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Friday Evening Lecture
Integral Psychology

Date:	May 14, 2010   7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Presenter:	Bert Parlee, Ph.D.
Location:	St. Thomas Episcopal Church Inwood at Mockingbird
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception)

As with Jungian psychology, the goal of an Integral Psychology—and of the human experience—is to realize the Self: the quintessential Hero’s Journey. The Self is the archetype that represents the embrace and transcendence of all opposites, the natural expression of all features of the personality.

As framed by Ken Wilber, Integral represents the marriage of Western and Eastern psychologies (sense and soul). These combine into a “spectrum of consciousness” with corresponding clinical conditions and attendant treatment modalities. Integral realizes that individuals, as well as cultures, “make sense” in qualitatively different ways and that development is not a unidimensional affair.

Following the natural emergence of depth psychology early in the 20^th century, Integral arrives on the scene as the world becomes truly global. We can now better understand the developmental nuances of multicultural diversity. With a discriminating awareness of qualitative distinctions, individuals and cultures can be seen not only as “diverse” but as meaningfully unique. This allows people to be met more clearly “where they are,” enabling a more secure holding environment in which an individual’s next steps may emerge.

 

Saturday Workshop
In Search of Good Will

Date:	May 15, 2010  9:30 a.m. – noon
Presenter:	Bert Parlee, Ph.D.
Location:	St. Thomas Episcopal Church
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided)

In recent years, Good Will Hunting and The Shawshank Redemption occupy positions on many top ten lists of greatest films. Each represents the archetypal hero’s journey. Each also represents mutually enhancing relationships, parallel processes of transforming individuation/integration.

This workshop will focus on the series of clinical interactions in Good Will Hunting between Sean (Robin Williams as therapist) and Will (Matt Damon as client). We will explore the nature of the clinical container as an alchemical crucible of transformation. It is said that change, particularly in the therapeutic environment, is enabled through an exquisite blend of challenge and support. This equation is founded in great mystery, profoundly unique for different client conditions.

We will investigate the employment of these complementary forces as means of opening pathways to healing and growth. The workshop will explore how we might be able to simultaneously presence these apparently contradictory energies, as well as those of masculine and feminine compassion, not only in clinical moments, but in our life circumstances.

Offering leadership and culture change trainings around the world, Dr. Parlee is a senior advisor, leadership facilitator, mediator, and executive coach located in Dallas, Texas. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice. A founding member and for several years chief of staff of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute in Colorado, Bert has also served as lead trainer of many different I-I professional seminars. A published author, Dr. Parlee received his MA in contemplative psychotherapy from Naropa University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

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