Stories heal. They can help us hold on, stay courageous, and keep believing that our suffering will lead to a transformation—a much-deserved and long-awaited relief.

Stories help us find meaning, the ultimate component in enduring dark and seemingly hollow periods. In this two-week course, we will read, sit with, ponder, be intrigued by, and play with the Grimm fairy tale The Goose Girl (#89).

“It [The Goose Girl] can be seen as a tale of the transformation of the feminine principle, both in men and women. In this process, the ego becomes humbled and relativized as missing parts of the personality are united with consciousness.”

–Lucille Klein

“Myths and fairytales give expression to unconscious processes, and their retelling causes these processes to come alive again and be recollected, thereby re-establishing the connection between conscious and unconscious.”

– C.G. Jung

Being a Goose Girl means being naïve, obedient, and without aggression. When faced with ill-treatment, a Goose Girl has no tools to defend herself; she responds with compliance that borders on self-neglect. The story depicts the path to transformation through the encounter with the shadow. Some motifs we’ll explore:

• Losing one’s innocence

• Encountering the shadow

• Power and control in the mother complex

• The horse

INTERPRETING Fairy Tales:

The Goose Girl

with Jungian analyst Begüm Gürses-Sulzer

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Live-Video Seminars

SATURDAYS

March 15 & 22

10am-12:30pm Pacific / 1-3:30pm Eastern
5-7:30 pm GMT / 6-8:30 pm Zurich
+ Video recording will be available

Begüm Gürses-Sulzer, MSc., IAAP 

Begüm Gürses-Sulzer is a Switzerland-based Jungian Analyst trained at ISAP Zurich and a faculty member of Jung Archademy. She serves on ISAP Zurich and AGAP’s committees and teaches at ISAP.

Working with fairy tales was the most invaluable tool her Jungian training introduced her to. Begüm often engages with these tales and is eager to share the profound symbolic work with archetypal stories.

In her private practice, she works in-person and online with individuals from various backgrounds and situations. Her areas of expertise are addiction (and codependency), eating disorders, OCD, chronic illnesses, and psychosomatic conditions.

As an analyst with experience in other helping professions, she aims to raise awareness of the unspoken aspects, challenges, and blindspots of being a helper. She offers courses and group work for helpers.

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

This course will discuss the problem of evil from a range of viewpoints, including the approach of Jungian psychology, psychoanalysis, and social psychology.

We will also look at evil from neurological, religious, and mythological perspectives. The problem of evil is so complex that it can only be understood taking all these approaches into account.

We will discuss the difficulty defining evil, describe the difference between behaviour that is truly evil and that which is simply wrong, and discuss evil ideologies and terrorism. We will look at the roots of cruelty to others and the psychology of malignant narcissists. We will discuss the debate about whether evil is an intrinsic aspect of human nature.

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The Question of EVIL

with dr. lionel corbett

Live-Video Jungian Psychology Seminar Series

Saturdays April 5, 12, 19, 26 and May 3, 2025

10 am - Noon Pacific / 1-3pm Eastern / 6-8pm GMT
+ Video Recording will be available

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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 seven 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; The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung; and his latest A Jungian and Psychoanalytic Approach to Biblical Myth and Religion.

His video courses available soon include:
Overview of Jungian Psychology
The God-Image and the Self: From antiquity to Jung

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.

For nine weeks beginning in January 2024, award-winning artist and educator Ann McCoy will take us into the alchemical processes within the psyche and how artists have created these images in varied art forms.

In addition to reviewing some of the most powerful of classical alchemical images, an in-depth examination of the role of contemporary artists in each of the alchemical processes will be a touchstone of the course.

This is a class for anyone, including artists and writers, wanting to explore alchemy and psyche in general.

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Ann 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.

Join Chantal for THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Sundays beginning Sept. 10.

Sundays
beginning Jan. 7, 2024

10-Noon Pacific, 1-3 Eastern

+ Video recordings of all live classes will be made available

Course Outline

1. The Alchemical Axis. This first class will use Plate One of The Splendor Solis, as a jumping off point to explore the voyage from the conscious world into the depths of the unconscious–and the trepidation that may accompany this process.

2. The Solutio, this bathing in the waters, breaking down into solution, occurs in many forms and is portrayed in many paintings and videos in the work of Bill Viola and others.

3. The Calcinatio and the Fires. Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens of fire and furnace will be moved into the present as they resonate with our world in flames.

4. Moving from Three into Four, the Axiom of Maria the Jewess, and the role of the feminine in alchemical active imagination, and the process in general. Works by women artists will be featured in this section.

5. Mortificatio and Putrefactio. Dismemberment and Putrefaction will move into a discussion of agricultural and spiritual rebirth using the myth of Osiris and the work of artists like Agnes Denes with her urban wheatfield.

6. Coagulatio, when liquid returns to solid form. This image from the laboratory relates to many creation myths as well as artists working in the foundry. We will explore contents movement from the unconscious as they enter the realm of ego consciousness.

7. Will be a discussion of the alchemical colors (black, white, red) and focus on the Nigredo, Albedo, and Rubedo. This will include a discussion of depression as part of an introductory process.

8. Sublimatio, as the spirit ascends. From images of ascending doves and the assumption of the Virgin, this is still fertile ground for artists. This lecture loops back to the first lecture.

9. This lecture will feature images of the steps on the Mountain- Caves of the Adepts, it will be a summary discussion of movement between processes.

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Week One

January 07, 2024

Week Two

January 14, 2024

Week Three

January 21, 2024

Week Four

January 28, 2024

Week Five

February 4, 2024

Week Six

February 11, 2024

Week Seven

February 18, 2024

Week Eight

February 25, 2024

Week Nine

March 3, 2024

Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She is an artist with a fifty year career, and known for her large scale drawings of the dream world. Her work is found in many museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum and many others and was featured in the Venice Biennale 1985 Art and Alchemy curated by Arturo Schwarz. She was awarded a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in art. She lectured on art history, the history of projection, and mythology in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000.

Ann worked with Prof. C.A. Meier for twenty-eight years in Zurich and with James Kirsch in Los Angeles. She has a background in Jungian psychology and philosophy. She has studied alchemy since the 1970s in Zurich, and Rome at the Vatican Library. Most of her work is based on her dreams, and their relationship to alchemical texts, and Christian alchemy in particular.

Ann lectures on Jung and the artistic process from over fifty years of analytical experience and feels strongly that creative people have a unique approach to the unconscious, that comes from working with actual materials, and in-between dream states.

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.

This course will discuss some of the psychological processes that underpin various biblical stories. The course is based on Jung’s ideas that “religious statements are psychic confessions” (CW11, para. 555), and “statements made in the Holy Scriptures are also utterances of the soul” (ibid., para. 557). The course will show that some biblical and theological ideas arise from human psychodynamics, often of a narcissistic type, while some originate in the archetypal level of the psyche.

Religious experiences and the theology to which they give rise are products of the psyche. They do not need to be seen as emanating from a metaphysical deity in a transcendent realm. The experience of transcendent reality reported by characters in biblical stories is the result of contact with non-ego, archetypal or transpersonal levels of the psyche, which is the actual source of sacred experience.

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A Depth psychological Approach
to the Interpretation of

The Bible

and the Religious Traditions
that Arose from It

LIVE SEMINAR SERIES

with dr. lionel corbett

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TUESDAYS
Aug. 6 - Sep. 10, 2024

10 am - 12 pm Pacific /
1-3 pm Eastern
6 weeks
All sessions will be video recorded
for registered guests.

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.

His video courses available soon include:
Overview of Jungian Psychology
The God-Image and the Self: From antiquity to Jung

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

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

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).

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

Born in 1875 in Basel, Switerzland, C. G. Jung was a medical doctor and psychiatrist who, along with Freud, opened up our research into the nature of the human unconscious and founded psychotherapy. Their work led to the modern re-popularization of interest in dreams and archetypes.

Jung gave us the psychological type categories that led to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and coined the terms introvert and extravert.  He also coined the terms synchronicity (and his writing on that topic is the main reason for its continued popularity in our culture today) and collective unconscious – giving us a term for the deeper layer of the psyche that transcends the personal.

Jungian psychology is a larger on-going tradition rooted in psychotherapeutic approaches to the unconscious.

JUNGIAN FUNDAMENTALS SERIES:

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Introduction to Jungian Psychology

WEEKLY TOPICS:

1. Jung’s attitude to psychotherapy. The ego; the unconscious and its levels; the archetypes

2. The archetypes continued; archetypal motifs in myth and folklore

3. The archetype of liminality and initiation; archetypal structures in the psyche; the shadow; anima and animus

4. Complexes; puer-puella; the divine child; the trickster; the wise old man

5. The symbol; individuation; Jung on myth

6. The Self; Jung on religion; dreams and active imagination

7. Jung on alchemy

8. Jung’s typology; the Freud-Jung break

Tuesdays starting May 9

8 Weeks
4-6pm Pacific / 7-9 pm Eastern
+ Video recording of all sessions
will be available

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with 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.

Dr. Corbett 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.

“Only the symbolic life can express the daily need of the soul.” With this statement, Jung indicates that the practice of the symbolic life is essential to the experience of psychological and spiritual health. It is the means by which life is given focus, direction, and meaning.

But just what is meant by the concept of the symbolic life?

And, perhaps more importantly, how does one practice it?

In this course, we will discuss the core principles of the symbolic life and explore some concrete steps by which we can make these principles active in our lives. In our exploration we will be guided by the symbols of one of the Grimm brothers most enigmatic fairy tales which will become a kind of map that will direct us in our practice.

Along the way we will attempt to answer the question that Jung asks in his seminal essay, The Transcendent Function: “How does one come to terms in practice with the unconscious?”

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recommended Reading:

The Transcendent Function (in Collected Works, vol. 8)
by C.G. Jung

Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life
by Jason E. Smith

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Mondays
October 16th - Nov. 20th, 2023
6 Weeks

4-6 pm Pacific /
7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recordings of all classes will be made available

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Jason E. Smith

Jason E. Smith is an author and Jungian analyst in private practice in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He was previously the president of the Training Board of the C. G. Jung Institute in Boston. He received his Master’s degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute and graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston with a diploma in Analytical Psychology.

Jason is the creator and host of the podcast, Digital Jung: The Symbolic Life in a Technological Age and the author of Religious But Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life (2020).

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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.

“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 addition to Jung's interest in dream interpretation, he was an avid astrologer who cast a birth chart for many of his patients. Contemporary astrologers influenced by Jung view the planets and zodiacal signs as symbols of the archetypes, the eternal patterns of transformation, which constantly appear in dreams. Contemplating astrology and dreams together can be a transformative spiritual practice. Dreams and astrological symbols both convey the guidance, the dynamism, and the intentions of the unconscious; both touch us emotionally, evoke pivotal memories, clarify our pressing tasks, and offer glimpses of our emergent potentials. This talk explores how planetary archetypes manifest in dreams, how dream symbols reflect the symbolism of natal and transiting planets, and how astrological symbols illuminate the deeper meaning of dreams.  Greg will describe the potent methodology of combining dream interpretation with reflection on astrological cycles and symbols. 

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JUNG, ASTROLOGY & DREAMS

WITH AUTHOR GREG BOGART, PH. D.

Friday
Dec. 8, 2023

7-9pm Pacific
+ Video recording will be made available

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Within the workshop’s time constraints, a few participants will have the opportunity to briefly share a dream, which we will look at through an astrological lens, in the light of natal chart symbols and current transits.

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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

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.

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).