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Lectures, Seminars and
Workshops
Study Groups
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Womb of
One’s Own - Francesca Ferrentelli
8 Tuesdays: 6:30–8:30 P.M. (11/18, 25; 12/2,16, 30; 1/6, 20, 27)
- Limited to 15 registrants
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Archetypes in
Harry Potter - Shirley Fontenot
GROUP 1: 7 Mondays: 1:30–3:30 P.M. - (9/8, 22; 10/6, 20;
11/3,17; 12/1)
GROUP 2: 7 Wednesdays: 7:30–9:30 P.M. - (9/10, 24; 10/8,22;
11/5, 19; 12/3)
- Limited to 10 registrants
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Alchemy &
Psychotherapy - Online Course - Rose Holt and Boris Matthews
5 Thursday, 7:30–9:00 P.M. Online Seminars (9/18; 10/2,16, 30;
11/13)
- Limited to 13 registrants
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Anima and
Animus - Ellen Sheire
10 Mondays: 7:30–9:30 P.M. (9/15,29; 10/6, 27; 11/3, 10, 24;
12/8,15)
- Limited to 14 registrants
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FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Join
us Friday nights for popcorn, a good movie
and a discussion led by one of the St. Louis analysts.
Fee: Nonmembers $10, Members $8,
Full-Time Students $5
BUY TICKETS
ONLINE
NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
September 12: Mary Ryan "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
– St. Louis Community College-Meramec
October 10: Ellen Sheire: “The Leopard”
– St. Louis Community College-Meramec
November 14: Rose Holt: “The Mission”
– St. Louis Community College-Meramec
December 12: Shirley
Fontenot: “August Rush”
- 1st Congregational Church UCC
Movies start promptly at 7pm -- Arrive
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Scholarships Available!
2009 COMING EVENTS:
Annual Friends Meeting - January
Carl Greer, “Shamanism & Jung” - February 20/21, 2009
Lawrence Staples, “Good Guilt” - April 24/25
Midwest Jung Conference SAVE THE DATE! - Nov 19-22
(Lionel Corbett / James Hollis / Sylvia Perera plus others to be
announced)
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Seminars,
Lectures and Workshops

LECTURE
The Hole in The Heart: Why We Fail at
Love
Presented by Patricia Berry, Ph.D.
Lecture:
Friday, October 24, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
Printable Flyer
First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
See a map at

Fee: Friends
- $15;
Others $20; Full-time Students $10
Why
is love so difficult? How do we fail at it? For centuries, love has been a topic
for philosophy, theology, and especially the arts. During the past century,
depth psychology, evolutionary theory, and modern science have taken up the
topic as well. Yet marriages and partnerships continue to break up, and the
divorce rate climbs. We seem to be failing at love. Are we the problem? Modern
society? Or is it love itself that is so difficult? Could love be problematic
even at an “archetypal level”?
To explore
the situation, this lecture will draw upon the Upanishads of the East,
Homer’s Hymn to Aphrodite of the ancient Greek world, and Virgil’s Aeneid of the Roman West. To bring our view to the present, we will also
look at some contemporary film clips. By the end of the discussion, we will have
a better appreciation of why love is difficult, how and why we fail at love, and
what those failures could be asking of us.
Register/pay online or by mail
using our printable
Registration Form
- Printable
Flyer of This Event
WORKSHOP
“Fairy Tales and the Journey to
Elsewhere”
Presented by Patricia Berry, Ph.D.
Workshop:
Saturday, October 25, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
See a map at

Fee: Friends
- $70;
Others $80; Full-time Students $40
Printable Flyer
Before the age of electronic
entertainments, or even the amusement of the printed word, folks
gathered around storytellers to hear tales richly combining the
marvelous and the ordinary. These fairy tales portrayed an awareness of
psychological patterns and a wisdom of a world above and beyond the
ordinary run of daily activity. Following this tradition, Jungians today
turn to fairy tales as essential for learning “how the psyche works.”
Participants
will examine fairy tales from a therapeutic perspective as portrayals of
inner psychological conflicts, with possibilities for ‘diagnoses’ and
‘prognoses’, and clinical potential for discerning therapeutic goals,
revealing psychological approaches and finding solutions that promote
healing.
Participants
are encouraged to bring with them to the workshop a copy of the Grimm’s
collected tales, as Patricia will be using
The Complete Grimm’s
Fairy Tales (Pantheon
Books), but should feel free to bring whatever collections they have
available.
Register/pay online or by mail
using our printable
Registration Form
Printable Flyer of
This Event
Patricia
Berry, Ph.D. is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst. She is the author
of Echo’s Subtle Body: A Contribution to Archetypal Psychology and
numerous articles. In 1991 she was the first Scholar in Residence at
Pacifica Graduate Institute of Depth Psychology in California. She
lectures internationally and has served as president of the
Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and of the New England
Society of Jungian Analysts. Currently she has a private practice in
West Bath, Maine.
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LECTURE
“An Evening With Carl Jung” Over Wine & Cheese
Presented by Rose Holt, M.A.
Lecture:
Friday, September 19, 6:30 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
See a map at
Fee: Friends
- $15;
Others $20; Full-time Students $10
Printable Flyer
NOTE: Due to the Forest Park "Balloon Glow" this same evening, we suggest you
access Wydown from Big Bend Blvd., as opposed to Skinker Blvd.
SEE
ALTERNATE ROUTE MAP
At this “Season's Opener”
Wine and Cheese/Lecture/Discussion our goals are: 1) to illustrate the scope of
the major contributions C.G. Jung has made to our understanding of the human
project, 2) to present a broad review of Jung's major theoretical ideas, and 3)
to spark a lively, interesting discussion with like-minded folk who wish to
learn more, or who already know a lot about Jung. Most importantly, Jung's ideas
are practical. They help us to live better, “to drink more deeply from the
well.” Rose will discuss Jung's theories on the complex, shadow, anima/animus,
the Self, mythological motifs and the process of individuation. She will orient
her presentation toward the practical application of these theories to life.
Register/pay online or by mail
using our printable
Registration Form
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.
Read a recent article by Rose Holt
to be published in Pathfinder!
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SEMINAR AND MOVIE
"Alchemy in Space and Time: The Art of Van Eyck and Varo”
Presented by Mary Wells Barron, M.A., M.I.M., M.B.A., Jungian Analyst
Seminar:
Saturday, November 15, 11:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (3.5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
See a map at

Fee: Friends
- $55;
Others $65 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $33 (No Lunch)
“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative
urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes
everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary
human happiness.” Jung, C.W.Vol. 15, par. 115.
This lecture
will explore the work of two great artists separated by five centuries in time.
They are Jan Van Eyck, the Flemish master of the Northern European Renaissance
and Remedios Varo, a Spanish/Mexican woman of the twentieth century. Each of
these artists created images that serve both as bridges from one historical
epoch to another and express the timelessness of the mystery of transformation.
We will
examine the symbols hidden in plain sight in Jan Van Eyck's masterpiece, The Arnolfini Wedding, and in four of Remedios Varo's finest works, as we gaze
upon the eternal mystery, the alchemy of transformation captured in space and
time. Following the lecture, we will view a colleague Jules Cashford's
extraordinarily beautiful film: The Mystery of Jan Van Eyck. Jules says
of her film, “Because Jan Van Eyck paints his donors, kneeling before the icons
of their faith, as individuals in their own right, we are invited to see them as
essential characters in these dramas of revelation, and so to wonder at their
state of mind and the power of prayer. It is as though Virgin and Child and the
Saints come into being through the intensity of the act of imagining, so they
become real at a depth of the psyche that the artist makes visible.” Jules is a
British analyst who co-authored with Ann Baring The Myth of the Goddess:
Evolution of an Image. Her most recent publication is the wonderful work:
The Moon in Myth and Image, (Cassell Illustrated Publishers, 2003).
Register/pay online or by mail
using our printable
Registration Form
Mary Wells Barron, M.A., M.I.M., M.B.A., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in St. Louis.
Trained in Zurich, she served on the Training Committee, and Admissions
Committee of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She has lectured
widely in the United States and Europe on art and psychology. Mary is working on
a manuscript for publication, Alchemical Art, on the power of art to transform
patterns of human thought and behavior. She has a special interest in the
healing power of images, and in the body as a voice of the soul.

Study Groups

A Womb of
One’s Own: An Archetypal Analysis of Childless Women
Presented by Francesca Ferrentelli
8
Tuesdays
(Nov. 18, 25/ Dec. 2, 16, 30/ Jan. 6, 20, 27)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 15 registrants
Location to be
announced.
Friends,
$110; All others, $130 (16
CEUs)
Readings – Paris, Ginette, Pagan Meditations; Downing, Chris, The Goddess;
Bolen, Jean, Goddesses in Every Woman
Alchemical Mercurius as a “child” from the Mutus
liber (1677) by Altus.
(Reprinted from The Golden Game by S. de Rola)
Whether by choice or due to a series of life events, millions of women remain
childless. For some women being childless offers welcome freedom; for other
women it creates a void filled with painful longing, while some women feel
ambivalent about the situation.
Mythology holds
powerful stories to better understand the archetypes of today’s childless women.
The virgin goddesses of Greek mythology, Athena, Artemis, and Hestia are all
childless, as is the Hindu goddess, Kali. Hekate and Persephone—two of the
goddesses that traditionally comprise the triple goddess—have no children.
Gwenhvfar of Arthurian legend was never able to have children, though she tried
desperately. The matriarchs of the Hebrew Bible, Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachael,
ultimately did have children, but they struggled for years with their
infertility.
Participants in
this study group will explore the emotional, psychological, spiritual, and
cultural ramifications of childlessness. Dr. Ferrentelli will use storytelling,
readings, discussion, and some experiential exercises to help participants
examine the archetypes of the different childless goddesses. Attendees will
explore how these archetypal patterns apply to themselves. Class limit of
15. Location to be announced. 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 St.
Alexius Hospital.
Register/pay online below or by mail using our printable
Registration Form
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A Study of Archetypes as Manifested in
the Harry Potter Series – Part 1
Presented by Shirley Fontenot
GROUP
1: 7 Monday (Sep. 8, 22/ Oct. 6, 20/Nov. 3, 17/Dec. 1) 1:30 P.M. – 3:30
P.M.
AND
GROUP 2: 7 Wednesdays (Sep. 10, 24/Oct. 8, 22/ Nov.
5, 19/Dec. 3) 7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Readings: Books 1 to 4 of the Harry Potter Series
Limited to 10
registrants
Classes will be
held in a home in University City.
Friends,
$90; All others, $110 (14
CEUs)
The real magic of the Harry Potter Series demonstrates the power
of archetypal image. When a story captures your imagination, as this story has
with millions, it most likely portrays archetypal images that resonate in your
psyche with special meaning. We can experience the manifestation of archetypes
in dreams, in the body, in the grip of a complex, in myth, art, story and
fantasy, in our daily lives and in relationships. Recognizing the power of these
archetypes in our lives can help us understand the dynamics of our private myths
and can give us a precious sense of the order of things. Searching out and
discussing the archetypes in the Harry Potter material will enable us to either
cooperate with these deep urges or resist them if we discern we should.
Just for a while, leave behind the everyday world. Join us in the
magic realm of Harry Potter and see what you might discover.
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 10, held at an office in University City. You may
contact Shirley Fontenot at (314) 726-0079 or e-mail her at
shirleyfontenot@gmail.com.
(Please note that the same class is being offered on Monday
afternoons and Wednesday evenings. When you register please indicate your choice
of Group 1 or 2, and if you would be able to switch if the signups so indicate.)
Register/pay online below or by mail using our printable
Registration Form
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Alchemy and Psychotherapy - An Online Course
Presented by Rose F. Holt, M.A. and Boris Matthews, Ph.D.
Sep.
9 through Nov. 13
Including 5 Thursday evening Online Seminars
(Sep. 18/Oct. 2, 16, 30/Nov. 13; 7:30 – 9:00 P.M)
(Online seminars require that you have webcam and high-speed internet
connection)
Friends,
$155; All others, $175 (20
CEUs)
Limited to 13 participants
Readings: Whitmont, Edward, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in
Psychotherapy, Open Court, 1985. Optional readings will be available online.
Course website is private, accessible only to participants.
“The process of
psychotherapy, when it goes at all deep, sets into motion profound and
mysterious happenings.” [Edinger]
C.G. Jung was
fascinated with the work of the old alchemists who described background
processes that paralleled the processes he observed in the unconscious
background of his patients. Jung concluded that the psychic make-up for all
humankind has a common foundation, a "sameness" akin to the anatomy of the human
body. In this course we will study major alchemical processes and their
parallels in the human experience of personality development.
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.
Read a recent article by Rose Holt to be published in Pathfinder!
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.
Class limit of 13. Participants may qualify for twenty (20) CEUs. You may
contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at
roseholt@aol.com.
Register/pay
online below or by mail using our printable
Registration Form
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Anima & Animus:
A Study of the Feminine & Masculine Principles in Men and Women
Presented by Ellen Sheire, Ph.D.
10
Mondays (Sep. 15, 29/Oct. 6, 27/Nov. 3, 10, 24/Dec. 8, 15)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Class limit of 14
Readings: Jung, Emma, Animus and Anima, Spring Publications, 1998 and
Sanford, John A., The Invisible Partners, Paulist Press, 1980.
Friends,
$130; All others, $140 (20
CEUs)
In 1959,
the English editions of Jung’s Collected Works, Volume 9, Part I and II came out
and were entitled “Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Part I and “Aion”
– Part II in two volumes. One reads in Part II, Chapter III, entitled “The
Syzygy: Anima and Animus, Jung’s delineation of the feminine component in a
man’s psyche (Anima), and the masculine component in a woman’s psyche (Animus).
Earlier in time, 1939, C.G. Jung’s wife, Emma, wrote two essays on Animus and
Anima.
These two essays are published in one volume
which we will read and study. The Jungian analyst John A. Sanford calls the
Animus and Anima THE INVISIBLE PARTNERS, and our study group will read his text
describing “How the Male and Female in each of Us Affects our Relationships.”
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.
Register/pay
online below or by mail using our printable
Registration Form
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Friday
Night at the Movies

Continuing our movie presentations and informal discussions
led by our St. Louis Jungian analysts, join us for popcorn and camaraderie.
Movie starts promptly at 7 PM.
Fee: Nonmembers $10, Members $8, Full-Time Students $5
Movie Passes: (4 for the price of 3)
Nonmembers
- $30;
Members
- $24; Full-time
Students - $15
BUY TICKETS
ONLINE
NOTE
DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
September 12: Mary Ryan: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
– Showing at St. Louis Community College-Meramec
-Directions-
"Growing
keenly aware of the changing religious and political tides of late 16th century
Europe, Queen Elizabeth finds her rule openly challenged by the Spanish King
Philip II -- with his powerful army and sea-dominating armada -- determined to
restore England to Catholicism. Preparing to go to war to defend her empire,
Elizabeth struggles to balance ancient royal duties with an unexpected
vulnerability in her love for Sir Walter Raleigh. But he remains forbidden for a
queen who has sworn body and soul to her country. Unable and unwilling to pursue
her love, Elizabeth encourages her favorite lady-in-waiting, Bess, to befriend
Raleigh to keep him near. But this strategy forces Elizabeth to observe their
growing intimacy. As she charts her course abroad, her trusted advisor, Sir
Francis Walsingham, continues his masterful puppetry of Elizabeth's court at
home -- and her campaign to solidify absolute power. Through an intricate spy
network, Walsingham uncovers an assassination plot that could topple the throne.
But as he unmasks traitors that may include Elizabeth's own cousin Mary Stuart,
he unknowingly sets England up for destruction." (All Movie Guide)
October 10: Ellen Sheire: “The
Leopard”
– Showing at St. Louis Community College-Meramec
-Directions-
"Arguably
Luchino Visconti's best film and certainly the most personal of his historical
epics, The Leopard chronicles the fortunes of Prince Fabrizio Salina and his
family during the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Based on the acclaimed
novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published posthumously in 1958 and
subsequently translated into all European languages, the picture opens as Salina
(Burt Lancaster) learns that Garibaldi's troops have embarked in Sicily. While
the Prince sees the event as an obvious threat to his current social status, his
opportunistic nephew Tancredi (Alain Delon) becomes an officer in Garibaldi's
army and returns home a war hero. Tancredi starts courting the beautiful
Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), a daughter of the town's newly appointed Mayor,
Don Calogero Sedara (Paolo Stoppa). Though the Prince despises Don Calogero as
an upstart who made a fortune on land speculation during the recent social
upheaval, he reluctantly agrees to his nephew's marriage, understanding how much
this alliance would mean for the impecunious Tancredi. Painfully realizing the
aristocracy's obsolescence in the wake of the new class of bourgeoisie, the
Prince later declines an offer from a governmental emissary to become a senator
in the new Parliament in Turin. The closing section, an almost hour-long ball,
is often cited as one of the most spectacular sequences in film history. Burt
Lancaster is magnificent in the first of his patriarchal roles, and the rest of
the cast, especially Delon and Cardinale, become almost perfect incarnations of
the novel's characters. Filmed in glorious Techniscope and rich in period
detail, the film is a remarkable cinematic achievement in all departments.."
(All
Movie Guide)
November 14: Rose Holt: “The Mission”
– Showing at St. Louis Community College-Meramec
-Directions-
"Featuring
a majestic score by Ennio Morricone and lush Oscar-winning cinematography by
Chris Menges, Roland Joffé's The Mission examines the events surrounding the
Treaty of Madrid in 1750, when Spain ceded part of South America to Portugal,
and turns this episode into an allegory for the mid-'80s struggles of Latin
America. Two European forces are on hand to win the South American natives over
to imperialist ways. The plunderers want to extract riches and slaves from the
New World. The missionaries, on the other hand, want to convert the Indians to
Christianity and win over their souls. Mendoza (Robert De Niro) is an exploiter
dabbling in the slave trade. But after he kills his brother Felipe (Aidan Quinn)
in a fit of rage, he seeks redemption and calls upon the missionaries to assist
him. After repeatedly climbing a cliff with a heavy weight as penance, Mendoza
finds redemption and becomes a devout missionary at a settlement run by Gabriel
(Jeremy Irons). The missionaries want to promote a new society in which the
natives will live together in peace with the Spanish and the Portuguese. But
this concept frightens the royal governors, who would rather enslave the natives
than encourage peaceful coexistence between the Europeans and the Indians. They
order the mission to be burned to the ground. But this event causes a rift
between Gabriel, who wants to pray and pursue peaceful resistance, and Mendoza,
who wants to take up arms and fight the Europeans." (All Movie Guide)
December 12: Shirley
Fontenot: “August Rush”
- Showing at 1st Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
See a map at

"Estranged
from his parents by circumstance and nudged toward a foster family, a young boy
seeks out his long-lost folks and discovers prodigious musical talent in this
family-oriented drama from Disco Pigs director Kirsten Sheridan. In the
aftermath of a passionate night together above New York's Washington Square, a
charismatic Irish guitarist named Louis (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and a reserved
cellist named Lyla (Keri Russell) are forced apart by fate. Despite the fact
that they do not remain together, however, their fleeting union has created
something amazing that neither could have ever anticipated — a baby.
Unfortunately, just after the child's birth, the mother is misinformed that the
infant has died. Cut to 11 years later, when the child, Evan, is living in a
Gotham-area boys' home and has developed an acute ability to listen to the
sounds of the outside world — hoping against all hope that his biological mother
and father will turn up to claim him, while those in charge try to encourage him
to open himself up to the possibility of adoption. Unduly rejecting these bids,
Evan runs away into the city. Out on the streets, the child falls into the
clutches of a manipulative, untrustworthy street person named Wizard (Robin
Williams), who renames Evan "August Rush" and opens the boy up to the depth and
breadth of his own musical talent even as he smells the opportunity to grow rich
off of the foundling. Meanwhile, Evan/August's hope persists that he will be
reunited with his folks, and Louis and Lyla, unable to forget their initial
night of love, feel themselves being drawn back together by fate." (Yahoo
Movies)
Directions to Social Science Building, St. Louis Community
College-Meramec:
The building is at Southeast side of campus
and on Big Bend across from a convenience store.
Use East Parking Lot (for Faculty/Staff, but ok to park there at night)
Lecture Hall, Room 105 Enter building at Southwest corner, just off lot.
(Lecture Hall is just off Entry Lobby)
St. Louis Community College-Meramec:
11333 Big Bend Rd
Saint Louis, MO 63122-5720
Click here for a campus map
Click here for a
street-level map at

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A
Letter from the President...
Entering our fourteenth year of
programming, we look back on the last several years in awe
of and gratitude for the outstanding energy and growth this
Society has experienced. Membership has increased from
approximately 30 Friends in the Fall of 2006 to a current
142. Our programs in 2007/2008 included Robert Moore, James
Hollis, Jean Shinoda Bolen, and Lionel Corbett. We drew
participants from many cities and surrounding states, in
large part thanks to our excellent website. Movie Nights,
on the Second Friday of the month, have been a resounding
success, attracting newcomers to the Society. This fall we
hope to increase student participation by holding Movie
Night at Meramec Community College. Study Groups have
branched out to the 12 Step audience, and into long-distance
learning through online courses. Our programs continue to
offer both experiential and didactic learning, ever
broadening the circle of people we touch and familiarize
with Jungian psychology. And those of you who attended
Lionel Corbett’s Saturday workshop heard firsthand the
professional audio quality of our new sound system.
We welcome several recent additions to our bright,
hardworking, dedicated Board. Jean Harmon and Mimi Eagleton
join us as new Board Members, and Paul Gubani (technical
consultant) and Terry Cooper (liaison to educational
institutions) join us as Adjunct Members. Mitchell Cripe
will continue to contribute to our work as Adjunct Member.
In late June, we held our first Board Retreat at Toddhall,
Columbia, IL, where we brainstormed, dreamed into the
future, and allowed our creative spirits to play (and work
at the same time).
Other announcements: Our “Season’s Opener” this fall is
Rose Holt, St. Louis Jungian Analyst, giving a PowerPoint
presentation on Jungian psychology, over wine and cheese.
Rose has also written an outstanding article about Jung,
reprinted in this newsletter’s center page. Later in the
fall season are Patricia Berry, speaking on “The Hole in the
Heart” and presenting a workshop on fairy tales, and Mary
Wells Barron, giving a visual and lecture presentation (plus
movie by Jules Cashford) on the individuation process
witnessed in the art of Jan Van Eyck and Remedios Varo.
Our biggest news is that plans are afoot to mount a
Midwest Jung Conference in the Fall of 2009. Its purpose is
to broaden our reach into the community, and to provide an
extended opportunity for creative learning, community
dialogue and self-exploration, at a reasonable cost. We are
seeking contributions, large and small, to underwrite this
major event. A contribution envelope is provided inside
this Newsletter specifically for this purpose.
Our mission is to provide the finest Jungian
educational opportunities possible to you, our Friends, old
and new, and to create a place where sparks ignite,
connections are made, new insights born, and we can come to
understand and make real our interconnectedness. As the I
Ching counsels: The wind blows over the lake and stirs the
surface of the water. Thus visible effects of the invisible
manifest themselves.
On behalf of the Board, with modesty and
gratitude, Deborah Stutsman
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C.G. JUNG – GUIDE TO THE INNER LIFE
By Rose F. Holt, Jungian Psychoanalyst
"One
does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making
the darkness conscious." - C.G. Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a lot of things—psychiatrist,
theologian, historian, anthropologist—but above all else, he was
an explorer. He explored first his own inner life, his
interiority, through what he called his “confrontation with the
unconscious.” Then, he helped many, many of his patients explore
their own interiority. All this work was his primary field of
research from which he developed a powerful theoretical
construct, a “map” for those of us who dare to go on our own
voyage into the interior. Today that field of endeavor is called
Jungian Psychology or Analytical Psychology.
Before Jung,
few people dared go beyond the collective understanding of human
nature. Like the maps of old, the collective understanding was
edged by mythical monsters, so there was a frightening
prohibition against journeying there. The primary function of
religions was to protect people from venturing into those areas
where the roads ended-- areas of mystery, death, birth, sacred
experience. Religious rites and sacraments served as containers
for the sacred. They were prescriptions to keep people safe,
confined within an area of understanding determined by others
and sometimes misused in the interest of power. It was
unthinkable, even dangerous, for people to venture on their own,
without benefit of the shelter of a given religious
understanding. There were (and are) severe penalties for those
who did so. Some who ventured successfully we remember as
mystics, saints, or founders of new religions. They described
their discoveries, but until Jung, few could adequately guide
others to their own unique and individual discovery of their
interiority.
Jung opened
the way for the many. He eventually understood that an early
part of the journey is an exploration of one’s personal
unconscious—that area of psyche to which experiences, thoughts,
feelings, and impressions unacceptable to conscious
understanding were unwittingly banished. Initially, these
unconscious contents reach consciousness through projection,
i.e., some quality that rightfully belongs to the individual is
assigned to some loved or hated “other.” Through careful
attention to one’s feeling reactions, to thoughts, and to dream
images and motifs, one can eventually withdraw the projection
and begin to integrate this hitherto unacceptable quality—good
or bad—into one’s own personality. Such withdrawal requires
humility in accepting what was unacceptable and a sense of
responsibility for either managing or developing the newly
discovered quality. No wonder, then, that many of us shirk the
duty to work toward increased consciousness!
With
continued work on oneself, these personal unconscious contents
become more differentiated. There will be the projections onto
people of the same gender, people of the opposite gender, onto
heroes and hags, onto saviors and demons. Once this clearing out
of the personal unconscious is more or less complete, an
entirely new territory begins to show itself, the collective
unconscious, as Jung called it.
Jung
demonstrated that all humankind shares not just a collective
consciousness but also a collective UNconsciousness. In the
territory of the collective unconscious one finds the archetypal
[arche = ancient and typos = imprint] images, motifs and
patterns that underlie the common experience of humankind. It is
a collective heritage to which everyone may lay claim. For Jung
archetypes are simply the typical patterns of human behavior.
Some important ones include the journey, mother, father, the
hero, home, the child, birth, the savior, king, and queen.
Underlying all other archetypes, Jung describes the central
organizing principle of the psyche and of individuality—the
Self. It is the Self that gives rise to consciousness and our
sense of individual existence.
An important
tool in one’s journey into interiority is the dream. Like a key,
the dream has no logic to its shape. Its logic is that it turns
the lock. An example might be a dream in which a loved one dies.
Taken at face value the dream is disturbing, even terrifying.
Like a key, however, a symbolic understanding might allow the
dreamer to “open” a message that something ‘alive’ in the
unconscious has died, i.e., is no longer active there. Whatever
energy the figure represented might now be available to the
dreamer on a more conscious level and, therefore, more amenable
to the will. Same dream, vastly different approaches to it,
vastly different effect on the dreamer. In working with dreams
we make a kind of "Pascal's Wager." We can't know with certitude
what a dream means. Therefore, let's wager on a meaning that
promotes growth and enhances life because we have everything to
gain and nothing to lose.

"Shadow Cornered” by C.G. Jung
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If one thinks about all this, it makes very
good sense. Humankind has always and everywhere felt the
need for story. Dreams are primarily story. They can be
extremely important because they are deeply personal and
capable of providing meaning and value to the
individual. Research has shown that, deprived of dream
sleep, an individual will become ill in a very short
time.
Almost everyone has had an impressive,
unforgettable, even numinous dream. Almost everyone has
had the experience of waking in a particular mood
determined by a dream. The old adage, “A picture is
worth a thousand words,” particularly applies in working
with dream images. It hardly needs be said that dreams
have always been an important component of psychic life
and development. Only we moderns, with our “not invented
here, therefore not of value” attitude, have denigrated
the dream.
When one has ventured deeply enough into
one’s own interiority that archetypal patterns, figures,
and motifs begin to appear, something happens of
singular importance. One begins to experience
healing—often illusive, difficult to explain or prove,
but definitively a feeling of wellness. In religious
terms, this feeling is characterized by the word
“salvation,” or as something akin to “God’s in his/her
heaven, all’s right with the world,” but viewed
experientially the feeling is a psychological fact.
One’s life becomes imbued with meaning and purpose, and
even a seemingly mundane existence takes on great value
to one gifted in this way.
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Jung writes
poetically about this state:
“The state of imperfect transformation, merely hoped for and
waited for, does not seem to be one of torment only, but of
positive, if hidden happiness. It is the state of someone who,
in his/her wanderings among the mazes of one’s psychic
transformation comes upon a secret happiness which reconciles
one to one’s apparent loneliness. In communing with oneself, one
finds not deadly boredom and melancholy but an inner partner,
more than that, a relationship that seems like a secret love, or
like a hidden springtime, when the green seed sprouts from the
barren earth, holding out the promise of future harvests.” [From
Vol. 14, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Para. 623, modified slightly
in the interest of inclusive language.]
I think Jung is describing here the state of someone who has
glimpsed that the Self is at work in his/her life and is
sustained by that glimpse.
Rose F. Holt, M.A., is a Jungian Psychoanalyst in private
practice in St. Louis. She is Advisory Board Member to the C.G.
Jung Society of Saint Louis.
Winter/Spring
2008

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Lectures, Seminars and
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Friday, February 8, 7– 9:30 P.M.
NOTE: at Missouri History Museum
Lecture:
Urgent Message From Mother:
Gather the Women, Save the World - Jean
Shinoda Bolen
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Saturday, February 9, 9 A.M. – 3:30
P.M. NOTE: at Missouri
History Museum
Workshop: Love VS Power:
From Family Psychology to the Fate of the
Earth - Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Friday, March 28th, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Lecture: Sexuality & the Religious
Imagination - Brad TePaske
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Saturday, March 29th, 9:00 A.M. –
3:30 P.M.
Workshop: Sexuality & the Religious
Imagination - Brad TePaske
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Friday, April 25th, 7– 9:30 P.M.
Lecture: Archetypal Dreams as Spiritual Reality - Jenny Yates
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Saturday, April 26th, 9:00 A.M. –
3:30 P.M.
Workshop: Archetypal Dreams as
Spiritual Reality - Jenny Yates
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Friday,
July 18th, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Lecture: Psyche & the Sacred:
Spirituality Beyond Religion - Lionel
Corbett
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Saturday, July 19th, 9:00 A.M. –
3:30 P.M.
Workshop: “Psyche & the Sacred:
Spirituality Beyond Religion - Lionel
Corbett
Study Groups
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Women Who Run
With the Wolves - Sheldon Culver
8 Thursdays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M. (3/6,13, 20, 27; 4/3,10, 24; 5/1)
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Journey to
Wholeness through Film: Seeing the Twelve Steps -
Francesca Ferrentelli and Mary Ryan
8 Tuesdays (Feb. 19/ Mar. 4, 18/ Apr. 1, 15, 29/May 13, 27)
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Sandtray /
Sandplay Therapy - Shirley Fontenot ---- FULL ----
6 Mondays: 1:30 - 3:30 P.M. (1/28; 2/11; 3/3, 17, 31; 4/21)
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Fundamentals of Jung - Rose
Holt and Boris Matthews
Online
Course; begins
January 21, 2008
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Fairy Tales - Ellen Sheire
10 Mondays:
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Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Lecture: Friday,
February 8, 2008 7-9:30 PM
Podcast of recent KDHX interview
(Also
at KDHX website)
Missouri History Museum
(note
different location)
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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.
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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
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Fee: Friends
- $15;
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: Friends
- $20;
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
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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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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Study Groups

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.
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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.
Register/pay online below or by mail using our printable
Registration Form
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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.
Register/pay online below or by mail using our printable
Registration Form

Friday
Night at the Movies

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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Fall/Winter
2007
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Lectures, Seminars and
Workshops |
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Friday, September 14, 7:00 – 9:30
P.M.
Lecture: The Feminine Journey Into the Underworld, Inanna &
Persephone: Planned & Unplanned Initiation - Francesca
Ferrentelli
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Saturday, September 15, 9:00 A.M. –
3:30 P.M.
Workshop: Understanding the
Feminine Initiation Mysteries of Inanna & Persephone through
Story Telling - Francesca Ferrentelli
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Friday, October 5, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Lecture: Why Good People do Bad Things;
Revisiting the Shadow.
- James Hollis
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Saturday, October 6, 9:00 A.M. –
3:30 P.M.
Workshop: Engaging the Personal Shadow
- James Hollis
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Saturday, November 10, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Workshop: The Tapestry of Type - Lois Erickson
Study Groups
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Ego and
Archetype - Sheldon Culver
6 Wednesdays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M. (9/26; 10/3,10,17,24,31)
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Sandtray /
Sandplay Therapy - Shirley Fontenot ---- FULL ----
6 Mondays: 1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. (9/17;10/1,15;11/5,19; 12/3)
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The Journey
Toward Wholeness: Empowerment of Feminine Values for Both Men
and Women - Rose Holt
7 Thursdays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M. (9/20; 10/4,18; 11/1,15,29; 12/13)
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Ellen
Sheire
10 Mondays:
7:00 – 9:00 P.M. (Sep. 10,17/Oct. 8,15,22/Nov. 5,19/Dec.
3,10,17)
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FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
NEW
for FALL 2007
Join us at the 1st Congregational Church Friday nights for
popcorn, a good movie and a discussion led by one of the St. Louis
analysts. Fee: $10, Full-Time Students $5
Sep. 21:
Ellen Sheire “Disney's The Kid” (Child
archetype)
Oct. 19: Rose Holt: “The Heiress” (Father
archetype)
Nov. 16: Shirley Fontenot: “Chocolat” (Mother
archetype, projection and the Shadow)
Dec. 14: Sheldon Culver: “Ladies in
Lavender”
(Projection, inner Masculine, the Shadow)
Movies start promptly at 7pm -- Arrive
Early |
Notable Upcoming Chicago Institute Events:
Event with
Murray Stein - November 2nd, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Upcoming Open
House - November 27th, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
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The underworld, dark, dank
and populated by many unknown entities, is a powerful metaphor for
the Unconscious. Although unfamiliar and frightening, it can be a
place of great gifts. Two goddesses who make this journey into the
underworld are Persephone and Inanna. Many individuals today, like
Persephone, are catapulted there by sudden and unexpected life
events: trauma, death of a loved one, illness, divorce, the loss of
love. Others, however, enter the underworld consciously and
voluntarily, like Inanna, as they embark on the journey into
analysis, dream work, and conscious life choices.
Friday night’s program will contain both lecture and experiential
exercise. Dr. Ferrentelli will discuss mythology, storytelling, and
archetypes and will recreate the myth of Demeter and Persephone
using psychodiagnostic storytelling.
Saturday, Dr.
Ferrentelli will review the myth of Demeter and Persephone, tell the
story of Inanna, and open the experiential, psychodiagnostic
storytelling circle. She will end the workshop by comparing Inanna
and Persephone’s journeys, and voluntary and involuntary trips into
the underworld. |

Journey to or
from the Underworld c. 2300-2150 BC
From Baring and Cashford,
The Myth of the Goddess. |
LECTURE & WORKSHOP
Feminine Journey Into the Underworld
Presented by Francesca Ferrentelli, Ph.D., LPC
Lecture: “The Feminine Journey Into the
Underworld, Inanna & Persephone: Planned & Unplanned Initiation”
Friday, September 14, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First
Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
- $15,
Others - $20, Full-time Students $10
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Workshop:
“Understanding the Feminine Initiation Mysteries of Inanna & Persephone
through Story Telling”
Saturday, September
15, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee:
Friends
$70 Others $80 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $40 (no lunch)
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Registration Form |

Tablet containing
first half of poem “Descent of Inanna” Hilprect Collection, University
of Jena, from Perera’a book Descent to the Goddess. |
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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LECTURE &
WORKSHOP
Why Good People Do Bad Things
Presented by James Hollis
On-line College Course related to
these events
Lecture:
"Revisiting the Shadow”
Friday, October 5, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
- 20;
Others $28; Full-time Students $14
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Registration Form
--- 2 CEUs/CCEs Available
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.
This program
will define and illustrate the many ways in which the Shadow operates in
personal and social life.
Workshop: Engaging the Personal Shadow
Saturday, October 6 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee:
Friends
- $85;
Others $95 (Includes lunch) Full-time Students $47.50 (no lunch)
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Registration Form
--- 6 CEUs/CCEs Available
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.
The Learning Objectives for this workshop are:
1. What is meant by the concept of The Shadow?
2. How does the Shadow show up in personal, psychological life?
3. How does the Shadow manifest collectively in social settings?
4. How does one gain a greater awareness of the personal and collective Shadow?
5. What Shadow issues may show up between therapist and client?
James Hollis, Ph. D., is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst, Executive
Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston, and author of twelve books,
the latest being, Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding our Darker
Selves.
ON-LINE COLLEGE CREDIT COURSE
RELATED TO THE HOLLIS EVENTS
“Fundamentals of Jungian Psychology”
Aquinas Institute of Theology
Instructor - Rose Holt, MA, Jungian Analyst
People interested in graduate credit for study in Jungian
Psychology may enroll at Aquinas Institute of Theology for a one-hour course,
"Fundamentals of Jungian Psychology," which will be offered around the James
Hollis lecture and workshop. The course will include a two-week online
discussion, attendance at the Hollis weekend, and a follow-up two-week online
discussion. A 3-5 page summary paper will also be required. Rose. F. Holt, M.A.,
and Diplomate of the Chicago Institute of Jungian Psychology, will teach
portions of the course that fall outside the Hollis lecture/workshop.
Registrants for Aquinas Institute of Theology graduate credit must hold a
bachelor's degree and register for one graduate credit at $592. This cost
includes the fees for the Hollis weekend.
Students not
currently enrolled in Aquinas Institute of Theology must matriculate by
contacting the Director of Admissions, Jared Ainsworth-Bryson,
ainsworth-bryson@ai.edu, completing
a two-page abbreviated Application for Admission to Aquinas Institute, paying a
$50 application fee, and submitting an official copy of transcripts for the
highest degree earned (sent directly from the school to the Aquinas Institute
Registrar).
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WORKSHOP
The Tapestry of Type
Presented by Lois Erickson
Ph.D., LCPC
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Workshop: Saturday, November 10, 9:00 A.M. –
3:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
- $70;
Others $80 (includes lunch);
Full-time Students $40 (no lunch)
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Registration Form
--- 6 CEUs/CCEs Available
For as we have
many members in one body,
And all members have not the same office:
So we, being many, are one body…
And every one members one of another.
Having then gifts differing….
Romans 12: 4-8
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Knowing
your particular MBTI® psychological type is necessary
for full understanding
of the contents of
this workshop. |

Type Mandala, From J. Giannini,
Compass of the Soul
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Each individual goes through life using unique gifts.
To identify and measure these gifts, a mother and daughter, Katharine
Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, developed a psychological testing
instrument called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. In this seminal work,
Carl Jung’s influence and theories about typology are evident. |
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.
Dr.
Erickson’s interest in Jung’s theory and Myer’s application of typology has had
a profound influence in her therapy and teaching practices. Hundreds of her
clients and students have confirmed the reliability of this most widely used
personality assessment tool. Workshop participants will learn the
characteristics of their particular type, become aware of type differences and
strengths, understand the ethical use of type, communicate better using
knowledge of typology, and learn the relation of type to education, career,
health and spirituality.
Note:
Knowing your particular MBTI® psychological type is necessary for full
understanding of the contents of this workshop. Participants who have not
previously taken the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator® may purchase it in advance from
Dr. Erickson for an additional $10, payable with your registration fee, but you must register at least a week in advance to allow time for mailing. The
Indicator® is a simple, non-threatening, multiple choice preference test, which
is self-scoring.
Dr.
Erickson has been a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, a Certified
Marriage & Family Therapist, and an educational specialist for 36 years. She
conducts MBTI workshops in Conflict Resolution, Family-Couple Communication,
Leadership, Motivation, Teaching Learning Styles and Time Management.
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Study Groups

Ego
and Archetype
Presented by Sheldon Culver
6
Wednesdays (Sep. 26 / Oct. 3,10,17,24,31)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 8
registrants
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends,
$85; All others, $95
Readings: Edinger, Edward F.,
Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function in the Psyche,
Shambala, Boston & London, 1992.
Continuing
education credits
and associated
evaluation
form
Readings: Edinger, Edward F., Ego and
Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function in the Psyche, Shambala,
Boston & London, 1992.
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Registration Form
--- 12 CEUs/CCEs Available
Join a six-week seminar with Sheldon Culver reading this classic
Jungian text by Edward Edinger. Described as "a fascinating synthesis of C. G.
Jung's fundamental psychological concepts," Ego and Archetype offers much more
than "concepts". Edinger provides a feast of images that bring soul to the basic
themes of Jung's opus.
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 8, held in a home
in the Central West End. You may contact Sheldon at (636) 795-0750.
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Sandtray / Sandplay
Therapy
Presented by Shirley Fontenot
This class is full, but we are anticipating
a second session for Winter/Spring
6
Mondays (Sep. 17/Oct. 1,15/Nov. 5,19/Dec. 3)
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
Readings: Handouts will be provided by instructor
Continuing education credits and associated
evaluation
form
Click here for a
Registration Form ---- FULL ----
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, and additionally, schedule a thirty to forty-five minute
individual experience of sandtray with the instructor.
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.
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The Journey Toward Wholeness:
Empowerment of Feminine Values for Both Men and Women
Presented by Rose F. Holt
7
Thursdays (Sep. 20/Oct. 4, 18/Nov. 1,15, 29/Dec. 13)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 10 registrants
Classes will be
held in a home in University City.
Friends,
$90.00; All others, $100.00
Readings: Perera, Sylvia Brinton, Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation
for Women,
Inner City Books, 1981. Also suggested: Douglas, Claire, Woman in the
Mirror.
Continuing education credits and associated
evaluation
form
Click here for a
Registration Form
--- 14 CEUs/CCEs Available
A compelling question about personality development arose in our
Odyssey group in the Winter/Spring 2007 semester: Does Odysseus’ journey
describe or parallel the journey of a modern woman toward wholeness? This fall
the Society is offering “The Journey Toward Wholeness – Empowerment of Feminine
Values for Both Men and Women” to bring issues of neglected human qualities into
the discussion. Ego development in our patriarchal society tends to neglect or
render irrelevant critical qualities essential to the complete human. In this
course we will read about, examine, and discuss feminine qualities that men and
women--and our culture--need.
Rose Holt, M.A., a Jungian analyst who divides her private
practice between St. Louis and Chicago, trained as an analyst at the Chicago
Jung Institute. She wrote her diploma thesis on "The Alchemy of the Small Group:
Working with Dreams in a Group Setting". Class limit of 10, held at an office in
University City. You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at
roseholt@aol.com.
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Presented by Ellen Sheire
10
Mondays (Sep. 10,17/Oct. 8,15,22/Nov. 5,19/Dec. 3,10,17)
7:00 – 9:00 P.M. (Note Earlier Time)
Limited to 14 registrants
Classes will be
held in a home Kirkwood
Friends,
$130; All others, $140
Readings: Jung, C. G., Modern Man in Search
of a Soul, ISBN 0-15-661206-2, Harvest: paperback.
Continuing
education credits and associated
evaluation
form
Click here for a
Registration Form
--- 20 CEUs/CCEs Available
From earliest times in Western Civilization the
“soul” was relegated exclusively to the domain of religious observance of myths
and their accompanying rituals. Dr. Jung’s study, entitled “Modern Man in Search
of a Soul”, brings forth what now can be regarded as foundational discoveries
and insights in the area called Analytical Psychology, which deals with dream
analysis, the Unconscious, and the relationship between psychology and religion.
The current
publisher of this edition describes this work thus: “A provocative and
enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern
civilization.” It is precisely in Jung’s early work with soul that he
intellectually carries it out of the exclusive area of religion per se and
reinstates it in a sacred context in the areas of psyche, psychology,
psychiatry, medicine, and, most importantly, what Thomas Moore has called “the
ordinary moments of everyday life.” This fall study group will be followed in
the spring by a reading of Thomas Moore’s book Care of the Soul.
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 home in Kirkwood.. You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314)
965-2549.
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Friday
Night at the Movies

All movies are shown at
the First Congregational
Church
and start promptly at 7pm -- arrive
early.
Fee: $10, Full-Time Students $5
Disney's The Kid (2000)
Showing September 21
Facilitated by Ellen Sheire

If you could talk to the child that you used to be, what advice
would you give him? That question forms the basis of this comic fantasy.
Forty-year-old Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) is a wealthy and powerful "image
consultant" who has made a career out of telling people how to present
themselves. But while he's a success in business, he's a failure in life; he's
vain, mean-spirited, and hasn't been able to hold onto a marriage (or even a pet
dog). One day, Russ is startled to meet Rusty (Spencer Breslin), a stocky kid
whom he soon realizes is himself at the age of eight, having passed through a
wrinkle in time. Young Rusty doesn't seem much happier than the grown-up Russ,
so the older man takes his younger self under his wing and tries to teach him
how to avoid the mistakes he's made, while Rusty encourages Russ to be a more
caring human being. Along the way, Russ and Rusty become friends, and realize
how much they can learn from each other. Disney's The Kid also stars Jean Smart
as one of Russ' clients, Lily Tomlin as his assistant, and Daniel Von Bargen as
his father. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Starring: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer
Director: Jon Turteltaub
The Heiress (1949)
Showing October 19
Facilitated by Rose Holt

Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a
real-life incident, wherein a young actor of his acquaintance married an
unattractive but very wealthy young woman for the express purpose of living the
rest of his life in luxury. Washington Square was turned into a stage play in
1946 by Ruth and Augustus Goetz; this, in turn was adapted for the movies under
the title The Heiress. Olivia DeHavilland won an Academy Award (her second) for
her portrayal of Catherine Sloper, the plain-Jane daughter of wealthy widower
Dr. Austin Sloper (Ralph Richardson). Catherine is not only unattractive, but
lacks most of the social graces, thanks in great part to the domineering
attitudes of her father. When Catherine falls in love with handsome young Morris
Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she is convinced that her love is reciprocated,
else why would Morris be so affectionate towards her? Dr. Sloper sees things
differently, correctly perceiving that Morris is a callow fortune hunter.
Standing up to her father for the first time in her life, Catherine insists that
she will elope with Morris; but when Dr. Sloper threatens to cut off her dowry,
Morris disappears. Still, Catherine threatens to run off with the next young man
who pays any attention to her; Sloper, belatedly realizing how much he has hurt
his only child, arranges to leave her his entire fortune. Years pass: Morris
returns, insisting that he'd only left because he didn't want to cause Catherine
the "grief" of being disinherited. Seemingly touched by Morris' "sincerity",
Catherine agrees to elope with him immediately. But when Morris arrives at the
appointed hour, he finds the door locked and bolted. Asked how she can treat
Morris so cruelly, Catherine replies coldly "Yes, I can be very cruel. I have
been taught by masters." Though The Heiress ends on a downbeat note, the
audience is gratified to know that Catherine Sloper has matured from
ugly-duckling loser to a tower of strength who will never allow herself to be
manipulated by anyone ever again. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Read more.
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
Director: William Wyler
Chocolat (2000)
Showing November 16
Facilitated by Shirley Fontenot
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-Anne Moss, Peter
Stormare, Hugh O'Conor, and Leslie Caron. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp, (more)
Director: Lasse Hallström
Ladies in Lavender (2005)
Showing December 14
Facilitated by Sheldon Culver

Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man
half their age in this British comedy drama. It's 1936, and Janet Widdington
(Maggie Smith) and her sister, Ursula (Judi Dench), are a pair of elderly
spinsters who share a home in Cornwall on the coast of England. After a storm,
the sisters discover that someone has been washed up on the beach in front of
their house. Bringing the body inside, they discover the victim is a handsome
Polish man named Andrea Marowski (Daniel Brühl) who has suffered a broken ankle
and speaks no English, only Polish and German. As the sisters patch up Andrea's
ankle, Janet dusts off her old German textbook from school, and begins getting
to know more about their guest. It isn't long before Janet develops an
infatuation for the good-looking stranger, and attempts to teach him English,
which is more than a bit maddening to Ursula, who has fallen head over heels for
him -- especially after the sisters discover he's a gifted violinist and hear
him display his craft on a borrowed instrument. As the sisters find themselves
vying for Andrea's attention, they wonder if they should report his presence to
the authorities, especially after Olga (Natascha McElhone), an attractive woman
in her early thirties who lives nearby, becomes aware of Andrea's presence in
the home and wants to make contact with him. Based on a short story by William
J. Locke, Ladies in Lavender marked the directorial debut of actor Charles
Dance. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, (more)
Director: Charles Dance
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Lectures, Seminars and
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Friday, January 19, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Lecture: The
Freud-Jung Relationship - Joseph Callahan, M.D.
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Friday, February 2, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Lecture: Chaos Theory, Alchemy
and The Numinous - Robin Robertson
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Saturday, February 3, 9:00 A.M. -
3:30 P.M.
Workshop: The Ultimate Mystery -
Robin Robertson
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Friday, March 30, 7:00 - 9:30 P.M.
Lecture: Dragon in Myth & Psyche - Robert Moore
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Saturday, March 31, 9:00 A.M. - 3:30
P.M.
Workshop: Riding the Dragon - Robert Moore
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Friday, April 27, 7:00 - 9:30 P.M.
Lecture: The Self Through Film - Mary Ryan
Study Groups
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Ego and
Archetype - Sheldon Culver
CANCELLED
6 Tuesdays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
(1/16,23,30; 2/6,20,27)
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The Odyssey -
Rose Holt
8 Thursdays: 7:30 - 9:30
P.M. (1/18; 2/1,15; 3/1,15,29; 4/12,26)
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The Shadow - Ellen
Sheire
11 Mondays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M. (1/8,22; 2/5,19;
3/5,19; 4/2,9,30; 5/7,14)
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Rooms of House
Art Workshop - Deborah Stutsman
6 Wednesdays: 7:00 - 9:00
P.M. (3/14,21,28; 14/4,11,18)

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Seminars,
Lectures and Workshops

The Freud-Jung
Relationship
Presented by Joseph Callahan, M.D.
Lecture Fri., January 19, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational
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Seldom have two such seminal thinkers been contemporaries;
rarer still have they formed a close personal relationship. The focus of Dr.
Callahan’s lecture and our discussion will be this remarkable relationship, what
a number of the significant antecedents were, and the course it followed.
Dr. Callahan
says that over the years he has developed an enormous interest in Jung because
Jung's body of work represents such an eclectic approach to psychotherapy. In
Dr. Callahan's early work in the area of child psychiatry, he found Jung's idea
of a life-long developmental process most helpful. He feels Jungian Psychology
offers important components to a humanistic-existential psychotherapy that is
not brought by any other group.
Joseph
Callahan, B.S., M.D. studied medicine at St. Louis University, did his
internship at the St. Louis University Hospital and his residency in
psycho-neurology at local area hospitals. He completed a post-doctoral
fellowship at Washington University. From 1961-68 he was in personal
psychoanalysis in the Freudian tradition. He was named a Life Fellow, and three
years ago a Distinguished Life Fellow, of the American Psychiatric Association.
He has taught at St. Louis University, Washington University, and the University
of Missouri, consulted for the U.S. Peace Corp, and served in the Army Medical
Corp Reserve, retiring with the rank of Major.
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2 Events with Robin Robertson:
Chaos Theory and The Numinous
Presented by Robin Robertson
Lecture
Fri., February 2, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
- $15
Others - $20
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“SCINTILLAE OF
LIGHT:
CHAOS THEORY, ALCHEMY & THE NUMINOUS”
Jung spent a lifetime studying the dynamics of the psyche. Chaos theory supplies
a new scientific model for the dynamics of transformation that fits remarkably
well with Jung's conclusions. Perhaps chaos theory is a new living symbol for
our time. What can be more primitive, more ubiquitous than chaos, from which all
emerged? Chaos theory itself has begun to emerge as any true symbol emerges,
from all directions at once, from the "most complex and differentiated minds" of
our age. Surprisingly, much of the discoveries of chaos theory are also
contained within a very ancient model: Alchemy! And, as Jung discovered, the
alchemical opus closely follows the path of individuation. This lecture will
examine correspondences between chaos theory and alchemy and how both model the
process of transformation that occurs in each of us at critical times in our
lives.
The parallels
between chaos theory and alchemy in this presentation will culminate in the "scintillae
of light"
(sparks of light) that the alchemists saw appearing within chaos: a lovely image
of new emergent order. Chaos theory exactly mirrors this same phenomenon. Jung
saw these scintillae of light as a symbol for the emergence of consciousness at
the archetypal level within the psyche. This presentation is designed to produce
"sparks of light" in the audience, sparks that will hopefully grow into new
consciousness.
The Ultimate Mystery
Presented by Robin Robertson
Workshop Sat., February 3, 9:00 A.M. - 3:30
P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
- $70
Others - $80 (Includes Lunch)
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“THE ULTIMATE
MYSTERY:
THE SELF-REFERENTIAL NATURE OF REALITY”
“If one reflects upon what consciousness really is, one is deeply impressed by
the extremely wonderful fact that an event which occurs outside in the cosmos
produces simultaneously an inner image. Thus it also occurs within; in other
words, it becomes conscious.” -C. G. Jung.
Jung spent a
lifetime exploring the self-referential nature of reality. As a boy, he found
that he had two independent personalities: #1, which was small and young and
weak, and #2, which was strong and old and wise. Later, he began to study the
dynamic relationship between conscious and unconscious. That led to studying the
relationship between the psyche and the physical world, culminating in his view
of a psychoid reality that underlay both. Our workshop will help you actually
experience this self-referential world. It will focus on three main areas of the
self-reflective nature of reality: Conscious/Unconscious, Individual/World, and
Sacred/Profane through a series of mini-lectures, each followed by an
opportunity for personal experience of the topic.
Robin
Robertson, Ph.D.’s life’s work has bridged the worlds of psychology,
science, education, business, and the arts. He is a Jungian-oriented clinical
psychologist, former computer company executive, adjunct psychology professor at
the California Institute of Integral Studies, General Editor of Psychological
Perspectives, a founder of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the
Life Sciences, and a consulting editor for Cybernetics & Human Knowing. He has
published eight books in psychology. Robin is also a lifetime amateur magician
and a member of the "Order of Merlin - Shield" of the International Brotherhood
of Magicians. He is known for his lectures and workshops.
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2 Events with Robert Moore
The Dragon in Myth & Psyche:
Recent Research on a Primordial Image of the Archetypal Self
Presented by Robert Moore
Dr. Moore's books will be available for purchase during our events.
This service provided by Barnes and Noble, Ladue Crossing store
where they currently have stock of Dr. Moore's books.
Lecture Fri.,
March 30, 7:00 - 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
- $20
Others - $28
Students - $14
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form
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Recent research on the image and mythology of the Dragon has confirmed its
presence in cultures around the world and has led even non-Jungian researchers
to wonder if Jung was not right about his theory of the collective unconscious.
In this lecture Dr. Moore will summarize some of the recent research on dragon
mythology and suggest that the dragon image is one of the most revealing mythic
representations of the power of the archetypal Self in both psychopathology and
individuation.
Riding the Dragon:
Accessing, Regulating & Optimizing Archetypal & Spiritual Energies
Presented by Robert Moore
Dr. Moore's books will be
available for purchase during our events.
This service provided by Barnes and Noble, Ladue Crossing store
where they currently have stock of Dr. Moore's books.
Workshop Sat.,
March 31, 9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
- $85
Others - $95 (Includes Lunch)
Students - $47.50
Continuing education credits and associated
evaluation
form
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Please note
information regarding the waiting
list for this event
Central to the great traditions of both psychoanalysis and spirituality are
critical insights into the ebb and flow of the powerful--both wonderful and
dangerous--energies of life and transformation. Experiences of scarcity or
abundance, flatness or flooding, point to the key role of both access to and
optimal regulation of the golden energies of the soul.
In this
workshop Dr. Moore will share his recent research discoveries into the Great
Code of the
Archetypal Self and his reflections on the dynamics and transformations of
“Dragon energies,” the fire within. Presentations will be lectures with
discussion and experiential processing. The workshop will be appropriate for all
serious students of personal and spiritual transformation.
Dr. Moore
will address “Jung’s Copernican Revolution: Facing the Dragon” in the morning
and “Riding the Dragon: Optimizing Energy in Transformative Process” in the
afternoon.
Dr. Robert Moore is an internationally recognized Jungian psychoanalyst
and consultant in private practice in Chicago. Distinguished Service Professor
of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality in the Graduate Center of the
Chicago Theological Seminary, he is also a Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung
Institute of Chicago and Director of Research for the Institute for the Science
of Psychoanalysis. Author and editor of numerous books in psychology and
spirituality, he lectures internationally on his formulation of a Neo-Jungian
paradigm for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Books by Robert Moore: The
Archetype of Initiation: Sacred Space, Ritual Process, and Personal
Transformation, The Magician and the Analyst: The Archetype of the Magus in
Occult Spirituality and Jungian Analysis, and King, Warrior, Magician, Lover,
(with Douglas Gillette). His most recent book is Facing the Dragon:
Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity. He is currently working on
his Structural Psychoanalysis and Integrative Psychotherapy: A Neo-Jungian
Paradigm.
Waiting List for
Dr. Moore's Workshop
A large crowd is expected for the lecture, and the workshop space is limited.
Because of the latter we will be creating a waiting list for the workshop.
To insure that you have spot, please pre-register by mail with your payment for
the lecture and/or the workshop.
Reasons you would be put on the waiting list:
1) If you contact us to let us know you are coming to the workshop but DO NOT
pre-register by mail with your payment, or
2) If you pay the “student discount” rate, since attendance at this discount is
only “pending available space”.
For whichever reason you get placed on the waiting list, we will contact you the
day before the event to inform you that:
1) The workshop is full; you will not be able to attend (students will get their
payment back), or
2) The workshop is nearly full and you may not be able to enter. If you are a
student, this will give you the opportunity to pay full price, if you so choose,
to ensure entry.
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The Self Through Film
Presented by Mary Ryan
Lecture: Friday, April 27, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
- $15
Others - $20
Students - $10
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"In the last
analysis, every life is the realization of a whole, that is, of a self, for
which this realization can be called 'individuation.'... and the realization of
this alone makes sense of life." -C.G.Jung.
The search
for Self is a universal quest. We can identify with this struggle for Self in
films with their messages of soulful transformation. Joseph Campbell said,
"Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through
you." Our journeys today can be elucidated by the telling of modern myths and
stories in the medium of cinema. In this workshop we will make use of film to
garner meaning and increase an understanding of our personal journey towards
realization of the Self.
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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Study Groups

Ego and
Archetype
Presented by Sheldon Culver
Due to personal matters, this
group has been cancelled.
Sheldon is willing to speak with people directly about this if they'd like to
call. (636) 795-0750
 6
Tuesdays (Jan. 16,23, 30/ Feb. 6,20,27)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to
8 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends,
$85; All others, $95
Readings: Edinger, Edward F.,
Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function in the Psyche,
Shambala, Boston & London, 1992.
Continuing education credits
Join
a six week seminar with Sheldon Culver reading this classic Jungian text by
Edward Edinger. Described as "a fascinating synthesis of C. G. Jung's
fundamental psychological concepts," Ego and Archetype offers much more than
"concepts". Edinger provides a feast of images that ring soul to the basic
themes of Jung's opus.
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 8. Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Regarding CEUs: See box this page for details. You may contact Sheldon at (636)
795-0750
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Jungian Reading of The
Odyssey
Presented by Rose F. Holt
8
Thursdays (Jan. 18/Feb. 1,15/Mar. 1,15, 29/Apr. 12,26)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 8 registrants
Classes will be
held in a home in University City.
Friends,
$105; All others, $115
Readings: The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles; New York: Viking
Penguin, 1996.
Continuing education credits and associated
evaluation
form
At the time Homer wrote this epic poem, some 2,700 years ago, human
consciousness was more closely allied with its unconscious substratum. A
modern-day reading of this ancient text can yield important clues about the
relationship between ego consciousness and the unconscious as that relationship
existed before the separation of the two was so well defined. In our reading,
study, and discussion, we will focus on possible value and meaning The Odyssey
holds for us today. Some basic understanding of Jungian Psychology,
particularly archetypal theory, will be of help in this course but is not
required.
Rose Holt, M.A., a Jungian
analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and Chicago, trained
as an analyst at the Chicago Jung Institute. She wrote her diploma thesis on
"The Alchemy of the Small Group: Working with Dreams in a Group Setting".
Class limit
of 10. The group will meet at a residence in University City. To augment the
eight class meetings, participants will have access to a shared weblog for
additional discussion and dialogue. If you wish to have further
information about the course or have questions, please contact Rose Holt at
(314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at roseholt@aol.com.
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The Shadow
Presented by Ellen Sheire
11
Mondays (Jan. 8, 22/Feb. 5,19/Mar. 5,19/Apr. 2, 9,30/ May 7, 14)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 14
registrants
Classes will be
held in a home Kirkwood
Friends,
$142; All others, $152
Readings: Johnson, Robert
A., Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, Harper,
San Francisco: HarperCollins Paperback Edition, 1993 and von Franz, M. L.,
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, Zurich: Spring publications, 1974.
Continuing
education credits
As Dr. Jung
started probing the depths of his own unconscious and that of the patients under
his care he discerned patterns of thoughts and behaviors emanating from an
archetype he called the Shadow. The present study group will focus on the
written works of two Jungian analysts, Robert Johnson and M. L. von Franz. In
their own unique way, von Franz and Johnson define and refine descriptive
instances and encounters which fall in proximity or under the influence of the
Shadow.
Dr. von
Franz’s work presents and analyzes different fairy tales, selecting ones where
heroes/heroines come up against, encounter, experience, and deal with (or fail
to deal with) the archetypal aspects of Shadow. Robert Johnson has written,
“…Many people fail to find their God-given living water because they are not
prepared to search in unusual places.” One such unexpected source is our own
shadow, “that dumping ground for all these characteristics of our personality
that we disown.”
This study
group will experientially examine some of the odd places in which the water of
life is flowing these days. According to Robert Johnson, in working with one’s
Shadow, i.e. identifying, reclaiming, accepting, honoring those less than
honorable personality characteristics”, one becomes engaged in “a profound
spiritual discipline…It is whole-making and thus Holy.”
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. Classes will be held in
a home in Kirkwood. You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.
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The Rooms in Your House:
Exploring Body, Mind and Psyche Through Art Making
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman
6
Wednesdays Mar. 14,21,28/Apr. 4,11,18)
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Limited to 9
registrants
Classes will be
held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends,
$100; All others, $110
Continuing education credits
In this 6-part art making workshop we will explore connections between our
created art images and the “house of our soul”, our bodies. Each evening is
designed to focus visually on a different aspect of how we take in, process,
make use of and communicate
sensory, emotional, rational and spiritual information from both inner and outer
worlds. Participants will create both individual and group pieces. Materials and
processes will include natural and found objects, clay, watercolor, torn paper
and cloth.
No previous
art experience is necessary, nor is it necessary to have a Jungian background,
although the metaphorical and symbolic approach which I take will be heavily
influenced by Jungian principles. Join us on a “road trip” through the body
through art making.
Deborah
Stutsman, ATR-BC, LPC, is a board certified art therapist and
Licensed Professional Counselor, who has a private practice in St. Louis and
contracts independently with the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute in
their Psychology and Religion Program. For more information about art therapy,
check the website www.arttherapy.org. You may contact Deborah Stutsman at 314-361-1120
or 314-412-2168.
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Fall/Winter
2006

Seminars,
Lectures and Workshops

Analyst Panel Discussion:
"What's Rippling Your Waters?"
Sheldon Culver, Shirley Fontenot,
Rose Holt and Ellen Sheire
Join us as our St. Louis Jungian analysts share their current interests and
insights.
Analyst Panel
Discussion: Friday, September 15, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
&
Registrants by Sept. 8 - $15
Others - $20
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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Politics of Consciousness”
& “Splendor Solis”
Presented by ALDEN JOSEY, Ph.D., NCPsyA
Lecture:
The Quest for a
Politics of Consciousness
Lecture:
Friday, October 20, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Fee: Friends
&
Registrants by Oct. 13 - $15
Others - $20
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The psychological work of individuation, seen as a central obligatory
task of every person to incarnate his or her own uniqueness in some measure,
ultimately reaches into the realm of relationship and becomes a political act. I
will examine the politics of individuation and the creation of consciousness,
with every intended reference to the Greek root word, politeia, which connotes
ideas of "citizenship, life of a citizen, fellow-citizen, government, democracy,
commonwealth". I want to emphasize the dynamism that links the fate of
individuals with that of the collective for good or for ill.
The
inter-psychic component is the zone of our encounter with the collective in all
its forms, from the most intimate connections of our lives to the larger
collectives of family, tribe, nation and species. Within this zone are all the
struggles that individuals make in a group context to lift their discourse out
of the dark, undifferentiated strata of unconscious, mob-like interactions into
the light of conscious self and other-awareness.
The process
in the inter-psychic field of relationship I call communitation. The archetype
of communitation emphasizes not only the necessity and the value of the
coalescence of individuals into communities of every size but also the processes
through which the collective conscious becomes stronger, more coherent and more
humane. We will use these ideas to think about the present pain of the world and
the medicine that Psyche holds for its transformation.
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Workshop:
Alchemy & Jung: The Opus, Stone & Gold and
Images from Splendor Solis: 16th Century Alchemical Text
Workshop: Sat., October 21, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational
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Others - $80 (Includes lunch)
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Alchemy is a system of symbolic imagery for the transformation of psychic
energy. For eighteen centuries, alchemists struggled to transmute the lower
forms of matter into gold, the ultimate of material value. Some of the best and
most philosophic minds grasped that theirs was a work of the soul, not a
test-tube tour de force, that alchemy was a proto-psychology, not a
proto-chemistry. In the late Renaissance there appeared one of the most
extraordinary of all alchemical texts, the Splendor Solis with a group of
fantastic paintings that describe the inner journey of individuation in powerful
and evocative imagery. We will look at these paintings with our modern
sensibility and discover how they still have power to stir the soul with hints
of the difficulties and the rewards of a personal work of transformation.
Alden Josey,
Ph.D., NCPsyA is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Wilmington, DE.
He obtained a doctoral degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of
Illinois, and then enjoyed a long career in fundamental and applied organic
chemistry
research. He subsequently received a diploma in Analytical Psychology from the
C. G, Jung Institute, Zurich. Dr. Josey was Director of Studies and Director of
Admissions for the C. G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia, and currently teaches
as a Senior Training Analyst. He has taught and lectured internationally. His
publications include “Molecules and Mandalas”, Psychological Perspectives, Issue
#28, 1993, “The New Ethic”, The Round Table Review, 1996, and “What is Jung
About? What Does It Mean to Me?”, The Round Table Review, Jan/Feb 1999, V. 6,
No. 3.
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Workshop:
Archetypal Astrology;
Healing Language for the 21st Century
Presented by Laurence Hillman, Astrologer and
Author
Saturday, November 18, 2006;
9:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational
Church UCC -
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Limited to 20 participants. For
professional astrologers and beginners alike.
You must have your ACCURATE natal astrological chart to participate.
If you do not have a chart contact Laurence at
laurence@lhillman.com.
We live in a time where moderate religion is fading and yet answers to life’s
big questions remain. Archetypal astrology can address core issues about human
nature. It blends philosophy, spirituality, and psychology into a penetrating
worldview. In this lecture we will get an introduction to this way of thinking.
Drawing on traditional concepts from astrology and Jungian psychology we will
adapt both to modern times. We will find answers to very practical and personal
questions and explore a rewarding personal path. Using language from the theatre
will increase our insights and give us a set of tools to express archetypal
patterns we live out every day. In this worldview the planets become actors on
our inner stage. While Jung postulated a certain set of archetypes present in
all, this lecture will expand on this notion. Going back to Plato’s cave
metaphor, the astrological planets become core “ideas” that exist in all but are
expressed personally according to our ancestry, culture, biological inheritance
and general environment. The platonic “ideas” become archetypal patterns that
can be read in a person by understanding their birth chart. This provides us
with a tremendous tool for human understanding and for grasping the complexities
of our inner life in relationship to the outer circumstances we find ourselves
in daily.
The
workshop will help participants investigate specific details in their birth
chart and apply the ideas presented to the group. While there will be some
limited one-on-one work, participants will learn something else than they would
get from an individualized astrological reading. The two should not be confused.
Mostly a relaxed yet intellectually challenging and enjoyable day will give each
participant a much-deepened sense of self-understanding.
Born
and raised in Zurich, Switzerland, Laurence Hillman is a full-time
astrologer, teacher and lecturer. He has been a professional astrologer for
nearly 30 years. Laurence has lectured internationally, conducted workshops in
the Globe Theatre in London, and has taught at Jean Houston’s Mystery School. He
is the author of numerous articles and the co-author of Alignments – How to Live
in Harmony with the Universe. His forthcoming book is Archetypal Astrology – How
to Re-imagine Your Life. Laurence lives in St. Louis, has an MBA, a Master’s in
Engineering Management, and a degree in Architecture. He is the son of James
Hillman, world-renowned psychological scholar.
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Study Groups

Soul at the Center: the Role
of Soul in Jungian Analysis
Presented by Sheldon Culver
4 consecutive Tuesdays (Oct. 17,24,31/Nov. 7)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends,
$45; All others, $55
Limited to 8 registrants
Readings: To be provided by presenter at no extra cost
If the goal
of Jungian work is wholeness (individuation) the center and source of this goal
is soul and soul’s hunger to incarnate. This seminar will focus on Jung’s
understanding of Psyche as dynamic, and imbued with a religious inclination that
shapes the work. We will look at what Jung called the “transcendent function”
and the process of symbol formation, how soul both informs and guides the
analystic experience, and the call “to become” in this life.
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. You may
contact Sheldon at (636) 795-0750.
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The Power and Practice of Story
Presented by Shirley Fontenot
6 Thursdays (Sep. 14,28/Oct. 19/Nov. 2,16/Dec. 7)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Classes will be held in a home in University City.
Friends,
$65; All others, $75
Limited to 8 registrants
Suggested Text: Storycatcher by Christina Baldwin
Story shapes
who we are, gives us a sense of self, connects us with the world, and outlines
our relationship with reality. Christina Baldwin states that, “Story opens up a
space between people. In the act of telling story, we create a world we invite
others into. And in the act of listening to story, we accept an invitation into
experiences that are not our own, although they seem to be.”
The importance of telling one’s story is clearly evident in Memories, Dreams and
Reflections by C. G. Jung, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe. After much
hesitation Jung consented to tell his story, eventually writing parts of it
himself. This process was extremely important to Jung, and a wonderful gift to
any of us who read it.
Our stories
and the process of telling them are equally as important to us and to those who
receive them. Participants in this study group will have the opportunity to tell
some of their stories, and to listen to the stories of others. The listening and
the telling will offer an experience of having stories received and held with
respect.
Shirley M. Fontenot, D.Min., a diplomate of the C.G. Jung Institute of
Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis and Chicago. You may
contact Shirley Fontenot at (314) 740-0105.
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Introduction to Jungian Psychology
Presented by Rose F. Holt
8 Thursdays (Sep. 7,21/Oct.
12,26/Nov. 9,30/Dec.14,21)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
The group will meet at a residence in University City
Friends,
$85; All others, $95
Limited to 10 registrants
Readings: To be provided by presenter at no extra cost
To augment the eight class meetings, participants will have access to a
shared weblog for additional discussion and dialogue.
Continuing education credits
Beginning
with ego and shadow, this course will cover the basic concepts of analytical
psychology, including anima and animus, archetypes, complexes, the Self, the
individuation process and the role of dreams in personality development. Texts
for course readings, moderate in scope and drawn from the works of C.G. Jung and
other analysts, will be provided at no additional cost.
Rose Holt,
a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and
Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. If you
wish to have further information about the course or have questions, please
contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at
roseholt@aol.com.
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Dreams
Presented by Ellen Sheire
12 Mondays (Sep.
11,18,25/Oct. 2,9,30/Nov. 6,13,20,27/Dec. 4,11)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood
Friends,
$125; All others, $135
Limited to 14 registrants
Text: C. G. Jung, Dreams, Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series XX,
Translated by R.F.C. Hull, Paperback edition, 9th printing, 1990.
Continuing education credits
The text for
this reading group is a paperback edition of Bollingen Series XX, which
comprises C. G. Jung’s writings chosen from his Collected Works, and deals
specifically with dreams. For the layman and the professional alike this volume
simply and clearly presents Jung’s work.
The way in
which Jung approached and treated the study of the dream evolved, transformed,
and enlarges as he continually probed the human psyche throughout his life.
Starting in 1900 using the dream as a tool for research in psychoanalysis, Jung
takes this tool of dream analysis and presents in his writings the material
yielded in probing the depth and breadth of the personal unconscious,
discovering and mapping out dominants in the collective unconscious, which he
called the “archetypes”. To the student of art, literature, history and
religion, this concise study of the dream provides rich material.
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. You may
contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.
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Pregnancy, Birth & the Inner Mother
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman
4 Wednesdays (Nov. 15,29/Dec.
6,13)
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End
Friends,
$60; All others, $65
(includes $15 materials fee)
Limited to 8 registrants
In the
darkening season of late autumn as we approach the longest night of the year and
the yuletide season of anticipating the Light of the Divine Child, we will use
this 4-part series as a means by which to give visual expression to the cycle of
creation and creativity: The Longing and Waiting Time, the Pregnancy, the
Birthing, and the Nurturing. Working primarily with 3-dimensional medium (clay,
natural and found objects, paper construction) we will seek with our personal
imagery to honor our bodies, matter (mater) and the Feminine, and to strengthen
the connection with our Inner Mother. These four evening’s images will create
your own gift to youself of a sort of mandala or Whole. Please be advised that
kiln facilities are not available. This is an experiential not a study class. No
previous art experience is necessary, only a willingness to let your hands speak
for you!
Deborah Stutsman, ATR-BC, LPC, is a board certified art therapist and
Licensed Professional Counselor, who has a private practice in St. Louis and
contracts independently with the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute in
their Psychology and Religion Program. For more information about art therapy,
check the website www.arttherapy.org.
You may contact Deborah Stutsman at 314-361-1120 or 314-412-2168.
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OPEN HOUSE RECEPTION
At the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago
ANALYST
TRAINING PROGRAM
and
CLINICAL TRAINING PROGRAM
Friday
Evening, November 3rd at 6:30
for information and reservations call
312-701-0400
The Analyst Training
Program prepares licensed and experienced clinicians to be certified as Jungian
Psychoanalysts. The program provides participants with an
opportunity to gain an in-depth knowledge of Analytical Psychology.
It emphasizes both personal and clinical development through on-going
analysis and supervision within the context of a professional community.
The Clinical Training
Program
provides a two-year program for licensed mental health professional in
Analytical Psychotherapy – a therapeutic approach that utilizes a
symbolic perspective within the context of a highly personal
interactional field.
The C.G Jung
Institute of Chicago is approved by the APA to sponsor continuing
education
for psychologists and by the Illinois Department of Professional
Regulation for social workers and LCPCs
The CG Jung
Institute of Chicago maintains responsibility for this program and its
content.
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Winter/Spring 2006
SOCIETY
2 HOST 2
NEW SPEAKERS:
LYN COWAN AND
DICK SWEENEY

GOD MADE WHOLE
An Interview With Richard Sweeney
Arising out of the tribalism of the middle eastern Iron
Age was Abraham. It was his monotheism that Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam claim as their birthright. What is it about this monotheism that
excites its followers to crusade or to jihad? Or to wreak violence upon
the weak and often the female? Some writings in each of the Old Testament
and the Koran inspire its followers to kill unbelievers. Whether it is
Deuteron-omy 13 in which God says, “You must stone him to death, since he has
tried to divert you from Yahweh, your God,” or whether it is the Koran 9:123,
“Believers, make war on the infidels,”—both sets of writings portray a God who
promotes war and violence.
Jung addressed this in his book, The Portable Jung, in the last chapter, “Answer
To Job,” . He reminds us of God’s shadow and its capacity for revenge, for
harshness, and for arrogance. And Jung reminds us of Sophia who was there
in the beginning and who contributes to God’s consciousness. She is the
feminine aspect of God. In the Kabbala, she is called Shekhina, a loving
entity who is ready to defend her people from God himself.
As tensions between western culture and Moslem culture increase, it could prove
helpful to expand our understanding of God. To broaden our understanding
of God’s shadow, In Touch, interviewed Richard Sweeney a Jungian psychoanalyst
and licensed professional clinical counselor in private practice in Columbus,
Ohio. He holds a doctoral degree in psychology and religion from the
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, and a diploma in analytical psychology
from the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. He is currently chair of the Ohio
Valley Association of Jungian Analysts.
Dick Sweeney will be speaking at the St.
Louis Jung Society April 21 and 22 on “Religion: Help or Harm? & Dark Side
of God.”
In Touch (I.T.): Why did Jung undertake to write
“An Answer to Job?” What was it he was particularly concerned about in the
operative picture of God in western culture?
Richard Sweeney (R.S.): I think “An Answer to
Job,” Jung is critiquing the one-sided view or image of God in much of western
culture. His concern was that if only positive attributes are seen as
belonging to God, in other words, if God is seen as all powerful and all loving
and all peaceful and all good, then all the opposite traits fall into the
unconscious. Persons seeking to be like God are likely to repress or
suppress all those opposite traits into the unconscious. Invariably, those
darker traits affect us or get expressed unconsciously. That’s when they
are usually most likely to be destructive.
I.T.: Jung wrote “the picture of a God who knew no
moderation in his emotions and suffered precisely from this lack of moderation.
He himself admitted that he was eaten up with rage and jealousy and this
knowledge was painful to him. Insight existed along with obtuseness,
loving-kindness along with cruelty, creative power along with destructiveness .
. . .Such a condition is only conceivable either when no reflecting
consciousness is present at all, or when the capacity for reflection is very
feeble. . . A condition of this sort can only be described as amoral.”
(The Portable Jung, p. 527)
If this portrayal of Yahweh is accurate, how does that affect the underpinnings
of current western religion?
R.S.: I think the way it affects western religion is
that all the darker or less pleasant traits, which in and of themselves are not
evil, are less appealing. This affects individuals, groups and cultures
often in unconscious ways. For example, we then end up inflicting
violence, fear, evil and other seemingly negative attitudes onto other
individuals and groups, and then attack them externally.
It is interesting that a variety of destructive acts like terrorist attacks,
retaliatory bombings, very prejudicial oppressive attitudes are then engaged in
and very often in the name of God. The assumption is that God is in favor
of that.
I think Jung’s concern is that we have to recognize that the darker or less
appealing traits are also aspects of the Godhead. That is to say, both
love and hate, both faith and doubt, both patience and anger, these are all
andro- or human aspects and they are always in play in the human experience of
God. To the extent that we are conscious of that, and hold these opposite
tendencies in tension, we will be less likely to avoid the seemingly negative
traits at all costs and then project them onto others who then must be opposed.
I.T.: What role does this amoral God play in
politics? Or does he?
R.S.: It affects politics in what we’re seeing
these days. A variety of groups and nations and cultures are undertaking
particular initiatives as though endorsed by God. Whether we’re talking
about the Islamic world undertaking a jihad, or whether we’re talking about the
western world that undertakes retaliatory behaviors such as bombing in
counter-attacks, both sides operate under the assumption that this is being done
in the name of God.
Jung points out that, to the extent that any person or group who does not
continue to reflect upon its own shadow or dark side, it will be projected onto
the “other.”
I.T.: By understanding God’s shadow, Jung contends
that Job had been lifted up to a superior knowledge of God which God, himself,
did not possess. Job sees God’s shadow and is a victim of it. What
is the impact of that great insight?
R.S.: Jung is saying that Job experienced the
destructive side of God. Job experienced God as the one who allowed the
destructiveness to fall upon him and his family. Job, therefore, has a
much wider and larger understanding of the true nature of God than even God.
God is not just about creation but also about destruction. Sometimes the
transcendent is working in our lives in such a way as to tear things down.
For example, it may work to tear down our false assumptions, to tear down
one-sided behaviors.
Sometimes, the most significant way in which God or the transcendent is
operating in our lives appears initially destructive but the destruction is
brought about for the sake of greater wholeness. For example, Jung says
that if a person is living too one-sided a life, God will send a neurosis.
That may not seem welcome or pleasant but that darker side of God, so to speak,
is really serving the larger process of wholeness.
I.T.: Jung spoke of Sophia as the feminine aspect of
God. Can you address this?
R.S.: One of Jung’s additional critiques of the
western God-image is that it is exclusively masculine and did not incorporate
feminine attributes. He looked for remnants in Judeo-Christian teachings
of feminine characteristics of God. In the Hebrew scriptures, the notion
of Sophia arises. Jung’s belief is that here, the unconscious is calling
up or evoking the feminine side of God.
I think clearly the problem of denying or suppressing the feminine aspect of God
in western religion is another example of the one-sidedness of the western
God-image.
The over-emphasis on the so-called masculine attributes give primary religious
significance to reason and logic and correct behavior and virtue and discipline
and dogma. Far less, if any, significance is given to many of those
attributes we often think of as feminine such as feelings, imagination, desire,
longing, and receptivity. The cultivation of these feminine aspects of
self have often been seen as having nothing to do
with being religious and sometimes are even seen as
antithetical to being religious. If the masculine side of God has more to
do with logos, the feminine side of God has more to do with eros. Both of
these are essential. Omit the feminine, e.g. Sophia, then one is being
encouraged to devalue or suppress the fullness of one’s own Self.
I.T.: What is the damage to society without Sophia?
R.S.: Society becomes dominated by the masculine
traits and qualities. Inevitably, persons striving to be in a relationship
with God will start subordinating the feminine traits since these traits are not
associated with God. Society will value assertiveness and accomplishment
and productivity and activity more than the feminine traits of nurturing,
connectivity and creativity. This is certainly the case in western
culture.
I.T.: What were Jung’s thoughts on fundamentalism?
How do we move beyond fundamentalism?
R.S.: Fundamentalism does meet particular needs for
individuals and groups. The need for belonging, the need for certitude and
security. However, these needs emerge in early stages of development.
They must eventually be transcended and not absolutized as the ultimate value.
The problem with fundamentalism or dogmatism is that it becomes very one-sided.
In the effort to achieve and maintain certitude, fundamentalism encourages the
repression of doubt and other points of view. This inevitably leads to
intolerance and oppression of others. We know from Jung that what is
resisted or denied by any group will then be seen as evil and projected onto
those outside of one’s group. Those outsiders must then be converted.
If they cannot be converted, then they must be opposed, attacked or maybe even
annihilated. If you cannot convert the enemy, then you have to annihilate
them either violently, politically or legally. I think the danger of
fundamentalism is, again, its one-sidedness and the suppression of opposite
traits.
Essential to Jung’s whole view of life and psyche is the dialogue between the
opposites. In other words, what is essential is the capacity to dialogue with
that which is opposite to one’s current attitude or position. The only
resolution to conflicts with fundamentalism or dogmatism is a constant
invitation to engage in mutual conversation and discussion. The result
could be a growing respect for the other point of view and a growing tolerance.
After all, when we are dealing with the question of the nature of God, we are
dealing with a reality that will always remain partly unknown to us. That
is why there will always be room for and a need for dialogue. Today, we’re
being forced into awareness of different cultural views and attitudes. We
are being forced into a greater appreciation of those differences. In a
sense, this is an experience of “the dark side of God.” In other words, it
is precisely in the painful experience of conflict, confusion and opposition
that we have revealed to us the opportunity for new consciousness and
transformations.
Reprinted from the April, 2006 issue of IN TOUCH, a newsletter published three
times a year for $15 a year by The Educational Center, 6357 Clayton Road, St.
Louis, MO 63117, 314-721-7604,
www.centerpointec.com. For more information call or email Sara
McDonald: Sara@educationalcenter.org.

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Welcome Back
to our ongoing weavings of unexpected, unruly, and energetic threads
into useful form. This spring we boast two Jungian analysts new to
our St. Louis Society, Dr. Cowan from St. Paul, Minnesota, and Dr.
Sweeney from Columbus, Ohio. They come to us by recommendation
from Jim Hollis, who presented to a packed audience here last fall.
Rose Holt, who has
led the longest dream group on record (12 years but don’t check
Guinness) and its members will be strutting their stuff in January.
The Board of Directors is enjoying the talents and energies of its two
newest members, R J Fitch and Michelle Pitts, who especially contribute
their technological, marketing and managerial skills.
Warmest regards,
Deborah Stutsman, President
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Working
with Dreams in a Group
Seminar - Rose Holt; Moderator
Saturday, January 28, 10:00 A.M. –
3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Early Registration by Jan. 14
Friends/Early Registrants, by Oct. 1 - $40
All Others - $50
This seminar will be presented and facilitated by four women who met on a weekly
basis for twelve (12) years to explore their dreams, using the model and
guidelines of Jungian Psychology. Rose Holt, a Jungian Analyst
trained at the C. G. Jung Center of Chicago, led this dream group. She has
a private practice in both St. Louis and Chicago.
Participants
will learn some fundamental approaches to the dream, understand how group work
with dreams can facilitate understanding and personal development, and have an
opportunity to work with a dream in the group setting.
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Images
in a Melancholic Eye
Lecture by Lyn Cowan
Friday, March 17, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Friends/Early Registrants
$15
All Others - $20
Until the mid-19th century, melancholy was imagined as a sacred affliction from
the gods, a madness characteristic of genius and the most difficult and complex
temperament. At the height of the Renaissance, it was imagined in
personified form as a majestic female figure; artists and poets looked to her as
their Muse. But, in the twentieth century, melancholy all but disappeared
from the professional imagination, to be replaced by the diagnostic category of
depression.
Where did
Melancholy go? How did she lose her voice? How can we call her into
life again, listen to her wisdom, take new creative heart from her depths?
This lecture/slide presentation will use both spoken word and photographs to
rediscover Melancholy as Muse.
Images in a Melancholic Voice
Workshop by Lyn Cowan
Saturday,
March 18 – 9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Friends/Early
Registrants, $70
All others, $80 (fee includes lunch)
The
melancholic mood has a distinctive tone which can be heard as clearly in certain
kinds of writing as in music. Our workshop discussion will continue themes
introduced in the lecture, particularly the idea that melancholy, unlike
depression, is a creative matrix, seeking to answer these questions: How
can we hear the Muse in our own melancholic moments? What sort of
expression does the Muse give us when we try to express something from a
melancholy place in the psyche? Why is this important for our psychic
health? Participants are asked to bring paper and pen.
Lyn Cowan,
Ph.D., has been a practicing Jungian analyst since 1980, Director of
Training for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts for six years and
past president of the Society, held a Professorship for ten years in the
doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Argosy University (Minneapolis), and
recently concluded two years of teaching and lecturing at the C.G. Jung Center
of Houston, Texas. She is the author of three books: Portrait of the
Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy, Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive
View of Modern Culture, and Masochism: A Jungian View, and is Editor of the
International Association of Analytical Psychology World Congress Proceedings.
She has lectured internationally and throughout the United States, and makes her
home in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Religion: How it Can Help or Harm the Soul
Lecture by Richard Sweeney
Fri., April 21 – 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC -
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6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Friends
/Early Registrants, $15
All Others, $20
Religion continues to shape modern
culture and the world socio-political situation in ways that are unmistakable
and yet controversial. Few subjects evoke more debate today than the
proper role of religion in personal and political life. Not
surprisingly then, no theme occupied the reflection and writing of C. G. Jung in
the last thirty years of his life more than the role of religion in the life of
the soul. It led him eventually to posit the existence of "a religious
function" within the psyche.
In this program we will rely upon
the thought of Jung and some post-Jungians in attempting an analysis of the ways
in which religion may help or hinder the maturation of the soul. In this
effort we will address a variety of issues, including the Genesis God-images,
the relationship between dogma and symbol, the question of religious authority,
fundamentalism, and various conceptions of good and evil. In short, we
will examine the extent to which religion can either promote or limit the
expansion of consciousness and wholeness.
The Dark Side of God: Jung’s Contribution to Psychology of Evil
Workshop presented by Richard Sweeney
Sat., April 22 – 9:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Friends/Early Registrants, $20
All others, $30 (lunch not included)
Very likely the most controversial
of all C. G, Jung's theories is his notion that God possesses a dark or shadow
side. Since its presentation in his book Answer to Job in 1952, this
theory has been heatedly discussed and debated by theologians and psychologists
alike. In this seminar we will review what Jung meant by "the shadow side
of God," and examine how it has been interpreted by various Jungians and other
thinkers. Specifically, we will consider how individuals and groups must
wrestle with the forces of both creation and destruction in the process of
individuation, and we will probe what it means for us personally to encounter
the darker, destructive elements that continue to disrupt life so often today.
We will see that this frequently forces, among other things, a re-examination of
one's God-image.
Richard Sweeney is a
Jungian psychoanalyst and licensed professional clinical counselor in private
practice in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a doctoral degree in psychology and
religion from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a diploma in
analytical psychology from the C, G. Jung Institute, Zurich. He is
currently Chair of the Ohio Valley Association of Jungian Analysts.
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Study Groups

Alchemy, An Introduction to the Symbolism
and the Psychology - Part II
by Ellen Sheire
10 Mondays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
(1/9,23; 2/6,20; 3/6,20; 4/3,17; 5/1,15)
Texts: The Mystery of the Coniunctio: Alchemical Image of Individuation, Edward
Edinger
Alchemical Active Imagination, Marie-Louise von Franz
Limited to 14 registrants
Friends, $105
All others, $115
This class follows Ms.
Sheire’s Fall 2005’s study of von Franz’s text on Alchemy; however, Part I
attendance is not a requirement for participation in Part II.
In answering
the question “Why Alchemy?” the Jungian analyst Dr. Edward Edinger answers thus:
“…alchemy gives us a unique glimpse into the depths of the unconscious psyche…”
The alchemists were rooted in the western psyche which we have inherited, and it
was C. G. Jung who realized that the alchemists, in their spirit of inquiry,
projected their fantasies, dream images, etc., onto matter. In studying
and analyzing alchemical images Jung, and co-workers like von Franz and Edinger,
have provided bridges to modern understanding, first by uncovering archetypal
images clothed in alchemical imagery, and then by linking these images to modern
man’s daily dealings with such products as dreams, fantasies, artistic
representations, visitations, etc.
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. Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood.
See information regarding CEUs.
You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.
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The
Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Part II
by Sandy Cooper
6 Tuesdays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
(1/10,24; 2/7,21; 4/4,18)
Text: The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
1992.
Limited to 10 registrants
Friends,
$65
All others, $75
The author believes that the more we
open ourselves to our Higher Power, the more synchronicities we experience in
our daily lives and the more richly we create. Her book takes the reader on a
path to what she calls spiritual and artistic recovery through such practices as
Morning Pages, Artist’s Dates, and weekly “tasks,” which often feel more like
play! Anyone is welcome to join this group. Having gone through the first six
chapters is NOT a prerequisite, although it will be helpful to read the
introduction before the first meeting.
Sandy Cooper has an M.A. in English Literature from Washington University
and an M.A. in Pastoral Studies from Aquinas Institute of Theology. She has
worked as an English instructor, spiritual director, and hospital chaplain, and
for the past three years has been very involved in Jungian studies and
activities.
Class limit
of 10. Classes will be held in a home in the Clayton/Ladue area.
See information regarding CEUs.
You may contact Sandy Cooper at (314)
993-0874.
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Music,
Jungian Perspective
Presented by RJ Fitch and Michelle Pitts
8 Mondays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
(1/16,30; 2/13,27; 3/13,27; 4/10; 5/8)
Text: CD recordings will be provided as study material, along with
selected handouts.
Friends, $85; All others, $95
Limited to 8 registrants
Art, literature, poetry and dreams all
express unconscious content, which can be understood with a symbolic approach.
So it is with music. Using Jung’s methods of amplification, we will
explore the music of Elton John, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Tori Amos and many
others. “Music is a strange thing. I would say it is a miracle.
For it stands halfway between spirit and matter, a sort of nebulous mediator,
like and unlike each of the things it mediates – spirit that requires
manifestation in time and matter that can do without space…we do not know what
music is.” ~Heinrich Heine
This workshop
will focus on the themes of the feminine, social/political, and spiritual
content present, but not always obvious, in popular music. CD recordings
will be provided as study material.
RJ Fitch has a BA in Instrumental Music Education and Michelle Pitts
studied voice and education, both at the University of MO-St. Louis. Our
interest in music, Tori Amos in particular, is what led us to a study of Jungian
psychology and we are excited to share it with others.
Class limit
of 8. Classes will be held in a home near Affton/Southwest City.
See information regarding CEUs.
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Where
to
Purchase Texts
Texts for the study groups
may be purchased or ordered from your local bookseller.
If they are unavailable
locally, they may be ordered from the Chicago Jung Institute, 1567 Maple Ave.,
Evanston, Illinois 60201.
By phone at (847) 475-4848, or contact their website at
www.jungchicago.org.
A third source is the
Houston Jung Center at (713) 524-8253, Ext. 18, or
www.cgjunghouston.org

Continuing Education Credits
The C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago has agreed to grant CEUs to
participants in our programs where both the program presenter and the program
material meet their criteria. Credits will be for Psychologists (APA),
Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Counselors, and
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors. Each local program presenter is
responsible for obtaining course approval, for collecting a $15 fee, and sending
it to the Chicago Institute, and for all communications with program
participants regarding CEUs. The Institute will mail CEU verification
notices directly to participants. The St. Louis Jung Society will make
different arrangements regarding the presentations of speakers from out of town.
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If the
individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either,
for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption.
—C.G. Jung, C.W.10

The whole
future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic
summation from these hidden sources in individuals.
In our most private and subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses
of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers.
We make our epoch.
– C.G. Jung, CW 10

Fall /Winter 2005
JAMES HOLLIS
TO SPEAK ON
Finding Meaning
in the Second Half of Life
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The C. G. Jung Society enthusiastically welcomes back James Hollis for another
lecture/workshop engagement, on this occasion to speak and guide us on the
important journey of soul-making during and after the mid-life passage.
Dr. Hollis has consistently drawn our largest audiences, which fact attests to
his superb speaking and teaching abilities. Clarissa Pinkola Estes has
described his latest book, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life as
“contain[ing] the writing of a gentle and insightful soul who does not bog down
in analytical dryness, but speaks to and teaches from the heart.” Stephen
Dunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, attests that “James Hollis is the most lucid
thinker I know about the complexities and complexes that interfere with living a
full life. His broad background in literature, philosophy, and Jungian
psychology is everywhere present in this important book, which, as it strips
away illusions, posits the soul-work that’s necessary for the difficult task of
making our lives meaningful. He’s one of our great teachers and healers.”
Please join us for two fine presentations focusing on Dr. Hollis’ latest book.
James Hollis, Ph.D.,
is a Diplomate of the Jung Institute
in Zurich. He has practiced as an analyst in Philadelphia and in Linwood,
New Jersey, and is presently Executive Director of The Jung Center in Houston,
Texas. A former professor of humanities, he is the author of nine books on
Jungian psychology and in great demand internationally as a speaker on the
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FRIDAY EVENING LECTURE
Finding Meaning in the
Second Half of Life
Finding meaning in the second half of life requires asking larger
questions of ourselves, and challenging our values. To ask
these questions three things are requisite: that we recover a
sense of personal authority, that we strike a better balance between
obligation to others and obligation to self, and that we construct a
more mature spirituality. How do we recover our lives, grow
as persons, and become increasingly at home with the person we are
becoming?
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SATURDAY SEMINAR
Finding Meaning in the
Second Half of Life
We can never be free to create our lives if we are in service to fixed,
internalized, and largely unconscious ideas. We will
engage questions which stir, sift, and raise consciousness of
these deeply ingrained “ideas” which autonomously govern our lives.
With increased consciousness comes increased possibility of the recovery
of a more authentic journey. Please bring a pad and pen for
journaling.
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Seminars
and Lectures

Friday Evening Lecture:
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
by James Hollis
October 14, 2005
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
This lecture
available
CD!
First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Friends/Early Registrants, by Oct. 1 - $10
All Others - $15
Finding meaning in the second half of
life requires asking larger questions of ourselves, and challenging our values.
To ask these questions three things are requisite: that we recover a sense
of personal authority, that we strike a better balance between obligation to
others and obligation to self, and that we construct a more mature spirituality.
How do we recover our lives, grow as persons, and become increasingly at home
with the person we are becoming?
More on James Hollis
Saturday Seminar:
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
by James Hollis
October 15, 2005
9:30 A.M. until 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Friends/Early Registrants, by Oct. 1-$65
All Others - $75 (Lunch included in fee)
We can never be free to create
our lives if we are in service to fixed, internalized, and largely unconscious
ideas. We will engage questions which stir, sift, and raise consciousness of
these deeply ingrained “ideas” which autonomously govern our lives. With
increased consciousness comes increased possibility of the recovery of a more
authentic journey. Please bring a pad and pen for journaling.
More on James Hollis
The second half of life presents a rich possibility for spiritual enlargement,
for we are never going to have greater powers of choice, never have more lessons
of history from which to learn, and never possess more emotional resilience,
more insight into what works for us and what does not, or a deeper, sometimes
more desperate, conviction of the importance of getting our life back. We are
already survivors, and that counts for a lot. How, or even whether, we finally
use these accumulated strengths to redeem our life from our history will count
for even more.
….Being psychological means being responsible for questioning surfaces until the
energic sources beneath are revealed; being modern means being wholly
responsible for meaning, choice, conduct. We are here such a short time. Before
we depart, it would be nice to think that we are reconnected with our journey,
that we found our myth again, the one truly worth serving. The emergent myth
from amid the psychopathology of daily life is already forming in the dream you
will dream tonight, in the intuition that comes to you at the hour of the wolf,
and in the mystery that is forever renewing itself through the life of each of
us.
….Finding a mature spirituality will only occur when we internalize the fact
that our egos are only a small part of a larger mystery. It is a mystery at work
outside of us, in the cosmos, in nature, in other people, and in ourselves as
well. We are called to ask serious, more courageous questions of ourselves, for
without these probing questions, we will simply fall back into the old patterns,
which work neither for us nor for our culture…A mature spirituality requires a
mature individual. A mature spirituality already lies within each of us, in our
potential to take on the mystery as it comes to us, to query it, to risk change
and growth, and to continue the revisioning of our journey for so long as we
live. It remains to be seen how ready we are to take the step toward this
responsibility for personal authority. That is an appointment that each of us is
called to keep.
--James Hollis
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
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The
Dangers of Avoiding Aphrodite:
Sexual Aridity and Addictions
by Francesca Ferrentelli, Ph.D.
Friday, September 23,
2005
7:00– 9:00 P.M.
This lecture available CD!
First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Friends
& Registrants by Sept. 9 - $10
Others - $15
Individuals with addictions,
particularly eating disorders, avoid Aphrodite, the goddess of love and desire.
Their weight and/or body image issues make them feel invisible, flawed, or
unworthy. Consequently they fear showing their beauty and/or allowing expression
of their desire. For some, their avoidance is due to childhood sexual trauma.
For others it is about feelings of inadequacy. Sometimes they desire sex and
love but avoid it due to shame about their bodies. Sometimes they are willing to
express themselves sexually, but are rejected by potential partners due to their
weight. Aphrodite hates to be ignored! When she is rejected, sexual desire can
be acted out with food, as food becomes the lover. This lecture focuses on
identifying ways that Aphrodite is ignored, what happens when she get angry, and
how individuals can invite her back into their lives.
Francesca
Ferrentelli is a psychotherapist, mythologist, and storyteller. She received
her doctorate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2003.
Her doctoral dissertation explores gastric bypass surgery through the myth of
Dionysus. Dr. Ferrentelli has been working with eating disorders since 1991. She
lectures widely on eating disorders, psychological issues, mythology, and
archetypal psychology. She has presented for the American Society of Bariatric
Surgeons, the Association of Sleep and Dreams, and the International Association
of Eating Disorders Professionals.
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Archetypal Astrology:
Healing Language for the 21st Century
by Laurence Hillman Astrologer & Author
Friday, November 18, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC -
Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 -
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Friends
& Registrants by Nov. 4 - $10
Others - $15
We live in a time where moderate religion is fading and yet answers to life’s
big questions remain. Archetypal astrology can address core issues about human
nature. It blends philosophy, spirituality, and psychology into a penetrating
worldview. In this lecture we will get an introduction to this way of thinking.
Drawing on traditional concepts from astrology and Jungian psychology we will
adapt both to modern times. We will find answers to very practical and personal
questions and explore a rewarding personal path. Using language from the theatre
will increase our insights and give us a set of tools to express archetypal
patterns we live out every day. In this worldview the planets become actors on
our inner stage. While Jung postulated a certain set of archetypes present in
all, this lecture will expand on this notion. Going back to Plato’s cave
metaphor, the astrological planets become core “ideas” that exist in all but are
expressed personally according to our ancestry, culture, biological inheritance
and general environment. The platonic “ideas” become archetypal patterns that
can be read in a person by understanding their birth chart. This provides us
with a tremendous tool for human understanding and for grasping the complexities
of our inner life in relationship to the outer circumstances we find ourselves
in daily.
Born and
raised in Zurich, Switzerland, Laurence Hillman is a full-time
astrologer, teacher and lecturer. He has been a professional astrologer for
nearly 30 years. Laurence has lectured internationally, conducted workshops in
the Globe Theatre in London, and has taught at Jean Houston’s Mystery School. He
is the author of numerous articles and the co-author of Alignments – How to Live
in Harmony with the Universe. His forthcoming book is Archetypal Astrology – How
to Re-imagine Your Life. Laurence lives in St. Louis, has an MBA, a Master’s in
Engineering Management, and a degree in Architecture. He is the son of James
Hillman, world-renowned psychological scholar.
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Study Groups

Alchemy, An Introduction to the Symbolism
and the Psychology by Ellen Sheire
9 Mondays (Sep. 5,19/Oct. 3,10, 31/Nov.
14,28/Dec. 5,12)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text: Alchemy, An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology,
by Marie-Louise von Franz, Toronto: Inner City Books, 1980.
Limited to 14 registrants
Friends, $95
All others, $105
Deirdre Bair's biography of C. G. Jung presents Jung's own quote that the study
of Alchemy "...was the bridge that led from Gnosticism to Christianity" and that
it gave his psychology an historical ground because modern dreams still have
Alchemical symbols. Dr. von Franz's book contains nine lectures she delivered,
together with 34 illustrations, on the origins and development of Alchemy over
the centuries and shows how its tradition was far more than just a precursor to
modern chemistry.
This reading
group will cover the entirety of Dr. von Franz’s book in the fall semester.
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. Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood. Regarding CEUs: See
box for details. You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549
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The
Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Sandy Cooper
7 Wednesdays (Sep. 14,28/Oct.
12,26/Nov.9,30/Dec. 14)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text: The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
1992.
Limited to 10 registrants
Friends,
$75
All others, $85
Want to be en-riched, en-kindled,
en-lightened, and em-boldened? Many people are amazed at what unfolds within
them as they work through Julia Cameron's beautiful book, The Artist's Way.
Her central premise is that we are ALL artists and that creativity is a
spiritual experience. The more we open ourselves to our Higher Power, the
more profusely we create. Jungian analyst and author, John Giannini, was
so taken with Cameron's material when she began giving workshops that he spread
the word wherever he lectured.
The class will cover the first half of
The Artist's Way this fall, and plan to finish the second half in the
spring.
Sandy Cooper
has an M.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and
an M.A. in Pastoral Studies from Aquinas Institute of Theology. She has
worked as an English teacher, spiritual director, and hospital chaplain, and for
the past three years has been immersed in Jungian studies and activities.
Class limit
of 10. Classes will be held in a home in the Clayton/Ladue area. Regarding CEUs:
See box for details. You may contact Sandy Cooper at
(314) 993-0874.
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Jung's
Complex Theory
by Rose Holt
8
Thursdays (Sep. 8,22/Oct. 6,20/Nov. 3,17/Dec. 1,15)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text: Drawn from Jung’s Collected Works and provided by the instructor.
Materials fee - $10 (additional to cost of study group).
Limited to 10 Registrants
Friends, $95
All others, $105
This Fall-Winter Jung Readings
Course will be devoted to the topic of the complex.
Understanding of Jung’s discoveries and writings about the complex theory can be
of great help in personal development and self-understanding. We will
explore Jung’s early experimental work that led to his discovery of the complex
as well as Jung’s later writings that more fully describe and map various
complexes.
Rose Holt,
a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and
Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
Class limit
of 10. Classes will be held in a home in University City. To augment the
seven meetings, participants will have access to a shared weblog for additional
discussion/dialogue.
Regarding CEUs:
See box for details. You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 740-6207.
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Exploring the Animus through Art-making
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman
4 Tuesdays: 7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
(10/18,25; 11/1,8)
Friends, $55 - includes $10 materials fee
All others, $65 - includes $10 materials fee
No previous art experience is
required. Class limit of 6.
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Jung often instructed
his patients to draw their dreams and imagery. In this series participants will
visually explore their (female) relationship with their inner Masculine, the
Animus, to in order to better understand and relate to this constellation of
energy. Some of the functions of the inner Masculine are to provide discipline,
energy, courage, and determination. This will be an experiential art-making
group in which participants will produce their own imagery using media and
methods which encourage the intuitive function. Our goal is dialogue with the
image, not “art-making”. No previous art experience is required. Class limit of
6. Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End. You may contact
Deborah Stutsman at (314) 361-1120.
Deborah Stutsman,
ATR-BC, LPC, (Board- certified Art Therapist/Licensed Professional Counselor)
has a private practice and contracts with the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine
Psychology and Religion Program.
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Workshops and Lectures

Seminar: Jung and Synchronicity
Presented by Ellen
Sheire,
Saturday, February 19, 9:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Have you ever experienced
events or unlikely coincidences that you could not dismiss as simply a fluke,
chance, or luck? Synchronistic events may occur in our lives when we say, “Oh,
that was a funny coincidence”, or when we dream of meeting someone and run into
to them the very next day, or when we travel to another city, sit in a
restaurant we have never been in before, except…. we were there in a dream we
had two weeks ago.
The first portion of this
seminar will be devoted to the telling of stories, the sharing of participants’
experiences of awe-inspiring coincidental events, or what William James has
called “the blooming buzzing” of connection to the unity of life that lies at
the heart of synchronicity.
Following this, Ellen
Sheire will examine the phenomenon which C.G. Jung first identified and termed
“synchronicity” to describe meaningful coincidences that conventional notions of
time and causality do not explain. Before Jung, in a mechanistically-understood
world shaped by Newtonian physics of predictable cause and effect, where
coincidences were discounted as mere chance events, there was no word or even
concept to describe this fascinating phenomenon. Ellen will present the works of
Jung and the physicist Pauli, as well as those of noted scientists Paul
Kammerer, Werner Heisenberg and David Bohm. Special attention will be given to
perplexing coincidences that haunted Jung in his own life and in his consulting
room.
Please bring your own lunch, or plan to go out for a snack. CEUs available for
additional fee of $15.
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.
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A
Lecture & Workshop
On Family Karma
With Boris Matthews
Lecture: “Family Karma: The
Blessings and Burdens of Our Ancestors”
Presented by Boris Matthews, Ph.D.
Friday, March 18, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
In the book he recently published with Ashok
Bedi, M.D., Boris Matthews recounts how the death of his maternal grandmother
thirty-five years before he was born fundamentally shaped his sense of his own
masculinity. An ancestral event was a formative factor beyond his control or
influence. Dr. Matthews was heir to an ancestral burden.
To one degree or another, we are all heirs to
ancestral blessings and burdens. One middle-class woman, for example, felt
compelled to work with pregnant teens. Dreams helped her to understand that her
work with these children from inner city ghetto families was directly related to
the dire conditions her immigrant ancestors struggled with several generations
before she was born.
In his Friday night lecture, Dr. Matthews will
illustrate several instances of family karma—our ancestors’ choices, their
actions, and the consequences—that impact their progeny. In the second part of
his talk, he will discuss a number of ways we can begin to identify and mitigate
the coercive ancestral blessings and burdens we have inherited.
Workshop: “Breaking the
Bonds of Family Karma:
What We Need to Actualize our Innate Potential as Human Beings”
Presented by Boris Matthews, Ph.D.
Saturday, March 19, 9:30 – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Throughout the course of our life, three
relationship-based experiences are crucial for actualizing our innate potential
that usually is skewed by long-standing family patterns. These are the Mirror, the
Ideal and the Twin. We may experience the mirror,
the ideal and the twin differently at each stage of life.
The Mirror tells us who we are; the Ideal shows us what to strive
for; the Twin companions us on the way. How each of these “authors” of our life
story fulfills his essential role empowers or handicaps us.
In the workshop, Dr. Matthews will first review the concept of
family karma: the idea that we are the heirs—for better or worse—of our
ancestors’ choices and actions. Then he will illustrate each of the three
relationship patterns individually. Through individual exercises and sharing,
we will explore our experiences of being mirrored, being attracted by an ideal,
and joining with a soul-twin. Identifying how mirroring, idealizing and
twinning have functioned in our lives reveals both how we got to where we are in
life and what has handicapped us.
Participants in the workshop will:
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Better understand the formative influences
in their lives,
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More clearly recognize what has discouraged
development of innate potentials,
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Gain confidence in more fully realizing
their true selves.
Suggested reading: Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Patterns and
Find Your Soul Path, by Ashok Bedi, M.D. and Boris Matthews, Ph.D.
CEUs available for additional fee of $15.
Boris Matthews practices psychotherapy and Jungian
psychoanalysis in Madison, Wisconsin, as a member of the Samaritan Counseling
Center staff. Dr. Matthews trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago where
he is now a senior analyst on the faculty of the Analyst Training Program. He
has published many translations of German texts on Jungian psychoanalysis, as
well as edited work for colleagues. Recently he co-authored Retire Your
Family Karma.
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Lecture:
Fool’s Goal, Fool’s Gold
Presented by Sheldon Culver
Friday, April Fools Day (1st), 7:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
“The Fool”, annual object of attention on April 1, is a strange character in the
world of story, myth and fairy tale. Depicted as the youngest son, or a village
“idiot”, a court jester, or just simply an innocent soul, fools bear significant
roles for the rest of the community. Their antics and misadventures provide
amusement. Their naïveté allows us to appear knowingly superior. Their
tendency to become the butt of cruel jokes makes them scapegoats for society’s
blindness. Their vulnerability permits us to project our personal and cultural
folly onto them. But the fool holds a place in the psyche that is critical to
both personal and collective well-being.
This lecture will explore how fools,
embodying the inferior and undeveloped aspects of the self, can serve to free us
from the blinders of egotism and arrogance, and open us up to deep inner
wisdom. Fool’s goal may be to lead us to true “fool’s gold”.
Sheldon Culver,
Ph.D., is both a Jungian analyst with a private practice in St. Louis and an
ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She trained with the
Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.
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A Lecture
& Workshop:
On Dionysus and the Feminine
with Deldon McNeely
Lecture and Workshop:
Archetypes of Relatedness: Dionysus & the Feminine
Presented by Deldon McNeely, Ph.D.
Friday, April 29, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M. Lecture
Saturday, April 30, 9:30 A.M. -- 3:30 P.M. Workshop
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
The
myth of Dionysus and Ariadne provokes powerful images which open concerns and
questions about intimate relationships. For us in the 21st century
those concerns are very much alive, and much about intimacy remains a mystery.
We are well informed about lust and the mechanics of sex, but are still evolving a
capacity to form lasting and satisfying bonds of love, beginning with our own
bodies and extending to those closest to us and to our neighbors, and especially
to our enemies. How do we prepare ourselves and our children for intimate
relationships? What psychological barriers to trust and constancy can we
eliminate? How do we recognize & meet destructive behavior?
How do we maintain constructive attitudes toward
loss and separation? How are our Anima and Animus projections affecting our
relationships? Neuroscience is giving us much new information about brain and
heart; how can we keep brain and heart in sync to the benefit of both?
The lecture
will speak to this topic through images of Dionysus, a god of intimacy and
passion, as well as through the insights of depth psychology and other sciences.
The workshop
will allow participants to be engaged with questions raised by intimacy. The
workshop will include a slide/music meditation on Dionysus, experiential
exercises, and a discussion of material raised in the group. Participants
should wear comfortable clothing for movement, and bring with them some written
topic or question expressing their concerns about intimate relationship to be
put into a hat for discussion. CEUs will be available for an additional fee of
$15.
Deldon Anne McNeely
is a diplomate in Clinical Psychology with a
Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. She studied at the Jung Institute in
Zurich and graduated in the USA from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian
Analysts, where she now serves in their training program. She is on the staff
of the New Orleans Seminar in Jungian Psychology and is a patron to the Baton
Rouge Jung Society. She participates in training psychotherapists in the Center
for Individual and Social Therapies (known as ZIST) in Penzberg, Germany. Dr.
McNeely was trained in dance and body therapies by Malcolm Brown, Gabrielle
Roth, Carolyn Fay and others, has been interested in group and couples therapy,
and was active in training group therapists before beginning analytic study.
Her books include Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology, Animus
Aeternus: Images of the Inner Masculine, and Mercury Rising: Women, Evil
and the Trickster Gods.
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Study Groups

A
Study of Psychological Types - Part II Presented by Ellen Sheire
6 Mondays (Jan. 24/Feb.7,21/Mar.7,21/Apr.4)
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Special Note; The selection of text for this group
has recently changed.
Text:
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
by Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers
C. G. Jung published his study of
Psychological Types in 1921 and
thereafter many people became ac-quainted with Jung’s intuitive vision that four
functions of psychic activity - sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition – are
the dominant modes of consciousness.
Please read chapter
one in preparation for the first session.
Class limit of 14. Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood. You may contact
Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.
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.
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The
Complex Heart of Jung
Presented by Sheldon Culver
5 consecutive Tuesdays (Feb. 15, 22/Mar. 1, 8, 15)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text: To be supplied by analyst
At the heart of Carl Jung’s original and
transformational work is his exploration of the “complex”. In order to begin to
grasp the complexities of Jung’s opus we have to grapple with the complexes that
grasp us. This seminar will focus on Jung’s Complex Theory: how he first
recognized the power of complexes in psyche’s process, the basic structure of
complexes, how they interface with consciousness, and the personal and
collective aspects of the unconscious. Participants will be encouraged to
identify the dynamic, destructive (and sometimes delightful) dimensions of
psyche’s complex activity. Readings will focus on chapters in “The Collected
Works”, volumes 7, 8 and 9.
Class limit of 8. You may
contact Sheldon Culver at (314) 533-6850.
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
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“Readings in Jung” Answer to Job
Presented by Rose Holt
8 Thursdays (Feb. 3,17/Mar. 3/24/Apr. 7,21/May 5,19)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text: Answer to Job, by C. G.
Jung
This readings class will take up a topic and a book that Jung felt especially
passionate about—suffering and how it relates to our image and presuppositions
about God.
Answer to Job
is a gripping and somewhat controversial work. Jung’s view of the nature of God
as depicted in the Biblical text Job was so unorthodox that it cost him
the friendship of one of his closest collaborators.
In our class we will consider Jung’s views about Job as well as Jung’s more
general views on the relationship between religion and psychology.
Class limit of 10. Classes will be held in a home in University City. To
augment the seven meetings, participants will have access to a shared weblog for
additional discussion/dialogue. You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 740-6207.
Rose Holt,
a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and
Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
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A Study in Dream Interpretation
Presented by Shirley Fontenot
8 Wednesdays (Feb.2,16/Mar.2,23/Apr. 6,20/May 4,18)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text: Dreams, A Portal to the Source, by Edward C. Whitmont and Sylvia Perera
“The dream is a little
hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into
that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness,
and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.” (CW,
10, para. 304)
In this study group we
will approach this “hidden door” and explore ways of discovering the richness
that awaits us and reveals itself to us in symbolic form. We will do this
through study and discussion of the material presented in this text and in doing
so enhance our ability to explore our own dreams as well as, for those who are
therapists, to work more effectively with dreams of clients. Although this text
was written primarily as an introductory guidebook for therapists who seek to
integrate a basic approach to dream interpretation into their clinical practice,
it is also a rich resource and very useful for those who appreciate the
significance of dreams and seek a deeper understanding of them.
Class limit of 10.
Classes will be held in a home in University City. You may contact
Shirley Fontenot at (314) 740-0105.
Shirley Fontenot,
D.Min., a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, is a Jungian
analyst practicing in St. Louis and Chicago.
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Exploring the Shadow through Art-making
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman
5 consecutive Tuesdays (Mar. 29/Apr. 5,12,19, 26)
7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Carl Jung often instructed his patients to draw their dreams and fantasy
imagery. “Shadow” is all that is instinctive and as yet unseen in us, that which
asks to be absorbed into consciousness in order to bridge the opposites. Giving
tangible form to our inner images and feelings allows psyche to “see” herself, a
process which can promote insight and growth.
This series will be a hands-on, playful, experiential art-making group in which
participants will explore their own imagery through media which encourage the
intuitive function. It is not about making “art” in the traditional sense, and
no previous art experience is required. Class limit of 8. Classes will be
held in a home in the Central West End. You may contact Deborah Stutsman at
(314) 361-1120.
Deborah Stutsman,
ATR-BC, LPC,
is a board certified Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor, who has
a private practice in St. Louis and contracts independently with the St. Louis
Behavioral Medicine Institute in their Psychology and Religion Intensive
Treatment Program.
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Jesus said “If you
bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will
destroy you.”
Translated from the
Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels

Where to
Purchase Texts
Texts for the study
groups may be purchased or ordered from your local bookseller.
If they are unavailable locally, they may
be ordered from the Chicago Jung Institute, 1567 Maple Ave., Evanston, Illinois
60201.
By phone at
(847) 475-4848, or contact their website at www.jungchicago.org.
A third source is the
Houston Jung Center at (713) 524-8253, Ext. 18, or
www.cgjunghouston.org

Continuing Education Credits
The C.G. Jung
Institute of Chicago has agreed to grant CEUs to participants in our programs
where both the program presenter and the program material meet their criteria.
Credits will be for Psychologists (APA), Licensed Clinical Social Workers,
Licensed Marriage and Family Counselors, and Licensed Clinical Professional
Counselors. Each local program presenter is responsible for obtaining course
approval, for collecting a $15 fee, and sending it to the Chicago Institute, and
for all communications with program participants regarding CEUs. The Institute
will mail CEU verification notices directly to participants. The St. Louis Jung
Society will make different arrangements regarding the presentations of speakers
from out of town.
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If the
individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either,
for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption.
—C.G. Jung, C.W.10

The whole
future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic
summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and
subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its
sufferers, but also its makers.
We make our epoch.
– C.G. Jung, CW 10
Fall/Winter 2004
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Workshops and Lectures

WORKSHOP
The Social Dream
Matrix:
Bringing Our Collective Wisdom Together
Presented by Carol Lark, Ph.D., ATR-BC, CGP,
and Deborah Stutsman, M.A., ATR-BC, LPC
Lecture & Matrix:
Friday, September 17, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Matrix & Art Making:
Saturday, September 18, 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
First
Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Early
Registration by Sept. 1
Fee includes both sessions
Friends/Early Registrants, $25
All others, $35
Sharing dreams is a traditional practice that dates to pre-recorded times.
While Western dream workers have often emphasized the personal symbolic elements
of dreams, indigenous peoples have utilized dream telling as a social necessity
for the collective good of the tribe (Wolf, 1994). Jung’s work conceptualized
the process of dream interpretation as a “delicate balance between the personal
and the collective”.
Social dreaming that draws on Jung’s theory in a contemporary context can serve
as a bridge between the individual and the larger organizational or cultural
unconscious. Gordon Lawrence has developed a specific form of social dreaming,
the Social Dream Matrix, which provides a “container for meaning” in which
members of a group construct meaning from their dreams, associations and
amplifications.
Our Social Dream Matrix will be constructed on behalf of the St. Louis Jung
Society in honor of its 10th Anniversary, in which container we will
hold the collective dreamtime of the participants on behalf of the larger
Jungian community. Participants will learn how to create a dream matrix in
which to share past and recent dreams, lucid dreaming, amplification and free
association in a free flowing process. While in the Matrix, there is no
analysis, commentary, questioning or direct response to each other’s dreams.
Friday evening the Social Dream Matrix will be established, and the first dreams
and images gathered. Participants are asked to make a commitment to attend
both the Friday and Saturday Dream Matrices. On Saturday morning, the
Matrix will convene again, followed by art making to amplify the dream
material. The group will end by discussing the emerging imagery and narratives
and their relationship to the dreaming group and the larger world, including the
Jung Society. The size of the Matrix contributes to its transpersonal,
universal quality; thus, this workshop welcomes larger numbers of participants.
Limit of 30.
Carol Lark
works clinically and expressively with adults, couples, and groups in
independent practice at The Art Therapy Center. She holds a doctorate in
Applied Psychology and Art Therapy from The Union Institute, and teaches for SIU-Edwardsville,
St. Mary of the Woods College, IN, and GWB School of Social Work, St. Louis.
She has convened the Social Dream Matrix in a variety of settings, including
Missouri Art Therapy Association, the Toronto Centre for Psycho-drama and
Sociometry, and in a variety of teaching settings.
Deborah Stutsman
is a Board Certified, Regis-tered Art Therapist and Licensed Professional
Counselor who works in private practice, and contracts as art therapist for the
Program for Psychology and Religion, an intensive treatment program for
Religious, at the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute. She serves as the
current President of the Board of the C.G. Jung Society of Saint Louis. She
holds a masters degree in Art Therapy from SIU-Edwardsville, and is a practicing
artist.
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TWO
SPECIAL LECTURE EVENTS
The Spiral Journey:
Images of Remedios Varo’s Journey Toward Wholeness
Presented by Mary Wells
Barron, M.A., M.B.A., M.I.M.
Friday, November 5, 7:30 – 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Fee for each event:
Friends/Early Registrants, $10
All others, $15
This lecture explores the
archetypal images of the extraordinary artist, Remedios Varo, who painted her
story of individuation. Her work reveals a uniquely feminine perspective of the
alchemical process of transformation. Varo was trained in classical and
surrealist art, but her magical images are wholly unique. They reflect her deep
rapport with the archetypal world which she expresses with the detail of a
medieval miniature and the sensibility of a woman attuned to a profound
understanding of the soul.
In her
art the theory of correspondences – that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm –
is a visual reality. The imaginal world Varo creates captivates with the
jewel-like quality of a Book of Hours, yet is utterly a reflection of a modern
woman’s inner journey towards the experience of her fuller, deeper identity.
Jung called this the process of Individuation.
Remedios Varo’s extraordinary visual document of
her psychological journey even includes a painting entitled Leaving the
Psychoanalyst’s Office, which shows the initials FJA for Freud, Jung
and Adler inscribed on the office door’s bronze plaque.
Breaking
of the Vessels:
Destruction & Creation In the Art of Anselm Kiefer;
Art, Alchemy & Terrorism
Presented by Mary Wells
Barron, M.A., M.B.A., M.I.M.
Saturday, November 6, 11:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Fee for each event:
Friends/Early Registrants, $10
All others, $15
The contemporary German
artist Anselm Kiefer ranks as one of the greatest artists of our century.
Kiefer’s art is not about alchemy; it is alchemical, for it gives
us images that can transform consciousness. This lecture will explore numerous
Kiefer paintings as well as his masterpiece, the extraordinary sculpture Breaking of the Vessels, the title of which refers to the creation story of
Jewish mystical tradition found in the Kabbalah.
Kiefer’s work can be said
to dismember and recreate the myths of western civilization in physical form so
that they may be reborn and renewed in our cultural consciousness. He invites
us to wrestle with the “terror of history” and with our personal and collective
shadows through works of art that revolutionize our concept of art itself. At
the millennium, Kiefer’s work calls us to acknowledge the irrational forces that
have shaped the twentieth century and, indeed, all of history.
Mary Wells Barron
is a Jungian analyst in private practice in St. Louis. She received her training
at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, and is a member of the
training committee of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, for which
she teaches and serves on the Admissions Committee. She has lectured in the
United States and Europe on art and psychology, recently presenting at the
“Creativity and Madness Conference” in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently
working on a manuscript for publication, Alchemical Art, on the power of
art to transform patterns of human thought and behavior. Ms. Barron has a
special interest in the healing power of images and in the body as a voice of
the soul.
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back by popular demand!
A Lecture and seminar
WITH Linda Leonard
Witness to the Fire:
Creativity & the Veil of
Addiction
Lecture
presented by Linda Leonard
Friday, November 19, 7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
First
Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Friends/Early Registrants, $10
All Others, $15
Linda Leonard
follows the creative path in all areas of her work – teaching, therapy and
writing. In this evening lecture she will focus on the archetypal patterns
underlying addiction, and their relationship to the crucible of creativity. She
will also examine the Demon Lover of addiction and the Creative Diamon
along with images of the creative process that parallel the 12-step program
of recovery from addiction.
Film and the Language of the
Unconscious
Seminar
presented by Linda Leonard
Saturday, November 20, 9:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
First
Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Friends/Early Registrants, $65
All others, $75 (includes lunch)
Could films be the fairy
tales of our time? In this seminar we will look at the medium of film to
explore how movies can reveal different aspects of the psyche, both of
individuals and of cultures. Working with films, like working with dreams and
fairy tales, illuminates psychological dynamics within the psyche, relationships
and culture. Film clips will be presented as examples for working with dreams,
visions and character analysis. This seminar is planned to coincide with the
St. Louis Film Festival.
Linda
Schierse Leonard, Ph.D., is an internationally known Jungian analyst trained
in Zurich and a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian
Analysts. Her best-selling books include The Wounded Woman, On the
Way to the Wedding, Meeting the Madwoman, The Call to Create,
and Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction. She has
taught philosophy at California State University, San Diego and at the
University of Colorado, Denver, specializing in existentialism, phenomenology,
philosophy in literature, and courses in creativity and the arts. Currently,
she is working on a book dealing with film and psychology.
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Study Groups

A Study of Psychological
Types - Part I Presented by Ellen Sheire
8 Mondays (Sep. 6,20/Oct. 4,18/Nov. 1,15,29/Dec.
13)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text:
Personality Types: Jung’s Model of Typology,
by Daryl Sharp, and Compass of the Soul: Archetypal Guides to a Fuller
Life, by John L. Giannini.
C. G. Jung published his study of
Psychological Types in 1921 and
thereafter many people became acquainted with Jung’s intuitive vision that four
functions of psychic activity - sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition – are
the dominant modes of consciousness. Daryl Sharp’s study presents a concise
overview of Jung’s discoveries.
The theory of psychological types took hold in the United States when the
”Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) developed into an assessment instrument
measuring the psychic functions. John Giannini’s book (2004) bridges from his
own over 20 years experience and research, the two worlds of type, that of the
Jungian analyst and the MBTI practitioner.
Class limit of 14. Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood.
Regarding CEUs:
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for details. You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.
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A Comprehensive Study of
the Professional and Private Life of Dr. Carl Jung - Part I
Presented by Ellen Sheire
8 Mondays (Sep. 13,27/Oct.11,25/Nov. 8,22/Dec.
6,20)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text:
Jung: A Biography,
by Deirdre Bair
The reading
group will slowly read and discuss Bair’s lengthy biography, published in 2003.
Her book jacket states the following: “Now, National Book Award-winning
biographer Deidre Bair draws on new research into untapped sources to reveal the
father of analytical psychology as we have never seen him before...[She has had]
unprecedented access to private archives, restricted interviews, analytical
diaries, and early drafts of Jung’s own writings…No apologist for her subject,
Bair paints an engrossing, objective, and very human portrait of the
controversial genius. The result is a groundbreaking, authoritative, and
thoroughly readable work that promises to be the source for future discussion…”
Class limit of 14. Classes
will be held in a home in Kirkwood. Regarding CEUs:
Click here
for details.
for details. You may
contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.
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.
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Women Who Run With the Wolves-Part II
Presented by Sheldon
Culver
7 Wednesdays(Sep.
8,22/Oct. 6,20/Nov.3,17,24)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text:
Women Who Run With the Wolves,
Ch. 9-15, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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 is a continuation of a
Spring, 2004 study group, and will cover the last seven chapters of the text,
engaging images of Psyche’s journey that may help restore the feminine to its
place in the balance of life. It is not necessary to have attended Part I.
Class limit of 10. Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End. Regarding CEUs:
Click here
for details. You may contact
Sheldon Culver at (314) 533-6850.
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.
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"Readings
in Jung”
Exploring Jung’s Mysterium
Presented by Rose Holt
7 Thursdays (Sep. 9,23/Oct. 7,28/Nov. 11/Dec.
2,16)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text:
The Mysterium Lectures, A Journey through C.G. Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis,
by Edward F. Edinger.
In this course, we will explore one of Jung’s more difficult books, his
Mysterium Coniunctionis, which is considered his greatest work and
represents the culmination of all his thinking. As our text, we will use Edward
Edinger’s The Mysterium Lectures, A Journey through C.G. Jung’s Mysterium
Coniunctionis, which makes Jung’s ideas a little more accessible.
This course will be difficult and the reading often vexing and
incomprehensible. Participants need to be familiar with Jung’s basic theories
and/or have completed other “Readings in Jung” courses. Our goal will be more
to develop an appreciation for Jung’s depth of insight and its applicability for
our self-exploration than to understand this magnificent work. As is always the
case, attendees will come away with many more fruitful questions than definitive
answers.
Class limit of 10. Classes will be held in a home in University City.
Regarding CEUs:
Click here
for details. To augment the seven meetings, participants will have access
to a shared weblog for additional discussion/dialogue. You may contact Rose
Holt at (314) 740-6207.
Rose Holt,
a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and
Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
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Empowerment of Women as Seen in Film
Presented by Shirley
Fontenot
6 Thursdays (Sep.
16,30/Oct. 14/Nov. 4,18, Dec. 9)
7:00 – 10:00 P.M.
In her book
Truth or Dare,
Starhawk describes three types of power: power-over, which is linked to
domination and control; power-within, which is linked to the mysteries
that awaken our deepest abilities and potential; and power-with, which is
social power, the influence we wield among equals. This study group will
explore the roots of these three expressions of power, focusing on power-from-within, or
empowerment, and some of the issues women face
in this arena. The vehicle for our exploration will be film. Each session will
consist of a brief introduction, viewing of the film, reflection and discussion.
“Whale Rider” – empowerment in childhood
“Joy Luck Club” – mother to daughter empowerment
“No Voyager” – overcoming the disempowerment of
the negative mother
“Fried Green Tomatoes” – empowerment through the
crone, story and relationship
“Dangerous Beauty” – power within severely
limited choices
“Chocolat” – empowerment through acceptance
without judgment
Class limit of 10. Classes will be held in a
home in University City. Regarding CEUs:
Click here
for details. You may
contact Shirley Fontenot at (314)740-0105.
Shirley Fontenot, D.Min., a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of
Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis and Chicago.
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Where to
Purchase Texts
Texts for the study
groups may be purchased or ordered from your local bookseller.
If they are unavailable locally, they may
be ordered from the Chicago Jung Institute, Evanston, Illinois, by phone at
(847) 475-4848, or contact their website at www.jungchicago.org.
A third source is the
Houston Jung Center at (713) 524-8253, Ext. 18, or
www.cgjunghouston.org

Continuing Education Credits
The C.G. Jung
Institute of Chicago has agreed to grant CEUs to participants in our programs
where both the program presenter and the program material meet their criteria.
Credits will be for Psychologists (APA), Licensed Clinical Social Workers,
Licensed Marriage and Family Counselors, and Licensed Clinical Professional
Counselors. Each local program presenter is responsible for obtaining course
approval, for collecting a $15 fee, and sending it to the Chicago Institute, and
for all communications with program participants regarding CEUs. The Institute
will mail CEU verification notices directly to participants. The St. Louis Jung
Society will make different arrangements regarding the presentations of speakers
from out of town.
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Winter/Spring 2004

Lectures/Workshops

2
Events with Dr. James Hollis
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Under Saturn's Shadow - Friday Evening Lecture
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January 9, 2004
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Kirkwood United Methodist Church
201 West Adams
Kirkwood, MO
(one block west of Kirkwood Rd.)
Friends of Society - $10
Kansas City Friends of Jung - $10
Early Registrants (by Dec. 15) - $10
All Others - $15
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In Search of
the Magical Other - Saturday Seminar
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January 10, 2004
9:30 A.M. until 3:30 P.M.
Kirkwood United Methodist Church
201 West Adams
Kirkwood, MO
(one block west of Kirkwood Rd.)
Friends of Society - $65
Kansas City Friends of Jung - $65
Early Registrants (by Dec.15) - $65
All Others - $75
Lunch is included. Vegetarian by request.
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Multi-Session Programs

Readings in Jung’s Analytical Psychology
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Presented by Rose Holt
8 Thursdays (Jan. 8,22/Feb.5,19/Mar. 4,25/Apr. 15,29)
Text: Analytical Psychology: Notes on the Seminar Given in 1925, ed. William McGuire, Princeton University Press, 1989; $19.95.
Our text is material Jung presented in a series of 16 lectures from March through July of 1925. Members of the seminar, 27 in number, met Wednesday mornings at the Psychological Club in Zurich. Some members kept notes on Jung’s lectures and on the seminar discussions. This lively text is a verbatim transcript, compiled from various notes attendees kept. Jung’s method of presentation, captured in this text, is livelier and a good deal easier reading than his more formal writings.
While earlier study of C. G. Jung’s work would be helpful to participants, newcomers to Jung will be able to understand this text. (If anyone desires, the instructor will provide additional material to aid in study and understanding.) The group will meet at a residence in University City. Limit of 10.
Regarding CEUs: See notes below for details. You may contact Rose Holt at 314-740-6207.
Rose Holt, a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. She has taught in the Public Education Program and the Analyst Training Program of the Chicago Institute.
8 Thursdays
(1/8,22; 2/5,19; 3/4,25; 4/15,29)
Readings in Jung’s Psychology
Home in University City
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 PM
Friends, $85 - All others, $95
No early discount
Limited to 10 registrants
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
Witness to the Fire:
Creativity and the Veil of Addiction
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Presented by Ellen Sheire
8 Mondays (Jan. 12,26/Feb. 9,23/Mar. 8,22/Apr. 12,26)
Text: Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction, by Linda Leonard.
In the growing body of scientific knowledge about the disease of addiction, Dr. Leonard’s research is unique in its examination of the relationship between addiction and creativity. She does this by analyzing characters who come from the psyches of creative people/writers who were also addicts. In addition to the literary and personal portraits presented, Dr. Leonard masterfully weaves threads of meaning and insight, of faith and hope, all of which have survival value for those who are confronted with the processes of creativity and addiction.
For twenty years Ms. Sheire has specialized in the treatment of addictions utilizing the modality of the Twelve-Step Program as found in Alcoholics Anonymous. The group will meet at a residence in Kirkwood. Limit of 12.
Regarding CEUs: See notes below page for details. You may contact Ellen Sheire at 314-965-2549.
Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C. G. Jung Institute – Zurich in 1972. She presently has a private practice in St. Louis.
8 Mondays
(1/12,26; 2/9,23; 3/8,22; 4/12,26)
Witness to the Fire
Ellen Sheire
Home in Kirkwood
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 PM
Friends, $85
All others, $95 (no early discount)
Limited to 12 registrants
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
Women Who Run With the Wolves
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Presented by Sheldon Culver
8 Wednesdays
(Jan. 21 / Feb . 4, 18 / Mar. 3, 17, 31 / Apr. 14, 28)
Text: Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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 in Fall, 2004. Meetings will be held at a residence in the Central West End. Limit of 10.
Regarding CEUs: See notes below for details. You may contact Sheldon Culver at 314-533-6850.
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 did her analytical training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.
8 Wednesdays
(1/21; 2/4,18; 3/3,17,31; 4/14,28)
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Sheldon Culver
Home in Central West End
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 PM
Friends, $85
All others, $95 (no early discount)
Limited to 10 registrants
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
Active Imagination:
Exploration & Application
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Presented by Shirley Fontenot
6 Thursdays (Jan. 15,29/ Feb. 12,26/Mar. 11/Apr. 1)
Text: Analyst will provide handouts.
Recommended Readings:
Active Imagination, by Barbara Hannah
Jung on Active Imagination, ed. Joan Chodorow
The Old Wise Woman, by Rix Weaver
Active Imagination is a process for discovering and integrating elements of the Unconscious. It places us at the threshold between everyday awareness and the dream world. When invited, images from the dream world will reach out to meet us. Requiring openness and awareness, Active Imagination offers opportunities to dialogue with the images, figures, and forces that emerge, and in time, to come to terms with them.
Through lecture, discussion, and readings, the class will explore Jung’s discovery of this method, how theory arose from his personal experience, and its clinical implications and use for personal growth. There will be opportunities to experience active imagination and to give symbolic form to the experience through writing, dialogue, drawing or sand play. Meetings will be held at a residence in University City. Limit of 10.
Regarding CEUs: See notes below for details. You may contact Shirley Fontenot at 314-740-0105
Shirley Fontenot, D.Min., a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis and Chicago. Dr. Fontenot has taught in the Public Education Program of the Chicago Institute.
6 Thursdays
(1/15,29; 2/12,26; 3/11; 4/1)
Active Imagination
Shirley Fontenot
Office in University City
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 PM
Friends $65 - All others, $75
No early discount
Limited to 10 registrants
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies

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Continuing Education Credits
The C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago has agreed to grant CEUs to participants in our programs where both the program presenter and the program material meet their criteria. Credits will be for Psychologists (APA), Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Counselors, and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors. Each local program presenter is responsible for obtaining course approval, for collecting the $10 fee and sending it to the Chicago Institute, and for all communications with program participants regarding CEUs. The Society will make different arrangements regarding the presentations of speakers from out of town.
Fall/Winter 2003

Lectures/Workshops

Creative
Aging
A Workshop with Jacquelyn Mattfeld
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Sat., Sept. 20 – 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Friends/Early Registrants, $55
All Others, $65
Includes lunch-Vegetarian by request
Early Registration by September 1
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2 Events with Linda Leonard
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We
regret to announce that the Linda Leonard events have been cancelled due to a medical treatment that she is undergoing. We hope that we may be
lucky enough to reschedule this event for next fall (2004).
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Early registration by October 15
Fri, Nov. 14 – 7:30-9:30 PM
Witness to the Fire - Lecture
Friends/ Early Registrants, $10
All others, $15
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
.
Sat. Nov. 15 – 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
Film & the Language of the Unconscious - Seminar
Friends or Early Registrants, $65
All others, $75
Limited seating - Registration required
Includes lunch-Vegetarian by request
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Multi-Session Programs

Readings in Jung’s Analytical Psychology
Presented by Rose
Holt
Text:
Two Essays in Analytical Psychology,
Vol. 7 of Jung’s Collected
Works. Available in paperback.
We will explore one of Jung’s
important and basic works in four parts:
Part I – Week 1:
Introduction
Part
II – Weeks 2-4: Psychoanalysis
Part III – Weeks 5-6:
The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious
Part IV – Week 7: Review
and Summary Discussion
While
earlier study of C. G. Jung’s work would be helpful to participants, newcomers
to Jung will be able to understand this text, which provides a comprehensive
overview of a good deal of Dr. Jung’s approach to psychology.
(If anyone desires, the instructor will provide additional material to
aid in study and understanding.) The group will meet at a residence in
University
City
.
Limit of 10.
CEU’s
are available for this course through the
C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago by individual arrangement with the analyst for
an additional fee of $10.00.
Rose Holt, a Jungian analyst
who divides her private practice between
St. Louis
and
Chicago
,
is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
Details:
7 Thursdays
(9/11,25; 10/9,23; 11/6,20; 12/4)
Readings in Jung’s Psychology
Rose Holt
Home in University City
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 PM
Friends, $75 - All others, $85
No early discount - Limited to 10
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
On
Divination and Synchronicity
Presented
by Ellen Sheire
Text:
On Divination,
by Marie-Louise von Franz
This reading group will explore the phenomenon which Dr. Carl Jung called
“synchronicity.” The text is a transcription of five lectures delivered by
Dr. von Franz at the C. G. Jung Institute,
Zurich
, in 1969.
Ellen Sheire attended these lectures.
Jung saw in synchronicity a clue to a marriage or unity between the
essence of human nature and the external world of reality.
Upon reading Dr. Richard Wilhelm’s translation of the Chinese body of
knowledge called the I Ching, Dr. Jung concluded that this work of wisdom
and divination provides one of the oldest known methods for grasping a situation
as a “whole” or unity. Ms.
Sheire will also present a brief introduction to the I Ching.
Ellen Sheire,
a
diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute in
Zurich , is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis.
Details:
6 Mondays
(9/22; 10/6,27; 11/10,24; 12/8)
On Divination and Synchronicity
Ellen Sheire
Home in Kirkwood
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 PM
Friends, $65
All others, $75 (no early discount)
Limited to 12 registrants
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
Memories,
Dreams, Reflections
Presented
by Ellen Sheire
Text:
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by C. G. Jung.
Translated by Richard & Clara Winston, Revised Edition, Vintage
Books, 1989.
It was only with great reluctance and at the urging of many friends and
colleagues that Dr. Jung agreed, near the end of his life, to write this
autobiographical account. He was
aided by his secretary and fellow analyst Aniela Jaffe and finished it shortly
before his death in 1961. By following his life through these chapters, the
reader is led through events where Dr. Jung simultaneously shares his inner
world of dreams, visions, and memories together with vivid descriptions of
events occurring in his outer life. In reading this work one gains an
appreciation for the profound depth and breadth to which he was able to examine
the human psyche.
Ellen Sheire, a diplomate of the
C. G. Jung Institute in
Zurich
, is a Jungian analyst practicing in
St. Louis.
Details:
6 Mondays
(9/8,29; 10/20; 11/3,17; 12/1)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Ellen Sheire
Home in Kirkwood
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 PM
Friends, $65
All others, $75 (no early discount)
Limited to 12 registrants
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
An Introduction to Sandtray Therapy
Presented by Shirley M. Fontenot
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 creative new channels in the promotion of psychological growth.
This course will consist of six class sessions in which the theory and practice of sandtray therapy will be taught. Through lectures, discussions, case presentations, and selected readings, the class 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, class participants will have the opportunity to do actual sandtrays during the six class sessions. Additionally, they will schedule additional meetings in pairs with the instructor at other times to be jointly determined.
The group will meet at an office in University City. The class will be limited to ten and is open to both therapists and
nontherapists.
The text for the course, Images of the Self by Estelle L. Weinrib, is available from the instructor for $16. CEU’s are available for this course through the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago for an additional fee of $10, by individual arrangement with the analyst.
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.
Details:
6 Tuesdays (9/9,23;10/7,21;11/4,18)
Introduction to Sandtray Therapy
Shirley Fontenot
Office in University City
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 PM
Friends $75 - All others, $85
No early discount – Limited to 10
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies

Fall Potluck Dinner and Film
Repeating a practice begun last autumn, we invite you to a potluck dinner and film showing to be held Friday, October 17, in the upstairs Social Hall of First Congregational Church,
UCC. You need bring nothing but a dish to add to the groaning board, along with your interest in Jungian psychology and, if you wish, a small donation to defer expenses.
Often it happens, along the path of life, that a person encounters the psychological concepts of C. G. Jung and finds that they fit into a developing world view or present a useful paradigm through which to examine the inner and outer worlds—only to have difficulty finding other persons who share this interest. Our dual purposes in inviting you to this dinner are to offer opportunities for you to meet such people and to encourage the growth of a larger and more vital Jungian community here, enabling the C. G. Jung Society of St. Louis to offer an increasingly varied selection of programs.
We are still in the process of selecting a film to show, but we assure you that it will relate to Jungian psychology and/or mythology. It will last approximately an hour and there will be time for discussion following the film. Please join us, feeling free either to join in the discussion or to sit quietly and listen. We do ask that, if possible, you make a reservation by Wednesday, October 15, to assure that we are prepared to make everyone comfortable.
Details:
Friday, October 17, 6:30-9:30 PM
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Suggested Donation at Door - $1
Bring a favorite food.
Courtesy Reservation by October 15
I have treated many old people and it’s quite interesting to watch what the unconscious is doing with the fact that it is apparently threatened with a complete end. It disregards it. Life behaves as if it were going on, and so I think it is better for an old person to live on, to look forward to the next day, as if he had to spend centuries, and then he lives properly. But when he is afraid, when he doesn’t look forward, he looks back, he petrifies, he gets stiff and he dies before his time; but when he’s living and looking forward to the great adventure that is ahead, then he lives, and that is about what the unconscious is intending to do.
C. G. Jung
Face to Face, BBC telecast, 1959
Winter / Spring 2003

If you have questions about the C. G. Jung
Society of St. Louis or any of our programs,
contact us by phone or E-mail.
Meeting Oneself At Midlife
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James Hollis
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Early registration by December 20
Fri, Jan. 10 – Lecture – 7-9 P.M.
Friends/ Early Registrants, $10
All others, $15
Register to reserve seat. Non-reserved seating, as available.
Sat. Jan. 11 – Workshop
9:00 A.M. – 2:30P.M.
Friends or Early Registrants, $65
All others, $75
Limited seating - Registration required
Includes lunch-Vegetarian by request
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies

Harry Potter: An
Archetypal Perspective
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Shirley Fontenot
Saturday, March 22
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
9:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Friends/Early registrants, $55
All others, $65
Includes lunch-Vegetarian by request
Early registration by March 1
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies

Multi-Session Programs

Readings in Jung’s Analytical Psychology
Presented by Rose Holt
This group will read and discuss the following selections from C. G. Jung’s works: “On the Nature of the Psyche,” “Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious,” “Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious,” and “On the Nature of Dreams.” These readings provide a conceptual foundation that is fruitful for someone working to understand Jung more deeply as well as for someone seeking a solid introduction to Jung’s thinking.
TEXT: The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung, Ed. Violet S. de Laszlo. Available locally or from the Chicago Jung Institute, (847) 476-4848 or (800) 697-7679, for $19.95.
CEU’s are available for this course through the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago by individual arrangement with the analyst for an additional fee of $10.00.
Rose Holt, a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
Details:
8 Thursdays (1/16,30; 2/20; 3/6,20; 4/3,24; 5/8)
Home in Central West End
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Friends, $85
All others, $95 (no early discount)
Limited to 10 registrants
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies

Exploring the Works of Edward Edinger
II
Presented by Ellen Sheire
Available again by popular request, this group will read and discuss both The Creation of Consciousness: Jung’s Myth for Modern Man and Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s “Answer to Job.” These are among the best loved works of an outstanding American Jungian analyst, the late Edward
Edinger, who explored the archetypal dimensions of religion and literature. Topics addressed will include the problem of evil and the dark side of God. Sessions will meet at a home in Kirkwood. Limit of 12.
TEXTS: The Edinger texts retail at $16 each, but are available through the Jung Society, postpaid, at the following rates:
Jung Society Friends: Two titles, $26; One title, $15
All others: Two titles, $30; One title, $17.
Ellen Sheire, a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis.
Details:
8 Mondays (Jan. 6,20; Feb. 3,17; Mar. 3,17,31; Apr. 7)
Home in Kirkwood
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Friends, $85
All others, $95 (no early discount)
Limited to 12 registrants
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places
Presented by Ellen Sheire
The malodorous skunk cabbage, blooming in a bog, is the harbinger of spring. In Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, the text for this course, James Hollis considers how meaning can be found in those dismal states that are all too common in our time: guilt, grief, loss betrayal, doubt, loneliness, depression, despair, obsession, addiction, anger, fear, angst, and anxiety. He explores the Jungian perspective which suggests that meaning, not happiness, is the goal of life. The group aims to discuss how this paradigm may be used creatively as we face the challenges of life in the twenty-first century. Sessions will meet at a residence in Kirkwood. Limited to 12.
TEXT: Retail, $16. Available postpaid through the Jung Society to Friends for $15; to all others, $17.
Ellen Sheire, a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis.
Details:
6 Mondays (Jan. 13,27; Feb. 10,24; Mar. 10,24)
Home in Kirkwood
Address will be given to registrants
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Friends, $65
All others, $75 (no early discount)
Limited to 12 registrants

The
Hierosgamos: A Study of the Mystical Union in Relationships as Portrayed Through the Medium of Film
Presented by Ellen Sheire
Over the first three Sundays we will view and begin to discuss the following three films: Muriel’s Wedding, Monsoon Wedding, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. In the fourth session, we will compare and contrast the patterns of relationship which lead to, or do not lead to, the mystical or alchemical marriage as played out in these films.
Sessions will be held at a residence near Washington University. The address will be given to registrants.
Ellen Sheire, a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis.
Details:
4 Sundays (Jan. 19, Feb. 16, Mar. 16, Apr. 20)
Home near Wash. University
Address will be given to registrants
2:00 – 5:00 P.M.
Friends, $60
All others, $70 (no early discount)
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
Fall/Winter 2002 -
Courses/Seminars

If you have questions about the C. G. Jung
Society of St. Louis or any of our programs,
contact us by phone or E-mail.
Coming in 2003:
James Hollis
Presenting a Lecture And Workshop on
Meeting Oneself At
Mid-life
Evening Lecture: January 10
Workshop: January 11
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James Hollis, Ph.D. is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst,
Executive Director of the Jung Center of Houston, TX, and author of nine
books, Including The Middle Passage, Creating a Life, and the
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Saturday Seminars
Saturday,
October 19, 2002 -
Redeeming the Witch Within
Presented by Ellen Sheire
That
archetypal energy most associated with the feminine, but intrinsic to both men
and women, carries a quality of darkness. When the conscious mind overly
identifies with the contrasting quality of light, usually associated with the
masculine logos principle, this fertile darkness, where change and new life
germinates, may don the guise of the dangerous witch or madwoman. By
correcting this imbalance of consciousness we gain access to the unlimited
creative energy of the feminine as these figures transform into the healing wise
woman who carries the Eros principle of love and relatedness.
In the film
Chocolat,
this powerful energy arrives uninvited and sets up shop in the heart of a
properly regulated French village. It arouses curiosity and hope,
suspicion and fear, when it challenges brittle, time-honored patterns.
Join us to view the film and discuss how various characters react to the scent
of change wafting from dark, simmering kettles spiked with cayenne.
Ellen Sheire,
a dplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, is a Jungian analyst
practicing in St. Louis.
Details:
Location: First Congregational Church UCC
6510 Wydown Boulevard
Time: Saturday, October 19, 2002: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Cost: Friends
or Early Registrants - $55
All others - $65
Limited to 30 registrants.
Includes lunch - vegetarian by request.
Early registration by October 1
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies

Saturday,
November 23, 2002 -
Hearth and Soul: Tending the Center
Presented by Sheldon Culver
As late autumn turns toward winter and the mystery of darkness descends,
we are drawn to the natural sources of warmth and light. This is the
season when soul yearns for hearth fire. Hestia represents the power that
centers our chaotic lives and helps bring focus to soul's journey.
In this
workshop we will explore the essence of Hestia, who tends the hearth and holds
the center; whose presence draws us into the process of
self-transformation. Participants will learn how to tend the fire at the
center and engage soul's journey. Join us, and before the day is done, we
will break rich whole grain bread, share a pot of hearty stew, and encircle the
warmth of the fire on the hearth.
Sheldon
Culver is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a Jungian
analyst practicing in St. Louis.
Details:
Location: First Congregational Church UCC
6510 Wydown Boulevard
Time: Saturday, November 23, 2002:
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Cost: Friends
or Early Registrants - $55
All others - $65
Limited to 30 registrants.
Includes lunch - vegetarian by request.
Early registration by November 1
Please note our Course/Workshop/Registration Policies
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