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“One must never look to the things that ought to change. The main question is how we change ourselves."
C.G. Jung 
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Location and ParkingAll seminars and workshops will be held at 21 Hartford Street, the Hartford Street entrance of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church, located on the corner of Hartford and Lincoln Streets, Newton, MA. Parking is available in the public parking lot across from our entrance at 21 Hartford Street. Free and metered spaces are available on Hartford and Lincoln Streets. T Stop is the Newton Highlands stop on the MBTA Green Line (D or Riverside line) – only a 2 block walk to the Church. RegistrationPlease complete the Registration Form and enclose it with your payment for each seminar. Make checks payable to NESJA Public Program, and mail it to: C.G. Jung Intitute-Boston Space is limited, so register as soon as possible to insure a place in the seminar(s) of your choice. Once a seminar is full, registrations will not be allowed at the door. Refund PolicyA full refund will be granted for cancellations up to one month in advance of each seminar. After that, until one week before the seminar, 50% credit will be applied to any future event of your choice. There will be no refunds for cancellations made in the last week.CEUs have been applied for NASW and Mental Health Counselor credits. For further information, please contact Spring 2008 Seminars and Summer IntensiveNESJA Seminars and WorkshopsARCHETYPE AT WORK: YOUR INNER ADVISORY BOARD Movie clips and music from our contemporary culture will be used to demonstrate and invoke resonance with archetypes, which represent universal truths. Through presentation, reflection and discussion, participants will have an opportunity to explore ancient and enduring expressions of our true selves in familiar current language, visual imagery, and metaphor. Being in closer communication with our own individual version of these archetypes gives us access to the wisdom they offer. Janet Britcher, MBA, is an Organization Development Consultant and Executive Coach, and president of Transformation Management in Boston. She has been an avid student of Jung’s work for over a decade, bringing those insights into her leadership work in corporations.
THE DREAMING WORLDS: Do Psyche’s Stories Unfold Both Within and Without, and Inbetween Carl Jung once suggested that the dream arises in the space between patient and analyst. An Eastern philosopher once mused about whether he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming she was a human being. In this series of three Monday evenings, we will ponder further the question of the interface between our nightly individual revelation in dreams, and the dreams of the outer world of nature and creation, as well as the dreams' interactions between the collective and the individual psyches of culture and politics. A particular focus will be on the co-existence of Terror and Beauty in the dream images of all these worlds. Ethne Gray, M.Div., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst and art therapist with a private practice in Newton and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute. She teaches art therapy at Lesley University where she has shared her interest in Jung’s theories of symbolic healing and Native American art, myth and traditional therapeutic practices.
THE BROKEN VESSEL: SACRED RAGE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Sacred rage is the suffering, the distress cry, of the human psyche no longer able to encounter God in the vessel of traditional faith experience. The vessel is broken. It cannot be put back together again. The goals of this one-day workshop are to better understand the dynamics of radical fundamentalism and the possibilities for post-traumatic growth. William Ventimiglia, D.Min., IAAP is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a past-president of the Training Board of the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston and the New England Society of Jungian Analysts. Published articles are: “Supervision & The Circumcised Heart,” “Terrorism & the Dark Side of Religion,” and “Where Is God Gone?” He has a private practice in Cambridge and Topsfield, MA.
NATURE MYSTICISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY Do we possess a harmonic resonance with elemental forces? Encounters with the natural world often evoke feelings that appear to arise from sources deep within us. These moments of transcendence have been termed collectively as nature mysticism. We will explore this phenomenon through the experiences of outdoors people and others, through the thinking of individuals such as Emerson, Thoreau, William James, and Edward O. Wilson, and from scientific advances in the understanding of mystical experience. Carl von Essen, M.D., is a retired oncologist who has practiced in the United States, India, and Switzerland. He taught at Yale, UCSD, Basel and Vellore. He also served with the World Health Organization in Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Throughout a professional career he has devoted available time to exploring the natural world and is author of The Revenge of the Fishgod: Angling Adventures around the World, and The Hunter’s Trance: Nature, Spirit, and Ecology. He is married to Jungian analyst, Manisha Roy.
SEEING BEAUTY WITH WORDS In this workshop we will let beauty lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our place in the world. Simone Weil wrote, “The beauty of the world is the mouth of the labyrinth.” In contemplating beauty, we are drawn inwards, as if in a labyrinth. We will follow beauty to the center of the labyrinth where we will discover stillness. We will return to the world around us with words to both celebrate and protect its daily beauty. Using examples and guided writing exercises, we will write in the form of journal entries, letters, essays, short stories, or poems. Using examples and guided writing exercises. Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published three memoirs, including Looking for Gold, One Year in Jungian Analysis (Daimon Verlag, 1997). She has written many narrative essays in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic, where she also lectures and teaches widely.
THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE: A MULTIDISCLIPLINARY APPROACH Mystical experience plays a unique role in human experience and in the psychology of religion. The psychology of mysticism was of great interest to C. G. Jung, and his idea of the experience of the supra-ordinate archetype of Self shares substantial features with mystical experience. This course will examine the variety of attitudes within the traditional religious literature towards mysticism, how academic scholars of religion view it, and how modern psychology and neurobiology may influence our understanding of this phenomenon. Selected examples of recorded mystical experience within traditional Eastern and Western religion will be discussed, as well as how mystical experiences may spontaneously emerge within everyday life and analysis. Attendees are actively encouraged to participate with respect to their personal experiences with this topic. Richard Kradin, M.D., IAAP is a Jungian analyst and physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the former Director of Research at the Mind-Body Medical Institute at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kradin has authored over 150 scientific papers in the medical and psychoanalytic literature and two recent texts, The Herald Dream, (2006) published by Karnac and The Placebo Response: The Power of Unconscious Healing (2008) published by Routledge.
To Be Rescheduled:CIRCLES, SPIRALS, SHELTERS & JOURNEYS: Ecological Archetypes in Nature, Psyche and Environmental Art MYTHOLOGY and PSYCHOTHERAPYJUNE 26, 27, 28, 2008
At The C.G. Jung Institute-Boston 21 Continuing Education Units will be offered The Summer Intensive Program is open to all who are interested in the Jungian approach to the psyche and is particularly suited to professionals in Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Nursing, Social Work, Medicine, Education, Religion, Education and the Arts. This program is strongly recommended for those who are considering training in Jungian analysis. PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONThe Summer Intensive Program is designed to provide an exploration of Jungian theory and practice. This year our program embraces Jung’s value of mythology as a lens through which to view the dynamics of the psyche. Jungians appreciate mythological imagery as a perspective from which to understand the experiences of transformation within the process of analysis. In this program, seven Jungian analysts, all members of the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston, will present their work, weaving together theory and practice, using the symbolic dynamism of mythology to enlighten the process of individuation. Participants are encouraged to bring their curiosity, questions, imagination and dreams to engage in lively discussion with the presenters. THE PROGRAMTHURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008 8:30 am - 9:00 am 9:00 am – 12:30 pm Erich Neumann's Origins and History of Consciousness provides a wonderful overview of the mythic dimension of the individuation journey. But it tells us very little about the history of consciousness, and nothing about its origins. This workshop will summarize the history of human consciousness as it is understood by contemporary archaeology and anthropology, taking note of three periods: the Ice Age cave painters, the first agriculturalists 25 millennia later, and European Christianity a thousand years ago. In each case, myth describes a world that is rooted in the capabilities of the human organism, its biology and spirituality. Paying attention to how mythic themes alter our consciousness is the key to using mythology in therapeutic practice. 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch (ad lib) 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm Grandmother Spider, Paul Bunyan, Cajun John, Liquid gold, Bre'r Rabbit, and High John the Conqueror all have something in common.This seminar will examine myths and stories of the American soil asthey relate to archetypal themes in psychotherapy. The ongoing assimilation of immigrants into the Native American mythos spawns dreams, legends, songs, dances, and jazzy twists and turns - the evolving stories of a New World. Origin myths, Black folktales, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2008 9:00 am – 12:30 pm 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2008 9:00 am – 12:30 pm The one is the god of wine, ecstasy, madness and liberation. The other is a magical musician, shaman, poet and lover. They are both journeyers to the underworld. Dionysos goes down to recollect his mother Semele, so that she can join the other gods on Olympus. Orpheus descends to recall his beloved bride Eurydice, bitten by a poisonous snake soon after their marriage. Both of these fascinating figures have remained perennial images of artistic, psychological and spiritual transformation for more than three millennia. Praises and hymns to them resound throughout religious ritual, tragic theatre, mystical experience, analytical practice, and all of the arts, spectacles, performances and presentations where love and death, rapture and suffering, and bliss and anguish come into play. Exploring, evoking and evolving together the contemporary meanings of their multifaceted mythologems through lecture material, poetry, readings, slides, tapes and discussion, we will attempt to immerse ourselves in and embrace the reality of the psyche. 12:30 pm –2:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm Themis is a hidden goddess. She is not one of the twelve Olympians who sit on their golden thrones and carry the very image of the gods of the Greeks. Born a Titan, of an older race than they, she was often hailed as the incarnation of eternal, inexhaustible Earth herself, and brought an ancient wisdom to the ordering of the world of gods and humans. At Delphi, she was known as the original Oracle before Apollo arrived, killed her protective snake/dragon Python, and took the Oracle over for himself. Yet, even though the other gods and goddesses have faded from our consciousness, Themis is still with us today as Our Lady Justice, the blindfolded woman draped in Greek robes who holds the scales of justice in her left hand and sword in her right. Somehow this goddess has continued to exist. In this seminar, we will explore some of the lost aspects of this ancient goddess and see how her archetypal power was still available as a source of healing in a Jungian analysis. 5:30 pm SUMMER INTENSIVE FACULTY Gary D. Astrachan, Ph.D., IAAP, is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst in private practice in Portland, Maine. He is a faculty member and supervising and training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute –Boston, and lectures and teaches widely throughout North America and Europe. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles in professional journals and books and writes particularly on the relationship between analytical psychology and Greek mythology, poetry, painting, film, postmodernism, and critical theory. Pamela Donleavy, J.D., IAAP , is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Arlington, MA. She is the past President of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts, is on the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute- Boston. Pamela lectures widely, and is the author of several articles in Jungian journals. Her book with co-author Ann Shearer, Themis: Ancient Goddess, Modern Healing, published by Routledge, is due out in 2008. Anita Greene, Ph.D., IAAP is a graduate of the Jung Institute of New York where she taught and served on the board. She is trained in the Rubenfeld Synergy Method, which combines Alexander and Feldenkreis body techniques. She is on the faculty at the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston and maintains a private practice in Amherst, Massachusetts. She continues to write and lecture on the integration of body and psyche. Thayer Greene, Ph.D., IAAP, is a graduate of the Jung Institute of New York where he taught and served on the board. He is a member of the faculty at the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston where he also serves as a supervising analyst. He is the author of numerous articles and a book in the field. He lives and practices in Amherst, Massachusetts. John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst trained in Zurich and very active in the Boston Institute. Author of many articles and books on Jung, shamanism, relationship, and mystical experience, he has a large selection of his work free for reading and downloading at www.jrhaule.net Richard Kradin, M.D., IAAP is a Jungian analyst and physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the former Director of Research at the Mind-Body Medical Institute at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kradin has authored over 150 scientific papers in the medical and psychoanalytic literature and two recent texts, The Herald Dream, (2006) published by Karnac and The Placebo Response: The Power of Unconscious Healing (2008) published by Routledge. Pamela Newton, LMHC, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst, teacher, and theater Ann Back Price, PCNS, IAAP is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Providence, RI. She serves on the faculty of the Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston. SUGGESTED READING Jung. CG. and Carl Kerenyi. Essays on a Science of Mythology. Bllingen Series XXII. Princeton. N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963. Neumann, Erich. The Origins and History of Consciousness. Bollingen Series XLII. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Edinger, Edward F. The Eternal Drama: The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology. Boston and London: Shambhala Press, 1994.
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