Alchemical Approaches to Creative Practice

5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time, USA
Online only via Zoom.
Beginning October 7, 2024
Instructor: Mary Apikos

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

Modern day artists are defying, subverting, and disrupting the idyllic happy endings of folk and fairy tales that they were taught decades ago. Historically stories, myths and fairy tales have been outgrowths of the archetypal world of the collective unconscious. These stories have informed our psychological growth throughout decades. This course will give participants an opportunity to explore in depth a variety of stories related to the elements and alchemical processes of water, fire, earth and air. The stories will reflect the hero/ine's journey through each of these elements as both a journey through and a vessel that contains transformation. The course will combine Jungian Arts-Based Research methods to categorize stories according to the alchemical process of transformation. In addition, each session will be illustrated with images, music, film and texts, which will assist our creative practice.

Learning Objectives:

On completion of this class, you will be able to:

  • Gain an overview of basic alchemical processes of transformation through water, fire, earth, air as they relate to creative process.
  • Learn to use Jungian Arts Based Research Methods to expand one’s understanding of archetypes in art and literature.
  • Use organization tools taught in this course to assist learners in their creative practice.
  • Recognize the forms that alchemical processes of transformation play in one’s own creative work.

FACULTY

Mary Apikos taught at Parsons School of Design NYC for 17 years. She taught inter-disciplinary courses about aspects of design culture that fell through the cracks to people who fell through the cracks. She is ABD in Cultural Anthropology from CUNY Graduate Center and has worked as an ethnographic textile conservator at the Museum of the American Indian, George Heye Foundation NYC and in private practice where she specialized in the care of sacred materials. In 2022 Mary completed a one-year remote applied arts program at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies in South Africa and is on staff at The London Arts Based Research Centre. She is a working artist and currently resides in Chicago. Her work can be seen on her website maryapikos.com

Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP, is a senior Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City.  Former President of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, he is also a longtime faculty member. He has taught courses in dream interpretation online and in person for over 25 years.  He has published numerous papers on dream interpretation, Jungian psychology, narcissistic injury, systems theory and autism.

David Rottman, MA, is past President of the C.G. Jung Foundation and is a distinguished senior member of the Jung Foundation’s Continuing Education Faculty. He is the author of The Career as a Path to the Soul. He was the editor and publisher for The Way of the Image by Yoram Kaufmann. He has a private practice in New York City.

 Maria Taveras, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City.  She is also an award-winning creator of Dream Art.  She creates art from images in her own dreams and is the recipient of two Gradiva Awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for her Dream Art.  Her Dream Art has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley, London, Montreal, and Cape Town.

 

Program Information

PROGRAM COSTS

$150 per single-day program registration. There are no scholarships available for this program.

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LOCATION

These are online courses, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us

PAY ONLINE: YOU DO NOT NEED A PAYPAL ACCOUNT.
HERE IS HOW TO PAY WITH A CREDIT CARD:

On the Paypal login page, look below login fields for a boxed link
that reads PAY WITH DEBIT OR CREDIT CARD.

TUITION

All 5-week courses are $175 for the general public and $150 for members.

REGISTRATION

The full fee must be paid at the time of registration.
Please register through the payment buttons on this website.

$175 General Public


$150 Members

IMPORTANT NOTES:

When you pay you must also email your current email address and telephone number to the Foundation at cgjungny@aol.com.  The Foundation will send you an email message and you must reply to confirm receipt. If you are taking this course for 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists, please specify which license you hold and give your NYS license number.

 Class size is limited. Early registration is strongly recommended. Refunds for continuing education courses, less $15 for administrative services, will be made up to seven days before the first session. There will be no refunds issued after classes have begun. No exceptions will be made. Programs are subject to change without notice.


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