Saturday March 14, 10 am – 12 pm
Karol Weigelt, LCPC
Held in-person at the Jung Center
Live only, not recorded
$50, CEUs: 2
*Limited to 12 participants.

This Booker Prize-winning novel (2024) follows a 24-hour period in the lives of six people aboard an international space station. Through poetic language, Harvey explores archetypal themes such as home, time, beauty and our connections to Mother Earth. The novel invites readers to reflect on their own experiences, using Jung’s theories of symbols and archetypes, as a lens. Like dreamwork, the story encourages personal insight and self-discovery, connecting the imagery and themes of outer space to our own inner worlds.

Please read the book before our gathering to ensure a rich and engaging discussion. Participation is limited to 12 to foster a meaningful conversation. Karol Weigelt’s expertise in Jungian psychology, dreamwork and group facilitation will help guide our exploration of the novel’s themes.

About the Instructor
Karol Weigelt, LCPC, is a psychotherapist and spiritual director in private practice in the Chicago area with over 25 years of experience in book and dream groups. She is also a volunteer therapist at the C.G. Jung Center.

Required Reading
Orbital, Samantha Harvey

Thursdays: March 26, April 23, May 21, and June 18, 7-9 pm
Karol Weigelt, LCPC and Zev Citron, BS
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$125, CEUs: 8
*Max of 5 men.

Dream work is important to our inner growth. Throughout its history to the present day, dream work can be viewed as healing, sacred, and holistic.  This will be a working dream group, intended to provide an opportunity for each participant to share their dreams, or parts of their dreams, at each meeting.  Participants will learn techniques for remembering and recording dreams, as well as techniques to explore and translate the personal wisdom contained in their dreams.  Each session will include experiential dream work, Jungian theory on dreams and their importance to one’s own inner work. Prior experience is encouraged but not necessary.

About the Instructors
Karol Weigelt is a therapist and spiritual director in the Chicago area.  She is also a volunteer therapist at the C.G. Jung Center. She facilitates dream groups as part of her work with clients and interested individuals.  Karol has done research in this area and served as adjunct faculty at Loyola University.

Zev Citron is a graduate student at Northwestern University in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. He has completed a counseling practicum at the Jung Center and is also working at the Center as a Program Assistant. He wants to specialize in Jungian Psychology and is eager to work with Karol to develop his skills in Dream Analysis.

Saturday March 28, 11 am – 1 pm
Hart Ginsburg, LCPC and Danbee Kim, MSW
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$75 (includes art materials), CEUs: 2
*Limited to 15 participants.

This experiential workshop explores grief through the Jungian lens of active imagination and the symbolic life, using Korean ancestral flower practice as embodied engagement with loss and transformation. Participants will create “grief bouquets” that give material form to psychological content that resists linear narrative.

Korean flower practice—aligned with the Cocoji tradition of natural, seasonal arrangements—offers a symbolic vocabulary for what cannot be spoken directly. Its principles of seasonal attunement, negative space, asymmetry, and honoring natural form emerge from Korean cultural frameworks around grief as something carried and tended across time and generations, rather than overcome through linear processing.

The workshop begins with photographic meditations on flowers in transformation, establishing contemplative seeing as preparation for hands-on work. Participants then engage in flower arrangement as active imagination—allowing the psyche to speak through material, color, form, and symbol rather than concept. This process is grounded in Jung’s understanding that the psyche speaks in images and symbols, not only in concepts. The “symbolic life” becomes particularly essential in grief work.

*This workshop is intended for Licensed mental health professionals (LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, psychologists) and Jungian analysts working with grief, loss, and life transitions. Designed for clinicians who want embodied, symbolic methodologies to complement their practice, particularly when verbal processing has reached its limits or when working with intergenerational/collective grief. No prior experience with flower arrangement required.

About the Instructors

Hart Ginsburg, LCPC, is a therapist who strives to creatively support his clients through self-awareness, acceptance and empowerment. Over the past 15 years, most of his clinical work has been with immigrant/refugee populations, artists and others interested in developing existential awareness. Being inspired by witnessing the creativity of his clients, he started Digital Tapestries which develops abstract and existential art forms to broaden perspectives through films, art-therapy resources and experiential workshops.

Danbee Kim, MSW is a Korean American multidisciplinary creative, former youth worker and teaching artist whose practice centers on grief, addiction recovery, and forms of meaning-making that unfold across language, symbol, and material experience. Shaped by years of visual storytelling alongside grassroots organizers in Chicago, she works with symbolic and embodied practices, especially ones connected to her lineage. Her work approaches loss not as something to be resolved, but as a condition that reorganizes memory, relationship, and expression over time—holding space for language to return more precise, grounded, and accountable to lived experience.