2026-2027 Foundations Certificate Program Curriculum and Class Summary

Foundations of Jungian Theory and Practice Certificate Program
October 17, 2026 – April 17, 2027
Curriculum and Class Summary

What follows is the curriculum and class summaries for the 2026 -2027 Foundations Program. You will note that the class descriptions include suggested readings and those for further study. C. G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961) is a foundational text, and it is strongly recommended that all participants purchase or have access to it. Free online resources are listed below. Where possible, shorter articles and essays will be made available to participants in pdf format. Reminders and any additional reading materials or relevant information will be conveyed to participants in the month leading up to scheduled classes.

We strongly encourage you to do as much reading as possible ahead of each class. Familiarizing yourself with the suggested readings and additional material – letting it stir and activate your curiosity and imagination – will enhance your experience in class, and of the program more generally.

Online Resources:
https://www.scribd.com/document/812769149/Memories-Dreams-Reflections

You can access the complete digital edition of The Collected Works of C.G. Jung for free here: Archive.org. This edition includes all 20 volumes and is available in various formats such as PDF, EPUB, and HTML.

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CLASS TITLE: Jung and Freud
PRESENTER: Paul Sanderson, PhD., IAAP
DATE: October 17, 2026, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

This class will focus on the two founders of Depth Psychology: Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung. We will begin with brief biological sketches with special attention to cultural/religious differences and how each of them, as wounded healers, discovered the presence and importance of the unconscious realm of psyche. Then we will briefly explore how they differed in their understanding of the unconscious and dream interpretation with more attention given to their different approaches to psychology of religion and religious experience, exploring their basic differences as grounded in the distinction between classical and contemporary physics.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C. G., Memories, Dreams, Reflections, New York: Vintage Books, 1961, specifically the chapter on Freud.
  2. Jung, C. G., Psychology & Religion, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938.
  3. Jung, C. G., Dreams, Princeton, New Jersey: Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, 1974.


FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Donn, Linda, Freud and Jung: Years of Friendship, Years of Loss, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988.
  2. Storr, Anthony and Stevens, Anthony, Freud & Jung: A Dual Introduction, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1998.

FACULTY

Paul Sanderson, D.Min., Ph.D., IAAP, is a Licensed Psychologist and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Massachusetts; a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors; A Certified Jungian Analyst; and an Ordained Minister in the United Church of Christ. He taught psychology at Assumption College for twenty-five years. In addition to his private practice (in person and on-line) in Foxborough, Massachusetts, he serves as Pastor of the First Community Church of Southborough. He is married with three children, six grandchildren, and is a big fan of Pink Floyd and the New York Yankees.

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CLASS TITLE: Know Thyself: C.G. Jung’s Psychological Types
PRESENTER: Olga Turcotte
DATE: October 17, 2026, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

While Dr. Jung was careful not to categorize personalities, he discovered it helped the analytical process tremendously to observe and note that we all view the world through varying and different typological lenses.

His extensive research and many years of findings on the typology of his patients paved the way for most present-day personality tests widely used in almost all professional fields across the globe.

In this seminar, we are going to learn about the different personality types and how we can tap into this knowledge to have a fuller and more authentic personal as well as professional life.

If time permits, we will also do a hands-on exercise to expand our understanding of Typology. All materials and instructions will be provided by the seminar leader.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, Carl Gustav, Psychological Types, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990
  2. Von Franz, Marie-Louise and Hillman, James, Lectures on Jung’s Typology, Putnam, Connecticut: Spring Publications, 2010
  3. Sharp, Daryl, Personality Types: Jung’s Model of Typology, Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1980
  4. Quentin, Naomi, Was That Really Me?, Mountain View, California: Davies-Black Publishing, 2002.

Suggested sites for Personality Tests:
(Please note, it is not necessary for attendees to take any test prior to our seminar. All tests should be taken at will and analyzed in an informed manner.)

5. https://www.humanmetrics.com/
6. https://mypersonality.net/

 

FACULTY

Olga Turcotte is a consultant and lecturer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has lived and studied in seven countries and has worked in the fields of corporate finance, non-profit management, consulting and education. Her interest in analytical psychology started in the mid 80’s while she was still living in C. G. Jung’s Switzerland and has become her vocation over the years. Her areas of focus are dreams, history, literature, religion and symbolism.

 

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CLASS TITLE: Complexes: Do we have them? Or do they have us?
A Class on Jung’s “Healthily Dissociable” Theory
PRESENTER: Patricia Vesey-McGrew, LP, IAAP
DATE: November 21, 2026: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

Jung’s unique structural understanding of the psyche was one of his most significant contributions to the field of depth psychology.

Complexes are in truth the living units of the unconscious psyche. – C.G Jung

Complexes, thus, are often experienced as both blessing and curse. As the basic structural components of the personal psyche they enlarge, add depth and richness to the personality. However, they frequently thwart the intentions of the ego, often causing illusory perceptions, problematic thoughts and behaviors and, not infrequently, intense suffering. Not only do we all have complexes, in fact it is far more often the case that our complexes have us. – C.G. Jung

This class will explore the nature of complexes and their tendency to erupt and overtake the ego as well as their ability to expand and enrich the psyche of the individual. Additionally, we will review the core complexes: Ego, Self, Persona, Mother, Father, Shadow, Divine Child.

Participants will gain a clear, detailed, nuanced understanding of complex theory and its primacy in Analytical Psychology. Participants will acquire skills that enable them to differentiate specific complexes, with their unique characteristics, and thus be able to operationalize that knowledge in a greater awareness and comprehension of intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics. Finally, participants will develop a symbolic lens, language, and posture that facilitates holding or containment of paradox and tension in the experience of complex eruptions, which will hopefully assist in the constellation of the transcendent function.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C.G. 1934. “A review of the complex theory.” In Collected Works, Vol. 8, 92-104 2d ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
  2. Bovensiepen, Gustav. 2006. “Attachment-dissociation network: some thoughts about a modern complex theory.” Journal of Analytical Psychology 51/451-466.
  3. Vesey-McGrew, P. (2010). ‘Getting on top of thought and behavior patterns.” In Jungian Psychoanalysis, ed. M. Stein. Chicago & La Salle, Illinois: Open Court.

FACULTY

Patricia Vesey-McGrew, LP, IAAP, is a supervising and training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of New England, where she is a past president and currently on the Institute Board. Additionally, she is former Deputy Editor (US) on The Journal of Analytical Psychology and is currently a member of the editorial committee. She has a private practice in Rockport, MA.

 

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CLASS TITLE: Archetypes
PRESENTER: Michael Conforti, IAAP
DATES: November 21, 2026: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION
It was the brilliance of Jung, von Franz and the early Jungians to see in the archetypes the self-organizing tendency of the psyche and how these components of the “antique soul” are represented in our dreams and fantasies. Jung suggested that archetypes function as morphological constants within the Psyche. This realization was later echoed by Von Franz who viewed the archetypes as “Nature’s Constants.” Both comments speak to the eternal and innate presence of archetypes within the personal and collective psyche, and how they literally shape personal and collective life.

However, the profundity of these discoveries is unfortunately being eclipsed by modernity which tends to understand and view universal and archetypal images through the lens of our very personal and subjective experiences. This personal circumambulation too often eclipses the archetypal and spiritual meaning of the image.

Through the presentation and detailed examination of a dream we will look at the relationship and differences between a personal and archetypal understanding of images. We will come to see the utter beauty and profundity of this voice of Psyche as it speaks to us about life, love, destiny, and most importantly, about our relationship to the sacred.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C.G. 1934. A review of the complex theory, in Collected Works, Vol. 8, 92-104 2d ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
  2. Kaufmann, Yoram. The Way of the Image: The Orientational Approach to the Psyche, Zahav Books, Inc., (2009)
  3. Osterman, Elizabeth. “Patterning in the Psyche and the Natural World.”

FACULTY
Michael Conforti, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of New England, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master’s Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.

He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute – Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Italy, Russia, South Africa, the Ukraine and Venezuela.

He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal. His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and a soon to be released Spanish edition of his work.

 

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CLASS TITLE: Dreams
PRESENTER: Tom Bonner
DATE: December 12, 2026, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

This course will explore Jung’s understanding of the dream as a purposive, physiological fact that serves as a natural aid in adaptation. The emphasis of the course will be the development of the individual relationship with the unconscious through the dream encounter. Topics to be explored include consciousness, unconsciousness, Jung’s hypothesis of a collective unconscious, the symbolic language of dreams, the informative and compensatory functions of the unconscious, and the introduction of a simple framework for working with and relating to a dream. The course will include a brief history of human interaction with dreams as well as some dream examples.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Whitmont, E. C., and Brinton-Perera, S. (1989/2011). Dreams, A Portal to the Source. London and New York: Routledge.
  2.  von Franz, M.L. (1999). The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption. Toronto, Canada: Inner City Books.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. West, M. (2018). Understanding Dreams in Clinical Practice. London and New York: Routledge.
  2. Sheldrake, R. (2012). Science Set Free. New York: Crown Publishing Group.

FACULTY
Tom Bonner is a psychotherapist in private practice in Philadelphia, PA, and is a diploma candidate at C.G. Jung Institute, New England. bonner_thomas@hotmail.com

 

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CLASS TITLE: Body as Shadow- Jung on Re-membering the Body
PRESENTER: Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, IAAP
DATE: December 12, 2026, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

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. The body was relegated to the shadow. 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. Our embodied soul was forced into the shadow.

Jung states that we cannot have a soulful life or transform without connection to our body – they 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 personally and professionally. This is his legacy to us.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Lorentz, Erica, Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process (Fall 2025 release)
  2. Bosnak, Robert, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel, Routledge, 2007.
  3. Dallett, Janet, Listening to the Rhino: Violence and Healing in a Scientific Age, Aequitas Books, 2008.
  4. Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight | TED Talk

FACULTY

Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, IAAP, is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of New England where she has served on the Training Board. She is the author of Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process (2026). She has been an adjunct faculty at Antioch New England Graduate School of Professional Psychology, and a training analyst with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Pacifica Radio and the Jung Platform have featured her work, and her lectures can be found on YouTube. Since 1986 she has given lectures and workshops in the US, Canada, and the UK, and had the honor of teaching in India last year. Her area of expertise is working with the embodied mythopoetic process in analysis and the interactive field. Her initiation into Jung’s embodied active imagination started in 1975 when she began studying Authentic Movement (the Jungian form of movement work) with her mentor Janet Adler.

 

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CLASS TITLE: Jung’s Concept of Individuation and the Analytic Process
PRESENTER: Brian Hobbs, M.Ed., CAGS, IAAP
DATES: January 16, 2027, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

Though the term was coined by an alchemist in the sixteenth century, the concept of individuation was taken up by CG Jung and became a critical aspect of his theoretical framework. Over his lifetime his definition of this term was articulated by him in different ways. In 1921, in Volume 6 of his Collected Works, he defined individuation as “the process by which individual beings are being formed and differentiated; in particular, it is the development of he psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology. Individuation, therefore, is a process of differentiation, having for its goal the development of the individual personality…”

In this seminar we will explore the implications of this concept, it’s relation to other core Jungian concepts, such as the Self, and will identify key components in individuation as a process. The class will read the myth of Cupid and Psyche as an example of an individuation process in symbolic form. We will use the myth to help us reflect on its necessarily complicated course and its manifestation in particular forms.

 

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Stein, Murray. (2006). The Principle of Individuation: Towards the Development of Human Consciousness. Asheville: Chiron.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Jacoby, Mario. (1990). Individuation and Narcissism: The Psychology of the Self in Jung and Kohut. London and New York: Routledge.
  2. Jung, C.G. (1933). “A Study in the Process of Individuation.” In: The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, CW 9,I. Princeton University Press.
  3. Von Franz, Marie- Louise. (1997). Individuation and Fairy Tales. Boston and London: Shambhala.

FACULTY

Brian Hobbs, M.Ed., CGS, IAAP, is a graduate of the CG Jung Institute of New England and a member of the faculty at the Institute. He maintains an analytic practice in Princeton, MA.

 

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CLASS TITLE: The Interpretation and Use of Fairy Tales
PRESENTER: Deborah de Fauconberg
DATE: January 16, 2027, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

This course provides a brief introduction to Jungian interpretation of fairytales drawing on the methods developed by CG Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz. We will explore why fairy tales are uniquely valuable psychological guides illuminating the dynamics of the psyche through the characters, motifs and narrative patterns contained therein. Together we will examine one fairy tale in-depth and relate it to how it may appear in a clinical setting.

Before coming to class: Think of a fairy tale that you remember most vividly from your childhood. If none comes to mind, note that and then, do any fairy tales come to mind from your adult life?

SUGGESTED READING

  1. von Franz, M-L. (1996). The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Boston, MA: Shambhala
    Publications. Please read chapters 1-3.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Bettelheim, B. (1976). The uses of enchantment: The Meaning and importance of fairy tales. New York: Thames & Hudson. N.B. This is a Freudian text that provides a good foundation for a psychological approach to fairy tales.
  2. Jung, C.G. (1934/1990). Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.)(R.F.C. Hull, Trans.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (Vol. 9i, pp. ). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  3. von Franz, M-L. (1995). Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications.
  4. von Franz, M-L. (1997). Archetypal patterns in Fairy Tales. Toronto: Inner City Books.
  5. von Franz, M-L. (2002). Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales. Toronto: Inner City Books.

FACULTY

Deborah de Fauconberg, IAAP is a Jungian analyst in private practice. She has an extensive background teaching, researching and publishing in both finance and psychology.

 

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CLASS TITLE: The Transformation of Libido and Symbol Formation
PRESENTER: D. Stephenson Bond, M.Div., IAAP
DATE: February 20, 2027, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

When Jung wrote “the psychological mechanism that transforms energy is the symbol,” he opened a new way of understanding a symbol (an energetic image). This seminar will explore the concept of libido and its many transformations in dreams and in living. Students will learn Jung’s early developing libido theory, in contrast to Freud, and the role the transformation of libido plays in creating symbols, dreams, and myths.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C. G., “On Psychic Energy,” in CW Volume 8 (Second Edition), pp. 3-66 (Princeton University Press, 1969).

FACULTY

D. Stephenson Bond, M.Div., IAAP, is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, and the author of six books, most recently Confessions of an Introvert: The Solitary Path to Emotional Maturity (2018), as well as Living Myth: Personal Meaning As a Way of Life (1993, 2002) and The Archetype of Renewal (2003).

 

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CLASS TITLE: Alchemy and the Religious Function of the Psyche
PRESENTER: Jason Smith, MA, IAAP
DATE: February 20, 2027: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION
“Among all my patients in the second half of life — that is to say, over thirty-five — there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.” C.G. Jung, CW11, par. 509

The living process of the unconscious, taught Carl Jung, is more aptly expressed by religious symbols than by scientific formulas. The psyche, he asserted, naturally possesses a religious function, and it is by coming into conscious relationship with this function that the way is opened for the individual’s experience of psychological wholeness. In the literature of alchemy with its often strange imagery, Jung found a particularly apt parallel for how this movement toward wholeness is expressed in the unconscious life of the individual.

In this class we will discuss the religious function of the psyche and look at how it is experienced both individually and collectively. We will discuss the symbolism of alchemy and its relevance to the individuation process. Finally, we will look at the ways that religious questions can manifest in the context of the psychotherapeutic setting.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C.G. (1968). Introduction to the religious and psychological problems of alchemy (Psychology and Alchemy, part 1). In H. Read et al. (Eds.). The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 12, pp. 1-37). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  2. Smith, J. E. (2020). Religious but not religious: Living a symbolic life. Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Edinger, E. (1992). Ego and archetype: Individuation and the religious function of the psyche. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
  2. Jung, C. G. (1931/1970). The spiritual problem of modern man. In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 10, pp. 74-94). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  3. Jung, C. G. (1932/1969). Psychotherapists or the clergy. In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 11, pp. 327-347). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  4. Jung, C. G. (1938/1969). Psychology and religion. In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 11, pp. 3-105). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  5. Jung, C. G. (1954/1989). The symbolic life. In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 18, pp. 265-290). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

FACULTY

Jason E. Smith, MA, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He is the author of Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life and the creator and host of the podcast Digital Jung. Jason is an instructor for the online platform Jung Archademy. He also serves as a training analyst and faculty member for the C.G. Jung Institute of New England.

 

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CLASS TITLE: Music and Psyche
PRESENTER: Melinda Haas
DATE: March 20, 2027: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

“The symphony is the world,” Gustav Mahler

“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly
emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but
It has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce
The heart directly; it needs no mediation.” Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia, (2007,
pp. 300-301)

I imagine we all embark upon a journey into Jungian thought out of desire and/or need to develop a deeper relationship to Psyche, to ourselves. To do that we need to be firing on all four cylinders — Thinking, Feeling, Sensation and Intuition. It is my experience, both in Jungian work and in the culture at large, that our Thinking Function is privileged and dominant. This is often to the exclusion, denial or demotion of Feeling and Sensation — the functions that are grounded in the body. If dreams are the “royal road to the unconscious,” surely music is the royal road to Psyche and Feeling. Through musical examples this class will explore Psyche’s experience of beauty, structure, “home,” sadness, joy, all in a world without the language of words.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Paul W. Ashton: “Music, Mind, and Psyche” in Music and Psyche: Contemporary
    Psychoanalytic Explorations. (New Orleans: Spring Journal Publications, 2010).
    [Note: I will provide copies if not accessible]
  2.  Susanne K. Langer: “On Significance in Music” in Philosophy in a New Key: A
    Study In the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
    University Press, Third Edition, (1979).
  3. Gustav Mahler: Symphony #9. Suggested Recordings:
    Bernstein conducting NY Philharmonic, CD Sony Classical, 1992
    Simon Rattle conducting Vienna Philharmonic, Angel Records, 1998

FACULTY

Melinda Haas, LCSW, IAAP, began her music life at an early age. She became a Modern Dance accompanist, working with the Martha Graham and José Limón dance companies. She has been a Jungian Analyst in private practice in New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts for many years. She teaches and supervises at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association and the C.G. Jung Institute of New England. She writes about music and Jungian thought and has presented papers at numerous IAAP Congresses. Two of her essays are published in the book Music and Psyche, Ashton & Bloch, editors.

 

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CLASS TITLE: On Synchronicity: Jung, Wilhelm and the I Ching
PRESENTER: Brian Skea, IAAAP
DATE: March 20, 2027: 1:30 – 4:30 pm (3.0 hours)

Please note: Prior to class participants should watch “Wisdom of Changes: Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching” a film by Bettina Wilhelm, found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XXdtapEw1U. On the day of class participants should bring with them a copy of Wilhelm’s 1950 (1967) English translation of The I Ching, along with three coins (quarters or Chinese coins) for the purpose of forming a personal hexagram. A downloadable pdf version of Wilhelm’s text is also available online (see below).

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Carl Jung and Richard Wilhelm met in the early 20’s at Count Keyserling’s “School of Wisdom” in Darmstadt. They met again in 1923 when Wilhelm presented a lecture on the I Ching (Book of Changes) to the Psychology Club, based on his 1923 German translation and Commentary. Originally a method of divination, the I Ching has evolved over many Chinese dynasties, including Taoist and Confucian eras, into a prized Book of Wisdom. It relies on Jung’s concept of ‘synchronicity’, where a subject, his question, the moment of time when the coins are thrown, and the I Ching’s answer, form a meaningful coincidence. In 1928 Wilhelm sent Jung a copy of his translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower and asked if he would write a commentary. He also asked Jung if he would translate his translation of both the I Ching and Golden Flower into English. Jung recruited Cary Baynes. Sadly, Wilhelm died of a recurrence of amoebic dysentery in 1930 at the age of 57. Jung delivered the memorial address, found in CW 15 or the appendix of Golden Flower. In this address Jung defined ‘synchronicity’ for the first time, in reference to the I Ching. Baynes completed the English translation, published in 1950, including Jung’s 1949 Foreword. This is the text we will be using.

After my introduction, class members will use Wilhelm’s Introduction to the Use of the Book of Changes (I Ching) to learn the method of constructing hexagrams by throwing three coins six times. I will use Jung’s Foreword for examples of types of questions asked and how to interpret answers received. I will describe the Eight Basic Trigrams and certain key hexagrams, for example No 1 The Creative, and No 2 The Receptive. Participants will be encouraged to form their own hexagrams which will not be interpreted publicly.

SUGGESTED READING:

  1. The I Ching, Richard Wilhelm Translation, English rendering Cary F. Baynes, Foreword by C.G. Jung, Preface by Helmut Wilhelm (1950, 1967) Bollingen Foundation, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Jung’s foreword is also found in CW 11, p589.
  2. A downloadable pdf version of Wilhelm’s text can be found here (copy and paste in browser): https://www.rexresearch1.com/Books/WilhelmIChing.pdf
  3. A “Lookup Table” of the 64 hexagrams can be found here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(I_Ching)

 

FOR FURTHER STUDY:

  1. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Appendix IV Richard Wilhelm, C.G. Jung (1961) Pantheon Books, Random House, New York.
  2. In Memory of Richard Wilhelm, C.G. Jung, Memorial Address, May 10, 1930. Collected Works, Volume 15, p53. (1966) Princeton University Press
  3. “Richard Wilhelm: One of the School of Wisdom’s Most Notable Teachers”, found online under “School of Wisdom”.
  4.  “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.” CG Jung (1952) The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, Collected Works, Volume 8, p417
  5. “The I Ching: A Biography” Richard Smith (2012) Princeton University Press

FACULTY:
Brian Skea, PhD, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst, trained in Pittsburgh with the IRSJA, and at the New York Jung Institute, graduating in 1992. He is a member of the teaching faculty, past President and past Curriculum Coordinator of the Training Board of the Boston Jung Institute. Before 2004, Brian lived and practiced in the Pittsburgh area as a psychologist and Jungian analyst. Brian was a founding member and past president of the Pittsburgh Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. He has presented papers on trauma and dissociation, including “Thomas Merton’s Retreat from a World of Trauma” at a JAP conference in 2017, and has published several book reviews and papers in this field, including “Jung, Spielrein and Nash, Three Beautiful Minds” in “Terror, Violence and the Impulse to Destroy,” ed. John Beebe (2003) Daimon Verlag, and “Sabina Spielrein: Out from the Shadow of Jung and Freud,” JAP, 2006, Vol 51, 527-552.

 

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CLASS TITLE: Introduction to Sandplay Therapy
PRESENTER: Sarah (Sally) Sugatt
DATE: April 17, 2027: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

“The client is given the possibility, by means of figures and by the arrangement of the sand within the area bounded by the sandtray, to set up a world corresponding to his or her inner state. In this manner, through free, creative play, unconscious processes are made visible in a three-dimensional form and in a pictorial world that is comparable to the dream experience. Through a series of images that take shape in this way, the process of individuation, as described by C.G. Jung, is stimulated and brought to fruition.” (Kalff, Journal of Sandplay Therapy, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1991).

Sandplay is an experiential and often non-verbal therapy which is based on the foundational work of Margaret Lowenfeld, MD, the depth psychology of C.G. Jung, and contemplative practices. It has recently been recognized as an evidence-based therapy because it gives the body a voice. Bessel van der Kolk’s work, The Body Keeps the Score, as well as the work of Levine, Maté, Porges, and others, has brought complex trauma treatment forward emphasizing the role of bodily processes in holding and releasing traumatic material. C.G. Jung ‘s statement years ago that the hands (which may “speak” more directly for the unconscious) can often solve a problem the brain struggles with describes the possibilities provided by Sandplay Therapy. This three-hour exploration will include: the origins of Kalffian/Jungian Sandplay Therapy, its theorists and their contributions, a discussion of “how it works”, the typical progressions of Sandplay Therapy sessions/processes, as well as the materials needed and suggested training requirements.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Freedle, L. (2025). When a goddess erupts: Pele in the psyche of women. Evanston, Illinois: Analytical Psychology Press.
  2. Kalff, D. (2020). Sandplay: a psychotherapeutic approach to the psyche. Oberlin, Ohio: Analytical Psychology Press: Sandplay Editions.
  3. Weinrib, E. (2015). Images of the self. California: Temenos Press.
  4. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, Sandplay Therapists of America, PO Box, 4847, Walnut
    Creek, California 94596; Sandplay.org is the website of STA. One can read a nice
    selection of journal articles on the site. The journal has been continuously biannually
    published since 1991.

FACULTY
Sarah (Sally) Sugatt, LICSW, CST-T, STA/ISST is a psychotherapist and Sandplay Therapist in private practice in Connecticut. Sally is a graduate of Syracuse University (1982) with Master’s Degrees in Social Work and Public Administration. She is a past president and past member of the Board of Trustees of Sandplay Therapists of America, (CA), an affiliate of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy, Switzerland. Sally has taught many workshops and classes and has contributed a chapter to The Heart of Sandplay, edited by Dyane Sherwood, LICSW, JA, as well as articles to the Journal of Sandplay Therapy.

 

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CLASS TITLE: The Transcendent Function
PRESENTER: Pamela Donleavy, J.D., IAAP
DATE: April 17, 2027: 1:30 – 4:30 pm (3.0 hours)

CLASS DESCRIPTION

Jung wrote an essay about the Transcendent Function in 1916 and then placed it in his files. Although he mentioned it as a function several times in his writings, it wasn’t well described until the essay was found in 1953 and published by the Student Association of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. It was made public in 1959 and updated with a prefatory note and some revisions made by Jung just two years before his death.

In this class we explore the transcendent function through an examination of Jung’s writings, and through the use of dreams, imagination, and reflections on the analytic process. We arrive at a deeper understanding of this often-mysterious aspect of the psyche which seeks to reconcile the tension between the opposites of conscious and unconscious perspectives and experiences in the interest of psychological growth. We will also discuss ways in which consciousness can work to facilitate the workings of this important function in the psyche.

At the conclusion of this course participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the Jungian concept of the transcendent function. Further, participants will understand how the transcendent function manifests in one’s psyche and in the analytic process and learn ways to facilitate its working in individuals, groups, and societies.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C.G. (1953). The Transcendent Function, CW8, pgs. 67 – 91. Bollingen Foundation, New York, NY.
  2. Miller, Jeffrey C. (2004). The Transcendent Function, Chapter 7. State University of New York Press.
  3. Ulanov, Ann. (2018). The Functioning Transcendent. Chiron Publications, Asheville, NC.

FACULTY

Pamela Donleavy, J.D, IAAP, is a Jungian psychoanalyst with a private online practice from Peabody, MA. She is a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute – Boston and is presently on the Board of the C.G. Jung Institute of New England. Her interests include the interconnection of her prior professions as a lawyer and musician with Asian philosophies and Jungian theories.