12.08.2026
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP)
Bender-Forum
Wilhelmstraße 3a, 79098 Freiburg i. Br.
How to get there: https://igpp.de/en/about-us/contact-us/
Programm
| 12.08. | Name and affiliation | Topic |
| 9:30 | Jürgen Kornmeier Director, IGPP Freiburg, Germany | Welcome to and introduction of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health |
| 9:45 30:15 | Marc Wittmann IGPP Freiburg, Germany | Introductory remarks and research overview on consciousness beyond self, time, and space |
| 10:30 30:30 | Heinrich Paes University of Dortmund, Germany | The One: How an ancient idea holds the future of physics |
| 11:30 30:30 | Angeliki Yiassemides Jungian psychoanalyst and psychedelics-assisted psychotherapist, Cyprus | Psychedelic anamnesis: Remembrance of participation in oneness |
| 12:30 Lunch break | ||
| 14:30 30:30 | Kurt Stocker ETH Zurich, Switzerland | The Four-Quadrant Model of Psychedelically induced self-transcendence: Integrative and disintegrative–residual modes across immanent and transcendent realms—A qualitatively grounded phenomenological model from controlled psychedelic trials |
| 15:30 20:20 | Cyril Costines IGPP Freiburg, Germany | The study of non-dual, non-egoic experiences: Phenomenological rigor, ontological restraint, and epistemic humility |
| 16:10 30:30 | Stefan Schmidt University Clinic Freiburg, Germany | Exploring altered states of consciousness as psi-conducive factors in experimental parapsychology |
| 17:10 Evening break: Walk, beer garden, dinner | ||
| 13.08. | ||
| 9:30 30:30 | Bernard Carr Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London | The specious present – Synthesising science, spirit and the sacred |
| 10:30 10
| Donna Thomas University of Lancashire, UK | Introduction to ICreateS |
| 25:5
| Sarah Durston University Medical Center Utrecht | Learning about consciousness from children’s lived experience |
| 25:5
| Kate Adams Leeds Trinity University UK | Beyond western ontologies? How children make meaning from spiritual experiences |
| 25:5
| Donna Thomas University of Lancashire, UK | Child as Alter? Investigating the nature of self through children’s extra sensory experiences |
| 12:30 Lunch break | ||
| 14:30 20:20 | Eric Pfeifer Catholic University Freiburg, Germany | Exploring the potential of quiet: Silence in nature, trance, Floatation-REST, and Hypnomusictherapy |
| 15:10 30:30 | Martha M. Havenith Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany | Using your breath to change your mind: Breathwork as an endogenous access point to altered consciousness |
| 16:10 20:20 | Rosa-Sophie Hamburger Deutsche Hochschule für Gesundheit und Sport Berlin | Breathing into boundlessness: An experimental study of time perception, body boundaries, emotional states, and psychological change in high ventilation breathwork compared to somatic yin meditation |
| 16:50 20:20 | Liane Hofman IGPP Freiburg, Germany | Experiences of emptiness and no-self: Lost in the process of transformation? When supposedly liberating ontological shifts evolve into persistent ontological shock and existential distress. |
| 17:30 Evening break: Walk, dinner | ||
Discussants:
Walter von Lucadou, Parapsychology Counselling, Freiburg
Felix Müller, Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Basel, Switzerland
Inna Krylovetska, Psychedelic Integration Therapist, Mind Foundation Berlin
