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Lecture: Friday, February 8,
2008 7-9:30 PM
Podcast
of recent KDHX interview
(Also
at KDHX website)
Missouri History Museum
(note different location)
Printable flyer of this
event
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Printable Poster
URGENT
MESSAGE FROM MOTHER:
GATHER THE WOMEN, SAVE THE WORLD
The Urgent Message that
Jean Bolen carries to us is from Mother Earth, Mother archetype, mother
instinct and the sacred feminine. It is a call to bring into
consciousness and culture that which C.G. Jung called the “feminine
principle”--which most women and some exceptional men embody. This way
of being is characterized by an empathic response to suffering. Women as
a gender, not every woman, but women generally, have a wisdom that is
needed. Terrorism, wars, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons,
global warming and deterioration of the environment; domestic violence,
bullying, trafficking in women and girls, and children who are
traumatized and dying of preventable diseases are the toxic symptoms of
a world without Mother. The grassroots women’s movement changed the
world through consciousness and activism. Once again, this time through
circles with a spiritual center--a critical mass, “millionth circle”
tipping point--could change perception, move people to action, and save
the world. 2 CEUs available.
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Nonmembers: $30 Friends/Members:
$25 Full-Time Students: $15
Workshop: Saturday, February 9, 2008, 9 AM-3:30 PM
Doors open at 8am
for a light Continental breakfast (details below)
Missouri History Museum
(note different location)
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LOVE VS. POWER: FROM FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY
TO THE FATE OF THE EARTH
We all come into world
seeking to be loved and if we are not loved, we settle for power.
Drawing from archetypal psychology, patterns emerge: trauma, neglect,
and bullying, identifying with the aggressor, chronic victimization,
emotional numbness and addictions. The roles are the authoritarian
father, the disempowered feminine, and the neglected child—which play
out within the psyche, in dysfunctional families, and in war and
commerce. When Jean Shinoda Bolen tells us themes from the Grail Legend,
the Abduction of Persephone, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle, these mythic
stories come to life and provide insights into ourselves, dysfunctional
family psychology and patriarchy. The missing feminine principle needs
to be brought into the psyche, family and culture. Fierce compassion,
tenderness, mother bear protectiveness, grandmother wisdom, “enough is
enough” crone activism are qualities of an empowered feminine principle.
All of these can be nurtured and supported in circles with a sacred
center.
In this workshop, Jean will tell stories that reverberate in our
psyches, lead a guided meditation and provide a small circle experience
and information. She will encourage the formation of ongoing support and
activist circles.
5 CEUs available.
You must register for this
workshop by Friday the 8th; no
registrations will be taken the "day of".
Includes a light
Continental breakfast starting at 8am, continuing through the
morning hours.
The 90 minute break for lunch is "on your own" (not included).
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Nonmembers: $100 Friends/Members:
$90 Full-Time Students: $50
Jean
Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, clinical
professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco
and an internationally known speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist,
Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. She is the
author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in
Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The
Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine and
Urgent Message from Mother. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the
American Psychiatric Association, a former board member of the Ms.
Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association.
She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing's "Pioneers
in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award", and is a Diplomate of
the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She appeared in two
acclaimed documentaries, the Academy Award-winning anti-nuclear
proliferation film “Women--For America, For the World”, and the Canadian
Film Board's “Goddess Remembered”. Her website is
http://jeanbolen.com/
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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Sexuality & the Religious Imagination”
Presented by Bradley TePaske, Ph.D.
”What God
joined together and religious traditions put asunder -- body, soul, and spirit
-- TePaske reassembles, now consciously and with a therapist's care.” -
Murray Stein
In his lecture Dr.
TePaske will present some beautiful religious and mythological images and texts
for contemplation and re-interpretation in regard to sexuality, particularly the
negative impact past interpretations have had on our society
as a whole.
Lecture:
Friday, March 28, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs) Click
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First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
Collage by TePaske
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee:
Friends - $15;
Others $20; Full-time Students $10
The enchanted painting of Hieronymus Bosch (1453-1516) represents an enigmatic
interpretive puzzle of Northern Renaissance art, a heretical response to the
patriarchal religious establishment of the Late Medieval period, and an
archetypal cartwheel across the sensual skin of the Great Mother. Employing
detailed slides of the entire triptych, Dr. TePaske will explore Bosch’s
religious milieu, his florid imagery, and his portrayal of the extremes of the
senses in an earthly Paradise and the Low Countries’ most famous Hell. Depth
psychological reflections on anima and Eros, the claims of Mother Earth, and the
self as both body-imago and “inner world image” will compliment Bosch’s
remarkable work and preview major themes of our guest’s recently published book,
Sexuality and the Religious Imagination.
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Workshop: Sat., March 29, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee:
Friends - $70;
Others $80 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $40 (No Lunch)
While the doctrine of the Incarnation is a fundamental Christian tenet, its
deeper implications point directly to the religious significance of the body,
human sexuality, and erotic love that patriarchal tradition invariably demeans.
From a survey of this sex-negative moral purview and the roles of St. Paul and
St. Augustine in creating it, Dr. TePaske will chart an open course of
psychological reflection and mythological amplification that embraces Jewish,
Christian, Gnostic, and pagan strands of our Western religious heritage with
equanimity. The claims of Mother Earth, of sexual deities like those of the
Graeco-Roman pantheon and the Underworld are thus considered with reference to
Aphrodite and Sophia, the nymphs of Dionysus and Mary Magdalene, Hermes or Hades
and the baleful black Devil of Christian lore. Focused on the central role of
sex and gender in the individuation process, the seminar will bring archetypal
and clinical perspective to a broad range of sexual phenomena, while concluding
with summary reflections on the Bridal Chamber ritual of ancient Christian
Gnosis.
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Bradley A. TePaske, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, archetypal psychologist, and accomplished graphic artist. Author of Rape and Ritual: A Psychological Study, and a scholar of Gnosticism and the Graeco-Roman mystery religions, he has explored the relationship between sexuality and religion for over 25 years. He is currently in private practice in Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades, CA.
LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Archetypal Dreams as Spiritual Reality”
Presented by Jenny Yates, Ph. D
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Lecture:
Friday, April 25, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Others $20; Full-time Students $10
In this lecture I shall share archetypal dreams of the Black Madonna, Sophia/Shekinah and Tibetan Buddhism. The Black Madonna Dream occurred during a visit to the church of the Black Madonna in Switzerland. The dream of Sophia illustrates the link between female images of the Divine and a female image of the Self. The Tibetan Buddhist dream led to my attending the ChalaChakra or Wheel of Time ritual led by the Dalai Lama. The dreams illustrate Jung’s saying that at the depths of the unconscious we have access to the symbol systems of all the world’s religions, hence the Collective Unconscious. This one world or “unus mundus’ could help us understand the unity in the midst of the diversity of religions and hopefully add to peace.
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Workshop:
Sat., April 26, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee:
Friends - $70;
Others $80 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $40 (No lunch)
This workshop will focus on the lack of female images of God and Self, in the context of the dreams of the female Self shared in the Friday lecture. Jung developed Sophia as the highest stage of a man’s anima but did not develop her as a female Self-image. This parallels the lack of female images of the divine in orthodox Judaic/Christian traditions. Mystical Judaism does develop the Shekinah and Gnostic Christians included Sophia. Participants will be asked to draw their own understanding of the relationship between God and the Self, which work will be used to discuss Jung’s understanding of the link between images of God and images of Self.
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Jenny Yates, Ph. D. is currently a “Visiting Distinguished Scholar” at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she teaches Jungian Psychology and Religion. She practices as a Jungian analyst with alternative medicine practitioners. She chaired the dream session at the International Congress of Jungian Analysts in Cambridge, England, where she presented the Sophia dream. Dr. Yates is the author of four books, most recently Jung on Death and Immortality. She chaired the Division of Humanities and the Religion Major at Wells College, where she was a professor of Religion and Philosophy for twenty-seven years, has a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale, a Ph.D. from Syracuse, and is a diplomate of the Zurich Jung Institute. She is Vice President of the North Carolina Society of Jungian Analysts.
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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Psyche & the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Organized Religion”
Lionel Corbett, M.D.
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Lecture:
Friday, Friday, July 18, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee:
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Others $25; Full-time Students $12.50
Spiritual structures require periodic renewal. When our spirituality cannot be contained within traditional institutions, there is an urgent need for new ways to articulate our experience of the sacred. From within the depth of the psyche, a new image of the divine is emerging alongside and within traditional Judeo-Christian images. Depth psychology gives us a language to articulate this emergence, allowing our experience of the sacred to be articulated without the need for recourse to traditional theology, doctrine or dogma. This lecture describes an approach to spirituality based on personal experience of the sacred.
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Workshop: Sat., July 19, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC -
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Fee:
Friends - $85;
Others $95 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $47.50 (No lunch)
Morning Topic: “The Case of
Job: A Psychological Approach to the Suffering of the Innocent”
The story of Job raises eternal questions about the suffering of the innocent.
In this workshop, Job will be considered as if he were a contemporary person
undergoing a severe crisis. This crisis results from his severe losses, which
activate important complexes. As a result of his suffering, Job experiences the
numinosum in a way that is related to both his character structure and his
cultural setting. Using the language of depth psychology, we will examine the
ways in which his psychopathology, his character structure, and his God-image
were affected by his experience of the numinosum. In the process, I will suggest
a depth psychological approach to suffering and the notion of the dark side of
the divine.
Afternoon Topic: “The Self as the Totality of Consciousness: Psychotherapy
without Separateness”
In this
presentation, I will offer an alternative to the traditional notion that
psychotherapy occurs between two individuals who produce an inter-subjective
field. Instead, I will describe a larger perspective that sees no fundamental
separation between therapist and patient. In this model of psychotherapy, both
participants are manifestations of, and are contained within, a superordinate
field of Consciousness. We are separate at the level of the ego and conventional
reality, but at the deeper level of the transpersonal Self we are not divided.
Each of us is a part of this Totality, and therapist and patient are simply
meeting aspects of themselves. At this level, because we know ourselves as the
other, there is no "I-Thou" distinction. This approach broadens our usual
understanding of the therapeutic field, changes the therapist's view of his or
her client, and builds a bridge between psychotherapy, depth psychology, and the
contemporary views of consciousness that are emerging from within quantum
physics.
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Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. His primary dedication has been to the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology. He is the author of Psyche and the Sacred, and The Religious Function of the Psyche. He is co-editor, with Dennis Patrick Slattery, of Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold. He has also authored “Spirituality Beyond Religion”, a set of audiotapes published by Sounds True.
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Women Who Run With the Wolves – Part 1
Presented by Sheldon Culver
8
Thursdays (Mar. 6,13, 20, 27/ Apr. 3,10,24/ May 1)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Readings: Estes, Clarissa Pinkola; Women Who Run With the Wolves
Limited to 10 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends, $110;
All others, $120
(16 CEUs)
Too long we have suffered the forces and foci of patriarchal energies that often
seem to dictate the decision-making of individuals and nations, to direct our
attention away from the task of soul-making. While terrorism and war continue to
condition the collective psyche, holding many communities hostage to fear, there
are alternative ways of responding to these demonic powers, particularly through
a richer understanding of the essential feminine instinct within us all.
Pinkola Estes' superb study of the Wild Woman archetype (the divine/instinctual
feminine) in stories, myth and dream, invites the reader to explore a deeper
Way--a way of personal revelation and self-reclamation.
This group
will discuss the first eight chapters of the text, engaging images of Psyche's
journey that may help restore the feminine to its place in the balance of life.
The remaining chapters of the book will be covered in a second group next
season.
Sheldon
Culver is both a Jungian analyst with a private practice in St. Louis and an
ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She trained as an analyst with
the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Class limit of 10, held in a
home in the Central West End. You may contact Sheldon at (636) 795-0750, or
e-mail her at im4shadow@sbcglobal.net.
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Journey to Wholeness through Film:
Seeing the Twelve Steps
Presented by Francesca Ferrentelli and Mary Ryan
8 Tuesdays (Feb. 19/ Mar. 4, 18/ Apr. 1, 15, 29/May 13, 27)
6:30 – 8:30 P.M. (Note earlier start time)
Readings - not required
Limited to 20 registrants
The location for this study group has now been determined:
It will
be held at St. Mary's Health Center (6420
Clayton Road)
in Cafeteria "C".
This is on the "ground level" of the main building.
Friends, $110;
All others, $120
(16 CEUs)
In 1961 Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, wrote Carl Jung
thanking him for his critical, yet unknowing, role in the founding of AA. Bill
W. reminded Jung of something he’d told a patient thirty years prior: that he
might be hopeless against his drinking unless he “became the subject of a
spiritual experience…a genuine conversion!” Jung’s powerful words moved this
patient to retain sobriety and subsequently established the foundation for AA.
Jung responded to Bill W. by saying that the craving for alcohol was equivalent
to the spiritual thirst for wholeness. Jung reiterated that a spiritual
experience is crucial for recovery. In this discussion group participants will
explore this journey to wholeness through contemporary film. Joining together
the 12 steps and the teachings of C.G. Jung, Mary Ryan and Francesca Ferrentelli
will use film clips to elucidate the process, the goals, and the steps of the
recovery journey. Class limit of 20, held at a location to be determined. You
may contact Francesca at (314) 283-5664 or e-mail her at
drcheska@sbcglobal.net.
Francesca
Ferrentelli is a psychotherapist, mythologist and storyteller. She received
her doctorate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and her
MA in Professional Psychology at Lindenwood College. Dr. Ferrentelli specializes
in eating disorders, and lectures widely. She is the Program Manager of the
Outpatient Behavioral Health Program at the St. Mary’s Health Center, has a
private practice in Clayton, MO, and contracts as a therapist through the St.
Alexius Hospital.
Mary Ryan
M.S. has been a licensed professional counselor for the past 23 years with a
private practice in Springfield and Jacksonville, Illinois. She has taught
classes at Illinois College and the University of Illinois- Springfield and
conducted workshops for corporations and teachers’ institutes. Ms. Ryan
currently facilitates a group for inmates in prison.
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Sandtray / Sandplay
Therapy
Presented by Shirley Fontenot
Sorry; This class is full.
6
Mondays (Jan. 28/ Feb.
11/Mar. 3,17, 31/Apr. 21)
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. (Note Afternoon
Time)
Limited to 6 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in University City.
Friends,
$85; All others, $95 (12 CEUs) ---- FULL ----
Readings: Handouts will be provided by instructor
Sandplay is a nonverbal, nonrational form of therapy in which small figures are
selected and placed in the sandtray by the client to give concrete outer
expression to internal experience, with the analyst as witness to this process.
The sandtray scene exists as both an outer and an inner reality and functions
symbolically between both worlds. The making of sandtray scenes can be
understood as an embodied active imagination that can access and free repressed
energy to flow in to create new channels in the promotion of psychological
growth.
Participants will be taught the theory and practice of sandtray
therapy, and will look at the history and development of this expressive therapy
within the context of Jungian theory. However, because this form of
therapy is learned through experience, experience will be the primary focus of
the course. For this reason, participants will have the opportunity to do
actual sandtrays during the 6 class sessions.
Shirley M. Fontenot, D. Min., a diplomate of the C. G. Jung
Institute of Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Chicago and St. Louis.
Class limit of 6, held at an office in University City. You may contact Shirley
Fontenot at (314) 726-0079.
Fundamentals of Jungian Psychology
Taught by Rose F. Holt and Boris Matthews
Online
Course
Begins January 21, 2008
Class limit of 25
Friends,
$110.00; All others, $120.00
(16 CEUs)
Readings: All required readings will be posted on line
This will be
an introductory course covering major theoretical elements of Jungian
Psychology: (1) Introduction – History and Overview; (2) Typology and
Adaptation; (3) Structural Elements of the Psyche: Conscious/Unconscious; Ego
Consciousness; Persona and Shadow; Self; (4) Complex Theory; (5) Collective
Unconscious; (6) Archetypes; (7) Stages of Life; (8)Individuation.
Students will
be able to understand (1) Jung’s primary contributions to psychology, (2) The
Jungian concept of personality type and its value for under-standing ourselves,
our relationships and others, (3) Complex theory and its usefulness in changing
problematic human behaviors, (4) Conflict within oneself and between self and
others, (5) Archetypal motifs that underlie much of human behavior.
No prior
knowledge of Jungian psychology is required. This course is open to people in
the helping professions and to lay persons. It is structured to give newcomers
to Jung a solid, basic understanding. It will also appeal to those who have some
understanding of Jung's thinking but would like to gain a more thorough and
comprehensive overview of the subject.
Class limit
of 25. The class requires 16 hours of reading and weekly online discussion
to qualify for CEUs. You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail
her at
roseholt@aol.com.
Rose F.
Holt, M.A. received her Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung
Institute of Chicago in 2001. She is an analyst in private practice in St. Louis
and Chicago and is active in the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Analyst Training
Program. She also serves as Advisory Analyst to the C.G. Jung Society of St.
Louis. She has taught numerous courses in all facets of Jungian Psychology.
Boris
Matthews, Ph.D. is a faculty member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago
where he received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology in 1987. He has been
board certified (1989) by the National Association for the Advancement of
Psychoanalysis, and has practiced Analytical Psychology and Jungian Analysis
since then in Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison. Dr. Matthews has translated
numerous Jungian texts from German to English and is the co-author (with Ashok
Bedi, M.D.) of Retire Your Family Karma.
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Fairy Tales
Presented by Ellen Sheire
10
Mondays (Jan. 14, 28/Feb. 11,25/Mar. 10,24/Apr. 7, 21/ May 5, 19)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Class limit of 14
Readings: Von Franz, Marie-Louise, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales,
edition K. Crossen, Boston: Shambala Press, 1996.
Friends, $130;
All others, $140
(16 CEUs)
This
study group will be reading Dr. von Franz’ revised and updated book which was
originally published as “An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales”,
1970. According to the current publisher, of the various types of mythological
literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the
collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic
patterns of the human psyche. Dr. von Franz teaches the reader distinguishing
features of myths, fairy tales, legends, folk tales, etc. Using the archetypal
fairy tale, she gives “rules of thumb techniques, and tools for “teasing out” or
rendering deeper meanings hiding out in seemingly simple tales.
Exposure to
profound truths contained in fairy tales can reanimate one’s own nature. Late in
life, Dr. Jung wrote (in Man and His Symbols) that nature has lost its symbolic
meaning for people, thus a loss of “emotional unconscious identity” with natural
phenomenon. Jung suggests that one way to reclaim this connection is through
reading and studying fairy tales. Members in this study group will be given the
opportunity to select a favorite fairy tale and use their newly learned
interpretive skills to understand it more fully.
Ellen
Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology
prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich
in 1972. She has a private practice in St. Louis. Class limit of 14, held in a
house in Kirkwood. You may contact Ellen at (314) 965-2549.
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All movies are shown at
the First Congregational Church
and start promptly at 7pm -- arrive early.
Fee: Nonmembers $10, Members $8, Full-Time Students $5
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Passion of Mind
Showing February 15
Facilitated by
Shirley Fontenot
Synopsis
from All Movie Guide:
"Demi Moore stars in this unusual psychological drama about two
women caught between reality and imagination. Marie (Moore) is an American widow
trying to raise two children under difficult circumstances in a small town in
France. Marty (also played by Moore) is a successful businesswoman in New York
City who wants to leave her busy life and lead a quieter existence in Europe.
But Marty is just a product of Marie's imagination — or at least that's what
Marie thinks. Marty, on the other hand, is convinced that Marie is just someone
she dreamed up. Who is right? Or are both of them wrong? And where does it leave
the men in their lives (Stellan Skarsgard and William Fichtner)? Passion of Mind
was the first English-language film from French director Alain Berliner, best
known for the arthouse success Ma Vie en Rose." - (All Movie Guide)
A Question of Silence
Showing March 14
Facilitated by Rose Holt
Synopsis
from All Movie Guide:
"Housewife Edda Barends,
waitress Nelly Frijda and secretary Henriette Tol have but one thing in common:
murder. Acting virtually on impulse, the three women kill a male store owner who
has caught Barends shoplifting. Psychiatrist Cox Habbema is engaged to prove
that the women are insane so that they can avoid being sent to prison. A few
sessions later, however, Habbema has cast her lot with the killers! The moral
seems to be that murder is justified so long as it stems from dissatisfaction
with the entire Male population. One would think that Question of Silence
(originally released in the Netherlands as De Stilte Rond Christine M...) would
be rejected out of hand by the largely male Dutch Film Finance Corporation.
Instead, the Corporation was so enthusiastic over writer/director Marleen Gorris'
project proposal that it put up all the production money." ~ Hal Erickson, All
Movie Guide
Antonia's Line
Showing April 11
Facilitated by Sheldon Culver

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"A strong-willed Dutch woman recalls her life in this uplifting picture that won
the 1996 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Antonia (Willeke van
Ammelrooy) is an elderly woman who wakes up one morning and realizes that this
is the last day of her life. She begins to tell her story in flashback,
beginning with her arrival home to the family farm after World War II with her
daughter, Danielle (Els Dottermans). For the next fifty years, a variety of
colorful characters come and go on the farm. Danielle becomes a painter, and
decides she wants a child but no husband, so Antonia arranges the proper
donation. Danielle giving birth to Therese (Veerle van Overloop), who laters has
her own child, Sarah (Thyrza Ravesteijn), also without virtue of a husband.
Antonia and her descendants come to symbolize the freedom of independent
females, with little need for men in their lives." - (All Movie Guide)
Click
Showing May 9
Facilitated by Ellen Sheire
Synopsis
from All Movie Guide:
"The architect Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) has a typical
middle-class family with his lovely and gorgeous wife Donna (Kate Beckinsale)
and their son Ben and daughter Samantha, and a constant visit of his parents.
However, Michael is workaholic and under stress, trying to satisfy his boss with
overwork and get a partnership in his company, giving priority to his work and
neglecting the family issues. When the tired Michael goes to a department store
to buy an universal remote control, he rests on a bed and he meets the weird
salesman Morty (Christopher Walken) that offers him a remote control capable of
controlling his own universe. Michael uses too much and loses the control of the
device, having his own life controlled by the remote control. Then Michael sees
the worthwhile parts of his personal life he missed while working, and in the
end of his life he lately concludes that the family comes first."
- (Claudio Carvalho , Internet Movie
Database)
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rancesca Ferrentelli is a psychotherapist, mythologist and storyteller. She received her doctorate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and her MA Francesca Ferrentelli is a psychotherapist, mythologist and storyteller. She received her doctorate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and her MA in Professional Psychology at Lindenwood College. Dr. Ferrentelli specializes in eating disorders, and lectures widely. She is the Program Manager of the Outpatient Behavioral Health Program at the St. Mary’s Health Center, has a private practice in Clayton, MO, and contracts as a therapist through the St. Alexius Hospital.
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For each of us there are energies, motives, agendas which operate outside our
conscious control and sometimes are contrary to our professed values. These
energies, which Jung collectively identified as the Shadow, might best be
defined not as evil, but as that which makes us uncomfortable with ourselves.
Such energies represent an enormous invitation for greater consciousness, for
living more ethically, and whose integration brings a greater possibility of
wholeness. What is our personal Shadow? How may we come
to know that which is by definition unconscious within us? A series of exercises
and questions will help provide greater self-awareness. Please bring a notebook
and pen with which to journal.
WORKSHOP
Understanding between the sixteen different personality types Myers and Briggs
identified can be difficult, at best, affecting family, marriage, learning and
working relations. By making use of the strengths of each type, however, one can
maximize potential and thus enhance emotional, physical and spiritual
well-being. Also, Jung believed that work on one’s non-dominant functions later
in life developed one’s capacity for wholeness.
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Sandtray / Sandplay
Therapy
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All movies are shown at
the First Congregational Church
Disney's The Kid (2000)
Chocolat (2000) The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community's activities are dominated by the local Catholic church. A few days after settling into town, Vianne opens up a confectionery shop across the street from the house of worship -- shortly after the beginning of Lent. While the townspeople are supposed to be abstaining from worldly pleasures, Vianne tempts them with unusual and delicious chocolate creations, using her expert touch to create just the right candy to break down each customer's resistance. With every passing day, more and more of Vianne's neighbors are succumbing to her sinfully delicious treats, but the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina), the town's mayor, is not the least bit amused; he is eager to see Vianne run out of town before she leads the town into a deeper level of temptation. Vianne, however, is not to be swayed, and with the help of another new arrival in town, a handsome Irish Gypsy named Roux (Johnny Depp), she plans a "Grand Festival of Chocolate," to be held on Easter Sunday. Based on the novel by Joanne Harris, Chocolat features a distinguished supporting cast, including Judi Dench, Lena Olin, Carrie-A | ||||||||||||