As a thoughtful learning community, we strive to make Jungian and depth psychological thought available to the general public through workshops, seminars and other resources that help liberate the soul and transform culture.
The Nancy Alvord Library, one of the most unique libraries in America, is housed at the Good Shepherd Center in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle.
In 1913, Jung followed his Soul into the unconscious. This journey was the Rosetta Stone for the rest of his research and work. His destiny was to redeem the embodied soul from vilification and exile for modern psychology. We will trace through neuroscience and history how and why our healthy instinct, emotion, intuition, energy, imagination, somatic unconscious, and the feminine was pushed into the cultural unconscious. This is the story of how our embodied soul was forced into the shadow.
Jung states that we cannot have a soulful life or transform without connection to our body. Body and Soul are inextricably linked. We will demonstrate how his favorite method of working, embodied active imagination, offers us the ability to engage with our embodied soul and the inter-active field, thus retrieving it from the shadow. This is his legacy to us.
Dreams are teaching stories that bridge the inner and outer life. They are personal and sacred, and help us understand how to respond to stress. Each dream is perfect and only needs our honest devotion to decipher its message. Using principles of Authentic Movement, the facilitator will support participants to enter their dreams through movement, art, and writing to engage with the dreamscape. Meaning emerges as we allow ourselves to experience the symbolic language of the dream. As a group, we will respectfully support each person’s story, without projection or interpretation. No prior experience is necessary.
In this seminar I will focus on a book I am writing entitled, Gleanings from the Dreamfield. The purpose of this book is to describe thirteen or so dreams I have had over my lifetime that were life changing. I will describe the dream, how I worked with it, what changes I made because of the dream and dream work, and how the dream mentored by understanding of dreams and how to work with them.
In addition to dreams, I will also focus on synchronicities and visions and how to work with them. In my experience of the deep psyche, I find that dreams, synchronicities, and visions all function as mentors, bringing to awareness things I do not know, but things I must take into account and act on. Using my own experiences to illustrate these ways will allow me to more fully convey what dreams have taught me, why I value them, and why I think that they are the most efficacious guide to how to live as the sixth extinction unfolds.
No prior knowledge, experience, or previous participation in the group is required.
As Jung wrestled with powerful images and experiences sent forth by the unconscious, he was “taken to the mat” again and again. As he sweated it out intellectually, physically, morally, and spiritually, within these pages, so will we. As we read and discuss The Red Book together, we, too, will struggle with the implications of this material for our own understanding of ourselves, the times we live in, and the meaning and consequences that our own encounters with the unconscious present to us, and the way the unconscious effects society at large. The Red Book lays the groundwork in which Jung began to formulate the constructs which later appear throughout his Collected Works.
A online study and discussion of various fairy tales facilitated by Stephanie Gierman, Jungian Analyst, and our very own Co-President, Bette R. Joram, Ph.D.
Purchase a Member or Non-member ticket to join the discussion. CEU ticket sold separately.
Our in-person discussion group continues to meet weekly on Saturday mornings, 11am – 12:30pm in the Nancy Alvord Library, room 222 of the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle. Participants suggest and discuss a variety of Jungian and depth psychological topics and benefit from community connection. Please join us!
Contact Laura at arweninrivendell@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you!
(IN THE LIBRARY!) FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTHIn the library, Lael Cassidy hosts an in-person discussion group based on Jung’s Dream Analysis: Notes on the Seminar Given in 1928-1930.
- Noon – 2:00pm
- Nancy Alvord Library at Good Shepherd Center, Room 222.
- The group is open to the public with a suggested donation of $10 per session.
In this study group, we intend to invite the voice of C.G. Jung into the room and to provide a space to reflect with our whole selves. We will attend his seminar and enter into specific dreams with him.
We are reading C.G. Jung’s Dream Analysis: Notes on the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, one lecture per month. New participants are welcome at any time. We send a PDF version of the upcoming lecture a few days before each meeting (typically about 15 pages). If you want to receive this email, please reach out to Lael Cassidy, laelcassidy@gmail.com
(If you want your own copy of the book, Part 1 of the lecture series is readily available in paperback and on kindle where books are sold. The full volume is only available in hardback, and quite expensive, but at the current rate we won’t reach part 2 until mid-2025)
For more information, contact Lael at laelcassidy@gmail.com
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Membership is open to anyone interested in learning about Jungian thought.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
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As we step into the New Year, we reflect on the growth, learning, and connections we’ve shared with our community. Your support and engagement have been at the heart of our mission to explore the richness of Jungian thought and its relevance to today’s world.
This year, we’re excited to bring you new opportunities for learning, discussion, and discovery. From lectures and workshops to community events and library resources, we invite you to join us in deepening our collective understanding and personal growth.
Thank you for being a valued part of the Jung Society of Seattle.
