Imagining Forgiveness

    Please come to a reception called Mirrors of the Mind: The Psychotherapist as Artist on November 1, 2014 in Los Angeles.        You are Cordially invited        To attend   Mirrors of the Mind 3: The Psychotherapist        As Artist November 1-November 8, 2014   A juried exhibition of visual arts […]

This photo was taken on a Santa Barbara beach at sunset. It makes me think of the integration of opposites, pairing of shadow and light,  earth and sky and all of the elements in a beautiful, alchemical dance. The bird looks like the image of an angel, with the way the light shines off to either […]

  I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago when I awoke at 3:30am and stepped outside to view the blood moon. I cropped this photo so that the moon could be seen more clearly as it peeked through the branches of the tree. It looks like a fresh peach hanging from a […]

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”                                                                             Mary Oliver

  Photo by Shanthi Bhavana There are almost 4000 citations in the current psychological literature on mindfulness practices and the benefits to emotional, physical, and spiritual health. Extending from the research on mindfulness, there is a burgeoning area of research on Compassionate Care Therapy (CCT) and other compassion-based practices and related topics (i.e., empathy, the […]

  Imagery International’s 5th Conference is coming up very soon. The Magic of Imagery Mercy Center (San Francisco Bay Area) October 4-6, 2013 http://imageryinternational.org/annual-conference/  

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Insight and Healing through Meditation and Imagination with Juliet Rohde-Brown and Radhule Weininger Feb 8-10, 2013 Friday, 7:30 pm to Sunday, 1:00pm at La Casa de Maria 800 El Basque Rd., Montecito register at www.lacasademaria.org _____________________________

Betty Frain, PhD, MFT and I recently went to Shanghai for the 2nd International Conference on Existential Psychology (assocated with APA Division 32) and presented the films we made with our family members about experiences growing up with a brain injured sibling. We both had an extremely meaningful experience, meeting with colleagues from the East […]

I facilitated a training workshop at the Turning Point Foundation on June 15th and I wanted to share the link to this wonderful organization with you. Here it is: http://turningpointfoundation.org