We are delighted to introduce a new teleseminar series, The Assisi Dialogues. Join us for four evenings of engaging conversation, as Michael Conforti interviews pioneers in the field of matter-spirit studies, who have made tremendous contributions to our understanding of psyche and spirit. Each of his guests has ushered in a new paradignm and changed the way we look at spirituality, science, psyche and soul. Dr. Conforti's guest include:
April 26
May 3
Threse Schroeder-Sheker
Harpist, singer, and composer Therese Schroeder-Sheker made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1980 and performs concerts worldwide. From childhood, she was fascinated by monastic music, and later observed death in many forms while working in a geriatric home. These influences came together in her work in "music thanatology", the art and science of easing the passage into death through music, sound and ritual. Combining a medical awareness of physiology and body rhythms with contemplation and compassion in their deathbed vigils, Schroeder-Sheker is the co-founder of the Chalice of Repose Project in Mt. Angel, Oregon.
May 10
Robert Langs, M.D.
The creator of the communicative approach, Robert Langs, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, analytically trained in a classical Freudian psychoanalytic institute in New York City, who is known today as an important psychoanalytic revolutionary and revisionist. He is the author of more than 130 scientific papers and forty books on psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and related subjects like dreams, the architecture and evolution of the emotion-processing mind, death anxiety, the ground-rules of therapy, and more. Among his accomplishments are a new and validated understanding of the unconscious realm and its profound effects on emotional life; a practical way of decoding unconscious messages. His latest book is Freud on a Precipice: How Freud's Fate Pushed Psychoanalysis Over the Edge.
May 17
Gioia Timpanelli, MA
Often called the ‘Dean of American Storytelling,’ she is today considered one of the world’s foremost storytellers – widely respected as both a master and scholar of the ageless art. She won two Emmy Awards (Citations of Merit) for Tales from Viet Nam and for her series of 30 programs on storytelling, Stories from My House, on educational television, where she created, wrote, produced, and appeared in eight series of literature programs shown on PBS stations throughout the United States. She has also received the prestigious Women’s National Book Association Award for bringing the oral tradition to the American public and recently the Maharishi Award for ‘promoting world harmony wherever she goes by enlivening within the listener that field of pure consciousness that is the source of all stories.
June 7
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, better known as "Reb Zalman", is the father of the Jewish Renewal and Spiritual Eldering movements, an active teacher of Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism, and a participant in ecumenical dialogues throughout the world, including the widely influential dialogue with the Dalai Lama, documented in the book, The Jew in the Lotus. One of the world's foremost authorities on Hasidism, he is the author of the book, A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters.
Seminar Details
Fee: $15/seminar
Time: Mondays, April 26, May 3, 10 and 17
8:00 - 9:00 p.m. Eastern
Participants will receive dial-in and web links to connect to the sessions as well as access to seminar recordings.
