“[T]he frightening spectacle of an apocalyptic world situation”, as Jung writes (CW 10, §727), taking shape within and around us, can paralyze us with anxiety, even despair (Lat. desperare, “away from hope”). Despair, fear, and hope are all emotions with which we might approach our future. Yet only hope offers consolation, even inspiration, and a glimpse of something “beyond” and yet to be revealed. Traveling the course of hope, navigating the flight which this “thing with feathers” traverses, is at times arduous. In a sermon (of unknown date) exploring the theme of acceptance versus fatalism, Martin Luther King, Jr. captures it in this way: “We must accept finite disappointment but never give up infinite hope.” Tolerating uncertainty allows us to hope, and hope allows us to tolerate what is yet unknown. We can cultivate hope through connecting with our own vast inner world of ancient but living symbols, and conversely it is hope that gives us the space and courage to imagine the transformation that is poised to take place both within and around us.
“Authentic hope requires clarity - seeing the troubles in this world - and imagination, seeing what might lie beyond these situations that are perhaps not inevitable and immutable.”
– Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, 2016
May 30 – June 6, 2026
Retreat Setting:
Hotel Schweizerhof • Flims, Switzerland
For detailed information and registration, please see downloadable brochure at bottom of this page.
Daniela Boccassini, PhD
Joseph Cambray, PhD
Catherine Cox, BA
With Friends & Faculty of ISAPZURICH
Peter Ammann, Dr. phil.
Maria Anna Bernasconi, lic. phil.
Richard Blennerhassett, MB, FRCPI, FRCPsych
Maria Grazia Calzà, Dr. phil.
Katharina Casanova, lic. phil.
Brigitte Egger, Dr. sc. nat. ETH
Deborah Egger-Biniores, MSW
Ilaria Franchi, Movement Medicine Teacher
Allan Guggenbühl, Dr. phil.
Lisa M. Holland, MS
Scott William Hyder, lic. phil.
[email protected] • Fax +41 (0)43 268 5619
Academic Co-chairs
Maria Grazia Calzà, Dr. phil.
Lisa Holland, MS
Co-Chairs
Susanna Bucher, Dr. sc. nat. ETH
Isolde Kunerth, Dipl.-Päd.
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