C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleLecture: Friday, March 9, 2012, 7 to 9 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. North, Seattle 98103 (driving directions)
$15 members, $25 nonmembers
In a rapidly changing world paying attention to innate capacities such as what Jung calls the transcendent function can make a difference. At home and abroad we face the seemingly intractable problem of fundamentalist ideology, racism and tribal violence tearing apart the human fabric. In this presentation I discuss ways I employ digital photography blended with old healing methods in order to transcend personal and cultural layers of reference and rekindle the struggle of giving birth to one's future. Over the past seven years I have worked with marginalized and traumatized populations in Africa to help communities dealing with psychological consequences of war and violence. In a Cameras without Borders workshop a survivor of sexual violence in eastern Congo said, "The camera is pregnant." Such metaphors funciton to shatter limitations of the mind making visible what cannot be perceived. The transcendent function is midwife in a relational process of healing the wounds of emotional trauma.
Workshop: Saturday, March 10, 2012, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. North, Seattle 98103
$50 members, $70 nonmembers
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In the workshop we continue exploring the role the transcendent function plays in the healing of psychological trauma. To create shared experiences we will watch and discuss the film "The Day God Walked Away," by Belgian director Philippe van Leeuw. The film is not only a powerful memorial to the Rwandan genocide but also connects us with the primordial realm of the Dark Night of the Soul where the suffering human wrestles with feeling abandoned by God. Such suffering is the essential meaning of the term dissociation? and dissociation is the hallmark of psychological trauma as well as the fundamentalist condition. I view developing capacity for curiosity and mutuality as not only central to the treatment of trauma but also as an antidote to the ills and sclerosis of a fundamentalist mindset, which is the source of much human suffering. We will dialogue about these questions, including what action mutuality requires us to take, e.g., in terms of human rights advocacy, using photographs and stories from my fieldwork in Eastern Congo, Uganda and Kenya.
Learning Objectives for Workshop:
1. Developing cross-cultural agency in psychotherapy and clinical social work.
2. Developing sensibility to relational knowing, i.e., the role the transcendent function plays both intra- and inter-subjectively.
3. Recognizing the importance of restoring capacity for play and curiosity in the treatment of psychological trauma.
4. Recognizing that modeling curiosity in self and other imbues relationships with mutuality.
Eberhard Riedel, Ph.D., D.C.S.W., is a photographer and Jungian psychoanalyst living in Seattle, WA. In 2006 he initiated the Cameras without Borders project employing photography as a tool for healing with African communities affected by the consequences of war and violence. His project aims at engaging people at home and abroad as it seeks to nourish seeds of reconciliation and mutual understanding. Cameras without Borders is a Blue Earth 501(c)(3) project. Please visit www.cameraswithoutborders.org.
This program has been approved for CEUs by the Washington Chapter National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Mar-riage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counse-lors. 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 units for the Saturday workshop $10.
Updated: 1 January, 2012
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