Conferences
Main Session: Bruce Davis, PhD
The Challenge of Depression After A Spiritual Awakening
Main Session: Janet Elizabeth Colli, PhD
Am I Crazy or Spiritually Transforming? Beyond the Differentiation of Psychiatric and Spiritual Experiences
Keynote Presentation: David Lukoff, PhD
Spiritual Competence and Spiritual Crises
Pre-Conference Workshop
Life Coaching Certification Training with Rosie Kuhn, PhD
October 18-20, 2016
2016 ACISTE Annual Conference
ACISTE’s 2016 Annual Conference in Palm Springs was a great success. Thank you everyone who participated in the conference and helped make it happen!
We are gathering content from the presentations to make them available to you. Look for an announcement soon on this page and in our online forum for STE experiencers.
2012: 1st Annual ACISTE Conference
Therapeutic Issues of Spiritually Transformative Experiences
Topics included:
Recognizing Spiritually Transformative Experiences in clinical practice
Spiritually Transformative Experiences vs. pathology
Changes, aftereffects and challenges following a spiritually transformative experience
Integration models of a Spiritually Transformative Experience
Spiritually Transformative Experiences throughout history
Diversity of content, cross-cultural and subpopulations of experiencers
Experiencer pe…
ACISTE Conference Archives
The ACISTE conferences have featured some wonderful sessions put on by very talented professionals.
Browse the archives to find out what has been shared in the past… with links to recordings of the conference sessions.
2013: 2nd Annual ACISTE Conference
Therapeutic Issues of Spiritually Transformative Experiences
Topics included:
Spiritual experiences: reality or delusion?
How are people differently affected, challenged or transformed by spiritual experiences?
How do different cultures deal with such experiences?
How are children affected by these experiences?
What are some possible explanations for these experiences?
What types of spiritually transformative experiences are there?
What are some therapeutic approaches?
2014: 3rd Annual ACISTE Conference
Therapeutic Issues of Spiritually Transformative Experiences
Dedicated in Memory of Christina Grof
Topics included:
Spiritual experiences: reality or delusion?
How are people differently affected, challenged or transformed by spiritual experiences?
How do different cultures deal with such experiences?
How are children affected by these experiences?
What are some possible explanations for these experiences?
What types of spiritually transformative experiences are ther…