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Sara Ekenstierna at MoC7 Conference 2026
Read more: Sara Ekenstierna at MoC7 Conference 2026Sara Ekenstierna is presenting at the seventh Models of Consciousness 2026 (MoC7) conference! The conference takes place at the University of Copenhagen Denmark (October 12 – 16, 2026). It is organized by the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science, and their organizing and supporting institutions.
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Unfolding Meaning: Ekenstierna’s Tripartite Process Explained
Read more: Unfolding Meaning: Ekenstierna’s Tripartite Process ExplainedSara Ekenstierna is speaking at the 3rd International Conference, in Athens, Greece on 2–3 October 2026. Organized by European Association of Phenomenology, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy (EAPPP): “Phenomenology and Psychotherapy: Disclosing Meaning in Encounters”. Ekenstierna’s presentation is entitled: “From Fragmentation to Creative Participation: The Tripartite Process of Unfolding Meaning”
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Participatory Thinking with David Bohm: A Creative Approach
Read more: Participatory Thinking with David Bohm: A Creative ApproachWatch now (34 mins) | On-Demand Introductory Web Class (part 1). Examines the interplay between agency and participation in the continuous process of co-creating meaning in- and beyond the consulting room. Part 1, Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm: Manifest Creative Forms of Being and New Shared Realities, introduces philosophical perspectives on participation. Presenter: Sara Ekenstierna. Available…
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Begins May 2nd: Otto Rank and the Art of Creative Participation online workshop
Read more: Begins May 2nd: Otto Rank and the Art of Creative Participation online workshopOtto Rank & the Art of Creative Participation: 4-week professional development workshop on personality, creativity, healing and transformation, facilitated by Sara Ekenstierna, PhD, LPsy.
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Frida Kahlo: Otto Rank’s Ultimate Life Artist | Embracing Difference and Turning Pain into Art in the 21st century
Read more: Frida Kahlo: Otto Rank’s Ultimate Life Artist | Embracing Difference and Turning Pain into Art in the 21st centurySara Ekenstierna joins a line of fascinating speakers at “Modernism Remodelled: A Transdisciplinary Conference” February 28-March 1, 2026: Oxford University and Online. Organized by London Arts-Based Research Centre. Abstract: This paper explores the pioneering psychoanalyst Otto Rank’s “creative personality type” through the lens of Frida Kahlo’s work. It suggests that Kahlo epitomizes the artist type…
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New book coming soon: sign up and you will receive a notification when it is released!
Read more: New book coming soon: sign up and you will receive a notification when it is released!Join Sara Ekenstierna on a deep dive into the works of two of the most compelling thinkers of the 20th century. Explore Otto Rank’s innovative approach to psychotherapy, David Bohm’s integral philosophy of wholeness and dialogue, and discover the creative power of the therapeutic third!
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“Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm…” Online @ Psychology & the Other Conference
Read more: “Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm…” Online @ Psychology & the Other Conference“Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm: How to Manifest Creative Forms of Being and New Shared Realities” Speaker: Sara Ekenstierna This talk will be offered ONLINE via WebEx throughout the Psychology and the Other Conference Boston College September 19 – September 21, 2025. This presentation examines the dialectics of agency and participation as an ongoing…
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Revisiting the Bion-Bohm connection in light of the THERAPEUTIC THIRD: new date 10/28 at 7pm PT
Read more: Revisiting the Bion-Bohm connection in light of the THERAPEUTIC THIRD: new date 10/28 at 7pm PTThis presentation explores interdisciplinary dialogue merging psychoanalytic/psychodynamic principles with philosophy, focusing on conceptual structures that expand the scientific framework, particularly regarding the tacit dimension of human experience and therapeutic encounters. It draws parallels between Wilfred Bion and David Bohm’s insights into an underlying, ineffable domain of experience that influences manifest reality.
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📚 Study group with Houston Psychoanalytic Society: Otto Rank’s Dynamic Psychotherapy and a Therapeutic Third
Read more: 📚 Study group with Houston Psychoanalytic Society: Otto Rank’s Dynamic Psychotherapy and a Therapeutic Third“Drawing on her comprehensive research, Sara Ekenstierna offers an overview of some of the key tenets of Rank’s psychology, with focus on his relational, integrative, and process oriented approach, and aims to show how he is particularly relevant to 21st century therapeutic psychology.”
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🎙️Bohmian Dialogues #1: Dr Stanley Krippner on Otto Rank, David Bohm, & the Tacit Dimension in Therapy
Read more: 🎙️Bohmian Dialogues #1: Dr Stanley Krippner on Otto Rank, David Bohm, & the Tacit Dimension in TherapyWatch the first episode of the new #podcast Bohmian Dialogues. Bohmian Dialogues explores self-creative forms of being and how to manifest new shared realities for wider humanity. In the tradition of David Bohm, the podcast allows for the spirit of dialogue to arise organically, in the here and now, and for meaning to unfold spontaneously…
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