8:30 Arrival, informal coffee
9:00 Social Dreaming Matrix: “What we Already Know & Yet to Find Out”
Facilitator: Karen Morris
9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Mel Miller
9:45 Morning Meditation: Facilitator: Val Szymanski**
10:15 Break
10:30 Group Discussion-1: “Buddhist & Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Contributors to
Mature Thought & Action" Facilitators: Mel Miller & Ron Sharrin
11:15 Break
11:30 Group Discussion-2: “Necessary Anxiety” Facilitators: Diane Martin & Paul Cooper
12:15 Lunch Break
1:45 Group Discussion-3: "Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire"
Facilitator: Trudy Goodman
2:30 Shakuhachi Meditation: Facilitator: Paul Cooper
2:45 Group Discussion-4: “Who do you think you are?” Facilitator: Paul Fulton
3:30 Break
3:45 Group Discussion-5: “From Nowhere to Now Here” Facilitator: Jeff Eaton
4:30 Group Discussion-6: “Talking About Meditation Experience” Facilitator: Linda Modaro
5:15 Closings & Openings: Recap of the Day and Looking ahead to Kyoto, 2011
5: 45 Closing Meditation: Facilitator Anna Delacroix
Facilitator Biographies:
Anna Delacroix, MA, LMHC, works as a psychotherapist in Seattle where she is also a psychoanalytic
training candidate at Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society. She began meditating in 1974, sitting
through the 1980s and mid-90s with a number of teachers in Zen, Vipassana, Theravadin and Tibetan
Buddhist traditions while co-founding and co-directing Cloud Mountain Retreat Center in Southwest
Washington State. Contemplative, awareness and insight practices best describe her approach to
meditation since the early-90s. She has been studying with Jason Siff of the Skillful Meditation Project
since 2005.
Jeffrey Eaton is a graduate of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and a Fellow of the
International Psychoanalytic Association. He is in private practice, seeing children and adults, in Seattle,
WA. He has a special interest in treating autistic spectrum issues in children. He took refuge with Lama
Yeshe Wangmo and studies and practices in the Tibetan lineage of HH Dudjom Rinpoche. His website
is www.jeffreyleaton.com
Trudy Goodman is Founder, Director and Guiding Teacher of InsightLA, a non-profit organization for
Vipassana meditation training and secular mindfulness education. She teaches extensively in the field
of mindfulness meditation and psychotherapy at conferences and retreats nationwide. In 1995, she co-
founded the very first Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA, co-sponsor of the
Harvard Medical School conferences on Meditation and Psychotherapy. Trudy was a psychotherapist
in private practice for 25 years and studied Buddhist meditation for 35 years with Asian and Western
teachers. She is a contributing author: Guilford 2005, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy; Springer, 2008
Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness
www.insightla.org
Paul C. Cooper, L.P.,is Dean of Training, clinical supervisor, training analyst and faculty at the
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Faculty member and supervisor at the Institute
for Expressive Analysis; Board of Directors and Chair of the Spirituality and the Psyche Committee for
the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education. He the author of The Zen Impulse and the
Psychoanalytic Encounter (Routeledge, 2009). He edited Into the Mountain Stream: Psychotherapy and
Buddhist Experience (2007, Jason Aronson) and co-edited Psychotherapy and Religion: Many Paths,
One Journey (2005, Jason Aronson). Paul Cooper is a long-time Zen practitioner and maintains a
private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan and Westchester, NY.
http://absentmindzen.org/
Paul Fulton, Ed.D. is the President and a founding member of the Institute for Meditation and
Psychotherapy. A student of Buddhist psychology for over 38 years, he received tokudo initiation in Zen
Buddhism in 1972 and studied the integration of psychotherapy in his college (with dual majors in Asia
Studies and Psychology) and graduate school careers. He is currently Director of Mental Health for
Tufts Health Plan. Paul is a clinical psychologist, having done his doctoral work in culture and
personality with a dissertation on the nature of self among American Buddhist practitioners. Paul is
currently course director for a year long Certificate Program in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy in
Cambridge, MA, and is on the board of directors at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He is in
private psychotherapy practice in Newton, Massachusetts, co-edited and co-authored Mindfulness
Psychotherapy (Guilford, 2005), and contributed chapters to a number of other recent books.
www.meditationandpsychotherapy.org
Diane Martin, Ph.D.
Sojun Diane Martin started her training at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1970, where she studied
with Shunryu Suzuki. She began studying with Katagiri Roshi in 1979 and was lay ordained by him in
1985. She was priest ordained by Yvonne Rand in 1995 and received Dharma transmission from Karen
Sunna, Abbess of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, in 2001. Three of the four teachers on Diane's
transmission committee are of the Suzuki lineage. Diane also holds a Doctorate degree in psychology
and is a practicing psychoanalyst.
http://www.udumbarazen.org/
Melvin E. Miller, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Director of Psychological Services, and Director of
Doctoral Training at Norwich University, among Dr. Miller’s publications are two books co-edited with
Susanne Cook-Greuter entitled Transcendence and Mature Thought in Adulthood and Creativity,
Spirituality, and Transcendence. He also co-edited a book with Alan N. West, Spirituality, Ethics, and
Relationship, and more recently with Polly Young-Eisendrath, The Psychology of Mature Spirituality.
and with Dale Mathers & Osamu Endo, Self and No-Self: Continuing thr Dialogue Between Buddhism
and Psychotherapy. Dr. Miller has lectured and published extensively on the interface of spirituality and
human development with psychotherapy, and especially on Buddhism and psychotherapy. He has a
private practice in Montpelier, Vermont.
Linda Modaro, L.Ac. has been studying various types of meditation since 1987 She also began
teaching Qi Gong and in 1995 produced a series of videos for the general public, Discovering Chi:
Energy Exercises for the Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced practitioner. She began a sitting
meditation practice with Jason Siff in July of 2000 and entered Skillful Meditation Project teacher training
in 2003. She leads Recollective Awareness meditation sitting groups and workshops in Santa Monica
California, leads retreats with members of the Skillful Meditation Project Teaching Sangha and has
been working closely with individual students. She continues to work part-time as an Acupuncturist, and
serves as President for the Skillful Meditation Project Board of Directors.
Karen L. Morris, NCPsyA, LP, practices psychoanalysis in her private offices in Manhattan and
Westchester County, NY. She is on the faculty and a supervisor at the Institute for Expressive Analysis
in New York City. As a poet she utilizes psychoanalytic process as a frame through which she
investigates form, history, massive social trauma and the religious nature of the unconscious in her
poetry. She also loves gardening.
Ron Sharrin, Ph.D., has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1969, when he began studying as
a resident student with Taizan Maezumi at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. Since then he has studied
Dzogchen with Tenzin Wangyal, Rinpoche and Ch'an with Steven Tainer. He is a clinical psychologist in
private practice, as well as former Board Member and currently an Instructor for the Skillful Meditation
Project. He also teaches courses on Buddhist psychology, meditation, and group and organizational
dynamics. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, and
a past President of the Board of Directors of GREX, the West Coast affiliate of the AK Rice Institute. In
addition to his practice as a clinical psychologist, he received an MA in Religious Studies from the
University of California, Santa Barbara in Buddhist Studies.
Val Szymanski, Head teacher and Director at Bamboo in the Wind Zen Center in Mountain View, CA.
Zen Buddhist for over 20 years studying with Diane Martin Roshi and Taigen Dan Leighton. Ordained
a Zen Priest in December, 2002 and currently, in transmission to be Dharma heir in Dainin Katagiri's
lineage with Diane Martin, Roshi.For the past 6 years taught Heart Sutra Writing (as a practice) in
Chinese & English at Jikoji Zen Retreat Center, Udumbara Sangha, EastWest Books and Tassajara.
http://www.bamboointhewind.org/
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Participants
Nina Asher
Samoan Barish
Neila Berton
Dana Dovitch
Lisa Frankel
Rob Grossbard
Mihaela Ivan
Lynn Rosenfield
Sofia Scott
Gail Yardley
Joe
Many thanks to everyone who generously participated in the dependently-arising
evolution of this event, with special thanks to Concetta Alfano, Daishin Buksbazen,
Trudy Goodman, Loren Miller, Karen Morris, Marjorie Schuman & Ron Sharrin.
Sincerely,
Paul Cooper & Mel Miller [ Conference Coordinating Co-chairs]