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Past Conferences
 

History of the Conference
 
SPIRITUAL WISDOM AND MENTAL HEALTH
Mt. Madonna Center, November 1998
  • Jean-Marc Mantel, M.D. Morning Meditation
  • Arjuna Nick Ardagh Beyond Belief
  • Arjuna Nick Ardagh Self-Inquiry as a Tool in Therapeutic Practice
  • Bruce Scotton, M.D.Experiencing Steps to Oneness
  • Bruce Scotton, M.D. Three Paths to Oneness; Stephan Bodian, MFT Practice of Presence in Meditation and Therapy
  • Robert Leverant Ultimate Mind: Experiencing Your Inner Greatness
  • Lama Palden, Robert Leverant & Brian Wittine Therapy Informed by Spiritual Traditions;
  • Dorothy Hunt, John Prendergast & Peter Fenner Only Presence: Therapy Without a Therapist
  • Jean-Marc Mantel, M.D. Nondual Experience & Liberation from Suffering
  • Ronald Mann, Ph.D. Miraculous Healings: Whence and Wither
  • Peter Fenner, Ph.D. Creating Space: Form & Emptiness in Therapy 
 
1st ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
2000
  • Dan Berkow, Ph.D. A Psychotherapy of No-thingness: Seeing Through the Projected Self
  • Richard Miller, Ph.D. Welcoming All That We Are: The Principals of Yoga Nidra
  • Elliott Isenberg, Ph. D. Gaining Happiness Through the Work of Byron Katie
  • Sheila Krystal, Ph.D. The Uses of Illusion: Techniques in Nondual Therapy—EMDR
  • Jennifer Welwood, MFT Nondual Wisdom in Psychotherapy with Couples
  • John Welwood, Ph.D. Dualism, Duality and Nonduality: Therapeutic Reflection and Unconditional Presence
  • Peter Fenner, Ph.D. Creating Space: Blending Structure and Openness in the Therapeutic Relationship
  • John Prendergast, Ph.D. Being Together: Reflections in the Sacred Mirror
  • Nirtana Susannah Bluestein, D.C.Ego Identity: Splitting, Duality, Nonduality and Beyond   
  
2nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
June 22-24, 2001
  • Adyashanti The Undivided Self
  • Roberta Godbe, Ph.D. Evoking Nondual Experiences through Breath and Sound
  • Peter Fenner, Ph.D. Embodying the Unconditioned
  • Dan Berkow, Ph.D. Intuition: The Body-As-World
  • Judith Shiner, Ph.D. Touched by Life: Embodiment of Feeling
  • S. Reinders. Ph.D. Breath: Song of Body, Song of Soul
  • Stephan Bodian, MFT The Practice of Presence   
 
3rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
2002 
  • Leonard Jacobson Embracing the Present: Entering the Heart of Silence 
  • Bonnie Greenwell, Ph.D. Holding the Heart Through the Spiritual Awakening Process 
  • Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT Releasing Trauma in the Eternal Now 
  • John Prendergast, Ph.D., Empathic Resonance: Listening with the Whole Body 
  • Leonard Laskow, M.D. Awakening Your Listening Heart 
  • Katie Darling, The Cosmic, Compassionate Giggle 
  • Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D., The Bhakti of Shy Appreciation and Admiration: Non-Dual Moods in Psychotherapy 
  • Taber Shadburne, Speaking from the Heart of Silence: The Intersection of Language & Non-Dual Awareness 
  • Ken Bradford, Ph.D., Therapeutic Presence: From Neutrality to Therapeutic Eros
  • Valerie Vener, Intimate Reality
 
4th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
2003
  • Premsiri Lewin, From Cookies to Consciousness
  • Mani Feniger, CHT and Michael Gardner, Ph.D The Enneagram: Tool for Liberation
  • Peter Fenner, Ph.D. (untitled talk)
 
5th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
2004
  • Ms. Ligia Dantes Listening from the Heart of Silence 
  • John Lumiere-WinsSomatic Awakening
  • Michael Smith, Ph.D. Relaxing into the Now
 
6th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM & PSYCHOTHERAPY
April 30-May 1, 2005
  • Olga Louchakova, Ph.D. Developmental Approach to Spontaneous Awakening
  • Noelle Poncelet, Ph.D. Nondudal Approach to Addiction Recovery 
  • Dorothy Hunt, LCSW The Power of Truth 
  • Bonnie Greenwell, Ph.D. Moving with the Flow
  • Deborah Dooley, Ph.D. Myth of the Wounded Child: Skills to Heal Dual Reality 
  • Dan Berkow, Ph.D. Inquiry at the Heart of Human Life 
  • Lama Palden, LMFT Awakened Presence 
  • Mariana Caplan, Ph.D. When Nondual Wisdom Goes Awry
  • Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D. Deconstructing Egoic Identity: PsychoNoetics 
  • Kaisa Puhakla, Ph.D. Nonduality: Coming From, Going To and Talking About 
  • Panel Discussion Nondual Wisdom and Clinical Practice
 
7th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM & PSYCHOTHERAPY
2006
 
8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM & PSYCHOTHERAPY
2007
 
9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM & PSYCHOTHERAPY
October 31-November 2, 2008
  • Peter Fenner, Ph.D Nondual Psychotherapy: Listening and speaking from no-mind,;
  • Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D What is the wonder of all wonders? - Pure Awareness: On Becoming the Field
  • Loch Kelly. MDiv., LCSW The Heart of Awakening: Experiencing Embodied Awareness 
  • Diane Musho Hamilton Big Mind
  • John J. Prendergast, PhD The Body’s Sense of the Truth
  • Peter Wrycza, PhD Re-Patterning - Deep Transformation through Non-Dual Wisdom: Tuning Into and Influencing the Life-Patterns and Epistemological Confusions of our Clients
  •  David Loy Transforming Self, Transforming World
  • Judith Blackstone, PhD Realization Process: Attuning to Essence in Relationships
  • Laura Parnell, PhD Tapping Into the Source for Transforming Trauma: An Introduction to EMDR and Resource Tapping From a Non-Dual Perspective
  • Zoran Josipovic, PhD Nonduality and Neuroscience—Promises and Perils
  • Jonathan Gustin, MFT Integral Awakening Practice and the Soul Centric Developmental Wheel: Transcendent and Descendent Paths of Spiritual Awakening Using the Voice Dialogue Method
  • Prema Maja Rode, PhD Zen and the Art of Mandalas:Tools for Nondual Inquiry and Expression
  • Panel Discussion, Dorothy Hunt, LCSW; Loch Kelly, MDiv., LCSW; Marlies Cocheret de la Morinière The Interface between Spiritual Teaching and Psychotherapy in the Unfolding of Spiritual Awakening
 
10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NONDUAL WISDOM & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Co-hosted with the Science and Nonduality Conference in San Rafael, California on October 21-25, 2009.
  • Judith Blackstone, Ph.D. Realization ProcessNonduality and Psychological Healing
  • Rudy Bauer, Ph.D.The natural unfolding of Psychotherapy Process into Non Duality: An Experiential Demonstration.
  • Peter Wrycza, Ph.D. The Art of Re-patterning: Tuning into Life Patterns and the Life Epistemology of Clients from a Nondual Perspective
  • Dorothy Hunt, LCSW, Seeing and Being Seen Through Love’s Single Eye
  • John Prendergast, Ph.D. When the Bottom Drops Out: Encounters with the Groundless Ground in Psychotherapy
  • Lynn Marie-Lumiere, MFT and Marlies Cocheret, MA, CHP. The End of the Fairy-tale and the Beginning of Happily Ever After: A Nondual Exploration of Romantic Relationships
  • Stephan Bodian, Freeing the Dark Inside the Light
  • Raja Selvam, PhD. Trauma, Body, Energy and Nonduality
  • John Astin, Ph.D. Nondual Awareness and the Resolution of Afflictive States
  • Prema Maja Rode, Ph.D. Expressing the Self: Creative Inquiry and Exploration from a Nondual Perspective
  • Kenneth Bradford, Ph.D. Authenticity and the Play of Unconditioned Presence in Psychotherapy
  • Peter Fenner, Ph. D.Beyond the Beyond: The Question of Suffering in Nondual Therapies
  • Susan R. McCarn, MA, Oneness Dancing
  • Lama Palden, The Relationship Between Experiencing Our True Nature and Psychological Healing Processes
  • Loch Kelly, MDiv., LCSW, The Interface of Neurological Research and Non-dual Teaching