A Mythic Path to Healing

Saturday, December 6, 2025
10:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
a Zoom seminar led by Julie Bondanza, PhD

Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

“Myths and fairytales give expression to unconscious processes, and their retelling causes these processes to come alive again and be recollected, thereby re-establishing the connection between conscious and unconscious.”
— C.G. Jung, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, CW 9ii: 280

In this workshop, we will explore several myths and fairy tales to discover the healing that occurs in the story and to learn to apply the method suggested by the healing either to our ourselves or to our practice of psychotherapy. We will look at the myth of Medusa to work with the victim complex, and the story of Oedipus to work with the problem of a too one-sided personality. We will also look at the Homeric Hymn to Demeter to explore the mother complex in women. The Red Shoes presents the problem of unmourned grief and the effect on the psyche.
The program will also be opened up to stories the participants may want to work with and we can explore together how the myth or fairy tale shows the trajectory of healing.

Learning Objectives:

1.  Describe the wound that needed healing based on one of the myths explored in this workshop.

2. Describe what created the wound in one of the stories explored.

3. Describe how the myth reveals a way of working with the wound.

4. Suggest a myth or fairy tale that might provide a trajectory toward healing.

 

Julie Bondanza, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychologist in private practice in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. She trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was on the teaching faculty for many years. She has been the director of training for both the New York Institute and the Philadelphia branch of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is the program director for the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, where she had served for many years on its board of trustees, and she teaches in many Jungian venues across the country, both to the public and to analysts-in-training.

Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by New York State Education Department’s State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0350.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0015.

C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0068.

Saturday, December 6, 2025
10:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
This is an online program via Zoom.  This program will not be recorded.