About The Living Institute

The Living Institute is a teaching centre committed to exploring humanistic, psychodynamic, existential and mythological themes in individual, cultural and cosmological evolution. The basis for this work is the Holistic Experiential Process Method (HEP). HEP is a model for understanding systemic management and growth that is both social and personal, providing a method for facilitating the evolutionary emergence of self-organizing complexity from apparently chaotic disorder.

The Living Institute recognizes the importance of spiritual and human values in institutional and organizational functions that serve society and culture, based on the interdependence of humans with each other and the natural world.

The Living Institute is also participating in the current re-emergence of spiritual models that draw on ancient cosmologies, from both eastern and western mystical traditions, where nature is seen to embody patterns of integration that link the part with the whole, so that everything is understood to be interconnected.

What makes the Living Institute exceptional is the depth and breadth of our faculty. They are leaders and innovators in their fields.

Psychotherapy with Caroline Mardon

Living Institute Seminar Series: Jan – Feb, 2010

A series of workshops and lectures on personal development and growth in the individual, cutural, business, arts and healing spheres.

Spirituality in the Workplace - emerging trends

This lecture will present emerging trends in brining spiritual values into work environments and into the work that individuals do, with examples of organizations that have been at the forefront of this trend. We will show the five key elements of bringing spirituality to work, with techniques and practical ways to incorporate spiritual well-being into work lives and workplaces.
Fri, Jan 22, 7 – 9pm $20 Location: Living Institute 208 Carlton St
Mary Pearson, Financial Post columnist, Certified Management Consultant

Wild Craft Living Skills - mindfulness and attitude adjustments

Mindfulness and attitude adjustments toward living in a state of nature is the focus of this introductory workshop for a course on wilderness living skills, including attitudes toward living in nature, materials and clothing, basic shelter building techniques, water acquisition, fire building, food acquisition, navigation and protocols if you are lost, and how not to freeze to death, find water and stay alive!
Sat, Jan 30, 9am $40 Location: Claireville Conservation Area
Constantin von Flotow, wilderness guide and personal empowerment instructor
Register: jim@livinginstitute.org 416 515 0404

Body-Soul Work - dreams, archetype and the body-soul connection

A workshop for women and men to enhance their awareness of the soul’s embodied journey and process of self-expression through gentle exercises of sharing and moving with personal and archetypal symbolism. A choice fairytale of universal Masculine and Feminine courage will help us identify and deepen our personal relationship with Heart, Earth, Spirit and the inner Witness.
Fri, Feb 19, 7 - 9pm & Sat, Feb 20, 10 - 5:30 $125
Location: Living Institute 208 Carlton St
Ursula Carsen, psychotherapist, graduate Marion Woodman Leadership Training
Register: jim@livinginstitute.org 416 515 0404

Living Institute Existential-Integrative Psychotyherapy Diploma

Practical, hands-on psychotherapy training Three year part time training program Evening and weekend classes Academic learning - Personal experience - Practical skills This experiential, competency based program draws on the humanistic, existential, transpersonal, psychodynamic, archetypal and somatic depth traditions. We offer consciousness development, a service orientation toward cultural evolution and an appreciation of the spiritual dimension of nature. Clinical Director Caroline Mardon info@livinginstitute.org 416-515-0404

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Faculty Biographies

Program Catalogue

Program Outline

Panel Discussion: Humanistic Perspectives in the Regulation of Psychotherapy in Ontario

Saturday, August 8 2009
2:00 to 6:30 pm
Westin Harbour Castle Hotel,Toronto

Please download the event flyer or read the papers for more info.

Living Institute Cultural Innovator Award 2009

Dr Thomas R. Verny, psychiatrist and Dr Kirk J. Schneider, psychologist.

Cultural Leadership in the Networked Revolution

The Living Institute Leadership Program will be a one or two year certificate program that educates people to be leaders in the tradition of cultural activism. This training could be applied in many fields, including facilitating general cultural change, environmental activism, sustainability, social justice, political activism, organizational development, social entrepreneurship, education, health care, the arts. Lectures, workshops and conferences will be part of this program. We are negotiating with the Dharma Centre of Canada (www.dharmacentre.org) to create a Green Leaders conference for Spring 2010, focusing on environmental issues through ecospirituality (drawing on the work of Thomas Berry and others) and ecopsychology (drawing on archetypal psychology). Read More

Living Institute Wilderness Program

The Living Institute Wilderness Program is designing various lectures, workshops and programs with a focus to educate and integrate wilderness experience, knowledge and practices into daily life. This would draw from traditional cultural and green living practices, ecopsychology and ecospirituality. The LIWP would include Toronto based lectures and workshops, workshops within 2-3 hours of Toronto, and destination based workshops that would be more remote. Read More