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, June 13, 10 am-12 pm
Marguerite H. Griffin, J.D.
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$50, CEUs: 2

Forest bathing, also known as Shinrin-yoku, is the practice of spending time in nature to enhance health and well-being. It involves immersing oneself in the forest atmosphere and engaging with the natural environment through all five senses. Forest bathing is about slowing down, being present, and connecting with nature. Your senses bring you into the present moment where you can take in all the forest has to offer—welcoming it, letting it settle inside you. When the forest is allowed its place within you, it supports your body’s natural capacity for wellness and healing.

Jungian studies aim to help individuals explore their psyche, especially the unconscious, and integrate its contents with the conscious mind for personal growth and wholeness. So too, by sharing a reciprocal relationship with nature, we have an opportunity to reconnect with our wholeness as human beings. The forest becomes the therapist; the guide merely opens the door. Participants will enjoy a guided, fully embodied, sensory experience of forest bathing in a natural setting near the Jung Center. This experience is gently informed by a holistic approach to well-being.

About the Instructor
Marguerite is an Integrative Nutrition Health and Wellness Coach, relational nature and forest therapy guide, herbalist, End-of-Life Doula, Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, award-winning gardener, and former triathlete, yoga, and meditation teacher. Her work centers on helping individuals reconnect with their innate capacity for healing, resilience, and wholeness through nature, nourishment, and mindful living.

She is also an estate planning attorney and philanthropic advisor, having led philanthropic advisory services at Northern Trust for more than 26 years. She holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She is a Certified Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP®), an Impact Philanthropy Advisor (IPA), and a 21/64 Multigenerational Philanthropy Facilitator.

Marguerite is a sought-after speaker on family legacy philanthropy, nonprofit governance, and impact investing. She is a trustee of the Poetry Foundation and an active volunteer with the Chicago Foundation for Women and African American Legacy at The Chicago Community Trust.

Saturday, June 27, 1 pm – 4 pm
Bill McKenzie, LCPC
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$65, CEUs: 3

Why has the legend of the Holy Grail captivated imaginations for nearly a thousand years? To most people, the Grail appears as a medieval relic, a shimmering chalice of miracle and mystery. But Emma Jung (and Carl) and others saw something deeper: the Grail as the supreme adventure of the human spirit — a myth about restoration, rebirth, and the courage to follow one’s own inner calling.

Drawing on the work of Jung and Joseph Campbell’s exploration of myth, this program follows three Grail heroes—Lancelot (the Divided Heart), Galahad (the Way of Purity), and Parsifal (the Overcomer)—as archetypal guides through the soul’s transformative journey. Through the lens of the Grail legend, participants will encounter a symbolic map of what Jungians call individuation: the process of becoming one’s most authentic self. In this telling, the Grail is not an object to be possessed, but a call to service. The journey inward—through conflict, purification, and integration—becomes how one not only transforms oneself but contributes to the healing of the world.

Recommended Reading
The Grail Legend, Jung, Von Franz
Romance of the Grail, Joseph Campbell

About the Instructor
Bill McKenzie, LCPC is a psychotherapist at Springfield Psychological Center in Springfield.  He lives with his wife in New Harmony, Indiana.  He has a Masters Degree in Human Development Counseling from the University of Illinois at Springfield where he earned his degree and licensure in 1993. Parallel to his therapy practice, he spent three decades in social work and training design, chiefly developing a variation of the Reflective Supervision model used in the home visitation field.

Bill is also a former pastor and founder of New Covenant Community (Now the Vineyard), in Springfield, Illinois – a church emphasizing the emergence of the inner life and the impact of the Church’s mystic heritage.

Bill is also a writer, a musician and lecturer – he has spent the majority of his adult life as an avid student of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell and the fascinating ways in which their ideas and perspectives intersect and overlap.

 Saturday July 11, 10 am – 12 pm
Sheri Reda
Held in-person at the Center
$50, CEUs: 2

Carl Jung, in his essay on psychoanalysis and poetry, quoted Gerhard Hauptmann to say that “poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the word.” This cumbersome pronouncement is a way of saying that poetry can bring us out of the individual experience, thought, or event, and into the universal. Poetry helps us see the larger patterns in smaller events, and thus can be a way to witness, evaluate, and express. This workshop will offer techniques to encourage such expression by writing your own poems, thus allowing you to experience the liberation it affords.

About the Instructor
Sheri Reda lives in Chicago, where she works as a celebrant, public speaker, and youth librarian. She is the author of Stubborn, (LocofoChaps/Moria Press, 2017) and lead editor of Life-Cycle Ceremonies: A Handbook for Your Whole Life (Celebrant Foundation and Institute, 2015). Her poems have most recently appeared in The Examined Life Journal, Vita Poetica, and the  Locofo Anti-Trump Anthology (2025) as well as Eocene Journal of Environmental Humanities (2025, 2023. Her work has been anthologized in The Nature of Our Times (2024), and the award-winning Dear Human at the Edge of Time (Paloma Press, 2024), as well as Healers’ Burden (University of Iowa Press, 2020. Her collection of poems entitled Diaspora was published this spring through Finishing Line Press and will be available for purchase at the Jung Center.

Part 1 – Life Context: Gaining a Perspective on Life

NEW 2-Day joint collaboration workshop
Kelley Williams
Saturday October 24 & Sunday October 25, 9 am – 12 pm; 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Held via Zoom, not recorded
$245 (includes Intensive Journal workbook), CEUs: 11

*Limited to 25 participants.

Begin a Journey in Your Life
Experience a life-changing process to give your life greater direction, vitality and purpose.

Developed in 1966 by Dr. Ira Progoff, this internationally-recognized program has helped 175,000 people lead more fulfilling lives.

Discover resources and possibilities you could not have imagined. The Intensive Journal method can help you:

• Gain a foundation and perspective to realize the continuity and direction of your life.
• Build a solid basis for future decisions.
• Connect more deeply with your personal relationships, career, interests, and body.
• Use dreams and imagery as a guide in your unfolding process.

The Journal can be your honest friend in the creative process of shaping your life.

About the Workshop
Life Context (Part 1)
Gaining a Perspective on Life

Day 1: 9 am-12 pm; 1:30-4:30 pm, Day 2: 9 am-12 pm; 1:30-4:30 pm, Prerequisite: None.

Learn how to use the Intensive Journal method through a direct experience in your own life.

Gain a perspective on your life. Develop awareness as you explore prior events, memories and feelings. Realize possibilities and interests.

Gain insights about major areas of your life such as relationships, career and special interests, and body and health.

*Please register by October 17th so that the Intensive Journal workbook can be shipped to you in time for the workshop. No refunds will be provided for late cancellations/no-shows. This is a joint collaboration with Dialogue House requiring a minimum attendance plus shipping materials expense. All cancellations after October 17th will be sent to Dialogue House for rescheduling into an alternative, future 2-day workshop.

Intensive Journal Method: Much More Than a Diary or Collection of Exercises

• The Intensive Journal workbook is an integrated system of writing exercises for accessing your feelings and experiences in an organized way.
• Issues that were difficult to describe become tangible and accessible to you.
• Approach your life from several perspectives to overcome obstacles and gain awareness.

Valuable and Unique Experience

• The leader will guide you through exercises step-by-step as you apply them to your life.
• Work in total privacy. No one comments on or judges your writing or life.
• You do not have to like writing or be a good writer. You write what comes from within, not a life story. Only you will read what you write.
• Take the workshop in the privacy of your home or in the energy of a small group.
• At a Journal Workshop, by Dr. Progoff, is the primary book for the program (considered to be “One of the 65 most significant books on psychology and spirituality of the 20th century.” Source: Common Boundary, Jan-Feb 1999).
• Use the method on your own afterwards. You may wish to consider taking other workshop modules on the Intensive Journal method.

About the Instructor
Kelley Williams is a certified instructor leading Intensive Journal workshops for 30 years primarily in the Midwest, including at the C.G. Jung Center in Evanston. Prior to relocating to the greater Phoenix area, Kelley served as Senior Editor of Publications in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and Managing Editor of the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. Kelley is a published poet and fiction writer, stained glass artist, and former president of the American Medical Writers’ Association.

“Intensive Journal” is a registered trademark of Jon Progoff and is used under license by Dialogue House, the headquarters for the Intensive Journal program. For more information, see www.intensivejournal.org or read At a Journal Workshop by Ira Progoff, PhD. By registering you are agreeing to allow the Center to share your registration information with Dialogue House, which may provide occasional updates about future programs.