Lecture

"Changing Consciousness & Therapeutic Practice"

Cost: $25 for members | $30 for non-members

CEUs: 2 CEUs are available for Friday's lecture (an additional $10)

Lecture Description:

Carl Jung engaged in a process of deep change that restructured his consciousness. This change was informed by moving away from strictly scientific and rational constructs toward a focus on non-rational experiences and non-ordinary perception.

As Jung developed his theory from these experiences, the analytic focus began to shift to the field that is created between two people and ever-widening spheres of connecting energies. Within this new context some of the basic assumptions of treatment and intervention, which are based on separateness, became less relevant. It is his process of engagement, rather than the content of his theory, that is the focus of this talk.

Workshop

"Engaging the Consciousness of Change"

Date: 5/4/13

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost: $85 for members | $95 for non-members

CEUs: 4.5 CEUs are available for Saturday's workshop (an additional $25)

Event Location: The First Unitarian Church of Cleveland
(21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122)

Workshop Description:

Many people are experiencing dramatic changes in their lives as our world passes through a collective shift in consciousness. This workshop is designed to explore how to respond to the changes that are occurring as we move away from old rational scientific rules based on linear time and three-dimensional space into new dimensions of consciousness. In this workshop, we’ll explore the use of information gained from non-rational sources and transparent realms to give us guidance during these challenging times.

CEU Objectives: 

1. To describe how Jung engaged in the process of changing consciousness.

2. To explore the use of non-rational ways of gaining information, relativizing the historical position of the ego in the psyche.

3. To discuss how the analytic focus shifts to the field of interconnection, thereby challenging some of the old theoretical constructs based on separateness.

4. To understand our responsibility in creating the form the new consciousness will take.

About the Presenters:
Barbara Friedman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and a licensed psychologist. She also is a certified addictions counselor and a certified Yoga Instructor. She has devoted many years to the study of spiritual wisdom traditions. Barbara is a published author of many articles and a book, Partners in Healing: Redistributing the Power in the Counselor Client Relationship. She is a founding member of Jung Cleveland and has a private practice in Chicago, Ill.

Doris W. Klinkhamer, M.A. LCSW, graduated from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, has completed an advanced two-year clinical training program in Jungian Psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is currently in private practice in Chicago where she integrates her experience and training in psychotherapy with teachings from wisdom traditions. She also serves on the Professional Affiliates Steering Committee and Program Committee of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.

A Tear in the Veil: Beauty and Shadow in the Art of Alexander McQueen

Please note: This free lecture is open to the public but seating is limited. Please RSVP for this event, on or after September 1, by clicking here. 

Cost: FREE, but please RSVP by clicking here. 

Event Summary:

Join Jung Cleveland and The Cleveland Institute of Art in the co-sponsored presentation of "A Tear in the Veil: Beauty and Shadow in the Art of Alexander McQueen." 

Jungian Psychoanalyst Mary Wells Barron will present a lecture exploring the archetypal symbolism in the fashion of Alexander McQueen. 

In the spring of 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened an exhibition titled "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty." This retrospective of the fashion created by McQueen presented archetypal images of astonishing power. 

This talk – featuring more than 40 images from Savage Beauty – explores these "soul clothes" and the creative genius of Alexander McQueen. 

The free presentation and discussion will include a light reception, including guests from local fashion and fiber studios. A question and answer session will follow the lecture.

About Mary Wells Barron: Mary Wells Barron M.A., M.I.M., M.B.A. is a Jungian Psychoanalyst in private practice in Saint Louis, Missouri. She trained at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and has lectured in the United States and abroad for over twenty years on subjects related to the interface of art and psyche. Mary is a member of the Board of Directors of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS).

Please note: This free lecture is open to the public but seating is limited. Please RSVP for this event, on or after September 1, by clicking here. 

Lecture

"The Psyche on Stage: The Transformation of the Soul Through Drama"

Cost: $25 for members | $30 for non-members

CEUs: 2 CEUs are available for Friday's lecture (an additional $10)

Lecture Description:

Theater has long provided the human soul with the possibility of transformation. Viewing and/or participating in dramatic ritual allows us to see hidden aspects of ourselves and repressed aspects of the culture at large. It also provides a channel for the healthy expression of deep emotions. Jung described such creative work as becoming conscious of the Shadow and working toward Individuation; that is becoming more of who we really are, as opposed to who we think we should be. This lecture takes a look at the Individuation process in theater using scenes and images from modern and ancient plays.  Also explored is the archetypal pattern of Death and Rebirth that underlies Drama as an art form and fuels the possibility for healing and transformation. Come join us as we explore that great Theater in the Round that is the Psyche on Stage. 

Workshop

"Mining Character, Mending the Soul"

Date: 11/9/13

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost: $85 for members | $95 for non-members

CEUs: 4.5 CEUs are available for Saturday's workshop (an additional $25)

Event Location: The First Unitarian Church of Cleveland
(21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122)

Workshop Description:

This workshop takes the subject of Friday's lecture into the realm of personal experience. In a friendly, supportive environment, participants will have the opportunity to further explore their own individuation process through the medium of theater.

The workshop begins with a gentle warm-up period to loosen the voice and relax the body (this section is not strenuous and may be done seated). After this, short scenes and/or monologues from various plays will be provided for attendees. Through discussion and personal reflection, participants will then select the material they wish to work with. Following lunch, there will be a rehearsal period with the chance to explore the emotional, psychological and physical aspects of a character or scene. This material will then be presented for the group in the format of a dramatic reading. The chance to discuss and process one's personal experience will follow.

Please Note: All are welcome. The atmosphere provided is relaxed, non-competitive and meant to facilitate a psychological process rather than a performance. No prior acting/theater experience is necessary. Please wear comfortable clothing.

About Romero:
Constance Romero, LPC, LMFT, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in the New Orleans area. She also is on the teaching faculties of the New Orleans Jung Seminar and The Florida Association of Jungian Analysts. She has a professional background in theatre and lectures frequently on the arts and Depth Psychology. Her essay, The Cane is Crying: Notes on Katrina, was published in Psychological Perspectives. 

Lecture

"Dying to Get Ahead: Ambition and the Art of Individuation"

Cost: $25 for members | $30 for non-members

CEUs: 2 CEUs are available for Friday's lecture (an additional $10)

Lecture Description:

Ambition has many faces. It can appear as intense desire, a desperate hungering after success or an overwrought need for fame and power. However, in its benign aspects, ambition reflects genuine desires that give individuals the energy and focus necessary to fulfill goals and realize themselves. 

Using Jung’s insights into man’s “motive factor” and imaginal materials including art, dreams and the symbols of alchemy, this lecture will examine the inner workings of ambition. As we will discover, ambition is produced by the interaction of consciousness with unconscious factors, which interrupt and often redirect our willful efforts to achieve our goals. This interaction can be confusing, frustrating, painful or dangerously pleasurable. But if properly held and understood, ambition provides opportunities for self-realization that help us move through life and connect with our world.

Workshop

"Dying to Get Ahead: Excursions into Ambition, Failure, and Other Psychological Endeavors"

Date: 10/5/13

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost: $85 for members | $95 for non-members

CEUs: 4.5 CEUs are available for Saturday's workshop (an additional $25)

Event Location: The First Unitarian Church of Cleveland
(21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122)

Workshop Description:

Participants will be encouraged to bring images and stories that relate to their own personal encounters with ambition and failure. As well, we will look more closely at one of literature and film’s most memorable stories of ambition, Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus." We will discuss elements of the story and view clips from two of the more poignant Frankenstein films: James Whale’s original "Frankenstein" with Boris Karloff and the more recent rendition with Robert De Niro, "Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein," directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Optional readings for the workshop:
Jung Mysterium Conjunctionis, pgs. 110-128 (section on “Sulphur”)
Anna Fels, Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives, Anchor Books 2005 (paperback version)

About Pilgrim:
Tim Pilgrim, M.A., M.B.A., is a Jungian Analyst, member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts (OAJA). He has a private practice in Toronto, Ontario, and is a licensed marital and family therapist with clinical membership in the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. He is a lecturer and instructor at the University of Toronto and is on the faculty of the Analyst Training Program for OAJA.

Cost: $25 for members | $30 for non-members

CEUs: 2 CEUs are available for Friday's lecture (an additional $10)

Lecture Description:

"Let us build the bond of community so that the living and the dead image will become one and the past will live on in the present…" -C.G. Jung 

"Often I have such a great longing for myself. I know that the path ahead still
stretches far; but in my best dreams I see the day when I shall stand and greet myself." -Rainer Maria Rilke

When you lose three children, your home and your country, how do you go on? If you are Emma Hoffman, a gifted painter in the impressionist tradition, you paint. Those paintings continue to speak of the redemptive power of art to Hoffman’s granddaughter, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky. Years ago, when she was in analytic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Lowinsky had a dream in which she was told, "On your way to Jung’s house, you must first stop at your grandmother’s house and gather some of her paintings.” Lowinsky was the first child born in the New World to a family of German-Jewish refugees from the Shoah. She had a special tie with her only surviving grandparent, whom she knew as Oma. Oma taught her that making art can be a way to transmute grief and bear the unbearable.

A series of paintings, self portraits, portraits of family, landscapes and interior scenes of the houses she lived in reflects her lamentations, her wandering and her search for redemption. Lowinsky understood her dream to mean that she had to follow the path of her own creativity. She did not know then that the dream would turn out to be literally true as well. She would need to put her art — her poetry — at the service of her grandmother’s paintings. Her grandmother’s spirit would demand it. Her opus would need to intersect with her Oma’s, and together they’d make their way to Jung’s house. 

This presentation is the result of an ongoing dialogue between Hoffman and Lowinsky’s art. She will weave together Emma Hoffman’s story and paintings, her poetry and prose and her reflections on Jung’s Red Book as an example of the “art of lament and redemption,” a form she calls Jungian memoir.

Lecture Goals:

1. Understand the psychology of the refugee

2.  Understand the psychology of Jews who fled the Nazis and their descendants

3. Contemplate the experience of grief

4. Consider the uses of creative process in healing trauma

Workshop

Speak, Muse: A Day with the Sister from Below

Date: 5/18/13

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost: $85 for members | $95 for non-members

CEUs: 4.5 CEUs are available for Saturday's workshop (an additional $25)

Event Location: The First Unitarian Church of Cleveland
(21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122)

Workshop Description:

In this writing workshop, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky will introduce her muse, the shape-shifting Sister from Below, and invite her to inspire your writing practice. With the Sister’s help, Lowinsky will facilitate an imaginative encounter with the stuff of your inner and outer life — your own Jungian memoir.

The Sister from Below is a fierce inner figure. She emerges out of reverie, dream, a fleeting memory or a difficult emotion as the moment of inspiration — the muse. This Sister is not about the ordinary business of life: work, shopping or making dinner. She speaks from other realms. If you'll allow, she'll whisper in your ear, lead your thoughts astray, fill you with strange yearnings, get you hot and bothered, send you off on some wild-goose-chase of a daydream and eat up hours of your time. She's a siren, a seductress, a shape-shifter... Why listen to such a troublemaker? Because she is essential to the creative process: She holds the keys to the doors of our imaginations and deeper life—the evolution of soul.

Open to those who write and those who want to. Bring pen and notebook.

Workshop Goals:

1. Have direct experience of the creative process

2. Have direct experience of active imagination

3. Deepen self knowledge about inner experience 

4. Deepen psychological understanding of writers and other artists

About Lowinsky:
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Ph.D., lives at the confluence of the River Psyche and the Deep River of poetry. Her memoir, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way, tells stories of her pushy muse. She is the co-editor of the new collection Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way. She is a Jungian analyst and the author of four books of poetry, including the forthcoming Faust Woman Poems. Lowinsky is the winner of the Obama Millennium Award, and her poetry and prose have been widely published. She is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and has led a writing circle there, called Deep River, for years.

Lecture

"'The Sailor Cannot See North': The Psychospiritual Dilemma of Our Time"

Register by Nov. 23 to be entered in a drawing for a surprise gift at the event!

Cost: $25 for members | $30 for non-members

CEUs: 2 CEUs are available for Friday's lecture (an additional $10)

Lecture Description:
What are the sources of guidance for a thoughtful person in our country amid political fractionation, animosity, divisive ideologies and numbing distractions — a time in which the individual has an enormous summons to social, psychological and spiritual integrity?  This presentation will challenge the audience to assume responsibility for a thoughtful, discerned and experientially verified authority, one which bases itself on respect for others, but also embodies a willingness to show up, to be different and to stand for something real.

Workshop

Date: 12/15/12

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost: $75 for members | $85 for non-members

CEUs: 4 CEUs are available for Saturday's workshop (an additional $20)

Event Location: The First Unitarian Church of Cleveland
(21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122)

Workshop Description:

The participant is invited to bring a notebook and pen for personal reflection for, consistent with the task above, you will be challenged to discern your own values, be accountable for them, and summoned to the courage to live them. A continental breakfast and light lunch will be provided.

Workshop Objectives:

1. Gain an understanding of the psycho-spiritual context which may contribute to mental distress
2. Learn how psycho-dynamic insights may provide avenues for developing more mature spiritualities

About Hollis:
James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst with a private practice in Houston, Texas, and is the author of 13 books, including his most recent title, What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life.

Lecture

Lecture & Discussion Limited to 15 Participants

Cost:

Lecture & Discussion: Member $35
Non-Member $45
Student w/ ID $5
Senior Member $30
Senior Non-Member $35

CEUs: 3.0 CEUs are available for Saturday’s lecture & discussion (an additional $15). 

Lecture & Discussion Description:

Folktales have been told over the millennia and across the globe, capturing the hearts and imaginations of every generation and affecting listeners everywhere. They are symbolic stories that reveal archetypal aspects of human existence. Rumpelstiltskin tells the story of a young girl’s desperate situation: to save her life, she promises her child to a gnome who rescues her. We will explore how the girl becomes trapped, how she is rescued, and how she regains her child and her life. We will seek to understand where we encounter similar dilemmas in our lives and how we can grow to regain autonomy. Rumpelstiltskin is the gnome who helps and hinders, whose power we have to appreciate and overcome and who will enslave us unless we passionately seek to know him and thereby reclaim our vitality.

Outline of Topics: 

• Dimensions of folklore
• Rumpelstiltskin: The Brothers Grimm fairytale of the poor Miller’s daughter
• Interpretation of the following:
  • Explore the figures in the story to see what psychological traits we find in them and where those traits reside in us
  • Look at the actions in the story and explore where they occur in our lives
  • Reflect on the protagonist’s dilemma and the means with which she finds a way out of her desperate situation
• What does the story reveal? What are the psychological processes about which give the tale information out of the storehouse of humanity's way of living life? The story tells of a young feminine ego who lives in the father’s world and whose creative energies are aroused by father and king to further their needs, and at a moment of total helplessness and near despair, the affective realization of her dilemma calls forth a mannequin whose services on the one hand, rescue her, and on the other hand, deprive her. After having been saved by the mannequin, she has a period of growth in her pregnancy, and she becomes able to claim for herself her feminine creativity. She can then deal directly with that complex of living for others and she can own her life more fully.

Lecture Objectives: 

1. To identify the way in which folktales are symbolic stories that depict the inherited possibilities within all of us, they describe psychosocial development and create awareness of what helps and hinders our emotional growth.
2. To examine the way in which folktales illuminate the attitudes that are most helpful in meeting life’s challenges.
3. To offer an experience of the Jungian approach to psyche.

Clinical Objectives: 

1. To identify how unconscious “complexes” are formed. This folktale specifically illuminates the way in which a narcissistic person uses their child to secure their own sense of self, expecting the child’s life and the child’s work to be in service of the parent’s feelings of competence.
2. To explore how the complexes that form in response to the parent’s demands at first help the child cope but in the process cut the child off from themselves, and their own sense of agency.
3. To recognize how one “names” these destructive complexes and works toward becoming connected to themselves and their own talents, desires and competences. 

Jody Wainer is a Jungian analyst and a Licensed Independent Social Worker. She has been in private practice since 1996. In April of 2003, she was awarded a diploma in Analytical Psychology by the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian analysts. She is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s four-year post-graduate training program as well as the Intimate Systems training program. She has over 20 years of experience as a therapist. Jody is currently active in IRSJA, serving on admissions and review committees. Her thesis was The Braided Candle: The Ten Sefirot of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life As Understood Through a Jungian Psychological Lens and Their Implications for Practice. She is interested in increasing the visibility and understanding of Jungian thought, and the support it can offer our everyday lives.

Please email info@jungcleveland.org for more information.

Lecture

Jung in Dialogue with the Soul: Is Analytical Psychology a New Religion?

Lecture Description:

This lecture will focus on the implications of the dialogues between Jung and his soul that are recorded in “The Red Book.” In one of these dialogues, the soul tells Jung that he has received a revelation that he should not hide. His calling is the new religion and its proclamation. The presenter will discuss his idea that because of Jung’s dialogue with the soul that 12 years later, he was able to write, “We stand on the threshold of a new spiritual epoch; and that from the depths of man’s own psychic life, new spiritual forms will be born.” 

Is Jung's approach to the psyche really the revelation of a new form of spirituality, what Edward F. Edinger calls the "new dispensation," or is this idea merely a symptom of inflation? If analytical psychology is indeed an emerging form of spirituality, what does that look like in practice, how does it compare with traditional religious forms, and what are the implications for the practice of psychotherapy and for our culture?

Workshop

Depth Psychology as a Spiritual Practice

3/17/12 | 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Event Location: The First Unitarian Church of Cleveland
(21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122)

Workshop Description: 

This workshop will review Jung's approach to religion and spirituality, and then present the idea that for many people the practice of depth psychotherapy is a contemporary form of spiritual direction. Instead of a traditional theistic idea – that of integrating spiritual direction into psychotherapy and depth psychology – Dr. Corbett suggests that using a Jungian approach these disciplines can be seen as synonymous.

The psyche reveals the sacred in the form of numinous experience, and manifests the Self, which is an imago dei; the psyche is therefore sacramental. Because the Self acts as a kind of blueprint for the individuation of the personality, there is no firm distinction between our spirituality and our psychology or between psychological and spiritual problems. This workshop will illustrate this idea with examples from our participants’ experiences.

About Corbett:

Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and psychiatry in England, and as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, teaches depth psychology as a member of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s core faculty in Santa Barbara, Calif. Dr. Corbett is the author of “Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion,” “The Religious Function of the Psyche,”  “The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice,” and is co-editor, with Dennis Patrick Slattery, of “Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field” and “Psychology at the Threshold: Selected Papers.” 

Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Hors d'oeuvres Reception | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Lecture
Cost: Registration only through Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. Call (216) 229-5959 or email dmorsecpc@sbcglobal.net.

Please note: Jung Cleveland is not handling or accepting registrations for this event. Contact the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.

Event Summary:

The Family Romance: Freud and Jung

It is well known that Jung criticized Freud for his tendency to interpret the symbolic richness of psychological life in terms of our primary childhood relations. With regard to the Oedipus complex evident in adulthood, Jung emphasized its symbolic meaning, interpreting incest fantasies in terms of the psyche’s inner development. However, Jung recognized the Oedipus complex as a universal situation of developmental significance, present in different ways through the life span. It will be shown that Jung’s views were closer to Freud’s than is generally appreciated. It will be shown that Jung has more to say about even child and adolescent Oedipal developmental stages than is sometimes recognized. Both optimal developmental conditions and typical difficulties will be described with reference to easily accessible clinical material.

Participants can expect to:

1. understand the clinical features of Oedipal problems;
2. understand the surprisingly common perspectives of Freud and Jung, and the Jungian defense of Freud’s claim regarding the universality of the Oedipus complex;
3. appreciate some of the contributions that Jungians have made to our understanding the Oedipus complex.

Please note: Jung Cleveland is not handling or accepting registrations for this event. Contact the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center by calling (216) 229-5959 or emaildmorsecpc@sbcglobal.net. Seating is limited and reservations are required.

Lecture

"Certainty vs. Doubt: The Ethics of Integrity"

Lecture Description: What role does integrity play in ethical decision making? When we are ready to engage the ethical questions and concerns encountered in our personal and/or professional lives, is the choice we make accompanied by certainty, or by doubt? As we become more conscious of the meaning and place ethics has in our lives, on what does our responsibility to act ethically, and with integrity, finally rest?  

Carl Jung, with Erich Neumann following close behind him, long ago introduced what came to be known as the new ethic.  In more recent years, other Jungians have joined them with their own ideas and perspectives that together challenge each of us to bring more conscious awareness into our work and daily lives, especially wherever ethical issues exist.  

The evening will include lecture and work with clips from a modern day film. It will offer an opportunity to further understand ethics from a Jungian perspective, as we explore both inner and outer influences that contribute to our certainties and/or doubts as we strive daily to become more ethical persons of integrity.

Lecture CEU Objectives:

• Compare the meanings surrounding moral versus ethics
• Gain an understanding of  Carl Jung's foundational idea on what he referred to as the "New Ethic" and its relationship to both the individual and Jung's ideas regarding thecollective unconscious
• Identify ethical ideas of other psychologists (or psychoanalysts) who have followed Jung : Erich Neumann, James Yandell, John Beebe, Luigi Zoja
• Examine and explore the history of the word and ideas surrounding integrity, and its relationship to psychology, Jung, and ethics
• Discuss what is involved in an individual's choice to stand with certainty versus doubt, where ethical matters or concerns exist, partially explored by way of clips from a popular film
• Reflect on their own conclusions regarding the complexity of the film’s ethical questions, and the ethical questions that present themselves both personally and professionally
   

Workshop

“Beginnings and Endings: A Story’s Final Chapter as in ‘Gran Torino’”

 9/10/11 | Workshop 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Event Location: The Gathering Place | The Arnold & Sydell Miller Family Campus (23300 Commerce Park, Beachwood, Ohio 44122) 

Workshop Description: In telling the story of one's life, what might anyone have to say? Which of the hundreds or thousands of experiences, along with the individuals who shared them, occupy the pages in the story of a single life? And, what kinds of themes run through the story's chapters, from beginning to end? For anyone, what is it (on the surface, or in the deepest layers of one's existence) that creates a lasting memory – a long awaited legacy, in terms of those beginnings and endings? For you or for me, as for Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” might it be the words and images that fill the pages of that final chapter that, above all else, matter most? 

“Gran Torino” is a story for our times, and perhaps, a story for each of us. It is the story of one man living into the last chapter of his life. In a changing neighborhood and world that no longer resembles the home and life he once knew, Kowalski comes face to face with an unexpected, unwanted invitation. In the end, his response to the invitation rewrites the final chapter in his story. With recognition and acceptance, Walt Kowalski makes a conscious, soulful choice regarding his own life, and in doing so, leaves behind his gift for the world.

The goal of the workshop is, by way metaphoric story using film and exercises, to examine what causes one to live a "halted, soul-less" life, and then to look at the subtle opportunities presented if and when unexpected invitations arrive. The workshop will invite those present to consider the ways in which an individual who has surrendered to "not mattering in life," might come to value his/her life and contributions, in the end being able to say: "My life did matter."

Join us for a day of lecture, exercises, and discussion, as we explore the depths of psychological meaning and wisdom for us all to be found in “Gran Torino.” As the chapters of our own stories continue beginning and ending, there is much to discover, contemplate, and gather from their pages. The final chapters are yet to be; the opportunity to become better acquainted with one's own stories is now.

Workshop Methods: Methods will include the psychological use of film clips to open the door to work with one's personal story, as well as the universal stories that belong to each of us. Through lecture from a Jungian, psychological perspective, individual and group exercises, and discussion weaving through the day, participants will have an opportunity to become more consciously, psychologically, and intimately related to their own stories and the discovery of what may have prevented a fuller life, as well as encounters in their lives that might have lead (or will lead) to a more authentic, fully lived existence, especially as time goes by.

Workshop Potential: The value lies for all participants, as well as practicing professionals, to be able to listen, recognize, and work more effectively with their own stories, and/or the stories told to them by clients and patients. Value will be found in helping all participants, as well as professionals, identify those aspects that have directly influenced their own lives and/or the lives of others in both negative and positive ways, oftentimes leaving one stagnated and paralyzed in an earlier chapter of their story, as compared with living into new and final chapters that could give new life to one's own existence, or another's, while also contributing to the world around them.

Workshop CEU Objectives:

• Consider what is possible when opportunity arrives to heal and restore a life including contributing to the lives of a surrounding community and its people
• Explore and consider what it is that allows one to change their story and once again value life
• Identify their own challenges when the neighborhoods and scenes of life once familiar, have become something not previously known
• Become more consciously, psychologically and intimately related to their own stories and possibilities for a more authentic, more fully lived life
• Learn to listen with more conscious sensitivity and a deeper understanding to their own stories, and/or stories told to them by others
• Identify those aspects of one's life that might directly influence one's story in either positive or negative ways

2.0 CEUs are available for Friday’s lecture ($10). 4.5 CEUs are available for Saturday’s session ($25). If attending both sessions for CEUs, the cost is $35. 

Karen Magee, MA, LMFT, LPC, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Houston, where she has been an instructor at the Houston Jung Center for more than 20 years and has presented ethics workshops to a broad range of professional caregivers for the last 13 years. A graduate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, she chairs the Inter-Regional’s Ethics Committee and is a senior training analyst in the Texas Seminar.  Additionally, teaching ethics online, Karen is a faculty member for the Jungian Studies Program at Saybrook University. However, presenting lectures and workshops throughout Houston and nationally, Karen may be best known for her work with film as a means of psychological exploration, always inviting those present to discover something more of themselves through the lens of film.

Please email info@jungcleveland.org for more information.

Dates: Lecture - 4/29/11 | Workshop - 4/30/11
Time: Lecture 7 - 9p.m. | Workshop 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Lecture: Our lives course with stories, stories that run through us from ancestors, stories we tell others and tell ourselves, and stories of which we are unaware and, thereby, tell us. We will reflect on the role these stories play in the shaping of our lives, and how they invite us to greater consciousness of what invisibly informs the visible world.

Workshop: Please bring writing materials. Together, in a mixture of lecture, discussion and interactive exercises, we will put narrative flesh on the bare bones of our histories.

CEU Goals:

1. Understand the replicative nature of “complexes,” and their implications for therapy.
2. Track, from behavioral patterns, the narrative threads that run through a person’s history.
3. Discern ways to identify manifestations of the unconscious in the midst of biographical detail.
4. Gain a greater appreciation for the role of affect-laden ideas to generate patterns.
5. Identify the place of “secrets,” and stories untold in the shame-based sources of patient behavior.

2.0 CEUs are available for Friday’s lecture ($10). 4.5 CEUs are available for Saturday’s session ($25). If attending both sessions for CEUs, the cost is $35. 

About the Presenter: James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in Houston, director of the Saybrook Graduate School Jungian Studies program in San Francisco, and author of thirteen books, the latest being What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life.

Please email info@jungcleveland.org for more information.

Dates: Lecture - 5/21/10 | Workshop - 5/22/10

Time: Lecture 7 - 9p.m. | Workshop 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Lecture: The lecture's theme \will come from the extended story of “The Salmon of Knowledge,” and references to Celtic spirituality will be included along with relevant poetry. According to Lindauer, “The Salmon of Knowledge,” is an Irish story that so perfectly follows the stages and challenges of a cycle of human development toward transformation of consciousness. She retells the story with commentary and enriches the experience with poetry by David Whyte, John O’Donohue and Rumi. The story is one that she has worked out from multiple sources and discussions with Irish people whom she has met over the past few years at the Jung in Ireland Conferences. It seems as if everyone in Ireland grew up knowing this story. Motifs from the story became part of the later story of “The Fisher King” which are woven into the “Epic of The Search for the Holy Grail.”

Workshop: The workshop will be a study of “Orpheus and Eurydice” with references to opera, art and poetry. This classic myth continues to inspire generations of composers and storytellers who work with this material in an effort to express something about their understanding of the human experience that cannot be said through the language of conversation.

2.0 CEU’s are available for Friday’s lecture ($10). 4.5 CEU’s are available for Saturday’s session ($25). If attending both sessions for CEU’s, the cost is $35.

A note from Kaye: 

“My life has been very challenging, extended, satisfying, and joyful as a school librarian, an adjunct professor at Syracuse University, a freelance storyteller, conference coordinator, and a workshop leader for the past thirty-five years. At Syracuse University, I taught courses in theories of human development for the College of Human Development, literature courses for the School of Education, and literature courses for the Graduate School of Information Studies. I also taught adult education classes at University College for thirty years. For the past five years, I’ve conducted literature retreats for Syracuse University at their conference center in the Adirondacks. The focus of my work has always been on teaching the world’s great literature as it relates to stages of human development.

Twice I was awarded grants from The National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue literature related projects.

I am presently planning courses for my 21st summer teaching at Chautauqua Institution, and for the Elderhostel programs offered at Chautauqua, for which I have been an instructor these past ten years. Each summer, I teach nine one-week courses on some aspects of literature and psychology.

Telling stories for thirty-six years in Central Park in New York City at the Hans Christian Andersen Statue has been an annual delight. I have also twice told stories with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.

Having recently completed a degree in Divinity, I very much enjoy being a guest minister at several churches. Entering this program of study was a mid-life adventure that my husband and I pursued together over a ten year period while continuing to work in our established career fields. Our goal was to savor the academic experience.

Being in my third year of retirement from full time professional responsibilities, I have focused on planning many weekend retreats on such topics as Odysseus’s Search for Home and Emily Dickinson’s Wrestling Match with God. Also teaching for the program known locally as OASIS, which offers learning opportunities for older people, has been enriching.

When speaking for various organizations, my presentations are frequently on the interpretation of fairy tales and myths from a Jungian point of view. Studying Depth Psychology has been a major focus of my interest over the past twenty-five years and has greatly influenced my work. I have taken graduate courses in Jungian psychology, and have attended numerous conferences and workshops over the years including a brief time of study at the Jungian Institute in Zurich.

My husband John and I have one married daughter and two grandchildren, Maxwell and Taliesin.”

~ Kaye Lindauer, M.S., M.L.S., M. Div.

Degrees include:

• B.S. in Human Development, Syracuse University
• M.S. in Human Development, Syracuse University
• M.L.S. in Library Science, Syracuse University
• M. Div. in Theology and Religion, St. Bernards

Please email info@jungcleveland.org for more information.

Dates: Lecture - 4/23/10 | Workshop - 4/24/10

Time: Lecture 7 - 9p.m. | Workshop 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Lecture: C.G. Jung said to the poet Miguel Serrano, "Nobody understands what I mean. Only a poet could begin to understand." In his Friday evening lecture, noted author Dr. David L. Miller will explore the possibility that a poetic quality is crucial to a truly depth psychology; not poetic in a Romantic sense but in a Modernist and Postmodernist sense. Jung's view that poetry "needs no meaning, for meaning has nothing to do with art" will be the point of departure for the evening's reflections.

Workshop: The Saturday workshop will further explore Friday's theme, and include discussion of particular poems drawn from the works of W.S. Merwin, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Theodore Roethke, Maya Angelou, A.R. Ammons, Denise Levertov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Delmore Schwartz, and Wallace Stevens.

2.0 CEU’s are available for Friday’s lecture ($10). 4.5 CEU’s are available for Saturday’s session ($25). If attending both sessions for CEU’s, the cost is $35.

About the Presenter: David L. Miller, Ph.D., is Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and a retired core faculty member of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif. He is an honorary member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association of Analytical Psychology. Since 1963 Dr. Miller has worked at the intersections of religions and mythologies, literatures and literary theory, and depth psychology. He is the author of six books and more than 100 articles and book chapters. For more information see Dr. Miller's Web site: http://dlmiller.mysite.syr.edu/.

Please email info@jungcleveland.org for more information.