May Round Table – Archetype of the Sacred Prostitute: Finding the Sacred Feminine in Western Culture
Sandi Wilcox, MA, M Div, LPC-I
Friday May 31 7 — 9 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church 4700 Grover St., Austin TX
Suggested Donation: $10
This discussion will focus on the archetype of the Sacred Feminine, who She is and where signs of Her are today. We will explore traces of Her story tucked away in Judeo-Christian scripture and ancient writings such as the prostitute stories in Jesus’ family tree, the stories of Mary Magdalene, and the legend of Lilith. Do we find her in figures like Marilyn Monroe and Lady Ga Ga?
The Round Table introduces ideas from The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine by Jungian Analyst Nancy Qualls-Corbett, PhD. Sandi is leading a book study on the Thursday nights in June. Intro from the book cover: “The ancient connection between spirituality and passionate love has in modern times become lost to the depths of the unconscious, leaving a broad sense of dissatisfaction and boredom in relationships. . . . This exhilarating book, solidly based on the psychology of C. G. Jung, powerfully illustrates how our vitality and capacity for joy depend on restoring the soul of the sacred prostitute to its rightful place in our conscious understanding.”
Sandi Wilcox, MA, M Div is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate School with a Masters of Counseling with Emphasis on Depth Psychology. She is currently LPC Intern supervised by Michelle Halsall, LPC-S, Diplomate Jungian Analyst, and offices at MCH Counseling. Sandi also holds a Masters of Divinity from the Lutheran Seminary Program of the Southwest and has been an ordained pastor for 20 years.Her interest in the Sacred Feminine is rooted in Feminist Theology, studies of mythology of the Sacred Feminine, Depth Psychology, and several “Isis Mystery tours” lead by Jungian Analysts Wynette Barton and Nancy Qualls-Corbett.
At a Glance – What has been going on at JSA in 2013
May Lecture – The Field of Dreams : The Washington D.C. National Mall and Symbols of the American Dream
Richard D. Grant, Jr., Ph.D.
Friday May 10 7 – 9 pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover, Austin, TX
Members: $12, Non-Members $15, Student $ 8
**2 CEUs
This presentation examines national institutions and monuments and their positioning around the Washington Mall as a mandala of the American Dream. Over many years, the Capitol, White House, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, and the Washington Monument were constructed around this “Field of Dreams,” which has traditionally been the site of collective expression/protest/celebration by the American people. What can this “Field of Dreams” teach us about the balance of forces whose creative tension produces an ever-renewing vision for the United States of America? This presentation will be personalized for audience members with a brief self-assessment involving the four temperaments, which seem to “map” and define these much-visited national landmarks.
Richard D. Grant, Jr., Ph.D. has been a psychologist in private practice in Austin, Texas, since 1977. He taught at Auburn University and Texas A&M University, and is presently a lecturer at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. For over 25 years he has conducted seminars and retreats on psychological type and temperament, depth psychology, and spirituality. His books include (1) The Way of the Cross: Christian Individuation and Psychological Temperament (2) Symbols of Recovery: The 12 Steps that work in the Unconscious, and (3) Recovering Connections, co-authored with Andrea Miller.
April’s Pot Luck and Round Table - Dream Space
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Friday April 26 6:30 — 9:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover St., Austin TX
Suggested Donation: $10
We are inviting Eros into JSA. Join us as we nourish Psyche with fun, food, and dialogue.
Dr. Baugher leads this intriguing Round Table as the centerpiece for JSA’s first Pot Luck for 2013! She will guide us in an exploration of dream space, remembered space, and ‘atmosphere’ that is psychically/symbolically charged.
We have expanded our usual time so we can connect and share with our fellow Jung Society of Austin members and friends.
Bring a covered dish to share.
April’s Lecture:
Jan Carlson’s wonderful lecture offered a lot of food for thought. Those present suggested this important topic needs to be part of an ongoing dialogue. Her class has been delayed. We will announce the new date very soon.
Lecture -The Mystery of Aging
Jan Carlson, LPC-S
Friday April 12 7 — 9 PM
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover, Austin, TX
Members: $12, Non-Members $15, Student $8
**2 CEUs
Lecture followed by a six week class
Aging has been getting attention in the world of politics, economics, and marketing, but the psychological effects of aging on the individual are often neglected or minimized by ourselves and our culture. We will discuss the paradox of Jung’s ideas about aging and the need to uncover our authentic self in a collective that is focused on masking and ignoring age. Jung talks of the second half of life as a time to go inward with time and patience to discover meaning and perhaps a spiritual connection. Unexamined aging can lead us to regret and grief, with a focus on loss. The evening will draw on Jung’s work as well as others to provide information, perspective, context and an arena for exploration of a mysterious process that is rapidly becoming the most important aspect of a growing percentage of American lives.
Class – The Mystery of Aging: What’s Next
Jan Carlson, MA, LPC-S
Delayed – Date to be announced
6 Mondays 7:00 – 9:00pm
Members $90, Non-Members $120, Student $60
Please call 512-553-3784 or email JanCarlsonTherapy@gmail.com for location and to register
Space is limited
**12 CEUs
The classes will explore Jung’s seven tasks of aging in light of modern depth psychology. When life is threatened at any age there is a call to live life more deeply. Jung’s’ psychology emphasizes this deepening and Jane Wheelwright has complied this list of seven, drawn from his complete works. The importance of facing mortality, life review, and determining the meaning of life will be some of our topics for study and discussion. We will not solve the mystery of aging!
We will meet from April 15, on Monday nights, for six weeks. The group will meet in a location in South Central Austin, near Central Market South. Class size will be limited due to the nature of the work.
Jan Carlson, LPC-S, is a past President of the Jung Society and of the Isis Institute of Women’s Studies .She is a frequent presenter of lectures and classes. Her most recent talks were “Mary Magdalene and Martha Stewart, Scapegoats of the Western World”. and “Romancing the Crone”. She is a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice in Austin for over 25 years. Her current focus is on late life issues, life review and life renewal. Her website iswww.JanCarlsonTherapy.com
Changes
It is with both excitement and regret that we celebrate Priscilla Hobb’s next adventure. She is moving to MA, beginning an exciting new chapter in her life. Unfortunately she is leaving before her scheduled RoundTable in April. Her incredible contribution to JSA can not be overstated. We will miss her.
Priscilla Hobbs, Ph.D. is a cultural mythologist and college professor. She received her doctorate from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies, and continues research in American myth and popular culture, with emphasis on Disney and the Harry Potter franchise. Priscilla is a former president of the Jung Society of Austin
Thanks to all you participated in the fascinating 2013 Events listed below!
March RoundTable
Once Upon a Time: The Enduring Presence of Myth and Fairytale in Film and Television
Carolyn Bates, Ph.D.
Friday March 22 7 — 9 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church 4700 Grover St., Austin, TX
Suggested Donation: $10
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The enduring stories carried by myth and fairytale have been present since the beginning of the film medium. From the silent picture La Belle et la Bete to Joss Wheedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical Into the Woods and its related rendition in the current fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, we find endless expression of the mythic motifs and archetypal struggles of what it means to be a human being. Of recent the shadow offerings of fairy tale and myth have taken a more prominent expression – the clear distinction of light and shadow have been relinquished for the more complex expression of conflicted and disillusioned heroes on the one hand, and conflicted and empathic villains on the other.
Art and film have historically offered to culture a reflection of what the culture cannot see in itself. In our current political climate of black-and-white thinking wherein news media offers less substantive and more superficial coverage of difficult issues, how might the stories expressed in film and television offer us the opportunity to embrace the valid complexities of soul, community, and culture?
Carolyn Bates, PhD
Carolyn Bates Ph.D. is a Diplomate Jungian analyst with special interests in depth psychology and the expression of cultural mythologies and folklore in clinical material. She has an analytic practice in Austin and has offered presentations, workshops and classes on dream interpretation, the psychological meanings of shadow, to the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, the Jung Societies of Waco, New Orleans, Memphis, and Austin, and the Jung Educational Center of Houston. She currently serves as a senior training analyst in the IRSJA.
Classes
An Introduction to the Work of Carl Jung
Dr. Fred Patrizi
March 26 – April 16
4 Tuesdays 7 – 9pm
Members $60, Non-Members $80, Student $40
Please call 580-310-5950 for questions, location and registration
** 8 CEUs
C.G. Jung
This class is designed for those with little or no background in Carl Jung’s work. It can also serve as a refresher for those already familiar with Jung. After providing a biographical sketch of Jung’s life, topics to be included are the three structural/functional units of personality (ego, personal unconscious, collective unconscious), the major archetypes (persona, shadow, anima/animus, Self), personality type (two attitudes and four functions), major principles (entropy, equivalence), the developmental course of personality (individuation process), methods used to understand personality, Jung’s use of symbols and mythology, and other topics of interest (e.g., synchronicity).
Dr. Fred Patrizi
Fred Patrizi, Ph.D. currently serves as a team leader for the Austin Vet Center (part of VA) where he works with combat veterans with stress-related conditions and readjustment issues. He has also taken over the role of providing bereavement counseling to family members of service members killed on active duty. He is licensed as a clinical psychologist in Oklahoma and Texas. He completed his Ph.D. in social psychology in 1979 from Texas Tech and then completed a respecialization in clinical psychology from the University of Tulsa in 2001.
Grief, Loss, and Trauma: A Jungian Perspective -4 Wednesday evening classes
Kay Todd, Ph.D.
March 27 – April 17
4 Wednesdays 7 – 9 pm
The Healing Alliance 3939 Bee Caves A-200, Austin, TX
Members $60, Non-Members $80, Student $40
Please call 918-230-7001 for questions and registration
Space is limited
** 8 CEUs
Using active imagination and mythology this four session class will explore grief, loss and trauma from a personal, societal and global perspective. The class will draw on Jungian theories of the collective unconscious, the transcendent function (liminal space), healing archetypes, ritual, expressive arts, and dreams to help us navigate the journey of grief. Topics will include: Spiritual, historical, & cultural patterns of transcendence; theories of the Grief Process; use of expressive arts in grief work for transformation and healing; as well as personal growth and individuation
Additional Information: Materials will be supplied for art work projects. Space is limited. Please call 918-230-7001 for more detail, registration and location
Kay Todd, PhD
Kay Todd, Ph.D. Mythological Studies with Emphasis in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Dr Todd is currently completing the Grief, Loss and Trauma certificate program designed by Janet Schreiber and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, at Southwestern University in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has taught as an adjunct professor in Religion and Interpersonal Communication, at the University of Oklahoma and Tulsa Community College. She is currently writing Finding the I, After the We, Mourning as Soul Making; Grief is process of mythologizing a life after death.
Recap: We had a great time! We are looking forward to seeing Dr. Slattery again very soon.
Featured Spring Workshop
Dr. Dennis Slattery
Author, Storyteller, Poet,& Mythologist
March 1 & 2, 2013
Lecture and unique writing workshop featuring one of Austin’s favorites
Lecture: Literary Classics and Personal Mythology: A Confluence
Friday March 1, 2013 7—9 pm
Members: $12, Non-Members $15, Student $8
**2 CEUs
Dr. Dennis Patrick Slattery will reflect on the way a literary classic like Melville’s Moby-Dick offers a poetic rendering of a communal or collective myth. The act of reading and re-reading such a work creates analogies with one’s personal myth as the two stories enter a dialogue on an imaginal and historical level.
Workshop: Riting Myth Retreat: Meditations on Personal Myth
Saturday March 2 9 am –1pm
Members: $75, Non-Members $100 (includes $25 membership), Student $50
**4 CEUs
Using several riting meditations, some of which are from his new book, Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story (Fisher King Press, 2012), Dr. Slattery will lead the participants in writing long hand (no laptops please!) as a way of imagining and uncovering qualities of one’s personal myth. We will seek the deeper patterns in the carpet of our narrative as we continue to describe and define the nature of myth, especially in the way it contours our lives.
Dr. Dennis Patrick Slattery has been teaching for 43 years, the last 19 of which have been in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 19 books as well as dozens of articles in journals, magazines and newspapers as well as on-line sites. He offers Riting Personal Myth retreats in the United States and Europe.
Contact: dslattery@pacifica.edu; www.dennispslattery.com
Both events held at First Unitarian Universalist Church 4700 Grover, Austin, TX.
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