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2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Stories our Bodies Can Tell Us:
Psyche in Body — Body in Psyche
Speaker: Pamela Anderson, MA, CSW
In this discussion, we will explore psyche’s stories that can hide in somatic symptoms. We will explore Eros, the principle of relatedness, as another way to enter into a dialogue with soma.
In our fast-paced modern world, we are plagued by neuro-muscular pain and musculo-skeletal problems. We seek out orthopedists, chiropractors, and physical therapists, attend yoga classes, and go to the gym — but do we know how to listen? One of physical pain’s desires is to get our attention, to talk. Often there is a story, much like a dream, that is waiting to be told. This is another way in which psyche reveals that we are out of balance and is trying to right itself. Finally, we will experience how complexes and experiences of wholeness are at work in our everyday moving life.
Pamela Anderson, MA, CSW, is currently training to become a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. She is a former Director of Teacher Certification of the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) in New York City and was on the faculty of ACAT. She has been in private practice in the Alexander Technique since 1977 in both New York City and Basking Ridge, New Jersey specializing in psychosomatic and musculo-skeletal issues.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Love's Journey: Finding and Keeping Love
Speaker: Fanny Brewster, PhD
I falter before the task of finding the language which might adequately express the incalculable paradoxes of Love.
— C.G. Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
We understand the importance of love in our lives. We seek the pleasure and joys of “being in love.” Jung’s thoughts on love show the dilemma of this state. When we fall into that place of unconditional love, we open ourselves not just to the joyful abundance but also to the sufferings which accompany this state of possession we call love.
How do we find the right partner—our soul mate? How do we bear to lose love? How can we live without it? These are questions which accompany us through our lives. Oftentimes, the notion of love presents us with more questions than answers. It truly is a journey and an adventure of which we cannot know the outcome. It is filled with paradox and mystery.
In our discussion, we join each other at the crossroad, meeting with Eros and Jung in developing a deeper understanding of love from a place of individuated consciousness.
Fanny Brewster, PhD holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, a Jung Foundation faculty member, and a NYS Certified School Psychologist.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
AVATAR, the movie: Awakening: Between Two Worlds
Speaker: Gary Brown
The recently released movie, AVATAR, has gripped and moved many, many people. It appears to be a significant collective phenomenon. That so many are shaken so deeply points to the soul-fissure in the cultural unconscious that has been touched in people around the world. As beautiful as the film is, with incredible special effects, it takes us into our own spiritual estrangement and soul-less disconnection.
We identify with the wounded hero, trapped in a broken human body. Our alienated life essence, lost in a disembodied electronic world of digital hard edges which is beautifully juxtaposed with a soft, interconnected one, finds itself strongly and movingly embodied in an alien form. Human/alien, broken/whole — our hero quests in both worlds, raising deep questions of identity and its consequences.
Join Jungian Analyst, Gary Brown, in opening explorations of our current identity crisis and its consequences following on the insights of Jung in relation to this important cultural phenomenon.
Gary Brown, LCSW, LP is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a supervising analyst at the Institute. He has taught at the C.G. Jung Foundation, the Analytical Psychology Club of New York and the Mid-Hudson Jung Society, among others. He is also a long-time student and teacher of Buddhism.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Mind the Gap: Awakening into Spring
Speaker: Joan Griffiths Vega
C. G. Jung believed that a life must be lived in balance. The Buddha called it the middle way. Christ gestured to the lilies of the field.
This lunchtime is an invitation to create a timeless hour in which to reconnect with your enthusiasm and curiosity that is revived with Spring’s eternal return. Under the auspices of the gods and goddesses of healing, slough off the grey dreariness of winter. Give yourself this time to reconnect to your deep wellspring of calm abiding, creative invention, and the joy of being alive.
Joan Griffiths Vega currently teaches an eight-week mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) workshop that she adapted to the special needs of caregivers at the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mt. Sinai Hospital. She also facilitates stress reduction workshops in her home, corporate settings as well as private one-on-one sessions. She has extensive experience facilitating support groups sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association as well as playgroups in which participants swim with wild dolphins, meditate and incubate dreams.
She recently finished her Masters at Pacifica Graduate School in depth mythology. This summer she hopes to begin her PhD, which will explore the nature of the unrecognized mythic journey of the caregiver as s/he learns to navigate its unfamiliar archetypical energies to return to the healthy balance that lies beneath its turbulence.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Writing and Metaphor
Speaker: Susan Tiberghien
What is metaphor?
How has it been
used in literature?
We will look at examples from Plato's Dialogues to C.G. Jung's the Red Book, and also from the work of contemporary authors, to see how metaphor illuminates their work.
We will see how metaphor can in turn illuminate our own lives through our writing.
Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published three memoirs, Looking for Gold: One Year in Jungian Analysis, Circling to the Center, A Woman's Encounter with Silent Prayer, and Footsteps, A European Journal. She teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers' conferences, both in the United States and in Europe.
2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Tibetan Approaches to Simplifying Mental and Consumer Habits
Speaker: Suzanne Ironbiter, Ph.D.
In this time of cutting back on spending and energy use, as we respond to economic and environmental crises, Tibetan Buddhism offers useful ways of addressing habitual patterns. This forum will consider philosophical and practical aspects of Tibetan psychology and how these can help rescue us from old ruts.
Suzanne Ironbiter has a doctorate in the history of religion from Columbia University and teaches at SUNY Purchase College. Her book, Devi: Mother of My Mind (MapinLit 2006), is a personal poetic interaction with the goddess tradition in the mythology, mysticism, and philosophy of India.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
COSTANZA — Lunch with a Medieval Queen
Speaker: John Marino
Costanza (1154-1198) was the Queen of Sicily and a Holy Roman Empress. At age 40 she gave birth to a son who became Frederick II. Dante wrote of her in the Paradiso segment of the Divine Comedy.
Today’s talk will be about her story, part history and part fable, as portrayed in the recently premiered opera “Costanza” whose music was written by our presenter, John Marino.
We will view recorded scenes from the opera and see Costanza in her role as protector of the people of Sicily, as inspiritrix to her son Frederick, and as a symbol of the Anima Mundi, the soul of the world that longs for justice and compassion.
John Marino, MM, MA, LP,is a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Manhattan and Tenefly, NJ. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and holds a certificate from the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society in group work. He holds a Masters degree from NYU in Counseling Psychology and a Masters degree in composition and jazz from the Manhattan School of Music. He currently serves on the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and chairs the Speakers Bureau of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, as well as serving on its faculty. He is currently Music Director of the United Methodist Church of Demarest, NJ. He recently wrote the music for an opera entitled “Costanza,” based on the life of a medieval Sicilian queen and Holy Roman Empress, which was given its premiere in January, 2008, and has been submitted for a Gradiva award.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Wrestling with Destructive Projections
Speaker: Kathryn Madden, Ph.D.
Life within nations, political organizations, institutions, corporations, and communities is often characterized by power struggles, envy, and projections onto an “other.” We split over points of view, procedures, politics, and personality types. These disputes can lead to endless destruction on all levels. How does a Jungian understanding help with suffering the shadow in one’s self, becoming conscious, engaging in dream work, exploring the places of self-doubt and self-loathing which are triggered by the shadow-projections of others? Can we dis-identify from the “identities” projected onto us by others while, at the same time, withdrawing our projections onto them?
Kathryn Madden Ph.D., licensed psychoanalyst, NCPsyA, has served the past 10 years as President and CEO, and as Academic Dean of the Blanton-Peale Graduate Training Institute in New York City. Kathryn received her Ph.D. in Psychology & Religion at Union Theological Seminary under the tutelage of Prof. Ann Belford Ulanov. She is the senior editor of Quadrant: Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology and co-editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Psychology & Religion (Springer, 2009). Her newest book is entitled Dark Light of the Soul (Lindisfarne, 2008). She maintains a private clinical practice of Jungian orientation in New York City.
For more information about Kathryn Madden, visit: www.therapywithsoul.com.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Attention: Opening the Forgotten Space between the Caregiver and Loved One
Speaker: Joan Griffiths Vega
Over lunch we will invoke the goddesses and gods of healing and compassion to bring ourselves into the present moment. Acknowledging our caregiving roles, we will play with several kinds of attention or mindful awareness to wake up to possibilities of greater ease, compassion, joy, and less stress.
Joan Griffiths Vega has led meditation workshops as a stress reduction tool for caregivers of loved ones suffering from dementia at Leeza’s Place, and Lennox Hill Neighborhood House. She is began a new 8-week workshop at the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mt. Sinai in March 2009. She completed the teacher-training course at the Center for Mindfulness where Jon Kabat Zinn founded his program Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in the early 80’s. After swimming with wild dolphins in the 1990’s, she visited the Pacifica Graduate Institute at Carpinteria, California, fell in love with the land, the professors and enrolled in their graduate program in depth-mythology. Her Masters completed, she is preparing for her PhD dissertation on care giving as a call to the heroic journey. She has had a personal meditation practice in MBSR for over 5 years as well as a deep love for story and myth.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Seeing Beauty Around Us
Speaker: Susan Tiberghien
From Socrates, “Give me beauty in the inward soul,” to Blake, “To see a world in a grain of sand / And heaven in a wild flower,” beauty has been seen as a doorway to the spiritual. In contemplating beauty, we awaken creativity both within us and around us.
Susan Tiberghien will discuss the relationship between beauty and creativity, touching on the following short texts:
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung (“The earthly manifestations of God's world began with the realm of plants as a kind of direct communication from it.”)
- Waiting for God, Simone Weil (“The beauty of the world is the mouth of the labyrinth.”)
- Beauty, the Invisible Embrace, John O'Donahue
- The Long Journey Home, Re-visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone, editor Christine Downing
- One Year to a Writing Life, Susan Tiberghien
Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published three memoirs, Looking for Gold: One Year in Jungian Analysis, Circling to the Center, A Woman’s Encounter with Silent Prayer, and Footsteps, A European Journal. She teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences, both in the United States and in Europe.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
The Dorje and the Bell
Facilitated by: Royce Froehlich
The theme of this month’s Lunch Forum honors of the publication of C.G. Jung’s much acclaimed Red Book and its first-ever public exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, beginning Oct. 7, 2009.
In his “Transcendent Function” essay, Jung asks, “How does one come to terms in practice with the unconscious?” Then he goes on to say, “This is the question posed by the philosophy of India, and particularly in Buddhism.”
This Lunch Forum will focus on the symbols used to depict two archetypes: compassion and wisdom, symbolized by the dorje (a small scepter) and bell. Tibetan Buddhism, with its rich iconography, can help us to understand Jung’s psychoanalytic method.
Royce Froehlich, MA, M.Div, LCSW-R, is a psychotherapist in private practice and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Foundation. He is in training to become a Jungian Analyst at the CG Jung Institute of New York, where he recently received the Halpern-Kelly Award for his paper that provides the basis for the October Lunch Forum.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
INDIA! In Myth and Image
Led by: Ami Ronnberg, MA
We will visit India, where works of art serve as mediators to the invisible world. To be religious in India means to be a seer (rishi). One form of worship called ‘darshan,’ means seeing through and also to be seen by the divine. For an hour, we will follow psyche’s reflections in beautiful, sensuous, fantastical, images
Ami Ronnberg, MA, is Curator of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS). She is also Editor-in-Chief for The Book of Images: Reflections on Symbols to be published by Taschen in 2010 as part of the ARAS publication project.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artistic Influences on the Development
of Jung's Red Book
Led by: Jane Selinske, EdD
"The Wealth of the Soul Exists in Images"
— The Red Book
Between 1914 and 1930, C.G. Jung engaged in self-exploration with his unconscious which evolved into his monumental work, The Red Book. The New York Times described The Red Book as “The Holy Grail of the Unconscious” and the editor of the book, Sonu Shamdasani, wrote that The Red Book was “possibly the most influential hitherto unpublished work in the history of psychology.” When one encounters the book, it is obvious that both quotations are true and one feels the desire to bow in awe to Jung’s massive undertaking and accomplishment.
The distinctive red leather bound book contains calligraphy written in Latin and German along with beautiful detailed drawings and illustrations. The Red Book has been equated with medieval manuscripts and The Book of Kells. In Jung’s text, he also gave special prominence to the drawing of mandalas, the sacred circle. The mandalas, drawings, and illustrations all contributed to the evolution of Jung’s future theoretical work.
In addition to the development of his future theories, The Red Book revealed Jung to be a very gifted artist and calligrapher. Historically, Jung referenced himself as a scientist and not an artist. However, The Red Book revealed Jung to be an artist and it is apparent that there have been influences on his art. This lecture will discuss Jung’s encounter with the mandala beginning in 1896, when he sat in a séance with his cousin, Helene Prieswerk, and will look at experiences he had as a youth with art, the artists that appealed to Jung, the travels and circle of associates that influenced his art, and his movement toward symbolic art.
Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, LP, MT-BC, is a licensed Jungian analyst, a certified teacher and trainer of Mandala Assessment, and a Board Certified Music Therapist. She is currently a faculty and board member of the C.G. Jung Foundation, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and on the faculty of the Institute for Expressive Analysis in New York. She has a practice in Montclair, New Jersey.
For more information about the Red Book exhibit at the Rubin Museum of Art visit their website: rmanyc.org
2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
The Lion and the Antelope
Speaker: Heidi Kolb, MA, LCSW, NCPsyA
At its core, Jungian thought has always mirrored the newly arising mythologem, which can be poetically expressed as the Return of the Goddess and psychologically viewed as the recovery of the feminine principle in the human psyche.
We will look at the relationship between the return of the feminine and the notion of an “Ecological Intelligence,” a term coined by South African Jungian Analyst Ian MacCallum.
How can we begin to reconcile the Human-Nature split? What is the nature of the newly emerging consciousness? What are the consequences if we fail to make the psychological leap? These are some of the questions we will engage. Particular emphasis will be given to the role of aggression, violence and destruction that seem to plague or current times, but are also unavoidable consorts of the returning Goddess stirring in the depths of our unconscious psyche.
Heidi Kolb, MA, LCSW, NCPsyA, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City and is a faculty member of the Blanton-Peale Institute, the C. G. Jung Institute of New York and the C. G. Jung Foundation.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Divine Androgyny: The Archetype and Its Manifestations
Led by: Royce Jeffrey Froehlich, LCSW-R, M.Div., MA
There are many images of the divine androgyne accompanying Jung's writings, with the union of opposites as a guiding thought for psychological wholeness.
In this Tuesday Lunch Forum, we will look at some of the symbolic and historical aspects of the archetype Divine Androgyny, and then discover how this idea from the collective unconscious reveals itself in today's world through image, biological reality, and spiritual practice
Royce Jeffrey Froehlich, LCSW-R, M.Div., MA, is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University's School of Social Work, and the New School for Social Research in Media Studies. He is currently training to become a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of New York and is a faculty member at the Jung Foundation. He offers private psychotherapy in Manhattan and Queens.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
How Stress Creates Strength; Jungian Psychology and Transformation
Speaker: Tobi Zausner, Ph.D.
We are all capable of doing more than we can imagine. Often what holds us back from achieving our goals are the things we view as difficulties in our lives. This beautifully illustrated presentation will show how the stress of difficulties can become the source of our greatest strength. We will see this phenomenon in Jungian psychology where hardships are symbolized as a passage through the Underworld. On this journey of initiation, the darkest darkness brings forth the greatest light. We will also see the gifts of stress in nature 
in the way animals adapt in response to difficulties and in the life stories of artists when the stress of physical illness transforms their work, their lives, and our world.
Tobi Zausner, Ph.D., has an interdisciplinary doctorate in Art and Psychology. She is also an art historian and an award-winning visual artist with works in major museums and in private collections around the world. Dr. Zausner writes and lectures widely on the psychology of art and teaches at the C.G. Jung Foundation. Her book, When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness, is about the influence of physical illness on the creative process of visual artists.
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