C.G. Jung Society, Seattle

Mary Alice Long, Ph.D.

Jung and Play

Child Archetype: Playing Toward Wholeness

Lecture: Friday, November 12, 2010, 7 to 9 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle (driving directions)
$15 members, $25 nonmembers

You can buy tickets for the lecture in advance at brownpapertickets.com.

Long photoThe Friday evening lecture will invite you to explore the child archetype. Our inner child is present in all of us but is often disowned and forgotten. Archetypal images of the child within will be represented through story, film, music, and visual images. We will explore the child archetype in its many facets by which humans create intimate relationships and deeply felt vulnerabilities and abandonment.

Learning Objectives

  1. To examine the multiplicity of the child archetype.
  2. To discuss ways that increasing awareness of the child archetype presents new hope for our culture in an age of serious ìdoingî and pretense.
  3. To learn ways of working-playing with these archetypal dynamics as we feel both limitations and potentiality.

Jung and Play

Workshop: Saturday, November 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle
$50 members, $70 nonmembers

Preregistration for workshops is encouraged. To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form. You can also register online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- C. G. Jung

Jung knew how to play. Even as an elder, Jung could still sit for hours at the lakeside where he built his retreat and play with a stick on the sandy shore, creating small rivulets for the water to travel.

Play is relaxing. It energizes us. For most of us play is fun, even joyful. Play and your burdens feel lighter and doorways open to new possibilities. Play goes even deeper.

Jung wrote: "... without playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable." As Jungian Analyst Joan Chodorow notes: "All the creative arts therapies can trace their roots to Jungís early contribution" (in the areas of active imagination, play, and creativity).

In this workshop we will explore how Jung's playful relationship with the inner world opened up the vast world of the collective unconscious. As we observe play as a factor both in the natural world and in the ways that we as individuals create through our own playful forms and expression, we will discover how we each are called to our own playful exploration.

Workshop Learning Objectives:

  1. Increase understanding of and encourage play to bring balance to inner/outer world experience.
  2. Create connections between Jungian psychology with current research on how play and creativity is integral to the
    individuation process.
  3. Articulate, use, and begin to integrate play in chosen areas of experience.
  4. Solidify a basic understanding about how play informs inner work (dream work, active imagination, writing, arts-based forms integrated into Jungian work).
  5. Bring clarity about oneís own natural style, strengths, biases, and limitations through playful exploration.

Mary Alice Long, Ph.D. is a Jungian therapist, Play consultant, and writer. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Mary Alice is the director of Play=Peace, devoted to helping adults re-learn how to play and experience life fully and spontaneously. She consults with clients in her Seattle office and in other locations by arrangement--in person, by phone, and in natural settings.

This program has been approved for 7.0 CEUs 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.

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