Friday, August 21st   |   7:30-9:00pm est

EMBODYING SELF LOVE THROUGH INTENTIONAL AWARENESS: The Alchemy of Tantric Anatomy and the Immune System, an evening with Tim Lyons

“All are clear, I alone am clouded” Lao Tzu

“Only after I had familiarized myself with alchemy did I realize that the unconscious is a process, and the psyche is transformed by the relationship of the ego to the contents of the unconscious.” C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

In tonight’s program we will explore the alchemical processes that link the nourishing energetic field of ‘Self Love’ with the subtle energy system of Tantric anatomy. When this infusion of Self Love is activated with intentional awareness it becomes embodied within our human anatomy and supports the biological, subtle, and psychological aspects of the immune function. This in turn helps free us from being enslaved by reactivity coming from our pain identity that is triggered by shadow projections onto inner and outer, good and bad objects.

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Saturday, August 22nd   |   10:00am - 1:00pm est

CREATING A MASK TO REVEAL THE INNER SELF, a Workshop With Sandy Geller

This will be an experiential workshop for 15 participants. We will be making masks together, via zoom. We will work together in a soulful creative space, with time to observe, to share, to discover things about ourselves.

Sandy’s workshops take you into a numinous place of mystery. Some say it is a transformative experience. We will send a list of suggested mask making materials and more details.

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Five Alternate Mondays, Sept 14th -  Nov 23   |   7:30-9:30pm est

THE LITERATURE OF TRANSGRESSION, A Course With Julie Bondanza

Transgressions are “ sins of disobedience” or actions outside of cultural norms. Some transgressions , like Felix culpa, lead to positive transformation; some lead to disintegration.

For this class, we will read: Beloved by Toni Morrison, Stealing Heaven by Marion Meade, Perfume by Patrick Suskind, The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott and The Secret History by Donna Tartt.   

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Five Alternate Thursdays, Sept 17 - Nov 12    |   7:30-9:30pm est

PSYCHE (SOUL) AND POLIS (CITY): Jung's Psychology of the Political, a Course with Mark Napack

The purpose of this course is to provide a temenos, a place separate from the tumultuous, where we can gain some insight and perspective into the relationship between psyche and polis, from Jung's psychology of the political. This is important work and an important part of what Jung called individuation. According to the great Marie Louise von Franz, Jung was passionate about "les droits de l'homme, the security of man's basic rights and the freedom of the individual, which are guaranteed not only by a 'just' state, but far more by the maturity, wisdom, and consciousness of all the members of a community" (Forward in Jung and Politics).

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Four Tuesdays, Oct 6  - Oct 27    |   7:30-9:30pm est

JUNE SINGER'S BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL, a course with Phyllis LaPlante

June Singer, Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung’s Psychology (1994 edition)

Singer’s book is an excellent introduction to Jungian psychology and contains valuable information for psychotherapists with a Jungian perspective.

For this class, however, our focus will be on how we personally react to Jungian psychology, both theory and method. I hope that we all will learn something new about our own psyches. We will also discuss our ethical responsibilities to ourselves and to the world, particularly during this extraordinary time.

For the first class, please familiarize yourself with the Preface, Introduction, and Part One (1994 edition). I look forward to hearing your thoughts about the material.

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Friday, Oct 23    |   7:30-9:00pm est

JUNG AND YOGA: A Unifying Paradigm, a lecture with Leanne Whitney

While working to find empirical evidence of the psyche’s religious function, Jung studied a variety of subjects, including orthodox and nonorthodox Hindu philosophy. In the Indian traditions Jung found comparable evidence to what he termed individuation, the central process of human development and the spiritual development of the personality. Consequently, he found Eastern philosophy and psychology, including Patañjali’s Classical Yoga, to be of tremendous value to his psychological research.

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Saturday, Oct 24    |   10:00am-1:00pm est

JUNG AND YOGA: Entering Into the Heart Through Self-Study, a Workshop with Leanne Whitney

Within the Jungian tradition, coming to terms with the feeling-value of psychic contents, in addition to their intellectual value, is an indispensable prerequisite for wholeness. The value of our emotional and affective life is woven throughout Jung’s depth psychology. Jung emphasized that the purely intellectual attitude must be abandoned.

Revisioning and understanding our intellectual life and heart center are two strong bonds between Jungian-oriented depth psychology and Patañjali’s Classical Yoga.

In Patañjali’s world, the heart is a way to gain access to the nature of the mind. In sūtra 3.34 he stated, by concentration, meditation and absorption in the heart, knowledge of the mind is attained. In the orthodox Indian tradition, the heart is considered to be the seat of intelligence, with both Self and mind centered there.

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Four weekends over a year,  starting October 31   |  10:30 - 2:30 est

CELTIC CALENDAR, CELTIC MYTH, a Day With Series with Kathryn Cook-Deegan and Elaine King

Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors

What they undertook to do

They brought to pass;

All things hang like a drop of dew

Upon a blade of grass.

 — W.B. Yeats

(Re)discover agency and resonance in these pandemic times by exploring a rhythmic ride with the ancient Celtic calendar. Over the course of the year – a 12 month period – set aside weekends for the 4 seasonal punctuation marks and celebrations of the mythic Gaelic year – Samhain (new year), Imbolc (early spring), Beltane (early summer) and Lughnasa (hot.hot.hot.) Be part of a virtual community, co-led by two psychotherapists committed to the (heart)work at hand, replete with thoughtful readings, in anticipation of shared reflections - bolstered by earth and nature. We explore inner landscapes affixed to a scaffolding of past days and times.

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Four Tuesdays, November 17 - December 08  |   7:00-8:30pm est

LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times, A Course With James Hollis

As individuals, we often find ourselves in in-between times, somewhere between a world we knew, and a world that has not yet emerged.  These times are hours of crisis, disorientation, loss, and enormous anxiety.   Similarly cultures, eras, civilizations go through in-between times.   Ours is such a moment in history.    How can we recover our bearings, sustain dignity and integrity when things fall apart?   What abides amid such discontinuity?   Together we will reflect on what we may do to recover a sense of personal autonomy when our roadmap whirls from our grasp and leaves us confounded.