Karen is an artist and licensed psychotherapist in Santa Barbara. The paintings which are on exhibit are from the Earthbound series. Karen will give an informal talk about these paintings which were in response to a very traumatic and serious accident, resulting in a near death experience, as a young adult. The trauma of this accident was very much alive in her psyche for many years, until she began the unstructured and self directed process of working through the trauma in the media of painting, about twenty years later.

“Jung in Dialogue:
Practices of Soul Making”

June 11-13, 2010

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The experiences of the alchemists were, in a sense, my experiences,
and their world was my world.
This was, of course, a momentous discovery.
—C. G. Jung

In the Epilogue to The Red Book, written in 1959, two years before Jung’s death and almost thirty years after he stopped his active engagement with that book, Jung wrote, “I worked on this book for 16 years. My acquaintance with alchemy in 1930 took me away from it. . . . To the superficial observer it will appear like madness. It would also have developed into one, had I not been able to absorb the overwhelming force of the original experiences. With the help of alchemy, I could finally arrange them into a whole." Alchemy was decisive for Jung because it became the connection between his personal experience of the archetypal imagination and its historical and archetypal roots. Jung rediscovered alchemy as “another Red Book," in other words, as a form of active imagination that initiates psychosomatic transformation through a creative encounter with the unconscious. This is why Jung’s work on alchemy infuses all his later writings. Today we can be informed by the images and writings of the alchemists and of Jung, much as Jung was informed, in our own search for understanding, meaning, and healing. The Red Book is the last great alchemical treatise, but anyone is an alchemist who gives expression to unconscious psychic processes and actively engages them.

Thomas Elsner J.D, M.A., is a certified Jungian Analyst, core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and a training analyst and past President at the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. Born and raised in Southern California and trained as a lawyer, he left these roots to travel to Switzerland and study at the Centre for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz. There he wrote his thesis on Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and developed a passionate interest in the patterns of the archetypal imagination as they appear in literature, folklore, and alchemy. Since that time he has lectured and taught on the subject of alchemy and depth psychology in Switzerland, England, and throughout the United States. His most recent essays scheduled for publication are “Alchemy and Socio-political Transformation" and “Animals and Analysis: The Grimms’ Tale The Three Languages."

“Social Dreaming Matrix:
Dreams Speaking to Dreams”

Throughout human history, people have been telling dreams in community. This ancient lineage of dreams and dreaming carries great significance in many of the world's older cultures, and this lineage is trying to find voice in our modern world today. The Social Dreaming Matrix is an experimental container for sharing dreams and images arising from the deep psyche. This opportunity to share dreams, without interpretation, with a dream calling out its response through another dream or an image, helps us to see into each other and into ourselves in compelling and evocative ways. Sharing this process can seed our dreams and inner experiences for long periods to come, offering us inspiration and meaning. Optional social dreaming matrix sessions will be held on Saturday and Sunday mornings before the program begins and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. The sessions will be facilitated by Pacifica core faculty members, Willow Young and Patricia Katsky.

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“The Vision Seminars: A Reading Seminar”

"Surely you know that you can read a book many times - perhaps you almost know it by heart, and nevertheles it can be that, when you look at the lines before you, certain things appear new or even new thoughts occur to you that you did not have before. Every word can work productively in your spirit." (C. G. Jung, 2009. The Red Book)

Over a seven-week period we will explore The Vision Seminars, by C. G. Jung (Mary Foote, Ed.) The seven seminars that Jung conducted from October 1930 through March 1932 he explore his analysis of a woman patient, her dreams, and her artwork. These seminars are deeply related to Jung's own work as evidenced by the recent publication of The Red Book.

Wednesday, October 6 through November 17, 2010

Limited to 5 persons, priority will be given to members of the Friends of Jung

Cost: $200
$150for members of the Friends of Jung

15 CEU's available for MFTs and LCSWs

Please contact
Jean Palmer Daly, Ph.D., MFT,
805-962-2816

22 W. Micheltorena, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101