C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleLecture: Friday, November 9, 7 to 9 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$15 members, $25 nonmembers
2 CEUs
Workshop: Saturday, November 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$50 members, $60 nonmembers
5 CEUs
To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
“Move from within. Don’t move the way that fear wants you to. Begin
a foolish project....Noah did.” – Rumi
“Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.” – Achimendes
287-211 BC
“I enter a swamp as sacred place....A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than
by the woods and swamps that surround it.” – Henry David Thoreau (1861)
Path, enclosure, point, horizon, and edge are five dominate elements or archetypes that
form a basic spatial vocabulary that describes ways of seeing, thinking, and being in the
world. In this lecture and daylong seminar, we will explore a dialogue between the landscape
in which we dwell in the outer world and an inner landscape of the psyche and that of the
inner shared landscape of analyst and analysand.
The spatial orientation we gather from the environments which we live in and travel great distances to experience, gives us rich clues in our ongoing dialogue with the psyche. Like a compass, the environment, as 3-D space can be a guide. Each of us experiences the spatial qualities of environment in ways that are as unique as we are, as individuals. However, we must become conscious of how we experience space in order to tap into the creative jewel of psyche that awaits us there. Marie-Louise Von Franz wrote that the difference between genius and madness was in the conscious knowing one from the other. One must “stand on a place” in order to “move the world” as Archimendes wrote. Metaphorically and ecologically, Thoreau speaks the truth, “a town is saved, by the contrast of the woods and swamps that surround it.” But where does one stand in the town, the woods or the swamp? Each place of orientation offers a unique perspective. Jung himself spent much time on the edges of streams playing with stones. This he regarded essential to his work. The order he gave to these stones came from an inner ordering. “Move from within and begin,” Rumi counsels.
The workshop will have two parts: First, we will speak though experiential and clinical material to this outer and inner dialogue. Second, participants will have an opportunity to follow their own journey from an in-depth look at a landscape which has captured them, analyze its quality through two short exercises, one written and one drawn or formed from clay, and then reframe this in the context of an inner space. At the end of the workshop, participants will have a broader context through which to explore their own clinical and personal vision of the relationship between the space of soil and the space of soul.
Suggested readings are available by sending email to Aurore Maren at a.maren@att.net.
Aurore Moursund Maren grew up in Oregon and, at the age of four, crossed the Atlantic
by ship and thus began her fascination with land and waterscapes. After receiving a B.A. in
English Literature from Colorado College, she later attended Oxford University, pursuing
her interest in the image of the landscape in literature. She went on to take a Masters degree
in Landscape Architecture from Cornell, where she presented a thesis on Myth into Landscape
in which she transformed the meaning of a verbal myth into landscape forms representational
of the myth. She opened her own Landscape Architectural practice and taught courses
in Spatial Design at a community college. During this time, her interests in her clients'
perceptions of the landscape as well as her personal analysis and interest in the works of Carl
Jung led her to take a Masters in Clinical Social Work from Columbia. She trained at The
New York Psychiatric Institute and New York Hospital and went on to work extensively as a
psychiatric School Social Worker. In the following years, she commenced her analytic training
with the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts.
After witnessing the 911 attacks, she initiated a program on the N.J. ferries working with persons who had seen the attacks from the water and worked in her private practice with persons experiencing this environmentally related trauma. In the aftermath of Katrina, she self-funded her trauma work with persons temporarily housed in the Houston Astrodome. She now makes her home on an island in the San Juans exploring the effects of damaged, polluted, or otherwise endangered lands on the psyche.
This program has been approved for 7 CEU’s by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Provider number is #1975-157. The cost to receive a certificate is as follows: 7.0 units for lecture and workshop $15; 2.0 units for the Friday lecture $10; 5.0 units for the Saturday workshop $10.
Updated: 25 September, 2007
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