Join us in Ireland, amidst the gentle hills of County Kilkenny, as we explore mortality and uncertainty as a portal to personal creativity and growth.
SEMINAR
Facing Mortality and the Unknown
in County Kilkenny, Ireland
April 21-28, 2026
Learn to live with ease, joy, and compassion through uncertainty — embrace new beginnings and ultimately prepare for death with curiosity and openness rather than fear.
—Pema Chödrön
When we were young, we concerned ourselves primarily with the here and now or with fantasies of our future. Alternatively, as we age it can become difficult to live in the present given the uncertainty of what lies ahead. Worries about mortality, finances, retirement, loss of loved ones, unexpected illness, loss of career, and concerns about diminished mental or physical faculties may permeate our psyches and affect our lifestyle and self-esteem. Realizing that we have fewer years ahead than behind us can lead to loss of hope, dreams, and ideals as well as anxiety and feelings of depression. To compensate for the feelings of hopelessness that may accompany these fears, we are prone to displace our anxieties by moving homes, changing partners, and/or jobs, buying things, or by other distractions.
At a time when commitments of an earlier period in our life, such as immersion in a career, raising children, and taking care of life’s responsibilities are reduced, attention may turn to finding other gratifications. Taking time for oneself, pursuing new interests, spending more time in meaningful relationships, and finding time for creative endeavors and mindful living can be very rewarding. In addition, if one lives a meaningful life, there may be a gentler acceptance to our mortality. Seen in this way, life and death become companions and equal parts of a complete human existence.
Facing mortality can provide an opportunity to focus more on meaning than matter — more on our inner than our outer worlds. Connecting to our inner life, the part of us that seeks meaning and nourishes our soul should be our focus. For, as Jung described it, life that is senselessly wasted or misdirected means a kind of death as well, and that “suffering comes from our unlived life, the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.” For many, such suffering may account for the intensification of the fear of loss and death — a time when life itself may have lost its meaning.
Finally, it is important for us to accept death, illness, and loss as part of the life cycle — a journey that can foster resilience, make us stronger, more loving, sensitive and more empathic to others, as well as to ourselves and the world around us. Most importantly, by facing mortality and loss we can open portals to our own personal creativity and growth.
Through a combination of presentations and experiential workshops, our weeklong seminar will explore various approaches to our theme — including uncertainty, loss, illness, death and dying, near death experiences, and how different cultures envision life after death.
“The fact of death heightens the importance of our spirituality and makes it particularly important for us to live our lives fully.”
—Lionel Corbett
The New York Center for Jungian Studies is dedicating this year’s Jung in Ireland Seminar to the memory of Lionel Corbett, distinguished Jungian analyst and cherished colleague, who died this past summer. His insight, compassion, and unwavering dedication enriched the lives of countless students, fellow analysts, and program participants. We remember him with deep gratitude and affection.
The town of Kilkenny on the River Nore.
Seminar Site: County Kilkenny, Ireland
Rich in natural beauty, Kilkenny is a county of gentle hills and lush agricultural land bordered by the Barrow, Nore, and Suir rivers. Our hotel, the Lyrath Estates, is nestled among 170 acres of beautiful parkland and exquisite countryside and is less than a ten-minute drive to Kilkenny city, known as the medieval capital of Ireland. One of Ireland’s best preserved medieval towns, Kilkenny contains a huge array of early Christian monuments, medieval castles, and streetscapes and is situated in the “Sunny Southeast,” one of the warmest and driest corners of Ireland.
Accommodations
Lyrath Estate Hotel, County Kilkenny
The Lyrath is a deluxe five-star hotel, located in Kilkenny, the medieval heart of Ireland. Built around a traditional 17th century Manor House, and tastefully combining the old and the new, it is considered one of Ireland’s finest hotels. With scenic views of picturesque lakes, historic gardens and rolling hills, its spacious and beautifully furnished rooms, fine cuisine, world class spa, indoor swimming pool, and traditional warm Irish hospitality, make the Lyrath an ideal base for our Seminar.
Optional Outing: Saturday, April 25
Today, guided by Michael Gibbons, one of the most respected and leading archaeologists in Ireland, participants will enjoy exploring parts of Ireland which are off the beaten track as Michael explains the historical significance and context of the sites we will visit. Among other places, the day’s itinerary will include stops at early monasteries such as Cill Chainnigh; Kells Priory (renowned for its impressive medieval remains and surrounding Fortified Village); Jeroint Abbey and the adjacent deserted village; the Kilmogue Portal tomb, also known as Leac an Scáil; and a scenic walk along the River Nore at Inistoge with its spectacular river landscapes. Along the way, we will enjoy a lunch stop at Thomastown and have the opportunity to take in the charm of this picturesque settlement on the banks of a river. Details will be sent closer to the time of the program. Limited to 40 participants.
Seminar Faculty
Our 24th annual Jung in Ireland seminar offers a week with leading Jungian analysts and authors including Ashok Bedi, Joe Cambray, Linda Carter, Chris Downing, Aryeh Maidenbaum, Diana Rubin, Simon Sleeman, Morgan Stebbins. Joanne Wieland-Burston, and Charles G. Zimbrick-Rogers.
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Ashok Bedi, MD, is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a member of the Royal College of psychiatrists of Great Britain; a diplomat in Psychological Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England; a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; and a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His books include In the Eye of the Storm: Staying Centered in Personal and Collective Crisis; Crossing the Healing Zone; Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path. He is the liaison for the IAAP for developing Jungian training programs in India and travels annually to India to teach, train, and consult with the Jungian Developing groups at several centers in India including Ahmedabad and Mumbai. Together with his wife, Usha, he leads the annual “A Jungian Encounter with the Soul of India” study group to India.
Joe Cambray, Ph.D., is past-president-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; past-president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is also a Jungian analyst living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, a newly edited volume, with Leslie Sawin, Our World of Uncertainty: Possibilities and Challenges Through a Jungian Perspective. Additionally, he has published numerous papers in a range of international journals.
Linda Carter, MSN, CS, IAAP (USA), is a nurse and a Jungian analyst in private practice in Carpinteria, California and a graduate of Georgetown and Yale Universities and the C. G. Jung Institute of New England. A psychotherapist for over 45 years, she has been on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute, teaches internationally and publishes widely. In addition, she is chair and founder of the Art and Psyche Working Group, whose mission is to bring together members of the art world with psychotherapists. She has served as the Book Review Editor, US Editor-in-Chief, and Film and Culture Section Editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology and has won Gradiva awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) in the art category (2019) and for the exhibition “The Illuminated Imagination and The Art of C.G. Jung;” in the digital media category (2021). Currently, she is working on a book bringing together findings from neuroscience and applications of infant research to adult treatment with psychoanalytic and Jungian methods illustrated by art and grounded in clinical practice.
Christine Downing PhD. In 2021, when she turned 90, she retired from 35 years of teaching at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Before this “encore career,” she taught at San Diego State University for almost twenty years and, concurrently, at the California School of Professional Psychology. But all along what she has most enjoyed doing has been leading study tours to such destinations as Greece, Turkey, Sicily and on one she called Exploring Freud’s World. Among her many publications are The Goddess; Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love; Women’s Mysteries; Gods in Our Midst; Psyche’s Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood; Gleanings: Essays 1982-2006; and Mythopoetic Musings.
Michael Gibbons, one of Ireland’s most respected archaeologists, is acclaimed for his ongoing fieldwork in Connemara. A popular presenter, Michael has lectured worldwide, including at Oxford, Cambridge, and the National Geographic Society. Author of Connemara: Visions of Iar Chonnacht, as well as numerous articles, Mr. Gibbons is a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, the Croagh Patrick archaeological research team, and the Heritage Council of Ireland.
Aryeh Maidenbaum, PhD, Jungian analyst, earned his Doctorate from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Jung Institute in Zurich. Founder and Co-Director of the NY Center for Jungian Studies, among his publications are: Sounds of Silence; The Search for Spirit in Jungian Psychology; Psychological Types, Job Change, and Personal Growth; and Anti-Semitism: The Jungian Dilemma. In addition, he was editor and contributor to several books, including Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-semitism, and Jung and the Shadow of Anti-Semitism. His newest book is Jung and the Jewish Experience: Reflections by a Jungian Analyst, published by Routledge.
Diana Rubin, LCSW, Co-Director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies, has organized and led Jungian Seminars and Study Tours for over 25 years. Currently, she has a private psychotherapy practice in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she works with individuals and groups as well as remotely. A former staff psychotherapist at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health’s Institute for the Performing Artist, Ms. Rubin has a special interest in the interface of psychotherapy and the creative process. In addition, she is dedicated to empowering women through her women’s workshops.
Father Simon Sleeman, MA, earned a BA in psychology and philosophy at University College, Dublin, and MAs in theology and organizational development. Ordained in 1991, Father Simon was born in Berlin and educated at the Glenstal Abbey School. Headmaster of Glenstal’s Secondary School from 1991 to 1998 and for many years bursar of Glenstal Abbey, he notes that “providential encounters with psychotherapy, poetry, and alternative philosophies have helped me to forge another understanding of life.”
Morgan Stebbins, MDiv, LMSW, DMin, LP, is a supervising analyst, faculty member, and former President and Director of Training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York, where he also maintains a private practice. Holding a doctorate in Religious Studies and Hermeneutics, he began his Zen training at the San Francisco Zen Center where he was also a monastic resident. He has written on symbol formation, dreams, the role of mindfulness in analysis, the meaning of compulsion, and the archetypal psychology of Buddhist sutras and precepts. He is now writing a book on a symbolic approach to obsession and compulsion.
Joanne Wieland Burston, PhD, is a Jungian analyst in Germany and affiliated with ISAP Zurich. She graduated from the Jung Institute in Zurich in 1981, lectures and leads workshops internationally, and is the author of Chaos and Order in the World of the Psyche; Contemporary Solitude: The Joy and Pain of Being Alone; and Archetypal and Cultural Perspectives on the Foreigner: Minorities and Monsters. Her most recent publication is an article on the effects of the Nazi period on people in psychotherapy today which appeared in the Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche.
Charles G. Zimbrick-Rogers, MD, MSEd, is a member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York with an analytic practice in the Philadelphia area. He earned his Medical degree from Louisiana State University-New Orleans. He found his way to the works of C.G. Jung during his fellowship in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine while pursuing an interdisciplinary MSEd in developmental psychology and cultural anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to training as a Jungian analyst, he served in the US Navy before returning to Philadelphia as an attending physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He has published and taught in the areas of psyche-soma interactions, gender, eating disorders, trauma, marginalization, military families, and spirituality. His recent work on fairy tales appears in Psychological Perspectives. 
Seminar Program
Beginning on Tuesday April 21, with the orientation and opening dinner, through Monday April 27 and the closing reception and dinner, the week will offer a mix of full gathering sessions and smaller group workshops with ample opportunity to explore the region, including an optional outing to the area’s historic sites.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 21
Check in to the five-star, deluxe Lyrath Hotel; relax, and enjoy the hotel’s amenities
5:30 p.m.
Orientation and an opportunity to get to know one another
7:30 p.m.
Welcome Dinner** at our hotel (included)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Full Irish Breakfast, served daily**
9:15 a.m.
Diana Rubin and Aryeh Maidenbaum, Opening Remarks
Chris Downing, The Twinship of Life and Death
11:00 a.m.
Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m.
Joe Cambray, Embracing Our Uncertainties in Approaching the Archetypal Core of Mortality
1:00 p.m.
Break for Lunch (included)
2:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP I
Ashok Bedi, Seven Days to Death: An Eastern Paradigm for the Inner Preparation for Engaging Mortality as a Proactive, Vital and Embodied Process
Linda Carter, Odin’s Ravens: Learning to Carry Grief and Sorrow on One Shoulder and Joy and Pleasure on the Other
Joanne Wieland-Burston, The Lack of Certainty in the Different Phases of Life
Charles Zimbrick-Rogers, Exploring Loss, Love and Transformation through the Myths of Dionysus
Evening: free; Dinner on our own
THURSDAY, APRIL 23
9:30 a.m.
Ashok Bedi, Perspectives on Aging, Death and Rebirth from an Analytical, Eastern, and Neuroscience Perspective
11:00 a.m.
Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m.
WORKSHOP II
Joe Cambray, Dreams from Beyond Life: Visitations from Those Who Have Died
Chris Downing, Sharing Dreams of Loss, Death and Dying
Morgan Stebbins, Working Through the Bardos in Everyday Life
Joanne Wieland-Burston, Symbolism of Death in Unconscious Processes
1:00 p.m.
Break for Lunch (included)
2:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP III
Ashok Bedi, 40 Days After Death: An Analytical and an Eastern framework to Deal with Para-Death Experience as a Process and Metaphor for Transformation
Linda Carter, The Value of “Doing Nothing” to Open Creative Process
Aryeh Maidenbaum & Diana Rubin, Working with Dreams: An Experiential Workshop
Charles Zimbrick-Rogers, Hungering for the Lost God: Eating Disorders, Dreams, and the Body
Evening free; Dinner on our own
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
9:30 a.m.
Joanne Wieland-Burston, Understanding Mortality as a Transformative Process
11:00 a.m.
Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m.
Morgan Stebbins, Learning from the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Can we Live Before We Die?
1:00 p.m.
Break for Lunch (included)
2:30 p.m.
WORKSHOPS IV
Ashok Bedi, Seven Days to Death: An Eastern Paradigm for the Inner Preparation for Engaging Mortality as a Proactive, Vital and Embodied Process
Joe Cambray, Where Do We Go? Imagining Afterlives
Chris Downing, Sharing Poems Focused on Loss, Death and Dying
Diana Rubin, Keeping Wonder and Curiosity Alive: A Workshop for Women
Evening: free; Dinner on our own
SATURDAY, APRIL 25
Free day to rest, enjoy the hotel’s spa and surroundings and explore Kilkenny on our own…
OR…or those who have signed up in advance, a full day outing guided by one of Ireland’s leading archaeologists, Michael Gibbons
Evening free: Dinner on our own
SUNDAY, APRIL 26
9:30 a.m.
Charles Zimbrick-Rogers, Wounds on the Journey: Soul Making Through the Setbacks and Losses of Life
11:00 a.m.
Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m.
WORKSHOP V
Chris Downing, Sharing Dreams of Loss, Death, and Dying
Morgan Stebbins, Feeding Your Demon: What Do They Eat Anyway?
Linda Carter, The Value of “Doing Nothing” to Open Creative Process
Joanne Wieland-Burston, The Lack of Certainty in the Different Phases of Life
1:00 p.m.
Break for Lunch (included)
2:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP VI
Joe Cambray, Dreams from Beyond Life: Visitations from Those Who Have Died
Aryeh Maidenbaum, Mourning, Burial Rituals, and After Life Belief in Judiaism
Morgan Stebbins, Working Through the Bardos in Everyday Life
Charles Zimbrick-Rogers, Exploring Loss, Love and Transformation through the Myths of Dionysus
Evening free, Dinner on our own
MONDAY, APRIL 27
9:30 a.m.
Simon Sleeman, Keep Death Daily Before One’s Eyes (Rule of Saint Benedict)
11:00 a.m.
Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Faculty Review & Closure
Afternoon: Free to relax, enjoy wandering about Kilkenny, visit sites of interest on our own, and/or enjoy the hotel’s spa and amenities
7:30 p.m.
Festive Closing Reception and Dinner (included)**
TUESDAY, APRIL 28
Departures for Dublin Airport, and/or Maldron Dublin Airport Hotel.
Times and sign-up sheets to be posted!
* Daily schedule subject to change.
**Meals included are Breakfast daily; Lunches on Wednesday, April 22; Thursday, April 23; Friday, April 24 and Sunday, April 26; Opening and Farewell Dinners Tuesday, April 21 and Monday, April 27
Please Note: On some days, a complimentary shuttle will be provided from the Lyrath to and from Kilkenny. Check bulletin board for days and hours of departure. Please sign up in advance to reserve your place.
Registration Information
APRIL 21-28, 2026
County Kilkenny
Facing Mortality and the Unknown
Cost: $3,550* includes:
- 7 nights’ accommodations at Lyrath Estates Hotel
- All presentations and workshops
- Full Irish breakfast daily; all breaks for coffee, tea, and scones; four lunches; and two dinners.
All program costs are based on double occupancy. Single supplement ($595) and Gratuities ($145) additional.
To reserve your place, please complete the online registration form and submit with a deposit of $600 per person, per program. Balance due in full by January 15, 2026.
Registration Details
Participation limited. All rights reserved to ask a participant to leave who is disruptive to the program. If you have any questions, please call our office at 845-256-0191.
Credits and Certificates: For information scroll down to the next section.
Insurance: Participants are strongly urged to purchase travel insurance for losses necessitated by having to cancel participation. For your convenience, insurance forms will be sent upon registration or consult your own agent. Please contact our office at 845-256-0191 for more information.
Cancellations Refunds and Insurance: Please note that all cancellations must be received in writing to The New York Center for Jungian Studies. Deposit is refundable, less $295 administrative fee, for those canceling on or before December 15, 2025. For those cancelling on or before January 15, 2026 50% refund less deposit and $295 Administrative fee. No refunds after this date. Payment in full due January 15, 2026.
Changes: All rights are reserved by the Program Directors to make faculty substitutions and/or to modify the itinerary (including hotels) as needed.
Disclaimer of Responsibility. By registering for this program, participant specifically waives any and all claims of action against the New York Center for Jungian Studies and its staff for damages, loss, injury, accident, sickness, or death incurred by any person in connection with this tour. The New York Center for Jungian Studies assumes no responsibility or liability in connection with the service of any train, vessel, carriage, aircraft or other conveyance which may be used wholly or in part in the performance of their duty to the passengers. Neither will the New York Center for Jungian Studies or its staff be responsible for any injury, death, loss, accident, sickness, delay or irregularity through neglect or default of any company or person engaged in carrying out the purposes for which tickets, vouchers, or coupons are issued. No responsibility is accepted for losses or expenses due to sickness, viruses, weather, strikes, hostilities, wars, terrorist acts or acts of nature, local laws, or other causes. The New York Center for Jungian Studies is not responsible for any baggage or personal effects of any individual participating in one of their respective trips. In the event it becomes necessary or advisable for any reason whatsoever to alter the itinerary or arrangements, such alterations, including hotels, guides or scholars, may be made without penalty. All rights are reserved to require any participant to withdraw from the tour at his/her own expense when such an action is determined by the tour staff to be in the best interest of the participant’s health and safety, and that of the group in general.
CE Credits
and Certificates of Attendance
Continuing Education Credits: have been applied for the Ireland programs.
Please Note: In order to receive CE credits participants must be present for each presentation.
Certificate of Attendance available at a cost of $10 per certificate. Make your request on the registration form. For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, e-mail us at contact@nyjungcenter.org.
If you have questions feel free to e-mail us at contact@nyjungcenter.org anytime or call the office between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday: 845-256-0191.
Continuing Education Credits
Continuing Education Credits for Healthcare Professionals.
Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.
CE credits are available for an additional cost of $75 per certificate: 13.5 CE credits for the Jung in Ireland Study Tour: Jungian Psychology and the Celtic Imagination and $75 per certificate: 20.5 CE credits for the Jung in Ireland Seminar Facing Mortality and Uncertainty.
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes.
- For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact the New York Center for Jungian Studies at contact@nyjungcenter.org or 845-256-0191.
For questions about CE, contact Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.
NAAP Credits for New York State Social Workers and Licensed Psychoanalysts
In addition, CE credits for New York State Social Workers and Licensed Psychoanalysts have been applied for through the National Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). NAAP CE credits will be $35 per certificate for each program. NAAP maintains responsibility for the programs and their content as well.
For questions about receiving NAAP credits, contact Sally Smith-Raymond (contact@nyjungcenter.org).
National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an Approved Provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0019.
National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0168.
Credit Hours by Program
April 21-28, 2026 | Kilkenny, Ireland
SEMINAR
Facing Mortality and the Unknown
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
9:30–11:00 a.m.
Chris Downing, The Twinship of Life and Death
1.5 hours didactic lecture
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Joe Cambray, Embracing Our Uncertainties in Approaching the Archetypal Core of Mortality
1.5 hours didactic lecture
2:30–4:00 p.m.
WORKSHOPS I
1.5 hours experiential workshop
- Charles Zembrick-Rogers, Exploring Loss, Love and Transformation through the Myths of Dionysus
- Linda Carter: Odin’s Ravens, Learning to Carry Grief and Sorrow on One Shoulder and Joy and Pleasure on the Other
- Joanne Wieland-Burston, The Lack of Certainty in the Different Phases of Life
- Ashok Bedi, Seven Days to Death: An Eastern Paradigm for the Inner Preparation for Engaging Mortality as a Proactive, Vital and Embodied Process
THURSDAY, APRIL 23
9:30–11:00 a.m.
Ashok Bedi, Perspectives on Aging, Death and Rebirth from an Analytical, Eastern, and Neuroscience Perspective
1.5 hours didactic lecture
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
WORKSHOPS II
1.5 hours experiential workshop
- Morgan Stebbins, Working Through the Bardos in Everyday Life
- Joanne Wieland-Burston, Symbolism of Death in Unconscious Processes
- Joe Cambray, Dreams from Beyond Life: Visitations from Those Who Have Died
- Chris Downing, Sharing Dreams of Loss, Death and Dying
2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
WORKSHOP III
1.5 hours experiential workshop
- Charles Zembrick-Rogers, Hungering for the Lost God: Eating Disorders, Dreams, and the Body
- Ashok Bedi, 40 Days After Death: An Analytical and an Eastern framework to Deal with Para-Death Experience as a Process and Metaphor for Transformation
- Linda Carter, The Value of “Doing Nothing” to Open Creative Process
- Aryeh Maidenbaum & Diana Rubin, Working with Dreams: An Experiential Workshop
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
9:30–11:00 a.m.
Joanne Wieland-Burston, Understanding Mortality as a Transformative Process
1.5 hours didactic lecture
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Morgan Stebbins, Learning from the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Can we Live Before We Die?
1.5 hours didactic lecture
2:30–4:00 p.m
WORKSHOPS IV
1.5 hours experiential workshop
- Ashok Bedi, Seven Days to Death: An Eastern Paradigm for the Inner Preparation for Engaging Mortality as a Proactive, Vital and Embodied Process
- Joe Cambray, Where Do We Go? Imagining Afterlives
- Chris Downing, Sharing Poems Focused on Loss, Death and Dying
- Diana Rubin, Keeping Wonder and Curiosity Alive: A Workshop for Women
SUNDAY, APRIL 26
9:30–11:00 a.m.
Charles Zembrick-Rogers, Wounds on the Journey: Soul Making Through the Setbacks and Losses of Life
1.5 hours didactic lecture
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
WORKSHOPS V
1.5 hours experiential workshop
- Chris Downing, Sharing Dreams of Loss, Death, and Dying
- Morgan Stebbins, Feeding Your Demon: What Do They Eat Anyway?
- Linda Carter, The Value of “Doing Nothing” to Open Creative Process
- Joanne Wieland-Burston, The Lack of Certainty in the Different Phases of Life
2:30–4:00 p.m.
WORKSHOP VI
1.5 hours experiential workshop
- Joe Cambray, Dreams from Beyond Life: Visitations from Those Who Have Died
- Charles Zembrick-Rogers, Exploring Loss, Love and Transformation through the Myths of Dionysus
- Aryeh Maidenbaum, Mourning and Burial Rituals and After Life Belief
- Morgan Stebbins, Working Through the Bardos in Everyday Life
MONDAY, APRIL 27
9:30–11:00 a.m.
Simon Sleeman, Keep Death Daily Before One’s Eyes (Rule of Saint Benedict)
1.5 hours didactic lecture
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Faculty Review & Closure
1 hour interactive lecture
Total CE’s: 20.5