CHANGE OF VENUE Meditative Psychoanalysis: The Marriage of Mindfulness, Meaning, and Intimacy – Jeffrey Rubin, PhD – Scientific Program In-person or Zoom

DUE TO XAVIER’S HOMECOMING EVENTS AND LIMITED ACCESS TO THE CONVOCATION ANNEX, THIS CME EVENT WILL BE HELD AT NOBPC, 3624 COLISEUM ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115

All attendees will receive a 3-hour CME certificate. This is a hybrid event. Please choose to join us at Xavier University (details below) or via Zoom.

Sponsored by the NOBPC Knight Lectureship Fund in collaboration with Xavier University of Louisiana Counselor Education Department

In person at Xavier University, Convocation Center Annex, Room 111
3775 Fern Street New Orleans, LA 70125

Interest in blending Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions is burgeoning, yet we have only begun to realize what these rich traditions can teach each other. This presentation, a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with the audience, will explore “meditative psychoanalysis”, blending Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions into a more encompassing synthesis.
In meditative analysis, we first use meditation and yogic breathing to quiet and focus the mind, and we then explore and translate the meaning of what we have discovered using psychoanalytic understandings of symbolic and unconscious communication. Psychoanalytic attention to unconscious communication and meaning— the second facet of meditative psychoanalysis—expands the focus and equanimity that meditation fosters. The third and final aspect of meditative psychoanalysis is a special relationship (and environment) designed to illuminate and transform one’s history.
Psychoanalysis not only elucidates the interpersonal roots of adult afflictions, it offers a relationship and experience that is a vehicle for transformation in the present. The Psychoanalytic therapeutic relationship, in tandem with meditation, seen in a freer and more empathic light as the vehicle for both validating a person’s experience and providing opportunities for new forms of relatedness and self-transformation—becomes a crucible in which old patterns of restrictively seeing and organizing one’s life can be witnessed and ultimately transformed, so that new and liberating kinds of human connections can occur.

Learning Objectives:

• Delineate how meditation can enrich psychoanalytic listening.
• Articulate how psychoanalytic understandings of unconscious meaning and communication can enrich the meditative process.
• Explain how meditation and psychoanalysis can enrich each other and be integrated.

Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy and teaches meditation. Considered one of the leading integrators of the Western psychoanalytic and Eastern meditative traditions, he is the author of six books and has presented on psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis and Buddhism, and meditation throughout the United States and abroad.

Fee to attend: $55 for NOBPC members; $90 non-members; and $25 student rate.

VIRTUAL (ZOOM) REGISTRATION ENDS Friday, November 3 at 12pm Central time. We can accept walk-in registrations at Xavier. Please bring a check for the registration fee.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
-Updated July 2021-

Psychologists, Social Workers, and Licensed Professional Counselors may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.