Meditation and Psychotherapy Seminar

This course is offered through a series of two hour sessions both onsite as well as on the internet. CEU Credits for mental health professionals is only offered on site. The course includes the following:

• Understanding and experiencing the meditative awareness state in light of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott's concept of transitional relatedness.
• The qualities of the meditational awareness field and their relationship to the support and organization of the personality.
• The spaciousness dimension of the field of meditative awareness and its relation to the thinking and affective functions of the mind.
• The energetic dimension of the field of meditative awareness and its relation to depression and states of collapse.
• The integrative capacity of the meditative state and its usefulness in integrating disassociative states and the cognitive affective functions.
• The multidimensionality of the meditative awareness field and its relationship both to the self object function and the archetypal dimension described by the Jungians.