BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WILA Alumni Association - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wilaalumni.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WILA Alumni Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T120000 DTSTAMP:20260514T232604Z CREATED:20260514T232238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T232604Z UID:223874-1783764000-1783771200@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:CE: "Untangling: What Patients Can Tell Analysts About Psychoanalysis" – Joan Peters DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by\nThe WILA Alumni Association\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PROGRAM DESCRIPTION\nWhat if the most important perspective in psychoanalysis is the one we rarely hear? Lay patients—those without theoretical training or professional community—make up the vast majority of analysands\, yet their authentic voices remain largely absent from our field’s discourse. Unlike analyst-patients who can contextualize their experience through theory and collegial exchange\, lay patients navigate analysis without a map. Their accounts offer raw\, unfiltered insights into what truly matters in the therapeutic encounter—insights with the potential to transform our understanding of the analytic process. \nThis talk invites attendees to join a pioneering project exploring the place and value of patient narrative in psychoanalytic discourse. Together we’ll consider excerpts from Joan K. Peters’ own memoir Untangling: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis\, alongside narratives she is collecting for a forthcoming special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on The Patient Experience. The unique data you’ll hear marks a striking departure from the “nightmare analyst” novels of popular culture—which we’ll briefly review—as well as the handful of accounts written by analysts in the early years of the profession. \nBy the end of the discussion\, we will reflect on whether granting patients their own voice can deepen our understanding of the intersubjective relationship emphasized by Winnicott\, Kohut\, and others\, and advance the vision of true “two-person therapy” articulated by Jay Greenberg and Stephen Mitchell in The Relational Revolution. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LEARNING OBJECTIVES\nUpon completion of the program participants should be able to: \n\nUtilize patient narratives to inform their practice and deepen their connections with theirpatients.\nFormulate clearer ideas about what matters to patients most during an analysis\, whatbuilds trust\, what can weaken it.\nDiscuss the challenges for patients undergoing analysis in the absence of an analyticcommunity or theoretical foundation that most candidate/analysts have.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PRESENTER\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JOAN K. PETERS is a Professor Emerita of Literature at CSU Channel Islands\, is the author of Untangling: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis” (Roman & Littlefield)\, which she’s discussed at APsA 2025 and was the subject of an APsA panel in 2026. Her essay\, “Bad Dreams (Are Made of This)” will appear in Psychoanalytic Inquiry where she is also guest editing a special issue on “The Patient Experience.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE INFORMATION\n\n2 CE credits\nThis CE is at the intermediate level\nTo receive CE credit you must attend the entire event\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. WILA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Donation Amount:\n \n \n $ 75.00\n \n EARLY BIRD Licensed ClinicianEARLY BIRD WILA Alumni Association MemberEARLY BIRD Students/Unlicensed ClinicianPurchase\n \n Select Payment Method \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Stripe - Credit Card\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n Personal Info \n\n \n \n \n First Name *\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Last Name *\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Email Address *\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit Card Info \n\n \n \n \n This is a secure SSL encrypted payment. \n \n \n \n \n Card Number *\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n CVC *\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Cardholder Name *\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Expiration *\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Would you like to help cover the processing fees?\n\n \n \n I'll cover the 0 transaction fee to support WILA's non-profit mission!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subscribe to our Email List\n \n \n \n \n \n Total \n \n $75.00 \n \n {amount} payment + {fee_amount} transaction fee \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Rates go up on 6/26/26!Licensed Clinician – $100WILA Alumni Member – $80Student / Pre-licensed Clinician – $60 \n \n \n \n \n \n WILA Alumni get a discount!\nMembership gives you many benefits including discounts on CE events like this one. Join or Renew today to save!\n \n \n \n \n \n Refunds and Cancellations\nRegistrants who cancel with more than 24 hours’ notice are eligible to receive a 50% refund by emailing WILA’s Business Director\n \n \n \n \n \n Questions or concerns?\nEmail info@wilaalumni.org for help URL:https://wilaalumni.org/event/2026-ce-peters/ LOCATION:Zoom (link will be emailed upon registration) CATEGORIES:CE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wilaalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cdd20-puzzle-5831246_1920.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="WILA Alumni Association":MAILTO:info@wilaalumni.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T194130Z CREATED:20260417T161435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T194130Z UID:223794-1792231200-1792243800@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:Online CE Event (LIVE + RECORDED) –"FROM STRIVING TO STILLNESS:Awakening into Effortless Being"with Martha Stark MD DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 17\, 202610:00 am – 1:30 pm (PT) | 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm (ET) \n3 CEs ZOOM EventLIVE + RECORDED for Later Viewing \nEarly-Bird Registration through October 3\, 2026(includes live attendance and access to the recording)$25 (+ $25 for 3 CEs) \nStandard Registration after October 3\, 2026(includes live attendance and access to the recording)$35 (+ $25 for 3 CEs) \nPresented by Martha Stark MD | Harvard Medical SchoolSponsored by Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA) | Los Angeles \n“Just going along … listening to what you cannot hear … and not bothering.”A. A. Milne \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PROGRAM DESCRIPTION\nRestriction is our default mode – a relentless striving “to become\,” without ever finding satisfaction in simply “being.” \nThe Pause-in-Striving Perspective of the Spiritual-Transcendent Approach featured in Model 6 of THE ST★RK METHOD of PSYCHODYNAMIC SYNERGY invites us into moments of liberating transition from “restricted\, effortful striving” to “awakened\, effortless being” – the emergence of a quiet “okayness of being” when striving relents and consciousness awakens. \nHere\, the optimal stressor is “spiritual detachment”: the gentle challenge of loosening our grip\, coming face-to-face with long-hidden truths (often sobering\, sometimes painful) that had been there all along\, quietly waiting to be found\, and settling into holding them without turning away. \nWe will explore the work of exemplars of awakened consciousness: Jon Kabat-Zinn\, Thich Nhat Hanh\, Eckhart Tolle\, Tara Brach\, Jack Kornfield\, Pema Chödrön\, Carl Jung\, Ken Wilber\, and Rumi – each illuminating the transformative power of pausing\, even briefly\, in the midst of daily striving. In these sacred micro-moments – when we stop defending\, stop reaching ahead to the next moment\, and stop striving for ever more – something quietly shifts: awareness expands\, rigidity softens\, tension releases\, and a soft okayness from within begins to make itself known. \nMy Pause-in-Striving Perspective is complemented by the groundbreaking work of Ari Whitten\, who reframes optimal breathing as a physiological gateway into unrestricted presence. His approach – neither mere abdominal breathing nor simple deep breathing – embodies the transition from “effortful doing” to “effortless being\,” with stillness and quiet emerging of their own accord. Participants will be taught the “physiological sigh\,” an elegant neurophysiological technique that supports the body’s shift toward expansive presence. \nInspired by Whitten’s work\, I developed the concept of “Finding the Pause-in-Breathing StillPoint” – a gentle\, intentional practice of briefly holding the breath for progressively longer intervals\, thereby increasing tolerance for carbon dioxide\, gently calming the autonomic nervous system\, and supporting the suspension of effort\, tension\, narrative\, and noise. \nBreath-based approaches – allowing an easing from defensive contraction into still presence – resonate as well with the work of Stephen Porges\, whose Polyvagal Theory describes a parallel movement from autonomic dysregulation to optimal regulation: from either too much activation (sympathetic hyperarousal and vigilance) or too little activation (dorsal vagal hypoarousal\, withdrawal\, and shutdown) to just-right regulation (ventral vagal safety\, openness\, and receptivity). \nBuilding on this awakening of body and mind\, Model 6 celebrates consciousness itself. What emerges is the quiet miracle of resting fully in the present: a spacious clarity able to hold the full spectrum of human experience – joy\, sorrow\, longing\, fear\, anger\, heartbreak – without triggering defensive contraction. In this awakened field\, guarding softens\, striving relents\, and simply being is enough. \nAs Rumi writes\, “When the soul lies down in that grass\, the world is too full to talk about.” Step onto the grass. Step into the freedom of detached presence and vibrant aliveness – fully inhabiting each unfolding moment without clinging\, without striving\, and with the gentle ease of simply being. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LEARNING OBJECTIVES\nUpon completion of the program\, participants will be able to:1. articulate JON KABAT-ZINN’s concept that mindfulness practice enhances moment-to-moment awareness while fostering of resilience and clarity2. examine THICH NHAT HANH’s teaching that awakened presence emerges from the gentle art of mindful living3. explore ECKHART TOLLE’s emphasis on the power of now and the freedom that arises when we disengage from the compulsive activity of simply thinking4. illuminate TARA BRACH’s integration of acceptance and radical self-compassion as guiding the heart toward freedom from self-judgment5. discuss JACK KORNFIELD’s advocacy of meditation practice as a means of cultivating compassion and mindful openness in everyday life6. explore PEMA CHÖDRÖN’s teaching that awakening unfolds as we gently release our grasping\, remain present to life’s uncertainties\, and develop the compassionate capacity to sit with even the most uncomfortable truths7. describe CARL JUNG’s concept of integrating shadow and self in order to expand consciousness beyond defensive patterns8. explain KEN WILBER’s concept of the integral (mind\, body\, and spirit) nature of human experience9. elaborate upon the relationship between RUMI’s perspective on existence and the Model 6 spiritual-transcendent perspective of THE ST★RK METHOD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PRESENTER\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MARTHA STARK MD\, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute\, is a clinical consultant specializing in therapeutic strategies for challenging treatments. She is an innovative psychoanalyst\, internationally recognized author\, dynamic speaker\, and visionary thinker who has devoted her career to translating complex psychodynamic concepts into real-world clinical practice. \nDr. Stark is Creator & Developer of THE ST★RK METHOD of PSYCHODYNAMIC SYNERGY\, an integrative model highlighting six dimensions of resilience in the therapeutic process – a multifaceted approach to deep\, embodied transformation and healing. \nShe has served as long-time Clinical Faculty (part-time) at Harvard Medical School and is Co-Founder & Co-Director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at William James College. Additionally\, she holds appointments as Voluntary Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and as Adjunct Faculty in the doctoral counseling program at the Asia Graduate School of Theology in the Philippines. \nAs the Founder & CEO of SynergyMed for MindBodyHealth®\, Dr. Stark is dedicated to the integration of traditional (downstream) medical approaches with nontraditional (upstream) healing practices to incentivize proactive mind-body well-being. \nAn award-winning author of nine influential books – including Relentless Hope: The Refusal to Grieve and Modes of Therapeutic Action: Knowledge\, Experience\, and Relationship – her works have received widespread acclaim and are considered essential reading in psychoanalytic training institutes and psychodynamic psychotherapy training programs across the United States and internationally. \nDr. Stark has been steadily gaining recognition for her ability to provide a comprehensive and compelling conceptual framework that illuminates the psychotherapeutic process as a powerful catalyst for personal renewal and resilience. \nShe brings her synergistic paradigm to life – and extends its global reach – through weekly 90-minute F.R.E.E. Spot Supervision Zoom Sessions (both “live” and “recorded” for later viewing on her Private YouTube Channel)\, a vibrant international forum offering clinicians from diverse cultures and disciplines the opportunity to witness and reflect upon the application of THE ST★RK METHOD to the art and science of complex\, nuanced therapeutic work. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE INFORMATION\n\n3 CEs (+ $25)\nThis CE Event is at the beginner\, intermediate\, and advanced levels.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. WILA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Donation Amount:\n \n \n $ 25.00\n \n Early-Bird Registration – $25Early-Bird Registration (with 3 CEs) – Additional $25Purchase\n \n Select Payment Method \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Stripe - Credit Card\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n Personal Info \n\n \n \n \n First Name *\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Last Name *\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Email Address *\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit Card Info \n\n \n \n \n This is a secure SSL encrypted payment. \n \n \n \n \n Card Number *\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n CVC *\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Cardholder Name *\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Expiration *\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Would you like to help cover the processing fees?\n\n \n \n I'll cover the 0 transaction fee to support WILA's non-profit mission!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subscribe to our Email List\n \n \n \n \n \n Total \n \n $25.00 \n \n {amount} payment + {fee_amount} transaction fee \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n   \n \n \n \n \n \n Beginning Saturday\, October 3\, 2026Standard Registration – $35Additional $25 for 3 CEs \n \n \n \n \n \n Refunds and CancellationsCancellations with more than24 hours’ notice are eligibleto receive a 50% refund byemailing WILA’s Business Director  businessdirector@wila.org \n \n \n \n \n \n Questions?Email info@wilaalumni.org URL:https://wilaalumni.org/event/2026-ce-stark/ LOCATION:Zoom (link will be emailed upon registration) CATEGORIES:CE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wilaalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/cdd20-cartoon-5190735-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="WILA Alumni Association":MAILTO:info@wilaalumni.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR