We can never be free to create our lives if we are in service to fixed, internalized, and largely unconscious ideas. We will engage questions which stir, sift, and raise consciousness of these deeply ingrained “ideas” which autonomously govern our lives. With increased consciousness comes increased possibility of the recovery of a more authentic journey. (Please bring a pad and pen for journaling).

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James Hollis, Ph. D., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst in practice in Washington, D.C. He served as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas, for many years and as an Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington for five years. Dr. Hollis was first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation. Additionally, he is a Professor of Jungian Studies for Saybrook University. He has written a total of nineteen books and over fifty articles. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives with his wife Jill, an artist and retired therapist. Together they have three living children and eight grand-children.