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Wednesday, October 1, 2008 |
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Weaver Stevens, MDiv, MLitt
When: Six Wednesdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Volume XVIII is Jung's longest and most eclectic work. It seems feasible to approach it in three courses, the first including sections I -III; the second, sections IV - X; the third, sections XI - XVI, plus the addenda. This unique volume ranges from a brief elementary (1901) glance by a young Jung reviewing Freud's treatise "On Dreams" to a couple of insignificant papers before his death in 1961. In between is a rich collection of thinking and postulation, ranging from the substantive Tavistock lectures, through many of his principle concerns, and touching upon a kaleidoscopic probing of the human condition. It is an excellent way to garner a sense of this astounding mind without being trampled by the difficulties inherent in other volumes. Come, enjoy, and share your reactions; please read section IV for the first class. Part I is not prerequisite for part II.
Weaver L. Stevens received his Batchelor of Arts from UCLA, his Masters of Divinity from Virginia Seminary, and his Masters of Literature from Oxford University. Weaver is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in the Washington, D.C., area and is a member of NAAP, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Weaver has taught several courses for WSJP; they are always well received.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
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Friday, October 3, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: Italian Cultural Insititue, a vin d'honneur provided by the Embassy of Switzerland, 2025 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Time: 11:27 AM - 11:27 AM
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What: Lecture
Who: Caterina Vessoli, Ph.D & Brigitte Egger, Ph.D
When: Friday
Fee: $25.00, all
From Caterina: The recent research in neuroscience and the work on dissociation, done by scientists and psychoanalysts, have given new life to the work of Jung as a clinician and as a scientist. Working as a psychiatrist at the dawn of the last century, Jung at the beginning of his career, developed a profound interest in the human soul, while as a scientist he was deeply dissatisfied with the paradigms of the positivistic science of his time. Jung was in search of a paradigm that could conjugate what was called "the personal equation" to a scientific model that could explain matter and psyche, perfectly aware that it wasn't a question of reducing natural science to mysticism or vice-versa. In the years of the great discoveries of Einstein, Pauli, Heisenberg, Bohr, etc., Jung considered that psychology had to become a science and with great courage confronted his developing theory with the modern theory of physics; he attempted to deeply know and understand the personal equation in the light of the new paradigms that science was elaborating. Today, a hundred years later, it may be that, albeit with less ingenuity and more theoretical tools, we can develop some of Jung's intuitions and concepts and see them at work in our clinical practice. Clinical material will illustrate how the concepts of synchronicity and psychoid, for so- long questioned, can today be understood and used in clinical practice and in life.
Caterina Vezzoli is a Jungian training analyst residing in Milan, Italy. Her fields of study, research, and professional interests include psychothera-peutic hypnosis, sexual disturbance, addictions, children and their dreams, the association experiment, and the effects of psychotherapy. Her interests in clinical research have seen her involved in different projects in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry of the Milan University. As Supervisor she has on-going collaborations with the Italian National Health Service in the Units for the Treatment of Addictions and in the Department of Developmental Psychology. Caterina earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Padua, Italy; she received her diploma in analytical psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich , where she is also a training analyst. She has been president, director, and currently serves as treasurer of CIPA, the Jungian Training Institute of Milan.
From Brigitte: Our main ecological problems, like climate change and biodiversity loss, are linked to our overuse of material energy. What contribution can a Jungian approach bring to such an urgent issue? How does it describe the underlying psychic predispositions leading to such overuse? To have energy is a central wish of us all, both as psychic energy (be it inspiration, love, knowledge, hope, etc.) and as material energy (be it money, oil, electricity, etc.). But any imbalance between the psychic and the material spheres may turn destructive on both sides, as seen in the widespread psychic depression and nearly suicidal overuse of material energy - both symbolically linked. Main causes are the loss of symbolic understanding and the loss of the soul dimension, which leads us to unconsciously project our inner needs onto the concrete outer world, overcharging the latter with constraints and obsessions and draining psychic energy. Conversely, to take care of soul needs, to become more conscious - thanks to symbolic understanding - means to gain free psychic energy and to liberate the outer world. This raises the question of giving adequate, life-fostering form to psychic energy on a collective level and even more on a very personal level, an eminently ethical question.
Brigitte Egger is a Jungian training analyst with private a practice in Zürich as well as an ecologist with a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. She concentrates her research on the psychic and symbolic dimensions of collective issues and works at introducing this dimension into practical environment protection - especially concerning energy and water, further predators, landscape, and market globalization - thus building up the field of psychecology.
Come early; parking is on the street. Also, or this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
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Saturday, October 4, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Embassy of Switzerland, 2900 Cathedral Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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What: Workshop
Who: Caterina Vessoli, Ph.D & Brigitte Egger, Ph.D
When: Saturday
Fees: $50.00, members in advance; $75.00, nonmembers; $40.00 seniors over 65 and full-time students
We will deepen our reflections on the theme of energy, central both in ecology and psychology, as well as on the concepts and methods of analytical psychology to link the energy issues in both fields and conclude on the necessity of considering outer and inner nature on equal terms. First, we will evoke energy in ecology as the motor of all life on earth and of all transformation of matter; the use of energy as an irreversible process leading to more entropy; the only "renewable" use of energy as coming from the sun; the specific consequences of energy use (e.g., the production of greenhouse gas) as more problematic then the use itself of energy. Second, we will explore energy in the psyche: energy as illustrated in myths; energy as a world-creating symbol; the symbol as a "polyvalent seminal" aptitude.; we will further discuss the close link between energy, symbol, and technology; and see how technology, which like the symbol allows the mobilization and transformation of energy, attracts nowadays the whole attention devoted in pre-modern cultures to symbol. Third, we will address the methods of "reading" problematic collective issues, transposing the therapeutic knowledge from the personal to the collective level. The Jungian approach, faced with a problem, is to listen to the symbolic content of the symptoms to discover what life might ask of us, in contrast to the contem-porary way of intervening with a deliberate purpose. More generally, the core themes of our time can be seen as carrying the unconscious projection of core needs of the soul. All these reflections invite us to promote a profound cultural turn toward more introspection, for which Jungian psychology offers powerful tools and insights.
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Emergence is present in our everyday clinical experience. I observe this whether I am working in research on the association experiments or in my everyday clinical relationships with my patients. I observe this phenomenon in the activation of complexes, through emotional expressions, dreams, and personal relationships, as well as the transference and counter-transference contents. The concepts of psyche's self-organization and emergence are themes recently rediscovered in our newest analytical literature. The terms self-organization, or emergence, derive from quantum physics theory, and this theory can explain fascinating Jungian "oddities" such as synchronicity and archetypes. When understood from the point of view of quantum field theory, these concepts are perhaps no longer so scientifically puzzling. Today I will present a clinical vignette in which the emergence of new contents in the analytical relationship illustrates how matter and psyche can be two faces of the same coin, like Janus, the two-headed god who could see into the past with one head and in to the future with the other, a god of time and harvest. In this case emergence of new meanings and symbols are bound to opera singing and to the early experience of the voice of the mother. The intense exchange between baby and mother is constellated by a synchronic event in the counter-transference. The expression of emotions through voice and language allows the co-construction of a healthy relationship.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
Caterina Vezzoli is a Jungian training analyst residing in Milan, Italy. Her fields of study, research, and professional interests include psychothera-peutic hypnosis, sexual disturbance, addictions, children and their dreams, the association experiment, and the effects of psychotherapy. Her interests in clinical research have seen her involved in different projects in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry of the Milan University. As Supervisor she has on-going collaborations with the Italian National Health Service in the Units for the Treatment of Addictions and in the Department of Developmental Psychology. Caterina earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Padua, Italy; she received her diploma in analytical psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich , where she is also a training analyst. She has been president, director, and currently serves as treasurer of CIPA, the Jungian Training Institute of Milan.
Brigitte Egger is a Jungian training analyst with private a practice in Zürich as well as an ecologist with a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. She concentrates her research on the psychic and symbolic dimensions of collective issues and works at introducing this dimension into practical environment protection - especially concerning energy and water, further predators, landscape, and market globalization - thus building up the field of psychecology.
Come early; parking is on the street. Also, or this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
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Monday, October 6, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Monday, October 6, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Bonnie Damron, PhD, MSW
When: Six Alternate Mondays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
What does it take to heal a man of his wounds, visible and invisible, after ten years in the killing fields? Can he ever become whole, able to embrace a woman fully, lovingly, as an equal? Can he ever open himself to his sons and daughters and teach how to live fully as a father ought? What powerful medicine holds the potential to heal the soul of a warrior king?
Some say that what does not kill you can heal you. Odysseus's healing comes by way of the Oldest of the Old, the Goddess and her consort, the god Poseidon. After ten years of war in Troy, Odysseus begins his journey back home to Ithaka and Queen Penelope and Prince Telemachos. He and his men set off with ships laden with the spoils of war. Ten years in the killing fields can change a man, even an anointed king like Odysseus. Immediately he brings the war to the lands where he stops, as he continues to kill, to loot, and to pillage. How does a man stop the violence within?
Zeus sends a terrible storm and blows Odysseus not only off course, but more than this, he sends Odysseus into nekyia, the night sea journey, into the Netherworld of the ancient, primordial Goddess. In this place she is the Once and Future Queen - Kirke, Kalypso, Persephone, Arete, and Nausikaa. In her land she is the Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Terrible, for she is also Skylla, Charybdis, and Siren. The lesson is this, and hopefully the healing as well: all encounters with the Goddess ultimately refer to and lead back to Penelope and home.
This is Odysseus' s story, his part of Homer's Odyssey. He is Sun, King, husband, and in the end, just an ordinary man come home from the wars. Penelope is Moon, Queen, wife, and just an ordinary woman. Odysseus's story is about the restoration and redemption of his humanity, and the Odyssey is the cornerstone of our Western mythopoetic imagination. The tales woven therein are the oldest of the old, and come to us through Homer from the Ages of Stone. How interesting that the Odyssey is an odyssey of the healing of a war-torn soul?
Won't you join us in this "odyssey," where we will explore Odysseus's story, the old stories woven therein, and maybe even our story.
Bonnie Damron is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in northern Virginia who also leads seminars on the plays of Shakespeare, considering his work an exceptional lens through which to view soul's becoming. Bonnie is a long-time Jung Society member who has contributed lecture, workshop, and many courses to our programs.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Swamis Jyotir Vakyananda and Abhipadananda
When: Six Tuesdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Our point of departure is from Jung's forward to the Evan-Wentz translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Jung says that if you read it backwards, then:
. . . the sequence of events as I have described it offers a close parallel to the phenomenology of the European unconscious when it is undergoing an 'initiation process', that is to say, when it is being analyzed.
So we will do just that-read it backwards. The Tibetan Book of Great Liberation Through Hearing, more commonly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, presents an initiation cycle and as such you can start from any point as long as you successfully bring your encounters from the subconscious to the conscious mind.
We will give special consideration to the yogas of death and dreaming in relationship to Jung's work on dreams and their meaning, and to his notion of "symbols of transcendence" - the means by which contents of the unconscious can be made to enter the conscious mind and be recognized by the individual. This movement is a fundamental goal of all yogas - especially the yogas of dreaming and dying as presented in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Swami Abhipadananda (Heidi Elizabeth Lindemann) and Swami Jyotir Vakyananda (Michael Anthony Perry) are lineage holders in the Kriya Yoga tradition and are authorized to initiate and teach Kriya Yoga and its related teachings. The Swami order is one of the oldest, continuous, living initiatory systems extant. Ordained priests, they perform all traditional sacraments and initiations; they derive great meaning from making Indian yogic teachings accessible to western minds. They are a married couple who reside the Washington metropolitan area and teach and write around the United States and in Europe.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Weaver Stevens, MDiv, MLitt
When: Six Wednesdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Volume XVIII is Jung's longest and most eclectic work. It seems feasible to approach it in three courses, the first including sections I -III; the second, sections IV - X; the third, sections XI - XVI, plus the addenda. This unique volume ranges from a brief elementary (1901) glance by a young Jung reviewing Freud's treatise "On Dreams" to a couple of insignificant papers before his death in 1961. In between is a rich collection of thinking and postulation, ranging from the substantive Tavistock lectures, through many of his principle concerns, and touching upon a kaleidoscopic probing of the human condition. It is an excellent way to garner a sense of this astounding mind without being trampled by the difficulties inherent in other volumes. Come, enjoy, and share your reactions; please read section IV for the first class. Part I is not prerequisite for part II.
Weaver L. Stevens received his Batchelor of Arts from UCLA, his Masters of Divinity from Virginia Seminary, and his Masters of Literature from Oxford University. Weaver is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in the Washington, D.C., area and is a member of NAAP, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Weaver has taught several courses for WSJP; they are always well received.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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What: Course
Who: Diane Fassett, PhD
When: Six Alternate Saturdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Mythology is usually categorized as a bunch of strange old stories from dead civilizations, but Jung in particular brought mythology to life again when he discovered the eternal archetypal patterns that shape the stories of myth. The reason these stories have not died out and been forgotten, and the reason they still have the power to enliven and excite us today, is because they are living expressions of the deepest levels of our psyche.
During this seminar we will read a myth aloud together. As we alternate our reading of a version of the original Troyes translation of "Percival and the Search for the Holy Grail" with discussions of its effect on our minds, our emotions, our attitudes, our dreams, and our relationship to ourselves and others, we will directly experience the eternal life force of a myth. We will not only bring mytholgy to life--we will share an experience of how mythology can bring us to life.
Diane Fassett has her PhD in Analytic Psychology, her MA in Women and Public Policy and a JD. In the 1980s she served on the Board of Directors of the WSJP before moving to New York and founding the Mid-Hudson Jung Society in 1990. She has recently returned to DC after living in Europe for 10 years, where she graduated from the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and then lived in Dublin, Ireland, for seven years. While in Ireland she served as Chair of the Irish Analytic Psychology Association, had a private practice as a Jungian analyst, and lectured extensively on Jungian psychology in Trinity College and University College, Dublin, for the North Eastern Health Board psychiatric staff, and for various training courses in psychotherapy. Diane has a private practice is in Washington, DC.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Diane Fassett, PhD
When: Six Alternate Saturdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
When we are disconnected from ourselves we can feel depressed, isolated, irritable, or numb. We may be buffeted by inexplicable mood swings. Relationships or even life itself can feel empty or meaningless. These all-too-common experiences point to a disconnect between our outer life and the nourishing wellsprings of our inner lives. Working regularly with dreams provides the missing link of reconnection between our inner and outer lives, and it is this regular connection that paradoxically can both soothe and energize us.
This dream group will support and expand your own techniques for finding meaning and connections to your dreams. In addition, we'll add a little analytic dream theory, mix in a bit of mythological amplification, explore the dream scaffoldings of complex and archetype, and learn to decipher your individual psyche's direct and specific dialogue between your outer life events and the inner symbols and images expressed by your dreams.
Diane Fassett has her PhD in Analytic Psychology, her MA in Women and Public Policy and a JD. In the 1980s she served on the Board of Directors of the WSJP before moving to New York and founding the Mid-Hudson Jung Society in 1990. She has recently returned to DC after living in Europe for 10 years, where she graduated from the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and then lived in Dublin, Ireland, for seven years. While in Ireland she served as Chair of the Irish Analytic Psychology Association, had a private practice as a Jungian analyst, and lectured extensively on Jungian psychology in Trinity College and University College, Dublin, for the North Eastern Health Board psychiatric staff, and for various training courses in psychotherapy. Diane has a private practice is in Washington, DC.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Swamis Jyotir Vakyananda and Abhipadananda
When: Six Tuesdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Our point of departure is from Jung's forward to the Evan-Wentz translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Jung says that if you read it backwards, then:
. . . the sequence of events as I have described it offers a close parallel to the phenomenology of the European unconscious when it is undergoing an 'initiation process', that is to say, when it is being analyzed.
So we will do just that-read it backwards. The Tibetan Book of Great Liberation Through Hearing, more commonly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, presents an initiation cycle and as such you can start from any point as long as you successfully bring your encounters from the subconscious to the conscious mind.
We will give special consideration to the yogas of death and dreaming in relationship to Jung's work on dreams and their meaning, and to his notion of "symbols of transcendence" - the means by which contents of the unconscious can be made to enter the conscious mind and be recognized by the individual. This movement is a fundamental goal of all yogas - especially the yogas of dreaming and dying as presented in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Swami Abhipadananda (Heidi Elizabeth Lindemann) and Swami Jyotir Vakyananda (Michael Anthony Perry) are lineage holders in the Kriya Yoga tradition and are authorized to initiate and teach Kriya Yoga and its related teachings. The Swami order is one of the oldest, continuous, living initiatory systems extant. Ordained priests, they perform all traditional sacraments and initiations; they derive great meaning from making Indian yogic teachings accessible to western minds. They are a married couple who reside the Washington metropolitan area and teach and write around the United States and in Europe.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Weaver Stevens, MDiv, MLitt
When: Six Wednesdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Volume XVIII is Jung's longest and most eclectic work. It seems feasible to approach it in three courses, the first including sections I -III; the second, sections IV - X; the third, sections XI - XVI, plus the addenda. This unique volume ranges from a brief elementary (1901) glance by a young Jung reviewing Freud's treatise "On Dreams" to a couple of insignificant papers before his death in 1961. In between is a rich collection of thinking and postulation, ranging from the substantive Tavistock lectures, through many of his principle concerns, and touching upon a kaleidoscopic probing of the human condition. It is an excellent way to garner a sense of this astounding mind without being trampled by the difficulties inherent in other volumes. Come, enjoy, and share your reactions; please read section IV for the first class. Part I is not prerequisite for part II.
Weaver L. Stevens received his Batchelor of Arts from UCLA, his Masters of Divinity from Virginia Seminary, and his Masters of Literature from Oxford University. Weaver is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in the Washington, D.C., area and is a member of NAAP, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Weaver has taught several courses for WSJP; they are always well received.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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What: Discussion group for women
Who: Janet Kane
When: Three third (mostly) Saturdays
Fees: $5.00 per session
Join with other women to explore and discuss the crone archetype, women's unique gifts to society, how we can contribute our wisdom to heal and transform our global problems, and other relevant topics.
This months topic is Astrological Symbolism and Washington, DC. There are 23 zodiacs in public government buildings in Washington, D.C.
and many more on monuments and room interiors. The Mason were among the
city's architects and planners and were knowledgeable about astrology.
There are 1,000 images in DC of a beautiful woman holding a sheaf of
grain, the symbol for Virgo, appearing on the nation's architectural
decorations. Come and learn more fascinating facts about the symbolism
of DC.
Lenore Holm and Janet Kane are founding mothers of the Wisewoman Forum.
Lenore has just retired from the Library of Congress as a music
specialist and Janet is the resident astrologer at the Jung Society.
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Monday, October 20, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Monday, October 20, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Bonnie Damron, PhD, MSW
When: Six Alternate Mondays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
What does it take to heal a man of his wounds, visible and invisible, after ten years in the killing fields? Can he ever become whole, able to embrace a woman fully, lovingly, as an equal? Can he ever open himself to his sons and daughters and teach how to live fully as a father ought? What powerful medicine holds the potential to heal the soul of a warrior king?
Some say that what does not kill you can heal you. Odysseus's healing comes by way of the Oldest of the Old, the Goddess and her consort, the god Poseidon. After ten years of war in Troy, Odysseus begins his journey back home to Ithaka and Queen Penelope and Prince Telemachos. He and his men set off with ships laden with the spoils of war. Ten years in the killing fields can change a man, even an anointed king like Odysseus. Immediately he brings the war to the lands where he stops, as he continues to kill, to loot, and to pillage. How does a man stop the violence within?
Zeus sends a terrible storm and blows Odysseus not only off course, but more than this, he sends Odysseus into nekyia, the night sea journey, into the Netherworld of the ancient, primordial Goddess. In this place she is the Once and Future Queen - Kirke, Kalypso, Persephone, Arete, and Nausikaa. In her land she is the Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Terrible, for she is also Skylla, Charybdis, and Siren. The lesson is this, and hopefully the healing as well: all encounters with the Goddess ultimately refer to and lead back to Penelope and home.
This is Odysseus' s story, his part of Homer's Odyssey. He is Sun, King, husband, and in the end, just an ordinary man come home from the wars. Penelope is Moon, Queen, wife, and just an ordinary woman. Odysseus's story is about the restoration and redemption of his humanity, and the Odyssey is the cornerstone of our Western mythopoetic imagination. The tales woven therein are the oldest of the old, and come to us through Homer from the Ages of Stone. How interesting that the Odyssey is an odyssey of the healing of a war-torn soul?
Won't you join us in this "odyssey," where we will explore Odysseus's story, the old stories woven therein, and maybe even our story.
Bonnie Damron is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in northern Virginia who also leads seminars on the plays of Shakespeare, considering his work an exceptional lens through which to view soul's becoming. Bonnie is a long-time Jung Society member who has contributed lecture, workshop, and many courses to our programs.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Swamis Jyotir Vakyananda and Abhipadananda
When: Six Tuesdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Our point of departure is from Jung's forward to the Evan-Wentz translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Jung says that if you read it backwards, then:
. . . the sequence of events as I have described it offers a close parallel to the phenomenology of the European unconscious when it is undergoing an 'initiation process', that is to say, when it is being analyzed.
So we will do just that-read it backwards. The Tibetan Book of Great Liberation Through Hearing, more commonly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, presents an initiation cycle and as such you can start from any point as long as you successfully bring your encounters from the subconscious to the conscious mind.
We will give special consideration to the yogas of death and dreaming in relationship to Jung's work on dreams and their meaning, and to his notion of "symbols of transcendence" - the means by which contents of the unconscious can be made to enter the conscious mind and be recognized by the individual. This movement is a fundamental goal of all yogas - especially the yogas of dreaming and dying as presented in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Swami Abhipadananda (Heidi Elizabeth Lindemann) and Swami Jyotir Vakyananda (Michael Anthony Perry) are lineage holders in the Kriya Yoga tradition and are authorized to initiate and teach Kriya Yoga and its related teachings. The Swami order is one of the oldest, continuous, living initiatory systems extant. Ordained priests, they perform all traditional sacraments and initiations; they derive great meaning from making Indian yogic teachings accessible to western minds. They are a married couple who reside the Washington metropolitan area and teach and write around the United States and in Europe.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Weaver Stevens, MDiv, MLitt
When: Six Wednesdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Volume XVIII is Jung's longest and most eclectic work. It seems feasible to approach it in three courses, the first including sections I -III; the second, sections IV - X; the third, sections XI - XVI, plus the addenda. This unique volume ranges from a brief elementary (1901) glance by a young Jung reviewing Freud's treatise "On Dreams" to a couple of insignificant papers before his death in 1961. In between is a rich collection of thinking and postulation, ranging from the substantive Tavistock lectures, through many of his principle concerns, and touching upon a kaleidoscopic probing of the human condition. It is an excellent way to garner a sense of this astounding mind without being trampled by the difficulties inherent in other volumes. Come, enjoy, and share your reactions; please read section IV for the first class. Part I is not prerequisite for part II.
Weaver L. Stevens received his Batchelor of Arts from UCLA, his Masters of Divinity from Virginia Seminary, and his Masters of Literature from Oxford University. Weaver is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in the Washington, D.C., area and is a member of NAAP, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Weaver has taught several courses for WSJP; they are always well received.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
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Friday, October 24, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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What: An Evening With
Who: Katherine Grace Morris, Ph.D.
When: Friday
Fees: $15.00, members; $20.00, nonmembers; $10.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Feng Shui is a depth-psychological tool that unearths a room or a home's hidden stories, invisible others, dreams, and fantasies . . . The room/home can be seen as our unconscious, and Feng Shui a portal to the messages of the unconscious. Bring pictures or drawings of your rooms to get the fullest understanding of your space. [FYI - This is not about judging the design/decor of your space, it's about learning how to listen to psyche in your space.]
Katherine Grace Morris, PhD
. . . has a doctorate in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and is a certified Feng Shui practitioner. Her dissertation was A Phenomenological Study of Psychiatrists' Offices Using Feng Shui from a Depth-Psychological Perspective.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 (1 3 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 18 20 21 22 24 25)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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What: Course
Who: Diane Fassett, PhD
When: Six Alternate Saturdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Mythology is usually categorized as a bunch of strange old stories from dead civilizations, but Jung in particular brought mythology to life again when he discovered the eternal archetypal patterns that shape the stories of myth. The reason these stories have not died out and been forgotten, and the reason they still have the power to enliven and excite us today, is because they are living expressions of the deepest levels of our psyche.
During this seminar we will read a myth aloud together. As we alternate our reading of a version of the original Troyes translation of "Percival and the Search for the Holy Grail" with discussions of its effect on our minds, our emotions, our attitudes, our dreams, and our relationship to ourselves and others, we will directly experience the eternal life force of a myth. We will not only bring mytholgy to life--we will share an experience of how mythology can bring us to life.
Diane Fassett has her PhD in Analytic Psychology, her MA in Women and Public Policy and a JD. In the 1980s she served on the Board of Directors of the WSJP before moving to New York and founding the Mid-Hudson Jung Society in 1990. She has recently returned to DC after living in Europe for 10 years, where she graduated from the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and then lived in Dublin, Ireland, for seven years. While in Ireland she served as Chair of the Irish Analytic Psychology Association, had a private practice as a Jungian analyst, and lectured extensively on Jungian psychology in Trinity College and University College, Dublin, for the North Eastern Health Board psychiatric staff, and for various training courses in psychotherapy. Diane has a private practice is in Washington, DC.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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What: Course
Who: Diane Fassett, PhD
When: Six Alternate Saturdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
When we are disconnected from ourselves we can feel depressed, isolated, irritable, or numb. We may be buffeted by inexplicable mood swings. Relationships or even life itself can feel empty or meaningless. These all-too-common experiences point to a disconnect between our outer life and the nourishing wellsprings of our inner lives. Working regularly with dreams provides the missing link of reconnection between our inner and outer lives, and it is this regular connection that paradoxically can both soothe and energize us.
This dream group will support and expand your own techniques for finding meaning and connections to your dreams. In addition, we'll add a little analytic dream theory, mix in a bit of mythological amplification, explore the dream scaffoldings of complex and archetype, and learn to decipher your individual psyche's direct and specific dialogue between your outer life events and the inner symbols and images expressed by your dreams.
Diane Fassett has her PhD in Analytic Psychology, her MA in Women and Public Policy and a JD. In the 1980s she served on the Board of Directors of the WSJP before moving to New York and founding the Mid-Hudson Jung Society in 1990. She has recently returned to DC after living in Europe for 10 years, where she graduated from the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and then lived in Dublin, Ireland, for seven years. While in Ireland she served as Chair of the Irish Analytic Psychology Association, had a private practice as a Jungian analyst, and lectured extensively on Jungian psychology in Trinity College and University College, Dublin, for the North Eastern Health Board psychiatric staff, and for various training courses in psychotherapy. Diane has a private practice is in Washington, DC.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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