Psychology and Spirituality: How to Help Your Clients and Heal the Human Psyche

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Create lasting healing in an individual through his/her psychological and spiritual health

For generations we have witnessed a deepening rift between science and spirituality. This has been felt most acutely in the realm of psychology and spirituality, because both attempt to deal with the healing of the human person. Many people feel confronted with a choice between their religious sensibilities and the medical model of mental health. As a result, emotional healing is often polarized as though the only options are, on the one hand, a behavioral/scientific model, and on the other, a spiritual model sometimes viewed as the domain of the clergy. With recent insights emerging from the Jungian, Transpersonal, Integral and 12-step models, it is becoming more apparent that this arbitrary separation in our understanding could not be further from the truth. Lasting healing in an individual might only occur when his/her psychological and spiritual health is understood to be one. It is becoming apparent that long-term mental and emotional health requires more than a temporary reduction in symptoms. What seems to be required is a higher consciousness from which a larger sense of self can be derived. When we consider that the root meaning of the Greek word, "psyche," is soul, this truth becomes more self-evident.

For three decades, Dr. LaChance has been researching the fundamental unity underlying all cultural systems and their various approaches to the healing of the soul. Not only does he see great value in both psychology and spirituality, he has sought in his books, Cultural Addiction and The Architecture of the Soul (published in 2006 and 2005, respectively, by North Atlantic Books), to join the two in a functional and unitive model of the human. In this seminar, Dr. LaChance will share the synthesis gained from his years of research and open up a future model for healing not only the human, but also through the human, the planet and her life forms. He will also share stories from his personal experience in clinical practice of what happens to individuals, couples and families when this model of healing is applied. Participants will leave with an understanding of how the modern psyche evolved, and how our loss of contact with our deeper instincts is causing psychological and spiritual disease in individuals and cultures. The ideas presented will give clinicians a different lens to use when assessing and treating clients.

WHAT YOU WILL COVER

• Why assessment of a client's belief system is important and can accelerate the healing process
• Review the major researchers in spirituality, including Carl Jung, Thomas Berry, Ken Wilbur, Sri Aurobindo and Eckhart Tolle
• Discover how each of the major religions can be used when counseling a client
• Learn how to counsel without using your own religious bias
• Explore a deeper interpretation of recovery programs' 12-step success
• Use spiritual counseling with special problems, such as grief, divorce and addictions
• Why assessment of a client's belief system is important and can accelerate the healing process
• Learn how to counsel without using your own religious bias
• Use spiritual counseling with special problems, such as grief, divorce and addictions
• The relationship between psychology, global spirituality and ecology, and how they all interpenetrate in human presence
• A review of several schools of psycho-spirituality such as Jungian Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Integral Psychology, Eco-Psychology, the psychology of Sri Aurobindo and the Buddhist psychology of Eckhart Tolle
• A new psycho-spiritual personality model called The Architecture of the Soul, developed by Dr. LaChance
• A discussion involving at least one major insight from Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucius, Judeo-Christianity, Islam and from indigenous religions. Each of these will be examined in its psychological as well as in its spiritual efficacy.
• The role of the 12-step paradigm as a psycho-spiritual synthesis
• The thinking of Thomas Berry, Eckhardt Tolle, David Hawkins, Ken Wilbur and others
• You will take home a new vision of the human person along with methods for introducing that vision into your clinical or religious practice
• Discover ways in which your own personal spiritual and psychological well-being can be enhanced

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Psychotherapists
• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
• Pastoral Counselors/Clergy
• Couple/Marriage/Family Counselors
• Case Managers
• Addiction Specialists
• Physicians
• Religious Professionals
• Nurses
• Professors of Theology/Spirituality and/or Religious Studies
• Individuals involved in recovery

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Quote From Past Participants:

"Very thought-provoking, well-planned and well-executed program. The workbook was well done and speaker followed his outline, covering relevant material. Dr. LaChance was approachable and clear in his presentation. The seminar makes me want to learn more on the topic and gave me the tools to do so." - Psychologist, Conroe, Texas