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EUROTAS 2012 in Latvia 

Welcome to the 14th European Conference of Transpersonal Psychology!

in Latvia, September 20-23, 2012

Venue: Baltic Beach Hotel, Jurmala (20km fromRiga, on the Baltic sea coast), Latvia

Let's come together to explore what is beyond the horizon there!

The mission of the conference is to focus on the interaction of creativity and spirituality in the field of psychology and psychotherapy, as well as on the role of these phenomena in the growth, transformation, healing, everyday life of an individual and in the development of human society as a whole.

Participants and lectures. We are expecting to have about 300 participants. About 70 lecturers, workshop leaders and performers – the leading specialists in transpersonal psychology, psychotherapy, philosophy, and arts – are being  invited from more than 20 European countries,USA, andAustralia.  Among the presenters: Ingo Jahrsetz (Germany); Mara Vidnere, Aivis Dombrovskis, Guna Svence, Arija Karpova, Arturs Dombrovskis, Mirdza Liepina, Aija Dudkina, Izabella Reute (Latvia); Jure Biechonski (Estonia); Marius Daugelavicus (Lithuania); Vladimir Maykov, Gennady Brevde,Sergej Strekalov (Russia); Vitor Rodrigos (Portugal); Bernadette Blin (France); Pier-Luigi Lattuada, Prem Sambhavo (Italy); Sergej Fausto Sommer (Switzerland); Liv Evensen (Norway); Vineta Lagzdina (Australia); Christel and David Lukoff, Steven Schmitz, Stuart Sovatsky, Connie Miller, Dana Klisanin, Melisca Klisanin (USA), and many others.

Registration of presenters available through May 31, 2012 .

Please, fill the on-line registration form for presenters!

The registration before the beginning of the conference will start on Wednesday, Sept. 19, after the Delegate Meeting in Baltic Beach Hotel.

Information and registration

www.transpersonal.lv

More information

eurotas2012@transpersonal.lv

(coordinator -  Inese Berzina)

artterapija@gmail.com

(conference director - Ingrida Indane)


What is EUROTAS?

 

 

What is the EUROpean Transpersonal ASsociation?

Eurotas is a host for different types of members:

  • Organizational members:
    Transpersonal associations of European countries, from North America and Russia.
    Legal members: Institutions focused on the evolution of consciousness and training institutes accredited by Eurotas can become legal members.
    European Institutes can be accredited by Eurotas and become member. 
  • Professional members.
  • Individual members.
    Individuals engaged in the field of psycho-spiritual evolution. They enjoy the Eurotas network as a community of exchange, of give and take.
  • Lifetime members.
  • Honorary members.

Eurotas associations, legal and individual members share the common belief that the evolution of mankind has not come to an end. The present worldwide crises are seen as developmental stages leading to more awareness, to more relatedness, to the overcoming of anxiety, and to more happiness.
Eurotas is a network of professionals: scientists of different disciplines, businessmen, professionals of the social field (psychologists, psychotherapist, social workers) and spiritual teachers.
Their work is a joint venture to create a better understanding

  • how the exploitation of resources, individually as collectively, can be stopped,
  • how the alienation of men from his brothers and sisters can be overcome,
  • how the female and the male can melt together for the sake of a more human world,
  • how the split between hatred and love inside many humans can be healed.

In connection with this psychologists talk about the evolution of consciousness which is the basis of each understanding and problem solving.
The evolution of consciousness today may include the acknowledgement of ignorance, of greed and of anxiety which are the main conditions of suffering in the world and the prospect of their transformation to creativity and compassion.
There are huge undiscovered reservoirs of creativity, individual as collective: high potentials of creativity and modern sophisticated rationality expressively and urgently yearn melting together. If this happens the world may experience a true meltdown setting free huge energies of understanding, of love, of creativeness.
There has to be enough clarity and rigor to face clearly the damages of the past one-sided rationalism; and there has to be enough compassion, creativity and courage to overcome the economical, ecological, and social pessimism which today unfortunately is one of the big obstacles for the resolution of difficulties.

Eurotas is a network of friendships.

The European Transpersonal Association came into existence from a group of practitioners of health and healing and researchers in sciences and spirituality. It has been founded in 1984 during the first European Transpersonal Conference in Brussels, organised by the Belgian team. The first Eurotas meetings I remember had been interesting discussions which led to engaged actions in a family-like atmosphere. Today Eurotas has members from 25 countries and organizes annual conferences of considerable scientific and spiritual quality. At these conferences you still may find the original Eurotas character of friendship and enjoy a big family. What makes the European Transpersonal Association special today is its combination of scientific and spiritual rigor with the leisure time like atmosphere.

What does Eurotas?

  • Eurotas is legally registered as an association in Austria. The association has an executive board with 4 board members, a vice-president and a president. The board is chosen by the general assembly which meets once a year at the annual conferences. More details see website.
  • Eurotas has a central office which currently is in Freiburg / Germany. 
    All suggestions, questions, contacts can be directed to the office by email and phone. More details see below.
  • Eurotas edit’s a regular circular informing its members about interesting and new upcomings that take place within Eurotas. The circular is sent around by email and published on the website.
  • You may find all information about Eurotas on its website www.eurotas.org
  • The website is maintained and updated regularly .

On the website you’ll find all members of Eurotas and important contact persons.
Important for the communication between Eurotas members is the virtual forum. Everybody can participate at the forum’s discussions. The access is very easy if you take the little inconvenience and register with your name.
At the website you also find a list of psychotherapists (transpersonal psychotherapy) certified by Eurotas. (See ECCA)
Training and work of these therapists are subject to high quality standards.
Psychotherapists experienced in the field of transpersonal work also will find a form to apply for the certification process by Eurotas.

  • Eurotas organizes a conference once in a year. Scientists, spiritual teachers and other engaged persons from around the world come together for presentation, exchange and for the celebration of relatedness. Members and guests are welcome to participate and to apply for the presentation of their wisdom.
  • The Eurotas East-West-Project. For now almost 20 years Eurotas initiated and supported the exchange of information, wisdom, psycho-spiritual techniques between the Eastern and Western European countries. Included is also an exchange of trainings in transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy.
  • The European Committee for Certification and Accreditation – ECCA – is a working group of Eurotas collecting and certifying transpersonal and spiritual oriented psychotherapists. Suitable psychotherapists will be awarded the European Certificate of Transpersonal Psychotherapy (see link).
    The ECCA this year also starts with the accreditation of training institutes.
  • Eurotas is co-editor of the transpersonal online journal …

What is transpersonal?

No human on earth can live beyond the personal. All human beings share the need to be nourished and to live in safety. All human beings share the preciousness of life in a human body.
The majority of humans share the suffering and the anxiety connected to the impermanence of their life-circumstances. The majority of human beings are caught by death-anxiety which narrows our perspective and reduces our choices for life.
The Transpersonal Psychology discovered that immense potentials of joy, of creativity, of richness, and of love are available for each individual and for the collective as a whole if anxiety as a basic living condition is confronted. There is an option to enhance the awareness and transform anxiety to compassion, love and the wisdom of all-relatedness.
Transpersonal work is about enhancing the consciousness. While taking seriously the basic needs of a person it opens a broader perspective to life and its circumstances seeing an all encompassing inter-relatedness of humankind, inter-relatedness also in an ecological sense.


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