as a factor of choice). They favour and sustain the process of self-realization. Psychosynthesis can enrich Coaching with perspective, depth, vision, techniques and methods. Coaching can enrich the Psychosynthesis processes with its specific ways of self-confrontation, questioning, encouraging the realization of personal or group resources. Concerted action between Coaching and Psychosynthesis permits the development of a new type of Psychosynthesis professionalism that can operate in new areas of work, responding to a great request already voiced. In the workshop participants will experience points of contact and of development in the meeting between Psychosynthesis and Coaching, common and specific instruments and will explore possible future perspectives.
Experiential – Theoretical
Language: Italian / English

A15
WILLIAM PENNELL ROCK (USA)
Neo-Exorcism: Dealing with Your Inner Saboteur COMPLETE
A force exists in each of us to generate the Shadow whose intent is to deaden and ultimately destroy us, presenting challenges only survived by those who are psychologically fit.
The bad news is that this Saboteur, devious in ways that defy imagination and greatly strengthened by our prevailing blindness to it, more or less rules our lives. The good news is that every adventure and love story tells us how to transform it. Their underlying archetypal forms express the process of Psychosynthesis, by which this villain is challenged and its essential power reclaimed and reintegrated into the whole. In the ORIGINS workshops participants come to recognize that they are living out a personal myth in which this power sabotaging their lives must be confronted and transformed.
In this three hour workshop you will have the opportunity to experience the part of the ORIGINS Process, called “neo-exorcism”, that exposes your Saboteur and its work. It includes witnessing your self-sabotage, vigorously embodying and expressing its archetypal agent, your Saboteur, and realizing that it is fuelled by your own energy whose disposition is finally your own choice.
Come if you dare.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

A16
RENZO ROSSIN (Italia)
Oneiric roots of the future – dream in education and in personal growth
For thousands of years dreams have nourished the evolution of our species, absorbing and creatively re-elaborating our daily experiences, unveiling the threshold to intuition on diverse planes and contributing to discoveries and inventions in all fields. Greater consideration of the “night-school” teachings and a wiser application of these on our part can offer us, even in childhood, precious images and ideas full of inspiration for both personal and collective growth. This can open up the natural way to the language of symbols for youngsters; in adults it can help revalue psychic activity more easily in connection among the psychic functions, the most faithfully available to the will.
Excercises: - Make good use of your dreams at home and at school – Social dreaming and intuition about the future.
Experiential
Language: Italian / English

A17
ARON SALTIEL (Österreich)
Constellation Work in Psychosynthesis Counseling and Therapy
Constellation work (often referred to as "family constellation") proves to be an effective method for representation of relations between individuals, such as partners, family members, group members. We can also externalize intra-personal elements, e.g. subpersonalities, I, the Self and observe their relationship as the representants interact, which can be helpful for strategies of conflict management and problem solving, as well as to gain deeper understandig of oneself, of the "next step" in one's psychosynthesis.
In this experimental workshop we shall work with exercises that demonstrate the use of constellations in the context of Psychosynthesis.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

A18
MANOLIS SKOULIKAS (Hellas)
Between Hope and Fatalism: The archetype of the Healer in a time of Crisis
In our times of crisis we are called upon as psychotherapists to help our clients and our fellow human beings to deal with loss and express mixed feelings of anger, guilt, pain and find a “meaning” to an ongoing traumatic situation. In this soul’s journey we will face the archetype of fatalism with its five heads of fear, guilt, hopelessness, cynicism and defeatism. In search for an opposite force to counter this we will discover the archetype of Hope through the ancient Greek myth of “Pandora’ Box”. We will address techniques against mass media manipulation and will focus on ways to reclaim respect for humanity and act from our true centre, the eye of the storm in times of continual degradation of human value and human values.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

A19
SCOTT THOMPSON, LAWRENCE WINTERS (USA)
Dialogue at Intersections: Social Healing between Veterans and Civilians
Like Russian Nesting Dolls we as humans inhabit and express ourselves through multiple psychological and social identities. Psychosynthesis has come a long way and excels at assisting greater harmony with our psychological healing. Social Healing is our next frontier. It is a type of healing that is beyond the boundary of our psychological life and exists as social identities between people, groups and nations. This experiential workshop, utilizing cutting edge psychological and social healing processes, will demonstrate one application of social healing between two identities that remain painfully unrelated to each other. Our focus will be the unresolved rift between veteran soldiers and civilians in every country. We are learning that war touches the lives of all people. Perhaps more
than any single social enterprise, war shapes the character of individuals, families, cultures and nations. Yet, war’s mythic role in national life often hides the wounds it exacts on all members and dimensions of society. Social Healing between Veterans and Civilians is a conscious exploration of the impact of war upon both groups, each having something vital for the other.
Experiential
Language: English / Italian

Sabato 23 giugno 2012
ore 15.15-16.45

D1
SVANTE BJÖRKLUND (Sverige)
Sperimenta il tuo ruolo nel mantenere e promuovere la Psicosintesi nel mondo
Si farà un’indagine con l’aiuto delle costellazioni sistemiche. I partecipanti creeranno insieme il mondo della Psicosintesi nel Triangolo di Valore, i valori universali di Amore, Conoscenza e Ordine, conosciuti anche come Bontà, Verità e Bellezza.
Ciascuno cercherà poi la relazione tra se stesso/se stessa e tutti i vari elementi della psicosintesi e i valori universali.
Esploreremo valori fissi e valori mobili ed anche le interrelazioni dei partecipanti.
Ci saranno delle dinamiche ma il metodo consiste nel rallentare il processo affinché possa essere visibile, come un film a rallentatore. La profondità della presenza è molto intensa e ci sono spesso risultati sorprendenti.
Ho una quinquennale esperienza come conduttore delle costellazioni, la maggioranza dei quali tenuti in Svezia ma anche al Congresso dell’AAP nel 2008 a Vermont, USA e a quello dell’EMCC a Dublino, Irlanda, nel 2010.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese

D2
ELENA DELAINI, RAFFAELLA DI SAVOIA (Italia)
Solve COMPLETO
Nella tradizione buddista l’ignoranza è considerata uno dei tre veleni mentali all’origine della sofferenza. L’ignoranza ci mette nella condizione di percepirci come esseri separati impedendoci di realizzare che ciò che noi siamo è profondamente interconnesso e inscindibile da ciò che sono gli altri. L’essere umano è da sempre immerso in un continuo processo di riconoscere la propria appartenenza a gruppi sempre più ampi e la sfida di questo momento è l’aprirsi all’intera umanità.
Per aprirci al nuovo è necessario lasciar andare il vecchio e ciò risulta difficile perché significa incontrare un senso di perdita di ciò che è noto per renderci vulnerabili a qualcosa che ancora non conosciamo e che temiamo di non saper contenere. Questo workshop è dedicato a quei processi della psiche e a quelle metodiche che permettono un incontro con l’ignoto tramite il lasciar andare e lo sciogliere paure, attaccamenti e interessi personali che ci tengono legati a vecchie identità e subpersonalità e ci impediscono l’incontro con un nuovo modo dell’essere che include sempre più l’alterità.
Esperienziale - Teorico
Lingua: Italiana

D3
DOROTHY FIRMAN (USA)
Le lacrime che versiamo: abbracciare la gioia e il dolore
In questo workshop avremo l’occasione per esplorare le esperienze profonde di gioia e di dolore, abbracciando tutto ciò che esiste di meraviglioso e di doloroso nella nostra vita. Accettare le disparità del nostro mondo emotivo e sentirci sicuri stando insieme ai nostri sentimenti e potendoli condividere, ci permette di essere pienamente umani. In un mondo pieno di bellezza così come di tragedia le esperienze conflittuali ci possono straziare. Pur di non soffrire può accadere di diventare insensibili verso il dolore ma questo ci porta ad anestetizzarci anche nei confronti della gioia. La psicosintesi ci invita a sperimentare tutto quello che siamo, sia a livello personale sia collettivo. Questa polarità di sentimenti esiste nel nostro mondo interiore nel momento in cui lottiamo con le nostre esperienze presenti e passate di gioia e di dolore; esiste anche nel nostro mondo globale, quando, in ogni momento, sperimentiamo il dolore e la grandezza del nostro mondo e dei suoi cittadini. Ci allontaniamo troppo facilmente dalla complessità per vedere il mondo e le nostre stesse vite attraverso una sola lente o l’altra. Sappiamo tutti che c’è una tendenza malsana a creare polarità: questo o quello, buono o cattivo, loro o noi, tristezza o gioia. Ma quando ci immergiamo nell’accettazione e nell’esperienza di “e/e” diventiamo veramente completi. Questo e quello, buono e cattivo, loro e noi, gioia e dolore ci parlano di una verità più profonda.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

D4
GRUPPO “ALLE FONTI DELLA PSICOSINTESI” (Firenze- Il Mondo)
Voci dall’Archivio Assagioli
Un incontro per condividere col gruppo “Alle fonti della psicosintesi” lo spirito che si sprigiona e anima il lavoro all’Archivio Assagioli nella Sede dell’Istituto a Firenze. L’esperienza è ricca e variegata e soprattutto resa stimolante dal contatto col materiale autografo di R.A. che emerge dalle casse ricolme che giacevano da anni nelle cantine della sua casa; sarà l’occasione per compartecipare gli intensi vissuti che inondano la coscienza di tutti coloro che operano per cercare di interpretare, catalogare, digitalizzare quei minuscoli e sbiaditi foglietti dove Assagioli annotava i suoi pensieri. Nel corso dell’incontro verrà inoltre presentato il filmato, girato da Lena Runge (Svezia) a Firenze, nel corso del meeting internazionale dell’ottobre 2011, che offrirà una testimonianza diretta dell’animo e delle modalità del lavoro del gruppo, che si sta nel tempo arricchendo di nuove presenze ed è aperto a possibili future collaborazioni.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

D5
EVA-LOUISE HAMER (Canada)
L’impatto della gratitudine
Celebreremo il pieno significato del diagramma dell’Ovoide e della Stella di Roberto Assagioli, sperimentando l’impatto della gratitudine internamente ed esternamente nel nostro gruppo. I partecipanti saranno invitati a “Creare un Progetto Volontà”. Questo potrà essere praticato subito e per tutto il Convegno nell’interagire con gli altri al fine di sperimentare pienamente l’impatto e il potere della gratitudine.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese

D6
PETER HUBBARD (New Zealand)
Il riscatto di una eredità coloniale: La Psicosintesi in Aotearoa/ Nuova Zelanda
In Aotearoa/Nuova Zelanda si sta svolgendo un esperimento politico e sociale unico e davvero straordinario. Consiste nel vedere in che modo noi, come nazione, affrontiamo direttamente l’esperienza e gli effetti della colonizzazione. Un documento fondatore, Il Trattato di Waitangi del 1840, ebbe origine dall’incontro di due culture distinte - la cultura indigena Maori e quella colonizzatrice di tipo Europeo/Britannico. Il nostro compito consiste nel vedere come rendere questo documento rilevante nel 21° secolo.
Una cosa è dichiarare semplicemente che la vita politica e sociale d’ora in avanti si svolgerà secondo i principi del trattato, includendo questa affermazione anche nelle linee guide governative nei requisiti e nella legislazione e un’altra è capire come questo si possa fare.
Una chiave interpretativa che sta emergendo riguarda il modo in cui ci accostiamo ad esaminare la nostra propria visione del mondo per poi entrare in relazione con la visione del mondo dell’altro. Questo è assolutamente fondamentale e influenza la conduzione del nostro scambio biculturale.
I metodi e il punto di vista della Psicosintesi hanno molto da offrire su questo argomento e in questo workshop offriremo una sintesi di alcuni studi e pratiche che emergono da 25 anni di insegnamento ed applicazione della Psicosintesi nell’area del Pacifico.
Esperienziale -Teorico
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

D7 (e B10)
FREDRIK LUNDH, ROSIE MANTON (Sverige)
Sentire e gestire Parte 2ª
Sviluppare l’intelligenza emotiva e in particolare imparare a gestire la rabbia in modo responsabile, costituisce un’importante sfida nella nostra società. In questo workshop esploreremo le differenze tra le forme costruttive e distruttive della nostra espressione emotiva, e le forme sane o malate del nostro controllo emotivo. Le parti esperienziali del workshop sono basate principalmente sul lavoro attraverso il corpo col movimento. La struttura teorica verterà sulla comprensione della disidentificazione ispirata da recenti teorie di mentalizzazione.
La prima parte del workshop invita ad esplorare la nostra relazione nei confronti della rabbia e fa riferimento a un aspetto della Psicosintesi personale.
La seconda parte del workshop si focalizzerà sul mondo e sulle emozioni che vengono evocate dalla nostra attuale situazione globale. Consentire a quelle emozioni di esistere può rafforzare il nostro senso di proposito e può essere considerato un aspetto della Psicosintesi Transpersonale.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

D8
WILL PARFITT (UK)
Il silenzio, il Sé e il servizio  COMPLETO
Il silenzio interno è la qualità del Sé descritta da Assagioli come completamente oltre tutte le dualità. Assagioli ha evidenziato la natura temporanea del raggiungimento di questo stato, e come un individuo, nel tornare alla coscienza quotidiana dopo tale esperienza, sia inevitabilmente permeato da un senso di servizio e di responsabilità collettiva.
Cercare di raggiungere uno stato di silenzio interiore allinea la Psicosintesi alle Scuole Misteriche che “iniziano” gli aspiranti ad un livello oltre il quale l’auto-iniziazione diventa una chiave e ci mette in contatto con antiche tradizioni spirituali che allo stesso tempo informano e stanno dietro la Psicosintesi.
Un’affermazione attribuita ai Misteri Greci e citata da Assagioli ripete il tema centrale in una forma più poetica: “Tacete, o corde, affinché una nuova melodia possa fluire in me”.
Esperienziale - Teorico
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

D9
GAETANO RUSSO (Italia)
La rete del cambiamento
Oggi ci troviamo ad affrontare tutta una serie di problemi interconnessi ed interdipendenti ed ogni tentativo di soluzione isolata di uno di essi è destinato al fallimento. È necessario, quindi, cambiare radicalmente il modo di pensare e gli stessi valori sui quali è fondata la nostra vita. Oggi cominciamo a renderci conto che è possibile comprendere le proprietà delle parti soltanto attraverso lo studio e la comprensione dell’insieme che le contiene. Si tratta di una rivoluzione importante che ci permette di vedere le parti inserite in una trama inscindibile, o rete, da cui traggono senso e significato. E non soltanto ogni essere umano è in se stesso una rete, ma tutto lo schema d’organizzazione della vita sul Pianeta è una grande rete, di cui il sotto-insieme chiamato “umanità” è parte. Questo ci fa capire perché è importante lavorare su di sé: il proprio miglioramento si trasmette alla rete ed attiva un meccanismo di retroazione, migliorativo dell’intera rete.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Italiano

D10
EVA SANNER (Sverige)
La morte, un’esperienza positiva
In questo workshop esamineremo le nostre esperienze, nozioni e paure circa la morte e la nostra condizione mortale. Vedremo come stare con clienti che si trovano in situazioni collegate alla morte. Lavoreremo per approfondire la nostra comprensione di come si possa vivere con presenza, consapevoli del nostro (e dell’altrui) tempo limitato - e anche cosa aneliamo a creare, sperimentare e fare a livello personale ed interpersonale prima che scada il tempo che abbiamo a disposizione.
Eva Sanner è psicoterapeuta psicosintetista specializzata presso la PsykosyntesAkademin di Stocccolma, Svezia. E’ anche autrice conosciuta di testi di psicologia e sviluppo personale. Attualmente è membro del consiglio direttivo del PsykosyntesAkademin Foundation
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

D11
ANN SCHAFER (USA)
Onorare il Femminile sacro: un pellegrinaggio verso l’anima
Lo scopo di questo workshop è di ispirare quelle donne forti a riscoprire, recuperare e sviluppare una relazione progressiva con la propria natura femminile, sacra e divina. Attraverso la Psicosintesi ed altri importanti concetti, il lavoro porta l’attenzione consapevole nella direzione dell’interezza, per restituire equilibrio alla vita che è stata dominata da una società patriarcale. Esamineremo la transizione storica e l’equilibrio di potere dai valori, pensieri, espressioni, arte e religioni matriarcali, a quelli patriarcali. Lavoreremo per incoraggiare la ricerca di significato e di rinnovamento nella donna forte “in mezzo al cammin” della sua vita, per renderla consapevole degli ostacoli alla crescita della propria femminilità, per poterli trasformare nel vero spirito della Psicosintesi. I partecipanti potranno sperimentare esercizi che portano cambiamenti attraverso l’esplorazione profonda degli aspetti inconsci del Femminile Divino, per nuovamente poter creare e scegliere il cammino consapevole e ricongiungersi con l’Anima. Alcune sintesi scritte di workshops tenuti nei weekend dalla dott.ssa Schafer e dalla dott.ssa Lippmann evidenziano il percorso coraggioso necessario per entrare nelle profondità della propria “Ombra”, poiché è questo il modo, in ultima analisi, che smuove e attiva il processo di guarigione.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese

D12
CLAUDIA SCHÖNFELDER (Italia)
Creare la pace, ogni giorno COMPLETO
"Apprendiamo a vivere in pace e quindi a dare, irradiare pace attorno a noi, ovunque andiamo. Tutti vorremmo donare pace, ma per poterlo realmente fare dobbiamo prima essere in pace, vivere nella grande pace, divenire pace."
(Roberto Assagioli)
Il workshop propone tecniche per corpo, mente e spirito che ci possono aiutare a creare pace nella nostra vita interna ed esterna.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Italiano / Inglese

D13
JAN TAAL (Nederland)
Una “Scatola di Attrezzi Immaginativi” per affrontare il cancro
Per chi ha un tumore le immagini possono essere validi strumenti per aiutare ad affrontare le emozioni, per migliorare il benessere, rinforzarsi interiormente e per stimolare la guarigione. La scatola è stata creata per dare alle persone affette da tumore o altra grave malattia alcuni semplici e accessibili mezzi di immaginazione da usare da soli e/o con un piccolo aiuto. E’ indicata per uso negli ospedali e nelle Case di Cura e contiene una serie di fotografie di varie immagini simboliche; 3 CD con 8 esercizi di immaginazione per il benessere, la guarigione, e per gestire e affrontare le cure, il dolore e il corpo colpito; un CD con vari tipi di musica; materiale per disegnare; un libro per appunti e un manuale di istruzioni. Il workshop consiste nella presentazione di argomenti chiave e tecniche, una dimostrazione ed esercitazioni con i partecipanti.
Esperienziale - Teorico
Lingua: Inglese

D14
MARIA LETIZIA ZECCA (Italia)
Permettersi di sognare progetti per vivere meglio
..come collocarsi all'interno dei cambiamenti epocali favorendo la capacità intuitiva ed immaginativa di ciascuno,umanizzando ogni ambito della vita..
..Sempre di più vediamo l'universo come cosmogenesi, invece che come cosmo. Percepiamo una lunga sequenza di attività creative che emergono lungo estesi periodi di sviluppo che conducono infine al tempo presente. Vediamo noi stessi come un processo creativo in emersione piuttosto che come esseri fissi il cui essere e le cui funzioni sono stabili definitivamente.. (liberamente tratto da Thomas Berry)
Esperienziale- Teorico
Lingua: Italiano / Inglese

Sabato 23 giugno 2012
ore 9.45-12.45

C1
JOANNE M. ANDERSON (USA)
Guarire attraverso l’amore incondizionato e il perdono
Presenterò un workshop esperienziale basato sul lavoro originale di Edith Stauffer. Includerò anche una variazione che ho constatato aiuti le persone a capire quanto il perdono sia importante in relazione alla propria salute. Sono la prima persona a ricevere dalla Dr.ssa Stauffer un certificato in cui dichiara che ho conseguito gli studi sul metodo dell’Amore Incondizionato e Perdono e quindi ho conoscenza diretta ed esperienza del suo sistema. Allo stesso tempo includo altre motivazioni rispetto a quelle da lei usate. Ad esempio nel mondo oggi la rabbia e il risentimento predominano dappertutto. Si conoscono bene gli effetti dannosi della rabbia sul corpo come anche il fatto che essa crei distanza emotiva tra gli individui. Il procedimento che verrà presentato dimostra come si possa trasformare questo tipo di rabbia in amore e in una più vasta comprensione degli eventi della vita, sia a livello personale che globale. Sarà disponibile del materiale scritto, e storie vere sull’uso di questo metodo verranno raccontate a richiesta dei partecipanti.
Esperienziale - Teorico
Lingua: Inglese

C2
KRISTINA BRODE (Deutschland)
Psicosintesi e Archetipi - La mitologia come strumento di pacificazione e riconciliazione nell'inconscio collettivo
Le nostre esperienze personali modellano la nostra vita, costruiscono le strategie di coping, e sono responsabili per i successi o i fallimenti. Tutte queste prove e tratti personali possono essere modificati ed anche guariti con la terapia. Esplorando la memoria del genere umano e lavorando con i miti delle diverse epoche ci fornisce il materiale perché la guarigione si manifesti su un piano universale più ampio: la guarigione delle nazioni. Bisogna redimere l'umanità dalle impronte di dolore e sofferenza; bisogna guardare la memoria impressa da inganni e tradimenti a cavallo fra le culture matrilineari e il patriarcato. Visto che ci troviamo nella meravigliosa città di Roma, lavoreremo con il mito dei suoi fondatori, Romolo e Remo.
Il seminario offre l'opportunità di un lavoro esperienziale con gli Archetipi, le sub-personalità
dell'Inconscio Collettivo.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

C3
MARK COLCLOUGH (Danmark)
Quando gli “Stili di carattere" di Stephen M. Johnson incontrano le “Tipologie della Psicosintesi” di Assagioli - discipline diverse, un terreno comune
In questo seminario esperienziale, lo psicoterapeuta Mark Colclough presenterà un’interessante rapporto tra psicosintesi e caratterologia. In particolare egli esplorerà come l'opera di Assagioli "Tipologie della Psicosintesi" sia connessa agli "Stili di carattere" di Johnson. Mark spera di offrire ai partecipanti l'opportunità di rivisitare il lavoro incompiuto di Assagioli sulle tipologie umane e quella che Assagioli definì una "Psicologia differenziale". Egli spera inoltre di sintetizzare potenzialmente queste aree con il lavoro contemporaneo di Stephen M. Johnson sulle relazioni oggettuali e la psicologia dello sviluppo. Il seminario propone un mix eclettico di teoria, esercitazioni scritte e disegni, nonché discussioni in piccoli gruppi e di tutto il gruppo. Mark parlerà in un inglese semplice e chiaro. Egli si augura che tutti i partecipanti possano avere l'opportunità di esplorare come le sette tipologie unite ai sette stili di carattere permettono una comprensione più profonda della personalità e psicopatologia dei clienti. L'obiettivo è di facilitare le esperienze e le discussioni di gruppo e fare emergere creativamente una chiara comprensione del nostro lavoro psicosintetico, mentre cerchiamo di esplorare i misteri della psiche umana.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese

C4
JANET DERWENT (UK), MICHAEL LINDFIELD (USA), MARINA BERNARDI (Italia)
La scienza della Meditazione Creativa - L’altra eredità lasciataci da Assagioli COMPLETO
La Psicosintesi offre la possibilità di fare un percorso di crescita personale lungo tutta la vita. R.A.comprese che per trovare un rimedio alla nostra “divina scontentezza” è necessaria una ricerca spirituale e ci ha lasciato in dono la Scienza della Meditazione Creativa. “Non si riconosce di solito nella meditazione una forma di azione interna … A volte ho chiamato la meditazione ‘esplorazione dei mondi interni’ perché queste dimensioni sono piene di energie… Per un verso noi viviamo in esse tutto il tempo come parte della nostra natura; la vita psicologica ha una esistenza tangibile in questi campi... In essi ha origine tutto quello che accade nel nostro mondo esterno” R.A - da GCM Study Paper. In questo workshop esploreremo la scienza della meditazione creativa come strumento di servizio per il bene comune.
Esperienziale - Teorico
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

C5
LIVIA FRISCHER (Sverige)
Shalom - un appello alla pace dal profondo degli archivi di Roberto Assagioli
Nel 1954 Assagioli scrisse un breve articolo dal titolo 'SHALOM' nel quale illustrava il vero significato della parola/concetto Shalom - Pace in rapporto alla Psicosintesi. In questo articolo Assagioli approfondisce anche i 4 livelli dei sistemi ai quali egli ritiene debba essere applicato il concetto di Shalom-Pace. L'appello per la pace che Assagioli lancia 58 anni fa è importante oggi come allora, forse oggi ancora di più. Attraverso la Psicosintesi, le sue idee possono offrire una prospettiva più olistica per il processo di creazione della pace. In questo workshop seguiremo le idee di Assagioli sul concetto Shalom-Pace e i 4 livelli della sua applicazione e ci impegneremo in riflessioni esperienziali, seguite da condivisioni e dibattito.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

C6
VINCENZO LIGUORI (Italia)
Se ti prendi cura di te ti prendi cura di tutto
Tutto ciò che succede ha impatto su di noi e provoca effetti sulla mente sulle emozioni sul corpo. Se prendiamo coscienza di questo e impariamo come modificare in senso positivo - compassionevole amorevole - l'energia che scorre in noi possiamo contribuire all'integrazione dei popoli e delle culture e riconciliarci con tutto il pianeta in tutte le sue manifestazioni. Durante il workshop impareremo esercizi e pratiche per migliorare noi stessi e il pianeta.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Italiano

C7
CATHERINE ANN LOMBARD (Deutschland)
La Comunicazione interculturale
Il vostro capo e i vostri colleghi provengono da tutto il mondo. Discutete, pianificate, chiacchierate prendendo il caffè insieme, ma state veramente comunicando? La sensibilità interculturale non è connaturale ad alcuna singola cultura, e lo sviluppo di questa capacità richiede una nuova consapevolezza e nuovi atteggiamenti. La Psicosintesi fornisce una prospettiva ideale, modelli e tecniche per uscire dagli atteggiamenti difensivi abituali, pregiudizi, aspettative, e schemi mentali per aprire a nuovi livelli di comunicazione multiculturale. In questo workshop per prima cosa si parla di come situazioni critiche siano un mezzo che porti ad una nuova consapevolezza di una cultura diversa dalla nostra. Si esamina successivamente cosa impedisce la comunicazione efficace, focalizzandoci in particolare sull’individualismo contro il collettivismo, la distanza posta dal potere e come evitare l’incertezza. In questa cornice di riferimento prendiamo poi in esame le differenze tra le culture per quanto riguarda le regole di condotta, la risoluzione dei conflitti, la comunicazione non verbale, le leggi e le convenzioni e modi di parlare. Poi esploriamo come sviluppare una sensibilità interculturale attraverso il concetto chiave di differenza – e cioè che le culture si differenziano fondamentalmente per il modo in cui creano e mantengono la propria visione del mondo. Infine, queste idee vengono integrate con il concetto di polarità di Assagioli e con quello dei retti rapporti della Psicosintesi.
Esperienziale - Teorico
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

C8
MIKE MALAGRECA (Italia)
La (meravigliosa) complessità del nostro mondo interiore. Integrare le subpersonalità attraverso l’uso del Mandala in Psicosintesi COMPLETO
Questo workshop esplora il significato e l’uso del mandala in Psicosintesi, in particolare nel lavoro con le sub-personalità, per comprendere la complessità del nostro mondo interno e il nostro centro unificatore. Dopo una breve presentazione (20 minuti) i partecipanti saranno impegnati in una serie di esercizi di disegno e meditazione (sia da soli che in coppia). Questi esercizi possono essere usati in una varietà di situazioni durante il lavoro di esplorazione delle sub-personalità. Un feedback di gruppo conclude l’esperienza. Questo workshop integra per la prima volta il lavoro della mandalista junghiana di spicco, Judith Cornell, con le teorie e le tecniche assagioliane. Potrà essere seguito sia in italiano che inglese secondo la lingua madre dei partecipanti. Non è necessario avere precedente esperienza artistica.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

C9
MARIA TERESA MARAFFA (Italia)
L’energia del cuore, una via verso l’universalità
Nelle antiche tradizioni orientali il cuore è considerato centro di saggezza e di consapevolezza. Questo workshop, prevalentemente esperienziale, propone la sperimentazione di alcune tecniche, quali la meditazione, la visualizzazione, esercizi di Qi Gong e sul chakra del cuore, atte a coltivare l’energia del cuore, dando attenzione a qualità proprie del livello superiore dell’inconscio: la gioia, la presenza, l’attenzione amorevole, la compassione e altre. Si tratta di qualità che, attraverso la mediazione del Sé transpersonale, ci rendono consapevoli dell’interconnessione o entanglement che esiste fra noi e gli altri, fra noi e il mondo, e ci mettono in relazione con l’Universo.
Coltivare l’energia del cuore promuove in noi il senso di appartenenza al mondo, in cui ognuno può applicare la volontà personale nei suoi aspetti di saggezza, amore, forza, allineandosi con la volontà transpersonale e con quella universale.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Italiano / Inglese

C10
ANDREW MCDOWELL (UK), ANDREA CARDILLO, SANDRO MAZZI (Italia)
WYSE: World Youth Services & Enterprise – un programma di visione e leadership
Questo è un workshop esperienziale di 3 ore. Ha lo scopo di stimolare i partecipanti a riflettere ed analizzare come possono usare le loro visioni e intuizioni per esercitare un ruolo attivo contribuendo positivamente nel cogliere alcune delle sfide che l’umanità si trova ad affrontare oggigiorno. I partecipanti avranno l’occasione di trasformare la visione in azione attraverso il lavoro di gruppo e il dibattito, visualizzazioni guidate e tutoraggio. Verrà dato un breve esempio di alcune delle tecniche psicosintetiche che WYSE applica nella formazione dei giovani leader di tutto il mondo e nel supporto loro offerto per apportare cambiamenti positivi nelle loro comunità.
Esperienziale
Lingua: English / Italiano

C11
TAN NGUYEN (France)
Il cuore comincia lentamente a battere al proprio ritmo COMPLETO
Il nostro cuore conserva la memoria delle ferite dell’anima: esperienze passate di tradimento, abbandono, umiliazione, perdita. Questi ricordi ci impediscono di vivere le opportunità del presente, del “qui e ora”, con fiducia e fluidità. Questo workshop insegna gli strumenti per lasciare andare memorie passate e isolamento, in modo da consentire a noi stessi di essere nuovamente inclusi nella rete di una vita di relazione. Un workshop per sperimentare il potere di guarigione di un cuore collegato con il ritmo della vita consapevole più profonda.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Francese

C12
STEFANO PELLI (Italia)
Affinché Ulisse ritorni….
Il workshop si propone di sperimentare il concetto di "espansione e ritorno" a tutti i livelli della personalità. A tale scopo sarà portato come pre-testo il viaggio di Ulisse, dalle sue premesse motivazionali allo scopo ideale, agli ostacoli, ai conflitti, alla "costruzione" delle condizioni per il ritorno. A livello fisico, corporeo, tramite il respiro e il grounding (sia statico che in movimento), sarà possibile sperimentare lo spazio e il contesto dell'azione.
A livello emotivo, tramite il riconoscimento di subpersonalità "rispecchiate" nel lavoro gestaltico nel cerchio, a coppie e/o piccoli gruppi sul tema proposto, si potranno contattare risorse e ostacoli. A livello del pensiero e delle immagini, nella formulazione dello scopo e nel suo riconoscimento simbolico, si contatteranno le capacità proattive del proprio processo creativo.
A livello delle aspirazioni , il gruppo potrà pervenire all'individuazione di uno scopo di valore, quindi ad uno o più obiettivi da trasformare in azioni nuove per il bene comune.
Per il carattere dinamico e corporeo del lavoro, si richiede abbigliamento comodo e uno spazio adeguato.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Italiano / Inglese

C13
MARJOLEIN PIETERSON, MARIA VAN RAAK (Nederland)
La mano destra nascosta della dea Roma: Cosa nasconde alla vista la nostra cultura?
In questo seminario lavoreremo con una delle tragedie greche come introduzione all’esperienza dell'ambiguità, della complessità e della separatezza della vita umana. In queste tragedie incontriamo personaggi che seguono un percorso di lotta e sofferenza. Spesso combattono con sentimenti di rabbia, dolore e vendetta in un contesto di guerra. Oppure cercano di sfuggire al destino per poi compierlo per propria mano. Come scrisse Eschilo, il grande drammaturgo: "Dobbiamo soffrire verso la verità". Non c'è scampo. Non solo a livello personale, ma anche a livello nazionale o globale. Questi antichi miti possono servire da finestre senza tempo aperte su zone d'ombra del nostro tempo presente e della nostra cultura: "Dall'eterno, dal passato, nel presente, per il futuro".
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

C14
WALTER POLT (USA)
Consapevolezza, opposti complementari e conflitto ordinario  COMPLETO
Questo workshop si focalizza più sulle differenze normali in persone normali che su problemi o disturbi severi. Osserveremo i risultati della gestione standard di conflitti ed esploreremo nuovi sistemi per ottenere risultati migliori. Le attuali ricerche sul cervello confermano l’efficacia di approcci già familiari in Psicosintesi e ci indicano come intensificarli.
Useremo quindi degli strumenti per modificare le reazioni primitive di attaco-fuga-immobilità al conflitto ordinario, con particolare attenzione alla disidentificazione e alla consapevolezza, per trasformare l’esperienza del conflitto anziché evitarlo. Incoraggeremo la ricerca della psicosintesi interpersonale e sociale come processi organici aumentando l’attenzione verso gli opposti complementari e riducendo la pressione per una sintesi immediata. Inoltre analizzeremo altri sei modi per ristrutturare vecchi dolorosi comportamenti ai quali spesso le persone ricorrono nei conflitti quotidiani. Ci serviremo di spiegazioni, giochi, momenti di divertimento, rilassamento e discussione. Ci auguriamo di tornare a casa con degli insights pratici, nuove opzioni per gestire i problemi della vita quotidiana e con degli efficaci interventi terapeutici. Ben vengano le sfide e la bellezza della diversità e ben venga portare nella propria vita l’esperienza feconda del momento presente.
Offriremo una pratica ”cassetta degli attrezzi” per incrementare e intensificare gli stili nella gestione del conflitto.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

C15
LUCE RAMORINO (Italia)
L’utopia della Psicosintesi: un solo mondo per una sola umanità
Progetto Umanità Una
Si rivolge a tutti coloro, individui o gruppi di formazione psicosintetica, che sentono nel profondo l'appartenenza umana, al di là delle differenze personali, interpersonali, sociali, ideali o di appartenenze specifiche e già agiscono o vogliono agire per promuovere la coscienza di essere tutti parte di una sola umanità e l'operatività ad essa connessa, agendo quindi per favorire i processi di unificazione e di sintesi, per vie interne ed esterne. Il workshop si propone di creare in gruppo e col gruppo un punto di partenza comune per un progetto coordinato nel tempo, che abbia a cuore questa finalità, ispirandosi al modello psicosintetico e all'opera di Roberto Assagioli, e attenendosi alla visione trifocale e al riconoscimento del valore intrinseco di ogni "individualità" che solo in un contesto sintetico può trovare e manifestare appieno la propria funzione. E' previsto il supporto di stimoli audiovisivi.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Italiano/ Inglese

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MARGRET RUEFFLER (USA)
Svelare l’intelligenza del cuore
Un approccio esperienziale per volgersi al cuore con apprezzamento e gratitudine per stabilire una connessione diretta con esso e con la sua voce. Entrare in relazione col cuore apre ad una profonda accettazione di Sé e all’accettazione dell'altro. Il Cuore è la via più diretta per raggiungere il Sé più intimo e profondo con il suo infinito potenziale. Questo può essere sperimentato a un livello fisico-energetico. E’ uno stato dell’essere. Il cuore racchiude i ricordi. E’ possibile diventare consapevoli dei traumi del passato, per poi lasciarli andare.
Argomenti trattati:
- Esplorare lo spazio interiore ed apprezzare il cuore
- Diventare consapevoli del battito del cuore
- Relazionarsi al battito più intimo e profondo
- Ascoltare la voce del cuore
- Connettersi al cuore della terra
Metodo: Lavoro prevalentemente esperienziale, con meditazione e movimento.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese / Italiano

C17
BETTINA WALDTHAUSEN, GERTRAUD HANNA REICHERT (Deutschland)
Coscienza creativa nel quotidiano - Respiro profondo, danza e psicosintesi spirituale
Il respiro, la danza e il movimento sono attività primarie di ordine cosmico e creatività. Ci riconnettono interiormente ed esteriormente e ambedue sono strumenti per esprimere la qualità dell’anima all’interno del corpo, rendendoci immediatamente pienamente vitali. Ascoltare il Respiro Interiore e osservare la sua natura sottile che fluisce nel corpo rende la nostra consapevolezza dell’unità più ampia e profonda. Esprimerci attraverso la danza e il movimento fa sgorgare quelle fonti di gioia e di vita che sono in noi. Col Respiro insieme alla Danza possiamo sperimentare e abbracciare il Sé, sia a livello individuale che come parte di una comunità alla quale ognuno di noi appartiene.
Il workshop unisce il “Lavoro di Respiro Contemplativo” con la danza e con esercizi spirituali psicosintetici, dandoci nuovi impulsi e forza per la nostra vita quotidiana.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Tedesco / Inglese

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ROSEMARY WENTWORTH (USA)
In viaggio verso il Sé
Il viaggio musicale, associato al lavoro artistico coi Mandala, è un processo esperienziale che favorisce l’esplorazione di sé. Utilizzando le tecniche del lavoro sul respiro olotropico, musica evocativa per entrare in uno stato alterato di coscienza, si può sollecitare l’innata modalità guaritrice della psiche. Le frequenze musicali entrano nella storia personale e unica nell’inconscio dell’individuo e coinvolgono corpo, mente, emozioni e spirito. Con le intuizioni acquisite si costruisce un Mandala. Attraverso l’uso di queste metafore visive e i simboli ricevuti dal Sé Superiore, l’ego e l’anima possono entrare in contatto e muoversi verso l’integrazione, creando un ponte tra passato e futuro.
Esperienziale
Lingua: Inglese