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Index of FCRP Conference Programs

 

1943 Nature and Laws of Our Spiritual Life

Howard Brinton, Douglas Steere, Panel discussion

 

1944 Psychiatry and Religion

Anton Boisen, Gilbert Kilpack, Panel discussion

 

1945 Prayer and Modern Man

Hornell Hart, Panel discussion led by Robert Clark

 

1946 The Search for Inner Life and Peace

Dryden Phelps, Mary Stein, Elined Kotschnig, Henry Cadbury

 

1947 Symbols as Tools of Spiritual Growth

Martha Jaeger, James Forsythe, Werner Heider

 

1948 Growth Toward Wholeness

Thayer Smith MD, Gerardina Van Dalfsen, Gilbert Kilpack, J. Calvin Keene, Jesse Holmes

 

1949 The Child Within: Discovery, Acceptance, and Nurture

Dora Willson, Elizabeth Anthony, Joseph Myers, Martha Jaeger, Derek Kitchin

 

1950 Our Eternal Ground and Estrangement & Reunion

Gerald Heard, Paul Tillich, Howard Brinton

 

1951 Creation from Conflict

Riwkah Schaerf, J. Calvin Keene, Elined Kotschnig

 

1952 The Choice Is Ours

Clarence Pickett, Izette deForest, Thomas Bighan, Margret Ostrowski, Katherine Paton

 

1953 Religion, Psychology and Education

Fritz Kunkel

 

1954 Intimations of Immortality

Daisetz Suzuki, Calvin Keene, Elined Kotschnig

 

1955 Living in Relationship, or The Conflict of Cooperation Elizabeth Howes, Sheila Moon, Luella Sibbald

 

1956 Male and Female Created He Them: Sexual Difference in Relation to Wholeness

Irene Pickard, Albert T. Mollegen

 

1957 The Roots and Fruits of Hostility

Leon Saul, MD, Robert Clark, MD

 

1958 The Life of the Spirit Today: Spiritual Growth Through Group Search

Ira Progoff

 

1959 The Authority of the Spirit in Quakerism

Howard Brinton, Joseph & Teresina Havens

 

1960 Religious Experience and Its Communication In Christian Tradition & Eastern Religion

Arthur W. Hummel, J. Calvin Keene

 

1961 Paradoxes of Life and Death

Harmon Bro

 

1962 Paradoxes of Rebirth

Harmon Bro

 

1963 The Search Will Make You

Bernard Phillips

 

1964 Wholeness and Prayer

Thomas Hora, M.D.

 

1965 Psychological Aspects of the Negro-White Revolution James Whitney, M.D.

 

1966 Creative Encounter

William Stewart Nelson

 

1967 Male & Female: Journey to Self Through Meeting, Myth & Dream

Christine Downing, Richard Underwood

 

1968 The Essence of Manhood and Womanhood

Elined Kotschnig, John Yungblut

 

1969 Anger and Personal Growth

Ira Progoff

 

1970 Touchstones of Reality: Beyond Psychologism and “Self-Realization”

Maurice Friedman

 

1971 Wrestling with the Daimonic

Mary Carol Richards, Dorothea Blom

 

1972 Beyond Autonomy

Edith Wallace, Robert Scholz

 

1973 Survival in a Mad Society

Douglas Heath

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1974 Separating and Connecting

Christine Downing, Jan Clanton, Diedrick & Barbara Snoek, Joseph & Teresina Havens, Helen Bonny, Christopher Beck

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1975 Healing

June Yungblut, Nancy Kline, Amy Kurkjian, Estelle & Jean Burroughs, Frank Culley, Michael

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1976 Exploring Myths We Live By

Joseph Campbell

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1977 The Child Within

Clare Keller, David Hart, Douglas Hitchings

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1978 The Mysteries of Change

Edith Sullwold

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1979 In Darkness and in Light

Taylor Oughton, Herta Joslin, Diedrich Snoek

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1980 The Path of the Heart: Aspects of Love

Louis Savary

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1981 In the Service of Divinity

Rachel Hillel, Silvio Fittipaldi, Joe & Teresina Havens

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1982 Engaging the Feminine

Silvio Fittipaldi, Herta Joslin

 

1983 Opening the Way of the Spirit in the World

Robert Johnson

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1984 Walls into Doorways

Elise Boulding

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1985 Meeting the Stranger Mimesis

Samuel And Evelyn Rothchild Laeuchli

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1986 Chrysalis: No Longer Who We Were, We Know Not Who We May Become

Marion Woodman

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1987 The Wounding and Healing of Men

Robert Bly

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1988 Befriending Creativity, Befriending Our Divinity

Matthew Fox

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1989 Witnessing the Fire: Addiction and Transformation

Linda Leonard

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1990 Power and Grace in a World of Shards: Gathering the Fragments to Heal Earth and Self

James A. Hall M.D.

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1991 A Natural Fire: Patience and Passion on the Spiritual Journey

David Whyte

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1992 Meeting the Holy Shadow: Our Role as Incarnators of the Divine

Janet Dallett

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1993 Leaving My Father’s House: Finding My Own Voice 

Marion Woodman

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1994 “Renaming the World:” Seeking Anew, Afresh, Again

Elizabeth Watson

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1995 “Forced into Its Nature:” Masculine Aggression as a Path to the Soul

Eugene Monick

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1996 Deeper into the Heart: Opening through Meditation

Mary Orr

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1997 Embracing the Mystery of Change

Carol Pearson

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1998 The Truth about Adulthood: Tales from Around the World

Allan Chinen

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1999 Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche

Michael Conforti

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2000 Change, Language and Healing: Challenging Our Cherished Assumptions

Robert Duggan

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2001 Understanding Patterns of Denial

Michael Conforti

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2002 Taking the Celtic Bull by the Horns

Sylvia Brinton Perera

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2003 Sparks of the Divine: Finding God in Unexpected Places

Drew Leder

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2004 Trauma and the Soul

Donald Kalsched

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2005 The Path Outward from the Deepest Place: Toward Ecological, Cultural, and Psychological Healing in Community

Mary Watkins

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2006 A Deeper Vision of Spirituality and Evil

Lionel Corbett

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2007 Eco-Centric Development Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche

Bill Plotkin

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2008 Collective Wisdom: Group Alchemy for a New Consciousness

Alan Briskin

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2009 Healing Through the Dark Emotions

Miriam Greenspan

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2010 Towards a Radical Democracy of Spirit: The Mystical Roots of America

Jeff Kripal

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2011 Eastern Light: Quaker Spirituality Viewed Through the Lens of Buddhist Practice

Steve Smith

 

2012 The Inseparable Body and Soul: Complexes, Dreams and Shadows

Barbara Goodrich-Dunn

 

2013 Trauma and the Soul: Trauma and Transformation

Donald Kalsched

 

2014 Psycho-Spirtual Approach to Human Development And Its Interruption: The Journey of Healing From Jung to Neurofeedback

Stephen and Robin Larsen

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2015 The Archetypes of Aging: Cultivating and Satisfying the Wise Spirit

Alden Josey

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2016 Reconnecting Self, Soul and Earth: Bearing Witness to Our Global Moment

Joanna Macy

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2017 The Problem of Evil: A Spiritual and Psychological Exploration

Lionel Corbett, MD

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2018 Trauma: The Brain, the Body and Compassionate Witness

Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Joe Weldon, Noel Wight

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2019 Trauma and the Soul: Mystical Dimensions of Trauma and Healing

Donald Kalsched

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2020 Kairos, Kronos, and Coronavirus Time

The first Virtual FCRP gathering

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2021 The Alchemy of an Extraordinary Year and its Potential for Personal Transformation

Marian Dunlea, Monika Wikman

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2022 The Neurobiology of the Spirit:  Compassionate Witness and the Chemistry of Healing

C. Sue Carter and Stephen W. Porges

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2023 BodyDreaming:  Self-Regulation, Jung, and Neuroscience in Trauma Recovery

Marian Dunlea

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