SEMINARS AND LECTURES

SEMINARS:

Exile and Return: An Exploration of the
Experience of Being-at-Home and Exile"
Presented to the Spiritual Directors International, Seattle

Alchemical Colors
Jungian Psychotherapists Association, Seattle
Seminar for Professionals
Following Jung and Fabricius, A thoroughgoing exploration of the alchemical colors, nigredo (blackness), albedo (whiteness), citrinitas(yellowing) and rubedo(redness) and their place in the individuation process, especially at midlife and beyond.

The Sweetness of Bitterness
and the Alchemical Salt
Jungian Psychotherapists Association
For Professionals
Using clinical material, ponderings on the emotion of bitterness and its necessity in the face of transitional crisis. With reference to Melanie Klein's concept of the depressive position and Jung's reflections on 'the salt'--its symbolic and emotional value for making whole.

NPIAP, North Pacific Institute for
Analytical Psychology, Seattle
Clinical Seminar
A seminar for Training Candidates focused on the mythological perspective within their clinical work.

The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche
North Pacific Institute for Analytical Psychology
Public Education
One segment of a lecture series on Jung's Collected Works. Using a 'map' of the psyche based on the work of the late Swiss analyst Peter Walder: the conscious and unconscious, complexes-archetypes, symptoms--responses of the unconscious, and synchronicity

The Wind and the Dove: An Exploration of the Phenomena of Spirit and Soul
The Center for Spiritual Development, Seattle
Public Workshop
This workshop attempted to discern the difference between 'soulful' and 'spiritual' experience through lecture, dance, active imagination and discussion; the weighty experience of body-soul compared with the 'breaking-in' of the spirit.

LECTURES:

Introversion and Meaning in an
Extroverted Society
Jung Society of Seattle
An examination of Jung's differences with Freud on psychic energy, and the minority perspective of introversion within mostly-extroverted American life. A special focus on the problems introverted men often encounter in their passage into career and relationships. The Grimms' fairytale, The Frog King is the central story within this presentation

The Curious Haunting of Mr E. Scrooge
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Mercer Island, Washington
A four part Jungian interpretation the famous fairytale; Scrooge as the alter-ego and shadow of Charles Dickens, in a quest for redemption and rebirth. Using the classic 1951 English film.
Looking in the Shadowy Mirror:
The Ghost of Marley
Confronting Early Wounds:
The Ghost of Christmas Past
The Breakdown of Illusion:
The Ghost of Christmas Present
Toward Death and the Divine Child:
The Ghost of Chrismas Future.