Blog Posts

  • Living Kipling’s “If”

    While recently conducting research in Assagioli’s Archives, I came across this note by chance: Will Techniques Use much Kipling’s If Learn it by heart. Repeat it. Live it! ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ It evokes the various character- istics of the will – detachment – mastery – sense of time – positive modality In fact, Assagioli wrote this note…

  • Tuning into Spiritual Airways

    On September 20th, those of us who have been touched by Roberto Assagioli’s vision are celebrating the first World Day of Psychosynthesis. The day is meant to establish a spiritual connection between everyone who is generating and working with psychosynthesis concepts and techniques. Each of us is encouraged to take time during the day to reflect on how…

  • A Litany of Endings

    My life has recently been full of endings. Having moved from Germany to Italy, I’ve had to say good bye to family, friends, and acquaintances, my garden, my bicycle, and the comfort of the familiar. My husband and I were only one week in Italy when his father died. At the same time, many issues…

  • “A Hymn to Inner Freedom”

    Roberto Assagioli’s “prison diary” Freedom in Jail is an autobiographical account of the month he spent in prison under the fascist regime in 1940. His conclusion is entitled “A Hymn to Inner Freedom” where he writes about every man and woman’s power to inwardly free themselves. One does not need to be incarcerated to feel…

  • The Stars are Living Beings

    In the garden at Casa Assagioli in Florence, the olive trees are flowering and bees are humming around the acacia tree. Recently, I and ten other guests had the opportunity to spend one afternoon with Piero Ferrucci, author, philiospher, and psychosynthesis psychotherapist, asking him questions about the five years he spent with Assagioli as a student from…