REPORT

FRIDAY APRIL 18, 1997

• Short opening to present the work of the IASP since its creation in 1994.
• Terence Coleman, an Australian Reiki Master living in Paris for a few years, spoke about the energy of love at the heart of therapy, the way to expand this quality of energy.
• Elisabeth Nottale, M.D., a psychiatrist, spoke about the importance of unconditional love in a psychotherapeutic process.
• Jean-Marc Mantel, M.D. spoke about the relationship between love and meditation understood as a quality of global and choiceless listening.
• Martine Quentric Seguy, a psychologist, lover of the East Indian tradition and author of "Neither master, nor disciple" spoke about love within the master-disciple relationship.
• Sol Beranger, director of a Montessori school in Paris, Anne-Marie Claisse, a specialist of sophrology, and Deborah Bacon, an American therapist living in Paris and organizer of Richard Moss' meetings in France, shared their experience of the relationship between life experiences and the understanding of the nature of love.
• In the evening, the general assembly of the French IASP office , presented the accounting results of the last two years, giving some details about the future projects of the association, and answered questions from the members who were present. The project of publishing the detailed repertory of the IASP (with the specific written agreement of the members who are interested in participating) on the IASP Internet site was approved.

• Jean-Claude Marol, a French author and well-known cartoonist who has spent many years in India near the Indian saint Ma Ananda Mayee, spoke about his experience and understanding of love.
• Michel-Gabriel Mouret, M.D., psychiatrist, developed the myth of "Psyche and Eros" in the psychotherapeutic process, by using pictures and paintings of patients, and their evolution during the therapy.
• Silvia Ostertag, a German Zen teacher, presented "the Initiatic Game of Geste", a way to live emotions by using the body through six major gestes inspired by an old Greek theatrical tradition, expressing refusal, angry, acceptance...
• First round table discussion on "the integration of a spiritual dimension within a couple" with many exchanges on the way of dealing with conflicts within an intimate relationship, the place of sexuality in couples, the sliding between personal and impersonal love...
• Second round table discussion on " the nature of love" with a public commentary of a sentence by Jean Klein "Love is to be free of love" (in the meaning of being free of the need to love and to be loved).
• Evening concert by Dr. Tran Quang Hai a great specialist of Mongol diphonic songs, who used his voice to sing harmonics on four octaves. Gave also an astonishing concert with two spoons (a Vietnamese technique)!

• Workshops with the different lecturers.

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