Foundations of Jungian Psychology Drop-in classes
Body as Shadow: Jung on Re-membering the Body
Presenter: Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, IAAP
Date: December 13, 2025
Time: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 hours)
Cost: $90
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.
The Myth of Amor and Psyche and the Process of Individuation
Presenter:Brian Hobbs
Date: January 17, 2026
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Cost: $90
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.
Anima and Animus
Presenter: Will Furber
Date: January 17, 2026
Time: 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Cost: $90
Anima and Animus are fundamental gender related archetypes serving as important internal guides to individuation and wholeness. As experienced as complexes within the personal unconscious, they contain only a part of this potential because they are limited by the collective and individual understanding and experience of gender prevailing at the time. Much has changed in the understanding of gender within collective and individual consciousness since the mid Twentieth Century, so these concepts as initially formulated by Jung and others are now quite outdated. Attending to archetypal resonance as images of anima and animus emerge in dreams and other manifestations of the Self in relation to this developing understanding will assist these complexes to evolve and more fully reflect their archetypal core. As a parallel to evolving understanding about gender, these concepts can now be understood as more fluid, nuanced, and highly particularized to the individual.
Dreams
Presenter: D. Stephenson Bond
Date: February 21, 2026
Time: 9:30 – 12:30 pm
Cost: $90
In this course we will review Jung’s essential approach to working with dreams. After a brief review of Freud’s dream method, we will discuss basic Jungian concepts such as the prospective function and compensatory function, subjective versus objective interpretation, the dream ego, and the classical Jungian dream structure. We will finish with a discussion of Jung’s unique approach to symbols as the “best expression of a relatively unknown fact.”
Fairy Tales
Presenter: Angie Brenner
Date: March 21, 2026
Time: 9:30 -12:30 pm
Cost: $90
In this course we will explore why fairy tales have such a prominent place in the study and practice of Jungian psychology, as a uniquely useful lens into deep patterns operating in our lives–on a personal and a collective level.
We will spend time as a group with two tales from the Brothers Grimm: The Six Swans, and Briar Rose. This will give us an experiential opportunity to delve into the elements of image and story that make up a fairy tale, and find what this study might offer us, in our personal and clinical work.
Alchemy and the Religious Function of the Psyche
Presenter: Jason E. Smith
Date: April 18, 2026
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Cost: $90
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.
Synchronicity
Presenter: Joseph Cambray
Date: April 18, 2026
Time: 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Cost: $90
This presentation will begin with a brief history of the origins and development of Jung’s notions of synchronicity and the psychoid. Complexity and field theories will then be applied to provide a 21st century view of these holistic, intuitive concepts. Examples of synchronistic phenomena from the presenter’s practice will be explored using the new approach. Links to the Kairos of enactments and reveries will be included to consider the noetic potential in synchronistic phenomena. Further examples from the history of culture, especially where artisans or artists were able to represent profound knowledge of highly complex natural phenomena well ahead of any scientific understanding, indicating the reality of psychoid fields, will be offered.