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Saturday, April 14, 2007 – Sunday, April 15, 2007 @ 10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – 33rd Annual Jungian Conference Psyche & the Sacred Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice Special Guest Speaker Lionel Corbett, MD April 14th and 15th, 2007 Saturday 10:00 AM ~ 5:00 PM Sunday 10:00 AM ~ 4:00 PM link to audio files ” The practice of depth psychology with a religious sensibility belongs within the contemplative tradition, […]

Friday, May 18, 2007 @ 8:00 pm PDT – 10:00 pm PDT – The Night-Sea Voyage of Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner: The Circuitous Journey of Individuation Presented by Thomas Elsner, J.D. M.A. Friday, 8:00 PM, May 18th, 2007 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of England’s great romantic poets, wrote “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” at the age of 25, before he had ever set foot on a ship. Inspiried […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]