Continuing Education Credits
Each conference offers Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for mental health professionals.
Enlightening Conversations 2015 offers a total of 7.5 CECs through the InterRegional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). 
2015 Learning Objectives
Panel #1: “What is Human Freedom?” (2.5 CEC’s)
This panel is designed to help you:
- Define the term “Enlightenment” from the perspective of Buddhist practice
- Define the term “idealization/splitting” in psychoanalytic practice and everyday life
- Define the term “suggestion” in psychoanalytic practice and everyday life
- Describe “psychoanalytic truth” or “psychoanalytic attitude” as goals of psychoanalytic treatment
- Define and describe the “stages of Enlightenment” (Arhat, Bodhisattva, Buddha)
- Describe and analyze consciousness/unconsciousness from Buddhism and psychoanalysis
- Analyze the role of idealization in teacher-student relationships in Buddhism and in patient-therapist relationships in psychoanalysis
- Define and describe the role of “projective identification” in psychoanalytic treatment and everyday life
- Apply the theory of projective identification to the Buddhist teacher-student relationship over time in the ways that projections change, develop and dissolve – and how they are used in the service of Enlightenment
- Describe how idealization can be used or abused in reaching the goals of human liberation
- Apply the concepts of idealization and splitting to uses and abuses of power in both Buddhist and psychoanalytic communities and organizations
- Describe the similarities and differences in Buddhist and psychoanalytic models of human freedom
Panel #2: “The Ethical Foundations of Human Freedom” (2.5 CEC’s)
This panel is designed to help you:
- Define the Buddhist concept of good character (or Sila)
- Describe the role of ethics in psychoanalytic practice and communities
- Describe the Precepts in Zen practice
- Explain the place of ethics in human mental health
- Describe and understand the role of ethics prior to and after Enlightenment in Buddhist practice
- Define “spiritual abuse” and how trust can be broken in a Buddhist teacher-student relationship
- Describe what can be done to repair broken trust as a result of ethical problems in the Buddhist teacher-student relationship or community
- Define “ethical misconduct” in a psychoanalytic relationship
- Describe how ethical misconduct is repaired in a psychoanalytic relationship and community
- Describe how the dynamics of dominance/submission (power) can be used wisely and compassionately within Buddhist communities and practices
- Analyze the relationship of ethics and wisdom in both Buddhism and psychoanalysis
- Compare and contrast the models of Buddhism and Psychoanalysis in regard to basic assumptions about the role of ethics in human freedom
Panel #3: “Disillusionment as a Path to Enlightenment” (2.5 CEC’s)
This panel is designed to help you:
- Define the Buddhist concept of “equanimity”
- Define and describe the meaning of “disillusionment” from a psychoanalytic view
- Comprehend the meaning and role of “Prajna Paramita” in Buddhist teaching and practice
- Define and apply the Lacanian psychoanalytic terms “Real, Imaginary, Symbolic” to the limitations of human freedom
- Describe disillusionment as a component in the development of greater freedom
- Comprehend disillusionment as a means to enlightenment on the Buddhist path
- Describe how Buddhist practices and psychoanalytic methods help us contain and metabolize our uncertainties and insecurities in a manner that encourages greater freedom
- Comprehend the consequences in both Buddhism and psychoanalysis when practitioners (teachers and analysts) do not prepare individuals for uncertainties and disillusionment
- Compare and contrast the teachings of Buddhism and psychoanalysis in regard to the role of disillusionment and the failure of ideals
- Compare and contrast how Buddhism and psychoanalysis understand “perfection,” “freedom” and “reality” in relation to the goals of their practices
- Apply Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion in relationship to broken trust and disillusionment about teachers
- Apply psychoanalytic teachings about how conflicts and insecurities cannot be overcome in the human mind and how this might relate to the impossibility of human freedom
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