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Summer 2009

2009 Intensive Program 1:

July 5 – 10, 2009

Hope and Promise:
The Soul of The Child

Sunday, July 5, 2009
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration, Welcome and Orientation

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Opening Dinner

Monday, July 6, 2009
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
“Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless (and Fatherless) Child”:
A Brief Encounter with the Orphan

What do we do when we meet an unparented, vulnerable place within ourselves? More often than not, a defensive posture naturally takes hold. Then, year after year, protective devices are reflexively bolstered, which ultimately backfire because they only reinforce the original sense of abandonment. Meanwhile the little orphan within is barely surviving, bereft of the opportunity to thrive.

As the ever-popular Negro spiritual, “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” reminds us, to be orphaned takes us to one of the most familiar archetypal motifs of all times. From Romulus and Remus to Cinderella, from Jane Eyre to Harry Potter, from Little Orphan Annie to “Slumdog Millionaire,” such stories inform us of a universal plight.

These tales, and innumerable others, offer a healing twist, however, to what it means to be orphaned because they compensate for grown-up absences and ineptitudes by featuring elastic, youthful protagonists and their unlikely helpers who know how to live from a place of abundance, rather than limitation and deprivation.

Through both an exploration of timeless and inspiring tales and actively imagining assistance for own little ones, we will aim for building a safer world in which the orphan might feel more familied. To help with this healing process, bring your favorite songs, stories and films about orphans who show off their own resilience in spite of the neglectful circumstances that interfere with and try to disrupt such fabulous potential. In our time together, we will tend to the pain and uncover the possibility, working on behalf of the unmothered and the unfathered.

Instructor: Virginia Apperson, PhD, APRN, CS

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Children's Dreams and Children in Dreams

The soul of the child revealed in early childhood dreams can often point toward future destiny. In 1930 Jung began to investigate the importance of childhood dreams. During a series of seminars, Jung taught participants how to interpret dreams with a particular emphasis on the application of his methodology to remembered childhood dreams. In this didactic and experiential workshop, participants will examine Jung's monumental work recently published entitled, Children's Dreams. Participants will also reflect and creatively engage childhood dreams brought to the workshop.

Suggested Reading: C.G. Jung, 2008. Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940. Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford.

Instructor: Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, LP, MT-BC

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
10:00 am – 1:00 pm & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Childhood and Imagination

Childhood and imagination are intertwined in the origins of psychoanalysis that lead to the modern re-discovery of soul. Jung saw a 'child' as "an imponderable that determines the ultimate worth or worthlessness of a personality." We will circumambulate the realm of the psyche personified by the child. We will explore mytho-poesis of childhood as it emerges in our memories, stories, fantasies and theories. .

Instructor: Sylvester Wotjkowski, PhD

Thursday, July 9, 2009
10:00am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Masculine Shame and Feminine Shame

The word most central to masculine shame is disrespect, while feminine shame manifests in a feeling of nothingness and non-existence. Both forms, individually and collectively, have their roots in the absence of a bond between the child and the maternal feminine, a relationship so badly neglected in our culture. We will spend the day examining both types of shame through its quintessential phenomenological image, the human eye.

Instructor: Mary Ayers, PhD, LCSW-C

Friday July 10, 2009
10:00am – 1:00pm, & 2:30 – 5:00pm
Symbolization in Childhood and Adolescence: An Exploration of Play, Dreams, and the Creative Imagination

This seminar will focus on the origins of imaginative activity and play in infancy through the medium of infant observation. Play (including sand play), dreams, and imaginative fantasy will be looked at through the lens of child and adolescent analysis. Material from the presenter's infant and child observation research and clinical practice will be presented. Difficulties in the use of symbolization processes will be explored as they emerge in autistic states and Asperger's Syndrome, eating disorders, sexual identity disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorders. The evolution of the psychic skin as a container of symbolic experience will be looked at within the context of analytical psychology and attachment theory.

Instructor: Brian Feldman, PhD

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2009 Intensive Program 2:

July 12 – 17, 2009

Dark Forces of the Psyche:
All in the Family

Sunday, July 12, 2009
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration, Welcome and Orientation

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Opening Dinner

Monday, July 13, 2009
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
The Brother–Sister Relationship:
A Symbolic Look at Dark and Troublesome Patterns

In her book, Brothers and Sisters: Discovering the Psychology of Companionship, Lara Newton lays the foundation for a new psychological perspective on the brother-sister relationship. That relationship is explored in all its variety, both externally in the world of inter-personal and cultural relationships and internally in the relationship between conscious and unconscious, masculine and feminine.

We will begin with a brief presentation on the process of transformation from bonding, to wounding, and finally to healing and redemption. This is a transformation process that takes the brother-sister relationship from an outer experience, whether negative or positive, to a powerful intrapsychic reality, for any individual who takes up the challenge of relating to this psychological phenomenon.

We will then focus on specific patterns in dark and troublesome brother-sister relationships. We will face such all-too-common patterns as abuse, secrecy, incest, and hostile opposition. The process of transformation in all of these varying patterns will be discussed. Fairytales will be provided at the workshop, and participants are encouraged to bring in dreams as well as life stories for the discussion.

Instructor: Lara Newton, MA, LPC

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 –5:00 pm
On Becoming Oneself: Surviving the Embrace of our Family

The family is the fountain of love and oppression that both sustains and injures, nurtures and withholds in complex dramas that illuminate and darken our lives. Individual personality is shaped through countless reflections that the child receives from its "parent mirrors." Out of a good-enough experience, a viable ego identity emerges. Our day together will explore these passages and mark some paths of growth toward more complete autonomy and wholeness in adult life.

Instructor: Alden Josey, PhD, NCPsyA

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Mother Dearest / Mommy Dearest

There is no other dearer to our hearts than "mother." It is she who carries "mother love" and the mysterious. Our experiences are carried in her matrix and she is homecoming, shelter, change, and the divine.

There is no other more terrifying than "Mommy dearest." It is she who carries the hidden, secret, and dark, and anything that devours, illuminated through the writings of Carl Jung, myth, and fairy tales, as these are the very dynamics that impact and affect us in our personal lives and relationships. In addition, we will explore our personal wounds around mother in an effort to be more conscious and become more fully ourselves.

Instructor: Rosanne Shepler, LPC, LP

Thursday, July 16, 2009
10:00 am – 1:00pm; 2:30 – 5:00 pm
The Power of Ancestors

According to the Old Testament, the sins of the fathers will be visited on the sons down to the third and fourth generations. Indeed, it often seems the complexes a person struggles with do not belong exclusively to him but are problems inherited from earlier generations. On this day, we will consider the idea of the "family soul," a layer of the psyche that lies below the personal unconscious but above the collective bedrock where the archetypes reside. We will explore how this ancestral psyche seeks justice and healing through children born in later generations, who may be charged with completing their forebear's unfinished business and making conscious what was previously left in shadow. In the process, we will draw on Jung's own writings, traditions of ancestor worship in Africa and elsewhere, and contemporary approaches to intergenerational trauma. We will also undertake preliminary investigations into our own ancestral "karmas" and look at ways we might begin redeeming our families' unquiet ghosts.

Instructor: Susan C. Roberts, MSW

Friday, July 17, 2009
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
From Cronos to Priam

This workshop examines the archetype of the Father, its properties and its incarnation in the lives of men and women, as well as in the individuation process. We will explore the development of the father complex in individuals and its relation to authority and other components of "the Father." Myths, fairy tales and dreams will be used to amplify the discussion.

Instructor: Julie Bondanza, PhD

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