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Summer 2006

2006 Intensive Program 1:

July 9 – 14, 2006

Seeking, Losing, and Finding Our Way

Sunday, July 9, 2006
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration, Welcome and Orientation

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Opening Dinner

Monday, July 10, 2006
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Metaphor and Meaning: Conversations with the Soul

We will examine metaphor, symbol and symptom as conveyors of meaning within the universal language of the Psyche. Our principal sources are certain canonical and non-canonical Judeo-Christian texts, aspects of Islamic mysticism and a Native American healing myth (including visual presentation of its sand paintings).

Application will be made on clinical, personal, and collective levels.

Instructor: Alden Josey, PhD

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Two Sides of Desire

Energy is conceived as desire. I call it libido. — C.G. Jung, CW 4, p.567

On the one hand, desire is a power that enlivens everything, that leads us into life. As Edinger says in his book on alchemy, desire creates flesh. On the other hand, desire can be compulsive and lead us into destruction. And yet again, the Buddhists teach that desire is the cause of all suffering. This day focuses on how desire can be the road to losing, seeking, or finding our way.

Instructor: Julie Bondanza, PhD

Wednesday, July 12, 2006
10:00 am – 1:00 pm & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Getting to the Heart of (the) Matter

Does matter matter? Vice or virtue? Can the yearning for power, material possessions, sex, money or status ever lead to a soulful journey? What happens when appetites become insatiable? What is the relationship between the individuation process and the material world? Around us individuals attempt to fill insatiable black holes with pornography, alcohol, drugs, new toys … more toys … bigger toys. During this seminar, these are among the questions that we will address. What are individuals seeking? And how can a psychological understanding of these compulsions and addictions help us locate, within ourselves, our own little black holes?

Instructor: Katherine W. Olivetti, MSSW, NCPsyA

Thursday, July 13, 2006
10:00am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Losing, Seeking, Finding

Jung notes that a new way of seeking is required when faced with a profound sense of psychological loss. His writings on active imagination, the “magical traveling companion,” and The Psychology of the Transference address this transformation of attitude, particularly in his discussion of an encounter between Moses and Khidr in “Concerning Rebirth.” Our focus will be the dynamics of consciously seeking and finding. In particular, we will explore how our familiar and profound knowledge and deeply held beliefs hinder truly seeking and finding.

Instructor: Harry Wells Fogarty, PhD

Friday July 14, 2006
10:00am – 1:00pm, & 2:30 – 5:00pm
Wandering the Wilderness: the Death of Old Values and the Search for Meaning

Renewal is a theme that expresses itself in every culture, every individual life, every analysis. We all confront situations where we find that old ideas and habits of being are no longer sufficient to the moment. In this seminar, we will explore four major episodes in the dance of renewal and try to understand our part in the current cycle both individually and culturally

Instructor: D. Stephenson Bond, MDiv, IAAP

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2006 Intensive Program 2:

July 16 – 21, 2006

Creating a Universe: Archetypal Expression in the Arts, Culture and Real Time

Sunday, July 16, 2006
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration, Welcome and Orientation

6:00 – 7:30 pm Opening Dinner

Monday, July 17, 2006
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Archetypes in Everyday Life: the Challenge of Projection and the Opportunity for Soul-making

We will look at projection as one way that archetypes come to our attention. Archetypes appear all around us. If we can recognize them, we gain the opportunity to enhance our consciousness instead of blindly acting-out. We will look at various situations from the archetypal perspective, such as the parent-child dynamic, war and the concept of the enemy, the archetype of various professions and figure of the boss, and the impact on ourselves and our culture of our image of God.

Instructor: Morgan Stebbins, MDiv, CSW

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 –5:00 pm
Identity in the Age of Celebrity

We all want to have our own 15 minutes of fame, as Andy Warhol predicted 40 years ago, and the majority of our children want to become celebrities. What do “we” search for by inviting Barney, Bart, Donald, Tony, Tiger, Martha, Britney, or Oprah to our living rooms, “chat rooms,” or dreams? Is individuation possible if personality is a synonym for celebrity? We will take a critical, symbolic look at the phenomena of popular culture and their relationship to identity. From superheroes to superstars, from role models to supermodels, we will travel through the “inner” landscape of consumer culture as revealed through our participation in it and explore its meaning for the soul.

Instructor: Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD

Wednesday, July 19, 2006
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Spirit in Media

The purpose of media is immediacy. Disembodied voices and infinite approximations literally dot our media landscape, which is operating at escape velocity speed, only to bring us — where? To an artificial world, where everyone is, as multi-mediatrix Laurie Anderson put it, “either ‘number one’ or ‘a zero’”? Jung's is one of those disembodied voices we will hear, along with others on the topic of today's media Zeitgeist: the mercurial spirit within this age of mass communication. This will be a “coffee shop at the crossroad” where science, media theory, philosophy of technology, and Jung's psychology come together.

Instructor: Royce Froehlich, CSW, MA, MDiv

Thursday, July 20, 2006
10:00 am – 1:00pm; 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Music as a Cultural and Archetypal Dream

We will explore how different forms and styles of music can function as dreams for the culture in which they emerge, compensating unbalanced societal attitudes. By symbolizing archetypal themes, music reconnects individuals and their communities with neglected aspects of the collective unconscious. Particular musical styles and examples will be explored, including classical sonata form, blues, Wagner's Ring, and New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian music.

Instructor: Gary Trosclair, LCSW, DMA

Friday, July 21, 2006
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Death in Venice: Inter-textuality and the Psyche

Although we may not be able to grasp the nature of the psyche per se, Jung reminds us that the psyche “expresses itself in all the activities and achievements of the human mind,” such as literature, drama and ritual. In this seminar, we will use Thomas Mann's Death in Venice to ground our exploration of psychic dynamics as they resonate both in Mann's novella and in the many myths, philosophical and literary works to which Mann alludes. We will discover how the rich inter-textuality of Death in Venice reflects the complexity and enigmatic quality of psyche. If time allows, we may also explore the archetypal significance of fictional characters that have become part of Western cultural consciousness, such as Faust, Frankenstein, Dracula, and Peter Pan.

Instructor: Ann Yeoman, PhD

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