Season: Fall 2024

Lecture - Zoom & Unity of Portland

The Symbolic Life: Is It a Gift?

Ann Belford Ulanov

Sep, 27 2024
Two processes go on in us simultaneously from birth till death. The first is a personal process Jung calls individuation where we reach to become all of who we are, including mistakes, struggles, talents, uniqueness and an example of shared  human patterns Jung calls archetypes. The second process is the psyche’s goal to move us ... Read more

Workshop - Zoom & Unity of Portland

Uncertainty: Is It a Gift?

Ann Belford Ulanov

Sep, 28 2024
What a disturbing title! Some days we feel foundations we have relied upon are upended; some nights we fear what can we depend on? Can we trust that truth is accessible and real? How will our children manage? Personal and collective problems mix together. What does the psyche say? How do we discern the archetypal power in the midst of personal ... Read more

Lecture - Zoom & Unity of Portland

The Appeal of the Extraordinary

Jim Kline

Oct, 18 2024
There is a universal human desire to be drawn to extraordinary beliefs and strange phenomena that defy rational means to explain them. C.G. Jung might consider the appeal of the extraordinary as evidence of the influence of archaic or archetypal thought and behavioral patterns inherent in the human psyche which make up humanity’s collective unconscious. ... Read more

Workshop - Zoom & Unity of Portland

The Appeal of the Extraordinary

Jim Kline

Oct, 19 2024
Jung’s approach to psychology provides techniques to keep individuals in touch with their inner lives, as well as methods for interpreting the non-rational, archetypal elements of the unconscious. The workshop explores these techniques and insights that we need now in order to detect and respect the non-rational elements within life that inspire, intimidate, confuse, and ... Read more

Lecture - Zoom & Unity of Portland

The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose

Stephen Aizenstat

Nov, 08 2024
Each of us is born with a living blueprint, the essential design to evolve the imagination. You enter the world with the capacity to make creative leaps of consciousness and quantum leaps in learning. In doing so you improve your physical and emotional well-being. Dr. Aizenstat will introduce particular tools developed over 40 years of ... Read more

Workshop - Zoom & Unity of Portland

The Imagination Matrix: Journeying in the Realms of Deep Imagination

Stephen Aizenstat

Nov, 09 2024
Opening the Curious Mind initiates an inner journey into Deep Imagination.  You will encounter elemental inner figures, Soul Companions, who offer support and guidance. Accompanied by these soul figures, you increase your Imaginal Intelligence and re-discover your Innate Genius. You come home to your authentic life calling. Guided by Dr. Aizenstat, the workshop offers a ... Read more

Lecture - Zoom & Unity of Portland

Straying from the Path: An Exploration of the Intersections between Queer Theory and Analytical Psychology

David Solem

Dec, 06 2024
Those who cannot perform normative cultural narratives often find their voices silenced. Queer Theory offers us a new framework for working with old material. To queer an experience is to resist defining it. Queerness may provide a place to stand within oneself while also standing in the energy of an Exile complex that can be ... Read more

Workshop - Zoom & Unity of Portland

Queering the Path – Working with Images in Psyche through the Lens of a Queer Analytic Attitude

David Solem

Dec, 07 2024
In this experiential day of reflection and group process we will work towards a synthesis of material from Queer Theory and Analytic Psychology and will apply this synthesis to clinical material, working with fairy tale material from a Queer Energy perspective. In these tales we will encounter images of Jouissance, Exile, the Death Drive, the ... Read more