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Friday Evening Talk – January 18, 2013
Marilia will introduce an archetypal perspective on the effectiveness of fairy tales and storytelling toward understanding the roundabout awakening process in committed couples. The 2000 year-old Apuleius tale of the marriage of Eros & Psyché, as retold by Robert Johnson in She, will be her point of departure. The focus of the talk, however, will be the essence of the 1700s French version of the story—La Belle & la Bête—as interpreted by filmmaker Jean Cocteau in post-war France (1946), and by the Walt Disney animated version, Beauty and the Beast (1991).
The fairytale Beauty and the Beast, as proposed by Jung, is about the awakening process in ourselves and in marriage. It is about human transformation and transcendence through self-knowledge, intentional dialogue, selflessness, and moral capacity. In essence, it is about the birth of Consciousness.
For couples interested in healthy relationships, awareness of this process invites psychological growth, synergy, integrity, and the ability “to see the Other.” For couples therapists, awareness of archetypal forces in couple-making might facilitate more precise, concise, and to-the-point clinical interventions. For Jungians, it is a delightful voyage into the depths of our most enduring archetypes.
Marilia would like to suggest the following resources to enjoy prior to attending the presentation and workshop.
- Robert Johnson’s She: Understanding Feminine Psychology (1989)
- Erich Neumann’s Amor and Psyché (Paperback Edition, 1971)
- Disney animated version of Beauty and the Beast (Special Edition, 2002)
- Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (Criterion Collection, 2003), with English subtitles
Marilia Baker, MSW, is a multicultural Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Keenly interested in Carl G. Jung’s teachings and depth psychology since 1961, Ms. Baker studied the Intensive Journal with Ira Progroff in Boston in the 1970s. Over the past 50 years she has sought knowledge and wisdom from Jungian luminaries, among them Jean Shinoda Bolen, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, James Hillman, James Hollis, Murray Stein, Jonathan Young, and Marion Woodman. These authors and many others have opened up meaningful psychological and spiritual pathways throughout her professional life.
In addition, Baker’s personal experiences throughout an international, transcultural 45-year marriage, contributed to her scientific interest in the meanderings of a dyad’s developmental journey, and on how couples are harnessed together by the force of archetypal energies.
Board Member of the Phoenix Institute of Ericksonian Therapy, Ms. Baker is an International Consultant and Advisor to Centro Ericksoniano de Mexico, and Invited Faculty at the Milton H. Erickson Foundation international congresses on Ericksonian Approaches. Author of A Tribute to Elizabeth Moore Erickson: Colleague Extraordinaire, Wife, Mother and Companion (2004), also published in French, Portuguese and Spanish. Marilia Baker is an Advisor on Board of Phoenix Friends of C.G. Jung.
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Kenneally-Jung’s Concept of Individuation
Posted by: | CommentsLecture with Stephen Kenneally, Jung’s Concept of Individuation
January 20, 2012
Individuation, the lifelong development of the personality, is central to Jung’s psychology. It is the process of becoming the person one is innately meant to be. While aspects of this concept have been embraced by popular culture, the true depth and scope of Jung’s theory requires a much closer examination. Rather than merely describing a simple version of self-improvement, individuation describes an intricate process of becoming a person who can relate deeply to his or her psyche.
Stephen Kenneally, MBA, MFT, is a Jungian psychotherapist and consultant in Santa Monica, CA. He teaches psychology and ethics at Antioch University and is the current Chair of the Opus Archives and Research Center (a research institute within Pacifica Graduate Institute that holds the archives of Joseph Campbell and other eminent scholars in depth psychology and mythology). Prior to becoming a psychotherapist Stephen worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan. He received a BS in economics from Harvard, an MBA from the Darden School of Business, and an MA in psychology counseling from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is currently an analyst-in-training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles, where he offers periodic lectures.
Scott Haasarud, Ph.D. – Jung and Jesus
Posted by: | CommentsWorkshop with Scott Haasarud, Ph.D.
December 10, 2011
On Saturday we will explore together through group discussion how several of Jesus’ stories probe deeply into our own psyche. The New Testament scholar Henry Sharmon once wrote that to enter deeply into the teachings of Jesus is to enter deeply into oneself. We will explore how Jung has informed that possibility.
Scott Haasarud is an ordained Lutheran Minister in private practice as a spiritual director, Jungian oriented therapist and pastoral counselor. His doctoral degree is in Religion and Psychology and he studied for many years at the C.G Jung Institute in Los Angeles. He spent one year as a matriculated student at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. For questions about the workshop or lecture, you may contact Scott by email or call him at 602 265-2500.
Haasarud-Jung’s Contribution to Understanding Jesus
Posted by: | CommentsLecture with Scott Haasarud, Ph.D. - Jung’s Contribution to Understanding Jesus
December 9, 2011
- Jung observed that human beings are meaning makers and that the nature of human understanding and meaning making is essentially mythic as well as rational. The purpose of this lecture is to use the archetypal and mythological insights of Jung to shed light on the meaning that the Gospel stories of Jesus have for our lives today. For example the birth of Jesus reminds us of the virgin birth of the hero and the mythic significance of the great mother goddess. Stories like the prodigal son are deeply related to the archetype of individuation. This lecture will use some of the basic ideas of the psychology of C.G. Jung as tools for interpreting myth, specifically the myths that were projected onto Jesus of Nazareth, the central events in his life, and the stories he told.
Scott Haasarud is an ordained Lutheran Minister in private practice as a spiritual director, Jungian oriented therapist and pastoral counselor. His doctoral degree is in Religion and Psychology and he studied for many years at the C.G Jung Institute in Los Angeles. He spent one year as a matriculated student at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. For questions about the workshop or lecture, you may contact Scott by email or call him at 602 265-2500.
Giannini-The Elegant Evolution of Typology
Posted by: | CommentsLecture with John Giannini, The Elegant Evolution of Typology
April 1, 2011
Accepting one’s type, as well as its breadth of outlook, are key themes in John Giannini’s sweeping take on the Jungians’ “stepchild.” Giannini will discuss how and why he wrote an extensive book on typology entitled Compass of the Soul. He will discuss its value for individuals that is lost among most psychologists, including analysts, who, along with Jung, have treated the types as orphans. Yet, this famous Swiss medico, scholar and mystic implied that the types are archetypes, and so also spiritually powerful, but never systematically did so. This task became the burden of Giannini’s book. Jung also showed them to be a “critical psychology,” as well as the ground of every intellectual theory.
Now, Giannini sees them in deeper contexts. He has learned from evolutionists their connection with a nature that evolved through “elegant” moments that made possible our existence. Similarly, the types have evolved in us in many such ways. Also, these archetypes emerged in an elegant and profoundly personal time in Jung’s life, as described both in Memories, Dreams and Reflections and in his Red Book (Liber Novus). In this context, they take on even more depth and spiritual meaning for individuals, as well as for society.
JOHN GIANNINI, MA, MBA, MDiv is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Chicago and Evanston. He holds an MDiv in Religion and Psychology from St. Albert’s College, an MA in Psychology and Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity School, an MBA from Stanford University, and an LCPC certification with the State of Illinois. John has published articles and lectures widely throughout the U.S. and Canada on the wounded child within, and narcissistic/addictive behavior. He is the author of Compass of the Soul, an updated understanding of typology. He is now completing a book entitled The Sacred Secret: The Maternal Principle and Her Love in Persons and Nature.
JOHN GIANNINI, MA, MBA, MDiv – Workshop April 2011
Posted by: | CommentsTYPOLOGY AS THE BASIS OF A LIFE JOURNEY
Saturday Workshop: April 2, 2011
Giannini will lead participants, with their constant input, in a life journey, based on the four couplings and aided by Erik Erikson’s eight life ages, as well as Jung’s overarching two stages of life, which are discussed in Jung’s mid-life crisis, as now so amazingly described in his Red Book. Our journey with the couplings begins with an SF parental phase, followed by an ST competitive phase, then a typical mid-life crisis, a plunge into an NF creative phase of new discoveries with memories, dreams and reflections, and finally an expanded NT philosophical/spiritual phase. Giannini will seek participant input throughout.
Finally, in the NF and NT phases, Giannini will demonstrate that the intuitive function here not only embraces the other types, but also is found in the essence of every archetype, every synchronicity experience, and finally constitutes the basic structure of the synchronicity principle, which Jung described as the “universal substratum in the environment,” and so of psyche.
Expectations and Preparations:
That the instructor will be open to full participation and dialogue.
That each participant will know his/her typology.
That each participant will have read the assigned material that the instructor will send or, if so desired, read Chapters 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Compass of the Soul.
Recommended Readings:
Compass Paper ONE
Compass Paper TWO
Compass Paper THREE
Compass Paper FOUR
Compass Review Galipeau
Compass Review JAP
Giannini Chapter Nine B
Giannini Chapter Nine A
JOHN GIANNINI, MA, MBA, MDiv is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Chicago and Evanston. He holds an MDiv in Religion and Psychology from St. Albert’s College, an MA in Psychology and Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity School, an MBA from Stanford University, and an LCPC certification with the State of Illinois. John has published articles and lectures widely throughout the U.S. and Canada on the wounded child within, and narcissistic/addictive behavior. He is the author of Compass of the Soul, an updated understanding of typology. He is now completing a book entitled The Sacred Secret: The Maternal Principle and Her Love in Persons and Nature.
SUSAN SCHWARTZ, PhD – March 2011
Posted by: | CommentsDREAMS AND TRAUMA
Friday Evening Talk: March 18, 2011
I would like to select some of Jung’s dreams, ones not usually presented, to illustrate their connection to personal and collective events–specifically, traumatic ones. Jung’s dreams picked up much of the collective trauma of his era as well as his own. This will be a discussion about how we can look at dreams and see how they illustrate trauma to the body, mind and soul. In addition to being warning signals, the dreams also are key to revealing the tools and the solutions. We could say that the pathway of individuation leads us through dreams, into trauma, and back again in an unending loop to become our authentic selves.
FAIRY TALES, TRAUMA AND DREAMS
Saturday Workshop: March 19, 2011
Fairy tales are mirrors of our psyches and present to us the personal and collective tasks of our lives. They have much symbolic material that unravels more and more as we develop deeper awareness of ourselves. We identify, for many reasons and from our own traumas, with certain characters in the stories that are favorites from childhood–and adulthood. To some degree, we live out these stories, too often unaware of how much the past tales may be shaping our present lives.
It is a great treasure and responsibility to know which tales have a hold on us. These stories make up a kind of collective dream that we all share in bits and pieces. If we are to understand our dreams, we can look into these stories and study them. If we want to understand the stories, we can examine our dreams. There is an interrelationship between these two forms of the inner and outer, self and other, leading us to more fully comprehend the tasks of our individual and collective lives.
SUSAN SCHWARTZ, PhD is a Jungian analyst trained in Zürich, Switzerland, as well as a licensed clinical psychologist. For many years Susan has enjoyed giving workshops and presentations at various venues, and lectures worldwide on Jungian analytical psychology. She is the author of several journal articles on daughters and fathers, Puella, Sylvia Plath, a chapter in the four editions of Counseling and Psychotherapy textbook and a chapter in Perpetual Adolescence, published in 2009. She is a member of the New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts, the International Association of Analytical Psychology, the American Psychological Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and Phoenix Friends of Jung. Her website is http://susanschwartzphd.com/
LYNDA STEELE, LCSW – January 2011
Posted by: | CommentsADDICTION AS AN ARCHETYPAL SYMBOL OF SPIRITUS CONTRA SPIRITUM, A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
Friday, January 14, 2011
Lecture
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.” –Carl Jung
After many years of analysis with Ebby, a close friend of Bill Wilson (one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous), Carl Jung told Ebby that he was hopeless without a vital Spiritual experience, in regard to his alcoholism.
Alcoholism, addiction to ethanol, or addictions in general, are within the psyche an unrecognized spiritual need, an unconscious desire to be in union with god. Addicts report using for two reasons: for medicine, to relieve suffering; for the high, to be close to spirit. The experience of loss of control that accompanies the physical dependence and tissue tolerance of the drug to the body increases the feeling of shame. The initiation of addiction leads to isolation. Isolation allows for any evil principle to prevail.
Jung’s quote,
“an ordinary man not protected by action from above and isolated in society, cannot resist the power of evil,”
describes the plight of the addict. The longing or Craving for one’s drug of choice, even in the face of dire consequences and continued use, is the puzzle in addiction. Through the telling of the myth The Red Shoes we will reveal the archetypal motifs that play out in the Initiation through Addiction and Recovery. Through the group’s active imagination we will shed some consciousness on this puzzle.
ADDICTION AS AN ARCHETYPAL SYMBOL
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Workshop
Through Active Imagination we will look closely at archetypal motifs that come from the myth The Red Shoes. The group will continue to unfold these motifs through telling of personal/professional experience with addictions as it relates to the myth’s motifs chosen. The Red Shoes is rich in wisdom regarding the spiritual journey addiction takes one on.
Through ritual and ceremony the group will experience the discipline and surrender required for the gold to emerge or the genius to be lived–what it really means to become willing to cut your feet off and be of service to others. I would ask that each participant in Saturday’s Workshop bring their authority and creativity. All percussion instruments are welcome, voices loved, movement appreciated, colors, textures, imagination most welcome, as we look at the brutal myth The Red Shoes and gain wisdom into one of today’s culture’s loose threads, addictions.
From a Jungian perspective of individuation, a mythical perspective of an initiation, a 12 Step spiritual perspective and Lynda’s 20 years experience with active addiction, and 30 years a person in Recovery–a person out of her leg trap of her initiation of addiction and now in her eldership as a wise woman in the addiction journey of spirituality and recovery.
LYNDA STEELE, LCSW has been working in the field of addictive disease since 1981. She began designing and implementing addiction programs in the mid-1980s and has designed clinical programs for several of the leading addictive disease residential treatment programs in the nation. In the early 1990s she began her own private practice specializing in treating individuals, couples and families suffering from the disease of addiction. She also serves on the Board of Directors and is the Director of Program Services for Project Recovery, Inc., a not for profit organization that provides residential, sober-living for adult men and women. She is a Partner at The Center for Transpersonal Therapy, a psychotherapist, Addictions Counselor, storyteller and guide, with 36 years experience in healing professions. Her fascination with mythology and psychology, and her personal and professional experience with addictions, led her to Carl Jung’s work and the integration of his philosophy into her work with the individuation process through addiction.
Leslie Knowlton, MFA, ACC – Workshop November 2010
Posted by: | CommentsHow Knowing More About Personality Type Contributes to More Effective Relationships
Workshop: Saturday, November 20, 2010
What is your true type? We will come to clarity as a group on this process for each participant. In the process we learn more about the nuances and power of the dynamics of the model. With this information you will be able to understand what your development path forward tells you about how to recognize stages of stress in yourself and in those around you, as well as what you can learn from the clarity you find in the nature of your type’s shadow.
Leslie Knowlton, MFA, ACC, has her own business as a development coach and social media consultant in the Phoenix area. She has worked in leadership development and organizational change for the past 20 years. She earned her coaching certification from the International Coaching Federation in 2008. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Media Studies from the State University of New York (Visual Studies Workshop, NY) and a Bachelors of Science in Aesthetic Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, CA. The focus of her work is to bring the power of Jungian principles of personality type and archetypes to the work of change and renewal for leaders, groups and organizational systems. See more about her on her website at www.suddenlyheard.com.
Knowlton-Jung’s Typology: Patterns, Paths and Individuation
Posted by: | CommentsLeslie Knowlton’s lecture, Jung’s Typology: Patterns, Paths and Individuation
November 19, 2010
This talk will be presented in three parts:
- Jung’s motivation to bring understanding to human typology,
- MBTI, the model and the discovery of true type,
- the impact of the dynamic of personality type on your development path.
Why is personality type significant? Assumptions are necessary, but understanding type helps us to realize the motivation behind our assumptions. “There is a danger that assumptions or hypotheses, being self-evident to ourselves, may lead us to make statements of a general character—for example, about the nature of the mind—and to claim that these are ‘true’, forgetting that we are still talking of hypotheses and not of ‘absolute’ truths” (E. A. Bennet, 1966). Also, Jung’s typology provides the foundation to help us to explore how we find balance in our lives as we develop to become the best versions of our authentic selves.
Leslie Knowlton, MFA, ACC, has her own business as a development coach and social media consultant in the Phoenix area. She has worked in leadership development and organizational change for the past 20 years. She earned her coaching certification from the International Coaching Federation in 2008. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Media Studies from the State University of New York (Visual Studies Workshop, NY) and a Bachelors of Science in Aesthetic Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, CA. The focus of her work is to bring the power of Jungian principles of personality type and archetypes to the work of change and renewal for leaders, groups and organizational systems. See more about her on her website at www.suddenlyheard.com.
