Programs Will Be Presented via the Internet. Look for the Links Below.
While social distancing, we invite you to listen to our audio recordings of past lectures you missed or want to hear again.
Spring 2023 Programs
The C. G. Jung Society of North Texas is pleased to announce that with our April meetings, we will be returning to IN-PERSON Programs!
Through a special and gracious arrangement with the First Unitarian Church of Dallas, we will meet on the Church Campus at 4015 Normandy, Dallas, Texas. However, before we meet in-person, we have one more very special Zoom program in March.
Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail. McCoy’s work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Australia, the Roy L. Neuberger Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
September 9-10, 2022, Ann McCoy, M.A.
> Friday, September 9, 2022, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. > Presentation: An Alchemical Journey through Art Ann McCoy has been a student devoted to an exploration of alchemy for fifty years. She worked for 28 years with Dr. C.A. Meier in Zurich on alchemical texts and dream analysis. She also worked with Dr. James Kirsch and Dr. Edward Edinger and was part of the seminar led by Dr. Nathan Schwartz-Salant, which produced The Mystery of Human Relationships. Her art was featured in the 1986 Venice Biennale Art and Alchemy, curated by Arturo Schwarz.
In this lecture, while using her art, Ann will discuss different alchemical processes and states. Dreams and their relationship to alchemy will be considered using images in work. Ann’s presentation will include discussions of Nigredo and depression as a beginning of the work.
Presentation Registration: $20.00 Follow this link to register: Click to Register
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: $10.00 We are offering continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for payment of the CE fee and certificates of attendance.
Workshop: Jung and the Alchemical Imagination
> Saturday, September 10, 2022, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon Illustrated alchemical texts have offered a window into unconscious processes in pictorial form. These images serve as guides for meditation and what Jung called ‘active imagination.’ When contemplating these historical texts, it is important to realize that the production of these images is still happening today. Our dreams are full of alchemical imagery. Ann McCoy’s workshop will focus both on the alchemical processes within the psyche and help participants understand their own dream material using alchemical images. The great alchemical scholar Adam McLean has provided a wonderful resource with his www.alchemywebsite.com site for further study.
Ann’s topics include The Alchemical Axis - the voyage from the conscious world into the depths of the unconscious and the trepidation that may accompany this process. Her talk will highlight the stages of alchemy: Solutio, Calcinatio, Mortificatio, Putrefactio, Coagulatio, and Sublimatio, and a discussion of Nigredo, Albedo, and Rubedo, which feature the alchemical colors of black, white, and red. In addition, she will discuss the role of the feminine in alchemical active imagination. Some suggested reading:
1) C.G. Jung, Alchemical studies, Vol. 13, Collected Works 2) C. G. Jung, Psychology and alchemy, Vol. 12, Collected Works 3) Adam McLean, A Commentary on the mutus liber 4) Joscelyn Godwin, Solomon trismosin’s splendor solis 5) Michael Maier’s Atlanta fugiens 6) Mircea Eliade, The forge and the crucible 7) Edward Edinger, Anatomy of the psyche 8) Marie- Louise von Franz, Alchemical active imagination 9) Nor Hall, Irons in the fire 10) Johannes Fabricius, Alchemy 11) Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The mystery of human relationships 12) Stanton Marlan, The black sun
General Workshop Registration: $40.00 Follow this link to register: Click to Register
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: $10.00 We are offering continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for payment of the CE fee and certificates of attendance.
Dean Schlecht, M.Div. is a former Catholic priest and the retired manager of a 19-bed psychiatric crisis respite facility in Eugene, Oregon. Before moving to Eugene in 1999, he was an LMFT with practices in Oklahoma City and Irving, Texas. He currently maintains a private practice offering spiritual direction. He served as President of the Oklahoma City C.G. Jung Study Group from 1983 through 1988 and has offered numerous workshops and retreats.
October 14-15 , 2022, Dean Schlecht, M.Div.
Friday, October 14, 2022, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Presentation: Active Imagination / Catalyst for Transformation
For more than forty years, Active Imagination has been the principal modality in my work as a therapist and spiritual director. It is not a technique that I apply to help myself or clients achieve ego-determined goals. It is, rather, the conscious, intentional entry into internal reality. Negotiating this reality is more important than learning to negotiate external reality in terms of having a meaningful, fulfilling life. Active Imagination is not mere fantasy or a kind of daydream generated by the ego but rather a spontaneous, autonomous creation of a benign higher intelligence that is distinct from the ego.
The purpose of this presentation is to make clear how profoundly important Active Imagination is for those who would seek to live as authentically as possible. Additionally, it will relate the practice of Active Imagination to how Carl Jung utilized it and how it relates to larger Jungian themes.
Join us for Dean Schlecht’s presentation with audience questions on Friday, October 14, 2022, at 7:00 p.m.:
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: $10.00 We are offering continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for payment of the CE fee and certificates of attendance.
Workshop: Active Imagination / Catalyst for Transformation
> Saturday, October 15, 2022, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon Participants will be offered an Active Imagination meditation through which they will encounter their own Inner Wisdom. Those who wish will be given an opportunity to share their experience and receive my feedback. A second meditation called the “Disidentification Exercise” will help clarify the true nature of the ego.
General Workshop Registration: $40.00 Follow this link to register: Click to Register
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: $10.00 We are offering continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for payment of the CE fee and certificates of attendance.
Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of six books:Psyche and theSacred: The religious function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering; Understanding Evil: A guide for psychotherapists, and The God-Image: From Antiquity to Jung. He is the co-editor of four volumes of collected papers: Psyche's Stories; Depth Psychology, Meditations in the field; Psychology at the Threshold; and Jung and Aging.
November 11-12, 2022, Lionel Corbett, M.D.
Friday, November 11, 2022, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Presentation: Jung’s notion of the Self: An emerging new God-image This lecture and workshop will contrast Jung’s notion of the Self with traditional theistic approaches to the divine. I will describe the range of ways in which the Self may appear within the psyche.
I will show how Jung’s approach allows the development of a personal spirituality, namely, an idea of God that arises from within, generated by subjective experience via dreams, visions, suffering, etc. This contrasts with an idea of God based on doctrine and dogma, which is objectively and externally generated.
• I will discuss Jung’s notion of the dark side of the Self in his Answer to Job and the arguments with theologians this book produced.
Educational goals • To recognize the importance of the spiritual life as it affects mental health. • To appreciate the influence of the image of God on behavior, thoughts and feelings. • To understand the relationship between a person’s image of God and their personal psychology.
Join us for Lionel Corbett’s presentation with audience questions on Friday, November 11, 2022, at 7:00 p.m.:
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: $10.00 We are offering continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.orgfor payment of the CE fee and certificates of attendance.
Workshop: Personal Experiences of the Self
> Saturday, November 12, 2022, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon In the workshop you can expect to reflect on how your life is a fairy tale and how all lives are made more meaningful by connecting with symbols. Together we will orient our minds to receiving help from the personal and collective unconscious and nourish our hearts.
The workshop will point out ways in which the Self manifests in our lives and ask participants to describe how their idea of God, or Jung's notion of the Self, has been transformed by life experience. . Participants who have rejected the Judeo-Christian God-image will be encouraged to explore Jung's alternative.
Participants will recognize the symbolic, intrapsychic manifestations of the Self. Participants will recognize the influence of early family dynamics on their image of God. Participants will recognize the ways in which their image of God has transformed over time.
General Workshop Registration: $40.00 Follow this link to register: Click to Register
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: $10.00 We are offering continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for payment of the CE fee and certificates of attendance.
We are excited about this new and recently re-modeled venue and would like to supply some additional information to make us easy to find on this campus. First, please enter the building from Normandy. Those doors are close to the Parlor area where we will meet.
Parking is available as follows:
Head-in parking for persons with disabilities is available on Normandy. There is additional parking at the Church, including head-in off of St. Andrews on the south side of the Church campus, and, near the end of St. Andrews is a parking lot as well. If you park at those locations, you may still have to walk around to the Normandy entrance. There is a bank across St. Andrews from the Church, but parking may not be allowed there. Accross Normandy Street from the Church is complementary parking under the YMCA. This lot closes at 8 p.m. with no ability to exit after that time. This parking is very useful for our Saturday morning workshops, but not recommended for Friday evening lectures, which usually run well past the time the YMCA parking is closed and locked.
While we are pleased to bring some very noted Jungian speakers to three of our in-person programs, our March program will come to you via Zoom only to accommodate another wonderful speaker. In as much as Safron Rossi will have a very interesting set of topics dealing with the Kore archetype, we hope to “see” you then as well. Please see the links to register and attend below under Dr. Rossi’s presentation and workshop.
March 10-11, 2023, Safron Rossi, Ph.D
Presented By Zoom Only
Safron Rossi, Ph.D., Mythological Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she is on the Core Faculty in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/Ph.D. program. Dr. Rossi teaches courses on mythology, symbolism, archetypal cosmology & astrology, and scholarly praxis. For many years she was Curator of the Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, and Marija Gimbutas manuscript collections at Opus Archives. Her writing and scholarly studies focus on Greek mythology, archetypal psychology, archetypal astrology, and goddess traditions. Safron is the author of The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology (2021), co-editor of Jung on Astrology (2017), and editor of Joseph Campbell’s Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013).
Presentation: The Kore Archetype
Friday, March 10, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The Kore, Greek for Virgin, is a mysterious figure. Youthful and elusive, the Kore personifies an archetypal state wherein a person becomes one-in-herself.
In C.G. Jung’s essay “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (1951), he makes the astonishing statement that the Kore is a Self-figure for women and has a power that is equivalent to that of the Mother. These two rarely discussed ideas have significance for women’s psychology and have a direct bearing on the development of feminine consciousness in both women and men. Who is this figure that is accorded such psychological power and significance?
Drawing from her book The Kore Goddess: A Mythology and Psychology (2021), in this lecture, Dr. Safron Rossi will draw out the pattern of the Kore through archaic Greek statues in order to discern how and where the Kore appears in life and plays a critical role in individuation.
Presentation Registration: $20.00 Follow this link to register:
Click to Register 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 continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. Email juliadodson@att.net for certificates of attendance. Please include your profession and license number.
Workshop: The Kore in Myth and Psyche
Saturday, March 11, 2023, 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
In the workshop, we will deepen our exploration of the Kore archetype by engaging the myths of Persephone, Artemis, and Hestia. We will also consider Kore and Saturn from an archetypal astrological view. The workshop will include journaling to aid reflection on where and how Kore appears and is longing to appear in life.
Background reading: The Kore Goddess: A Mythology and Psychology by Safron Rossi The Psychological Aspects of the Kore, Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol 9 part 1, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Paragraphs 306 to 383
Objectives for the program (CEUs) Overarching goal: Seminar participants will learn to identify a critical archetypal pattern in psychological development and apply this skill to understanding the individual and collective psyche.
Participants will understand the significance of Kore in Jung's psychology of archetypes
Participants will form insights into feminine psychology
Participants will locate and reflect upon how the Kore archetype appears in both personal and collective spheres
Participants will learn to interpret cultural and psychological patterning pertaining to the Kore archetype
General Workshop Registration: $40.00 Follow this link to register: Click to Register
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 continuing education credit for LCSWs, LPCs, and LMFTs. After registration, email juliadodson@att.net for certificates of attendance.
April 14-15, 2023, Jerome Braun, Ph.D
Presented In-Person Only
Jerome Braun, LMFT, is an English/Spanish-speaking Jungian psychoanalyst, holding a certificate in Psychedelic Research & Therapy and working part-time in a clinic. He contributed the chapter Impact of Personal Psychedelic Experiences in Clinical Practice (2021) to Psychedelics & Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Expanded States, edited by Read & Papaspyrou. Jerome is closely involved with a Shipibo healing lineage in the Peruvian Amazon and blends Jungian psychology with Indigenous methods.
Presentation: Jung, Psychedelic Medicines, and Non-ordinary States of Healing
Friday, April 14, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
“Is the LSD drug mescalin?” Jung (1953/1975) wrote this question in a letter to the Anglican priest, Father Victor White, in 1954. Jung then continued, “It has indeed very curious effects…of which I know far too little.” We are currently steeped in a psychedelic renaissance in which empirical research shows remarkable evidence of sustainable recovery in individuals suffering from depression, end-of-life anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Jung’s concepts offer invaluable psychological maps for understanding clients’ experiences in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and integration. In this presentation, we will explore the depth of Jung’s commentary on Fr. White. Beyond Jungian concepts of shadow and archetype, Jungian psychology offers important concepts for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including dream amplification, Active Imagination, psychoid reality, entelechy, contact with beyond-human intelligence, and individuation. Non-ordinary states are warp and woof of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, sometimes feared or controlled, yet offering extraordinary methods for integration of one’s personality and dyadic communication with the Self.
Jung, C.G. (1953/1975). C.G. Jung Letters. vol. 2: 1951-1961. ed. Gerhard Adler. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
$20 Non-member, $15 Member, $10 Student 1.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary Snacks and Wine
Workshop: Jungian Techniques to Access Everyday Non-ordinary States for Individuation
Saturday, April 15, 2023, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Saturday's workshop will focus on exercises for participants to explore from a Jungian perspective:
1) Transference and beliefs about psychedelic medicines; 2) Jungian techniques for accessing quotidian non-ordinary states to enhance one's individuation process, and 3) Connecting with What's beyond Ego to dance with Self.
$40 Non-member, $35 Member, $10 Student 2.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 9:00 a.m. Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Coffee
May 19-20, 2023, Kelly Ferrebee, Ph.D., and Jacquelyn Kelley, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CT, CST-T, Suzanne Hales, IAAP Jungian Analyst, Ed.D., LPC, LMFT
Please Join Us IN-PERSON for Meetings at First Unitarian Church of Dallas 4015 Normandy, Dallas, TX.
Jacquelyn Kelley, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CT, CST-T (Certified Sandplay Therapist-Teacher), CT (Certified in Thanatology) is in psychotherapy private practice in Plano and she is social worker for Knights of Comfort Hospice. She has been practicing Jungian sandplay therapy for over 30 years. She is on the board of Sandplay Therapists of America and is past president of the C. G. Jung Society of North Texas, and past president of Texas Sandplay Society.
Kelly Webb Ferebee has a Ph.D. in Counseling, is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, and has her National Board Certification. She also has certification in Expressive Arts Therapy and Emotional Freedom Techniques. She has extensive training and experience in grief and loss counseling. Working with children and families for over 30 years in a variety of settings, Dr. Webb Ferebee has maintained a private practice in Coppell, Texas for over 16 years. Her services and experience also include consulting services for medical, school, legal, and business communities.
Suzanne Hales, Diplomate in Jungian Analysis, IAAP, Kusnacht, Switzerland, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Dr. Hales is in private practice in McKinney, Texas.
"Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to 'civilize' us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become overdomesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped."
In 1992, with the publication of Women Who Run with Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes shared her deeply personal psychological experiences of herself, her family and her culture, all of which exposed a great universal truth. That truth shows one of the major, but under-appreciated, archetypes. It is the Wild Woman Archetype and it is critical to feminine psychology.
Presentation: Discovering the Wild Woman Archetype
The enduring vitality of WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PH.D.
Friday, May 19, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
We will learn about the Wild Woman Archetype which is in all of us, both women and men. The wild woman archetype and the wolf have much in common and the wolf can represent the wild woman archetype. After reviewing the archetype, we will look at vocabulary that Dr. Estes uses in her book to tell her stories and to explain to us about the archetype.
To conclude the evening, you will hear the powerful story of La Loba, Wolf Woman. All this will prepare us for our journey on Saturday.
$20 Non-member, $15 Member, $10 Student 1.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary Snacks and Wine
Workshop: Finding the Wolf
Working with the myths and stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.
Saturday, May 20, 2023, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
In 2020, Kelly and Jackie attended a week long training with Dr. Estes to learn how to teach “Women Who Run With the Wolves”. We will begin with journaling about the story and/or our dreams. Then Kelly will share with you how a young girl used the wolf and wild woman images in her sandplay process.
You will hear the story of Bluebeard and how it relates to you and to our present day.
As part of the workshop, you can work on a collage of images that have come to you through the stories and/or your dreams. We will have time for sharing and discussion.
$40 Non-member, $35 Member, $10 Student 2.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 9:00 a.m. Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Coffee
September 8-9, 2023, Joseph Cambray, Ph.D
Please Join Us For IN-PERSON Meetings at First Unitarian Church of Dallas 4019 Normandy, Dallas, TX
Joseph Cambray, Ph.D. is Past-President-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; and has also served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology. He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals. He lectures and gives workshops internationally.
Presentation: Synchronicity, Complexity and the Psychoid Field
Friday, September 8, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. IN-PERSON ONLY, 4019 Normandy, Dallas, Texas
This presentation will begin with a brief history of the origins and development of Jung’s notions of synchronicity and the psychoid. Complexity and field theories will then be applied to provide a 21st century view of these holistic, intuitive concepts. Examples of synchronistic phenomena from the presenter’s practice will be explored using the new approach. Further examples from the history of culture, indicating the reality of psychoid fields, will be offered. These examples will include artistic representations that indicate a profound knowledge of highly complex natural phenomena well ahead of any scientific understanding.
$20 Non-member, $15 Member, $10 Student 1.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary Snacks and Wine
Workshop: Wondering Anew: Synchronicities and Re-enchantment
We will begin with an exercise to assist in diminishing our ordinary attachments to reductive rationality. Participants will be encouraged to engage in a guided imaginative encounter rooted in the lived experience of wonder so natural in our childhood but often set aside or suppressed by traditional education. Hence, we will seek to recover a sense of the vibrancy of wonder through the use of memory and the imagination. This in turn may provide access and foster expansion of our eco-spiritual potentials as an aspect of our soul life. Through open discussion amongst participants linking wonder with a wide range of synchronistic experiences, the collective wisdom of the group will be invited to explore the hidden potentials in these for healing persons, societies, and worlds.
$40 Non-member, $10 Student 2.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 9:00 a.m. Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Coffee
