Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP

Successful people think differently. They have the ability to bounce back, persevere, and make things happen. In this innovative learning laboratory, participants are exposed to the growing research on the mindset for success. Discover why some people run away from challenges while others rise to the occasion. If you feel like you have reached a plateau; or if you are afraid of both failure and success; if you are prone to giving up or self-sabotage,then let twenty years of research teach you the mindset for success.

AN EVENING LECTURE
Friday, July 13, 7–10pm
12SP98P    For CEUs click here
Members: $45 / Nonmembers: $50
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Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP

In a world focused on fixing weakness where many approaches to psychology are directed toward pathologies, discover instead the new field of identifying, studying and using our signature strengths. Discover which strengths correlate with individual life satisfaction, success, effective parenting, creativity and more. Learn to harness your own inner strengths and support those around you. In this way, you can shift from a mindset of deficiency to one of potential.

AN EVENING LECTURE
Friday. June 22, 7–10pm
12SP44P   For CEUs click here
Members: $45 / Nonmembers: $50
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Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP, and Louis Alloro, MEd, MAPP

Gratitude is an often overlooked yet powerful approach to increasing positive emotions. Over the past two decades scientists have discovered many subtle ways for using gratitude as a tool for affecting physical and emotional health. Learn to shift from a negative or neutral emotional state into a positive one. And learn to feel grateful rather than just think about gratitude. Learning the science of gratitude will leave participants feeling empowered, and inspired with tools for boosting their mood and feeling authentically happier.

AN EVENING LECTURE
Friday, June 1, 7–10pm
12SP48P For CEUs click here
Members: $45 / Nonmembers: $50
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Jean Houston, PhD

Many cultures believe that each of us is guided by an inner spiritual Presence and that conscious communion with this “Beloved of the Soul” is the key to a fully realized life. Tonight the legendary human potential pioneer Jean Houston will offer her insights into the nature and practice of how to engage the Beloved in a partnership, one that offers us a real connection and more clarity. Through the use of meditations, and exercises to activate our imagination, we will cultivate a practice to invite the Beloved into our lives in an active and cocreative partnership, where we can express our deepest calling, live a life to its full potential, so we have resources to make a difference.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Friday, June 29, 7–9:30pm
12SPS84M
Members: $25 / Nonmembers: $28
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Rachel McPherson

The Good Dog Foundation does wonderful work providing therapy dogs for people in need and recovering from disasters. This evening its founder will share meditation techniques that can help us and the dogs in our lives find healing and deep inner calm. The Good Dog Meditation method is a highly effective way to center our animal with compassion, lower stress in our own and our dog’s life, and connect to the extraordinary unconditional love only companion animals can give us.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Friday, June 15, 7–9:30pm
12SHP16M
Members: $25 / Nonmembers: $30
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On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Good Dog Foundation was recognized by media outlets and charitable organizations for its work in disaster response after the attacks of 9/11. Good Dog teams visited the NYC Family Assistance Center and traveled on ferries with victims’ families and survivors.

Trish O’Sullivan, LCSW

In this workshop we will be introduced to yoga psychology’s view of addictions, how they form and how they can be healed. According to yogic teachings, there are tendencies which exist in the subconscious mind (samskaras) created by past experiences that can fuel compulsive behaviors. This workshop will explore the types of samskaras and psychological elements (disconnectedness, impaired will power, etc.) that contribute to addictive behaviors as well as the particular chakras involved. We will learn an integrative approach to breaking addictive patterns of all types, including techniques for identifying and releasing samskaras and balancing specific chakras along with yoga and meditation practices to facilitate the healing process.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Friday, July 27, 6:30–9:30pm
12SHH05M
Members: $30 / Nonmembers: $35
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Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr, MD, and Ann Crile Esselstyn

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in our society, but in many cultures with plant-based diets it is almost nonexistent. Tonight, pioneering general surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn will explain what inspired Bill Clinton and thousands of others to take charge of their health: heart disease can be completely reversed through diet, if we focus on revitalizing the magic carpet that lines our blood vessels—the endothelium. He will review clinical strategies proven to prevent and reverse heart disease in even advanced cases and show us how we can reduce the likelihood of not only heart problems but strokes, diabetes, hypertension, dementia, Alzheimer’s, vascular disease, ED and many cancers with the right plant-based nutrition. Dr. Esselstyn will be joined by Ann Crile Esselstyn, whose food strategies and recipes are featured in Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Friday, June 1, 7–10pm
12SHH20M For CEUs click here
Members: $25 / Nonmembers: $30
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Robert Moss

Dreaming isn’t just what happens during sleep; shamans know we don’t need to go to sleep in order to dream. “Dreaming” involves many practices designed to help us access sources of guidance, healing and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind. This evening, best-selling author and shamanic dream teacher Robert Moss will explain how we can become “active dreamers” who know how to read signs from the world around us, use our energy and attention with precision and power, get out of our boxes, step beyond self-limiting beliefs, test the bounds of possibility, and live from the heart.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Friday, June 29, 7–10pm
12SPS50M
Members: $45 / Nonmembers: $50
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Robin Robertson, PhD

According to master Jungian teacher Robin Robertson, we are born as complex
repositories of memories and behaviors. While we learn some things by rote from
our education and environment, we “know” the most important things in our inner soul long before we “know” them in our conscious mind, but we need the right “triggers” to bring them to the surface. This workshop will draw from Jungian Active Imagination, Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, chakra meditations, and various esoteric techniques to help us actually experience the relationship between conscious and unconscious mind.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Friday, July 27, 7–10pm
12SP95M For CEUs click here
Members: $30 / Nonmembers: $35
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Joseph Cambray

Meaningful coincidences are enigmas: Do they give guidance, should we dismiss them, or learn to understand the potential messages in them? Tonight we will see how the possibility of meaning in chance or random events can be greatly expanded, even if such meaning is outside conscious awareness. Starting with the origins and development of Jung’s idea of synchronicity, including insights derived from his recently published Red Book, we will look at a reformulation of synchronicity in terms of systems which exhibit self-organization and emergence. When things spontaneously interact and form something more complex than the sum of the parts, the new, higher level of reality is termed “emergent”—from hurricanes to schools of fish, to consciousness itself (emerging from the interaction of body and brain with the environment)—emergence permeates our universe. A number of examples from various fields will be discussed, including a reconsideration of historical events in terms of their synchronistic aspects.

AN EVENING LECTURE
Friday, August 3, 7–10pm
12SP91P
Members: $25 / Nonmembers: $30
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