Keep the Pulse Alive:
Clinical and Spiritual Exploration on the Two-Year Anniversary of the Orlando Shooting

Presented by Naomi Azriel, M.F.T.

Building on Sam Kimbles’ work on phantom narratives and Ann Ulanov’s work on archetypal patterns of evil as manifest in the individual psyche, we will explore the profound resonance, impact and clinical implications of this significant historical event at the intersection of the collective and individual psyches. 

Course Objectives:

• Participants will garner understanding of how the work of “cultural mourning” (to use Sam Kimbles’ term) is aided and facilitated by personal and spiritual exploration of the intersection between collective/ancestral and individual wounds.
• Participants will get the importance and means of exploring and shared grieving, in analytic psychotherapy, of the phantom narratives of a patient’s personal and ancestral history and the ways they might intersect with those of the greater collective cult
• Participants will learn about how relational and transpersonal matrices hold, contain and help individuals make meaningful use of shattering encounters with archetypal evil.

Naomi Azriel, M.F.T., is an advanced analytic candidate at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, in private practice in Oakland, where she works with adults and children, with special emphasis on spiritual, ancestral and cultural trauma in individuals and families.  Growing up in a large Jewish orthodox family in Israel, Naomi moved to the U.S. in 2000, in pursuit of a greater sense of connection and belonging in her personal and professional life. She frequently lecturers on the use of the self in the transference field, emerging sexuality in young queer clients and depth psychotherapy with sex-workers. Her areas of interest include the intersection of community, culture, trauma and the individual soul.