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From the Executive Director
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 Listening to NPR a few weeks ago, I heard an interview with a history professor who was asked how it would affect President Obama to be confronted or criticized by his former supporters. The professor answered something like, "that is what will make Obama a great president." He went on to explain how Roosevelt needed the labor movement, Johnson needed the civil rights movement, and Lincoln needed the abolitionists in order to make them into the great leaders they became. This notion-that conflict with forces seemingly arrayed against one may initiate change and hone one into something greater-is an essential idea in Jung's view of individuation. The obstacles in one's path bring about consciousness, change and growth. Conflict and difficulty therefore are enlivening and life promoting. Let us try to remember this truth as conflict and difficulties appear before us.
Pat Cochran, Psy.D.
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February Programs
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 Jung and Yoga: Embracing the Tension of the Opposites
Saturday February 21, 10-4 pm
Judy Shaw, LCSW $75 on or before 2/13. $95 after
Limit: 12 Participants, CEUs: 5
Jung believed that holding the tension of any set of opposites could generate a "third" or new solution. Through individuation, the process of becoming whole, all aspects of our lives are impacted and our challenge is to become increasingly aware. This workshop will focus on how individuation occurs in and through the practice of yoga, which will include a very brief discussion of Jung's theory. The remainder of the time will be devoted to doing yoga postures and bodily embracing the opposites we encounter with attention to our breath and our awareness of pushing and yielding as means to restore balance, loosen anxieties, and deepen one's sense of self.
 The Artist's Way
6 Wednesdays February 25-April 1, 1-3 pm
Joanne Underwood, LCSW
$100 by 2/18, $120 after, CEUs: 12
PLEASE NOTE: This class is currently full. Please call 847-475-4848 x 221 to be added to the waiting list.
Rediscover your sense of wonder, possibility, and power. Using Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way as a guide, this course is designed to help individuals deeply engage their own creative process. Within the sacred circle of the group, we will discuss how to reconnect with qualities that nurture and encourage creativity such as safety, self-protection, abundance, and power, covering two chapters of Cameron's book each week. In addition, this course provides participants with numerous tools and activities to engage their sense of play and possibility, including free-form journaling and weekly artist dates.
 YES WE CAN: Collective Fear, Attention and Intention
Friday February 27, 7-9 pm
Judy Shaw, LCSW
$25 on or before 2/20, $30 after
CEUs: 2
"We are not only the passive witnesses of our age, but also it's makers."
-C. G. Jung (Modern Man in Search of a Soul)
Jung's overarching value on the individual as "the essential mover to advance the collective unconscious" is illustrated in the 2008 presidential election of Barak Obama. Our discussion will focus on the collective experience of empowerment that the President-elect stimulated and embodied as well as an examination of the process involved in achieving it with special attention to:
-Collective fear,
-Collective attention, and
-Collective intention
 Introduction to Intuitive Painting
PLEASE NOTE: The Saturday February 28 session is full. This class will be offered again on April 18, 1-4 pm. If you would like to be place on the waiting list for February 28, pleas call 847-475-4848 x221.
Karen McGinnis
$30
This workshop is for anyone wishing to explore creativity, intuition, or gain personal insights. Intuitive painting is a unique and revolutionary way to explore and awaken creative potential by learning to trust one's Inner Voice. This workshop will guide participants to the mysterious realms of intuitive creation where the unpredictable and unexpected are encountered. Participants will practice creating from an authentic place not bound by rules or techniques. No previous art experience needed. All painting supplies included. Held at COLORS OF LIFE STUDIO 6934 N. Glenwood Avenue (Morse & Glenwood) Studio C, Chicago, Illinois 60626. To register please call 847+475+4848 x 221 or click here |
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Jung Corner
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This is our space for reflections on quotes from Jung. We invite you to share a favorite quote along with your thoughts (you can email us by clicking here).
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
--C. G. Jung
This quote came to me by way of a card in which the sender wrote of a confrontation she encountered when looking deeply inside of herself: anger and loss-essentially the collapse of what she had previously known. Out of this "terrifying" engagement with the unknown parts of herself she began the journey towards wholeness, accepting and even loving those aspects once unknown or forsaken. She now could see that the collapse and rubble of her former life actually became the foundation of her new more conscious self. What had once been her failure, she could now see as a triumph. What had been terrifying enabled her to accept herself more completely.
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