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Summer 2010

2010 Intensive Program 1:

July 11 – 16, 2010

The World of the Imaginal:
The Red Book and Beyond

Sunday, July 11, 2010
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration, Welcome and Orientation

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Opening Dinner

Monday, July 12, 2010
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
The Red Book: Invention of Active Imagination

Soul to Jung: Will you accept what I bring? … I find fratricide, cowardly mortal blows, torture, child sacrifice, the annihilation of whole peoples, arson, betrayal, war, rebellion … epidemics, natural catastrophes, sunken ships, razed cities, frightful feral savagery, famines, human meanness, and fear, whole mountains of fear … will you also accept this? — The Red Book, p. 305.

With the publication of The Red Book, we have a rare opportunity to look into the creative cauldron that led Jung to develop his psychology project. The territory that Jung explores over the years in his imagination includes the extremes of human experience: madness, murder, abysmal despair, hell, horror, birth of god, sacrifice, pleasure, love. This “stream of lava” that had shaped Jung’s life had provided him with the prima materia that for forty-five years he kept distilling in the vessel of psychological work to formulate his unique approach to healing of the human soul. We will explore multiple hermeneutical layers interwoven in the material to ponder the relevance of various themes for the soul and individuation. We will imagine how the confrontation between the spirit of this time and spirit of the depths could look in the twenty first century.

Instructor: Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Dreaming the Dream Onward: Active Imagination and Dreams

Active imagination is what Jung called "purposeful creation." In this seminar, we will use "active imagination" to further the work of the unconscious that was begun in the night world of the imagination, dreams. Participants will have an opportunity to dream the dream onward through various methods: dialogue, collage, art, or movement.

Instructor: Julie Bondanza, PhD

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
10:00 am – 1:00 pm & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Artist, Mandalas and Active Imagination Revealed

Jung the artist will be revealed through the lens of his monumental text, The Red Book. In particular, the integrative art form of the mandala and active imagination will be explored as vehicles for Jung’s and participant’s individuation process. Attendees will be given the opportunity to experience what Jung himself did in drawing, engaging in active imagination, dialoguing and circumambulating around images. Please bring a pen, pencil, and writing journal to the workshop.

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

Thursday, July 15, 2010
10:00am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Visiting Imaginal Realms Using Guided Imagery and Music

From his experiences Jung believed that the method of active imagination was a beneficial way of establishing a working relationship between the conscious and unconscious. Building on that premise, classical music will be used to augment the process. We will discuss the history of the development of active imagination and compare and contrast various methods of using guided imagery, including factors to consider when using music. Emphasis will be given to the method (GIM - Guided Imagery and Music) as developed by music therapist Helen Bonny. An experiential exercise will be included.

Instructor: Jeanne Creekmore, PhD, ATR-BC

Friday July 16, 2010
10:00am – 1:00pm, & 2:30 – 5:00pm
Creation of an Interior Red Book

The Red Book illumines both Jung's own process and movement within his creative thought, and, interactively, our own apprehension of psychic processes within ourselves and in our time. An aspect of this appropriation rests on our embracing a process parallel to Jung's, namely struggling toward our own "red book," our own interior evolution in interaction with the collective, just as Jung’s own arising thoughts were meant not just for himself, but also for the collective.

Instructor: Harry W. Fogarty, PhD

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2010 Intensive Program 2:

July 18 – 23, 2010

Power, Authority and Integrity:
An Intentional Balance

Sunday, July 18, 2010
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration, Welcome and Orientation

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Opening Dinner

Monday, July 19, 2010
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
The Trouble with Being Special:
Starting a New Conversation about America's Children

America's parents and children have overdosed on the individual self. An over-focus on praise, individualism, and pressures to be or have the best has shaped a generation of teens and young adults who assume they are special, feel unready to take on the normal adversities of life, are restless and unsure of themselves, and have a hair-trigger for humiliation, as well as unrealistic fantasies of achievement, wealth, power, and celebrity.

How can parents, educators and young people themselves respond to this problem without blame or shame? How can we find a new foundation for confidence that is rooted in the wisdom of ordinariness, sharing, and interdependence? In this moment of global concern about living an ecological life, we must shift our focus away from the individual and towards relationship as the key to success at all levels. We will examine the "self-esteem trap" — its roots and its character — and suggest some solutions for young people and the therapists who help them and their families. This seminar will draw on a new model for human development that is derived from a dialogue between contemporary Buddhism and depth psychology.

Instructor: Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 –5:00 pm
Power and the Workplace

We need a sound personal connection with our own power to accomplish our goals and reach our potential. We will explore the nature of the ego’s relationship to power; the role of power in the persona at work; the distinctions between power and influence; the impact of powerlessness on the career; and methods, both positive and negative, for increasing power.

Instructor: David Rottman, MA

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Learning from Prometheus and Dreaming His Myth Onwards

This seminar will examine the classical myth of Prometheus, Jung's interpretations of its power conflicts, its transformation in the poet Shelley's verse drama "Prometheus Unbound" (1819), and its psychological and political relevance for our time. We will reflect on Jung’s assertion that where “the will to power is paramount, love is lacking” and its corollary that where “love reigns there is no will to power” (CW 7, para. 78).

Shelley’s drama anticipates many concepts articulated in analytical psychology. In re-visioning the classical story of Prometheus explicitly to incorporate feminine Eros, Shelley suggests an alternative to ever-escalating personal and political contests for power. He also teaches a lesson it behooves us to remember: Not only must the power drive be acknowledged and examined before there can be a creative union between imagination and Eros, but Eros itself must learn to trust its own validity and strength

Instructor: Beth Darlington, PhD

Thursday, July 22, 2010
10:00 am – 1:00pm; 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Power in Love Relationships / Love in Power Relationships
Who are you anyway?

It is no coincidence that the Special Person in our life is a constant source of frustration and agony. It is also no coincidence that the Special Person in our life can be a source and resource in our journey into wholeness, though it sure doesn’t feel that way.

We will explore through lecture, written exercises and some active imagination the dynamics of love (The Garden of Eden) and power (The Gates of Hell) in relationships with a Jungian lens and Imago therapy. The impact of fate and family growing up and our current life partner give each one of us the opportunity to heal past traumas and re-member parts of ourselves long ago forgotten.

Instructor: Rosanne Shepler, LPC, LP

Friday, July 23, 2010
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Feminine Authority: Empowerment through Animus Development

Drawing on the work of Jung, von Franz, Carotenuto, Young-Eisendrath, Harding and life experience, we will discuss the re-discovery of feminine authority via relationship with the animus as center of inner psychic equilibrium. We will explore the negative masculine as the key to transformation as he makes himself known through dream images, neuroses and stories. Finally, we will see the emergence of the positive masculine as source of power and bridge to wholeness.

Instructor: Sharon Martin, RN, FNP, CNS, PhD eq

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