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Welcome to the C.G. Jung Foundation
in New York City!

We are pleased to present the following events and learning opportunities. Please join us!

Events and opportunities include:
• Classes • Workshops • Lectures • Midday Forums • Advanced Seminars • Trip to India • Audio-tapes

Upcoming Summer Studies

Ancient Myths for Modern Times

July 10– 14, 2017

The title "Ancient Myths for Modern Times" captures the heart of this week's program as well as the complexity of Jungian or archetypal psychology, in which myths present ways of seeing and new perspectives. Myths are archetypally charged, providing images, symbols, stories and a pantheon of gods which constellate in our Personal and Collective Unconscious. Archetypes can be seen as carriers of fiction, the myths and heroes that still speak to us through time and memory, providing another angle for seeing and containers for our psychological complexity. Jung reminded us that we can't escape imaginal history for it still lives in our psyche.

Cosmos from Chaos: Living Consciously in a Troubled World

July 17 – 21, 2017

During this week we will focus on issues as familiar to the ancient Greeks as they are to us in the 21st century. The human goal has always been to bring cosmos, order or unity, out of chaos. The third century Neoplatonist Plotinus, later revered during the Italian Renaissance, wrote about reaching Oneness or the Intellectual Principle by joining disparate forces and rising above them. Jung's joining of opposites such as the conscious and the unconscious is in this spirit and intellectual tradition. The desire for unity is a compelling psychological urge that is universal and fraught with danger.

Contact hours for licensed NYS social workers and NYS psychoanalysts:

25 CE contact hours for each program.

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Upcoming Advanced Seminars with CE credits

Seminar #1, Fall 2017: All You Need is Love: Jung Meets the Beatles in the Global Village of 'Generalized Media Disorder,' Dissociation, and 'Disindividuation'

September 7 – December 21
(excluding Sept 21 and Nov 23)

Instructor: Royce Froehlich, PhD, LCSW-R

Inspired by this year's 50th anniversary of The Summer of Love, when the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper was the No.1 album, this seminar will offer a critique of the dysregulating clinical effects of electronic communications media on the psyche through the lens of Analytical Psychology and Media Philosophy, with therapeutic insights and motifs drawn from the Beatles' music and lyrics released in 1967.

Along with texts by Jung, we will examine the work of media theorists, including Marshall McLuhan, who coined the phrase 'Global Village,' which was actualized in the Summer of 1967 through the first live, worldwide satellite broadcast, in which he and the Beatles participated.

Seminar #2, Spring 2018: The Gnostic Sophia: Redeeming the Feminine Divine

Feb 1 – May 10
(excluding March 29)

Instructor: Hilda Seidman, MFA

In Answer to Job, Jung looks to the divine image of the Gnostic Sophia as a potential remedy for the collective. To repair and redeem ourselves, we need to repair and redeem the fragmented feminine on a mythopoetic level. This course will pick up where Jung left off in Answer to Job. The Gnostic Sophia is an image of feminine wisdom that meets and balances the masculine principles. She is a figure that can potentially restore wholeness to the Western civilizations' collective myths.

The topics that will be explored in depth reveal the clinical application of a deeply valued Gnostic belief in gnosis or knowing. Within each class, there will be an in depth exploration of the Gnostic religion and its significant role in influencing Jungian thought and concepts, as well as how this symbol system can serve us now both personally and clinically. Clinical cases will be presented in each class to amplify the material presented and offer an opportunity to discuss the inner knowingness that is awakened in psychic material and its meaning for our unfolding individuation processes.

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Upcoming Classes

Self and Liberation: The Jung/Buddhadharma dialogues as seen through his forwards and essays introducing sacred books of the East

5 consecutive Mondays, 6:00–7:40 pm
Beginning October 2nd

Instructor Gary Brown, LCSW, LP

Early in the last century, translators, commentators and editors and authors such as D.T. Suzuki, Evans-Wenz, et. al., requested from Jung forwards to introduce their work, such as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, and Introduction to Zen Buddhism. Jung, in turn, wrote his own, The Psychology of Eastern Meditation. It was through these texts and Jung's aid in interpretation that Buddhadharma made its second entry into the West

Conversely, we will come to a stronger and sharper understanding of Jung's viewpoint and methods of interpretation by our study of these brief introductory essays.

The Kabbalah: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives

5 consecutive Wednesdays, 6.30–8.10 pm
Beginning October 4th

Instructor Sanford Drob, PhD

This course will provide an introduction to the history of the Kabbalah, its symbolism, and world-view. Jung's 1944 Kabbalistic Visions and his later use of Kabbalistic symbols and ideas will be closely examined. Throughout the course, the relevance of Kabbalistic symbolism and ideas to contemporary psychology, philosophy, theology and art, as well as the conduct of daily living, will be emphasized.

"Daily Bread": Five Jungian Topics (re)Visited

5 consecutive Thursdays, 7:00–8:40 pm
Beginning October 5th

Instructor Harry Fogarty, PhD

"Daily Bread": Five Jungian Topics (re)Visited

–Amplification
–Active Imagination
–Relationships/the "Field"
–Inner World/Outer World
–Self/Selves

Central motifs from Jung's work will be explored with the aim of experientially locating the daily bread we all seek.

Emotions: What can we learn about them from Jung?

5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00–8:40 pm
Beginning November 6th

Instructor David Rottman, MA

Jung has a lot to say about personal emotions, collective emotions, destructive emotions, healing emotions, emotions that separate, emotions that unite, cosmic emotions, chaotic emotions, meaningful emotions. He explored emotions in depth, uncovering the ways in which emotions work in the psyche, both positively and negatively.

We will discuss how emotions impact the "outer" dimensions of our daily lives at work and in relationships, and how emotions impact the way we live with our own "inner" experience of ourselves.

Music as a Bridge to the Unconscious

5 consecutive Tuesdays, 6:30–8:10 pm
Beginning November 7th

Instructor Gary Trosclair, DMA, LCSW

Music has received little attention in the Jungian world. This course will explore the psychological functions of music for both the individual and the community through a Jungian lens. We will explore a wide variety of musical styles in their cultural contexts in order to understand how music compensates collective imbalances. We will also explore the archetypal nature of music and how it may be used or abused in the process of individuation. We will approach our subject matter from many perspectives, ranging from evolutionary psychology and neuropsychology to a personal experience of the numinous.

Painting the Psyche

5 Wednesdays, 6:30–8.10 pm
November 8 (excluding November 22)

Instructor Maria Taveras, LCSW

This workshop will be an opportunity for us to experience the transformative activity of the psyche in a profoundly intimate way. By altering our normal ego state of consciousness, we will activate the imagination and then, with watercolors as our medium and paintbrushes as our instruments, we will depict the images that spontaneously emerge from our innermost being. Then, together as a group, we will share our felt experiences and explore the creative process. Watercolors, brushes, and paper will be provided.

Upcoming Tuesday Lunch Forums

Shakespeare and the Stars: Hidden Astrological Keys to Understanding the World's Greatest Playwright

Tuesday, April 4, 2017: 12:30 – 1:30 pm

A First Tuesday Lunch Forum presented by Priscilla Costello, M.A., Dipl. CAAE

William Shakespeare, the world's greatest playwright, often used astrological symbolism to create his timeless characters and creations, so it is no surprise that his wonderful works are filled with references to the Sun, Moon, and stars!

In this talk, we will examine how character is determined, both in the present day and in Shakespeare's time, and explore the ways in which we can classify and recognize character traits within ourselves and others.

Paths to Wellbeing

Tuesday, May 2, 2017: 12:30 – 1:30 pm

A First Tuesday Lunch Forum presented by Susan Tiberghien

In this lecture, we will look at how wellbeing has been understood from Aristotle to today. How did Jung approach the subject? With the focus on spiritual wellbeing, we will consider possible paths — paying attention to dreams, to synchronicity, practicing active imagination, appreciating beauty.

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Upcoming Workshops

Letting Go and Holding On: Essential Archetypal Tools for the Journey of Individuation

Saturday, October 28th, 2017:
9:30 am– 4:30 pm

A day-long workshop led by Gary Trosclair, DMA, LCSW

Contact hours: Six CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers and Psychoanalysts for this program.

Jung suggested that in the journey of individuation the ego needs to let go of control and defer to the Self, submitting to a principle greater than personal identity. Relinquishing old stories of a heroic ego is essential to the individuation process. Yet holding closely the values that bring us joy, strength and meaning are also essential as we enter new stages of life.

We will explore the dynamics of Holding On and Letting Go as two aspects of a vital and ever-changing flow of beliefs that keeps life fulfilling. Using experiential techniques, writing, and small group sharing we will identify and explore the stories that we live by and how they affect our tendency to constrict or expand.

Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Alchemy of Grief, Fear, and Despair

Saturday, November 18th, 2017:
9:30 am– 4:30 pm

A day-long seminar led by Miriam Greenspan, MEd, LMHC

Contact hours: Six CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers and Psychoanalysts for this program.

This seminar focuses on the transformative power that comes to us when we know how to listen to the wisdom of the broken heart. It is not the dark emotions but our avoidance/denial of them that contributes to the psychiatric epidemics of our age: chronic depression, anxiety, psychic numbing, addiction, and mass violence.

Through presentations, mindfulness meditation, stories, discussion, breath and energy work, visualization, cognitive reframing, and heart-centered spiritual exercises, we will learn the seven steps of the alchemy of the dark emotions and practice the three basic skills of this process—attending, befriending, and surrendering to the flow of emotion in the body.

Jungian Dream Interpretation: Clinical and Personal Implications

Saturday, December 2nd, 2017:
9:30 am– 4:30 pm

A day-long workshop led by Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, NCPsyA, LP

Contact hours: Six CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers and Psychoanalysts for this program.

Historically, dreams were accepted as messengers of the Divine. In the twentieth century Freud and Jung rediscovered the rich value of the dream and brought the dream back into its proper place of psychological and spiritual benefit. C.G. Jung discovered through confrontation with his unconscious that dreams and symbols disclosed the path of one’s individuation.

Learning the principles of Jungian Dream Interpretation gives the analyst/psychotherapist tools to understand and integrate unknown parts of the psyche. This workshop will enable individuals and therapists to analyze dreams from a Jungian lens and will teach participants different creative techniques to actively engage the dream.

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Upcoming 2018 Trip to India