This six-session series offers a unique integration of environmental science, depth psychology, and community healing for those grappling with eco-anxiety and the overwhelming challenges of our time.

Drawing from both professional experience in the environmental sector and Jungian analytical practice, we create a safe container to explore our collective predicament—from climate change and ecological collapse to rising authoritarianism and technological disruption. Rather than offering false reassurances, we acknowledge the reality of our situation while examining the psychological and spiritual dimensions of our response. Through group discussion, nervous system practices, and archetypal wisdom, participants will move from isolation and overwhelm toward meaningful action and authentic community. This is not therapy, but rather a space for honest dialogue about living consciously in uncertain times, finding our individual and collective power, and discovering resilience in the face of the unknown.

Living the Unknown:

tools for resilience in a time of collapse

with Jungian Analyst David Pressault
and Amélie Bergeron-Vachon

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Mondays
Oct. 6 - Nov. 10, 2025

1-3pm Pacific / 4-6pm Eastern
/ 8-10pm GMT

+ Video recording will be available

Early bird registration price ends July 30

Course Schedule:

Class 1: The Tower Falls
Naming Our Reality in a World Coming Apart

Class 2: Turning Inward
From External Fear to Inner Transformation

Class 3: Reclaiming Agency
Individual Power and Courageous Action

Class 4: Collective Awakening
Systemic Change and Community Impact

Class 5: Embracing Uncertainty
Finding Meaning in the Unknown

Class 6: Living the Questions
Integration and Moving Forward Together

david pressault, Iaap

David Pressault is a Jungian analyst with a strong background in the Arts. He has a Masters in dance from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) and was a professional dancer and choreographer for 20 years. He developed a relationship to the unconscious through that art form. Today, he works in private practice and is a faculty member of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.

Amélie Bergeron-Vachon

With 15 years leading cleantech partnerships in the nonprofit sector, Amélie brings deep knowledge of environmental systems and lived experience of eco-anxiety. Her work bridges stakeholder mobilization, fundraising, climate solutions, and meaningful engagement with the challenges of planetary health. Amélie holds degrees in Environmental Science and  International Development from McGill University. Her journey toward inner resourcefulness began 10 years ago with motherhood, which crumbled her illusions of control and called her toward full presence and wholeness. She has since actively engaged in therapeutic work and group-based practices rooted in feminine wisdom, somatic experiencing, and trauma-informed healing—all in service of holding personal, family, and collective transformation with care.

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of dreams for Jungian analysis and psychotherapy. In this course, designed as an introduction for mental health practitioners interested in using dream analysis in their clinical work, we will cover four essential themes:

1. The nature and value of dreams for therapy

2. Basic approaches to and techniques of dream analysis

3. Archetypal images and themes in dreams

4. The figure of the therapist in dreams

By the end of the four meetings, participants will be able to articulate a basic Jungian understanding of the nature of dreams and how to interpret them, describe some of the important clinical information dreams can provide, and integrate dream analysis into their clinical practice.

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Introduction to Jungian Dream Analysis
For Mental Health Professionals

with Jungian Analyst JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D.

Live-Video Jungian Psychology Seminar Series

WEDNESDAYS

Oct. 22 & 29, Nov. 4 & 11, 2025
4-6 pm Pacific / 7-9 pm Eastern
Live Via Zoom
+ Video recording will be made available

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Early bird pricing ends Aug 21, 2025

JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D.

John R. White, Ph.D., is a certified Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He received his M.A. In counselling from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2011, and his diploma as a Jungian psychoanalyst from the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts in 2017.

He is currently the Coordinator of the C. G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh as well as the President-Elect of the Board of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

John has more than forty publications in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and organizational theory. He is the author of the book Adaptation and Psychotherapy. Langs and Analytical Psychology, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and co-editor of Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire. At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma (Routledge, 2024).

Required Reading

Dreams, A Portal to the Source - Edward C. Whitmont, Sylvia B. Perera

Recommended Reading

Dreams, (from the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) -
Jung, C. G.
Dreams - Von Franz, M-L

This course is both an exploration of the factors that have given rise to modernity’s psychic “split” as well as an experiential, experimental celebration of the oft-neglected, wild and creative wellsprings of the psyche. We will stir the pot with the work of poets, artists, scientists, filmmakers, mythologists, depth psychologists, and indigenous writers as we live into the questions: what does it mean to feed and be fed by wild nature, inner and outer? And what might be our role in defending and championing it?

weekly topics:

Session 1:
Consciousness Slipped from its Foundations: Jung, Freud, and Perspectives on “the Split”

Session 2:
A Hidden Wholeness: Instincts, Archetypes, and Jung’s Ecological Understanding of the Psyche

Session 3:
From the Living Fountain of Instinct: Psyche, Nature, and Creativity

Session 4:
Thinking Like a Mountain: Defending and Championing the Wild

“Doesn’t everything die at last and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

“In the psyche there is nothing that is just a dead relic. Everything is alive, and our upper story, consciousness, is continually influenced by its living and active foundations.” – C.G. Jung

Note:
While there will be a lecture component, this course is designed to be as participatory, experiential, and interactive as possible. Audio lectures and a curated collection of short readings will be provided before each live class so as to create more space for creative work, group discussions, and small group engagement.

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Re-Wilding
the Heart:

PSYCHE AND THE LIVING FOUNTAIN OF INSTINCT

with charles morse

Live-Video Jungian Psychology Seminar Series

FOUR SESSIONS: THURSDAYS

Starting Oct. 23, 2025

7-9pm Pacific / 10-12am Eastern
Live via Zoom
+ Video Recording will be available

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At the heart of C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology is a balancing act, a holding of dynamic tensions between conscious and unconscious, rational and irrational, civilized and wild. While his contemporaries took for granted the virtue of the West’s centuries-long project of “taming” the wild, instinctual depths of the psyche (“Where id was, there ego shall be.” – Sigmund Freud), Jung saw the one-sidedness of this prevailing attitude as fundamentally flawed and tragically life-denying. For Jung, to negate the irreducible wildness of the psyche was to lose sight of that which makes us fully human and to fall into an ever deeper sense of alienation from what anthropologist David Abram refers to as the “more-than-human world”.

Charles Morse

Charles Morse is an educator, writer, and artist. He holds a BA from Stanford University (History), an MSc from Schumacher College (Philosophy of Science), and an MA from the Pacifica Graduate Institute (Depth Psychology). As a faculty member at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, Charles explores the intersection of depth psychology, ecology, and creativity. His work is deeply informed by the psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin, the scholar and activist Joanna Macy, and his 15 years working as a farmer and educator in the field of sustainable agriculture.

We live in a culture that prizes productivity over wisdom, youth over age, surface over depth. The elder feminine—what Jungians call the Crone—has been banished from the modern psyche. She is feared, ridiculed, or rendered invisible. Yet in fairytales, myths, and dreams, she still knocks at the door, bearing flame, question, and initiation.

In this online seminar, we will explore how to court the Crone as a necessary antidote to the cultural syndrome of modernity: a syndrome marked by speed, severance, and spiritual forgetfulness. Drawing on Baba Yaga’s Wisdom: A Jungian Journey Through Dreams and Fairytales, we will enter the Crone’s forest and confront the psychic and symbolic tasks she sets before us.

Through Jungian analysis, storytelling, dreamwork, and reflective practice, we will learn to welcome her as an archetype of transformation, authority, and soulful discernment in our time.

To court the Crone is to welcome back the wisdom the world has forgotten. It is to sit by the fire of the old stories, to grind truth in the mortar of experience, and to carry a skull-lantern into the dark places of culture and soul. This seminar is a calling, a threshold, and a return.

Week 1: The Crone Cast Out

• How modernity banishes the Crone
• Symptoms of Crone loss: burnout, collapse, over-adaptation
• Fairytales of the discarded old woman
• Reflective prompts: locating the forgotten Crone within

Week 2: Entering the Forest

• Baba Yaga’s hut and the ritual of approach
• Initiatory fear and the sacred threat of wisdom
• Tasks of transformation (bones, bread, fire)
• Dream analysis and group sharing

COURTING THE CRONE

Reclaiming Wisdom in an Age of Disposability

with Jungian Analyst Muriel McMahon

LIVE-video WORKSHOP SERIES

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SATURDAY

Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2026
9-11am pacific / Noon-2pm eastern
/ 4-6pm GMT / 5-7 pm BMT

Early registration discount ends Oct. 10

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Week 3: Courting the Crone

• Listening to the voice of the Crone in dream and life
• Archetypal embodiment: reclaiming intuition, grief, solitude
• Case examples from analytic work and *Baba Yaga’s Wisdom*
• Symbolic writing or creative exercise

Week 4: Becoming the Lantern-Bearer

• Leaving the hut: the return with wisdom
• Crone blessings for the collective
• Storytelling circle: each participant offers a tale of becoming
• Closing ritual and communal benediction

with Jungian Analyst
Muriel McMahon

Muriel McMahon, M. Ed., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst

Words, nature, dreams and story are sacred texts. They inscribe and articulate the pattern and the meaning of our lives. As a literature teacher, writer, and a Jungian analyst for close to 40 years, Muriel McMahon’s professional experience is vast and varied.  Her personal passions include writer, iconographer, teacher, grandmother and steward of 100-acres of woods in Ontario, Canada. You can find samples of her writing @ Substack

recommended reading

Baba Yaga's Wisdom by Muriel McMahon

The Feminine In Fairytales: Marie-Louise von Franz

Individuation and the Archetypal Feminine: Carl Jung
Contemporary thinkers on aging, ecology, and wisdom (e.g., Sharon Blackie, Clarissa Pinkola Estés)

Week 1: Introduction to Tarot & the Shadow

• How the tarot acts as a mirror of the psyche

• The framework of the psyche and the relationship between ego & shadow

• Breaking down the alchemical process of individuation

• Illuminating the true archetypal nature of the Shadow

• What really is “shadow work”?—its dangers, misconceptions, and power

Week 2: Shadow in the Minor Arcana

• The suits and the imbalance of our cognitive functions

• Court cards and our complexes

• Active imagination & the Archetypal Tarot Techniques

• The Shadow Work spreads

Week 3: Shadow in the Major Arcana & Reversals

• The path of shadow in the major arcana from dissolution to redemption

• Reversals and the revelation of our hidden patterns

• Walk through & practice of the tarot shadow work process

Shadow Work has become one of the most popular methods of self-betterment over the last decade, but what that work really is and the power it actually holds for our lives is deeply misunderstood. While we talk about shadow work casually, the way we might talk about meditation or journaling, the truth is that working with the shadow, as Carl Jung originally defined it, is a deep and often frightening process of psychic investigation. It is something that can be both overwhelming and intimidating, and requires the right tools and foundation of information to practice safely.

Tarot is one of the best tools for real and meaningful shadow work. If we use it effectively, it can offer us a way to reflect on what we do not see about ourselves, integrate it, and transcend it. In Shadow Work & the Tarot: A Guided Workshop of Self-Reckoning with the Cards, we will explore exactly how to do this shadow work with the tarot, while also establishing the deeper purpose of this work in your lives and the collective. Come join this workshop to master this potent and transformative work with the shadow.

Tarot and Shadow:

A Guided Workshop of Self-Reckoning with the Cards

with Mariana Louis

Live-Video Seminar

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WEDNESDAYS
Jan. 14, 21, 28, 2026

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern
+ Video recording will be available

Mariana Louis, M.A.

Mariana Louis, M.A. is a professional tarot counselor, scholar, and creator of Persephone's Sister, a platform for psycho-spiritual education and guidance. After stumbling upon The Undiscovered Self in her grandfather's attic library, Mariana entered into Jungian analysis and began her academic study of analytical psychology. This led her to pursue a degree in Western Intellectual Traditions at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she focused on archetypal perspectives of occultism and transformations of the feminine principle. Mariana then integrated her scholarship into her developing expertise in the tarot and formulated an approach she calls Archetypal Tarot. She teaches this approach, which marries Jungian concepts with the symbolic depth of the tarot, in the well-received Archetypal Tarot School. Mariana also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Hunter College, and is a published lyricist and poet. Learn more about Mariana at: https://persephonessister.com/

This course explores the myth of Tristan and Isolde as a profound symbolic text at the intersection of medieval romance, operatic genius, and the modern quest for inner transformation. Drawing from the work of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and Robert A. Johnson, we will trace how this archetypal story maps the soul’s encounter with love that is both ecstatic and annihilating—what the troubadours once called amor de lonh, love from afar, which elevates and wounds in equal measure.

At its heart, Tristan and Isolde is a myth of initiation: a passage into a consciousness where love is not sanctioned by tribe, church, or law, but by the inner authority of the heart. Following Campbell, we examine the 12th-century emergence of courtly love as a revolutionary development in Western culture—one that placed the individual's experience of love above social contract or religious creed.

Through Jung’s lens, we will see the lovers as twin aspects of the psyche, drawn into a liminal space where eros becomes a force of individuation. Their fateful union—sealed by a love potion that awakens rather than creates their desire—echoes the archetype of the coniunctio: the mystical union of opposites at the heart of alchemical transformation

Tristan & Isolde:

The Alchemy of Love, Death, and Individuation

with writer and educator
Béa Gonzalez

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A central focus will be Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde, a 19th-century Romantic reimagining of the legend that speaks in the language of unresolved harmony and longing without end. Wagner’s use of the Tristan chord mirrors the psychic disorientation that occurs when eros breaks through ordinary consciousness. We will explore short selections from the opera—particularly the Liebestod (Love-Death)—as a musical rendering of what Jung called the numinous: an overwhelming encounter with the transpersonal.

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4 Sessions

LIVE-VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

WEDNESDAYS

FEBRUARY 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2026

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern
+ Video recording will be available

This course is ideal for those interested in depth psychology, myth, and music.

Béa Gonzalez

Béa Gonzalez is a writer, lecturer, and educator. She has an MA in History and Literature from the University of London. Her novels have been published in Canada by HarperCollins and in seven other countries. Her second novel, The Mapmaker's Opera, was adapted into a musical by Kevin Purcell and featured at the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival. She is also the founder of SophiaCycles, a project aimed at teaching metaphorical thinking through an examination of classical works, myth and fairy tales, and she co-hosts two podcasts: Gatherings and Archetypes and the Planets.

Recommended Course Reading:

Tristan [A.T. Hatto translation] - Gottfried von Strassburg

libretto of Tristan und Isolde - Richard Wagner

The Tao is elusive and evasive and yet it is always present and operates in a mysterious way, the way of “non-doing”. It is said that by the way of “non-doing”, nothing is left undone.

In this seminar we will explore the way of “non-doing” in the context of Jungian psychotherapy.

The seminar will begin with a discussion of the story of “The Rainmaker”, a favourite story of Jung, in which the way of “non-doing” is beautifully expressed.

The seminar will then examine the factors that facilitate this mysterious working of the Tao. We will then discuss how analysts and analysands can best open themselves to the way of “non-doing” and encounter the working of the Tao in the analytical process.

The seminar will also examine what it is about Jungian psychotherapy that lends itself naturally to the direct experience of the Tao in the present age.

The seminar is discussion based. Participants will be presented with selected passages not only from the Taoist texts but also from the writings of Christian mystics and of C.G. Jung. These passages are presented for discussion primarily to elicit responses coming from within our depth.

The primary text used for this seminar is Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching.

3 Saturdays
March 7, 14 & 21, 2026

10am-Noon pacific / 1-3pm eastern /
6-8pm GMT

• Instructor requests that all attendees participate with video on.

+ Live-Only Class - Unlike our other course offerings videos of sessions will not be available.

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with Jungian Analyst
Jayson Wong

Jayson Wong received a B.A. in philosophy and a M.A. in religious studies, with a major in Buddhism. He taught for five years as instructor at Nalanda College of Buddhist Studies in Toronto. Presently, Jayson has a private practice as a registered psychotherapist and Jungian analyst in Barrie and in Toronto, Canada. He is member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), and the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT).

Dreams speak to us at night and shed light on what we miss and can’t see during the day. In the morning, its language escapes us and so often we lose the thread that was so clear the night before, we forget. Although elusive and enigmatic, if you learn to listen you will find that, dreams speak of what is kept most secret and intimate about who we are. In working with the unconscious, we come to find that dreams are the royal road to soul.

Video One: INTRODUCTION TO C.G. JUNG’S APPROACH TO DREAMS

This session introduces C.G. Jung’s approach toward analyzing dreams and explores their compensatory function in our psyche.

1. Dreams and their function in the psyche

2. From subjective to collective: Types of dreams

3. Connecting the dots: Dream analysis through associations

4. Getting a wake-up call: Meaning of nightmares

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The Symbolic Language of Dreams

VIDEO SERIES

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2 Videos + Bonus Material
4 hrs

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In this 2-part course we look at C. G. Jung’s way of working with dreams and some of his approach to their symbolic language. We consider how one can cultivate a dream practice and come to gain some insight into one’s unconscious. We’ll try to get a grasp at what it’s like to honour and interpret a dream.

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Video One: INTRODUCTION TO C.G. JUNG’S APPROACH TO DREAMS

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Short bonus video - How to enter the dream setting.

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Video Two: DREAM INTERPRETATION

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david pressault, Iaap

David Pressault is a Jungian analyst with a strong background in the Arts. He has a Masters in dance from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) and was a professional dancer and choreographer for 20 years. He developed a relationship to the unconscious through that art form. Today, he works in private practice and is a faculty member of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.

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Video Two: DREAM INTERPRETATION

The second session looks at the nature of dream symbols and reflects on the significance of recurring dreams and how to identifying the most common dream themes.

1. Missing the message: The meaning of recurring dreams

2. Dream interpretation: The art of asking questions

3. Layers of meaning: Working with symbols and dream images

4. Analyzing common dream themes

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This lecture series will contrast Jung’s notion of the Self, which he refers to as the God within, with traditional theistic approaches to the divine.

Dr. Corbett will illustrate the range of ways in which the Self may appear within the psyche. We will look at the ways in which Jung’s approach avoids the philosophical problems associated with the idea of God found in the Judeo-Christian tradition and allows for the development of a personal spirituality rather than one based on doctrine and dogma.

Dr. Corbett will contrast Jung's approach to the Self with the Atman of the Upanishadic tradition. We will consider Jung’s notion of the dark side of the Self – as illustrated in his Answer to Job – and the arguments with theologians this book produced.

Throughout the course, participants are invited to reflect upon their personal experiences of the Self.

“Jung’s approach gives us a personal connection that does not require a Bible or a religious hierarchy. It frees us from being told what to believe, and it frees us from notions such as the idea that we are intrinsically sinful creatures. We no longer have to believe that some people are specially chosen or saved . . . We don’t need the tribalism and hostility that religions have fostered. We don’t need to be bound to the belief systems that began in the Bronze Age or in the early 4th century. We have a different consciousness than those people; we need a [different] spirituality.”*

– Lionel Corbett

Session One: Jung’s Approach to Spirituality

Session Two: The God Within

Session Three: The Projection of the Self

Session Four: The Dark Side of the Self

Session Five: Criticisms of Jung’s Approach

Session Six: Experiences of the Self

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The God-Image and the Self: From Antiquity to Jung

with Acclaimed Author
and Jungian Analyst Dr. Lionel Corbett

VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

6 Sessions / 8+ Hours

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• All pricing in US dollars.

with acclaimed author
and Jungian Analyst
dr. lionel corbett

Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he teaches depth psychology.

He is the author of numerous professional papers and six books: Psyche and the Sacred; The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering, and Understanding Evil: A Guide for Psychotherapists and his latest: The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung.

He is the co-editor of four volumes of collected papers: Psyche’s Stories; Depth Psychology, Meditations in the Field; Psychology at the Threshold;  Jung and Aging.

We herald the return of the feminine as the antidote to balance what has been damaged in the West by too much masculine. In modern men and women, the hero’s quest has dominated our consciousness and the maiden’s quest has been largely ignored. That being said, anything that has been denied, repressed, or disavowed, rarely returns intact. A feral animal is infinitely more dangerous than a wild or tame beast. Let us not be naïve. When She returns, her rage and her wrath must be calibrated with consciousness.

Join Jungian analyst and Keeper of the Stories, Muriel McMahon as we explore the archetype of the Crone. Figured as ‘Baba Yaga’ in Slavic tales, and deformed into a ‘Witch’ in more Eurocentric tales, this ambiguous figure of the feminine at the crossroads must be understood or else we be devoured by her. We must learn how to look her in the face, tend to her wounds, and remind her and us that the feminine in women and in men is a fierce energy that is rightly both feared and revered.

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Through a Jungian archetypal lens, we will address the following:

1. Acquaint ourselves with Jung’s essays: The Dissociability of the Psyche (CW8~365) and The Psychological Foundation for a Belief in Spirits (CW8~570).

2. Learn and practice a formula for Archetypal Fairy Tale Analysis

3. Discover an orientation to the archetypal figure of Baba Yaga

4. Recognize the distortion of the wise woman in our western culture

5. Prepare consciously for the re-emergence of the feminine in both men and women

Session One

‘Kissing the Witch’ and ‘Mother Holle’

Session Two

‘The Witches’ Excursion’ and ‘La Loba’

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VIDEO SEMINAR

2 Sessions / 4 Hours

+ Available for immediate purchase and viewing

 In this TwO Seminar series we will
collect the bones of the old woman,
and sing them back to life

with Jungian Analyst
Muriel McMahon

Muriel McMahon, M. Ed., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst who leads an international weekly fairy tale seminar. Trained extensively in indigenous wisdom traditions, Muriel is a Keeper of Stories. She formerly served as chair of the Fairy Tale Certification program with The Assisi Institute, a training analyst and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, the managing editor of the Assisi Journal, and the director of studies for The Assisi Institute’s Archetypal Pattern Analyst program. Based in Canada, she has a busy online international praxis and has offered workshops and teachings in Russia, Zurich, Colombia, France, United States, and Canada. Muriel has a passion for story and the ways in which our wounds and our wonders are expressed in the enduring narrative of our lives.

www.murielmcmahon.com

One way in which depth psychology can contribute to collective transformation in the 21st century is by helping us to move beyond the disenchanted worldview. This disenchantment arose out of our cultural monomyth of rational science being redemptive, which began with the Enlightenment.  With this in mind, we can understand Jung’s experiences during his Red Book period as amply demonstrating his efforts, conscious and unconscious, to re-spiritualize the world. 

In this presentation, we will look at how the concepts of individuation, synchronicity and the psychoid aspects of the archetypes entered Jung’s formulations of the psyche and nature.  Following upon this, we will reexamine these ideas in terms of complexity theory which offers tools to help us envision a re-enchanted world. These tools will help us listen to synchronistic attunements linked to ecological awareness along with opening the psychoid imagination to help us better detect and understand our relationship with the universe.

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SYNCHRONICITY
&
RE-ENCHANTMENT

WITH DR. JOE CAMBRAY, IAAP

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In his recent exhibits Self-Summoning (shadow work) and Shadow Work (chapters) (both 2022), Lehmann Maupin artist Dominic Chambers’ work pours color into the Jungian concept of the Shadow. He shares how working with Carl Jung’s theory of shadow was revelatory for his artwork. 

We are pleased to present Dominic in conversation with artist and JUNG Archademy faculty Chantal Powell for a special event Saturday Jan. 20, 2024.

Dominic sees the Shadow as an enduring presence to be encountered, “It’s always there. The shadow manifests when a light source hits it”.  He will be discussing his use of color and light in depicting the shadow, and the power of art to give expression to unconscious processes.

“Shadow working is essentially when you do some introspective work to uncover parts of your identity or your personality you have potentially neglected or not addressed, but effect your personality and your life. So you have to go back and uncover what has happened to you, relationships with people and environments, and to re-contextualize those things and to revise them in a way that’s suitable for your life today.”
- Chambers, interview with ArtNet: Painter Dominic Chambers on How Jungian Theory Shaped His Art, and the Transformational Role of Therapy in His Own Life

Transferring his personal learnings within Jungian therapy, his recent paintings point to the importance of looking inward and the transformative power of the imagination.

“In Chambers’s vivid paintings figures rest, read, and reflect in quiet peaceful settings straddling real and imaginary worlds. The bucolic landscapes are at once familiar and nostalgic, yet magical in their tonality. The rainbow-colored ghostly silhouettes in To encounter a shadow (2022) and Self-Summoning (shadow work) showcase Chambers’s connection to spirituality and self-actualization. A strong sense of vulnerability provides moments of respite and empathy for the viewer.”  –  Folasade Ologundudu for Art Seen - Dominic Chambers: Soft Shadows

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Soft Shadows

DOMINIC CHAMBERS, M.F.A.

IN CONVERSATION

with

Chantal Powell, Ph.D.

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Hosted by Chantal Powell

Chantal Powell is an UK-based artist, educator and curator. Her art practice explores the symbolic language of the unconscious and is informed by a PhD in social psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and inner alchemy.

Chantal is also the founder of the artist residency program Hogchester Arts in West Dorset and hosts the speaker program "The Red Book Club". She presents illustrated talks and workshops on psychological alchemy from an artist’s perspective and has co-curated exhibitions with a focus on archetypally symbolic art. 

Dominic Chambers (b. 1993 St. Louis, MO; lives and works in New Haven, CT) creates vibrant paintings that simultaneously engage art historical models, such as color-field painting and gestural abstraction, and contemporary concerns around race, identity, and the necessity for leisure and reflection. Interested in how art can function as a mode for understanding, recontextualizing, or renegotiating one’s relationship to the world, the artist sees painting as a critical and intellectual endeavour, as much as an aesthetic one. A writer himself, Chambers draws inspiration from literature, especially Magical Realism and the writing of W.E.B. Du Bois, particularly Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, and one of its central themes―the veil. A product of racial injustice that is a metaphorical lens through which Black bodies are observed and experienced, references to the veil appear throughout the artist’s work, whether in the large swaths of color that obscure the figures in his Wash Paintings series, or in his recurring use of a raindrop motif as both an active and passive element in his paintings. Many of Chambers’ compositions incorporate Fabulist elements, including ghostly silhouettes meant to be stand-ins for the artist and surreal landscapes that feel both familiar yet unplaceable.

Chambers received his B.F.A from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI in 2016, and his M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2019. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA (2020); Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy (2020); The Millitzer Studio and Gallery, St. Louis, MO (2017); and the Residential Gallery, Des Moines, IA (2017).

Chambers’ work is in a number of private and public collections, such as the Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; and Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL.

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Dominic was included on Forbes - 30 Under 30 to watch in 2021.

Balan’s new book Why Am I Like This? A Journey Into Psychological Astrology provides an excellent overview of the basic archetypal approaches to the planets and signs of astrology. This symbolic approach to self-understanding is a path that provides a middle way between the empty solely rational modern worldview and the rigidity of older dogmatic approaches.

In this conversation, we discuss how astrology provides a language for understanding our most important life experiences. Planets, aspects, signs and houses when viewed with an archetypal eye, enable us to discover ourselves as living in a meaning-filled world.

We talk about the gods as drives within us. We look at Saturn - the god of time - in our charts, Mars - the archetypal Warrior and the process of getting curious about our own patterns.

“Part memoir, part astrology, Jungian psychology and global mythology, Why Am I Like This? is an orchestral overview of the moving parts that come together to create what OG wellness influencer Carl Jung calls “wholeness”.

Wholeness, as Judy writes, “is not about becoming better or perfect, nor is it about aspiring to some collective standard of what is good, beautiful or successful. In the Jungian sense, wholeness is about becoming yourself or all that you potentially are, by facilitating a dialogue and a connection with your unconscious, and all the parts of you that are trapped in there.”

– Priyanka Mookerjee,
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Why Am I Like This?

A JOURNEY INTO
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASTROLOGY

A Conversation with author Judy Balan

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60 min

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Author Judy Balan

Judy Balan is a writer and consulting psychological astrologer with a Post Graduate Diploma in Jungian Studies. Her most recent work Why Am I Like This? A Journey Into Psychological Astrology was published by Simon & Schuster, India in Feb 2023 and is equal parts memoir and primer in natal astrology through a Jungian lens. Judy lives with her daughter and two retrievers in Chennai, India.

Interview hosts:

Gary S. Bobroff is the founder of the JUNG Archademy and Jungian Online. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada and a master’s degree in Jungian-oriented counselling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of Knowledge In A Nutshell: Carl jung (2020) which is a Jungian psychology best seller.

Irina Avdeeva is a business development manager and course host for JUNG Archademy. She holds two Master's degrees in International Affairs from Berlin, Germany and from the Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC. Irina has published academic articles and organized political debating workshops in Europe and North America. Irina has a passion for studying the works of C.G. Jung and applying the archetypal lenses to the analysis of world politics. 

In this presentation we will be exploring the colonial shadow and the settler psychology that has shaped what is now known as North America.

This psychology has perpetrated devastating harm over the last half a millennium and continues to oppress Indigenous people and degrade the environment. Today, it lives on in many of us. In this evening of discussion we will be using the tenet of depth psychology that stories and myths from one’s own ancestry can bring about transformation and deep changes in perspective. As such, we will investigate how an alchemical way of imagining into white settler colonial consciousness might contribute to its accountability and psychological healing today.

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Kira celeste, Ph.D

Kira Celeste, PhD is passionate about supporting individuals in their journeys towards integrity with self and others. She is the author of The Colonial Shadow: A Jungian Investigation of Settler Psychology. As a white settler, she gratefully acknowledges that the land on which she lives and works works as a depth psychotherapist, registered clinical counsellor and writer is the Unceded Traditional Territories of the K'ómoks and Qualicum First Nations. Her Doctorate is in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. 

www.drceleste.ca

How does emotional healing happen? How do we resolve our heartbreak, our childhood issues, our experiences of abandonment and betrayal and recover a sense of wholeness so that we can continue to walk our spiritual path? How can we connect with the spiritual wisdom within if we have become separated from our Divine heritage rooted in our own nature?

Thirty years in the therapy room listening to fellow souls although enriching my life immeasurably, has taught me one essential truth–healing is not a matter of will, it is a matter of heart. You can tell your story over and over again and still not heal.

“One day, after perhaps years in therapy sitting on the same chair week in week out, a miracle happens, a doorway opens and a great surge of love sweeps over us and we know we will never be the same again.”

You heal when your heart opens, when you surrender to a higher force and when you pray or listen to your soul. Healing can come through in a dream, in a poem or when something outside us makes an electric connection, a resonance with something deep inside us. Just as ‘the flow’ that became this book pushed its way into my consciousness mainly through my dreams, walks by the sea and periods of meditation and reflection, so too can healing come to you.

“In a time of spiritual awakening, emotional healing must move beyond psychology if it is to be effective.”

– Benig Mauger

Communing with nature, working with dreams, meditation and soul journeying with spiritual tools-in The Soul & the Sea, Benig Mauger interweaves depth psychology with spirituality to present a new model of healing. The Soul & The Sea takes you deep into the Sacred Feminine wisdom embodied in the earth and our own inner healing wisdom.

Inspired by the sea and land around her home, Mauger draws from her own life experiences as a Jungian therapist and spiritual teacher to illustrate how connection to nature and the spiritual world can heal emotional wounds. As both a guide and a creator of a new portal for healing, The Soul & the Sea reads like a story as it charts the journey to healing through nature and spirit while serving as a tool for emotional healing and soul growth, showing us how to connect to our inner healer.

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Jungian psychotherapist
Benig Mauger

Benig Mauger is an internationally known Jungian psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, poet and workshop leader. Author of a number of critically acclaimed books, she is a frequent speaker at national and international events on psychological healing, spiritual wellness and how to live an empowered and soulful life. A pioneer in pre and perinatal psychology, her ground-breaking book 'Songs from the Womb' (1998) led to media exposure, seminars and workshops in the following years in the USA and Europe. Her books 'Reclaiming Father'(2004)  and 'Love in a Time of Broken Heart (2008), led to further appearances. Aside from her work as a speaker, teacher and author, Benig maintains a private practice. Informed by her own spiritual journey, her recent work and writing is aimed at helping others learn how to heal from within. Her forthcoming book The Soul & The Sea will be published in May 2023. She lives and works in Connemara, Ireland. Her work is featured on her website www.benigmauger.com