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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.
Upcoming Advanced Seminars with CE credits
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.
Upcoming Classes
Jungian Psychology Revisited: An Overview
5 consecutive Mondays, 6:00–7:40 pm
Beginning February 27
Instructor Gary Brown, LCSW, LP
Most students of Jung's work necessarily learn of it in bits and pieces, often missing important distinctions, such as the difference between the archetype and the archetypal image. An overview of his work can help us to comprehend the general scope of his ideas as a foundation for further study.
In this class, we will review Jung’s model of the psyche, especially as used in dreams, the sub personalities of the psyche, and complexes. This overview will lay the building blocks of this very useful but often misunderstood psychology.
Self-Knowledge, Healing, and Liberation
5 consecutive Thursdays, 6.45–8.25 pm
Beginning March 2nd
Instructor Royce Froehlich, PhD, MDiv, LCSW-R
This course is centered around Jung's premise that self-knowledge offers opportunities for living in better relationship with psyche, which leads toward an increased sense of vitality and psychic balance (wholeness and individuation). His model of the psyche and writings on spiritual traditions of the West and East will serve as touchstones for multi-media augmented presentations.
The Hero's Troubled Journey: Facing Anxiety and Fear in a Divided World
5 consecutive Thursdays, 6:30–8:10 pm
Beginning March 2nd
Instructor Heide Kolb, MA, LCSW, NCPsyA
In this course, we will look at the epidemic of anxiety, stress and fear that plagues so many in our hemisphere. We will apply a Jungian lens in exploring not only how to navigate these powerful and often destructive emotions but also attempt to develop an understanding beyond the personal dimension of these affects and follow Jung's intuition of a newly emerging paradigm preceded by significant and often destabilizing shifts and stirrings in the collective psyche. We will use images from alchemy and the Tarot to amplify our explorations.
Dreams of a Better World: Hints from the Unconscious
5 Mondays, 7:00–8:40 pm
Beginning April 3rd (excl. April 10)
Instructor David Rottman, MA
What might a better world look like? How might it be achieved? What developments point in the direction of the unfolding of a better world?
While our era is deeply troubled now, the dreams of "ordinary" people do give important hints from the unconscious about developments that can lead in a positive direction. In this course, we will study a number of those dreams as well as "better world" material found in the work of C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise Von Franz.
Dream Art: Sculpting the Psyche
5 Wednesdays, 6:30–8.10 pm
Beginning April 5 (excl. April 12)
Instructor Maria Taveras, LCSW
This is an experiential workshop. Participants in the course will sculpt archetypal images from their own dreams. They will learn about what Jung means by the "creative process," engaging the unconscious in a hands–on way, working with clay. Participants should come to the first class meeting with an archetypal image from one of their own dreams, ready to sculpt. No prior sculpting experience is necessary.
Imaginal Journal: Active Imagination through Dreams, Images and Words
5 Thursdays, 6:30–8:10 pm
Beginning April 6th (excl. April 13)
Instructor Fanny Brewster, PhD
The Red Book is a creation from Jung's dreams, fantasies and visions. During this period of intense psychological changes, Jung encountered aspects of himself never before realized in his conscious state.
This class is an opportunity to create your own Imaginal Journal. The process of Active Imagination will be used to revisit dreams and imagery. Participants will bring their own dreams for exploration during class time; a journal for recording personal entries and images for posting into their journals.
5 Thursdays, 6:30–8:10 pm
Beginning April 6th (excl. April 13)
Instructor Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP
We don't know where dreams come from but, from experience, we know their purpose. They show us the next possible step in our developing consciousness. They warn us if we are going astray, encourage us if we need it and offer penetrating insights into our confusion.
This class is fun. We combine our insights to explore each dream and feel success when the class as a whole recognizes an answer and experiences a deepening of consciousness. This class is equally suitable for newcomers to dream analysis and people who have been in analysis or taken other classes.
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.
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.
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.
Upcoming 2018 Trip to India
Quadrant
New Issue of Quadrant Published
Vol XLVI:2 Fall 2016
Articles include:
- Individuation and the Culture of Democracy
— Robert Mitchell - Inner and Outer Travels: Analytical Psychology and the Treatment of Refugees
— Monica Luci - Schleiermacher, Jung and the Rebirth of the God Image in our Time
— Donald R.Ferrell - Art as Individuation, Individuation as Art in The Unconscious Roots of Creativity
— Clifford Mayes - Book Reviews
— Beth Darlington, Review Editor
Reviews by Laurie Schapira, Maryann Barone-Chapman, and Wendy Neville Jones
