Forgiveness: Living with Transgressions, Hoping for Redemption
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a Zoom seminar led by Michael Conforti, PhD
Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.
MORNING SESSION:
Assenza di Compassione: Absence of Compassion
Beginning in childhood, we are taught the virtues of compassion, and that compassion demonstrates a profound sense of empathy and the capacity to care deeply about another. Conversely, we see those lacking empathy as autistic, excessively narcissistic, and even psychopathic. read more..
AFTERNOON SESSION:
Forgiveness: Living with Transgressions, Hoping for Redemption
As Jung writes, "Morality is not imposed from the outside, we have it in ourselves from the start -- not the law but our moral nature without which the collective life of human society would be impossible.” (CW 7, ¶ 30).
The Fragility of Self
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a Zoom seminar led by Susan E. Schwartz, PhD
Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.
Note: This program was originally presented in the 2023 Summer Study program.
Note: This program was originally presented in the 2023 Summer Study program.
This seminar explores the fragility of self in the ‘As-If’ Personality, the popularly termed imposter syndrome. This person lives on illusions and is both the mirror and the mask, presenting in artifice. Known for a slickly contrived persona/ego image, behind it the ‘as-if’ person withdraws into fantasy. Inside is alienation and self-isolation, loneliness.
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a Zoom seminar led by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, NCPsyA
Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.
Generally speaking, there are qualities such as kindness, empathy, and agreeableness that can help us get and stay connected with each other, and there are fiery qualities such as anger, shrewdness, and forcefulness that can help us get and stay connected to ourselves. Roughly speaking, the first set of attributes foster relationship, while the second set enables personal empowerment and assertiveness.