[Audio Only] BT08 Workshop 50 – When Buddha and Freud Talk: A Workshop in Generative Change – Stephen Gilligan, PhD

Description:

The challenge of personal transformation is faced differently in the East and West. Typically, Eastern meditation emphasizes how to cultivate higher states of consciousness that “go beyond” ego identifications, while Western therapy focuses on how to “work through” problematic states. This workshop explores an integrative model that suggests how to use both approaches in a complementary way: sometimes “transcending, sometimes “transforming”, and often doing both at the same time. The connection between meditation, generative trance, and selfrelations will be a central focus.

Educational Objectives:

1. To compare and contrast the Western and Eastern models of transformational change.
2. To describe a model that integrates the two approaches in a generative way.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*