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Depth Perspectives for Life Long Learning

“I really loved the ecotherapy certification course. Linda Buzzell taught it and she was assisted by Gabrielle Milanich. I appreciated the way that the course was structured with a balance of content and process. Linda’s notes and handouts were extremely well informed and comprehensive, and she is an outstanding educator and integrative clinician. She provided many examples of bringing the theories into applied settings and practices and created a sense of cohesiveness in the group. Gabrielle’s skillful accompaniment was noted as well. I felt very fortunate to have been able to have taken the course.”

-Juliet Rohde-Brown

“I am so grateful to you for putting this series together.   I am now a late-in-life student of Jungian psychology and have been so moved by this series, especially the lectures and conversations led by Ursula. Her request for feedback from those of us who perhaps are reticent to speak, landed in my heart.   I would like Ursula to know how much her humanity and depth of understanding have created a climate of possibility and understanding in my life.  This discussion on hope and despair has helped me to reconsider my definition of hope, a word which I have wondered about for a very long time.  Her offering of quotations from philosophers and spiritual teachers have also deepened my thoughts about this subject.   Most of all though, are Ursula’s acceptance and love of the seeker within strikes a resonance which I trust will be with me in this last part of my life. I think of her as Love in Action.”

– Janet MacKay

“Thank you so much for the opportunity to listen to Elizabeth Nelson, so profound and so much to read up and reflect on. Such as Ragnarok… and the comparison between Saturn and Ereshkigal and Maat. And the poems Elizabeth shared. All very touching for the heart-soul.”

– Pam

“The content and style of presentation of this remarkable conference on the spiritual aspect of aging & later life establishes a new genre in the field of Continuing Education for therapists. In addition to personal experience, all therapists deal with patients who may experience challenges regarding the issues of aging, fear of loss of control, sickness, and death, and this conference provides for therapists a spiritual toolbox for themselves and for helping their patients to progress through this heretofore neglected area of the life cycle. Since “none of us get out of this alive,” a regular offering of this conference on “The Inner Work of Aging: Shifting From Role to Soul” seems as relevant and necessary for all therapists’ continuing education as the other required areas of CE, such as Treatment of Anxiety & Depression, Child & Elder Abuse, Substance Abuse, Suicidality, etc.”

-William Flaxman, PhD, MFT