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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
A Jungian Wine and Mandala Evening
June 6th. Mark your calendars
The C.G Jung Foundation Board of Trustees' Fourth Jungian Wine Fundraiser
is Tuesday, June 6th, 2017: 6.00 - 8.00 pm.
Tickets are $50 per person in advance and $60 at the door.
For more information and to buy tickets.
Our special Mandala Image Exploration Evening will give you a chance to express spontaneously a significant image similar to Jung's sketches in his Black Books that evolved into the magnificent Red Book.
There will be wine and light appetizers too!
Come and experience Dr. Jane Selinske speaking about Jung's Red Book: Artist, Mandalas and Active Imagination Revealed.
6 pm Wine and Appetizers
7 pm Jane Selinske speaks on Mandalas followed by Spontaneous Mandala Image Exploration
8 pm Evening Ends
The Red Book revealed Jung to be a very gifted artist and calligrapher, and it is apparent that there have been influences on his art. This lecture will discuss Jung's experiences and influences regarding mandalas, artists, travels and associates, and his movement towards symbolic art.
Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, NCPsyA-LP, BC-MT, is a licensed Jungian Analyst in private practice, a practitioner of Mandala Assessment, and a Board Certified Music Therapist. She is past Vice President, Director of Training and Coordinator of the Referral Service at the C.G.Jung Institute of New York where she is a faculty member and current Chairperson of the Thesis Committee. She is Vice President of the Board of the C.G. Jung Foundation and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Quadrant:The Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology. She is also a faculty member at the Institute for Expressive Analysis, New York, New York. Dr. Selinske was a docent at the Rubin Museum of Art during the first exhibition of the Red Book, a participant in the Red Book Dialogues and a presenter at the RMA film discussion series. She is a frequent lecturer and workshop facilitator. Her private practice is in Montclair, NJ.
If you cannot attend, you can still donate or give a ticket to a friend!
Register early! There are a limited number of tickets available.
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 Special Lecture
Paranoia, Society, and History
Thursday evening, May 25th, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Speaker Luigi Zoja, PhD
While other forms of mental illness are far more immediate, only paranoia can literally make history, as it did through Hitler and Stalin. It can take hold of events directly because, unlike the rest of pathology, it is contagious. Far from being individual, its dynamics are self-replicating, devouring entire societies. The charismatic leader loses control of it. Once infected, the collective unconscious, of which the leader is part, acquires an autonomous life and rolls down the slope beyond control.
Upcoming Online with CE credits
Spring, 2017: Five consecutive Tuesdays: begins February 29th
8.00 - 9.30 pm, Eastern Time, USA
Instructor Maxson J. McDowell, PhD
Contact hours: 7.5 CE contact hours for New-York-State-licensed social workers and psychoanalysts.
Please note: students seeking CE credit must attend all sessions. For CE learning objectives and full information regarding cancellation and refunds, visit www.cgjungny.org.
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. To interpret dreams we need to integrate different ways of knowing: we have to be disciplined and logical but also emotional and feeling; we have to use creative intuition and we have to use our body and its sensations.
Each evening is like a detective story. We interpret knowing only the dreamer's age and gender. When finished, we compare our interpretation with other information about the dreamer. This checks the validity of the technique.
Upcoming Advanced Seminars with CE credits
September 7 – December 21
(excluding Oct 12 and Nov 23)
Instructor: Sanford Drob, PhD
This class will combine a close textual reading of Jung's Red Book (Liber Novus) with a meditation and analysis of the painted images. Our primary goal will be to understand the relevance of Jung's encounter with his soul to the work on the psyche, individuation and the psychotherapeutic process.
In the course of examining the clinical relevance of Liber Novus, we will consider the ethical, philosophical and theological implications of Jung's Red Book project, place this work in the context of the history of ideas, address the relationship between the ideas in the Red Book and Jung's Collected Works, and consider the importance of the Red Book for the future of the social sciences.
Seminar #2, Spring 2017: Jung, the Neuroscience of Spirituality, and Psychological Change
Feb 1 – May 10
(excluding April 12)
Instructor: David Walczyk, EdD, NCPsyA
While Jung understood the value and essence of a spiritual outlook on life and its role in the therapeutic process, the tools for understanding the contribution of the brain to the creation, processing, and changing of spirituality were unavailable during his lifetime.
This class will be experiential, relational, and self-reflective. We will draw from Jung's analytical psychology, connect it with the neuroscience of spirituality, and consider them together in connection with the clinical process of psychological development and change. The topics covered are the formation and development of spiritual beliefs, spiritual practices and experiences such as prayer and ritual, mindfulness and active imagination, mystical experiences, and entheogens. This course requires no prior knowledge of Jungian psychology or neuroscience.
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
The Evil Eye: Envy and Jealousy, their meaning, origin and goal
Saturday, February 25th, 2017:
9:30 am– 4:30 pm
A day-long workshop led by Julie Bondanza, PhD
Contact hours: Six CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers and Psychoanalysts for this program.
In his Foreword to the "I Ching," C.G. Jung writes: "Since a share in something great always arouses envy, the chorus of the envious is part of the picture."
Through the lens of analytical psychology, this workshop explores the role that jealousy and envy play in human relationships. We will look at their archetypal nature and the teleology of the symptom. We will understand what makes us vulnerable to these emotions and, ultimately, how they can lead to either destruction or transformation. Mythology, fairy tales, dreams and personal examples will amplify the role that these difficult emotions play in the individuation process.
Time of the Forgotten: Trauma, Memory and Healing
Saturday, March 25th, 2017:
9:30 am– 4:30 pm
A day-long workshop led by Michael Conforti, PhD
Contact hours: Six CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers and Psychoanalysts for this program.
Virtually every culture and spiritual tradition speaks to the all too human tendency to forget and the profound need to remember. For the Catholics, there is Anamnesis, a prayer and experience of remembrance of our transpersonal heritage, and in the Jewish tradition, there is the Day of Remembrance.
In this presentation, Dr. Conforti will discuss the reality and consequences of living in a "Time of the Forgotten," and ways to know and remember the contours of this personal and timeless archetypal domain, where past, present and future collapse into a moment, illustrating these points through clinical examples, and Elie Wiesel's writing on trauma and the need to remember.
Dreams and Imaginal Techniques as Guides for Personal and Psychological Growth
Saturday, April 8th, 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.
Jung considered the psyche and dreams as expressions of unconscious processes. According to Jung, difficulties arise in the interpretation of dreams and images because of their unconscious nature. Jung determined that dreams are often structured like dramas, and the theater motif and dramatic presentation of the unconscious story can assist in understanding a dream.
We will discuss specific quotes from Jung about dreams and symbols, will explore different approaches to dream imagery such as active imagination, Jung’s map of the psyche, the dramatic structure of the dream and the appearance of music, fairy tales and stories in dreams. The workshop will teach participants how a dream is analyzed from a Jungian Analytic perspective and will teach participants different imaginal techniques to actively engage the dream.
The Incarnating Self: Suffering, Destiny, and the Redemptive Power of Meaning
Saturday, May 6th, 2017:
9:30 am– 4:30 pm
A day-long workshop led by Melanie Starr Costello, PhD
Contact hours: Six CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers and Psychoanalysts for this program.
In Biblical narratives, profound suffering precedes the actualization of a life’s calling or a fulfillment of a people’s sacred destiny. What is the psychological significance of this recurring motif and what light might stories of heroic struggle cast upon the human journey with its inescapable hardships? In this seminar, we track the relationship between mental and emotional suffering and psychological maturation. Therapeutic uses of Biblical biography will be demonstrated in relation to recurring motifs: the experience of betrayal, the pain of loss, the struggle against injustice and the inevitability of death.
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
