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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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Therefore, several pragmatic and theoretical questions emerge for exploration and
discovery:
This evening we will have a chance to explore these and other questions. Come with your
questions, thoughts, beliefs, case studies, stories, openness, and curiosity. We’ll walk
away from our exploration with a deeper perspective on our own point of view, while
allowing others to have theirs. May this be the first of many “Conversations that Matter”
at the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy.
Network Meetings
Won't you join us for a PsychoSpiritual Dialogue?
Date Friday, October 31st, 2008, 7 PM to 9 PM Place 250 West 57th Street Suite 501, New York, N.Y. 10019
Facilitator
Lynda Klau, Ph.D. Topic
Conversations that Matter: Integrating and Implementing Spirituality in Mental Health Practice Contents
At ASP, we are a group of mental health professionals who proceed from the assumption
that spirituality can be implemented in the practice of mental health. We often still
struggle, however, with many questions about the most effective ways to integrate
spirituality into our practice.
Interested in being a Network Speaker?