The Helper:

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.