C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle Lecture: Friday, November 13, 2009, 7 to 9 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$15 members, $25 nonmembers
UPDATED: You can buy tickets for the lecture in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/88081.
A little over thirty years ago, depth psychology cut a dramatically deeper trench into the thin places between personal and transpersonal experience. It was the publication of Joseph Henderson‘s Threshold of Initiation. For many in the Jungian world this book‘s appearance heralded a deeper consideration of that fragile interface between human and archetypal, personal and numinal. Some consider it one of the major advancements of theoretical and clinical reflection on this critical theme since Jung‘s Answer to Job arrived (in a fit of automatic, feverish writing) in 1952. A rash of gifted complementary commentary has unfolded since from Jeff Raff, Clarissa Pincola Estes, Ann Belford Ulanov, John Dourley, Marion Woodman, Dyanne Sherwood, Murray Stein and many, many others.
This buffer zone, this thin place between worlds or dimensions of being is where the gods come to parley with our human angst. It is here where our Destiny—both collective and individual--is revealed. Many believe that it is in this in-between liminal realm, this vast, ripe emptiness amongst our understandings of conventional time and space, that our primal wound is healed by the only ultimate balm there is—relationship, love, what the alchemists called relatio. Many further believe that both the gods and we humans are each inflicted by this primal wound and that this depth, authentic, liminal encountering and empathic relating and loving is the only hope for us all. It is by repeated and depth, non-anxious repose in this liminal realm that both individuals and cultures can calm and heal.
Workshop: Saturday, November 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$50 members, $70 nonmembers
Finding the doorway, the Portal, into such depth chambers of the Psyche is necessary for such repeated transformative exposure. This workshop explores ideas about where that Portal might be more reliably located or, perhaps better stated, experienced. It is to wonderings about how to enter this liminal zone and to receive its healing that these conversations turn their attention. We will imagine together about what our world would look like if there were a depth numinal politics more broadly practiced in both our individual and communal lives. Through theory, cinematic example, and input from depth therapists and philosophers, we will attempt to navigate a safe voyage and return across these liminal seas of being.
Three goals will focus our excursion:
Terrill L. Gibson, Ph. D., is a Jungian analyst, Diplomate in the American Associa-tion of Pastoral Counselors, and Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Gibson practices individual and family therapy with Pastoral Therapy Associates in Tacoma. He lectures and writes widely on the basic theme of the integration of psychotherapy and spirituality. He has been a fre-quent consultant, faculty, supervisor, and facilitator for a variety of Pacific Northwest universities, social service agencies, corporations, and religious congregations.
This program has been approved for 7.0 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: 27 October, 2009
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