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Hillman and Soul-Making in Troubled Times [WEBINAR]
by Rebecca & Dennis Pottenger
February 21, 2026 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm MST
In our troubled times we come together to follow James Hillman’s operations of soul-making to engage with aspects of soul that seek expression in the world through us.
Both Hillman and Jung stressed the need to tend to the world we live in. Jung wrote that the project of individuation must engage the moral challenge of differentiating from unconscious influences toward bringing something of value into the world. He also observed that what we do not face within ourselves, we face in the world as fate. Civilization is seeing a global expansion of authoritarianism, and we are meeting the collective shadow as fate in dreadful social, political, and environmental consequences.
Mythologist Michael Meade described these times as a slow apocalypse. Following the original meaning of apocalypse, what shadow material is being revealed in these times and what is our task in meeting it?
In A Blue Fire, Hillman wrote “Culture [is] a mythic enterprise” and the ego must be resilient enough to engage in outer life and its uncertainties: Following fear as a path into the imaginal possibilities at work in the depths of culture and soul so that we might “orient life by their compass.”
During this webinar, we will take an image-rich, PowerPoint discussion of Hillman’s processes of soul-making and the telling of a mythic tale into active imagination to connect with and allow ourselves to feel and be moved by archetypal, transpersonal, and ensouled energies seeking expression in our lives, returning us to hope, vitality, wisdom, and a sense of community.
REBECCA AND DENNIS POTTENGER are Jungian-oriented psychotherapists in Fresno, CA. Rebecca leads women’s retreats premised on creative engagement with Hillman’s theory and edits depth-psychological works. Dennis authored Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo and has several forthcoming books applying Jungian and Hillmanian theory to racism, white supremacy, and authoritarianism. They co-led a monthly Jungian learning circle from 2011-2018 and have presented at the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies and Jung Associations of Central Ohio and Pheonix.
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Select one of the ticket options below. Online registration ends on Friday, February 20, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time.
The ZOOM link will be sent out to everyone who registers on Friday, February 20, 2026 after registration closes and by 4:00 pm Mountain time.
This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week later.
**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture via ZOOM to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).
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