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![Shoulder to Shoulder, Eye to Eye: Relationships in Buddhism & Psychotherapy]()
While Buddhism invites us to investigate the subjective and objective worlds, psychotherapy especially invites us to investigate the intersubjective. In this course, we will explore both the resonances and divergences between psychotherapy and Buddhist practice in these regards, focusing on selected strands in depth psychology and psychoanalysis, on the one hand, and Zen, Pure Land Buddhism, and Vipassana Mindfulness, on the other.
![Foundational Training in Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue: Session 4]()
The Institute for Dialogue Therapy presents innovative training for mental health and other professionals that combines Mindfulness, Psychodrama, and Psychoanalysis into a time-limited method that reduces emotional threat, opens creativity, and allows for healthy communication without compromise.
Session 4: Provides further opportunity to apply the methods and skills and to practice the techniques of doubling, coaching, and role reversal interviews.
![Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides: Methods Based on Psychoanalysis and Mindfulness]()
Jean Pieniadz and Polly Young-Eisendrath, authors of the book Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides: Methods Based on Psychoanalysis and Mindfulness (2021), will present an overview of their work with couples and other adult dyads. The work is based on the Dialogue Therapy model developed by Polly Young-Eisendrath and Ed Epstein in the early 1980s. This model highlights the unique subjective lives of partners, emphasizes differentiation as the path to intimacy, and disentangles projective identifications through insight and dialogue skills. Real Dialogue – the core skill learned by partners and a form of mindfulness that is used in times of emotional activation and conflict -- helps people appreciate and communicate their individual meaning-making while holding a “mindful gap” between them in which something fresh can develop. This 2-hour presentation will give brief examples of the method, and some case material for questions and discussion.
Session 4: Provides further opportunity to apply the methods and skills and to practice the techniques of doubling, coaching, and role reversal interviews.
![What is Love? How and Why Love Should Support Our Lives from Birth to Death]()
Join Polly for this live virtual training, What is Love? How and Why Love Should Support Our Lives from Birth to Death, on May 7th, 2022!
![Emerging Themes in Behavioral Health]()
Join Polly for this live two-day event in-person or virtually., Emerging Themes in Behavioral Health, on April 28-29, 2022. Attendees will participate in an immersive hybrid experience!
![Relationship as a Spiritual Path: Love Between Equals (Workshop)]()
We want a new kind of love in the 21st century. In relationships, we want to be treated as equals and to be seen and known for ourselves. Equal and reciprocal love between adults, in marriage and committed partnerships, is in many ways more problematic and unhappy now than ever, after decades of struggle for gender equality and sexual freedom. 21st century love requires new psychological and spiritual skills that are go beyond secure attachment or “improved communication.”
![Relationship as a Spiritual Path: The Present Heart (Lecture)]()
Love always guarantees a broken heart. No matter how else it functions in our lives, love will include loss, sepa- ration or betrayal. In this presentation, I will address the question, “What is love, anyway?” We will talk about loss in the context of the Buddha’s teachings about reality. This evening’s lecture presents a new context for personal love as a spiritual practice of deep acceptance of the human condition.
![Foundational Training in Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue: Session 3]()
The Institute for Dialogue Therapy presents innovative training for mental health and other professionals that combines Mindfulness, Psychodrama, and Psychoanalysis into a time-limited method that reduces emotional threat, opens creativity, and allows for healthy communication without compromise.
Session 3: Introduces the solo model and its methods and provides an opportunity for participants to begin to practice and to work with each other in developing their knowledge and skills.
![Foundational Training in Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue: Session 2]()
The Institute for Dialogue Therapy presents innovative training for mental health and other professionals that combines Mindfulness, Psychodrama, and Psychoanalysis into a time-limited method that reduces emotional threat, opens creativity, and allows for healthy communication without compromise.
Session 2: Provides an overview of the original co-therapist model of Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue with live demonstrations of key components of the initial stages of therapy.
![Foundational Training in Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue: Session 1]()
The Institute for Dialogue Therapy presents innovative training for mental health and other professionals that combines Mindfulness, Psychodrama, and Psychoanalysis into a time-limited method that reduces emotional threat, opens creativity, and allows for healthy communication without compromise.
Session 1: Is an overview that sets the conceptual framework and rationale of this method.
![Can We Break the Cycle of Humiliation and Rage? A Path of Non-hatred Through Conflict and Difference. (Berkeley, CA)]()
Join Polly at the Analysis and Activism 2020 + U.S. Presidency Conference: The Reality of Fragmentation and The Yearning for Healing: Jungian Perspectives on Democracy, Power and Illusion in Contemporary Politics.
Polly is in the first panel entitled: The Future of Politics. This event will be live-streamed and available after the event (no CEUs), 24 possible CEUs available.
![Foundational Training in Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue: Session 2 of 4 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)]()
The Institute for Dialogue Therapy presents this innovative training for mental health and other professionals who want to learn the skills of Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue - methods based on Psychoanalysis, Mindfulness, and Psychodrama.
Join a network of professional therapists and specialists in acquiring the skills of this time-limited method that helps those who are stuck in repetitive conflict to renew trust, intimacy and communication.
