Friday, September 13, 2019 7:00-9:00 pm
Dreams of Death and the Wise Old Dog: film, panel and discussion

Jungian analyst Marie Louise von Franz wrote extensively on dreams and death. David Blum experienced powerful guiding dreams and worked with them through active imagination and painting. This evening, we will watch an interview of von Franz discussing dreams and a moving film of Blum’s dream process as he faced his death from cancer. After, there will be a panel and discussion.

Panel: Erica Lorentz, Penelope Tarasuk, Ed Tick

Friday, October 4, 2019 7:00-9:00 pm
An Evening of Wisdom with Drs. Thayer and Anita Greene

Our respected elders will share wisdom gathered and gleaned from their long lives and practice as Jungian analysts. They have generously served this community and presented many talks over the years for our organizaton. Through their leadership they have helped to build and sustain The Jung Association of Western Massachusetts.
Penelope Tarasuk and Erica Lorentz will assist in this evening’s discussion, audience reflections, and questions. Please join us in honoring their contributions.

• Thayer Green, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst (IAAP), trained in New York and Zurich, Switzerland. He has written a book and many articles in the field.
• Anita Greene, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst (IAAP), and Rubenfeld Synergist, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York.
• Penelope Tarasuk, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst (IAAP), author and artist, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston and practices in S. Deerfield and Cambridge.
• Erica Lorentz, M.Ed., L.P.C., Jungian Analyst (IAAP) has a private practice in Amherst, MA and is the President of the Jung Association of Western MA. She is a training analyst of the Jung Institute of Boston and has lectured and facilitated workshops throughout the US and Canada.

Friday, November 15, 2019 7:00-9:00 pm
Robert Klein. The Spiritual Journey: Jung and the Taos Pueblo People

Jung’s visit to the Taos Pueblo People in 1925 left an indelible mark on him. He gained insights into the tribe’s religious rituals, meaning making and the destructive impact of Western civilization on their culture. Historically, Taos Pueblo played a critical role in defending Native American religious practices. We will examine that history, the interface of Jungian psychology and the Native American belief system, and the value of a spiritual journey that respects nature and seeks to live in harmony with it.

Robert R. Klein, Ed.D., has been a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He lectures internationally on leadership development and group dynamics.

Friday, December 6, 2019 7:00-9:00 pm
Royce Froehlich. Generalized Media Disorder: Jung on Technology and Disindividuation

C.G. Jung was sensitive to and critical of the technological transformations happening in the world around him, including ‘time-saving’ machines, weapons and telecommunications. His writings reverberate from the aftershock of the two World Wars, and he would reminisce about a time in his life before mass media, when “there existed nothing like artificial and disembodied voices, except in lunatic asylums.” Jung’s prescient observations on the effects of technology will ground a discussion that offers a fresh listening to his call for individuation in our hyper-mediated world.

Royce Froehlich, Ph.D., M.Div., L.C.S.W., Jungian Analyst (IAAP), has a practice in New York City, and was formerly an audio engineer at A.B.C. Radio Networks.

Sunday, January 5, 2020 1:00-4:00 pm
(note different day and time)
Kate Dahlstedt. Embodying the Feminine Archetype Through Greek Mythology

My lecture will help us enter the world of the archetypal feminine through Greek mythology and explore its application to the undeveloped parts of ourselves. In addition to sharing my own experiences leading women on spiritual journeys to Greece, and a staged reading of selections from my manuscript, The Women of Troy, we will use guided imagery for our own inner journey to the archetypal feminine.

Kate Dahlstedt, M.A., a graduate of the Hartford Family Institute and a certified Gestalt therapist, has been in practice for over 30 years. She is an experienced group leader and guides personal growth journeys abroad. She is also a poet and author of several book chapters and journal articles.

Friday, February 7, 2020 7:00-9:00 pm
Ed Tick. Asklepian Dream Healing: Ancient and Modern

3,500 years ago the tradition of Asklepios, the ancient Greek god of healing, originated what would become both depth psychotherapy and holistic medicine in the Western world. Our program will explore Asklepian healing principles and practices, sacred sites, and ancient and modern dream healings. We will apply these teachings to understanding depth psychotherapy and our eternal search for what Jung called “big dreams” that heal and connect us to the sacred.

Edward Tick, Ph.D., is an archetypal psychotherapist, trauma specialist, and international journey guide. Author of six books, including the classic, The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Myster- ies into Modern Medicine. Ed has been studying and practicing this tradition in both the US and Greece for over thirty years.

Friday, March 6, 2020 7:00-9:00 pm
Erica Lorentz. Introduction to Alchemical Symbols of Transformation

We will explore some processes and symbols in alchemy. This ancient discipline sought to transform our inner chaos/prima materia into the gold of psychological and spiritual insight. At the end of the Red Book, Jung discovered that the rich symbolic system of the alchemists described his own experiential method of active imagination and his personal and professional experience of individuation. Alchemical prints and film clips will illustrate the relevance of these symbols today.

Erica Lorentz, M.Ed., L.P.C., Jungian Analyst (IAAP) has a private practice in Amherst, MA and is the President of the Jung Association of Western MA. She is a training analyst of the Jung Institute of Boston and has lectured and facilitated workshops throughout the US and Canada.

Friday, April 3, 2020 7:00-9:00 pm
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-18 PANDEMIC
Susan McKenzie. Alice in Genderland: Transgender “Through the Looking Glass”

Contemporary psychoanalytic gender theory explores the interplay of biological sex, culture, brain development, and attachment experiences in the formation of gender identities. Reading outside of his Anima/Animus theory, Jung of the symbolic, the mythic, and the subtle body, has much to offer to emergent gender theory. Jung invites us to the medial place of the soul, bridging the realm of the physical body and the realm of the spirit. It is in this place that we can explore gender as fluidly shifting realities of body and mind.

Susan McKenzie, M.S., Jungian Analyst (IAAP), is in private practice in White River Junction, Vermont. She is a faculty member of the Boston Jung Institute and has lectured and published on post-Jungian theory of gender and sexuality.

Friday, May 1, 2020 7:00-9:00 pm
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-18 PANDEMIC
Karen Smyers. The Murderous Mother: Insights from Fairy Tales

“Little Snow White” describes the dark side of the mother archetype. This jealous, narcissistic energy can be met in real persons or as an aspect of ourselves that wants to murder the more attractive but less experienced energies trying to develop. We will consider the fairy tale recorded by the Grimm Brothers as well as the Celtic version of this story to learn to recognize this energy and also for some strategies to deal with it.

Karen A. Smyers, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst (IAAP) is a former Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Wesleyan University and a graduate of ISAP-Zurich. She has a private practice in Northampton.