Event Title: THEODYSSEUS AND THE NIGHT SEA JOURNEY : What it May Take to Heal a Man of His Wounds

Where: The Jung Society Library

Monday, November 3, 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.

Event Title: IN A DARK TIME, THE EYE BEGINS TO SEE

Where: The Jung Society Library

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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What: Course
Who: Bill Dols, MDiv, Ph.D
When: Five Tuesdays
Fees: $125:00, members; $150.00, nonmembers; $100.00, full-time students and seniors over 65

Theodore Roethke writes that in the dark we perceive what goes unseen in the light. When tempted to avoid the darkness, Thomas Moore counsels, "if you are looking for meaning, character, and personal substance, you may discover that a dark night has important gifts for you." Meeting during Advent, when church people hear promises of how "the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light," we will wonder about the child waiting to be born within again at the darkest hour of the longest night. We will explore the mythic interior darkness below the waters described by biblical Jonah as well as fanciful Pinocchio. The five evenings are an invitation to consider the darkness around, between, and within, of which Rilke writes "I love the dark hours of my being . . . [when] the knowledge comes to me that I have space within me for a second, timeless, larger life." Reading between the lines of our lives, as well as of ancient and modern texts from Bible and Washington Post, the invitation is to enjoy poetry and story, exploring how the shadows of our political, social, and psychological landscape offer us, as it did Rilke, "faith in the night."

William Dols, retired Episcopal priest and former director of The Education Center (home of Centerpoint), is a long-time seminar leader for The Guild for Psychological Studies, which brings together material from comparative mythology, religions, the arts, and Jungian psychology to provide a framework within which individuals are aided in their search for their own deepest values and awareness. Bill resides in Alexandria, is a Fellow of the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral, and contributes to The Bible Workbench, which he created at The Education Center in 1989 and edited for nearly twenty years

For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.

Event Title: TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME, part two, by Joseph Campbell

Where: The Jung Society Library

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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What: Book Exploration
Who: April Barrett
When: Six Tuesdays
Fees: $50.00, members in advance; $75.00, nonmembers

We will continue our study of these "brilliant final lectures from the renowned master of mythology," focusing on these five: "Egypt, Exodus, and the Myth of Osirus"; "The Mystery Religions of Ancient Greece"; "Arthurian Legends and the Western Way"; "The Courtly Love of Tristan and Isolde"; and "The Parzival Legend." We will continue to use both film and text. Part one, which dealt with eastern myth, is not prerequisite for part two. Six texts are available free to the first six registrants. Used texts, though not necessary for this course, are available inexpensively online at abebooks.com.

April Barrett is in service to the dissemination of Jung's thought through her participation and training with the Creative Initiative Foundation, the Guild for Psychological Studies, and the Jung Society of Washington, for which she is program director, executive director, and vice-president of the board.

Event Title: BRINGING MYTHOLOGY TO LIFE

Where: The Jung Society Library

Saturday, November 8, 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.

Event Title: Dreamscapes

Where: The Jung Society Library

Saturday, November 8, 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.

Event Title: IN A DARK TIME, THE EYE BEGINS TO SEE

Where: The Jung Society Library

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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What: Course
Who: Bill Dols, MDiv, Ph.D
When: Five Tuesdays
Fees: $125:00, members; $150.00, nonmembers; $100.00, full-time students and seniors over 65

Theodore Roethke writes that in the dark we perceive what goes unseen in the light. When tempted to avoid the darkness, Thomas Moore counsels, "if you are looking for meaning, character, and personal substance, you may discover that a dark night has important gifts for you." Meeting during Advent, when church people hear promises of how "the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light," we will wonder about the child waiting to be born within again at the darkest hour of the longest night. We will explore the mythic interior darkness below the waters described by biblical Jonah as well as fanciful Pinocchio. The five evenings are an invitation to consider the darkness around, between, and within, of which Rilke writes "I love the dark hours of my being . . . [when] the knowledge comes to me that I have space within me for a second, timeless, larger life." Reading between the lines of our lives, as well as of ancient and modern texts from Bible and Washington Post, the invitation is to enjoy poetry and story, exploring how the shadows of our political, social, and psychological landscape offer us, as it did Rilke, "faith in the night."

William Dols, retired Episcopal priest and former director of The Education Center (home of Centerpoint), is a long-time seminar leader for The Guild for Psychological Studies, which brings together material from comparative mythology, religions, the arts, and Jungian psychology to provide a framework within which individuals are aided in their search for their own deepest values and awareness. Bill resides in Alexandria, is a Fellow of the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral, and contributes to The Bible Workbench, which he created at The Education Center in 1989 and edited for nearly twenty years

For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.

Event Title: TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME, part two, by Joseph Campbell

Where: The Jung Society Library

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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What: Book Exploration
Who: April Barrett
When: Six Tuesdays
Fees: $50.00, members in advance; $75.00, nonmembers

We will continue our study of these "brilliant final lectures from the renowned master of mythology," focusing on these five: "Egypt, Exodus, and the Myth of Osirus"; "The Mystery Religions of Ancient Greece"; "Arthurian Legends and the Western Way"; "The Courtly Love of Tristan and Isolde"; and "The Parzival Legend." We will continue to use both film and text. Part one, which dealt with eastern myth, is not prerequisite for part two. Six texts are available free to the first six registrants. Used texts, though not necessary for this course, are available inexpensively online at abebooks.com.

April Barrett is in service to the dissemination of Jung's thought through her participation and training with the Creative Initiative Foundation, the Guild for Psychological Studies, and the Jung Society of Washington, for which she is program director, executive director, and vice-president of the board.

Event Title: THE MYTH OF ATALANTA: Abandonment in the Feminine Psyche

Where: Memorial Hall, Palisades Community Church, 5200 Cathedral Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016

Friday, November 14, 2008

Time: 6:30 AM - 9:30 PM

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What: Lecture/Workshop
Who: Phyllis La Plante, MSW, LICSW
When: Friday
Fees: $30.00, members in advance; $40.00, general; $25.00, seniors over 65 and full-time students

Everyone has experienced abandonment. The Greek myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress who was abandoned in infancy, illustrates how this trauma might play out in a woman's psyche. However, a myth is an archetypal representation of inherent patterns of development, and a human life is much more particular and complicated. By translating the myth of Atalanta into psychological language, we will explore dreams and life events wherein aspects of the myth are constellated, thereby gaining insight into the trauma of abandonment.

Phyllis LaPlante is a Jungian analyst who lives in Fairfax, Virginia. She is a member of the Jungian Analysts of Washington Association and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She has taught alchemy, psychic energy, basic concepts of Jungian psychology, and translation of archetypal material in Washington, Philadelphia, and New York.

For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.

Event Title: WISEWOMAN/CRONES' FORUM:

Where: The Jung Society Library

Saturday, November 15, 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 month's topic is an Introduction to Core Shamanism - An overview of shamanic concepts and an introduction to core shamanic techniques. These are basic items from the cross-cultural shamanic "toolbox" -- that everyone can learn and use for
healing and personal growth. We will take a short "journey" to what shamans call the Otherworld, perhaps meet a power animal or other guiding spirit there, and, afterwards, have the opportunity to share about our experiences."

Ruth Rubin is a member of the Wisewoman Forum and has been active in
the Pagan community for over thirty years, where she is more commonly
known as Seanara Coyote. She has studied Peruvian-based core shamanic
techniques and presented workshops at Pagan and metaphysically-oriented
interfaith conferences."

Event Title: THEODYSSEUS AND THE NIGHT SEA JOURNEY : What it May Take to Heal a Man of His Wounds

Where: The Jung Society Library

Monday, November 17, 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.

Event Title: IN A DARK TIME, THE EYE BEGINS TO SEE

Where: The Jung Society Library

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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What: Course
Who: Bill Dols, MDiv, Ph.D
When: Five Tuesdays
Fees: $125:00, members; $150.00, nonmembers; $100.00, full-time students and seniors over 65

Theodore Roethke writes that in the dark we perceive what goes unseen in the light. When tempted to avoid the darkness, Thomas Moore counsels, "if you are looking for meaning, character, and personal substance, you may discover that a dark night has important gifts for you." Meeting during Advent, when church people hear promises of how "the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light," we will wonder about the child waiting to be born within again at the darkest hour of the longest night. We will explore the mythic interior darkness below the waters described by biblical Jonah as well as fanciful Pinocchio. The five evenings are an invitation to consider the darkness around, between, and within, of which Rilke writes "I love the dark hours of my being . . . [when] the knowledge comes to me that I have space within me for a second, timeless, larger life." Reading between the lines of our lives, as well as of ancient and modern texts from Bible and Washington Post, the invitation is to enjoy poetry and story, exploring how the shadows of our political, social, and psychological landscape offer us, as it did Rilke, "faith in the night."

William Dols, retired Episcopal priest and former director of The Education Center (home of Centerpoint), is a long-time seminar leader for The Guild for Psychological Studies, which brings together material from comparative mythology, religions, the arts, and Jungian psychology to provide a framework within which individuals are aided in their search for their own deepest values and awareness. Bill resides in Alexandria, is a Fellow of the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral, and contributes to The Bible Workbench, which he created at The Education Center in 1989 and edited for nearly twenty years

For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.

Event Title: TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME, part two, by Joseph Campbell

Where: The Jung Society Library

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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What: Book Exploration
Who: April Barrett
When: Six Tuesdays
Fees: $50.00, members in advance; $75.00, nonmembers

We will continue our study of these "brilliant final lectures from the renowned master of mythology," focusing on these five: "Egypt, Exodus, and the Myth of Osirus"; "The Mystery Religions of Ancient Greece"; "Arthurian Legends and the Western Way"; "The Courtly Love of Tristan and Isolde"; and "The Parzival Legend." We will continue to use both film and text. Part one, which dealt with eastern myth, is not prerequisite for part two. Six texts are available free to the first six registrants. Used texts, though not necessary for this course, are available inexpensively online at abebooks.com.

April Barrett is in service to the dissemination of Jung's thought through her participation and training with the Creative Initiative Foundation, the Guild for Psychological Studies, and the Jung Society of Washington, for which she is program director, executive director, and vice-president of the board.

Event Title: THE VISION, THE CALLING: Entering Into Archetypal Space

Where: The Jung Society Library

Friday, November 21, 2008

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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What: An Evening With
Who: Ileen Brennan Root, Ph.D.
When: Friday
Fees: $15.00, members; $20.00, nonmembers; $10.00, full-time students and seniors over 65

Let us imagine archetypes as the deepest patterns of psychic functioning, the roots of the soul governing the perspectives we have of ourselves and the world.

-James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology, p.xix

Shamanic traditions all over the world have spoken of the Realm of the Storytellers or Mythmakers as a region within alternate reality that we can visit in order to begin to collect our personal myths. In this program, I will share my own personal mythic quest in search of the archetypal Dark Goddess, who had entered my psyche and refused to leave. This journey has spanned most of my life, culminating most recently with the completion of my doctorate in depth psychology.

In researching and writing my dissertation, entitled Redeeming the Gorgon: Reclaiming the Medusa Function in Psyche, I willing opened myself to this archetypal field, named "psychoidal space" by Jung and experienced as a space in which everyday conscious reality shifted as synchronistic events, visions, and waking dreams became part of my everyday psyche. (Please note that I was careful, throughout this journey into deep inner space, to maintain grounded anchors). As I became more adept at traversing this strange otherworld, I came to realize the deep wisdom contained within the mythic symbols and stories. Could this state, which sociologists derided as primitive Participation Mystique, actually yield a primordial communication with the numinous forces (Deities, Tao, perhaps quantum Unified Field)?

Ileen Brennan Root, PhD
. . . is a frequent writer and lecturer on Archetypal Psychology, Transper-sonal Psychology, and Archaeomythology. She holds a PhD in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, an institution uniquely dedicated to tending the Anima Mundi (Soul of the World). Her interests and writing frequently deal with exploring the subtle intuitive realms of knowledge and experience that are so authentic to those who share the experience yet discounted within contemporary culture. Her diverse speaking and teaching experience has been gained as a corporate executive, consultant, and trainer within the fields of investment, marketing, and human resources. In addition, as an author of visionary and historical fiction, she has presented numerous writers workshops. With a BA in Literature and an MA in Library Science, she currently serves as the Psychology/Philosophy subject specialist for the Washington, DC, Public Library System.

Event Title: BRINGING MYTHOLOGY TO LIFE

Where: The Jung Society Library

Saturday, November 22, 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.

Event Title: Dreamscapes

Where: The Jung Society Library

Saturday, November 22, 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.