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Worlds Await...

"Whether I’m speaking at a conference, recording in my office studio, or taking part in a TV interview, I’m telling stories about how our culture can pull us apart, and about how you and I can bring our world back together again..."

- Carl

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Conference Articles

When the Heart Shatters: Sorrow, Presence,and Post-Traumatic Growth

Presented at the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association 11th Professional Education Conference: Presence & Involvement, Bilbao, Spain, June 15-17, 2023

Read Carl’s address to his international colleagues, where he explains how embracing the grief of where we are, within ourselves and within our culture, comes with the remarkable power to liberate us and bring us home to each other. But, to arrive here, we must each endure our time in the ashes.

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The Consumer Culture, the Client, and the Clinician

Appears in the International Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy (IJIP), Vol. 16, No.2

“I challenge the isolating patterns of consumer culture and deliver an important take-home message: therapists can, and must, play a vital role in helping clients build nourishing communities that support and sustain the growth cultivated in therapy.”

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Featured Workshop Presentation

IIPA 2025 conference, The Unexplored Cultural Domain of the Self

You and I know that our consumer culture plays a central role in our lives. And it also plays a central role in the family system disfunction, the individual heartache, the depression, and the anxiety we attend to each day with our clients. Let’s you and I delve into the research in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology and uncover the culture’s role and explore the “how to” of supporting our clients (and ourselves) to not just grow within, but to also build sub-cultures of community amid our culture of consumerism.

Colorado Counseling Association Conference

Colorado Counseling Association 2025 conference, Born for a Better World

Our modern consumer culture encourages a consuming and producing version of ourselves, leaving us exhausted, isolated, and out-of-touch with our relational need for one another. This workshop explores how our clinical work can be expanded to include the impact of consumer culture, and sets forth a new treatment paradigm.

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International Communal Studies Association

International Communal Studies Association 2024 conference” title “Inside Out: The Psychology of Intentional Communities

There was once a time of great hospitality, when people lived in interconnected communities, and everyone was welcomed everywhere they went. In this talk, we explore humanity’s fall, from this warm place of belonging into our current consumer culture… and the inner fall that comes for each of us when our natural desire for relationship is thwarted by humanity’s collapse into consumerism. Then, we will talk about the road home, an inner journey and an outer one as well…

Podcasts

Guest on “Let’s Talk About Grief With Anne”

Carl talks about humanity’s history with grief. He explains how, for most of our time on Earth, we lived our lives in villages. And in these villages grief was always shared, and never carried alone. He contrasts that to the isolation of our current consumer culture, speaking about how we’re being asked to hide our grief. He encourages each of us to bring our grief, to one another, because grief was always meant to be shared.

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