Personal and Experiential​

Retreats and classes for personal image-work, body-mind consciousness, internal exploration, communication and transformation.​

CEU/Clinical Courses​

Workshops, courses and lectures for clinicians on clinical topics from personal exploration to understanding dreams and images to transforming unconscious bia​s.

Certificate - Contemplative Jungian Psychology​

Combining both clinical and personal understanding and practice, along with supervision and ongoing groups, this process leads to a certificate in contemplative psychology.

The Principles of Contemplative Psychology:

Welcome to Contemplative Psychology.  My conviction is that personal mindfulness is the foundation for helping oneself or others, and that helping others emerges naturally and with exquisite timing from mindfulness.  

The core model for the meditative practice is Zen, though this is not a Zen training and we practice various forms of mindfulness.  Also, as a certified Jungian analyst, I find that the most enriching model for the psyche is the one developed by Jung.  Similarly, this is not a training in Jungian analysis but is rather an immersion in the Jungian ethos and principles that can enrich both personal life and clinical practice.

​This website explains the techniques I have used and that I teach - the goal is for everyone to develop a mindful life, to explore what emerges from their own psyches and to heal the gap within as well as between self and other.  For clinicians this includes learning to help others do the same.  My experience is that psychological transformation is deeply enhanced by contemplative practice, and that in they end the two practices vitally interweave.  

Who is Contemplative Psychology For?

Contemplative psychology, as it is understood here, is applicable to a range of people with diverse needs.  On one hand, it can be of use in traditional mental health settings whether to better understand particular symptoms and images, to enhance patient outcomes or to heal the burnout that is so endemic within the helping professions.  As a New York State CEU provider for both Social Work and Psychoanalysis (in process), these programs can help provide the clinician with ongoing enrichment and learning and can often be paid for by a sponsoring institution.  

At a personal level, this material can provide the basis for individual exploration and growth.  This model is based on traditional Jungian analysis but is much more self-motivated and directed. It also engages contemplative practice from a modern standpoint - giving practitioners a way to explore traditional images and rituals in a non-theological but rigorous manner.  Finally, I offer a certificate program in Contemplative Jungian Studies for those who would like to deepen their personal and clinical practices in a unique way that includes mindfulness and communication and which also gives access to a community of like-minded clinicians.
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The Local Scene
Offices in NYC and Cold Spring, NY, workshops held in various places or at your workplace.

925 5th Avenue, New York, NY
(212) 734-0850
Weekly sitting meditation: Wednesday 6 o'clock am.
​Yoga: Tuesday 7 pm

08/23

Red Book Club
04:30PM
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08/24

Weekly Orientational Approach Fiesta
07:30PM
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