Season: Spring 2023

Lecture - Zoom Webinar

Jungian Art Therapy: Living A Creative Life

Nora Swan-Foster
Jan, 20 2023
What does it mean to live a creative life? Jung’s initiatory journey into the “spirit of the depths“ was creative but required profound psychic courage, suffering, and patience as he confronted the unconscious and discovered “the third thing.”  Upon his “return,” when Jung wrote that “everything of which we are conscious is an image, and ... Read more
Workshop - Zoom Webinar

Creative Initiation Journey

Nora Swan-Foster
Jan, 21 2023
Drawing from the three stages of a creative initiation journey – Gateway, Attending, Passage – we build a container, attend to the unconscious, and awaken the prospective psyche. The initiatory task of allowing for the “the third thing” or the “other” to present itself is a visual validation of the spontaneous psychic energy that gives ... Read more
Seminar - Zoom Webinar

Reclaiming the Wisdom of Ancient Myths

Feb, 12 2023
C.G. Jung’s revelation of the mythopoetic dimension of the human psyche, i.e., its story-making structure, gave credence to his hypothesis of the collective unconscious, its archetypal images and their healing intent. In this seminar, we explore the wisdom hidden in the ancient Greek myths of Myrrha and the great god Pan. Together, we will discover ... Read more
Lecture - Zoom Webinar

The Coniunctio Gastronomique: God Becomes Flesh

Susan Clements Negley
Feb, 17 2023
Cooking, like alchemy, is the transformation of basic ingredients into refined substances. Psychologically, this alchemical process represents the development of the personality.  Understanding the psyche through the art and practices of cooking can heal the mind-body split that is the primary wound of modern life. The food we purchase or grow, cook and eat, link ... Read more
Workshop - Zoom Webinar

Sweating The Salmon

Susan Clements Negley
Feb, 18 2023
Our psyche is hungry for manifestation in the world, and through its appetites the soul makes itself known to us. The workshop delves into the symbolism of cooking and the personal and cultural myths of cooking and feasting. We amplify and work with archetypal dreams to reveal, through the ordinary and mundane imagery of the ... Read more
Lecture - Zoom Webinar

Ecopsychology and the Environmental Catastrophe

Dennis Merritt
Mar, 17 2023
At the 2022 climate change meetings in Egypt, the UN Secretary General said, “We are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing.” Psychology has been embarrassingly slow to respond to the frightening deterioration of our planetary environment, but ecopsychology emerged in the 1990’s to address the issue. A case will be made ... Read more
Workshop - Zoom Webinar

Jung, Hermes, the Tao and Complexity Theory

Dennis Merritt
Mar, 18 2023
The Greek myth of Hermes stealing Apollo’s cattle explicates the dilemmas we humans face in relating to each other and to the environment. The secret is in the symbol of his wand: a figure 8 with a gap at the top. Hermes is about the transactions in the gap between opposites (the two upper arms ... Read more
Lecture - Zoom Webinar

Trauma, Innocence and the Core Complex of the Dissociating Psyche

Donald Kalsched
Apr, 14 2023
Following early relational trauma, a dissociative system is set up in the psyche, composed of part-self personifications including an innocent/wounded child and his or her archetypal protectors. The main purpose of this Self Care System is to keep the innocent/injured child-self separated from the suffering of affective experience that might annihilate (or transform) it. Dreams ... Read more

“Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other”

Collected Works, Vol 7, para 78

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