Online Zoom Forum: Healing and Integration: Spiritual, Psychotherapeutic, and Humanitarian Perspectives.
Date: Wednesday 25 June 2025.
Time: 7pm-9pm (UK time).
Event Description:
Format: There will be five talks, each of 12 minutes, followed by discussion among the speakers and the chair, followed by Q & A.
Chair:
Phyllida Anam-Áire:
Bio: Phyllida Anam-Áire is a grandmother, a former Irish nun, author, poet and therapist.
She has worked extensively with the sick and dying and has just finished her 5th book.
Having reached 80 years of age, she is truly in love with her beautiful life and grateful for it too.
Phyllida lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Speakers:
Jacob Watson:
Title: The Emotional Path to Spirit.
Bio: Jacob Watson is an ordained interfaith minister and was a staff member with the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Center, and a Hospice Chaplain.
Jacob co-founded Collins Brook School (a Summerhill school), the Center for Grieving Children, and the interfaith Chaplaincy Institute of Maine.
His meditations and teachings are available on Insight Timer.
Jacob is the author of Enso Morning: Daily Meditation Gifts and Essence: The Emotional Path to Spirit.
He offers workshops in person and on Zoom entitled Releasing the Natural Emotions, and Gifts of Grief, the title of his new book.
Elisabeth Landgraf:
Title: Subconscious Expressive Art as Medicine.
Description: I will be sharing my journey through the shamanic healing arts—an evolving practice that explores the subconscious and unconscious realms of the self. Through this process, I delve into inner landscapes where symbols, archetypes, ancestral memory and dreams converge, allowing deep personal transformation to unfold. My art becomes both a ritual and a revelation, a space where the invisible is made visible and where the inner shifts resonate outward into the collective field.
By working with these subtle dimensions, I aim to contribute to a form of collective healing—quiet yet impactful. This is art as medicine, art as portal: not merely to express, but to propose and embody a deeper reality. One that reconnects us with what is often forgotten or hidden, offering a path toward wholeness, presence, and interconnectedness as well as a deep nurturing of the human capacity to imagine.
Bio: I’m a multi-disciplinary artist, exploring the avenues of shamanism, mysticism through artistic and creative practices (painting, Korean calligraphy, energy art, intuitive dancing, whirling, performative arts) the language and the expressions of the soul through the triple lenses of shamanism and Buddhism from my native land of Korea and Christianism from my adoptive country, France.
It’s my greatest and deepest aspiration and inner calling to give life and materialise all that is not visible, perceived or sensed.
Aine Murphy:
Title: Finding My Way to Healing.
Description: I would like to talk about the experience of spirituality and healing in my own life.
I came from the deep conditioning of Catholic Ireland. It has taken many lessons for me to find who I am and only then could I begin to integrate and heal.
Bio: Aine has worked for almost 30 years as an educator in schools.
She started her career as a drama teacher but now has evolved into teaching mindfulness meditation, aspects of yoga, sounding bowls and Celtic Consciousness.
Her creative work with children who are blind, many of whom have other complex needs, is both innovative and challenging.
Stefan Kruger:
Title: My Healing Journey with the Teachings of the Cauldron.
Bio: I live in the South of Germany in the black forest. I am a guitar teacher and from a very young age I tried to explore the meaning of life.
Dr Anna Ross:
Title: Personal and Professional Reflections on how Spiritual Colonisation has Created Communities of Trauma and Drug Dependence.
Bio: Anna Ross is a Lecturer in Health and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Research Assistant at Drug Science. Dr. Ross completed her graduate studies in Law at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a Masters in Alcohol and Drugs Studies, and a PhD in Sociology and drug policy at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked for the Scottish Government on developing safeguarding protocols for charities, and the UK Government as the Special Advisor to the Scottish Affairs Committee Inquiry into Problem Drug Use in Scotland. In addition she has been on a range of advisory committees in Scotland, set up the Scottish Drug Policy Conversations: a multi-stakeholder deliberative group exploring drug policy issues in Scotland, is co-founder of the Scottish Psychedelic Research Group and the Scottish Cannabis Consortium.
Anna Ross has over 20 years experiences of practitioner work with substance use, and identifies as a lived and living experienced researcher. She is passionate about the human rights based approaches to drug regulation, and the developing research around cannabis, psychadelics and other drugs for use for therapeutic and medicinal application.
An archive recording will be made for the EICSP archive.
NB: There will be no refund if you cancel your booking.
Cost: By Donation:
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Bank Address: Edinburgh Royal Mile Branch
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