Please join us for this talk on Jungian dreamwork and an overview of dreams and Dreamtime in indigenous cultures. Our speaker, Tayria Ward, Ph.D, has worked intensively with her own and other people’s dreams for more than 50 years, and for nearly 30 years has been an avid student of indigenous ways of knowing and being.

From Tayria: 
 
“The psyche is archaic,” Jung emphasized. Its origins go back to the beginnings of all things. The emergence of dreams in the personal psyche proceeds from the depths of wisdom in the ground of being.
 
In this lecture, we will consider Jung’s approach to working with dreams, utilizing his analytical method – discerning private meanings, revelations, and guidance. Also, we will discuss the understanding of dreams, as they have long been listened to by indigenous peoples, well before the idea of the individual ego was formed. We will explore the Aboriginal concept of the Dreamtime as a dimension of reality that lives with us, waking and sleeping.
 
It seems that currently a unified field of consciousness calls for our awareness of it, and dreams are a profound source of bringing this to consciousness.”

Tayria Ward, Ph.D., lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she has a private practice offering dream analysis and psychological and spiritual guidance to clients from all parts of the world. Tayria has worked intensively with her own and other people’s dreams for more than 50 years, and for nearly 30 years has been an avid student of indigenous ways of knowing and being. In addition to her one-on-one sessions with clients, Tayria also conducts a monthly Global Community Dream Symposium wherein people from all over the world come to share their dreams and listen to the collective dreaming mind, conducts small private dream groups, and teaches a wide audience in regular lectures and interviews. She also offers private oracular readings upon request.

One of the leading writers and speakers in Jungian psychology, Dr. Murray Stein,  will present to the Nashville Jung Circle from his home in Zurich, Switzerland, where he has lived and taught for many years.  In this talk he will discuss how and why Carl Jung spent so much time writing and studying alchemy, which is the subject of three volumes of the Collected Works of Jung.  From Dr. Stein: 

"In the lecture, I will discuss why Jung thought alchemy was so important for depth psychology and how he used it in practice. It’s a fascinating story. I hope to convey the meaning of Jung's legacy for our times."

 Suggested reading: Jung and Alchemy. A Path to Individuation, by Murray Stein, Chiron Publications, 2025

Jung proposed that we all have an inner attitude that is turned toward the unconscious, which helps us navigate between our individual selves and the unconscious world. Jung labeled this attitude in men the anima, and in women the animus.  Jung’s anima/animus theories opened up the idea that different gendered energies can exist in the same person, as Jung even exclaims in the Red Book, “You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is!” However, as Jung continued to discuss A/A in his writing, he conflated biological sex with particular assumed characteristics, which limited the applicability of the theory primarily to people who are heterosexual and cisgender, leading to harmful gender stereotypes.
 
In this presentation, Jungian analyst Sara Sage from the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts will discuss both the possibilities and limitations in Jung’s A/A theory around gender and individuation and propose a more expansive way to consider exploring otherness in our psyches. Sara will discuss her personal and clinical work, language, and ideas around a more expansive view of gender in Jungian work, and the powerful movement of archetypal images of gender and otherness in our psyches.

The Nashville Jung Circle will begin a new season of monthly events with a gathering for discussion and socializing. We will continue to celebrate Jung’s 150th birth year with a short overview of Jung’s works, followed by small group discussions of how we each became interested in Jungian psychology and how his theories are relevant today, both personally and culturally.  We hope you can join us on September 7th, for newcomers as well as long-time members of this community.

     Each of us is born with a living blueprint, the essential design to evolve the imagination. You enter the world with the capacity to make creative leaps of consciousness and quantum leaps in learning. In doing so, you improve your physical and emotional well-being.

        In this seminar, Dr. Aizenstat will introduce particular tools developed over 40 years of professional experience.  These skills enable you to access your deepest capacities of creativity and wellbeing. Based on his new book, The Imagination Matrix, participants will be offered an experience of journeying through imaginal fields of consciousness. Here you will encounter elemental inner figures, Soul Companions, who provide support and guidance. Next, through opening the Curious Mind, you engage in an inner journey that accesses the restorative resources of self-care and healing. Accompanied by these soul figures, you increase your Imaginal Intelligence and your Innate Genius. You come home to your authentic life calling.

Stephen Aizenstat is a professor of depth psychology with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, an author, and a licensed marriage and family therapist. He is Chancellor Emeritus and Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Founder of Dream Tending and the Academy of Imaginal Arts and Sciences.

For more than 35 years, he has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology. He has collaborated with Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, Robert Johnson, James Hillman, and Native elders worldwide.

He conducts dreamwork and imagination seminars throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. An organizational consultant to leading tech companies and a content advisor to Hollywood filmmakers, Aizenstat has lectured extensively on the experiences of dreams and the deep imagination.

The feminine principle in ancient times was projected into the form of a goddess and worshiped. Now it is sensed as a psychological force arising from the unconscious. Gretchen Watts, LCSW, will present a talk with images and symbols from artwork, sand trays, and dreams from women manifesting feminine growth and development. Jung understood that we still live in the peril of the one-sided patriarchal development of the male intellectual consciousness, which is no longer kept in balance by the matriarchal world of the psyche as it once was during ancient times. There must be a synthesis that includes the feminine world. Only then will the individual human being be able to develop a psychic wholeness.

After this talk, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Nashville Jung Circle with a short presentation and refreshments. 

Gretchen Watts, LCSW, is a Jungian psychotherapist, certified sandplay teacher, in the Sandplay Therapists of America (CST-T) and the International Society for Sandplay Therapy. She has maintained a private practice in Nashville, Tennessee for many years; the focus of her practice has been sandplay, dreams, and depth psychotherapy. She trains, consults and supervises therapists using sandplay and has published and taught both nationally and internationally. She is the past Co-President of the Nashville Jung Circle. Her publications include The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet: A Handbook on Creative Approaches to Living and Problem Solving for Children (Co-Author, Avery,1978) and “A Young Boy’s Journey,” the Journal of Sandplay Therapy, Vol. 28, Number 2, 2019.

Website: http://www.gretchenwatts.com

In turbulent times, our inner complexes may overwhelm or possess us, as we unconsciously project unresolved issues onto people and things in our outer world. Self-work is the antidote, a daily contemplative practice, a meditation on archetypal, psychologically potent images. Tarot is a wonderful way to do just that. Bring your deck along to our March Zoom meeting, and we will discuss how to connect the dots between the personal and the collective. We will give our intuitive function its daily walk through the House of Seventy-Eight Doors.  Along the way we will discuss synchronicities, active imagination, and the healing power of narrative.

Alan Scalpone likes to wear many hats, both literal and figurative.  As a multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, he has toured the U.S. and Europe and participated in films and theater.  Today Alan is a professional tarot card reader who gives expert private and group readings in the Nashville area and through his website at alanscalpone.com. He currently attends MTSU, where he is working towards a psychology degree. He voraciously consumes the works of C.G. Jung. and tries his best to live the symbolic life. 

In 1957 Jung wrote a book, Flying Saucers, on the UFO phenomenon, a topic of worldwide interest in the 1940’s and 1950’s.  After studying everything he could find on the subject for ten years and giving a newspaper interview that led to his being mistakenly labeled a “UFO believer,” he felt compelled to write this short book to clarify his views and reflect primarily on the psychological aspects of what he called a “worldwide rumour.” Jung hoped that exploring this ambiguous material would reveal deeper truths about the human condition and help us navigate such non-ordinary experiences.

In this talk, Dr. Slater will discuss his recent book, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age, in which he contends that the industrial disruption of the outer world is being followed by a post-industrial disruption of the inner world. The shadow side of the online world and the impact of algorithms and AI on society and culture exemplify this disruption. Prominent plans to merge humans and machines focused on joining minds and computers are shown to be outgrowths of this phenomenon, which promises to alter the foundations of human existence.   

This lecture will set out critical areas of understanding that help us enter and reflect on this potentially radical turn in human evolution. It will particularly emphasize Jung’s insights into the dissociative and integrative dynamics of the psyche. 

Glen Slater, Ph.D., has taught for over 25 years at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he has recently chaired the Jungian and Archetypal Psychology program. His publications have appeared in a number of Jungian journals and essay collections in the areas of Jung and film, psychology and religion, and depth psychology and technology and include an essay on the roots of gun violence in the U.S. was the basis of a talk he presented to the Nashville Jung Circle in 2023. His book Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age came out in January 2024. 

Engagement with a life of integrity requires ego and Soul to reflect one another. 
How best can we experience our Life Purpose as the Soul's call, reflecting our human and Divine natures? 

The integrative work of strengthening the ego is always best supported with respect and connection to our unconscious. Allowing ourselves to follow the path of the Sacred Call can give us peace and joy even though it is not without suffering--a natural aspect of being human. The life's work is passing through one's suffering and letting this also create moments of joy at having committed to being on a path of Individuation. Living means seeking the deeper intention of the Soul and following this path through the life. Let us consider this in our heart to heart gathering.

Fanny Brewster, M.F.A., Ph.D., is an author of poetry and nonfiction and a Professor in the Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices Department at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her Masters degree in Creative Nonfiction was awarded by Goucher College. Dr. Brewster has worked as a Jungian analyst in private practice for over a decade. She lectures and presents nationally and internationally on topics related to African American Culture, Dreamwork, and Creativity.

In Person Event at Glendale United Methodist Church - 900 Glendale Ln, Nashville, TN 37204

In this experiential discussion, Jungian and shamanic practices will be discussed and explored in how they are similar albeit with different terminology: active imagination, mythology, work with symbols, and their effects on the individual and collective including the anima mundi or world soul. For those attending this in-person event please bring a bandana or eye mask if you want to participate in a brief journey. Also, the book Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue by C. Michael Smith will be helpful.

Karen Harper, PhD, LCSW has a private practice in East Nashville and is President of the Nashville Jung Circle. She has presented nationally and internationally on Jungian topics. Her interest and experiences with shamanism prompted her PhD independent studies focus on Jung and shamanism in Iquitos Peru, “the city of shamans.”

This presentation will incorporate experiences Tony Caldwell has gathered while providing services to marginalized populations, facilitating racial healing groups, leading grassroots and larger scale activism and advocacy efforts, and working with analysands and community members. In this presentation we will stand at the intersection of race, sex, religion/ theology, spirituality, psychology, sociology, and ethics to interpret the collective phenomena we encounter through the lens of Jungian psychology. 

Tony Caldwell, LCSW, is a candidate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, a faculty member of The Haden Institute, and a former lecturer at The University of Mississippi.  He is currently a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice in Nashville, TN,  and a member of the board of the Nashville Jung Circle.  In addition, Tony plays music and co-owns a guitar store in Nashville with his son, Silas. 

 Is Narcissism becoming normalized in our culture?  Explore the psychological roots and behaviors of those dominated by this personality disorder.  How does Narcissism relate to Envy?  What is the relationship between Narcissism and low self-esteem?  Narcissists frequently use manipulative tactics to maintain power over others. A heightened awareness of such psyche phenomenon is a person's only protection against victimhood.  

          A person with strong Narcissistic tendencies is unable to enter into the Individuation process and is thus blocked from further psychological development.

          This presentation aims to answer many questions that surround Narcissism, including is the mother to blame and why a Narcissist is often idealized.  Since everyone is a bit narcissistic at times, participants will certainly become more aware of their own behavior after this review.  Also, participants will be reminded that psychic infection is real:  what is going on in one person cam immigrate into another.  This is an unconscious process that much be realized and addressed.

For 34 years Kaye Lindauer, MS, MLS, M.DIV,  has taught classes at Chautauqua Institution on Jungian psychology, literature, poetry, and mythology.  In addition, she teaches adult education classes for OASIS EVERYWHERE ( including a class in March, " From Medieval Alchemy to Jungian Psychology"). For the past 32 years, Kaye has lectured for Road Scholar and will present a program on Emerson in May.  Recently, she gave a presentation on Emily Dickinson for the Western Massachusetts Jung Society which is available to view on their Web site.  Kaye taught graduate courses at Syracuse University for twenty-five years while speaking widely at conferences and coordinating retreats.  Kaye has studied at the Jung Institute and at ISAP in Zurich. 

"Many people face a late-life identity crisis with the transitions to retirement, illness, loss, care giving, or simply advancing age. They may ask again, Who am I? as the ego’s lifelong identity of Doer disappears, and heroic values of success and image lose their grip. This can feel disorienting and frightening and result in a loss of meaning. But there is a deeper call if we tune in and listen: the call of the soul. If we deny this call to make an inner shift, we won’t cross the threshold from role to soul and discover the spiritual gifts of age.
This presentation will explore the psychological and spiritual potential of this passage, as we learn to use shadow-work to shift our identities from ego to Self, from what we do to who we are -- from role to soul. With this inner shift, we find renewed meaning and vitality and a sense of freedom to become who we truly are."

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist, writer, Climate Reality Leader, and Citizens Climate Lobbyist. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice.  Her newest book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, explores shadow-work in the religious and spiritual arena. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.

In Martin Scorsese's 2023 movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, archetypal energies of senex and puer collude to bury the feminine in oil-rich, post-World War I Oklahoma. In this presentation, Dr John Bebe will explore how these phantomatic complexes can shadow individuals' psychic development and how they undermine relatedness in the politics of our own time. Participants are asked to see the movie in advance of coming to the presentation.

John Beebe, a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, is co-author, with Virginia Apperson, of The Presence of the Feminine in Film. John has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film. He was founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (now Jung Journal and is the author of Integrity in Depth and Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type.

For the first presentation of 2024, noted teacher and director of the Depth Psychology Alliance, Dr. James Newell, will present a talk on general principles of Jungian psychology, ideal for newcomers as well as those familiar with Jungian concepts. 

In this presentation, Dr. Newell will introduce aspects of Jung’s life along with specifics of Jung's lifelong project of helping others to make the unconscious conscious. Some topics covered will include the process of individuation, the mythic imagination, complexes, the collective unconscious, archetypes, dreamwork, the Red Book, and Jung’s own innovative approach to the unconscious: active imagination. Below is Dr. Newell's description of his talk:

"Psychologist Carl Jung is one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential figures. Jung’s theories were so far ahead of their time when he formulated them that they are still ahead of their time today. Over a century has passed since Jung presented some of his most important ideas, and still scientific and academic psychology have yet to catch up with his visionary achievements. It is no exaggeration to say that his work has produced a Copernican revolution in psychology, the development of personality, as well as Western culture at large."

James Newell, PhD, is an educator, professional musician, and the director of the Depth Psychology Alliance. He earned his master’s degree in Pastoral Counseling and Theology from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, with a focus on Jungian psychology, and earned a doctorate in History of Religions from the Vanderbilt University Graduate School of Religion. James has taught courses in world religions for various universities and teaches online courses in Jungian psychology.  For the past several years he has been developing a certification program in depth psychology offered through the Depth Psychology Alliance

Sunday, November 12, 2023, 3-5pm CST

Nonnie Cullipher, M.Ed., is an educator and former Executive Director of Journey into Wholeness, a southeastern-based organization that offered national and international conferences, vision quests, and workshops on Jungian psychology. For this book she selected from recordings of myths and fairy tales told by Robert Johnson at Journey into Wholeness events, asking noted Jungiananalysts who were friends of Johnson's to introduce each story. This discussion will include personal stories about Robert Johnson and audios of him telling two of the stories. 

Storytime with Robert: Robert Johnson Tells His Favorite Stories and Myths is recommended reading, but not necessary to join the discussion. To order the book, you can find it here.

Dr. James Hollis, esteemed author, teacher, and Jungian analyst, is a favorite speaker of Jung groups around the world, including our Nashville Jung Circle. We were honored to host Dr. Hollis in person in 2017 and 2018 and via Zoom in 2021. Dr. Hollis returns online in October, 2023, to discuss the personal stories we each live by, based on his recent book, The Broken Mirror. In describing this upcoming talk, Dr. Hollis says:

We are creatures who need to understand, at any cost. And so we 'story' our experiences, and those stories, provisional, localized, and often created at an early stage of our history, become defining narratives. The disarray of our histories nevertheless can be a powerful clue to the “meta-stories” to which we have been in service to for many years. Until these “narrative interpretations” can be smoked out, we remain their captive. In a series of questions, we will be invited to examine the stories we have been serving, and then engage stories that honor what wants to unfold from within us.

The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves is recommended reading for this event.

“CIRCLING THE LABYRINTH” IS NOW ON ZOOM!

3:00pm-5pm CST

For some months our group has been“circling the labyrinth,” (excuse the pun), going round and round with plans for an in-person labyrinth workshop.  Are some mysterious energies at play – the Trickster? Mercury in retrograde? In all seriousness, due to a resurgence of Covid cases, we havecancelled this as an in-person event.  As Jungians we acknowledge that the unexpected is always emerging, and keeping everyone safe must come first.

The good news is that we have reconfigured the event to be a free Zoom presentation. We will discuss the labyrinth’s history and relationship to Jungian psychology, how to use a labyrinth walk as a meditation, and a discussion of the fantasy films “Labyrinth,” and “Pan’s Labyrinth.” There will also be time for visiting with old friends and meeting those new to the Nashville Jung Circle.

In preparation for this fun and free event to begin our new season of programming, you may enjoy watching one or both films, which are available on multiple streaming platforms. Also, if you have had a meaningful experience with a labyrinth walk, please consider sharing this during the meeting.

Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice by Lauren Artress is wonderful companion book for this process.

The intractable nature of the gun violence problem in the United States resists meaningful analysis. Even more so, the problem resists effective solutions. Perhaps this resistance itself is meaningful, pointing to the cloaking of deeper problems in the American psyche.

Pushing beyond the usual historical background of the so-called gun culture, this presentation will examine both the psychology of homicide by firearm and the collective myths and complexes that make this violence so prevalent. These myths and complexes both heighten the propensity to target and shoot others and lower the capacity for the soul-searching necessary to effectively change this propensity. 

This Zoom presentation will conclude with a discussion of where responsibility for this violence lives, and where transformative possibilities may lie.  

Glen Slater, Ph.D. has taught for over two decades at Pacifica Graduate Institute where he currently chairs the Jungian and Archetypal Psychology Program. He has written articles and book chapters for Jungian publications, edited the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, and co-edited the essay collection, Varieties of Mythic Experience. His research and writing interests concern Jung and film, the psychology of religion, and depth psychology and technology. His book on Jung and posthumanism will be published early in 2023.

Jung wrote that the primary purpose of life is the development of "more and more consciousness." Becoming a conscious elder takes a lifetime of psychological and spiritual development, with plenty of pitfalls and faux arrivals along the way.

This 90-minute Zoom retreat, led by author and life stage expert Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.,  is situated at the intersection of adult and spiritual development, drawing upon the work of scholars and mystics from Erik Erikson and Carl Jung to James Hollis and Pema Chodron. The workshop will be a gentle weaving together of life stage theory, journaling and group discussion.

Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. is the author of 35 books on conscious aging, spirituality and life stage development.  She received her Doctorate from Vanderbilt University in the History and Critical Theory of Religion and is curator of the Fierce with Age Archives.

This Zoom lecture will contrast Jung’s notion of the Self as the God within with traditional theistic approaches to the divine and describe the range of ways in which the Self may appear within the psyche. Dr. Corbett will also discuss how Jung’s approach allows the development of a personal spirituality rather than one based on doctrine and dogma.

Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett, the author of six books and numerous articles, is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, California, where he teaches depth psychology. His primary focus is on the religious function of the psyche.

You asked, we heard! In January, we are launching our first Nashville Jung Circle dream group. Join us on Zoom with Laura Hillman for a free introduction to the art and soul of group dreamwork. This 90-minute session will offer lively and insightful ways to work with metaphor, symbol, and dreams. You will learn ways to work with your own dreams and practice some group dreamwork skills.
 
After this introductory meeting you may want to join the dream group.  There will be 8 sessions, on 2nd and 4th Thursdays from January 26th through Mary 11th. There are spaces for 6 dreamers. 
 
Note: Projective group dreamwork is quite different from personal dream analysis. We focus on the dream, not the dreamer, and we approach the dream as we would a soul poem or a fairy tale from the Self. You will find each dream to offer deep significance for you, and you will learn ways to continue creative dreamwork on your own. However, this is not a therapeutic circle, and we honor good personal boundaries in our work -Laura Hileman

The group will be facilitated by Laura Huff Hileman, M.A., M.S., a former NJC Board member and a longtime dreamworker certified at the Haden Institute, where she now mentors. She offers other groups and dreamwork opportunities through her practice, Fire by Night Dreamwork.

Zoom presentation with Tony Caldwell, LCSW

Join us as Jungian psychotherapist Tony Caldwell, LCSW, delves into the complex topic of masculinity. Tony will lead a discussion that explores the concept of masculinity through a Jungian lens. We will address the constellation of factors that inhibit human flourishing, starting with the socialization of boys and making our way through the lifespan.

In this presentation we will explore masculinity as a philosophical and psychological concept, as energetic expression, and as the product of familial considerations in the nurturing system, socialization experiences in the sustaining system, and social sanctioning on the regional and societal levels. We will also address aspects of masculinity as they relate to, are informed by,  and often perpetuate, transgenerational trauma, violence, oppression, repression, splitting, and the accumulation of collective shadow.

Drawing from the works of Jung, Von Franz, Woodman, Hillman, and including a recording of a conversation Tony had with James Hollis about the socialization of men, we will explore developmental and archetypal considerations at the intrapsychic, interpersonal, and collective levels

Zoom discussion led by
Dr. Karen Harper and Alan Scalpone

UFOs, ghosts, faeries…such liminal, uncanny phenomena have been a part of humanity as far back as the record goes. C.G. Jung had a life-long psychological interest in the paranormal and documented many fascinating experiences of his own. Jung came to understand the rich field of strange occurrences as indelible parts of reality. They are “psychic facts” pointing the way to a deeper understanding of the Self. The paranormal can be eerie and unsettling; quite frequently it is thought-provoking, numinous and transcendental.   

 Please join Karen Harper Ph.D., LCSW, and Alan Scalpone for an online conversation about these strange borderlands of reality and the captivating stories that live there. Participants will be encouraged to share their own thoughts and experiences in discussions and breakout rooms.

Jung and Creativity
For C.G. Jung, creativity is a natural process of the psyche. Creative activity can be healing for the individual and even transformational for both the individual and culture. In this presentation Dr. James Newell will discuss the distinction between creativity as a healing practice, creativity as craft, as art, and as high art. Any discussion of Jung and creativity must be understood in the context of Jung’s understanding of psychological maturation, or the process of individuation. As such, Dr. Newell’s presentation will include a discussion of individuation and its relation to the creative process. This presentation will also serve as an introduction to an eight week college-level course on Jung, Creativity, and the Arts offered this fall through the Depth Psychology Academy. 

James Newell, PhD, is an educator, professional musician, and the director of the Depth Psychology Alliance. James earned his master’s degree in Pastoral Counseling and Theology from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, with a focus on Jungian psychology. He earned his doctorate in History of Religions from the Vanderbilt University Graduate School of Religion. James has taught courses in world religions for Western Kentucky University, Central Michigan University, Excelsior College, and other schools. For the past several years he has been developing a certification program in depth psychology offered through the Depth Psychology Alliance.

Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey
led by Mark Winborn, Ph.D., NCPsyA

This presentation by author and Jungian analyst Mark Winborn, Ph.D., NCPsyA, will explore the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories – especially the interaction between Erich Neumann’s concept of unitary reality and the blues experience. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of the music. Universal aspects of human experience and transcendence are revealed through the creative medium of the blues.

The presentation will be augmented by visual images, audio recordings, and video to deepen the audience’s involvement in the themes explored.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will:

• Learn to identify archetypal patterns in blues music.

• Learn how the experience of blues music can be understood through
  Jung’s concept of participation mystique.

• Will develop greater awareness of emotional themes permeating daily life and the process of psychotherapy through blues music.

• Will develop an understanding of psychological and cultural influences which led to the development of the blues as a distinct genre of music.

Suggested Reading: Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey (Fisher King Press)

Mark Winborn, PhD, NCPsyA is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist. He received his MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Memphis in 1987 and his certificate in Jungian Analysis from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts in 1999. Dr. Winborn is a training/supervising analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, and the Moscow Association for Analytical Psychology. He currently serves on the American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis and the Ethics Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Dr. Winborn is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, as well as being a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Winborn is the author of Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey (2011) and Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond (2014) and Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique (2018), as well as journal articles, book reviews, and two books forthcoming from Routledge Press. He lectures nationally and internationally and maintains a private practice in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was the Training Coordinator for the Memphis-Atlanta Jungian Seminar from 2010 - 2016. https://drmarkwinborn.com/

What are You Dreaming?
led by Laura Hileman, M.A., M.S.

In this time of increasing crisis and instability, what are you dreaming? We know that our nightly dreams wake us up to our personal individuation process. Jeremy Taylor writes that our dreams generate creativity and wholeness on collective levels, too: they mirror society as a whole, as well as our relationship to it. Furthermore, he claims that our dreams, and our conscious dreamwork, “foster and reflect the evolution of human consciousness.”

This possibility offers a wild hope in a time of looming despair. Join Laura Huff Hileman, a Jungian-oriented dreamworker, for a conversation about the power of dreams in personal and collective individuation, then join a breakout group for optional sharing of your own dreams. We’ll conclude with a creative exercise to deepen your own dreamwork practice.

Laura Huff Hileman, M.A., M.S., is a Jungian-oriented dreamworker and spiritual director, formerly on the board of the Nashville Jung Circle. She trained at The Haden Institute, where she now mentors in the Dreamwork Program. Since 2000 she has facilitated dream groups and individual dreamwork through her practice, Fire by Night. She lives and works in Jonesborough, TN, where she enjoys family, mountains, and new challenges in dreamwork as a resilience resource for environmental activists. Be in touch at laura@firebynight.net and www.firebynight.net.