Bringing Transformation Home

Abstract

Participants in psychospiritual workshops often attend seeking a connection with something beyond their day-to-day life. Those who find that connection may have difficulty maintaining it when they return home. This presentation examines what assists workshop participants in sustaining transformations and maintaining a new worldview, self-image, and value system as they return to their daily life. In this presentation, we will examine the challenges involved in that integration and what can support those struggling with that process to bring their transformative experiences into their daily lives.

Learning Objective: Identify specific challenges involved in integrating transformative workshop experience, and tools for supporting that integration.

Presenter Bio

Selene Kumin Vega, Ph.D. is a licensed psychotherapist (CA MFC #32604), workshop leader, and faculty at Saybrook University. Her work with movement and other experiential modalities evolved over 50 years of facilitating self-exploration, connection, and transformation. Her teaching includes the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University), Bastyr, JFK University, and Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. She has published chapters on using psychospiritual approaches to treat anxiety and using movement practices in psychotherapy. She was editor of the Spiritual Emergence Network Newsletter, and co-authored The Sevenfold Journey (Crossing Press, 1993), now in six languages.