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Robert Bly, FCRP Plenary Speaker, 1987. (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990). He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.

Joseph Campbell, FCRP Plenary Speaker, 1976. “More than ever, Joe’s work will help heal our current divisive society to transcend nationalistic boundaries and find peace and harmony in the ‘oneness’ in the world. I believe Joe’s work can help all people on this planet become fully human again.” Bill Moyers Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), renowned mythologist and lecturer, examined the universal functions of myth in various cultures. While often labeled Jungian, he believed that myth provided access to the unconscious. His best-known work was "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." When Joe died in 1987, Newsweek wrote, “Campbell has become one of the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture.”

Dr. Lionel Corbett (1943-2025) delivered the 2006 plenary talk at the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology Memorial weekend conference. Born and raised in Manchester, United Kingdom, Dr. Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Manchester. After his training, he served as a decorated medic in the British Military. He later moved to the United States, where he became the head of psychiatry at Rush University Hospital in Chicago and trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. For over 2 decades, Dr. Corbett served as a distinguished professor of depth psychology in the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute. His primary professional interests included the religious function of the psyche, the development of psychotherapy as a spiritual practice, and the interface of union psychology with contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Lionel’s legacy will forever be captured in his numerous influential books, including The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice, The Soul and Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering, Psyche and the Sacred, and The Religious Function of the Psyche. He also co-edited several volumes, such as Young and Aging, Depth Psychology, Meditations in the Field, and Psychology at the Threshold.