Jungian Psychology and Spirituality Conference in October
Jungian Psychology and Spirituality Conference
October 16-19, 2008
The Summit Retreat at Haw River State Park
Located at Brown Summit near Greensboro, NC
A special “Journey Conference — Moving Toward Wholeness” will focus on the dialogue of Christianity and other faiths with psychology rooted in the work of Carl Jung with special emphases on dreams and related matters. It will convene at Brown’s Summit near Greensboro, NC on October 16-19, 2008. Leaders include International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) colleagues, Jungian analysts, clergy and dream experts and others highly credentialed in their focus area.
Along with major presentations and special events, sixteen additional workshops will be offered by Jungian analysts and other highly qualified leaders on related topics.
Registrants should plan to participate for the whole weekend from before dinner on Thursday, October 18 until after lunch on Sunday, October 21.
The Summit Retreat at Haw River State Park offers a beautiful setting with over 1,000 acres, a beautiful lake and 5 miles of beautiful hiking trails, along with other recreational opportunities. Registration ends September 10, 2008, but may fill up before then.
For more information: www.journeyconferences.com
Call for Presentations: 2009 IASD Conference in Chicago
Call for Presentations
International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) 26th Annual Conference
EARTH DREAMING: 25 YEARS OF CARRYING THE DREAM FORWARD
June 26-30, 2009 in Chicago
The 2009 Call for Presentations submission deadline is November 30, 2008. For more details:
www.asdreams.org/2009
October Events at the Dream Institute in Berkeley
Events in October at the Dream Institute of Northern California in Berkeley, CA:
10/18 & 9/25: “Dreaming of Obama” A dramatic rendition of actual dreams
10/24: Cinema Dreaming: “Nosferatu” Terry Ebinger
10/26: The Phoenix Cycle: Presentation by Jane Zich
The Dream Institute is an experimental cultural center that offers public lectures and workshops, dream study groups, dream-based cultural events, professional dream consultation, and the innovative method “Culture Dreaming.”
More details at:
http://dream-institute.org
Project Seeks Your Predictive Catastrophic Dreams
To help predict pending catastrophic events, the Arlington Institute is seeking dream descriptions of dreams believed to be predictive. Here is an excerpt from the project description:
The Arlington Institute’s project “WHETHERMAP” is predicated on the idea that before catastrophic, world changing events people have intuitional dreams that anticipate those events. While there have been a number of famous people throughout history who have accurately predicted the future, it also appears that almost everyone has premonitions from time to time in the form of dreams, visions, or simple gut feelings.
WHETHERMAP will provide an online portal for people to create intuition journals which they could update daily. While maintaining complete privacy and anonymity, their reports will be scanned and aggregated with the most sophisticated sense making and pattern recognition technology available today in order to create visual displays of intuition clusters designed to identify potential catastrophic events.
Our hope is that through WHETHERMAP human beings will have a system that can anticipate surprise events of global significance, and radically change the way that people look at themselves and at the world.
To contribute your dreams or to read more, visit:
www.whethermap.org
Dreams and Money Workshop in NY
Dreams & Money”
with Jeremy Taylor
September 12-14, 2008
Saugerties, NY
Dreams are our gateway into the unconscious. As we share them through different lenses, we catch a glimpse of not only how they are a large part of our personal journeys, but also how they affect the collective experience and evolution itself.
Most of us have money “issues” of some sort, but what do they really mean? What relevance to the way we live our lives? We’ve heard that money is an “energy”. If this is so, how do we start to shift the patterns we are locked into? How do we start to accept our generosity and our selfishness? As we open our eyes to what is found in our dreams, we begin to see much more than is in our day-to-day consciousness, and through the projective dreamwork process, we can accept more of Reality. Our goal is to bring more relationship to this relevant topic though sharing our dreams. Please join us as we traverse this wide and rocky terrain, and together initiate new models of relationship to money.
More at:
www.miriamswell.org/events/current/temp_event_details.cfm?Event_ID=82
September Events at the Dream Institute in Berkeley
September 2008 events at the Dream Institute of Northern California in Berkeley, CA:
9/12: Cinema Dreaming: “Pennies from Heaven” Terry Ebinger
9/14: Fall Equinox Event: Members Only
9/19: Dreams in the World’s Religions: Free talk by Kelly Bulkeley
9/24: The Creative Edge: Workshop with Meredith Sabini
The Dream Institute is an experimental cultural center that offers public lectures and workshops, dream study groups, dream-based cultural events, professional dream consultation, and the innovative method “Culture DreamingSM.”
More details at:
http://dream-institute.org
Job Opportunity at DreamTime Magazine
DreamTime is seeking an editorial assistant to help with production of the magazine, a tri-annual publication sent to all members of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD).
This position may include:
• Reading submissions and making reports/recommendations to the Editor
• Copyediting manuscripts accepted for publication
• Proofreading each issue before it goes to press
• Compiling regular sections of the magazine (e.g., IASD News, Announcements, Research Calls)
The actual responsibilities of the position are flexible and we expect them to evolve in relation to the skills & interests of the person who becomes the editorial assistant.
For details, visit:
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewtopic.php?t=2914
Upcoming IASD PsiberDreaming Online Conference
IASD PsiberDreaming Online Conference
September 21 - October 5, 2008
Theme: Dreaming the Future of Dreaming, with an emphasis on Psi dreaming
From the IASD website:
Since it began seven years ago, IASD’s PsiberDreaming Online Conference has become one of the finest conferences available anywhere on the Internet. Presenters and attendees will represent many countries and disciplines, sharing news and views, as well as contributing to the artwork shown in our conference gallery and competing in contests, such as precognitive and telepathic dreaming.
PsiberDreaming conferences involve paper presentations (approximately 10 pages), workshops, and other activities, scheduled each day of the two-week online conference.
Registration rates: $40 for Nonmembers, $35 for Members, and $25 for students with valid ID. New members who join IASD for the first time between August 16 and October 1 receive a free pass to the conference.
More details:
tinyurl.com/6j3qqa
Dream-Related Topics to Be Presented at October Event in NC
October 16-19, 2008
Greensboro, NC area
Leadership: Featured Presentations, Workshops/Events
Featured Presenters:
Barry Williams, M. Div., Psy.D.
Dreams and Divine Revelation
In spite of the Old Testament proscription against graven images of the Divine Power invading the consciousness of a primitive people, the psyche continues to offer images of the Divine in ordinary life to ordinary people. To discern the presence of the sacred in our lives, we do not have to confine ourselves to the study of a sacred text that revealed theophanies that helped to formulate the reality of a new god image for that period of history. We can now look at our own dreams, in our own day-to-dayness for images of the Divine that are emerging from the unconscious.
Through the direct, affective experience of the Imago Dei in and as the dream, the dream shapes our encounter with That which wants to make itself known to us in a continuing revelation of its nature. This lecture will examine the modern dreams of ordinary people for images that help us to understand and experience the continuing presence of the Divine in our lives. Such dreams can be entheogenic for the dreamer. That is, they can generate the numinous experience of the god that dwells within, the divinity who appears within the dream. In the process of imagining itself, the numen becomes the image and meaning of the dream. In this way the dream functions as a religion-creating event in the evolution of personal and collective consciousness. We no longer need to tolerate the idea of the hiddenness of the Divine, the Deus Absconditus, if we but know where to look.
Barry Williams, M. Div., Psy.D. is a Jungian Analyst in private practice near Taos, NM. Known internationally for his lectures, workshops, wilderness pursuits, work with indigenous cultures and dreamwork, he has served on the Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, has been a long-time presenter at Journey Into Wholeness, and for over two decades a leader of the Temagami Vision Quest in Canada. An important part of his own journey toward wholeness has been a twelve year initiation into the tradition of the Huichol people of Central Mexico. Along with his family at their remote home in New Mexico, at sea in New Zealand and in a wilderness setting in Northern Canada, Barry offers retreats on dreams, shamanism, ritual and the great forces of nature.
Mary Watkins, Ph.D.,
Psychic Decolonization
Speaking of his experiences with the Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico in 1950, Jung began to describe the shadow of colonialism: “What we from our point of view call colonization, missions to the heathen, spread of civilization, etc., has another face–the face of a bird of prey seeking with cruel intentness for distant quarry–a face worthy of a race of pirates and highwaymen” (1961, pp. 248-9). As we find ourselves in America half a century later, how does colonialism and its morph to transnational capitalism afflict our psyches, as well as immigration, foreign, and environmental policies? What are the practices of psychic decolonization that we could put into place within ourselves and between ourselves and others from our communities? Working with an interdependent understanding of psyche, culture, and environment, Watkins will address the individual, community, and national healing that is necessary at this moment in American history.
Mary Watkins, Ph.D., is coordinator of Community and Ecological Fieldwork and Research and a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the author of Waking Dreams, Invisible Guests: The Development of Imaginal Dialogues, co-author of Talking With Young Children About Adoption, and co-author of Toward Psychologies of Liberation. A clinical and developmental psychologist, she studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich and was a member of the founding group of archetypal psychologists. She is a Quaker and a scholar of the intersection of depth and liberation psychologies, and a practitioner of the innovative individual, group, and community work that flows from their conjunction.
The Love of Power
Jung writes: “…where love is lacking, power fills the vacuum.” It seems then that power is at odds with love. This lecture will address the light and dark aspects of power. It is timely that with the fall elections, this topic will help us to analyze that which empowers vs. that which overpowers. There is a collective and personal power complex. Each demands analysis for power’s light can create and its dark destroy.
The Power of Love
In this lecture, we will encounter what Jung called, in his later years, “the incalculable paradoxes of love.” Our single word “love” fails to adequately capture and express the powerful, often contradictory feelings that drive behavior and animate one’s soul. We will turn to the three Greek words for love (eros, philia, and agape) and explore the psychological distinctions they express. We will look at both the inter-personal and intra-psychic dynamics of love, as well as its light and dark sides. Finally, we will address the healing and wounding nature of this greatest of paradoxes.
Pittman McGehee, D.D.
The Very Reverend J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. ordained priest in the Episcopal Church, served for 11 years, as Dean of Christ Church cathedral, located in the center of downtown Houston. In demand as a distinguished lecturer and speaker in the fields of psychology and religion, he is also an author, book reviewer and an award-winning published poet. In 1991, Pittman resigned from Christ Church Cathedral to become the director of The Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality. The Institute joins the disciplines of psychology and religion by exploring the concept that mental health comes with the integration of the biological, psychological, and spiritual elements of the human condition. In 1996, the C. G. Jung Institute of Dallas awarded him a diploma in Analytical Psychology. A regular lecturer at the C.G. Jung Center in Houston, Dr. McGehee has held many other distinguished lectureships including the 1987 Harvey Lecture at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, where he received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity; the 1988 Perkins Lecture in Wichita Falls; the 1990 Woodhull Lectures in Dayton, Ohio, and the 1991 St. Luke’s Lectures in Birmingham. He was the 1994 Rockwell visiting Theologian at the University of Houston and 1996 Carolyn Fay Lecturer in Analytical Psychology also at the University of Houston, as well as being an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Texas. Dr. McGehee is currently in private practice as a priest/psychoanalyst and teacher/lecturer.
In addition, we plan to have some special events and up to sixteen workshop offerings, which will include workshops exploring the archetypal ground of dreams in a group setting and two or three occasions for dream-sharing in the conference at large. (Estimated up to 18.75 NBCC CEU’s possible), including a workshop to help Therapists meet their CE ethics requirement!
For more information, see:
http://www.journeyconferences.com/conferenceinformation.htm
“Awaken to the Wisdom of Your Dreams” Workshop in NY
Awaken to the Wisdom of Your Dreams
September 22 – 26, 2008
Justina Lasley, M.A.
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Rhinebeck, New York
“This five-day workshop will explore various aspects of dreamwork through both experiential and didactic learning so participants will be able to use dreams to further their venture into their personal unconscious and will understand the avenue for working with dreams in a therapeutic setting. No experience in dreamwork is necessary for participation in this program. Appropriate for lay and professionals, i.e. therapists, clergy, spiritual directors, personal coaches, art therapists.”
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