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Professional Biography for John Welwood
There are three annual options for those who would like to study with John Welwood in an ongoing way. Each of these trainings are a mix of continuing students who have been involved for a long time and new students who enter each year.
• Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY: Week-long retreat for health professionals, educators, coaches, and counselors. See Schedule page for details.
• Sausalito, CA: Weekly group meeting Thursday evenings. Open to both health professionals and nonprofessionals alike. See Schedule page for details.
• Marin County, CA: A summer retreat, lasting from 3-5 days. Open to both health professionals and nonprofessionals alike. See Schedule page for details.

In the 1980s John Welwood emerged as a major figure in the leading-edge fields of transpersonal psychology and East/West psychology. The former Director of the East/West psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, he is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. He trains psychotherapists in "psychotherapy in a spiritual framework" and "the healing power of unconditional presence" and leads workshops on psychospiritual work and conscious relationship throughout the world.

John Welwood has published more than fifty articles on relationship, psychotherapy, consciousness, and personal change, as well as eight books including Journey of the Heart, Love and Awakening, Toward a Psychology of Awakening and Ordinary Magic. His best-seller, Journey of the Heart was the first book to lay out the path of conscious relationship, is widely regarded as the most profound book on intimate relationship available, and remains a classic in the field to this day. Toward a Psychology of Awakening brings together John's thirty years of work in East/West psychology, and has been widely praised as a most fresh, original, and eminently practical integration of the wisdom of East and West.

John's most recent book, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart, is the winner of the prestigious Books for a Better Life Award, which since its inception has honored over 300 titles and their authors, including Jimmy Carter, Deepak Chopra, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Stephen Levine, and Thomas Moore.

John lives in Calilfornia with his wife, Jennifer, and they offer certain teachings and workshops together.