DREAM WISE

New book is available here

In his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections, written in the last years of his life, Jung recalled a dream from early childhood. Its strange, primal imagery seemed to foretell the great themes that would course through Jung’s life. Musing about this portentous dream, Jung asked, “Who spoke to me then? Who talked of problems far beyond my knowledge?” The other within who speaks to us in the mysterious language of image and symbol is the dream maker. It has access to deep wisdom beyond conscious awareness and nightly strives to share its insights with us.

In this presentation, Jungian analysts Deb Stewart, Lisa Marchiano, and Joseph Lee will discuss the nature of the dream maker. What does Jung say about this aspect of us? How can we understand it, and how can we forge a relationship with it so that we can hear its insights?

They will then introduce the keys – 69 prompts from their new book Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams. The keys are designed to help circumvent the stubborn defences of ego so that we can better hear the voice of the dream maker. Bring one of your dreams! You’ll have the opportunity to try out several of the keys – no need to share with the group.

DREAM WISE

Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams

LIVE-VIDEO BOOK PRESENTATION
AND Q&A

with authors Deb Stewart,
Lisa Marchiano, and Joseph Lee

•

SATURDAY

March 1, 2025

10am-Noon Pacific / 1-3pm Eastern
/ 6-8pm GMT
+ Video recording will be shared
with registered guests
•

Joseph R. Lee, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst

Joseph R. Lee is a certified Jungian analyst and Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Virginia Beach, Virginia at www.DepthPsychotherapy.net. He works with adults and teens. He is the president of The Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, www.cgjungphiladelphia.org, which provides a public seminar and trains Jungian analysts. He is accredited by the I.A.A.P., and received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He lectures nationally on the Hermetic Kabbalah with a focus on its reinterpretation through modern idioms.

Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst

Lisa Marchiano is a writer, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and certified Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her MSW from New York University and completed analytic training at the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Lisa is on the faculty of the Philadelphia Jung Institute. Her writings have appeared in Quillette, the journal Psychological Perspectives, and the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She has presented on Jungian topics across the US as well as in Europe. Lisa’s first book Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself explores motherhood as a catalyst for personal growth. It was published by Sounds True.

Deborah Stewart, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst

Deborah Stewart is a Jungian analyst and Licensed Clinical Social Worker on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She trained as a Gestalt therapist at the Cleveland and Cape Cod Institutes. She is a member of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, where she co-chairs and teaches in the training seminar and contributes to the Association’s blog. She is the Director of Admissions for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and serves on the organization’s Executive Committee.

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.

•

“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.

•

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

•

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

•

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.

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

•

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).

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

•

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.

• 

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.

•

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