DR. JOE CAMBRAY, IAAP

Joe Cambray, Ph.D., is Past-President of Pacifica Graduate Institute; Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is also a Jungian analyst living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, a newly edited volume, with Leslie Sawin, Research in Analytical Psychology: Applications from Scientific, Historical, and Cross-Cultural Research. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals.

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.

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.

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.

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 as a depth psychologist, 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