The astrological birth chart is a roadmap for life, a portrait of the personality and the distinctive potentials of each individual. It depicts the full spectrum of our involvement in a complex world. Astrology’s precise understanding of phases of time and life cycles is of immense benefit to everyone who seeks to understand themselves, their relationships, the spiritual meaning of past challenges, and the future they envision and intend. In this course, Greg will teach the basics of astrology in the light of spiritual teachings and depth psychological concepts, as a path of wholeness and individuation. The class will have a process-oriented focus where the instructor will work with participants’ charts live in the moment, explain the chart symbolism, and demonstrate the process of chart interpretation, the analysis of transiting planetary influences, and progressions of the birth chart. No prior knowledge is required, only a willingness to learn and study yourself.

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Astrology and
Jungian Depth Psychology

LIVE PSYCHOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

WITH AUTHOR GREG BOGART, PH. D.

Wednesdays
April 10, 17, 24, and May 1
2024

Live worldwide via Zoom
4-6pm Pacific / 7-9 pm Eastern
+ Video recording
will be made available

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Greg Bogart, PhD, MFT is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist who has also practiced astrology professionally since 1981. His work unites dream studies, clinical research, humanistic astrology, attachment theory, Jungian depth psychology, Psychosynthesis, and dynamic group process work.
He is the author of Dreamwork and Self-Healing, and Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression, Planets in Therapy: Predictive Technique and the Art of Counseling and Astrology as a Therapeutic Art: Healing Human Relationships.  His other books include Astrology and Spiritual Awakening, Astrology’s Higher Octaves and In the Company of Sages. Greg is a lecturer in psychology at Sonoma State University. Previously he taught for 20 years in the Counseling Psychology, East-West Psychology, and Community Mental Health Programs at California Institute of Integral Studies, John F. Kennedy University, Dominican University, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University).

www.dawnmountain.com & www.gregbogart.net

Within every woman lies a powerful force. Yet, somewhere along the line, the burdens of responsibility and desire to nurture the ones they love cause that fire to dim, and they lose their sense of self.  The Vital Spark brings women on an immersive journey that reunites them with their innate humor, cunning, and assertiveness.

Combining personal stories, intercultural fairy tales, and deep analysis, Lisa Marchiano shares resources that inspire women to break free from the conditioning that has kept them confined to rigid roles and muffled the sound of their soul. Here, she invites us to explore eight core aspects of ourselves: shrewdness, disagreeableness, desire, trickiness, sexuality, anger, authority, and ruthlessness. Each chapter reinforces the truth of our relentlessly human narrative in the truest sense―allowing for the retrieval of our “outlaw” energies and deepest parts of our authentic selves.

The Vital Spark:

Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies
and Find Your Feminine Fire

LIVE-VIDEO BOOK PRESENTATION
AND Q&A

with author and analyst
Lisa Marchiano, LCSW

WEDNESDAY

SEPT. 25, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern
+ Video recording will be shared
with registered guests
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“Using myths, fairy tales, and clinical anecdotes, Lisa Marchiano describes how many traits that are essential for women to thrive get banished into the unconscious shadow. As a result, the vital spark that connects us to our aliveness, power, and authenticity is snuffed out. She takes the reader’s hand and gently guides us through timeless tales to re-find our essential selves.”

– Connie Zweig, author of The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul and Meeting the Shadow.

Lisa Marchiano, LCSW

Lisa Marchiano is an award-winning author, podcaster and certified Jungian analyst. Her highly-acclaimed books use draw upon the healing wisdom of fairy tales to help women connect more deeply with themselves.

Lisa is a host of the popular depth-psychology podcast This Jungian Life. With over 10 million downloads and a loyal following that includes artists, journalists, and celebrities, This Jungian Life is a top podcast in the US in the health and fitness category.

Lisa obtained her BA from Brown University. She holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a Master of Social Work from New York University. She trained at the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts.

She is the author of three books published by Sounds True, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself, The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire and the forthcoming Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams.  She has a private practice in Philadelphia.

The Vital Spark

New book is available here

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.

Tuesdays
Sept. 19, 26 & Oct. 3

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be available

Sale pricing ends Sep. 13, 2023

Elisabeth Pomès, Iaap

Originally from France, Elisabeth Pomès is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Toronto, Canada and online and a faculty member of Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts. She has Bachelor of Music (Université de Montréal), a Master of Music (University of Toronto), and a Master's Degree in Literature (Paris). She has given concert and opera performances on both sides of the Atlantic and is the developer of Performance Without Fear, a course in which she used her background in singing, yoga, Qigong, meditation and psychotherapy to help artists release tension both physically and psychologically. She belongs to the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts (OAJA) and is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

Hafez is the most revered poet in Iran, a country renowned for its rich poetic heritage, including luminaries like Rumi, Ferdosi, Khayyam, and Nizami. His works transcend traditional literature, serving as a divination tool in Iranian culture akin to the Tarot and I Ching. Consulting Hafez's poetry, especially during significant times such as the New Year or critical life junctures, exemplifies a deep cultural fusion of poetry and psychology in Iran.

Hafez's poetry encapsulates the essence of synchronicity, a core concept in Depth Psychology. This principle highlights a profound connection between the reader's psyche and the universal truths expressed in his verses. The synchronistic experiences that arise from engaging with his poetry stem from the depth and universality of the symbols Hafez employs.

In the richly symbolic realm of his poetry, Hafez allows readers to project their unconscious onto his verses, providing a reflection of themselves more accurately than any mirror. This interaction facilitates deep insights and stimulates introspection, aligning perfectly with the process of individuation.

Depth Psychology offers an excellent framework to experience and interpret the rich symbolism in Hafez's poetry, illuminating how these symbols resonate with and reveal the reader's inner world.

In this seminar, we will delve into Hafez's life and his pivotal role in Iranian culture. We will explore the intricate link between his poetic universe and the depth psychological aspects of his verses, uncovering the profound ways his poetry resonates with and reveals the human psyche.

Thursday
October 10, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be made available to registered attendees

Hafez (c. 1315-1390) was a celebrated Persian Sufi poet, best known for his lyrical Ghazals expressing themes of love, spirituality, and critique of religious orthodoxy. His influence is profound in Persian literature and culture.

arash golnam, ph. D., Iaap

Arash Golnam, Ph.D., IAAP is a psychoanalyst trained at CG Jung Institute, Zurich.

A citizen of Iran and Switzerland, I now call Lima, Peru, my home. My journey seamlessly intertwines Persian poetry, Jungian psychoanalysis, and plant medicine; a matrix of cultures, traditions, and paradigms spanning continents and centuries.

This global perspective has enriched and deepened my understanding of the human psyche.

Thanks to my father, a dedicated Persian literature teacher, I was immersed in Persian poetry and mythology from a young age. This rich heritage of mystic poetry and mythology opened my first door to the soul, guiding me on a path that would eventually lead me to embrace the teachings of Carl Jung.

I am currently immersed in the study of Persian mystic poetry, delving into the psychological, symbolic, and archetypal layers of Hafez's poetry. I presented my preliminary findings in a thesis at the CG Jung Institute and am now in the process of adapting and expanding it for publication as a book.

Before discovering my passion in psychoanalysis, I took on diverse roles: university lecturer, scientist, consultant, and engineer. My academic journey led me to the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich after earning a Ph.D. in Systems Science from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a Master of Science in System Dynamics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

www.arash.ch

In every tradition, saints and poets speak of the soul’s search for the beloved, the seeker’s yearning for the divine, for the Self beyond ego. This holy longing is a secret feeling with many disguises, leading us to pursue a higher union in spiritual practice, religious discipleship, even romantic embrace. It guides us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experiences.

But it also can go awry when we project the divine onto a therapist, teacher, priest, guru, rabbi, or roshi who is all too human – who has unhealed wounds, undeveloped empathy, or authoritarian tendencies; in effect, a woman or man who has a shadow. If he or she abuses power-- sexual, financial, or emotional coercion -- we feel the shock of betrayal, our innocence lost, our faith destroyed.

Today, we have witnessed many contemporary teachers of Buddhist, Hindu Hasidic, Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant groups act out their shadows in destructive ways, leaving their followers traumatized and lost. This can be viewed as a mythological moment of ordeal or dark night of the soul.

Suffering spiritual disillusionment, we can learn to apply the tools of depth psychology and spiritual shadow-work to help us recover and rekindle the flame of longing in our souls.

This presentation explores personal and archetypal projection, spiritual bypassing, as well as the evolution of consciousness, the nature of awakening, and the role of the Shadow.

Based on my book,
 Meeting the Shadow
on the Spiritual Path:
The Dance of Darkness and Light
in Our Search for Awakening

We will explore why we are drawn to charismatic leaders, what we unconsciously give away to them, and how to reclaim it for our own treasury.

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“Most spiritual traditions have a dirty little secret: when you surrender to an authority, you will face the dark side of human nature. At last, this book explains why and how to recover.” ― Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D.

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Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path:

A Depth Psychological Exploration of Spirituality

with Connie Zweig, Ph.D.

Thursday • May 2, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern
Session will be available via video recording

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Connie Zweig, Ph.D.

Connie Zweig, Ph.D. is a retired Jungian therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold COVR Award, the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her recent book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path is available now. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. Now, after all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.

Week 1: Introduction & Archetypal Background

• Helping Behaviour in Morality and Religious Ethics

• The Savior Archetype 

• The Victim archetype 

Week 2: The Professional Helper 

• Identifying the persona and shadow aspects of helping professions 

• Power in Helping Professions

• The Helper Syndrome

• Transference /

  Counter-transference

• The Wounded Healer 

Week 3: The Non-Professional Helper

• Who is the non-professional helper? 

• The helper’s inner life

• The helper child

The Helper

A Jungian Exploration of Helping Others 

Helping or the role of the helper is widely respected and highly regarded.
Often, helping is accepted to be the right thing to do. But is there no negative potential for helping others? Does helping never inflict harm?
What is the cost of the helper role for us?

This course explores the unconscious dynamics underlying the helper role through a Jungian lens. First, we will look at the archetypal energies associated with the helping role and get in touch with its positive and negative poles/potential.
At the second session will focus on helping professionals and their persona and shadow aspects. The last session will focus on the “non-professional helpers,” those who take on the helper role outside of a profession. 

Live-Video Seminar

SUNDAYS
Mar. 10, 17 & 24, 2024

10am-12pm Pacific / 1-3pm Eastern
5-7 pm GMT / 6-8 pm Zurich
+ Video recording will be available

Begüm Gürses-Sulzer, MSc., IAAP 

Begüm is an Istanbul-born
Jungian analyst based in Switzerland. 

For the majority of her life,  Begüm has been a helper. Besides her Jungian practice, she worked as a learning support for neurodiverse children, as a social worker with adults with autism (and with violent behavior), and she volunteered and later worked for an NGO.  “The helper” role has been a  theme that touched and intrigued her deeply, which brought her to the writing of her Jungian Diploma thesis on this topic.

Begüm grew passionate about helping helpers in and outside their helper role. As a helper, she aims to raise awareness of the unspoken aspects, challenges, and blindspots of being a helper.
She offers courses and group work focusing on helping professions, and burnout. You can find more about her work at www.begumgurses.com

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This course will be hosted by JUNG Archademy faculty member Chantal Powell, Ph. D..

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.

“Humankind is masculine and feminine, not just man or woman. You, man, should not seek the feminine in women, but seek and recognize it in yourself, as you possess it from the beginning.”

– C.G. Jung [The Red Book]

Using quotes of C. G. Jung, we will help define and differentiate aspects of his theory of Anima and Animus to acquire a better understanding of these. We will look at their function and consider why they are so difficult to work with consciously.

We will relate Jung’s view of these contrasexual archetypes with our present time and the questions of gender and sexuality and formulate a better adapted way of considering these archetypes for our time. 

The technique of coming to terms with the animus is the same in principle as in the case of the anima; only here the woman must learn to criticize and hold her opinions at a distance; not in order to repress them but, by investigating their origins, to penetrate more deeply into the background, where she will then discover the primordial images, just as the man does in his dealings with the anima.

– C.G. Jung [CW 7, par. 336]

Saturday
November 11 & 18

Noon - 2pm Pacific / 3-5pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be available

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.

In this course, we will explore the “qualitative” aspect of time and the need to relate to this aspect in our daily life, with particular reference to the practice of psychotherapy.

An invaluable way to read time and to discern its requirement is by consulting the I Ching. In this course, we will look at selected passages from the I Ching in relation to time and timeliness. We will also discuss the attitude required when approaching the I Ching.

Furthermore, we will look at the I Ching and individual hexagrams in conjunction with the Jungian concepts of “synchronicity”, “enantiodromia”, “interplay of opposites”, and the “transcendent function”.

The course is discussion based, and consists of two parts, each 2.5 hours in length. Participants will be given selected passages for contemplation and discussion. These passages seek to serve as “bait” to elicit our responses coming from within.

“When it is time to stop, then stop.

When it is time to advance, then advance.

Thus movement and rest do not miss the right time,

And their course becomes bright and clear.”

- I Ching

Saturdays
March 16 & 23, 2024

10am-12:30pm Pacific
/ 1-3:30 Eastern

• Instructor requests that all attendees participate with video on.

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

*

Thank you

SOLD OUT

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).

Mandala image: Buiddhist Cosmos Lingdum Monastery Sikkim by Prof Ranga Sai

Join Jungian analyst and Keeper of the Stories, Muriel McMahon as we explore the archetype of the Wise Old Man.

Familiar to us as Gandalf in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series, Mr. Miyagi, in The Karate Kid (1984), and Dumbledore in the wildly popular Harry Potter series, this elusive and mysterious figure of the masculine as mentor and guide is often sought after and too often disappointed when he asks for nothing less then everything. We must learn how to answer his call, accept his challenges, suffer his tests, and finally withdraw our projections if we are to embrace the agency necessary to achieve our destiny. The third act is where we meet the old man. Will he be a ranting mad King Lear, or a measured and wise King Arthur?

For modern men and for modern women, in a contemporary culture of confusion that too often turns teachers into gurus and gurus into fallen saints, how do we meet the archetype of the wise old man and receive his blessing?

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LIVE JUNGIAN
PSYCHOLOGY SEMINAR
& Discussion

COME JOIN US

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SATURDAY

February 3 & 10, 2024

11am-1pm Pacific, 2-4pm Eastern

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 a training analyst and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. Based in Canada, she has a busy online international praxis and has offered workshops and teachings in Russia, Zurich, Colombia, France and the United States. 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

What is your unique visual language?

What kinds of flow feel right to you? What does your soul have to “say,” non-verbally? Reaching into a deep place inside of ourselves, what images, symbols, marks, colors and shapes speak to you?

What scares you and what stops you? What excites you and lights you up?

In this course, I will serve as a non-judgmental, supportive witness for you, as you learn to face your fears, becoming freer and more unencumbered by your self-expression. Connecting with others in the course, as you embark on this maiden voyage, will also support and encourage you along your way. You are welcome into this playful, experimental laboratory. There are no mistakes here!!

Each week, I will give art prompts that will allow you to begin your process. We will work individually during the week, coming back together online to share our process and receive support and feedback. There will be no critiques, only suggestions and positive encouragement.

I will give you a simple materials list. This course is for everyone – seasoned artists, as well as for those who feel desire to paint or draw, but have not yet found the courage to do so. Each person will have personal attention over the course of our weeks together.

The class will meet for 2 hours for 5 consecutive weeks.

A licensed art therapist in New Mexico since 1993, Nina is passionate about the transformative aspects of the creative process and its relationship with the archetypal imaginal mind.

TUESDAYS

Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29th and
Nov. 5th, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 6-8pm Central
/ 7-9pm Eastern
+ Video recording will be available
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THIS IS A SMALL GROUP CLASS
with LIMITED ENROLMENT

Nina S. Ross received her PhD. In the Psychology of Art from Union Institute and her MA in Art Education/Art Therapy from the University of New Mexico. Over the past 35 years, Nina has catalyzed art, art therapy, and archetypal psychology throughout her long career as both an artist and a therapist. A published author and painter, Nina has led numerous workshops, classes and retreats focused on art and psyche. She is currently in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

www.ninarosspsychotherapy.com

Intimacy with Images:
The Art of Archetypal Psychology

by Nina S. Ross, Ph.D.

New book is available here

“As an artist, I was struck by how powerful and accessible Nina’s use of dream imagery was in connecting it to my own work. It gave me insight as to how to more deeply commit my own inner impulses to my creative process.”

— Robin Johnstone, Artist

This book was written for all those who help others using the creative process. For artists, art therapists, arts educators and those who transform lives by using an archetypal lens.

— Dr. Nina S. Ross, PhD

In this two-part discussion, we will question the intricacies of what it means to be helping.

Is the desire to help enough? What happens between two people where one is in need of help and the other is the helper (the professional)? This asymmetric relationship is at the start, problematic, as it involves a power imbalance. Also, if power is an archetype, then we are all subject to its subtle ways and at times can be possessed by it, without knowing. Helping is a perilous path to navigate and the deeper understanding of one’s self is often the compass.

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: the man who adopts the standpoint of Eros finds his compensatory opposite in the will to power, and that of the man who puts the accent on power is Eros.

- CW 7. Para 78 - C. G. Jung

Tuesdays
April 9th and 16th, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be available

Recommended reading:

Power in the Helping Profession
by Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig

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.

Suggested Reading:

Fairy Tale Bluebeard (several versions are available)

Irene Claremont de Castillejo’s Knowing Woman, especially the chapter on the Animus.

Tuesdays
Feb 20, 27 and March 5, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be available

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Format: Interactive with a general discussion of the concepts and a detailed analysis of the Fairy Tale Bluebeard.

Sale pricing ends Feb. 4

Elisabeth Pomès, Iaap

Originally from France, Elisabeth Pomès is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Toronto, Canada and online and a faculty member of Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts. She has Bachelor of Music (Université de Montréal), a Master of Music (University of Toronto), and a Master's Degree in Literature (Paris). She has given concert and opera performances on both sides of the Atlantic and is the developer of Performance Without Fear, a course in which she used her background in singing, yoga, Qigong, meditation and psychotherapy to help artists release tension both physically and psychologically. She belongs to the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts (OAJA) and is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

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.

Saturdays
March 4 & 11, 2023

10am-12:30pm Pacific
/ 1-3:30 Eastern

• Instructor requests that all attendees participate with video on.

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

*

NOW SOLD OUT

Thank you

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).

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.

Thursday
May 25, 2023

4-6pm Pacific, 7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be made available to all registered

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

Join Jane for an introduction to the powerful and alchemical intersection of the body and psyche. Combining depth psychology principles with an understanding of the neurobiology of chronic and traumatic stress, we can develop a deeper relationship with ourselves with somatic awareness as a door into the unconscious psyche. Stepping into a more conscious relationship with our moment-to-moment bodily sensations and autonomous nervous system states allows us to work with parts of ourselves that evade our minds and make more conscious choices about how we relate to others.

Jungian Somatics is a body of work that Jane is continually evolving that includes a somatic orientation to dream interpretation, expressive arts (including movement and image-making) and building a capacity to relate to the body through symbolism, enhancing reverence for the miracles of our bodies. This work has been essential for her many years of supporting clients living with the prolific impact of trauma on both the body and psyche.

Sunday, September 25th

3-5pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be available

Through a bio-psychosocial and anti-oppressive lens, I consider embodiment and movement powerful alchemic tools for helping us get unstuck in our lives. I’ve witnessed remarkable emotional and energetic shifts when people come into deeper awareness and conscious dialogue with emotional states, which often present themselves in subtle ways in the body or communicate through dreams and symbols that I work with somatically.

with Jane clapp

Jane Clapp, B.A., Adv. Candidate

I’m an advanced candidate with the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts, a psychotherapist (under supervision) and an expert in the intersection of the body and psyche. For over twenty years, I have been a movement and somatic coach and embodiment educator working with a diverse clientele all over the world, many who have suffered deeply from emotional or physical pain, longing to come back into meaning and vitality. I have a depth of expertise in the effects of chronic and traumatic stress and general emotional overwhelm and how they manifest in the body and psyche. Bringing together my many years of somatic study and twenty years of clinical experience along with my own extensive personal Jungian Analysis and my professional training as a Jungian Analyst, I have developed what I refer to as Jungian Somatics. See Jane’s full bio and more here.

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

Sunday
June 4, 2023

9-10:30 am Pacific / Noon-1:30pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be made available

Free for newsletter subscribers

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.

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

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Dr. Stephen Aizenstat will share the story of his journey into the unconscious with us and teach tools and tips for meeting dreams with greater presence and imagination. Through changing our approach to dreams, we move into a new relationship with the inner life. Through that more dynamic connection with our dreams we become better able to tap our innate genius, express our creativity and contribute to the world around us.

Dream Tending™ is a method of accessing the knowledge and wisdom hidden in dreams and using it to unlock creative potential and activate healing. More than that, though, dream tending is a way of living and interacting with the world.

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Saturday Sept. 17, 2022

12-2pm Pacific, 3-5 pm Eastern

+ Video recording available for all guests

Topics for Presentation:

1. Steve’s Journey into the Unconscious

2. Working with Pioneers of Depth Psychology

3. Dream Tending™ - How To

4. Animating Dream Images

5. Core Questions

Core Questions:

The core questions are “Who is visiting now?” and “What is happening here?” The phrasing of those questions is important; they aren’t asking why or attempting to analyze. They are openly curious questions that invite you to observe rather than investigate, pay attention rather than attempt to make sense of things. In that way, you stay centered in the dream and allow the dream images to introduce themselves to you and let you know what they want to tell you.

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Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D

AUTHOR & FOUNDING PRESIDENT,
PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., has devoted his life to understanding the profound wisdom and healing power that exists within each of us. He is the creator and founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 years. His methodologies extend from traditional dream work and a vision of an animated world where the living image is experienced as embodied and as originating in the psyche of Nature and persons.

His book, Dream Tending, describes new applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, the creative process, relationships, nightmares and the World's Dream. He is also the co-editor of Imagination and Medicine: The Future of Healing in an Age of Neuroscience with Robert Boznak. He speaks and leads workshops around the world. He has served as an organizational consultant to leading companies and as a content advisor to Hollywood film makers. He has spoken at the United Nations and is honoured to be affiliated with its Earth Charter International project.

His website is https://dreamtending.com