Relationship, values, beauty, harmony. These words have been connected archetypally to the planet Venus since the Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna wrote the hymn “The Exaltation of Inanna” in 2300 BCE. The planet's symbolic meanings are rooted in its 8-year synodic cycle, during which Venus appears to return to the same celestial position from Earth's perspective, with a slight 2-degree shift. The pentagram, golden mean, and Fibonacci sequence are all encoded in that cycle (see center image). 

Venus's mythology has evolved significantly over time, beginning with Inanna's descent into the underworld in Sumerian lore, transforming through classical Greek interpretations, influencing medieval troubadour traditions, and continuing to evolve in modern times. Recent astronomical developments, such as Pluto's discovery and subsequent demotion in 2005 following Eris's identification, have further reshaped our understanding of the theme of descent that is central to the archetype.  This course will examine Venus through multiple lenses: astronomical, mythological, and literary. We'll use the theme of descent as a guiding principle to explore the planet's multifaceted significance across different cultures and epochs.

4 Sessions

LIVE-VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

with Béa Gonzalez

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Wednesdays
February 12, 19, 26 & March 5, 2025

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

“Some say an army of horsemen,
some of footsoldiers, some of ships,
is the fairest thing on the black earth,
but I say it is what one loves.

– Sappho,
7th century BCE

Béa Gonzalez

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

Recommended Course Reading:

The Descent of the Goddess, Sylvia Brinton Perera

Descent and Rising, Carly Mountain

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

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SATURDAY

March 1, 2025

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

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-12pm Pacific / 1-3pm Eastern
5-7 pm GMT / 6-8 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.

Ann McCoy

Ann McCoy is an artist, a retired Barnard and Yale professor, and an Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She worked with C.G. Jung’s disciple Dr. C.A. Meier, for 28 years in Zurich. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the D.A.A.D. Berlin Kunstler Grant, the Prix de Rome, Gottlieb Foundation Grant and Pollock Krasner among her many awards. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Los Angeles County Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hirshorn, The Smithsonian, Des Moines Art Center, and many others. Her series on Alchemy and Art was very popular on Yale Radio, and she has lectured and written about contemporary art since 1972. Her art writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Art International, and Hyperallergic. Recently she was one of three essayists contributing to a book on William Kentridge for the Broad Foundation in Los Angeles. Many of the artist discussed in this class will be artists Ann McCoy knew personally such as Joseph Beuys, Carolee Schneemann, Ana Mendieta, and Hermann Nitsch.

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JUNG and CONTEMPORARY ART

(Vol. 1)

with ANN McCOY

In the best case scenario, artists have functioned as the nerve ends of society, bringing new content from the unconscious to the viewer. This series will introduce students to a wide range of topics and art works from the last seventy years. Much Jungian writing by analysts tends to use art works as a kind of illustration, rather than exploring the depths of their creative process. Artist such as Hermann Nitsch, whose work is too revolutionary and bloody, have not been included in any Jungian literature. Nitsch based much of his work on Jung’s volume the Mysterium Coniunctionis (1970) and Psychology and Religion: West and East (1970).

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Sundays • 5 Sessions
beginning March 16, 2025

Noon-2 Pacific / 3-5 Eastern / 8-10 GMT

+ Video recordings of all live classes will be made available

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Sale Pricing Ends Dec. 5

Week One: The Feminine

An exploration of the transition from three to four, the inclusion of the feminine. Jung said the 1950, in The Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, proclaiming Mary’s ascension into heaven was a turning point, that feminine divinity would be added to the Trinity, producing a quaternity signifying wholeness. This class will look at Jungian writing like Eric Neumann’s The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, and more recent writing by Ginette Paris such as Pagan Meditations. Some of the artists discussed will be Amelia Mesa-Bains, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Beth Edelson, Teresa Murak, and Louise Bourgeois.

Week Two: Personal Theologies

This class will discuss artists who have evolved personal theologies. Included will be Hermann Nitsch and his revival of the pagan mysteries, Carolee Schneemann and her resurrection of Aphrodite, and Joseph Beuys and his updating of the work of Rudolph Steiner. Included will be discussions of Jean Gebser’s work on the “aperspectival” and will include both art and architecture.

Week Three: Projection Technologies

This week will explore the role of projection beginning with its discovery by the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher in the 1600’s, and the role it has played in the interchange between art and theater. Beginning with George Gross, this discussion will move into contemporary artists like Alfredo Jaar, Krzysztof Wodiczko, William Kentridge, and Tony Oursler. This move into visual transparency was directly linked to both psychological projection, the overlaying of images, and new permutations in consciousness.

This course explores the search for meaning through the study of world mythology, guided by the wisdom of Jungian depth psychology.

The course combines lecture, discussion, journal-keeping and reading.

Recommended Texts:

• An unlined journal, preferably with a beautiful cover

• Willis, R. (2006). World Mythology: The Illustrated Guide. Oxford University Press

• Armstrong, K. (2005). A Short History of Myth. Canongate

• Davis, K. C. (2005). Don’t know much about mythology: Everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history. Harper Collins

• Supplemental readings will also be provided

HOW TO PARTicIpate:

• Attendance at weekly Zoom meetings

• Purchase assigned texts and read them

• Keep a journal in which you record dreams, draw, or write poetry and explore symbols that are important to you. This journal is private in that you don’t have to show it to me or in class, unless you choose to

• While listening to others in the group, show care and respect for each other’s experience. Maintain confidentiality of personal information shared in class

Course Objectives:

• To discover your own personal mythology

• To research the mythology of your ancestors

• To find meaning in the mythology and symbols of other cultures

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Mythology and Individuation

LIVE PSYCHOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

WITH AUTHOR GREG BOGART, PH. D.

PART ONE:
Western mythology in the
ancient Near East and Greece

Wednesdays
March 19, 26 and April 2, 9, 16 

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

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The course will be offered in two parts. Part 1 (March and April) will cover the roots of Western mythology in the ancient Near East and Greece. Part 2 (Coming May and June 2025) will explore Asian mythology and offer participants the opportunity undertake an ancestral mythology quest and to give presentations. You may register for Part 1 or both parts 1 & 2.

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 / 3-5pm 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

Wine is a gift of the gods.

According to Euripides, Dionysus gave “the simple gift of wine, the gladness of the grape” to “rich and poor” alike . It is sacred in Judaic rituals; it leads to an ecstasy that is exclusive to the experience of Allah; and it is the blood of Christ. Alchemists associated wine with aqua permanens, and the grapes were considered to be the raw matter of the Stone. But why has wine gained such a central significance across religions and alchemy?

To answer this question, we will approach the steps of winemaking as if they were images from an alchemical textbook. As Paracelsus wrote, “An alchemist is the baker when he bakes bread, the viniculturist when he makes wine.” Through this lens, winemaking becomes a striking metaphor and guide to the coniunctio.

We will look at how the grapevine must be treated in the vineyard, so that it can concentrate the uniqueness of the terroir into the grape; how the grapes have to be crushed to obtain their essence; and how the winemaker has to safeguard the fermentation and aging processes, so this essence can gain a lasting, transcendental form. We will explore these steps through various myths and religious motifs, and also by considering the everyday details of making wine and their psychological interpretation.

Vitis [grapevine] was the name given to the philosophical tree
in late antiquity, and the opus was called the 'vintage' (vindemia) . . .
'Man’s blood and the red juice of the grape is our fire.'  

- C.G. Jung,

CW 13 Alchemical Studies, par 359

The Alchemy of Winemaking

with Jungian analyst Gábor Majdán

SATURDAY
May 10

10am-12pm Pacific / 1-3pm Eastern
/ 7-9pm Zurich
+ Video recording will be available

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Gábor Majdán

Gábor Majdán, M.Sc., IAAP is a Jungian analyst working in private practice in Zürich. I am a graduate and member of ISAPZURICH. 

I was born and raised in one of Hungary’s wine regions, where my family have had a small vineyard for more than 250 years. While I took part in the harvests as a child, I live now in Zürich, Switzerland, and cannot personally look after the vineyard. I nevertheless make my own country wines in my home.

However, I had not connected to this vital part of my ancestry, until dreams brought wine and winemaking prominently to my attention. This lecture is the fruit of my engagement with the psychological symbolism behind winemaking, and it is part of my thesis that I wrote on this topic.

More about me at gabormajdan.com

In this presentation we will look at how the unconscious erupts in our lives and sabotages our relationships in repetitive arguments, criticism, distancing, projections, addictions, and life transitions. It examines why the shadow forms in childhood, how to detect it when it emerges, and how to use this practice to make a conscious relationship with it and choose different outcomes. We will explore three examples in depth, including times for self-reflection.

Shadow Work
for Conscious Relationships

with Connie Zweig, Ph.d.

MONDAY
May 19

4-5:30pm Pacific / 7-8:30pm Eastern
+ Video recording will be available

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Connie Zweig, Ph.D.

Connie Zweig, Ph.D. is a retired Jungian therapist and author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends Shadow-work into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. Her book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, extends shadow-work into religion and spirituality. Her new podcast, Dr. Neil’s Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality, posts on all podcast platforms.

See her new substack for livestreams and new writing: https://www.shadowworkawareness.com/about.

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

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

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

1. Dreams and their function in the psyche

2. From subjective to collective: Types of dreams

3. Connecting the dots: Dream analysis through associations

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

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The Symbolic Language of Dreams

VIDEO SERIES

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2 Videos + Bonus Material
4 hrs

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

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

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Short bonus video - How to enter the dream setting.

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Video Two: DREAM INTERPRETATION

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Receive immediate access to this course with your purchase below.

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david pressault, Iaap

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

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Video Two: DREAM INTERPRETATION

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

1. Missing the message: The meaning of recurring dreams

2. Dream interpretation: The art of asking questions

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

4. Analyzing common dream themes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Session One

‘Kissing the Witch’ and ‘Mother Holle’

Session Two

‘The Witches’ Excursion’ and ‘La Loba’

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VIDEO SEMINAR

2 Sessions / 4 Hours

+ Available for immediate purchase and viewing

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

with Jungian Analyst
Muriel McMahon

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

www.murielmcmahon.com

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

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

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SYNCHRONICITY
&
RE-ENCHANTMENT

WITH DR. JOE CAMBRAY, IAAP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Soft Shadows

DOMINIC CHAMBERS, M.F.A.

IN CONVERSATION

with

Chantal Powell, Ph.D.

x min

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Hosted by Chantal Powell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

– Priyanka Mookerjee,
review on Scroll.in

Why Am I Like This?

A JOURNEY INTO
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASTROLOGY

A Conversation with author Judy Balan

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60 min

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Author Judy Balan

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

Interview hosts:

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

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

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

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

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Kira celeste, Ph.D

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

www.drceleste.ca

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

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

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

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

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

– Benig Mauger

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

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

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Jungian psychotherapist
Benig Mauger

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