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The Role of Ceremony in Individuation

March 30, 2012

Friday Lecture with Kim Arndt, MAPC, BCPC, LPC

In his work, Jung clearly articulated the crucial psychological processes of adaptation and transcendence and their role in the dynamics of the psyche.  Ceremonies likely arose from these processes.  Throughout history, humans have used ceremony as a way of relating to forces beyond human control.  Ceremonies are also used to realize important passages in life in an effort at adaptation and transcendence.  In this sense, ceremonies are directly linked with psychic libido and the mutual interplay between conscious and unconscious.  Through the actions of the participants, ceremony creates a container and a process to unify the opposites of psyche and matter via symbolic action. We will explore the role of ceremony in psychic life and in the process of individuation.  Specifically, we will focus on non-conventional ceremonies created on an individual basis.  Consideration will be given to an anthropological perspective as well as comparisons between myths, fairy tales, dreams and ceremony.

Kim Arndt, MAPC, BCPC, LPC is a psychotherapist in private practice in Mesa, Arizona.  She is a diploma candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute in Kusnacht, Switzerland.  She is currently finishing her thesis, which is on the role of ceremony in the process of individuation.  She has participated in a number of conventional and unconventional ceremonies.  Kim has given lectures for the Southwest Psychoanalytic Society, Southwest Behavioral Health, and the Jung Society in Moscow.  She has worked at Friendship Community Mental Health Center in Phoenix, which is a mental health center dedicated to people disabled by mental illness.  In addition to a Master’s of Clinical Psychology, Kim has a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology.  She is widely traveled and was fortunate enough to visit the facilities of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India where she met Mother Teresa in 1994.

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Can I Make a Ceremony?

March 31, 2012

Saturday Workshop with Kim Arndt, MAPC, BCPC, LPC

In Saturday’s workshop, we will practice some basic ceremony and have access to various materials used in ceremony, as a continuation of our exploration of the role of ceremony in individuation.  Participants can create ceremony if they wish, and we will discuss the experience of acting out ceremony.

Kim Arndt, MAPC, BCPC, LPC is a psychotherapist in private practice in Mesa, Arizona.  She is a diploma candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute in Kusnacht, Switzerland.  She is currently finishing her thesis, which is on the role of ceremony in the process of individuation.  She has participated in a number of conventional and unconventional ceremonies.  Kim has given lectures for the Southwest Psychoanalytic Society, Southwest Behavioral Health, and the Jung Society in Moscow.  She has worked at Friendship Community Mental Health Center in Phoenix, which is a mental health center dedicated to people disabled by mental illness.  In addition to a Master’s of Clinical Psychology, Kim has a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology.  She is widely traveled and was fortunate enough to visit the facilities of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India where she met Mother Teresa in 1994.

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Event Times, Locations, and Fees

(unless otherwise stated in the event description)

Friday Lectures

Time: 7:30 p.m. (lasting about 2.5 hours)

Fee: Member is$10; Non-member is $15

Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 2310 N. 56th Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85008

Saturday Workshops

Time: 10:00 a.m. (lasting 4–6 hours)

Fee: Member is $50; Non-member is $60

$5 discount for early workshop registration (before 9:00 p.m. the previous evening)

Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 2310 N. 56th Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85008

For more information contact Leslie Knowlton at 602-206-3891 or by email

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Event Times, Locations, and Fees

(unless otherwise stated in the event description)

Friday Lectures

Time: 7:30 p.m. (lasting about 2.5 hours)

Fee: Member is$10; Non-member is $15

Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 2310 N. 56th Street, Phoenix, AZ,85008

Saturday Workshops

Time: 10:00 a.m. (lasting 4–6 hours)

Fee: Member is $50; Non-member is $60

$5 discount for early workshop registration (before 9:00 p.m. the previous evening)

Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 2310 N. 56th Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85008

For more information contact Leslie Knowlton at 602-206-3891 or by email