Friday Evening Lecture
On the Psychology of Comedy
| Date: | February 5, 2010 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
| Presenter: | James Hollis, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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What is comedy? Why is it so often paired with its dark twin tragedy? Why do we laugh? Is comedy healthy or pathological? (Freud, who was rather dour, wrote a book on the subject, and Jung, known for his earthy humor and voluminous laugh, did not). Bring a joke yourself—no, not your date—bring a funny story to share!
Saturday Workshop
The Personal Story
| Date: | February 6, 2010 9:30 a.m. – noon |
| Presenter: |
James Hollis, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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What is the story we tell others; what is the story we tell ourselves; what stories are telling us? Narratives, whether conscious or unconscious, frame our pictures of the world, define and delimit us, or enlarge us. What are your stories? How can we bring some of those unconscious stories into the light of awareness? How do we claim authorship of larger stories? Bring pen and paper for reflection and writing.
James Hollis, Ph. D. is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst practicing in Houston, Texas, where he is also Director of the Saybrook University Jungian Studies program. He is the author of thirteen books; the last is What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life.
Friday Evening Lecture
Synchronicity: Jung’s Fascinating Theory behind Meaningful Coincidences
| Date: | March 12, 2010 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
| Presenter: |
Gene Powell Baker, M.Div, MSSW |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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Nearly everyone has had mystery-laden experiences in which one is struck by the coincidences involved. Perhaps you ran into an old teacher, the lover or friend you never expected to meet, and a chance encounter changed your direction in life. Such experiences usher us into the world of synchronicity. Synchronicity is another way the unconscious teaches us, providing meaningful signposts for the individuating soul.
Father Baker will explore the psychology of synchronicity, including stories such as how Jung’s friendships with Albert Einstein and Wolfgang Pauli influenced him to explore the coincidences in science and medicine. But the lecture will also show how synchronicities inhabit our private lives and illuminate our dreams. Father Baker will discuss historical examples of synchronicity: for example why the Americas were conquered by the conquistadors with only a handful of men, the true story of the discovery of penicillin, and how synchronicity affected the filming of The Wizard of Oz. He will spotlight clinical material but also include suggestions on how we can become more aware of synchronicities that occur in everyday life and how easily they can be overlooked. He will conduct us on a new kind of journey, from mysterious goings-on in clinical laboratories to the necessity of clearing up old urban myths.
Saturday Workshop
Synchronicity Workshop
| Date: | March 13, 2010 9:30 a.m. – noon |
| Presenter: | Gene Powell Baker, M.Div, MSSW |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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This morning’s workshop will center on a game called “OH!” that can bring about an experience of synchronicity for the players. Don’t worry. It won’t expose any old skeletons in your closet. The balance of the time will be used to review the most recent books in the field and answer questions left over from Friday night’s discussions.
This is Gene Powell Baker’s anniversary year, as he celebrates fifty years as an Episcopal priest and forty years as a clinical social worker. He was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley near Brownsville and attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, earning a B.A. He holds two master’s degrees: an M.Div. from The Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, and an M.S.S.W. from the University of Texas in Arlington. Most of his career was spent in clinical and psychiatric settings. Father Baker has served as president of the Jung Society and has been a member since 1977. He has given a number of lectures to the Society including “Egyptian Temples and the Unconscious”, “Jung and the Gospel of Judas”, and “Hidden Messages in the Holy Eucharist
Friday Evening Lecture:
Out of the Whirlwind: PTSD and the Archetype of Job
| Date: | April 9, 2010 7:30 –9:30 p.m |
| Presenter: | Donna Cozort, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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Analyst and author Dr. Donna Cozort will describe her seven-year journey struggling to help a traumatized combat nurse suffering the paralyzing symptoms of PTSD and desperately grasping a narrow thread of life. Dr Cozort will walk us through the terrifying dreams, flashbacks, and hopelessness of PTSD as experienced by her patient Mary, as she describes Mary’s courageous journey towards healing.
Along the way, we will examine major types of trauma dreams and discuss their progression. We will look at
“psychic mysteries” and reflect upon the struggle between good and evil as amplified by the story of Job and its Jungian interpretation of prophetic meaning. The encoded numinosum and power of the archetype will be revealed in Mary’s true life journey of discovering the divine within, which led her to new life and transformation.
Saturday Workshop
Discovering Archetypal Energy
| Date: | April 10, 2010 9:30 a.m.–noon |
| Presenter: |
Donna Cozort, Ph.D. and Duriye Nasuhoglu Gene Powell Baker, M.Div, MSSW |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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Following the theme of archetypal power and change in the Friday evening lecture, this workshop offers an experiential journey towards the discovery of archetypal energies deep within the psyche. Conga player Duriye Nasuhoglu and analyst Donna Cozort will lead the group into the psychic realm through the medium of drumming. We will discuss and create representational reflections of archetypal experience through writing, painting, mask making and song, finally sharing meaningful individual experiences with the group.
Donna Cozort, Ph.D., is a Jungian Analyst in Dallas, Texas whose search for meaning took her to the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland where she lived and studied for six years. Upon returning to the states in 1998, one of her greatest challenges was the woman whose story she documents. A Diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Dr. Cozort is a training analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Texas Seminar where she served as Director of Training for four years. She is the analyst sponsor of the C.G. Jung Society of North Texas and is a member of the Dallas Institute. Her new book, Out of the Whirlwind: PTSD and the Archetype of Job, was released by Amazon.com this spring.
Duriye Nasuhoglu is a conga player who first studied drumming in her native country of Turkey before coming to the States. Since beginning drumming in 1999, she has studied Afro-Cuban, Latin, Jazz, Rock, Folk, and Funk styles of drumming. Duriye lives in Dallas and has her own band called “Duriye & Friends.“ She is a board member of the C. G. Jung Society of North Texas.
Friday Evening Lecture
Integral Psychology
| Date: | May 14, 2010 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
| Presenter: | Bert Parlee, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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As with Jungian psychology, the goal of an Integral Psychology—and of the human experience—is to realize the Self: the quintessential Hero’s Journey. The Self is the archetype that represents the embrace and transcendence of all opposites, the natural expression of all features of the personality.
As framed by Ken Wilber, Integral represents the marriage of Western and Eastern psychologies (sense and soul). These combine into a “spectrum of consciousness” with corresponding clinical conditions and attendant treatment modalities. Integral realizes that individuals, as well as cultures, “make sense” in qualitatively different ways and that development is not a unidimensional affair.
Following the natural emergence of depth psychology early in the 20th century, Integral arrives on the scene as the world becomes truly global. We can now better understand the developmental nuances of multicultural diversity. With a discriminating awareness of qualitative distinctions, individuals and cultures can be seen not only as “diverse” but as meaningfully unique. This allows people to be met more clearly “where they are,” enabling a more secure holding environment in which an individual’s next steps may emerge.
Saturday Workshop
In Search of Good Will
| Date: | May 15, 2010 9:30 a.m. – noon |
| Presenter: |
Bert Parlee, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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In recent years, Good Will Hunting and The Shawshank Redemption occupy positions on many top ten lists of greatest films. Each represents the archetypal hero’s journey. Each also represents mutually enhancing relationships, parallel processes of transforming individuation/integration.
This workshop will focus on the series of clinical interactions in Good Will Hunting between Sean (Robin Williams as therapist) and Will (Matt Damon as client). We will explore the nature of the clinical container as an alchemical crucible of transformation. It is said that change, particularly in the therapeutic environment, is enabled through an exquisite blend of challenge and support. This equation is founded in great mystery, profoundly unique for different client conditions.
We will investigate the employment of these complementary forces as means of opening pathways to healing and growth. The workshop will explore how we might be able to simultaneously presence these apparently contradictory energies, as well as those of masculine and feminine compassion, not only in clinical moments, but in our life circumstances.
Offering leadership and culture change trainings around the world, Dr. Parlee is a senior advisor, leadership facilitator, mediator, and executive coach located in Dallas, Texas. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice. A founding member and for several years chief of staff of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute in Colorado, Bert has also served as lead trainer of many different I-I professional seminars. A published author, Dr. Parlee received his MA in contemplative psychotherapy from Naropa University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
