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Our programs are being offered online, via Zoom,

until further notice due to COVID-19.

Links will be in your registration confirmation email. They will also be sent out at least 12 hours before the program starts. If you have not received the Zoom link for a program you have paid for 12 hours before its start time, please reach out directly to support@jung.org, thank you.

Registration closes at NOON the day before the program begins.

You can take a look at our mini quick guide about Zoom here - HOW TO USE ZOOM

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Friday, April 5 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm, Eastern Time

An Evening With Manisha Roy: The Interface of Creative Writing and Depth Psychology

This lecture will try to convey how creative writing can not only be an expression of the writer’s depth psychological work but also can be an essential accompaniment for a deeper satisfaction and understanding of oneself. Creating fiction, for example, can be a form of active imagination that renders a kind of healing power to the imaginary characters vis-à-vis the author and hopefully the readers as well. 

I shall use my novel Professor Hamilton’s Passage to India (Chiron, 2022) to illustrate these realizations and observations. My own personal journey of self-exploration went hand-in-hand with my writing passion via an unconscious synchronistic event that remained unknown to the ego for many years until a life-threatening trauma made it conscious. My analytical training and creative writing enriched each other immensely.

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Five Alternate Mondays, April 8 - June 3 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm, Eastern Time

Works on Betrayal, Revenge, and Forgiveness: A Course with Julie Bondanza

Betrayal cuts deep and can lead us to exact revenge and, possibly, to forgive, which can heal both us and the other. In this course, we will look at these strong emotions through the eyes of some of the great writers. The readings for the course include four novels and a play - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Embers by Marai SandorThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert, and King Lear by William Shakespeare.

I’m looking forward to seeing you. 

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Four Tuesdays, April 9 - 30 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm, Eastern Time

Revitalize, Revive, Reclaim: A Reunion With Your Creative Process: A Course with Kaitlin Staples-Vigo

Join me for a four-week immersive art workshop where we will explore various depth-oriented techniques for stimulating creativity. We will explore symbolic material, muses, sources of creative support, and methodology that fosters the creative process. By the end of this workshop, you will have gained access to methods that allow for a deeper relationship to unconscious creative content. Participants will be invited to share as little or as much of the products they create as they’d like. Although led by an art therapist, this experience is not clinical in nature nor intended as a therapeutic intervention. 

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Friday, April 19 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm, Eastern Time

An Evening With Tim Lyons: Dialoguing with the Dissociative Identities of Psyche and Soma:Understanding Metabolism and Individuation

Every psychic and somatic experience originates from the metabolic combustion furnace that constitutes the human body. This inner fire ignites the life force, burning organic fuels and processing psychic experiences that can nourish and regenerate the cells of our body or sicken and destroy them. Autonomic functions of our organs, body systems, and the desires of our ego consciousness often find themselves at odds, dissociated from each other. In The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (1960), Carl Jung pointed out that from this conflict unexpected contents may emerge from the unconscious: “the dissociation can even go so far as to create one or more secondary personalities, each, apparently, with a separate consciousness of its own.”  (Continue reading on his program page) 

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Saturday, April 27 | 11;00am - 1:00pm, Eastern Time

Uncertainty, Is It a Gift? A Lecture with Ann Ulanov

What a disturbing title! Some days we feel that the foundations that we have relied upon are upended; some nights we worry -- what can we depend on? Can we trust that truth is accessible and real? How will our children manage? Personal and collective problems mix. What does the psyche say? How do we discern the archetypal power during personal experience? 

We will take up the gifts psyche offers amid uncertainty by exploring recalling projections, integrative projections, locality, naming, and new forms of communication resulting from placement of the ego. Psyche responds to uncertainty with creative gestures.

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Friday, May 3 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm, Eastern Time

Earth and Psyche: Archetypal Responses to the Climate Crisis, A Lecture with Stephen Foster

In Carl Jung’s 1961 essay, Healing the Split, he discussed how humanity was connected with nature but that we have lost this connection. Humanity was essentially woven into the fabric of nature, and our instinctual and archetypal patterns were established within this fabric. Jung described how, through scientific rationalism, we lost our connection with nature, which resulted in the relegation of nature to the unconscious.

With the news media constantly reinforcing eco-trauma by showing scenes of destruction, or what I refer to as the Four Horsemen of the Climate Apocalypse: Fire, Flood, Disease, and Disconnection (the uncoupling of species inter-dependence), it is easy to become “bewitched” and disenchanted, that is, frozen and incapacitated.  We fail to act, unless we can remember that we remain woven into the fabric of nature through physical need and through our feelings for the earth, expressed by archetypal patterns of nature in the psyche. (Continue reading on his program page)

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Saturday, May 4 | 1:00pm - 4:00pm, Eastern Time

Exploring the Nature Archetype Through Story and Image, A Workshop with Stephen Foster

In The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien tells a story called the Lay of Lúthien, where the love between a human (Beren) and an Earth Spirit (Lúthien) may be seen as the metaphorical setting for a relationship between humans and nature. The Lay of Lúthien is a modern fairy tale.  In this workshop, we will analyze this tale, using classical Jungian methods, including alchemical interpretation, to uncover its archetypal themes and images.

The Silmarillion tells the story of the Silmarils, three gems that contain the light of the Trees of Valinor, that is, the Light of Nature (lumen naturae). The jewels are stolen and rest in the crown of Morgoth, who represents the evil of their time.  To marry Lúthien, Beren must retrieve a jewel from Morgoth’s crown and deliver it to Lúthien’s father.  It is a compelling love story with a seemingly insoluble relational paradox. The Lay of Lúthien may also be seen as a metaphorical fairy tale about rescuing the lumen naturae in our time. Symbolically, in our immediate future, we will need the power from lumen naturae (nature’s light—sunlight) to replace fossil fuels and restore global temperatures to pre-industrial levels. (Continue reading on his program page) 


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Please note, by agreeing to enroll in an online program offered by the Jung Society of Washington, you are also agreeing to comply with our terms. This means that you cannot record (through internal or external devices) the audio, visuals (photos), or video of the program. The intellectual property belongs to the Jung Society of Washington, and we ask you not to violate this policy. Also, we highly value the anonymity of the content of the program, of the presenters, and of individuals present in the program, and hope that everyone can contribute to a respectful and trust-building online environment.  The Jung Society of Washington is not a therapeutic institution. We do not conduct therapy at all. We are not insured to manage therapeutic material in our programs, even if the presenter is a therapist. For this reason, it is important that people do not bring their personal issues into the discussions at our programsThank you!


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