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Discover the latest reflections, events, and explorations in our newsletter to keep up to date with the Jung Society’s activities this season. Read Our Latest Newsletter: Fall 2025
C.G. Jung

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.

Eco-Somatic Imagination and the Soul of the World

with

Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

(Online)

  • Friday Lecture, November 14th, 2025
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
This lecture explores eco-somatic imagination as a doorway into the Anima Mundi—the Soul of the World. Drawing on Jung’s view of the psyche as alive, we’ll reimagine the body as part of the Earth: an organ of perception and participation that both listens and expresses. What if the Earth is a living, dreaming being, inviting us into relationship? We’ll consider dreams, images, and sensations as portals into the Earth’s psyche, revealing the natural world not as metaphor but as an animate participant in the unfolding of soul. Grounded in the Wild Yoga™ Way, this talk proposes that embodied imagination can restore our capacity for reverence and reciprocity. Eco-somatic imagination invites us to listen, respond, and participate with the Soul of the World in ways that rekindle intimacy with the more-than-human realm and catalyze personal and planetary transformation.

Earth as Dreamer:

A Journey of Eco-Somatic Listening and Rooted Reverie (Workshop)

with

Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

(Online)

  • Saturday Workshop, November 15th, 2025
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm PST
What if the Earth is calling us? Sink into the imaginal terrain in this experiential workshop, where body, breath, and wild nature meet. Through somatic practices, imaginal journeys, and body-based listening, participants will engage their bodies and dreams as listening places where the Earth speaks. Drawing from dreamwork rooted in active imagination and nature-based ritual, we’ll explore how the Earth communicates through symbol, synchronicity, and sensation that arise when our bodies are in ongoing conversation with the psyche of the land. Participants will be guided into a mythopoetic descent, learning to listen with the whole self and respond from a place of embodied reverence. This workshop invites Rooted Reverie: a contemplative, body-based way of dwelling with the world that restores intimacy and belonging. It becomes an experiential deepening—grounding eco-somatic theory in breath, body, and image, and offering a sacred return to poetic presence, soulful devotion, and embodied attunement to Earth.

THE RED BOOK

A Seminar with Bette Joram, Ph.D.

 

  • ONLINE
  • 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month
  • Time: 7 – 8:30 PM Pacific Time
  • Cost:  $ 10/ session
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.

– Seminar Series –

The Dream’s Desire, Agency and Intention

 

  • ONLINE
  • November 5, November 19, December 3, 2025 
  • Every Two Weeks
  • 10:00 am to 12:00 PST (the seminar will be recorded)
Modern dream science, in attempting to solve the riddle and mystery of dreams, has advanced a variety of theories ranging from the notion that dreams are nothing but brain noise to claims that dreams are the night’s preparation for the next day’s activities and evolutionarily significant in preparing consciousness to deal with harm and threat. All of these efforts are focused on the dream’s value (or lack thereof) for conscious purposes, intentions, and agendas. This seminar will review these modern developments and offer a critique that focuses attention instead on the dream’s desire, agency, and intention. I’m looking for participants to be engaged interactively in activities that will illustrate the importance and value of psyche-centered writing. As an example, I will attempt to reconstruct my spontaneous talk I gave at the 1992 Arts Festival at Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The title of that talk was “The Cost of Poetry and the Price of Its Loss.” I will emphasize the value of poetry as a way of relating to dreams and other phenomena of psyche.

Fairy Tale Fridays

 

  • November 7, December 5, 2025.
  • January 2, February 6, March 6, 2026
  • 6:30-8:30pm PST 
  • ONLINE meetings held on the first Friday of every month. 
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.

The Jung Café

  • In the Library! Saturday Morning Discussion Group
  • 11:00 am – 12:30 pm on Saturdays
  • Nancy Alvord Library at Good Shepherd Center, Room 222.
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 with any questions, or just drop by.
We look forward to seeing you!

Jung Library Study Group

(IN THE LIBRARY!)  2nd Fridays, starting November 14, 2025
In 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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