The Eye of Imagination

Sunday, October 14, 2007 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – The Eye of Imagination Presented by Bradley A. TePaske, PhD Sunday, 4:00 PM, October 14th, 2007 This presentation will consider the contrast between the concrete facts of birth and personal biography and the archetypal perspective of the psychological life. Following a review of the fundamental dynamism of the Great Mother and Son in myth and […]

The Way of the Small:  Why Less Is Truly More

Sunday, November 11, 2007 @ 4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – The Way of the Small: Why Less Is Truly More Presented by Michael Gellert, MA, LCSW Sunday, 4:00 PM, November 11th, 2007 “The goal is to make the ego as strong and as small as possible.” ~ C.G. Jung Our best traditions and thinkers tell us that happiness is found in “the small”—in celebrating the […]

The Ancient Roots of Christmas

Sunday, December 9, 2007 @ 4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – The Ancient Roots of Christmas Presented by visiting author Harita Meenee (audio recording not available) Sunday, 4:00 PM, December 9th, 2007 The roots of Christmas are deeply buried in ancient traditions rich in archetypal content. The Christian holiday succeeded the celebrations of the Winter Solstice, which honored the rebirth of the Sun God, an older […]

Trauma and Psychological Creativity

Saturday, January 26, 2008 @ 10:00 am PST – 6:00 pm PST – Saturday Morning/Afternoon Film and Lecture Trauma and Psychological Creativity presented by John Beebe, MD Saturday, January 26th, 2008 10:00am The creativity of the psyche is never more evident than in its response to trauma. In this daylong seminar, the participants will be asked to contemplate Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon, which depicts a rape and […]

J. M. Coetzee: Heartbreaking Narrative and Subtle Redemption in Oppressed Dusklands

Sunday, March 2, 2008 @ 4:00 am PST – 6:00 pm PST – J. M. Coetzee: Heartbreaking Narrative and Subtle Redemption in Oppressed Dusklands Presented by Arlene TePaske Landau, PhD Sunday, 4PM- 6PM, March 2nd, 2008 South African novelist, critic, and translator J.M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. The violent history and racist politics of his native country, associated worldwide with the travesty […]

The Anatomy of a Mid-Life Crisis: Mapping the Inner Journey An Experiential Workshop

Sunday, March 30, 2008 @ All Day – The Anatomy of a Mid-Life Crisis: Mapping the Inner Journey An Experiential Workshop Presented by William Grevatt, MEd, EdD Sunday, 10AM- 4PM, March 30th, 2008 Jung said that “wholly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life… and worse we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and our ideals […]

Suffering and the Problem of Evil:  A weekend workshop intensive

Saturday, April 19, 2008 – Sunday, April 20, 2008 @ 10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – Suffering and the Problem of Evil: A weekend workshop intensive with Lionel Corbett, MD Saturday, 10:00AM- 5:00PM, April 19th, 2008 Sunday, 10:00AM- 4:00PM, April 20th, 2008 In this two-day workshop, Dr. Corbett will explore suffering and the problem of evil in the biblical story of Job who will be considered as contemporary person undergoing a […]

Basic Jung: Introduction to Fairy Tale Interpretation

Sunday, May 4, 2008 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – Part of the series “Basic Jung: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales” “Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes. Therefore their value for the scientific investigation of the unconscious exceeds that of all other material.” ~ Marie-Louise von Franz link to audio file Fairy tales are told world-wide and since Freud […]

The Three Journeymen

Sunday, May 18, 2008 @ 3:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – Like the “three journeymen” in this Grimm’s tale, we are all presented at times in life with seemingly insurmountable problems. When this happens, what is our best response? What attitude must we have to face these challenges and overcome them? In the reading and interpretation of this medieval tale, we will explore the archetypical themes […]

Snow-White and Rose-Red

Sunday, May 25, 2008 @ 3:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – A classic Grimm’s tale, Snow-White and Rose-Red is the story of two innocent girls who encounter an angry dwarf that they repeatedly help escape perilous situations despite his ungrateful and demeaning attitude toward them. Psychologically, this is a story of the development of the inner masculine, that is, the animus in the woman’s psyche.  This […]