C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleLecture: Friday, September 10, 2004, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
Workshop: Saturday, September 11, 2004, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 221, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$30 members, $40 nonmembers, $25 student/senior members, $35 student/senior nonmembers
To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
The sudden death of a loved one affects all aspects of our
life and certainly changes its meaning and direction. We are
generally unaware of how much the inner Self prepares us for
this crisis and how it guides us later through our nightly
dreams. Geri Grubbs’s newly released book, Bereavement
Dreaming and the Individuating Soul, presents this death-and-grief process expressed
in our dreams. We will focus on the common elements in bereavement dreams as
revealed in Geri’s dreams following the death of her son in 1984 and other true
stories presented in her book. She will address the universally experienced
archetypal images of death, visitations of the spirit soul, transcendent states of
consciousness, and the state of liminality that opens our psyches to the spiritual,
archetypal, and collective realms of the unconscious. The seminar will conclude
with a slide presentation of Dia de Muertos in Mexico in which we will see how
families in a culture other than our own relate to the world of the dead and how
they come together in celebration of their departed loved ones.
Images, themes, and phases of bereavement dreaming that direct our psyche toward wholeness, transcendence, and transformation will be the major focus of Saturday's workshop. Those who wish will have an opportunity to share their experiences involving bereavement dreaming, explore what these dreams may be expressing, and learn how to resolve the grief and suffering that is so much a part of bereavement.
Geri Grubbs, Ph.D., is a practicing Jungian Analyst in Woodinville, Washington and a training analyst on the board of the North Pacific Institute for Analytical Psychology. She has been practicing depth psychology since 1987 and is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Her focus in analytical treatment is on trauma, bereavement, relational, and spiritual issues with adults and children. She has lectured and taught widely on dream interpretation and sandtray therapy, and has recently published her book Bereavement Dreaming and the Individuating Soul.
Updated: 3 September 2004
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