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Monday, December 1, 2008 |
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Monday, December 1, 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, December 2, 2008 (1 2 4 5 6 9 11 12)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Tuesday, December 2, 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.
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Thursday, December 4, 2008 (1 2 4 5 6 9 11 12)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Thursday, December 4, 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.
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Friday, December 5, 2008 (1 2 4 5 6 9 11 12)
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Where: Memorial Hall, Palisades Community Church, 5200 Cathedral Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016
Friday, December 5, 2008
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:00 PM
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What: Lecture
Who: Judy B. Gardner and M. Starr Costello, Ph.D
When: Friday
Fee: $20.00, all
For fifteen years Judy Gardiner has been translating a powerful dream series, illumining correspondences between personal dream events and objective developments in science and in the natural environment. She will share her dream journey from its inception as a path to deeper self-understanding, to her discovery through dream symbolism of biological and geological principles, and finally to the direct experience of cosmic totality.
Melanie Starr Costello, Jungian Analyst and Historian of Religion, will join Judy, offering her reflections on the cosmic dream from the standpoints of Jungian dream theory and visionary traditions of the European Middle Ages.
Judy B. Gardiner has been researching and writing on the symbolism of her dreams since her retirement from a 20-year corporate career. The dream message, which she considers a "wake up call" to our connection with the cosmos, is the topic of her forthcoming novel Lavender: An Entwined Adventure in Science and Spirit.
Melanie Starr Costello is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. She earned her doctorate in the History and Literature of Religions from Northwestern University. A former Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland, Dr. Costello has taught and published on the topics of psychology and religion, medieval spirituality, and clinical practice. Her book, Imagination, Illness, and Injury: Jungian Psychology and the Somatic Dimensions of Perception was published by Routledge in 2006.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
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Saturday, December 6, 2008 (1 2 4 5 6 9 11 12)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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What: Workshop
Who: Judy B. Gardner and M. Starr Costello, Ph.D.
When: Saturday
Fees: $50.00, members in advance; $75.00, nonmembers; $40.00 seniors over 65 and full-time students
As we engage in the interlocking struggle of self-survival and species-survival, numinous dreams of nature and cosmos help us transcend the polarities behind our alienation from nature and from each other. We will explore the images, symbols and callings stemming from dreams of nature and natural phenomena, environmental challenges, as well as dream revelations of the interconnectedness of psyche and cosmos. Participants are encouraged to share their own dreams containing nature and cosmic motifs; we will discuss dreams containing archetypal themes with little or no personal content
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers
Judy B. Gardiner has been researching and writing on the symbolism of her dreams since her retirement from a 20-year corporate career. The dream message, which she considers a "wake up call" to our connection with the cosmos, is the topic of her forthcoming novel Lavender: An Entwined Adventure in Science and Spirit.
Melanie Starr Costello is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. She earned her doctorate in the History and Literature of Religions from Northwestern University. A former Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland, Dr. Costello has taught and published on the topics of psychology and religion, medieval spirituality, and clinical practice. Her book, Imagination, Illness, and Injury: Jungian Psychology and the Somatic Dimensions of Perception was published by Routledge in 2006.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008 (1 2 4 5 6 9 11 12)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Tuesday, December 9, 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.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 (1 2 4 5 6 9 11 12)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Thursday, December 11, 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.
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Friday, December 12, 2008 (1 2 4 5 6 9 11 12)
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Where: The Jung Society Library
Friday, December 12, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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What: An Evening With
Who: Robert J. Hedaya MD, FAPA
When: Friday
Fees: $15.00, members; $20.00, nonmembers; $10.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Via a discussion of his personal experiences and circumstances around the emergence of his creative process (through his medical practice, painting, and song), Dr Hedaya will stimulate a participatory discussion of the subjective experience of creation. Time and inclination permitting, Dr. Hedaya will lead the participants through the creation process of writing and singing a short group song.
Robert J. Hedaya MD, FAPA
. . . is the founder of the Hedaya Clinic and National Center for Whole Psychiatry in Chevy Chase, Maryland (wholepsych.com). He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and is the author of three books: Understanding Biological Psychiatry; The Anti-depressant Survival Program, and Depression: Advancing the Treatment Paradigm (ifm.org, 2008). Some people say he writes good song lyrics too.
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