Meditation and Psychotherapy: Self-Transcendence and Nonduality

2024 Course Overview

Information for the 2025 course is not yet available.

Many spiritual and philosophical traditions, reaching back thousands of years, have cherished the concept that there is no formal boundary between self and other. Science has now started to demonstrate the transient, constructed nature of self, and that dysfunction in self-related processing is a transdiagnostic component of depression, anxiety, psychosis, and other mental health disorders. Clinicians who treat these conditions should understand the foundational tenets of self-transcendence and nonduality, and the role these experiences may play in helping to alleviate their patients’ experiences of suffering. 

What are ways that therapists can work to loosen the grip of the idea of a separate self? How does this process unfold in cultures with less individualistic concepts of self? And how might therapists apply these perspectives in their clinical practice? 

Join us for a mind- (and self-) expanding series with notable expert faculty in a new 5-week webinar format.

Who Should Attend

• Physician Assistants 
• Nurses 
• Nurse Practitioners 
• Primary Care Physicians 
• Psychologists 
• Specialty Physicians 
• Social Workers 
• Counselors
• Others

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Define the concepts of self-transcendence and nonduality.
• Review the historical occurrence and significance of these theories in various philosophies and wisdom traditions. 
• Summarize the evolving research in self-related processing and mental health disorders. 
• Explain emerging research supporting the role of self-transcendence in healing and recovery. 
• Identify strategies and techniques to effectively utilize the concepts of self-transcendence and nonduality in their clinical work with clients. 
• Develop exercises related to these theories that clients can practice at home. 
• Apply tenets of self-transcendence and nonduality in their own lives.