The C. G. Jung Center
April 2012 Newsletter
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Greetings! This month we welcome three new Board members to the C. G. Jung Center Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees meets monthly and works tirelessly to honor the Center's donors and volunteers; envision the Center's future; and ensure the Center's continuation. Our new Board members are:
Barbara Burns, R.N., L.C.S.W. Barbara is a Registered Nurse, and received a Master's degree in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. In addition to being a Clinical Social Worker, Barbara is an instructor of Tai Chi. She is very interested in women's spirituality and completed the certificate program at the Jung Institute in 1989. She resides in Evanston and teaches at the Jung Center.
Julianna Greer, M.A. Julianna began her career studying Social Science at Trinity University. She went on to get her Master's in Studies in Aging at the University of North Texas. Julianna has long-standing interests in mental health, quality of life issues and adult education, as well as experience in event planning-- including continuing education and professional development. Julianna co-founded the Metro Chicago Non-profit Network, and is a member of other professional networks including the West Suburban Philanthropic Network, Business Network Chicago, and Wheaton Executive Network. Her most recent work has been developing a training program called, "How Happy Are We Supposed to Be?" She currently works in the field of adult day services.
Steve Buser, M.D. Steve is a Jungian Psychiatrist and co-founder of the Asheville Jung Center. Steve received his B.S. in Physiology from Michigan State University and went on to get his M.D. at Duke University. Steve served in the U.S. Air Force from 1985 until 1997, at which time he went into private practice. Steve completed the Clinical Training Program at the Jung Institute of Chicago.
Welcome Barbara, Julianna, and Steve!
Megan Belniak, M.S., L.P.C.
Administrative Coordinator
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 Jungian Dreamwork: Skills and Techniques
Saturday April 28th, 10-4pm
Karol Weigelt, MS, MAPC & Diane Miller, MA, LPC $75, CEUs: 5
Dreams and dream work are valuable to the understanding of our lives. Dreams have been part of the most sacred and spiritual traditions. Those traditions, ancient through contemporary, have taught that dreams provide inspiration, healing, guidance and connection to our unconscious. Tapping into that wise world of personal symbol, myth, and metaphor can be very rewarding. Our dreams offer valuable information at the deepest levels of our personalities and how we behave in the world. Jung's model of dream work is one of healing and wholeness, the seeking of balance in our lives, both masculine and feminine. This workshop will introduce participants to ways to interpret and actualize their dreams by learning different skills and techniques for personal use. Participants will learn new skills for working with dreams to assist in the interpretation and connection of the unconscious and the conscious parts of their lives in a meaningful way, via the dream story, and begin to understand their own personal symbols, images and myths in an expanded association through the dream. Please bring a dream, in written form, to work with during the day.
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Weekly Dream Group
6 Wednesdays May 2-June 6, 7-9 pm
Karol Weigelt, MS, MAPC &
Diane Miller, MA, LPC
$120, CEUs: 12
Dream work is important to our inner growth. It can be healing, sacred and holistic, as viewed through its ancient history to the present. This will be a working dream group, meeting for a 6-week session. It is intended to provide for participants to share their dreams, or parts of their dreams weekly. Each session will include exploration of dream work techniques, Jung's theories on dreams and their importance to inner work, and teachings related to personal dream work. Prior experience is encouraged, but not necessary to attend the group. If you plan on attending the all day workshop in April, this would be an opportunity to add greater depth to those new understandings. We understand that it may not be possible for participants to attend every session. However, we ask that participants make a good faith commitment to attending most sessions.
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 Psyche in a Digital World
Friday May 18, 7-9 pm
Sonia Sukenick, LCSW
$25, CEUs: 2
It is compelling to imagine what Jung would have thought of this digital age we live in. Perhaps he would have seen the internet experience as a massive form of active imagination. Certainly he might have regarded it as source of constellation of the shadow, particularly in the areas of trolling, bullying and stalking. This seminar will seek to explore the ways in which our highly digitalized world has changed how we think and experience ourselves and our relationships. We will look at the history of internet and how its widening use has changed how we conceptualize the Self and how it has redefined the parameters of what we refer to as relatedness. We will also look at how this interface between the human psyche and digital technology is changing the way our brains are being structured and how they function.
Recommended Reading
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr.
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Understanding Jung: An Introduction & Overview
Friday June 8, 7-9:15 pm
Robert J. Moretti, PhD
$25, CEUs: 2
If you are new to Jung, or are looking for a refresher of his fundamental ideas, this lecture is for you. Many people who try to read Jung on their own are discouraged by the complexity of his thought and writing. This presentation aims to address this issue by providing an easily digestible explanation of Jung's central ideas, sorting them within the context of his life experience and work. The goal is to give participants a background and starting point for comprehending Jung. By the end of the evening, participants will understand the central idea of Jung's psychology, know why dreams are important, and be able to identify 4 common archetypes. In addition to the lecture and discussion, some video excerpts of interviews with Jung will be presented.
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April Viewing and Discussion
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Viewing and Discussions: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Friday April 6, 7-10 pm
Dan Ross, RN
$15
This first film by Sean Durkin is going to be hard to beat. It is the story of a young woman, played brilliantly by Elizabeth Olsen, who escapes a cult at the very beginning of the film and lives with her sister. The rest of the film is about the contamination of her experiences, seen as flashbacks, on her life with her sister. We see the ripple effects of the cult experiences in very subtle ways at first, then gradually the true nature of the trauma emerges and we find ourselves caught up in the terror of the experience. This film exposes the intrapsychic predator that pervades the collective and personal unconscious and does so first by seducing us into feeling safe and protected. There is a loose comparison of this cultish family to Charles Manson and the menace that allusion conjures is sufficient to keep us on edge. After viewing the film we will be exploring the archetypal theme of the predator and use the fairy tale of Bluebeard and the writings of Clarissa Pinkola Estes to amplify this theme.
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May Viewing and Discussion
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Viewing and Discussion: Sleeping Beauty
Friday May 4, 7-10 pm
Dan Ross, RN
$15
Not to be confused with the Disney version, this film was written and directed by Julia Leigh and is an extraordinary journey of young woman who exists as if in a glass coffin unable to connect with people in an authentic loving manner. Her closest friend is an alcoholic (called Birdman) who she must watch slowly kill himself. She struggles to make enough money to pay the rent and go to school yet she burns the money and we are given no clue as to what she is studying in school. Her life is meaningless and a wasteland and we suspect her inner life is unexplored until she is drawn into providing bizarre sexual favors for money for a group of old wealthy men. Emily Browning plays the sleeping beauty, Lucy, an Australian college student who holds a number of odd jobs and Rachel Blake plays the woman who runs the escort business Lucy eventually becomes a part of. As a modern fairy tale the lessons Lucy must learn will cause her to wake up finally from her long slumber but not by the kiss of a young prince. In this film we will be exploring yet again another aspect of the individuation of the young feminine beginning with the original Grimm's fairy tale of the Sleeping Beauty.
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Spiritual Self-Awareness
Mondays, ongoing drop-in, 7-9 pm
Weyler Greene, PhD
$10/week
Spiritual Self-Awareness is an on-going group for personal spiritual development. Our work will be based on a study of the roots of our Western religious traditions as found in the Native Middle East. Our study will not focus on the traditions themselves, but on the core insights and awarenesses that gave rise to them. Our study will include Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Islam, and Sufism.
A number of meditations, based on this ancient material, will be explored. The purpose of this group will be to help each participant develop his or her own unique, personal spiritual practice. Although an on-going commitment to this group is desirable, drop-ins are also welcomed.
Required Text
Desert Wisdom, 2011 Edition, by Neil Douglas-Klotz (click here to purchase)
To register call 847-475-4848 x 221 or visit
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