20 CE Credits—$450
1 Academic Credit—$859*
*Some additional coursework. For more information or to enroll as a non-matriculating student for academic credit, contact the MSPP Admissions Office, admissions@mspp.edu

Just a short time ago spirituality was a questionable topic for psychotherapy, if not clearly labeled inappropriate. Today we recognize that this spiritual dimension is at the heart of human experience—the purpose and meaning that shapes and motivates our every action. Therapy not only heals pathological blocks but opens up and supports the fulfillment of our human potential. But what are these human potentials? Several primal dimensions of our human experience were blind spots in psychotherapy’s materialistic perspective but are now opening up to us with rich discoveries and in-depth explorations. How essential is our lived connection with the rest of nature? Do we eat on the fly or is the meal one of the oldest and most spiritual of human experiences? Is death a taboo thought or does it hold the secret of all other human experiences? And energy: something ramped up with a chocolate bar, or the primal stuff of all life and the source of our healing and growth? Over 5 days we will explore the following topics together as they pertain to psychotherapy. Join us and explore these frontiers of our human potential.

• Religion and spirituality – experience and expression–the power of Symbols, Myth, Ritual–the Mind and mind, levels of our spiritual being–immanence and transcendence–the place and power of communal belief.
• Ecology, nature, healing power of nature–nature deprivation–our oneness with nature–nature bonding.
• Energy–the source and stuff of all life–energy healing–distance healing–prayer.
• Death–near death–post death–transitional ceremonies–death immersion to release fuller life–what leaves and what survives.
• The sacred meal, one of the oldest and most powerful rituals of the human experience–the family meal–cooking and eating together–bonding–Shabbat–the Mass–spiritual transformation.