C. G. Jung and F. M. Alexander believed that, by nature, we strive to manifest our full potential — our wholeness, our “Self.” Let’s explore the interplay of Jung’s Psychology and the Alexander Technique to better know and experience our wholeness.
Find out more »C. G. Jung and F. M. Alexander believed that, by nature, we strive to manifest our full potential — our wholeness, our “Self.” Let’s explore the interplay of Jung’s Psychology and the Alexander Technique to better know and experience our wholeness.
Find out more »“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.” —Oscar Wilde
Find out more »C. G. Jung and F. M. Alexander believed that, by nature, we strive to manifest our full potential — our wholeness, our “Self.” Let’s explore the interplay of Jung’s Psychology and the Alexander Technique to better know and experience our wholeness.
Find out more »“What is this wild prayer of longing that issues from the heart?” Nathan Scott Jr. writes. In a secular age, modern and contemporary poetry has been concerned with where the sense of the sacred and the numinous can be found outside the parameters of traditional religious doctrine. One might look at the moments when we can suddenly “rejoice with things”; we might consider religious hope and despair as permanent conditions in the depths of the mind. Two poets from the…
Find out more »The multi-faceted C. G. Jung finds the answer to his lifelong quest for a third
position between the mechanistic nature of sciences and the unquestioning,
dogmatic nature of religion, in contemporary physics.
Exploring the influence of William James on the development
of analytical psychology
How do we connect and communicate with our bodies in Argentine tango?
Find out more »The field of depth psychology emerged in Vienna at the very same time that Gustav Klimt was transitioning from a sentimental portrait style to a radical exploration of sex and death in his painting. In this rich multimedia presentation, we will explore the parallels between Sigmund Freud’s theory of the unconscious drives and the Interpretation of Dreams with the Secessionist work that made Klimt famous, and then turn to how in his later years, Klimt’s work forged a new style…
Find out more »By bringing attention to Medea as the Death Mother archetype,
we may transmute aspects of the shadow for women and mothers.
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.
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…
Find out more »Feminine Initiation and Healing Seen Through the Female Gaze
Find out more »When we engage with the creative instinct through making our own
images we invite the unconscious to express its own spontaneous
energy and wisdom.
By unifying and synthesizing Neumann’s writings, his archetypal
developmental relational theory emerges, differing the masculine and
the feminine, and further, male and female.
An evolutionary path through our current planetary crisis is explored
through the myth of Oedipus, ancient Orphic origin stories, and
C. G. Jung’s The Red Book.
C. G. Jung believed there can be no individuation unless we consciously live in our body. He stated that nature wants him to be simply man, but a man conscious of what he is and what he is doing. F. M. Alexander focuses on both of these goals; primarily by learning how to allow consciousness to live in our body, joining our life energies, psyche, instincts and spirit, all of which already live there. Alexander's work provides a long-proven means of learning how we can allow the wisdom and natural creativity of our body to reconnect us with all of these as one. Alexander and Jung believed that by allowing this unity of body, instinct, psyche, spirit and life energies we can learn how to live and function in health and healing across our lifespan, as nature wants us to.
Find out more »An autobiographical monologue based on Josh’s experiences studying dementia at the University of California, San Francisco while, at the same time, his stepfather was suffering from Alzheimer’s and newly elected President Donald Trump was leading the country into what Josh came to see as a kind of political dementia.
Find out more »As one looks back one sees a pattern unfolding, much like the plot of a novel, in which events that seemed entirely unintended turn out to have been central to the composition. Who composed the plot? C. G. Jung calls this guidance system the archetype of the Self, which is one’s full potentiality, present at birth and guiding one to adulthood and beyond.
Find out more »Using the mythic power of cinema to explore authentic elderhood through a depth psychological lens.
Find out more »For a century, physicists have wrestled with the question of what makes the reality we perceive, given that quantum descriptions are indefinite. Spatially separated events may be correlated, without the possibility of causation. It turns out that at a microscopic level, objects are not separate but inextricably entwined, part of a Unus Mundus.
Find out more »How do you work with dreams in clinical practice? Does it differ from one dream to the next, or from one patient to another? Does the dream change in either the telling or in the hearing? This two-session seminar is offered to clinicians to deepen their approach to working with dreams.
Find out more »This image-rich presentation will weave the story of the long recovery from a severe heart attack with 20 years of art, stonework, dreams, and Jungian commentary. The work will be related to alchemical processes, and the symbolism of stones, spirals and labyrinths.
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