The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco offers a variety of training programs to licensed clinicians and clinicians-in-training. Our Analytical Training Program, the only specifically Jungian program in the San Francisco Bay Area, prepares licensed clinicians for certification as Jungian analysts. The Infant, Child and Adolescent Training Program (iCAT) offers advanced certification to analysts who are interested in specializing in work with children and adolescents.
February 2023
MEDEA AND THE MODERN MOTHER: TRANSMUTATIONS IN MOTHERHOOD
By bringing attention to Medea as the Death Mother archetype,
we may transmute aspects of the shadow for women and mothers.
IMAGINING THE GOOD SOCIETY: JUNG, THE ARCHETYPE OF JUSTICE, JURISPRUDENCE & PSYCHE
Using active imagination to bring together ancient archetypes of justice,
law integrated with spirit and matter, in order to reveal new potentials
for democracy in the U.S.
PAINTING AT THE INTERSECTION OF PSYCHE, SCIENCE AND MYSTERY
The creative process remains hidden and mysterious, even for the artist. All we can do is dance around its source, look at it from different angles, nurture its growth and appreciate its expressive flowering. It is equally mysterious to ask how an artist finds her specific inspiration. Why be drawn to this? For painter Johanna Baruch, it’s almost as if the inspiration chose her. In this image-rich presentation, Johanna will explore the many facets of the creative process through her…
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DEEP RIVER: 2022-2023 HEAVY MAGIC: POEMS FOR THE WORLD’S BROKEN HEART II
Some poetry dares to speak from the heart of horror, as well as the
heart of desire, from the heart of sorrow, as well as the heart of joy,
mingling love and hate, doing the dance of the opposites. Such
poetry can be part of the process of healing our broken hearts.
Find out more »THE HEROINE’S QUEST IN FILM
Feminine Initiation and Healing Seen Through the Female Gaze
Find out more »THE CITY OF BONES: SPECTRAL PRESENCES AS HEALERS OF CULTURAL COMPLEXES
Can the presence of our ancestors both speak as well as act
to help us come to grips with our collective histories of racial,
ethnic, gender identities and biases?
THE CREATIVE INSTINCT: ART THERAPY AND CREATING OUR OWN RED BOOK
When we engage with the creative instinct through making our own
images we invite the unconscious to express its own spontaneous
energy and wisdom.
April 2023
ERICH NEUMANN’S DEVELOPMENTAL RELATIONAL THEORY — A SYNTHESIS
By unifying and synthesizing Neumann’s writings, his archetypal
developmental relational theory emerges, differing the masculine and
the feminine, and further, male and female.
A JUNGIAN LENS ON TRAUMA, RECOVERY, AND RELATIONSHIPS
Presenting current scientific trauma theory related to addiction and
recovery, including attachment theory as it relates to developing reciprocal
relationships in the context of a Jungian perspective.
DREAMDANCING: EXPLORING THE OPPOSITES
“ One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — C. G. Jung In these challenging, polarizing times we are called to draw from creative, healing energies from deeper parts of the Self. Dreams, imagination, and embodied knowing offer profound resources — personally, culturally, and from the timeless collective unconscious that connects us to one another, to all of life, and to the creative intelligence that informs us all. Transformation is an…
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