Please join us for the following programs which will be only ZOOM due to financial challenges. Many thanks to those who donated in our recent fund-raising campaign. We have been able to continue to serve the North Dallas community and beyond with exceptional, albeit remote, programming. We intend to have some in-person gatherings, so please watch your email or Facebook for those opportunities. Not on our email list? Please contact us at info@jungdallas.org in order to request placement on our email list for programs and gathering opportunities.
Dean Schlecht, At the age of eight Dean had a strong awareness that someday he wanted to be both a Catholic priest and a healer. It was a compelling intuition and shaped the rest of his life. He entered Minor Seminary when he was thirteen and remained in a seminary environment until he was twenty-six, when he was ordained.
He began his professional life as a priest in 1967 but quit to get married in 1973. He then went back to graduate school for two years to study Pastoral Counseling to retrain as spiritually oriented psychotherapist. In 1975 he began working for a Pastoral Counseling agency and in 1976 was hired as a psychotherapist by a public mental health agency.
In 1979 he started a private practice in Oklahoma where he was licensed as an LMFT offering transpersonal counseling as well as workshops and seminars for other therapists. In 1999 he moved to Eugene OR to be with his partner, Karen.
In 2000 he became the manager of The Royal Avenue Program, a psychiatric crisis respite program for very poor people. He also maintained a small private practice during this time as well. Dean retired from The Royal Avenue Program in 2013 and now devotes his time to his private practice as a Spiritual Director, writing and enjoying the good life.
Dean lives on a wooded acreage near Eugene.
September 12-13 , 2025, DEAN SCHLECHT, M.Div. Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Presentation: The Many Layers of Self
Walt Whitman wrote, “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” The perennial question, “Who am I?” is both commonplace and profoundly important. Who or what I assume myself to be will affect every aspect of my life. Despite its importance, this question does not have a straightforward answer. We are all many selves. Moreover, our most authentic, deepest Self, which emanates from our core, cannot be contained by language or conceptual thinking. This evening, we will describe the various layers of self that form our ego. And then, we will explore what it means for the ego to have a vital relationship with the formless, indefinable and all-encompassing Deep Self.
Join us via Zoom for Dean Schlecht’s presentation with audience questions on Friday, September 12, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time.
General Registration: $25.00
Follow this link to register for the presentation:
Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
Student Registration: $10.00 Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
Continuing Education Credit We are offering 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.
Workshop: Building a Bond with the Deep Self
Saturday, September 13, 2025, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
An authentic, meaningful life is grounded in a vital bond between ego and deep self. Nurturing this bond requires specific attitudes and practices by the ego. This workshop will present an opportunity to experientially foster these requirements.
The first requirement is an unconditional commitment to truth and love no matter the cost. An exercise will be offered in which we will be guided in an embrace of shame and secrets with compassionate curiosity.
The second requirement Is that we learn to disconnect conscious awareness from our ego story. As long as our consciousness is entangled with the story about who we are we will not be free to merge with the deep self. The second exercise will be a brief version of the disidentification meditation in which we are able to enter the observing self in such a way that we can objectively observe our ego and the other contents of our psyche. Engaging the observing self can be very freeing and even deeply healing. It also lays the groundwork for being able to intentionally encounter the deep self.
The third requirement is that the ego allows itself to actually experience the presence of the Deep Self. This will be done through an active imagination experience through which the ego can receive the gift of authentic love and truth that the Deep Self embodies.
Join us via Zoom for Dean Schlecht’s workshop with audience questions on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time.
Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Student Registration: $10.00 Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
Continuing Education Credit We are offering 2.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.
October 10-11, 2025 SATYA DOYLE BYOCK, LPC
Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist, director of The Salome Institute of Jungian Studies, and author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022). Her work has been featured on NPR, The BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Literary Hub, and many podcasts, including Apple News in Conversation, Pulling the Thread, and The Joseph Campbell Foundation Podcast. She is the co-host of the thirty-episode podcast exploring Carl Jung’s Red Book. She holds an MA in Counseling Psych from Pacifica Graduate Institute
You can follow her writing and join her monthly gatherings via her Substack newsletter Self & Society at satyadoylebyock.substack.com
October 10, 2025. 7:00 p.m. ZOOM ONLY PRESENTATION:
LECTURE: Jung’s Visions: What He Saw Before and After the Two World Wars There’s a section in Jung’s Red Book titled “The Three Prophecies,” written shortly before the outbreak of World War I. In these pages, Jung’s soul has plunged into the depths and delivers him “ancient things that pointed to the future.” The three things she brings him are: “The misery of war, the darkness of magic, and the gift of religion.”
Then Jung writes this:
“If you are clever, you will understand that these three things belong together. These three mean the unleashing of chaos and its power, just as they also mean the binding of chaos. War is obvious and everybody sees it. Magic is dark and no one sees it. Religion is still to come, but it will become evident. Did you think that the horrors of such atrocious warfare would come over us? Did you think that magic existed? Did you think about a new religion? I sat up for long nights and looked ahead at what was to come and I shuddered. Do you believe me? I am not too concerned. What should I believe? What should I disbelieve? I saw and I shuddered.”
There were many moments in Jung’s life in which he recorded some kind of vision of prophecy, including the visions of rivers of blood and frozen landscapes that preceded war in Europe, and fears that he expressed to Marie-Louise von Franz shortly before his death about a future in which we could well be living now: "When I shut my eyes, I see great stretches of the earth completely destroyed. Thank God it is not the whole planet."
In this lecture, we will explore these various visions and Jung’s role in trying to wake people up to the collective atmosphere of unconsciousness, war, and environmental destruction.
Join us via Zoom for Satya Doyle Byock’s presentation with audience questions on Friday, October 10, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time.
General Registration: $25.00
Follow this link to register for the presentation:
Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
Student Registration: $10.00 Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
Continuing Education Credit We are offering 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.
October 11, 2025. 9:30 a.m. ZOOM ONLY WORKSHOP:
WORKSHOP: Jung’s Visions and Collective Upheaval How do we understand the role of psyche and the unconscious in times of collective upheaval? In this workshop, we’ll read a bit more from Jung’s visions, as well as some of Toni Wolff’s visions about a time “100 years into the future” (right about now). We’ll have time for personal reflection and discussion about how the unconscious is warning us and supporting us with solutions in these times.
Goal and Objective: To learn the history of Jung’s intuition about collective violence and what his psychology had to offer as an antidote.
Join us via Zoom for Satya Doyle Byock’s workshop with audience questions on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time.
Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Student Registration: $10.00 Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
Continuing Education Credit We are offering 2.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.
November 14-15, 2025 MANSOOR ABIDI, Ph.D
Mansoor Abidi, Ph.D., is a professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute and depth psychology practitioner. He is the author of The Alchemist Within: Creativity, Vocation, & Transformation and the founder of Inner Opus, a guidance and teaching platform focused on Jungian, archetypal, and perennial philosophy. His work integrates Jungian theory, imaginal practice, and esoteric traditions in service of individual and collective awakening.
November14, 2025. 7:00 p.m. ZOOM ONLY PRESENTATION:
LECTURE: The Alchemist Within In this lecture, Dr. Abidi draws from his book The Alchemist Within: Creativity, Vocation, & Transformation to explore Carl Jung’s vision of alchemy as a symbolic language of inner transformation.
We will examine the core alchemical stages and operations as interpreted through Jung’s analytical psychology. Using clear visual aids and engaging examples, the lecture will illuminate how classical alchemical processes—such as calcinatio, solutio, mortificatio, and sublimatio—map onto psychological development and the individuation process.
This session includes a PowerPoint presentation, group discussion, and Q&A, offering a dynamic space for reflection and inquiry. Participants will gain a practical, academic, and soulful introduction to the alchemical model of depth psychology (Alchemical Psychology) and its relevance for personal growth, spiritual longing, and vocational calling.
Join us via Zoom for Dr. Abidi’s presentation with audience questions on Friday, November 14, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.
General Registration: $25.00
Follow this link to register for the presentation:
Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
Student Registration: $10.00 Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
Continuing Education Credit We are offering 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.
November 15, 2025. 9:30 a.m. ZOOM ONLY WORKSHOP:
WORKSHOP: The Alchemist Within
Part I - The workshop will continue by exploring the concept of Alchemical Psychology, as developed by James Hillman and others, emphasizing the psyche’s natural movement through symbolic transformation. Participants will engage with the language of alchemy not merely as metaphor, but as a living psychological process that reveals the soul’s way of knowing, creating, and becoming.
Given the rapid technological and cultural shifts of our time, this workshop invites participants to ask: To what are we called in our deepest selves? What inner images and symbols guide our life’s work?
Part II - We will begin the second half of the workshop with short (optional but encouraged) participant presentations (5 mins) on an alchemical image that resonates with their own creative life or work. From there, we will engage imaginal and symbolic practices, working with active imagination, creative reflection, and group dialogue, to deepen our understanding of the alchemical opus and the soulful dynamics of vocation.
Join us via Zoom for Dr. Abidi’s workshop with audience questions on Saturday, November 15, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Central Standard Time.
Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Student Registration: $10.00 Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
Continuing Education Credit We are offering 2.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.
