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ASPire to meet this new day in our changing history...
THE ASPire NETWORK: Where Aspirations meet Inspirations
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The Association is a 501(C3) membership organization whose primary purpose is educational.
History and Mission
Originally, the Center for Spirituality and Psychotherapy (CSP) was formed
in 1997 in response to the rapidly growing interest in the relationship
between spirituality and psychotherapy, and held its first
conference in 1998. It was the first center of
this kind within a major psychotherapy and psychoanalytic
training institute, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.
After three annual conferences on spirituality and psychotherapy, which drew several hundred participants each time, it gave birth to the international membership organization, the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy (ASP) in 2001. Both ASP and CSP (now the Institute for Psychotherapy, Science and Spirituality (IPSS)) are committed to the study of how psychotherapy can foster the emergence of the spiritual dimension in our lives, and how spiritual practice may enhance our personal lives and the psycho-therapeutic experience. Drawing from all religious and spiritual traditions, psychological perspectives and scientific theory and research, we emphasize how the individual can awaken to the spiritual traditions and practices. To that end the Association offers:
1. Conferences on various themes related to spirituality and psychotherapy
(for professionals and the public and co-sponsored by IPSS)
2. Continuing education workshops and courses on spirituality and psychotherapy
(for professionals and the public)
3. Networking Meetings Monthly in New York City
4. Semi-annual "Day of Conversation"
5. Semi-annual Newsletter
The Institute for Spirituality, Science, and Psychotherapy (former the Center for Spirituality and Psychotherapy) has offered training programs for many years for health, mental health, and religious professionals and is currently reworking its training concept for the 21st century.
The Association is a voluntary organization that grows and is sustained by the freely donated time and efforts of its members and its Board of Directors. If you would like to participate in ASP's future, please contact cspofnip@optonline.net.
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| A semi-annual Day of Conversation with fellow members | ||||
Remember, membership is on a calendar year basis. See ASP Membership link above.
| Date | Friday, June 26th, 2009 7 PM to 9 PM |
| Place | 250 West 57th Street Suite 501, New York, N.Y. 10019 |
| Facilitator | Larry Winters, licensed mental health counselor |
| Topic | Breaking the Trance of Denial |
| Contents |
If you want to break this silence and witness the truth, turn off the TV and throw the newspaper in the trash. Turn up public radio,
step into the public square, and listen to the artists in our midst. There is where the blood flows. Only there will you hear the screams
echo from the parents of the dead. There is the only reality that cannot be taken away by distraction. There is where it takes courage
to accept the responsibility of how we have been hiding behind the rhetoric of those who say they know how to "fix it."
Don't fool yourselves into believing the problems we must shoulder rest with our elected politicians or the lack of a draft or the aggressiveness of the enemy or the leftovers of 9/11. The problem is all those silent deaths that not only come from the soldier youth of our country and from Iraq and Afghanistan, but all deaths related to this current war. We must also add the forlorn parents and the families of the dead that we do not see or hear because the space for our grief is filled with a constant barrage of advertisements and commercials telling us life is good. Please RSVP to Georgina Galanis at geocolors@gmail.com |