Saturdays: September 13, October 11, November 1, December 5, January 10, February 14, March 14, April 11, May 9

NOTE: This course has reached maximum enrollment. To be added to the wait list, contact Gwyn Fallbrooke at gfallbrooke@tpi-berkeley.org or (510) 548-2250 x107.

About the TPI Bridge Seminars

Psychological theory is only one of many cultural discourses on human behavior. Disciplines outside our psychological models offer rich and varied investigations of social phenomena using their own tools and strategies.

This small yearlong study group for seasoned clinicians, now in its second year, sets for itself the task of undermining our habitual ways of thinking. Three invited experts--a poet, a Jungian analyst and author, and a Rabbi--will present to the seminar on the topic of listening to the soul. Participants will have an opportunity to engage with this topic that is rarely, if ever, addressed in conventional training for therapists.

September 2014 - May 2015 Seminar: Listening to the Soul

Our three speakers for this series come from different fields but share a deep interest in the inner workings of the human psyche as it is expressed in the world.

Our September speaker, the award-winning poet Mary Mackey, will discuss soul through the metaphor of walking in two worlds. Prof. Mackey is the bestselling author of six volumes of poetry, PEN award winner, and Professor Emeritus of English, as well as former Writer-In-Residence at California State University Sacramento. Dr. Mackey's undergraduate training in ethnobotany led her to field station work in the rainforests of Costa Rica. Her continued connection to the jungles, favelas, and people of Brazil are expressed in her vivid, complex, and lyrical poetry.

Our December speaker, Jungian analyst and author Donald Kalsched, will discuss the sacred dimension of human psyche preserved in the inner world, as witnessed in our work with the survivors of early trauma. He is the author of Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-spiritual Approach to Human Development and its Interruption (2012), which has been described as a major bridge between the practical aspects of clinical work and the soulful, mythopoetic dimensions of Jungian theory and practice. Dr. Kalsched is a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and co-founder of The Center for the Study of Integrative Dynamic Psychotherapy (CSIDP) in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he maintains a private practice. The author of the now classic The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit (1996) as well as numerous papers in analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, he lectures widely on the subject of early trauma and its treatment.

Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man will present to us in March on the topic of soul and spirit. Rabbi Omer-Man lived in Israel for twenty-six years, where he worked as a farmer before contracting polio; subsequently he began a career in editing and publishing, in scientific translations, as a revising editor for Encyclopedia Judaica and as chief editor at Israel Universities Press. In 1981 he founded Metivta, a center for contemplative Judaism dedicated to the renewal of Jewish wisdom and deepening of the personal religious quest. He has lectured and taught widely as well as publishing essays, short fiction, and verse. With other Jewish community leaders, he was invited to visit the Dalai Lama in India, a journey described in Rodger Kamentz’ 1995 book, The Jew in the Lotus.

The Bridge Seminar program consists of nine two-and-a-half-hour meetings, three with the above invited speakers. Meetings are once a month on Saturday mornings at TPI, except for our December meeting that will be on Friday evening.

Group size is limited to fifteen. Participants sign up for the entire series. The program is offered for 18 CE credits.

Meeting Times: 10:00am-12:30pm one Saturday per month for nine months:
September 13, October 11, November 1, December 5, January 10, February 14, March 14, April 11, May 9

Location: TPI, 2232 Carleton St., Berkeley, CA 94704

Cost: $450 for TPI members, $600 for nonmembers

CE Credits: 18 total (2.5 per meeting); BBS approved for MFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs; CPA approved for psychologists

Group size is limited to 15 members.

NOTE: This course has reached maximum enrollment. To be added to the wait list, contact Gwyn Fallbrooke at gfallbrooke@tpi-berkeley.org or (510) 548-2250 x107.