Our Leadership

Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston, the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master’s Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.

He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute – Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, the Ukraine and Venezuela.

He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal. His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and Spanish and a Romanian and Ukrainian edition is forthcoming.

Dr. Conforti maintains a private practice in Mystic, CT and consults with individuals and organizations around the world. He was selected by The Club of Budapest and the University Of Potsdam to be part of a 20-member international team of physicists, biologists, and dynamical systems theorists to examine the role and influence of informational fields. He is a recipient of the Vision Award presented by the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis..

LuAnn Conforti-Brown, PhD is the Director of International Studies for the Assisi Institute. She is a certified Archetypal Pattern Analyst and holds a Masters degree in Clinical Social Work from New York University and a PhD in Existential-Humanistic Psychology from Saybrook University. Dr. Conforti-Brown spent 17 years as Assistant Professor of Clinical Instruction at the University of South Florida, School of Social Work. During her tenure with the University, Dr. Conforti-Brown received the Social Work Educator of the Year award from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for outstanding teaching and mentorship. Her publications include journal articles and book chapters addressing integrative trauma treatment for military and Veteran populations. She is currently in private practice in the Tampa area of Florida.

Prior to coming to The Red Shoes, Wendy was the Director of Education at B’nai Israel Synagogue in Baton Rouge for 17 years. She is the mother of 4 amazing adult children and one lovable dog, Marley, and has been married for 52 years. She graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in English.

Has been an avid, life-long reader and student of the works of C.G.Jung and his immediate circle of associates, as well as the coterie of analysts who have created the vast body of literature exploring the richness of his ideas and contributions to the world of depth psychology. Georgiana retired from a long career in New York City as a recruiter of professionals for the technical and business community, and later as a career counselor and recruiter for special programs at Pace University in Manhattan. After her husband's retirement, spent some years in Sarasota, Fl. and worked in college admissions. Her BA and MA are in the field of English Literature, not related to the field of psychology, to be sure, but Jungian studies throughout the years, provided an enormous benefit to the psychologically oriented career in which she found herself.

From the Assisi Institute founded by Michael Conforti, PhD., she earned an Advanced Certificate in Dream Analysis and a Certificate as an Archetypal Pattern Analyst. Her present Jungian concentration of interest is primarily in the work of Marie Louise VonFranz. She enjoys ongoing interests in the arts of embroidery and crochet, the classics in music, including jazz, as well as in the world of literature, from the ancients to the present day. Her husband, Bill, as well as her seven offspring scattered across the country, have been highly supportive as she has pursued these interests through the years. Bill and Georgiana are enjoying North Carolina, their home for the past seven years, the blessings of Duke medical care, and their new North Carolina friends and associates.

Mr. Tumelty is a lover of Jungian studies who has been learning and integrating his love of psychology in which he majored in college into his law practice and personal life. Mr. Tumelty graduated from Fordham University in 1984 and Brooklyn Law School in 1987. Mr. Tumelty has worked as a prosecutor in Brooklyn New York holding various titles and leaving as a Deputy Bureau Chief where he prosecuted and provided supervision of trial assistants handling homicides and other serious felony crimes.

Mr. Tumelty’s law practice now focuses almost exclusively in recovering compensation for workers and people injured in construction site accidents and other serious accidents. Mr. Tumelty has taught criminology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College as an Adjunct Professor

Mr. Tumelty has been selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers and has also been designated as a Super Lawyer. Mr. Tumelty has completed the Intermediate Dream Interpretation Program and is an Archetypal Pattern Analyst.

Mr. Tumelty is very honored to work with the Assisi community and the Assisi Foundation in bringing its mission forward.