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Summer 2011

Intensive Program 1:
Life, Death and Rebirth
July 10 – 15, 2011

Sunday, July 10, 2011
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration, Welcome and Orientation

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Opening Dinner

Monday, July 11, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Life, Death, and Rebirth — a synopsis

In those moments when the Self requires us to leave the old forms of life and move into new expressions of personality in a new order of life, it acts as teacher and guide in a vast array of archetypal imagery that portrays the experiences of life, death and rebirth. Under the numinous power of these images, consciousness is transformed, and we pass over a boundary into the novam infantiam, a condition of new beginnings and possibilities. This week, several analysts will join you in examining this psychic process in some detail for its archetypal variety and personal relevance.

Instructor: Alden Josey, PhD

Tuesday, July 12, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Out of the Shadows into the Light:
Transforming Archetypal Images of Death and Dying

In this seminar we shall explore C. G. Jung's comments on death and the role of conscious and unconscious forces which are constellated when the psyche confronts death. We will focus on Jungian wisdom on the phenomenon of dreams related to death and dying as discussed by Marie Louise von Franz in On Death and Dying. We will explore the Buddhist approach to death as liberation both in the abstract and regarding our own using the insights of Roshi Joan Halifax in Being with Dying. We will consider systems of thought regarding and our thoughts on what presents to us after physical life has concluded.

Instructor: Marita Digney, DMin

Wednesday, July 13, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
The Worm in the Garden: Shadow's Role in Rebirth

Jung's Red Book boldly illumines an encounter with and transformation by "shadow," concluding with the worm in Philemon's garden. Taking our cues from Liber Novus, we shall explore within the constraints of our own lived "books," shadow as experienced within and in our "collectives." [Location TBA]

Instructor: Harry Fogarty, PhD

Thursday, July 14, 2011
10:00am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
The Music of the Spheres: A Musical Active Imagination

The archetypal themes of The Great Round of Life — birth, death and rebirth — will be explored and experienced through various genres, including classical, world and new age music. Through the rhythm of our mother's heartbeat, music is in our bodies before it enters our ears. Various modalities, such as video, breath and rhythmic entrainment provide a portal to encountering music actively. Listening fully, with bodies as well as with ears, music has the capacity to engender an experience of transcendence and to move us to states of profound meaning.

Instructor: Robert Sheavly, LICSW, DCSW

5:30 – 7:30 pm: Student Dinner

Friday July 15, 2011
10:00am – 1:00pm, & 2:30 – 5:00pm
Dream Midwifery: Rebirthing the God Image in the 21st Century

Jung made the distinction between the personal dream and the big dream, noting that while the personal dream helps us maintain day-to-day psychic balance, the big dream concerns universal human problems and occurs during critical phases of life. We will explore the images, symbols, and callings stemming from dreams that appear in response to the religious and political conflicts of our time. We will share dream experiences that help us transcend the polarities behind our alienation from nature, our selves, and one another and that present new symbolic pathways for envisaging the divine.

Instructor: Melanie Starr Costello, PhD

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Intensive Program 2:
The Dark Side of the Self
July 17 – 22, 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration, Welcome and Orientation

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Opening Dinner

Monday, July 18, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Noble Suffering: The Idea of the Tragic

When the tragic enters life, we are often at a loss of how to hold onto hope in the face of the dark. An understanding of the tragic helps us to see that for all the pain and misery tragedy brings, there can also be a sense of triumph of the human spirit in the face of individual catastrophe. We will examine closely the idea of the tragic and its place in art and mythology as well as in human lives. Archetypal and clinical material will amplify the discussion.

Instructor: Julie Bondanza, PhD

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 –5:00 pm
The War of the Gods in Addiction: C.G. Jung, AA, and Archetypal Evil

This seminar will present an original view of the creation and treatment of addiction through the dual lenses of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and Jungian psychology with an exploration of Archetypal Evil/Archetypal Shadow as a crucial ingredient in the process. We will also look at the Using Dreams of alcoholics and addicted individuals.

Instructor: David Schoen, LCSW, MSSW

Wednesday, July 20, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Bluebird ~ A Killer to recon with: How to Survive the Soul's Predator

Jung experienced the core of the archetypal shadow as an encompassing destructive and fragmenting force. It is a predator within the psyche. This predatory force can manifest as a psychopathic torturer in outer reality or as a tormentor, who attacks us from within. The dark eros of the fairytale of Bluebeard will guide us through its various manifestations in lived life and will show us ways of how psyche can escape the grip of her own inherent destructiveness.

Instructor: Heide M. Kolb, LCSW, NCPsyA

Thursday, July 21, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00pm; 2:30 – 5:00 pm
A Woman Scorned: Medea and Betrayal

Medea came on the literary stage 2500 years ago and has never left since then. Her story is told in plays, operas, films, novels, paintings, musicals. And still new variations come. Medea is darkly fascinating, terrifying, a character who insists on remaining in our presence, despite our fears and repulsion.

I became fascinated with her when I was nine years old and was cast as one of her children in a professional production of Euripides' play. In my personal journey, she entered my life again as I navigated the difficult waters of divorce. Medea's is a story of betrayal, a story of a woman whose dark powers were made to serve the goals of her man, a woman who attempted to submerge and domesticate herself.

Using images, passages from the plays, and clinical material we will delineate the Medea Complex and look at ways Medea evinces herself in modern women as reactions to betrayal. Our focus will be not on the child murders per se, but on the issue of betrayal — its seeds and outcomes.

The presentation will explore ways to avoid the destructive potential in Medea, to transform her energy into more authentic and less destructive paths. As the archetypal woman willing to give all for her man and then experiencing rage at his betrayal, Medea offers much for us to learn about ourselves and for our daughters — as well as our husbands and sons.

Instructor: Cheryl Fuller, PhD

5:30 – 7:30 pm: Student Dinner

Friday, July 22, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, & 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Healing through the Dark Emotions

We will discover the transformative power of befriending the emotions we most dread. Through didactic presentation, experiential practices, and case study, this seminar will teach the three basic skills and seven steps of the alchemy of dark emotions through which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens into joy, and despair becomes the ground of a more resilient faith in life.

Instructor: Miriam Greenspan, MEd, LMHC

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