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.

Dream, Ecology, and the Inner Life – A Literary Conversation
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Saturday July 25, 10am – 12 pm
Karol Weigelt, LCPC
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$40, CEUs: 2

This acclaimed novel-parable invites readers into the Ecuadorian rainforest, where questions of ecology, culture and the human psyche unfold in rich, poetic imagery. Through its exploration of shadow and light, aging, power and the interplay of the masculine and feminine forces, it offers a thoughtful starting point for literary and psychological reflection. Please read the book (144 pages) before our gathering to ensure a rich and engaging discussion.

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. Drawing on  her background in Jungian psychology, she creates thoughtful, reflective spaces for exploring literature, dreams and the inner life. She is also a volunteer therapist at the C.G. Jung Center.

Required Reading
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, Luis Sepulveda

Friday August 21, 6 – 7:30 pm
Held in-person at the Jung Center
Book signing following
$30

Author Carolyn Kelley Williams will read selections from the recently published book of her poetry and stained glass. Seasons of the Spirit: Visions of the Eightfold Year takes its title from the eight seasonal festivals celebrated by the ancient Celtic people, an agricultural people who patterned their lives on events of the heavens and the planting and harvesting times. Believing these cycles of the Eightfold Year still affect our lives, even if, as urban persons, we don’t consciously live them as the ancients lived them, Kelley has created stained-glass images for the eight festivals, arranging her poetry in accordance with their psychological and spiritual meaning, describing how they were traditionally celebrated and suggesting how we, as modern persons, might be able to celebrate them, putting ourselves into harmony with the turning seasons, deepening and enriching our connection to the earth and its cosmic cycles.

About the Instructor
Carolyn Kelley Williams is a published poet, novelist, and stained-glass artist. Her books of poems, Inexhaustible Offering: Lincoln Park Mornings, and Rebirth of Wonder: Epiphanies at Winter Solstice, and her novel, The Realm of Persephone. are available on Amazon and in bookstores, as is her latest book, Seasons of the Spirit: Visions of the Eightfold Year. For more than 30 years, she was Senior Editor of Publications in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School and Managing Editor of The International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. She is a certified leader for Intensive Journal workshops, a writing method created by depth psychologist Dr. Ira Progoff to help people navigate times of transition and evoke creativity. She leads Intensive Journal workshops on Zoom for the Jung Center and other venues. She lives in Arizona, where she continues her writing, teaching, and stained-glass art.