Workshops and Seminars
The C.G. Jung Foundation presents
Crossroads, Transitions, and Transformation:
The Middle Space
a daylong seminar led by
Katherine W. Olivetti, MSSW
Saturday, May 10, 2008
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
At the intersection of crossing roads there is a middle place that is neither here nor there, neither this way nor that. This middle space is one of transition where a change of direction becomes a possibility.
Transitional times and spaces: dawn and dusk, crossroads and thresholds are notoriously precarious. Here demons and tricksters, guardians and gods appear and make their presences known. Sometimes trouble arrives, or chaos is unleashed, or a wrong turn is taken, but often, out of the experience at the crossroads a new order begins to emerge.
Negotiating the middle space requires new attitudes. The experience can be felt as frustrating, painful, exhilarating, challenging, boring, exciting, frightening, liberating … This is a place where the opposites are not clearly defined, where rules are suspended, collisions abound, and new possibilities emerge.
During the workshop we will explore the archetypal underpinnings of transitions, the psychological relevance to the individuation process and strategies to negotiate transitions successfully and creatively.
Katherine W. Olivetti, MSSW, is a Jungian Analyst who has practiced in Manhattan for many years. A former president of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, who also supervised and taught, as well as a clinical faculty member of the Child Study Center at Yale University, Mrs. Olivetti will speak about transitions from a professional as well as a personal point of view as she is in the process of relocating to the San Francisco Bay area in California.