Accepting the Other: What Does “Inclusion” Mean? [LECTURE]
2024-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver)
By Joseph Wakefield

How do we process our experience of encountering someone who has different experiences than ourselves? What if the other person comes from a different culture? When considering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), what is meant by inclusion? There are uses of the word inclusion that broaden our understanding and knowing of another. There are other, darker uses that deny the other’s subjective reality and harm both parties.

In the Friday evening talk, I will first describe several different ways that our minds use to know another person. Next, I will describe some cross-cultural misunderstandings and learnings from mistakes. Then I will consider how we may improve our empathic understanding of others in our everyday lives, be it in the consulting room or with our neighbors.

The Saturday workshop, “The Archetype of the Wounded Healer: Uses and Misuses of Countertransference in Depth Analytic Therapy,” is an exploration of the use of countertransference in depth analytic therapy. The thesis is that our personal wounding can be useful to inform us when we become the therapist of others. We will explore both how countertransference may be useful and how it may be dangerous if the analytic container is broken, i.e. should ethical boundaries not be recognized. Prior to the workshop, participants are strongly encouraged to read The Wounded Healer: Countertransference from a Jungian Perspective, by David Sedgwick (Routledge, N.Y., 1994, 166 pages).

JOSEPH WAKEFIELD, MD, is a Jungian analyst (retired) residing in Austin, Texas. He has an interest in cross-cultural psychiatry, which has taken him to live and work among the American Navajo Indians and within an Israeli kibbutz. From 1977 until 1980, he and his family lived in El Salvador, Central America. As a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts he has advocated expanding cultural awareness beyond the European basis of the Society’s origins.

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Online preregistration for this program has ended (as of Friday, September 20, 2024 at 9:00 am Mountain Time). If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

If you register to attend via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, September 20, 2024 by Noon Mountain Time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registers for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — IN PERSON or via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Archetype of the Wounded Healer: Uses and Misuses of Countertransference in Depth Analytic Therapy [WORKSHOP]
2024-09-21 09:00 - 13:30
How do we process our experience of encountering someone who has different experiences than ourselves? What if the other person comes from a different culture? When considering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), what is meant by inclusion? There are uses of the word inclusion that broaden our understanding and knowing of another. There are other, darker uses that deny the other’s subjective reality and harm both parties.

In the Friday evening talk, I will first describe several different ways that our minds use to know another person. Next, I will describe some cross-cultural misunderstandings and learnings from mistakes. Then I will consider how we may improve our empathic understanding of others in our everyday lives, be it in the consulting room or with our neighbors.

The Saturday workshop, “The Archetype of the Wounded Healer: Uses and Misuses of Countertransference in Depth Analytic Therapy,” is an exploration of the use of countertransference in depth analytic therapy. The thesis is that our personal wounding can be useful to inform us when we become the therapist of others. We will explore both how countertransference may be useful and how it may be dangerous if the analytic container is broken, i.e. should ethical boundaries not be recognized. Prior to the workshop, participants are strongly encouraged to read The Wounded Healer: Countertransference from a Jungian Perspective, by David Sedgwick (Routledge, N.Y., 1994, 166 pages).

JOSEPH WAKEFIELD, MD, is a Jungian analyst (retired) residing in Austin, Texas. He has an interest in cross-cultural psychiatry, which has taken him to live and work among the American Navajo Indians and within an Israeli kibbutz. From 1977 until 1980, he and his family lived in El Salvador, Central America. As a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts he has advocated expanding cultural awareness beyond the European basis of the Society’s origins.

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Online preregistration for this program has ended (as of Friday, September 20, 2024 at 9:00 am Mountain Time). If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door. Doors open at 8:30 am.

This 4-hour workshop is in-person only and runs from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm with a 30-minute break.

In Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Archetype of the Southern Belle [LECTURE]
2024-10-04 19:00 - 21:00
By Lucie Magnus

The Southern Belle is a familiar American archetype and as such draws “her” energy from deep within the instinctual nature of the eternal feminine. This Friday evening lecture will examine the archetypal nature of the Southern Belle, drawing from mythological stories, fairy tales, literature, and the movies. It will also look at the cultural and psychological layers that alternately enhance and restrict natural feminine energy. Specifically, I will explore the archetypal nature of some of the goddesses present in the Southern Belle. How have their energies been savored and how have they been soured? What are the “directives” inherited by some Southern women that warp and woo? How does the Southern Belle complex develop and how can it transform? Overall, this presentation is an attempt to tease out a sliver of the infinite resources of the eternal feminine energy inherent in life.

Saturday’s workshop, “The Eternal Feminine” reflects on Toni Wolff’s article, “The Structure of the Feminine Psyche.” It will explore the eternal feminine and how “She” is experienced in the life of women and through a man’s anima. There will be a short presentation of Toni Wolff’s as yet unpublished article, “Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche.” In it, Wolff explored women’s lived experience through the lens of patterns of relatedness. She identified a personal axis of relational preference as Mother or Hetaira and an impersonal axis of Medial Woman and Amazon. Together, we will explore goddesses embodied in these four types and how these types show up in our consulting rooms and in our lives. The workshop structure will consist of short presentations with time for personal reflection and discussion. Our resources will be from mythology, fairy tales, literature, popular culture, and our own experiences.

LUCIE MAGNUS, MA, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama, where she has lived all her life. She entered training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) in 2000 and graduated in 2007. She is an original participant in the New Orleans Jungian Seminar and has been a member of the core teaching faculty there since 2007. Lucie has held leadership positions in the IRSJA, serving on the Executive and Training Committees. Her interest in and introduction to the Feminine began with a reply from her first therapist when Lucie expressed her desire that her young daughter would enjoy being a girl. Her therapist’s response was, “She will enjoy being a girl when you enjoy being a woman.” She left his office wondering, “What does that mean? Do I need to start wearing pink?” Lucie has also lectured and presented workshops around the Southeast on such topics as the Southern Belle, the Eternal Feminine, love, Jung 101, and Jung for the Life Span.

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Pre-registration for this program has ended as of Friday, October 4, 2024 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door, payment by cash or check only. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

If you registered to attend via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, October 4, 2024 by Noon Mountain Time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registers for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — IN PERSON or via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Eternal Feminine [WORKSHOP]
2024-10-05 09:00 - 13:30
By Lucie Magnus

The Southern Belle is a familiar American archetype and as such draws “her” energy from deep within the instinctual nature of the eternal feminine. The Friday evening lecture will examine the archetypal nature of the Southern Belle, drawing from mythological stories, fairy tales, literature, and the movies. It will also look at the cultural and psychological layers that alternately enhance and restrict natural feminine energy. Specifically, I will explore the archetypal nature of some of the goddesses present in the Southern Belle. How have their energies been savored and how have they been soured? What are the “directives” inherited by some Southern women that warp and woo? How does the Southern Belle complex develop and how can it transform? Overall, this presentation is an attempt to tease out a sliver of the infinite resources of the eternal feminine energy inherent in life.

This Saturday workshop, “The Eternal Feminine: Reflecting on Toni Wolff’s article, “The Structure of the Feminine Psyche”,” will explore the eternal feminine and how “She” is experienced in the life of women and through a man’s anima. There will be a short presentation of Toni Wolff’s as yet unpublished article, “Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche.” In it, Wolff explored women’s lived experience through the lens of patterns of relatedness. She identified a personal axis of relational preference as Mother or Hetaira and an impersonal axis of Medial Woman and Amazon. Together, we will explore goddesses embodied in these four types and how these types show up in our consulting rooms and in our lives. The workshop structure will consist of short presentations with time for personal reflection and discussion. Our resources will be from mythology, fairy tales, literature, popular culture, and our own experiences.

LUCIE MAGNUS, MA, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama, where she has lived all her life. She entered training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) in 2000 and graduated in 2007. She is an original participant in the New Orleans Jungian Seminar and has been a member of the core teaching faculty there since 2007. Lucie has held leadership positions in the IRSJA, serving on the Executive and Training Committees. Her interest in and introduction to the Feminine began with a reply from her first therapist when Lucie expressed her desire that her young daughter would enjoy being a girl. Her therapist’s response was, “She will enjoy being a girl when you enjoy being a woman.” She left his office wondering, “What does that mean? Do I need to start wearing pink?” Lucie has also lectured and presented workshops around the Southeast on such topics as the Southern Belle, the Eternal Feminine, love, Jung 101, and Jung for the Life Span.

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Pre-registration for this program has ended, as of Friday, October 4, 2024 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door, payment by cash or check only. Doors open at 8:30 am.

This 4-hour workshop is in-person only and runs from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm with a 30-minute break.

In Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Political Panel: Mercurial Dynamics [LECTURE]
2024-11-08 19:00 - 21:00
By Connie Romero, David Solem, and Larry Rayburn

As we face the general and presidential election of 2024, hope and dread wrestle for dominance. Surely, we tell ourselves, things can’t go on as they have been. Conversely, we resign ourselves for a dystopian four years and beyond. In such moments as these, the perceptual tools C. G. Jung proposed are among the few that allow us to tolerate and reflect on extreme times in a genuinely psychological way. As his Red Book shows, Jung faced such disarray and psychosis with intelligence and heart. Indeed, his psychology was born of extremity.

Jung also wrote of the mercurial spirit that, like the volatile alchemical mercury, cannot be pinned down. The more we try to do so the more this element seems to move––even more freely and perversely in response to attempts at control, whether personal, cultural, or political. In this Friday evening forum, three Jungian Analysts, Connie Romero, David Solem, and Larry Rayburn will attempt to capture some of the mercurial dynamics in psychological phenomena attached to the political arena such as narcissism, queer theory, and the figure of the trickster. Each of these analysts will take a turn presenting and then face one another to question and further tease out their ideas through dialog. Following the panel’s conversation, the discussion will open up to include the audience and their questions.

Please join us on this Friday evening after the election as we address the realities and possibilities of a great national reckoning together.

CONSTANCE ROMERO, LPC, is a Jungian analyst practicing in New Orleans and a senior training analyst and clinical supervisor with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). She is currently co-editor of the Clinical Commentaries for The Journal of Analytical Psychology, and has published articles and reviews in that publication as well as The International Journal of Jungian Studies and Psychological Perspectives. She lectures on Jungian psychology in the US, Europe and Indonesia.

DAVID SOLEM, MSW, MAPC, MA, MM, is a diplomate Jungian analyst through IRSJA-IAAP and a training analyst on the faculties of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, the Memphis-Atlanta Jungian Seminar, and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. His publications have appeared in Psychological Perspectives (2017), Quadrant (2018), and the Journal of Analytical Psychology (2019 & 2021). David is in private clinical practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also a classically trained musician and holds the position of principal keyboard (harpsichord, organ, piano) with Santa Fe Pro Musica as well as the position of assistant organist at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe.

LARRY RAYBURN, MA, s a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe where he is currently president. He is also a senior training analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Larry is interested in male psychology, particularly that of boys and the father, and in the theories of play and psychic energy. He has presented and taught on the alchemical opus, contra naturam, or work against nature, as expressed in the flow and counter-flow of human life, the natural world, and clinical practice.

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Select one of the Ticket options below. Online preregistration for this program has ended as of Friday, November 8, 2024, 9:00 am Mountain Time. If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Due to the recent snow fall in Santa Fe, everyone who bought tickets to attend the live lecture will also receive the ZOOM link so that in-person ticket holders can have the option of choosing to attend online.

The ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, November 8, 2024 by Noon Mountain Time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registers for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — IN PERSON or via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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A Row of Tombs: Jung and Reincarnation [FILM]
2024-12-06 19:00 - 21:00
By Sabine Lucas

A Row of Tombs: Jung and Reincarnation is a documentary film based on three videotaped interviews held in 1985 with the late Jungian therapist and New York philanthropist, Erlo van Waveren. The film documents van Waveren’s analytical work with C.G. Jung on Jung’s past life dreams and visions. In the interviews, van Waveren discloses previously unknown facts about Jung’s and his inner circle’s preoccupation with past life material in dreams at a time when the Zeitgeist would not allow this perspective to come out into the open.

In the film, Dr. Sabine Lucas––a Zurich trained Jungian analyst of the next generation who authored the book, Past Life Dreamwork: Healing the Soul by Understanding Karmic Patterns (Baer & Company, 2008)––introduces Erlo van Waveren and his material. Throughout the film, she comments on van Wavern’s material and amplifies it from her perspective as a psychotherapist with a long history of working with past life dreams.

In this Friday evening program, Dr. Lucas will show her documentary in person. The film will be preceded by a brief introduction where she will relate synchronistic events that called this film into being. The viewing of the film will be followed by a discussion with the audience.

SABINE LUCAS was born, raised, and educated in Germany. She holds a PhD in German and English studies from Heidelberg University and a diploma from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. While in Zurich, she translated articles for Jung’s Collected Works as well as American trance medium Jane Robert’s books, Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality, into German. After relocating to the United States, Dr. Lucas introduced students at the California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno to dream analysis and worked as a part-time therapist at the Counseling Center in Mariposa, California. Since 1987, she has been in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After the 2008 publication of her groundbreaking study, Past Life Dreamwork, Dr. Lucas has mostly specialized on past life dreams and past life integration.

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Select one of the Ticket options below. Online preregistration for attending the live program HAS ENDED as of Friday, December 6, 2024 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

If you registered to attend via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, December 6, 2024 by Noon Mountain Time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registers for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — IN PERSON or via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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In Ananke's Lap: Necessity and Grace [ZOOM Webinar]
2025-01-18 10:00 - 13:00
By Safron Rossi

In this archetypal psychological exploration of the goddesses Ananke, the Fates, and the Graces, we will consider how grace and receptivity to the archetypal necessity at work in the deep patterns of the psyche contributes to the discovery of meaning, which ultimately reveals the way our lives are lived in the lap of the gods.

Zoom participants will gain understanding of the significance of archetypal necessity in the thought of both C. G. Jung and James Hillman, will locate and reflect upon how archetypal necessity appears in personal experience, and will gain knowledge of the role of myth in patterns of behavior.

SAFRON ROSSI, PhD, is Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program. Formerly she was Curator of the Joseph Campbell and James Hillman archives. Safron is the author of The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology, editor of Joseph Campbell’s Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013), and co-editor of Jung on Astrology (2017). Safron is also a consulting archetypal psychological astrologer. Her website is www.thearchetypaleye.com.

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Online registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, January 17, 2025 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time.

The ZOOM link will be sent out to everyone who registered by by 4:00 pm Mountain time today (Friday, January 17, 2025).

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registered for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

The Warrior as a Cultural and Psychological Necessity [ZOOM Webinar]
2025-02-08 10:00 - 13:00
By Dylan Francisco

The world is increasingly at war—literally and metaphorically. To cope, many seek personal methods of gaining peace—through meditation, yoga, time in nature, exercise, even therapy. But these methods are often utilized to escape difficult emotions like fear and anger. Even developing emotional intelligence can be motivated by a desire to think about emotions rather than feel them. Because the world is engulfed by fear and anger, conscientious people are doing everything possible to eliminate them, which is not helping because it just enacts another kind of war. We are caught between the guru and the soldier and paradoxically enough, both must often kill their emotions to complete their mission, which can leave behind a trail of massacred lives in one form or another.

We are suffering from the cultural and psychological absence of the Warrior. Indigenous cultures have always recognized the importance of the Warrior for the human community because the Warrior is experientially trained to honor fear and anger. Without the Warrior we lose what fear and anger can teach us. When we oppose these emotions, we put ourselves in conflict with the psyche itself and no one at war with themselves can live peacefully with others or the earth.

This Saturday Zoom webinar will cover the Warrior as a psychological and cultural necessity from Indigenous and depth psychological perspectives, why fear and anger are integral to psychological wholeness and human community, and what the Warrior can teach us about living at peace with ourselves, others, and the earth.

DYLAN FRANCISCO, PhD, is co-chair and a core faculty member of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Dylan grounds his teaching in the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, decolonialism, and Mestizo/Mexican/Indigenous traditions that provide a primordial, holistic, and sacred worldview within which to understand the psyche, to embody its wholeness individually, and to live it relationally through honoring Spirit, the ancestors, and the land.

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Online registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time.

The ZOOM link will be sent out to everyone on February 7, 2024 by 4:00 pm Mountain time.

This webinar will be recorded. Everyone who registered for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

Tending the Garden of the Soul: Entering the Mundus Imaginalis Through Dreams, Nature, and Sandplay [LECTURE]
2025-03-07 19:00 - 21:00
By Shannon Yockey

We live in difficult times and collectively suffer hopelessness, despair, and a fear of the destruction of our species and planet. These devastating archetypal forces threaten our sense of shared humanity and connection to the Anima Mundi (world soul). During such times, it is vital to go to the deep wellspring of the collective unconscious, which brings soul into the world.

In the mundus imaginalis, we encounter figures of light and shadow that mirror what we need for psychic healing. Each time we work with a dream, create a sand scene, or ponder a synchronistic nature visitation, we bring forth unconscious content wanting to be known, which brings balance and wholeness. When we connect to this imaginal realm, our body-soul split is mended, which ripples into the collective situation.

Henry Corbin reveals the imaginal realm in his studies of Islamic Sufism as a world that holds imagination as an absolutely basic function through which its reality and objective is perceived. This idea correlates to Jung’s fidelity to psychic reality—the basis for his creation of The Red Book, his lived imaginal experiences, and the foundation of Jungian theories.

In the Saturday workshop, “Honoring the ‘salt of our experiences’: Exploring Alchemical Imagination through Embodied Practices,” we will explore meaning making through symbolic expression in sandplay, connecting to nature, and active imagination. Through personal experiences of the sacred, we can partner with the psyche in bringing soul into the world. Participants will engage in creativity and active imagination through sandplay, personal reflection, and group sharing.

SHANNON YOCKEY, LCSW, is a Diplomate Jungian analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe and a sandplay teaching member with ISST/STA. She has been in private practice for over thirty years, working with children, teens, and adults. She specializes in early attachment, relational trauma, and anxiety. Shannon has presented nationally and internationally and published essays on healing and transformation through relationships in nature through direct experiences, sandplay, dreams, and active imagination. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

For those who registered to attend online, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, March 7, 2025 by 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who paid for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Honoring the ‘Salt of Our Experiences’ [WORKSHOP]
2025-03-08 09:00 - 13:30
By Shannon Yockey

We live in difficult times and collectively suffer hopelessness, despair, and a fear of the destruction of our species and planet. These devastating archetypal forces threaten our sense of shared humanity and connection to the Anima Mundi (world soul). During such times, it is vital to go to the deep wellspring of the collective unconscious, which brings soul into the world.

In the mundus imaginalis, we encounter figures of light and shadow that mirror what we need for psychic healing. Each time we work with a dream, create a sand scene, or ponder a synchronistic nature visitation, we bring forth unconscious content wanting to be known, which brings balance and wholeness. When we connect to this imaginal realm, our body-soul split is mended, which ripples into the collective situation.

Henry Corbin reveals the imaginal realm in his studies of Islamic Sufism as a world that holds imagination as an absolutely basic function through which its reality and objective is perceived. This idea correlates to Jung’s fidelity to psychic reality—the basis for his creation of The Red Book, his lived imaginal experiences, and the foundation of Jungian theories.

In this Saturday workshop, “Honoring the ‘salt of our experiences’: Exploring Alchemical Imagination through Embodied Practices,” we will explore meaning making through symbolic expression in sandplay, connecting to nature, and active imagination. Through personal experiences of the sacred, we can partner with the psyche in bringing soul into the world. Participants will engage in creativity and active imagination through sandplay, personal reflection, and group sharing.

SHANNON YOCKEY, LCSW, is a Diplomate Jungian analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe and a sandplay teaching member with ISST/STA. She has been in private practice for over thirty years, working with children, teens, and adults. She specializes in early attachment, relational trauma, and anxiety. Shannon has presented nationally and internationally and published essays on healing and transformation through relationships in nature through direct experiences, sandplay, dreams, and active imagination. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Online pre-registration to attend this workshop ENDED on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend will be available at the door. Doors open at 8:30 am on Saturday.

Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Never Not Broken: Alchemical Transformation of the Animal Body in Trauma Resolution [LECTURE]
2025-05-02 19:00 - 21:00
By Lindsey Geiger

In trauma, primal instincts to survive collide with powerful archetypal experiences, setting off seemingly endless cycles of pain. We suffer greatly in our reactive responses to trauma, making it difficult to realize that our animal bodies hold invaluable capacities for mending our soul’s wounds and fractures. As C. G. Jung suggested, alchemy beautifully illustrates the intricate processes of psychic transformation, and it emphasizes the integration of the physical matter of our bodies to bring wholeness.

In the Friday evening lecture, a series of compelling alchemical images will be explored, helpfully illuminating the psychological transformations in the nervous system, the heart work of relational trauma, and the higher aspects of thought and spiritual practice in trauma resolution.

On Saturday, join us for an experiential workshop, “Somatic Alchemy: Unearthing the Soul in the Body,” where we will engage the important dialogue between your body and your inner imagination. We will attune to the language of the body through purposeful movements and exercises designed to untie some trauma knots and enhance resilience. You will learn skills to decipher the felt sense of your body’s helpful guidance, which is communicated in both pleasure and pain. Engaging in the Jungian practice of active imagination, we will seek the small, ignored aspects of our psyches that live in our sensations and impulses. If approached with curiosity and respect, these exiled parts can transform, offering the alchemical gold of integration.

LINDSEY GEIGER is a Jungian Analyst in Evergreen, Colorado. She is a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado and received her MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her work focuses on the integration of soul in anxiety and trauma treatment, religious and spiritual wounding and resolution, and creative recovery.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets to receive access to the Video Recording (ONLY) are still available below.

If you registered to attend online, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, May 2, 2025 by 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registers for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Somatic Alchemy: Unearthing the Soul in the Body [WORKSHOP]
2025-05-03 09:00 - 13:30
By Lindsey Geiger

In trauma, primal instincts to survive collide with powerful archetypal experiences, setting off seemingly endless cycles of pain. We suffer greatly in our reactive responses to trauma, making it difficult to realize that our animal bodies hold invaluable capacities for mending our soul’s wounds and fractures. As C. G. Jung suggested, alchemy beautifully illustrates the intricate processes of psychic transformation, and it emphasizes the integration of the physical matter of our bodies to bring wholeness.

In the Friday evening lecture, a series of compelling alchemical images will be explored, helpfully illuminating the psychological transformations in the nervous system, the heart work of relational trauma, and the higher aspects of thought and spiritual practice in trauma resolution.

On Saturday, join us for an experiential workshop, “Somatic Alchemy: Unearthing the Soul in the Body,” where we will engage the important dialogue between your body and your inner imagination. We will attune to the language of the body through purposeful movements and exercises designed to untie some trauma knots and enhance resilience. You will learn skills to decipher the felt sense of your body’s helpful guidance, which is communicated in both pleasure and pain. Engaging in the Jungian practice of active imagination, we will seek the small, ignored aspects of our psyches that live in our sensations and impulses. If approached with curiosity and respect, these exiled parts can transform, offering the alchemical gold of integration.

LINDSEY GEIGER is a Jungian Analyst in Evergreen, Colorado. She is a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado and received her MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her work focuses on the integration of soul in anxiety and trauma treatment, religious and spiritual wounding and resolution, and creative recovery.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program ENDED on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 8:30 am on Saturday.

Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Trauma of Exile Through a Jungian Lens [LECTURE]
2025-09-19 19:00 - 21:00
By Lourdes Hernandez

This presentation will discuss how the trauma of political exile splits and shapes the psyche of displaced individuals, making their lives psychologically conflictual and experienced incongruous. The thesis explores how Jungian theory can assist displaced persons in fashioning a new mythic center that grounds the uncentered, culturally diverse self-states that develop from the acculturation experience. It will discuss how Jungian analysis is uniquely suited to working with the exile complex and the phenomenon of Othering through the amplification of a fairy tale, the presenter’s own dreamwork, the process of active imagination, and the resultant transcendent function of the symbol—ultimately bringing meaning to the trauma of exile.

Group discussion and personal applications of these Jungian concepts will be further explored and encouraged in the Saturday workshop.

LOURDES HERNANDEZ (USA) was marked by the traumas of war and political asylum when her family fled Cuba to take refuge in the United States. She holds postgraduate degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Regis University, Hermeneutics, and Counseling. After a period of study in Zurich, Lourdes returned stateside to complete her analytic training with the IRSJA and has a bilingual private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Lourdes is a lifelong musician and visual artist.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, September 19, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets to receive access to the Video Recording (ONLY) are still available below.

If you register to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, September 19, 2025 by Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Trauma of Exile Through a Jungian Lens [WORKSHOP]
2025-09-20 09:00 - 13:30
By Lourdes Hernandez

The Friday evening presentation will discuss how the trauma of political exile splits and shapes the psyche of displaced individuals, making their lives psychologically conflictual and experienced incongruous. The thesis explores how Jungian theory can assist displaced persons in fashioning a new mythic center that grounds the uncentered, culturally diverse self-states that develop from the acculturation experience. It will discuss how Jungian analysis is uniquely suited to working with the exile complex and the phenomenon of Othering through the amplification of a fairy tale, the presenter’s own dreamwork, the process of active imagination, and the resultant transcendent function of the symbol—ultimately bringing meaning to the trauma of exile.

Group discussion and personal applications of these Jungian concepts will be further explored and encouraged in this Saturday half-day workshop.

LOURDES HERNANDEZ (USA) was marked by the traumas of war and political asylum when her family fled Cuba to take refuge in the United States. She holds postgraduate degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Regis University, Hermeneutics, and Counseling. After a period of study in Zurich, Lourdes returned stateside to complete her analytic training with the IRSJA and has a bilingual private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Lourdes is a lifelong musician and visual artist.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program ENDED on Friday, September 19, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 8:30 am on Saturday.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Writing Our Way Through the Dark: The Creative Uses of Nigredo [LECTURE]
2025-10-17 19:00 - 21:00
By Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson

Nearly a century ago, when Freud and Jung witnessed the rise of fascism in Europe, they turned their keen depth psychological eye to cultural nigredo in works such as Civilization and its Discontents and “Wotan.” Jungians can follow their example by writing our way through today’s social, cultural, and political nigredo. Indeed, darkness is a writer’s friend.

Friday evening’s lecture describes how creative writing practice can thrive in the dark; indeed, it is nourished by the slow, somber, ruminative processes characteristic of nigredo. Jung described the creative process as the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, which is entwined with the artist’s fate. In the darkness of nigredo, the daimon, guiding spirit or genius of creative work can emerge with special poignance and clarity.

“The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with a stubborn fidelity,” says Hillman in The Soul’s Code, and often forces “deviance and oddity upon its keeper.” At a time when political leaders actively repress deviance and oddity, the presence of the daimon empowers Jungians to continue counter-cultural work: in our creative practices, in our professional life, in our communities and in the world.

Saturday’s workshop has one aim: to show how writing in the dark is a way to build an enduring relationship with the daimon, a formidable imaginal ally. It is organized around provocative writing and somatic exercises to help participants follow an archetypal image in their work. The aim is to dislodge a purely intellectual approach to the image and inspire soulful, embodied engagement.

ELIZABETH ÉOWYN NELSON, PhD, a Pacifica Graduate Institute faculty member since 2003, has been a professional writer and editor for four decades. An internationally-known speaker and teacher, Dr. Nelson’s books include Psyche’s Knife, The Art of Inquiry, coauthored with Joseph Coppin, and The Art of Jungian Couple Therapy, coauthored with Anthony Delmedico. In her consulting practice, she embodies depth psychological and imaginal practices to coach individual authors across a variety of genres and styles. www.elizabethnelson-phd.com.

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Online registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets to receive access to the Video Recording (ONLY) are still available below.

If you registered to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, October 17, 2025 around Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registered will receive access to the video recording one week after the event.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Writing Our Way Through the Dark: The Creative Uses of Nigredo [WORKSHOP]
2025-10-18 09:00 - 13:30
By Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson

Nearly a century ago, when Freud and Jung witnessed the rise of fascism in Europe, they turned their keen depth psychological eye to cultural nigredo in works such as Civilization and its Discontents and “Wotan.” Jungians can follow their example by writing our way through today’s social, cultural, and political nigredo. Indeed, darkness is a writer’s friend.

Friday evening’s lecture describes how creative writing practice can thrive in the dark; indeed, it is nourished by the slow, somber, ruminative processes characteristic of nigredo. Jung described the creative process as the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, which is entwined with the artist’s fate. In the darkness of nigredo, the daimon, guiding spirit or genius of creative work can emerge with special poignance and clarity.

“The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with a stubborn fidelity,” says Hillman in The Soul’s Code, and often forces “deviance and oddity upon its keeper.” At a time when political leaders actively repress deviance and oddity, the presence of the daimon empowers Jungians to continue counter-cultural work: in our creative practices, in our professional life, in our communities and in the world.

Saturday’s workshop has one aim: to show how writing in the dark is a way to build an enduring relationship with the daimon, a formidable imaginal ally. It is organized around provocative writing and somatic exercises to help participants follow an archetypal image in their work. The aim is to dislodge a purely intellectual approach to the image and inspire soulful, embodied engagement.

ELIZABETH ÉOWYN NELSON, PhD, a Pacifica Graduate Institute faculty member since 2003, has been a professional writer and editor for four decades. An internationally-known speaker and teacher, Dr. Nelson’s books include Psyche’s Knife, The Art of Inquiry, coauthored with Joseph Coppin, and The Art of Jungian Couple Therapy, coauthored with Anthony Delmedico. In her consulting practice, she embodies depth psychological and imaginal practices to coach individual authors across a variety of genres and styles. www.elizabethnelson-phd.com.

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Online registration to attend this program ENDED on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 8:30 am on Saturday.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Working Below the Chaotic Surface [POLITICAL PANEL]
2025-11-14 19:00 - 21:00
Archetypal Dimensions in the Midst of Collective Flooding With Barry Williams, Larry Rayburn, & Marilyn Mathews

In these turbulent times we are flooded with information and opinion about our political condition. Editorials, blogs, and professional pundits reflect our desperate need to know, not just what is going on, but what it means. While understandable, this could also be a defense against the truly psychological examination of our disruptions. We—Barry Williams, Marilyn Mathews, and Larry Rayburn—will offer an exploration of the archetypal contours below the surface as we mark the one-year anniversary of the presidential election.

Given the speed with which events are currently erupting, it is impossible to know what elements will be in the foreground this coming November. However, with what Jung called “careful consideration,” we will attend to the archetypal images and motifs that have emerged and are emergent in the moment. Certainly, grief, sacrifice and the raw dimensions of archetypal reality will, by definition, be pertinent, even if “these times” defy attempts at sense-making. To this task we hope to bring an analytic attitude—noting what is present in the field of our collective chaos, looking for the small voices that may be stirring, those that might bring some sanity or meaning. We are more interested in asking how more than why. How do we understand our moment, and how do we enter into dialogue about such volatile topics, while acknowledging the trauma, grief, and despair that seem to be our constant companions in these times.

As we reflect on past political panels, there always seems to be much left unsaid and unaddressed in the wake of these Friday evening programs. This year, in response, we will also host a discussion the following Saturday morning from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm for those of you who would like to join us to explore the issues raised on Friday evening.

BARRY WILLIAMS, M.DIV., PSYD, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Taos, NM and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. For twenty-five years, together with his wife and late son, he has been an initiated Mara’akame in the traditional healing path of the Huichol/Wixarika people of the Sierra of central Mexico. Dr. Williams’ particular interests are in dreams, healing, shamanism and depth psychology, and the archetype of sacrifice.

LARRY RAYBURN, MA, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe where he is the outgoing (2025) president. He is also a senior training analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Larry is interested in male psychology, particularly that of boys and the father, and in the theories of play and psychic energy. He has presented and taught on the alchemical opus, contra naturam, or work against nature, as expressed in the flow and counter-flow of human life, the natural world, and clinical practice.

MARILYN MATTHEWS, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe. A former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, she also has many years of experience on Exam Committees in the IRSJA. Her interest in women’s voices and silences has led to a number of published papers on those topics. Now what holds her attention is the changing pattern of ethics during the current societal and cultural upheaval.

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Online registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, November 14, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets to receive access to the Video Recording (ONLY) are still available below.

If you register to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, November 14, 2025 at Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Working Below the Chaotic Surface [DISCUSSION]
2025-11-15 10:00 - 13:00
Archetypal Dimensions in the Midst of Collective Flooding, With Panel: Barry Williams, Larry Rayburn, & Marilyn Mathews

In these turbulent times we are flooded with information and opinion about our political condition. Editorials, blogs, and professional pundits reflect our desperate need to know, not just what is going on, but what it means. While understandable, this could also be a defense against the truly psychological examination of our disruptions. On Friday evening, we—Barry Williams, Marilyn Mathews, and Larry Rayburn—will offer an exploration of the archetypal contours below the surface as we mark the one-year anniversary of the presidential election.

Given the speed with which events are currently erupting, it is impossible to know what elements will be in the foreground this coming November. However, with what Jung called “careful consideration,” we will attend to the archetypal images and motifs that have emerged and are emergent in the moment. Certainly, grief, sacrifice and the raw dimensions of archetypal reality will, by definition, be pertinent, even if “these times” defy attempts at sense-making. To this task we hope to bring an analytic attitude—noting what is present in the field of our collective chaos, looking for the small voices that may be stirring, those that might bring some sanity or meaning. We are more interested in asking how more than why. How do we understand our moment, and how do we enter into dialogue about such volatile topics, while acknowledging the trauma, grief, and despair that seem to be our constant companions in these times.

As we reflect on past political panels, there always seems to be much left unsaid and unaddressed in the wake of these Friday evening programs. This year, in response, we will also host a discussion the following Saturday morning from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm for those of you who would like to join us to explore the issues raised on Friday evening.

BARRY WILLIAMS, M.DIV., PSYD, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Taos, NM and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. For twenty-five years, together with his wife and late son, he has been an initiated Mara’akame in the traditional healing path of the Huichol/Wixarika people of the Sierra of central Mexico. Dr. Williams’ particular interests are in dreams, healing, shamanism and depth psychology, and the archetype of sacrifice.

LARRY RAYBURN, MA, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe where he is the outgoing (2025) president. He is also a senior training analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Larry is interested in male psychology, particularly that of boys and the father, and in the theories of play and psychic energy. He has presented and taught on the alchemical opus, contra naturam, or work against nature, as expressed in the flow and counter-flow of human life, the natural world, and clinical practice.

MARILYN MATTHEWS, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe. A former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, she also has many years of experience on Exam Committees in the IRSJA. Her interest in women’s voices and silences has led to a number of published papers on those topics. Now what holds her attention is the changing pattern of ethics during the current societal and cultural upheaval.

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Online registration to attend this program ENDED on Friday, November 14, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 9:30 am on Saturday morning.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Synchronicity of the Two Red Books [WEBINAR]
2026-01-17 10:00 - 13:00
Jung, Tolkein, and the Imaginal Realm

by Becca Tarnas

Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War, both C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. Jung recorded these fantasies in a large red manuscript that he named Liber Novus, referred to simply as The Red Book. For Tolkien, this imaginal journey revealed to him the world of Middle-earth, whose stories and myths eventually led to the writing of The Lord of the Rings, a book he named within its own imaginal history The Red Book of Westmarch. This workshop explores the many synchronistic parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien’s Red Books: the style and content of their works of art, the narrative descriptions and scenes in their texts, the nature of their visions and dreams, and an underlying similarity in world view that emerged from their experiences. The two men seem to have been simultaneously treading parallel paths through the imaginal realm.

This webinar will consist of an opening lecture on the parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien’s Red Books, followed by a communal dialogue exploring the meaning of certain key visions and fantasies in C.G. Jung’s Red Book. Participants can expect to engage a close reading of parts of the text and a collective exploration of the illustrations that illuminate Jung’s Liber Novus.

BECCA TARNAS, PHD, is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research interests include depth psychology, archetypal studies, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. Becca is an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology and author of the book Journey to the Imaginal Realm. She is currently researching and writing a biography of Stanislav Grof, a co-founder of transpersonal psychology.

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Registration to attend this program LIVE ended on Friday, January 16, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time. You can still purchase a ticket for access to the Video recording until Friday, January 23, 2026.

The ZOOM link will be sent out to everyone who registered on Friday, January 16, 2025 by 4:00 pm Mountain Time.

This webinar will be video recorded. Everyone who registered will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE webinar via ZOOM to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

Hillman and Soul-Making in Troubled Times [WEBINAR]
2026-02-21 10:00 - 13:00
by Rebecca & Dennis Pottenger

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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Registration for this program ended on Friday, February 20, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time.

The ZOOM link will be sent out to everyone who registered 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).

Active Imagination With Music [LECTURE]
2026-03-13 19:00 - 21:00
by Rich Ryan

Music is the most direct and mysterious way of conveying and evoking feeling. It is a way of connecting one consciousness to another. I think the nearest thing to telepathy is making music together. –Oliver Sacks

Carl Jung discovered the process he later named Active Imagination during his “encounter with his unconscious.” This journey led him to a 16-year project that ultimately culminated in the creation of The Red Book. Active Imagination has been elaborated upon and utilized through writing, painting, drawing, dancing, and sandplay. However, the application of Active Imagination through music has not been extensively explored or documented.

Music offers a rich projective field for engaging with the unconscious and the process of individuation. It functions as an archetypal and instinctive phenomenon, operating autonomously within the psyche.

The Friday evening program will demonstrate that music serves as a portal to the unconscious and acts as an archetypal force for accessing the collective unconscious. I invite you to explore this idea with me and share a musical experience through Jung’s method of Active Imagination by listening to music together.

In the Saturday workshop, we will delve deeper into the Active Imagination process using several short, selected pieces of music. Materials will be available for you to respond to your experiences through drawing and writing, and one particular piece of music will serve as a prompt for movement, dance, or spontaneous expression.

RICH RYAN, PhD LCSW trained at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles where he is a member analyst. He is also a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, where he is the incoming (2025) president and teaches in the Analyst Training Program. Rich is licensed in New Mexico and California and currently practices in Santa Fe and California. He is available for supervision, consultation, and analysis in person or by telehealth.

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ONLINE registration to attend this program live (in person or online) ENDED on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. In-person tickets will be available at the door, doors open at 6:30 pm Mountain Time.

Tickets to receive access to the video recording after the event are still available below.

If you registered to attend online via ZOOM, The ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registered will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — either in person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Active Imagination With Music [WORKSHOP]
2026-03-14 09:00 - 13:30
by Rich Ryan

Music is the most direct and mysterious way of conveying and evoking feeling. It is a way of connecting one consciousness to another. I think the nearest thing to telepathy is making music together. –Oliver Sacks

Carl Jung discovered the process he later named Active Imagination during his “encounter with his unconscious.” This journey led him to a 16-year project that ultimately culminated in the creation of The Red Book. Active Imagination has been elaborated upon and utilized through writing, painting, drawing, dancing, and sandplay. However, the application of Active Imagination through music has not been extensively explored or documented.

Music offers a rich projective field for engaging with the unconscious and the process of individuation. It functions as an archetypal and instinctive phenomenon, operating autonomously within the psyche.

The Friday evening program will demonstrate that music serves as a portal to the unconscious and acts as an archetypal force for accessing the collective unconscious. I invite you to explore this idea with me and share a musical experience through Jung’s method of Active Imagination by listening to music together.

In the Saturday workshop, we will delve deeper into the Active Imagination process using several short, selected pieces of music. Materials will be available for you to respond to your experiences through drawing and writing, and one particular piece of music will serve as a prompt for movement, dance, or spontaneous expression.

RICH RYAN, PhD LCSW trained at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles where he is a member analyst. He is also a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, where he is the incoming (2025) president and teaches in the Analyst Training Program. Rich is licensed in New Mexico and California and currently practices in Santa Fe and California. He is available for supervision, consultation, and analysis in person or by telehealth.

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ONLINE REGISTRATION to attend this program ENDED on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. In-person tickets will be available at the door, doors open on Saturday at 8:30 am Mountain Time.

This event is in-person ONLY.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Archetype of the Kore-Virgin in the Life of Georgia O'Keeffe [LECTURE]
2026-04-10 19:00 - 21:00
by Sarah Hoagland

What does it mean for a woman to be a Virgin-spiritually and psychologically-one-unto herself?

How is creative process linked to individuation, allowing the I-thou relationship to unfold and serve as a mirror to one’s emerging authentic personality? Why might women require solitude and a “Room of One’s Own” in order to strip away adaptations that arise from cultural conditioning that would otherwise eclipse their individuation process? In what ways does following the still small voice of the psyche—connecting to one’s nature, bio rhythms and creative impulses—open a psychic space of generativity and flow that allows for the emergence of a living feminine soul in the world?

For a woman’s individuation to unfold, the archetypal patterns of the Kore arise as “inner necessity.” Georgia O’Keeffe eschewed the cultural conditioning of her times by following the still small voice of her creative inspirations to become who she was. In Jung’s essay, “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (CW9i para 306), Jung suggests that the Kore archetype could be a Supraordinate personality or Self figure for women.

The Friday evening lecture will examine these ideas and show how O’Keeffe arrived at creating her own painting style. We will consider her initial intent of creating forms that she felt were particular to the psyche of a woman, a definition she quickly abandoned in order not to be seen exclusively as a woman or woman’s painter. We will consider O’Keeffe’s own words and the evolution of her experimental charcoal drawings of 1915 in her effort to paint as a “Virgin”—spiritually and psychologically—“one-unto-herself.”

In Saturday’s workshop, “The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process,” we will explore what it means for a woman to become “one-unto-herself” with O’Keeffe’s example in mind. Through writing prompts for reflection and sharing together, we will reflect on the ways the values of the Kore Archetype relate to your own lives, and personal myth. We will view in more depth O’Keeffe’s paintings and explore the nature of creative process and identity development. We will ground these experiences in the body and include time for free play with line, color and form.

SARAH HOAGLAND, MA, LPC is a certified Jungian Analyst and has been in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2004. She is a member of the PNSJA (Pacific NW Society of Jungian Analysts) and received her Diploma from the CG Jung Institute/Zurich in 2021. She has a MA in Pastoral Counseling and is a certified Spiritual Director. She is also a certified Marion Woodman Leadership trainer and has a special interest in exploring creative process and women’s individuation. She is a long-time Yoga practitioner and emphasizes the mind/body connection and the somatic unconscious in her clinical practice. She uses a variety of expressive arts in her work with clients.

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Online registration to attend this program LIVE ENDED on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time (MT). The Video-only option remains available until 9:00 am (MT) Friday, April 17, 2026.

You can still attend tonight’s lecture in person by paying at the door with cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

If you registered to attend online via ZOOM, The ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, April 10, 2026 around 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registered will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — either in person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process [WORKSHOP]
2026-04-11 09:00 - 13:30
by Sarah Hoagland

What does it mean for a woman to be a Virgin-spiritually and psychologically-one-unto herself?

How is creative process linked to individuation, allowing the I-thou relationship to unfold and serve as a mirror to one’s emerging authentic personality? Why might women require solitude and a “Room of One’s Own” in order to strip away adaptations that arise from cultural conditioning that would otherwise eclipse their individuation process? In what ways does following the still small voice of the psyche—connecting to one’s nature, bio rhythms and creative impulses—open a psychic space of generativity and flow that allows for the emergence of a living feminine soul in the world?

For a woman’s individuation to unfold, the archetypal patterns of the Kore arise as “inner necessity.” Georgia O’Keeffe eschewed the cultural conditioning of her times by following the still small voice of her creative inspirations to become who she was. In Jung’s essay, “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (CW9i para 306), Jung suggests that the Kore archetype could be a Supraordinate personality or Self figure for women.

The Friday evening lecture will examine these ideas and show how O’Keeffe arrived at creating her own painting style. We will consider her initial intent of creating forms that she felt were particular to the psyche of a woman, a definition she quickly abandoned in order not to be seen exclusively as a woman or woman’s painter. We will consider O’Keeffe’s own words and the evolution of her experimental charcoal drawings of 1915 in her effort to paint as a “Virgin”—spiritually and psychologically—“one-unto-herself.”

In Saturday’s workshop, “The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process,” we will explore what it means for a woman to become “one-unto-herself” with O’Keeffe’s example in mind. Through writing prompts for reflection and sharing together, we will reflect on the ways the values of the Kore Archetype relate to your own lives, and personal myth. We will view in more depth O’Keeffe’s paintings and explore the nature of creative process and identity development. We will ground these experiences in the body and include time for free play with line, color and form.

SARAH HOAGLAND, MA, LPC is a certified Jungian Analyst and has been in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2004. She is a member of the PNSJA (Pacific NW Society of Jungian Analysts) and received her Diploma from the CG Jung Institute/Zurich in 2021. She has a MA in Pastoral Counseling and is a certified Spiritual Director. She is also a certified Marion Woodman Leadership trainer and has a special interest in exploring creative process and women’s individuation. She is a long-time Yoga practitioner and emphasizes the mind/body connection and the somatic unconscious in her clinical practice. She uses a variety of expressive arts in her work with clients.

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Online registration ENDED on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. You can still attend by paying at the door on Saturday morning with cash or check. Doors open at 8:30 am.

This workshop is in-person ONLY

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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