Location: Green HIlls Library, 3701 Benham Ave, Nashville, TN

Based on the theories of Carl Jung, Ensoulment is a film (and a book by the same title) by Lori Simon that brings a unique perspective on the feminine principle as part of the psyche. Simon views the feminine as a group of genderless characteristics related to emotions, intuition, creativity, receptiveness, nurturance, etc... expressions that western culture has tended to push aside in order to give space to reason, logical thinking, and structure.

The film focuses on interviews featuring prominent Jungians, including Dr. James Hollis and Dr. Jerry Ruhl, as well as other scholars and cultural experts. Using these interviews, along with animation, Simon creates a story of recovering the feminine without losing the masculine, emphasizing that we all contain both principles and need both to be whole, happy and fulfilled.

We will watch the hour long film, followed by time for discussion and fellowship.

*Please note there is a location change for this event to Glendale United Methodist Church at 900 Glendale Lane.

On September 8th, we will explore the concept of Synchronicity. Jerry Ruhl, who is coming to be with us in November, will talk about this idea, which Dr. Odom will define as a meaningful intersection of inner and outer events. This will not be an intellectual discussion, but a time to share our meaningful experiences that reveal the underlying order in our universe.

Suggested readings include Synchronicity by CG Jung, Synchronicity: Nature & Psyche in an Interconnected Universe by Joseph Cambray and Necessary Chances: Synchronicity in the Encounters that Transform Us by Jeff Vezina. 

Linda Odom is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a founding board member of the Nashville Jung Circle. She is a longtime student of Carl Jung and has a passion for working with dreams and for sharing these life-enriching perspectives with others.

Location: Glendale United Methodist Church, 900 Glendale Lane, Nashville, TN 37204

Out of the Lunchbox Lecture Series, Dreams as Myths: Collective Dreams for Cultural Transformation.
Can we share our dreams for the greater good? Learn about experiments in collective dreaming for social change, environmental advocacy, conflict resolution, and problem solving.

In preparation for hosting Dr. Jerry Ruhl here in Nashville the first weekend in November, we will meet at 2:30 at the Green Hills library to discuss Contentment: A Way to True Happiness, by Robert Johnson and Jerry Ruhl.

One of the best parts of Nashville Jung Circle membership is the twice-yearly members’ gatherings, where we socialize with others in the Jungian community while sharing delicious food and drinks. These events offer a relaxed time to discuss ideas and form friendships with others who share an interest in Jungian psychology and related topics.

The members’ socials are for active members, who are those who have joined or renewed memberships by paying 2019 dues. If you would like to receive an invitation to the July gathering, please join or renew your membership by June 15th, by going to http://www.nashvillejungcircle.organd clicking on “Membership,” or email to http://info@nashvillejungcircle.org
for more information..

Out of the Lunchbox Lecture Series: Dreams as Stories
Dreams help you “re-story” your life story: they offer insight, creativity, courage, compassion and healing over time.

Out of the Lunchbox Lecture Series: Dreams as Poems
Thirteen ways of looking at a Dream Bird. (includes basics of Jungian dreamwork, and a little about sleep)

Jungian depth psychotherapy facilitates the process of living into the wholeness of our lives by consciously engaging the unconscious voices and images through our creative processes such as dreams and sandplay. Gretchen will be sharing the psychological journey and spiritual pilgrimage of a woman on her passage through the depths of suffering to wholeness and peace.

Gretchen Watts, LCSW, CST-T, is a Jungian oriented psychotherapist and a Certified Sandplay Therapist Teaching Member of the International Society of Sandplay Therapy. She is in private practice where she works with adults, adolescents, and children.

Glendale United Methodist Church
900 Glendale Lane
Nashville, TN 37204
Bring your own lunch.
Coffee, tea and water provided. Love donations gladly accepted.

Book discussion on Negotiating the Inner Peace Treaty by Chelsea Wakefield.

Book discussion of Aphrodite by Dr. Chelsea Wakefield, facilitated by Gretchen Watts and Gayle Prillaman.

Please join us for a discussion of the second half of Murray Stein’s book Map of the Soul.

Chapters to be discussed are “The Way to the Deep Interior” (Anima and, Animus, chapter 6); “The Psyche’s Transcendent Center and Wholeness" (The Self, chapter 7); “Emergence of the Self” (Individuation, chapter 8); and “Of Time and Eternity” (Synchronicity, chapter 9).

Led by Dan Tyler.

Imaginal: Dying and Rising in Story and Song 

Sheri D. Kling, PhD

From the stories of Jonah in the belly of the whale or Persephone in the Underworld to Star Wars, The Matrix and Lord of the Rings, the journey to individuation and wholeness always includes a stop in wilderness places we'd rather not visit. But sometimes we don’t have a choice. And whether it's divorce, illness, or any of life's darkest challenges, sometimes the events in our lives place us firmly on that path through the dark woods.

But what if that path is one we might welcome? Once we walk it, we learn that it's like the journey of the chrysalis as it makes its way from caterpillar to butterfly, which, surprisingly involves something called “imaginal” cells. As it nears its time for rebirth, the caterpillar first eats everything it can, until immobilized by its weight, and then it attaches itself to a tree branch. There, in complete stillness, its interior cells turn to a kind of “soup” made up of once-dormant cells called “imaginal cells.” These cells – like the seeds of our own new ideas – are first attacked by the caterpillar’s immune system, but then as their numbers increase, they begin to gather together and form the frequencies of the future butterfly.

This music-driven presentation uses the ancient Sumerian wisdom story of the Descent of Inanna as the backdrop for a personal journey through the wilderness. Drawing on Jungian wisdom woven with uplifting music and personal experience, Kling shows us that the story never ends in the darkness. And just like the caterpillar, if we are willing to see the process through the murky “soup” of those “imaginal cells,” we will emerge as a beautiful butterfly, reborn into new life.

In addition to being Associate Dean of the School of Theology and Executive Director of the Beecken Center of the University of the South, Sheri D. Kling is a theologian who works in the interdisciplinary space where worldviews, beliefs, and practices can create either dis-ease and suffering or psycho-spiritual wholeness and common flourishing. Drawing from process philosophy/theology, Jungian psychology, and mystical spirituality, Sheri focuses on communicating theological ideas and practices that positively impact humans’ relationships with God, self, and world, especially the use of dream work as a spiritual practice for divine encounter, personal integration, and widening our relationship to creation. She holds a PhD from Claremont School of Theology and earned a master of theological studies at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She is a faculty member of the Haden Institute, a visiting lecturer with Palacky University (Czech Republic) in Social and Spiritual Determinants of Health, and a singer, songwriter, guitarist and essayist.  Her website is www.sherikling.com.

“The Complexity of Complexes”

Jung said complexes are the royal road to the unconscious. In this discussion, the nature and origins of complexes, their benefits to Self-growth, types of individual and cultural complexes, and ways to work with them, will be discussed.– led by Karen Harper

Book discussion:  Jung’s Map of the Soul: An Introduction, by Dr. Murray Stein, led by Dan Tyler.  This book, for beginners as well as those familiar with Jung, helps introduce and explain some of Jung’s most important theories.

Book description from amazon.com: “More than a mere overview, the book offers readers a strong grounding in the basic principles of Jung's analytical psychology in addition to illuminating insights…Probably the best one-volume English language summary of Jung's thought.”

(by invitation to dues paying members)

Dr. James Hollis returns for a Saturday workshop, "Living the Examined Life: Tasks for the Second Half of Life."

Tiny, dependent, and at the mercy of the world around us, we all have to adapt, adjust, bury, deny, split-off and repress, and thereby lose contact with our own sovereignty and natural source of guidance. The core project of the second half of life is the recovery of that source. This program/workshop will focus on twenty-one steps we may take toward the recovery of our personal journey.

Jame Hollis, Ph.D.,is a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst with a practice in Washington, D.C., where he is Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington.   He is also author of fifteen books, including  the February 1st, 2018 release Living an Examined Life

For tickets, either use the form below to purchase directly from us. Or, if you'd prefer, you may send a check with your contact info (Name, Email Address, Phone Number, Amount Enclosed) to the address below. Those who chose to pay by check will not have to pay the handling fee.

Nashville Jung Circle
110 30th Ave North
Suite 1
Nashville, TN 37203

Dr. James Hollis returns for a lecture, "Living More Fully in the Presence of Mortality" on Friday night. 

Jung observed that “Life is a short pause between two great mysteries.” That fact is not in dispute; what matters then, is how we live that pause. E. M. Forster observed that the two who could most illumine us, the corpse and the baby, are not talking. Given that mortality frames our journey, how might we live it more fully, not defined by fear, morbidity, and denial? What attitudes and practices allow us to live more fully? And what psychological maturation bring us to experience this short pause as rich with meaning?

For tickets, either use the form below to purchase directly from us. Or, if you'd prefer, you may send a check with your contact info (Name, Email Address, Phone Number, Amount Enclosed) to the address below. Those who chose to pay by check will not have to pay the handling fee.

Nashville Jung Circle
110 30th Ave North
Suite 1
Nashville, TN 37203

We will meet to have an informal discussion of Dr. James Hollis’ new book, Living an Examined Life, which comes out February 1, 2018. It is not necessary to read the book beforehand, but it is available at amazon.com.

Dr. Cynthia Candelaria, Jungian analyst from Philadelphia, will present a talk on fairy tales.

Free and open to the public.

Many people are familiar with the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) without knowing Jung's theories that this famous personality indicator is based on. 

Certified MBTI consultant Adele Tyler will discuss Jung's 1923 book Psychological Types, the MBTI,  and how these theories might be put to use in one’s personal and professional life.

Free and open to the public.

As a follow-up to the May James Hollis workshop on the shadow, there will be a discussion of Owning Your Own Shadow, by noted Jungian writer Robert Johnson.  This book, a classic in Jungian psychology, is a quick and easy read but full of wisdom on recognizing and working with the personal shadow. 

In addition, there will be Hollis' questions for reflection.  Led by Gretchen Watts and Michael Whitney. 

Free and open to the public.
 

Working with the Images of Women Healers - 9 a.m. - noon

6300 Charlotte Ave
Nashville, TN    37209
Price: $35/members, $45 for non members

Working With the Images of Women Healers from Commanche, Cajun and Phemba (Congo) Cultures with Jutta VonBuccholtz, PhD, LPC Jungian Analyst

juttavonbuccholtz.com