Aion Institute

Aion is a training institute for applied psychodynamic psychotherapy, integrating psychoanalytic and Jungian approaches.

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Upcoming Aion webinar: AION 407 - Zen and the Art of Psychotherapy, taught by Dr. Matthew Bennett. This webinar occurs over the next two Fridays: 6/12 and 6/19, 9 AM to 11 AM.

https://t.co/fokdPFOHa5

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Please join us for AION 405: the Kabbalistic Tradition as Clinical Framework. This live two-part webinar is led by Izzy Gliksberg, and offers 6 CE hours for registrants of the California Board of Psychology and Board of Behavioral Sciences.

https://t.co/vnpK6110j2

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A pivotal moment from AION 101: Philosophical Foundations of Psychodynamic Theory. This course will soon be available for download as self-study content.

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Coming next week! AION 406 Sufism and Mystical Islamic Traditions. Fridays May 15, May 22, and May 29, 3-5 PM PDT. Enter into the inner world of Sufism, the esoteric and mystical dimension of Islam that emphasizes direct experience of the divine.
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Psychotherapy subverts the privatization of suffering. One of the most quietly radical aspects of analytic work, especially in intersubjective traditions, is that suffering is no longer framed as individual pathology. Distress emerges in fields, not isolates.

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Join us for AION 104 Introductory Theories and Technique in Jungian Psychotherapy. This class is part of the Psychodynamic Respecialization Certificate, suitable for psychotherapists seeking an introduction to applied Jungian theory. https://t.co/1vm4s46FRF

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@RepDonBacon Respect

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We recommend this article by Kathleen Adams PhD.
Adams shows how adult onset trauma shapes thoughts, relationships, and bodily feelings, and gently points toward how such states can be recognized, understood, and met with compassion in psychotherapy.

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The Aion Institute announces its 2026 calendar! All three Certificate Programs are now in effect!
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@MerriamWebster Not sure I get it, could you demonstrate?

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Psychotherapy discovers that safety is a metaphor.

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Archetypal Foundations of Character: Phasic Revolutions in the Themes Underlying Personality https://t.co/y1qnaNx8Xy

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Presenting a new event!

Archetypal Foundations of Character: Phasic Revolutions in the Themes Underlying Personality
Sat, Oct 25, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

CE units available for California psychologists and licensees of the California BBS

https://t.co/BOCOMMuhIn

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Presenting a new event!

Archetype, Affect, and the Architecture of Mental Representation
Sat, Sep 27, 2025, 9:00 AM PDT – Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 12:00 PM PDT
CE units available for California psychologists and licensees of the California BBS

https://t.co/GFsRfXuzAs

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Aion Institute will soon begin scheduling events. Please join our community if you'd like to receive notifications directly.

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Sound Track Challenge 1

Aion Institute plans to build a Spotify Playlist representing each of our certificate courses. What song you you suggest for AION 203?

AION 203 Anxiety, Primitive Mental States, and Character (3 sessions, 6 hours, 6 CE).

Prerequisite: 201 and 202.

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...and prompt for creative responses, which result in growth and increasingly effective complexity. The model depicts harmonic representations spinning into a circumplex design, with the harmonic progression represented as concentric rings centered on an archetypal origin point.

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The harmonic progression, up and down the harmonic trajectory, results in the breaking of primordial symmetry, which is disruptive to the Complex Adaptive System, but the energetic adaptations to these disruptions become important adaptive responses to challenges to the system..