LOVE, THERAPY and THERAPIST

THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE

INVITATION TO A GATHERING

JULY 12, 13, 14, 1996

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, U.S.A.

A Conference of The International Association of Spirituality in Psychiatry and Medicine in Association with The Living in Truth Institute and The Blue Star Center.

We are having an experiential gathering about the healing power of love. Seattle is known as the Emerald City. Come and enjoy the healing energies, for green, in metaphysical circles, is a healing color and also is the color of the heart chakra.

Guest Presenters

Jerry Kaiser, M.Ed., Director of Health Services Division, Institute of HeartMath. is a nonprofit research and education corporation in northern California which has the goal of combining hard scientific research with the soft esoteric fundamentals of meditative approaches and the spiritual aspects of the heart. By studying the effects of heart function on mental and emotional balance, personal efficiency and immune system health, they develop and teach practical skills to enable people to cope with modern-day stress, enhance creativity and improve their intuitive thought processes to strengthen personal effectiveness. Jerry has been a leader in the effort to improve the health and well-being of American workers and their families. He also directed the US Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's occupational health promotional and cost containment project with the AFL/CIO. He has also been a consultant on occupation stress for the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.
Jean-Marc Mantel, MD, is a psychiatrist, born in France, but has lived in Israel since 1991. Dr. Mantel is the founder of the International Association of Spiritual Psychiatry (I.A.S.P.), and the new, fast growing Internet newsgroup Spiramed, which derives its name from the idea of a spiritual approach to medicine, psychiatry, and psychology, and related healing disciplines. He is also the founder of the Rambana Institute for Self-Realization. He leads workshops on non-dualistic approaches to self-knowledge,yoga and meditation, and promotes through his work the full integration of the spiritual dimension in medicine, psychology and psychiatry.
Susanne Chassay, M.A. with a MFCC license, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Menlo Park, California with fifteen years of clinical experience. She specializes in working with trauma, especially sexual trauma. Her orientation is a blend of psychodyamic relational approach and shamanic technique that focuses on patterns of energy that underlie the psychological constructs formed in reaction to trauma.
Elke Siller Macartney, M.A., is internationally respected as an inspiration teacher and as the author of Be YourSelf Boldy-Honoring the Free Spirit Within. Elke is gifted with the ability to see auras (energy fields) around sentient beings. She uses this gift to remind us all of our true spiritual heritage as beings of light through her popular workshops lectures and private counseling. She hosts the Television Talk Show, Light Your Life, Seattle, WA.
Herb Ernst, musician, a classical pianist by training, is internationally known for his Dreamflight Trilogy. His synthesized music is carefully crafted to create an specific environment for the listener. He has studied the symbolism of sounds, and incorporates specific sounds for specific reasons in his pieces. His music was used by Shirley MacLaine in both her video Inner Workout, and her audiocassette, Going Within. He will be performing the first night of the concert, and giving a workshop on Sunday.
Steven Hall, M.D.. Dr. Hall is the consumate scientist with two B.S. degrees in Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering. He then went onto get an MD in 1982. He moved to Seattle in 1987 and has been blending alternative medicine and conventional medicine since 1991. He was also on the Faculty of Bastyr University, here in Seattle, one of the best naturopathic universities in the country.

Schedule

Friday Evening

6:00 PM Registration
6:30 PM Getting Acquainted (Information greetings, etc.)
7:30 PM Welcome, Overview of Conference, Tasha Taylor
8:00 PM Herb Ernst - in concert. He will play pieces from his newest albums, Bringers of the Dawn, and Angelic Ecstasy.

Saturday Presentations

8:15 AM Registration of participants
9:00 AM Jerry Kaiser, M.Ed - "The Heart of Health Care"
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM Jean-Marc Mantel, M.D. "Love is When I am Not - Dissolving the ego resistances and the emergence of love"
11:45 AM Break for Lunch (on your own)
1:30 PM Susan Chassay "Love and its Darkening: the Therapist's Use of Self in Relational Psychotherapy"
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM Elke Macartney - "Healing as a Remembrance of Love"
4:15 PM Break
4:30 PM Steven Hall, M.D. "Spirit in the Medical Office"
6:00 PM Break for Dinner (on your own)
8:00 PM Round Table Discussion with all speakers Followed by a Spiragathering of participants.

Sunday Workshops

Registration for Workshops will be available through out the weekend, the passes are $25 each for a 3 hour session.

There are 3 available in the morning, and 3 in the afternoon.

9:00AM - Noon

Three choices :

Susanne Chassey - "The therapist's Use of Self in Working with Sexual Trauma"
Steven Hall M.D. - To Be Announced
Jerry Kaiser, M.Ed. - "Heart Empowerment"

Noon - 2:00 PM

Lunch on your own

2:00PM - 5:00 PM

Three choices:

Elke Macartney, M.A. - "Energy Healing: Fueled by Love"
Jean Marc Mantel - "Love at the Heart of Meditation"
Herb Ernst - "Love, Music and Consciousness"