Kairos Institute · Four online seminars
The Organic and Psychospiritual Basis of Mental Health
with Dr. James Dyson
Four Saturday afternoons on the ground beneath mental health: how soul lives in relation to body and spirit, and what that means for anyone working with people in difficulty. Dr. Dyson has spent five decades in anthroposophic medicine, twenty-five of them in clinical practice at Park Attwood.
Four Saturdays, September 26 to November 7, 2026
3:00 – 5:00 PM Eastern
Online by Zoom · $350 for the series
See registration detailsThe four seminars
- Seminar One Saturday, September 26, 2026 Mysteries of Embodiment. Two Streams of Incarnation
3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT - Seminar Two Saturday, October 24, 2026 Attachment Dynamics and Personality Structure
3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT - Seminar Three Saturday, October 31, 2026 Organology. Planetary Qualities and the Ethers in Relation to the Threefold Nature of the Human Soul
3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT - Seminar Four Saturday, November 7, 2026 Developmental and Spiritual Challenges of our Times. Understanding the Separation of the Three Soul Forces and Encountering the Guardian of the Threshold
3:00 – 5:00 PM EST
Each seminar runs two hours. The fee of $350 covers all four.
Anthroposophic medicine · Psychosynthesis
James Dyson, M.D.
Dr. Dyson trained as a medical doctor at London University, then studied anthroposophic medicine at Emerson College, Camphill Schools Aberdeen, and in hospitals in Germany. In 1979 he co-founded Park Attwood Clinic, a residential medical facility in the UK, where he practiced for twenty-five years. He has also worked as a school doctor, both in Waldorf schools and in schools and communities for adults and children with special needs.
In 2008 he completed a five-year program in Applied Psychosynthesis at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London, and was later awarded a master's degree in Psychosynthesis Psychology from Middlesex University.
He has lectured for decades across international anthroposophic medical and therapeutic trainings, and contributes regularly to conferences of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum. As a founding faculty member of the Association for Anthroposophic Psychology in the USA in 2014, he remains a regular contributor to their foundation programs. His current practice takes in clinical mentoring and independent consulting.
His work lies in connecting esoteric experience with cognitive understanding, particularly around psychosomatic medicine, mental health, and human relationship. Soul Size: The Eternal Psychosomatic Dilemma, published by SteinerBooks in 2022, collects his lectures, essays, and interviews on soul in relation to body and spirit.
Who this is for
For people who work with others
The seminars are pitched at people who already work with others: therapists, doctors, teachers, counselors, and those training toward that work. No prior study of anthroposophic medicine is assumed, though the material moves quickly for anyone entirely new to anthroposophy.
The series is part of the Kairos Institute’s 2026–27 public offerings, which also include Emergency Pedagogy Module 7 with Bernd Ruf in January and the Bridge Lectures with Michaela Glöckler in the new year. Questions about the series can go to Lisl Hofer at [email protected].