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