The C. G. Jung Center
April 2011 Newsletter
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 For my birthday last August I was given a beautiful pink orchid. I enjoyed the colorful bloom for a few months, and then slowly the leaves fell off leaving what looked like a deadened branch. I asked the advice of a sage gardener I know who instructed me to continue watering it. So I did, even though I had my doubts that it would bloom again. About a month ago, as I was watering, I noticed a tiny bud at the end of the branch. For the past month I have watched it grow into a larger bud. Just this weekend the bud began to open, revealing a bloom as beautiful as the original flower.
Caring for this orchard has reminded me of my 6 years at the Jung Center. Time and again the Center has passed through phases where the financial future has looked bleak. Staff members have had to be let go, and it has been uncertain whether the Center could continue. Each time, our participants, volunteers, and donors have nurtured a new bloom, allowing for yet another phase in the Center's life to spring forth.
As I begin serving the Center in my new capacity as Administrative Coordinator, I am thinking of the wonderful Executive Directors I have worked with: Jackie Mattfeld, Ann Shine Duck, and most recently, Pat Cochran. Each has made unique contributions, offering the characteristics most needed by the Center at their time of service. I think of the Board, which has never lost sight of the mission of the Center-- to make Jung's ideas and methods accessible to a wide range of people through public programs and clinical services.
During this time of transition, I move forward with gratitude for everyone who has been a part of this community and with faith that the Center will indeed bloom for another season, if we keep watering. I look forward to seeing you at the Center soon!
Megan Belniak, M.S.
Administrative Coordinator
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Movie Viewing and Discussion: Black Swan
Friday April 8, 7-10 pm
Barbara Burns, RN, LCSW & Dan Ross, RN
$15 pre or drop in
Nominated for an Academy Award for best picture the, Black Swan is a beautiful and terrifying movie about a young ballerina who is selected to be the Swan Queen for a production of Swan Lake at the New York City Ballet Company. In this production, she is required to play both the White Swan and the Black Swan, compelling Nina, played brilliantly by Natalie Portman for which she won and Academy Award, into psychological confrontation with her own shadow. Nina's life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), who exerts a suffocating control over her. This movie explores the beauty and darkness of the world of ballet, while depicting Nina's struggle with her shadow and her art.
Exploring the Red Book Weyler Greene, PhD 8 Wednesdays April 13- June 1, 7-9 pm $150, CEUs: 16 The Red Book is a recently published manuscript, written and illustrated by C. G. Jung between approximately 1914 and 1930. It was not published nor shown to the public until 2009. Following his separation from Freud in 1913, Jung felt overwhelmed by his own inner life. This book chronicles the profound encounter he had with his own dreams and fantasies. Jung felt that all his significant psychological concepts emerged from those experiences. In this eight week course, we will explore some of the significant themes found in this material, and their relevance to Jung's later psychology. Topics covered in class will include Jung's return to his soul, his encounters with Elijah and Salome, his descent into hell, the coming of Philemon, and the Seven Sermons to the Dead. We will discuss how Jung's psychology emerged from these core experiences.  Fairytales III Laura McGrew, LCPC Saturday April 16th, 1-4 pm $40, CEU: 3 Fairy tales expose the archetypal realm, insisting that we allow our individual stories to become universal. In this workshop we will continue to work with fairy tales as if they are the 'collective dreams' Jung defined them to be. The tales will be The Owl and Hansel and Gretel. In their 'once upon a time' reality, we will see how the personal and the impersonal worlds weave in and out of each other, uniting the past and present. Marie Louis Von Franz said that fairy tales are 'true and untrue'-- 'neither and both' and 'must never be resolved intellectually.' As we work through several tales, we shall learn if these ideals hold relevancy for us today. This workshop will be seminar-style where we will all actively participate, hopefully have fun, and gain some insight along the way. Copies of the tales to be used will be available at the Center at no cost. Participation in Fairytales I or II is not necessary to attend.
To register please call 847-475-4848 x221 or click here
There is a $15 processing fee for CEUs
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 Is Man God? The Advaitic View
Weekly Drop-In Study Group
Mondays 7-8:30 pm,
Weyler Greene, PhD & Diane Miller, MA, LPC
$10/week
In this group, we study Eastern esoteric non-dual wisdom through the words of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, an Advaitic sage and 20th century proponent of this philosophy. The group supports one another in applying this non-dualistic thought to our Western lifestyle through reading, discussion, and weekly self-awareness/meditation exercises designed to help us transcend our thoughts, fears, and desires and understand our true nature and ultimately realize Who we really are. Required text: I Am That, talks with Sri Nisargatta Maharaj (The Acorn Press, 2005).
 Peer Consultation Group
Deb McGowan, LCPC
4/15/11, 5/20/11, 6/17/11
$30 (includes 1.5 CEUs)
For clinicians, this monthly peer consultation group at the Center is facilitated by Deb McGowen, LCPC who has many years of experience practicing Jungian oriented psychotherapy. This group is an opportunity to develop a stronger connection to colleagues as well as engage in professional growth. It usually meets the third Friday of the month. This group is free to June Singer Clinic volunteer therapists.
To register please call 847-475-4848 x221 or click here
There is a $15 processing fee for CEUs
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Thanks to The School Of Metaphysics! |
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The C. G. Jung Center Board and staff would like to thank Amy Hardie and all of the volunteers at the School of Metaphysics (www.som.org) who assisted in brining The Edge of Dreaming to the Center. For those of you who were unable to attend, you can view an interview with Amy Hardie, along with information about the film The Edge of Dreaming by clicking here
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http://www.cgjungcenter.org/newsletter-archive.html
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