Hokusai, the famous 19th c. Japanese artist said, “I became an artist, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and ten I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive”. In this spirit, and continuing the conversation from the Friday lecture, this workshop will allow participants to explore individual and cultural forms of the Elder and how this relates to one’s own circumstances as well as identify their own source of fears but also passion and life in one’s own aging.

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Karen Evers-Fahey, PhD, is a Zurich trained Jungian analyst with over 30 years experience in individual psychotherapy and Jungian analytical practice. She is currently a training analyst with the international program of the CG Jung Institute Zurich.  She taught analytical psychology and was a training and supervisory analyst in Zurich at ISAP as well as the Jung Institute Zurich for 10 years before returning to her native Canada in 2007 to continue her analytical practice and teaching/ training activities in Victoria, BC. Dr. Evers-Fahey was educated as a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Nurse Practitioner in the US (MSN 1982, Yale University) and is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor and Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Victoria School of Nursing. She received her PhD in 2004 from the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. Dr. Evers-Fahey has lectured internationally on topics such as individuation and aging, suffering and healing, and dreams.