The Contemplative Studies Network
Summer Research Institute
ABOUT THE CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES NETWORK
The contemplative studies network is a network of practitioners of diverse contemplative and psychological traditions; from transpersonal psychology and religious practice traditions, to secular therapeutic modalities. This organisation meets to share scholarship, develop collaborative projects, and explore contemplative technologies.
The contemplatve studies network provides a meeting space for nconventional interdisciplinary encounters, where researchers and practitioners enrich one another in their understanding of the psyche, artistic exploration and contemplative wisdom traditions. These conferences constitute a meeting place for an open-hearted and interdisciplinary dialogue; generating new pathways of research and collective sense-making..
CSNis a multidisciplinary laboratory for investigating the nature of experience — personal and collective, “first-person” and “third-person,” intersubjective and intrasubjective. We are inspired by cutting-edge theoretical frameworks and methodologies that have grown out of the enactive approach, which takes seriously the continuity between life and mind, body and cognition, theory and practice, and epistemology and ethics. Our aim is to develop practices that surpass the limits of orthodox mind science and advance more nuanced and comprehensive understandings of our minds, the world, and human interactions.
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
About Dr Julien Tempone-Wiltshire
Dr Julien Tempone is a philosopher, psychotherapist and academic, holding a PhD, Masters of Social Work, 1st class Honors in Philosophy and Science from the ANU and a Bachelor of Integrative Psychotherapy. Julien has worked as a clinician in a variety of settings; as a complex trauma practitioner and social worker, currently working only in private practice with clients facing a range of issues, in regards to mental health and wellbeing, trauma-recovery, self-development and spiritual crisis. He primarily teaches as a Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy, Councelling —nationally coordinating the Masters study of Grief, Trauma and Philosophy. This knowledge informs, and is informed by, his clinical practice, alongside his previous lecturing at the Ikon Institute, the largest provider of transpersonal psychology, integrative psychotherapy in Australia.
Dr Julien-Tempone has had a lifelong engagement with Eastern contemplative traditions across the Thai-Forest, Burmese, Tibetan and Secular Buddhist traditions; he has presented at Buddhist conferences globally, and spent many months in silent retreat environments. He has presented on Buddhism and Mindfulness at conferences globally and has worked in affiliation with the Mind and Life summer research institute, with extensive training in Buddhist contemplative traditions. He is also a published academic in the areas of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, phenomenology and conscious. He possesses an active research interest in the onto-epistemic foundations of psychology east and west, ethno-medicine and traditional shamanic practices, alongside contemporary psychodynamic, existential and transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy.
Julien is available for private psychotherapeutic sessions both online and in person. Please reach out by email to discuss appointment: julien.tempone-wiltshire (at symbol) acap.edu.au
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Testimonials
“Julien is a deeply committed researcher and an exciting emerging scholar working at the intersections of contemplative non-dual practice traditions and philosophical and scientific thinking. His research is interdisciplinary in method and scope and grounded in cross-cultural and lived first-person perspectives. Julien has shown himself to be an innovative scholar with wonderful potential and he is also a committed dharma practitioner. I can recommend him to you without reservation.”
— Dr Leesa Davis, Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Author of Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism)
“Julien’s project, re-examining the points of contact between science (broadly understood) and Buddhism, appears to me an important and timely one, with real benefits for the understanding and teaching of mindfulness and contemplative practices more generally in the contemporary world.
— Dr Graeme Miles, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Author
“Julien’s background in Secular Mindfulness and Buddhist philosophy has prepared him well to perceive connections and form bridges between traditions, as well as to see the social and political implications of ideas and practices from a range of traditions. His commitment both to his own contemplative practice and to academic philosophy ideally suit him to the challenges that he wishes to take on. His capabilities as a writer will enable him to communicate the results of his work to a broad as well as a scholarly audience.” — Dr Graeme Miles, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Author
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“Julien’s rare sense of the lived meaning of philosophical ideas and his capacity to find connections between traditions, ideas and states of mind seem to me to make him a worthy recipient.”
— Dr Graeme Miles, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Author