Saturday September 19, 1-4 pm
Karol Weigelt, LCPC
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$65, CEUs: 3

*Limited to 12 participants.

Dreams and dream work are valuable to the understanding of our lives.  Dreams have been part of the most sacred and spiritual traditions.  Those traditions, ancient through contemporary, have taught that dreams provide inspiration, healing, guidance and connection to our unconscious.  Tapping into that wise world of personal symbol, myth, and metaphor can be very rewarding. Our dreams offer valuable information about the deepest levels of our personalities and how we behave in the world.  Jung’s model of dream work is one of healing and wholeness, the seeking of balance in our lives, both masculine and feminine. In this introductory session, participants will learn skills for recording and remembering their dreams, beginning techniques to work with their own dream interpretation and the new use of AI dream analysis. Please bring a dream, in written form, to work with during the session.

About the Instructor
Karol Weigelt, LCPC, is a psychotherapist and spiritual director in the Chicago area.  She facilitates dream groups as part of her work with clients and interested individuals. She has done research in the area of dream work technique and theory and has served as adjunct faculty at Loyola University. In addition to presenting public programs at the Jung Center, Karol also serves as a Volunteer Therapist.

An Exploratory Adventure of Self, Other, and The World

Saturday September 26, 1 – 3:30 pm*
Laura McGrew, LCPC & Ken James, PhD
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$55, CEUs: 2.5

*Limited to 18 participants.

This program is the first course in a series of stand-alone classes. Each class will focus on the ideas that form the core of Jung’s psychology, with particular attention to their dynamic and evolving nature.

This will not be a lecture class. People who love the pursuit and understanding of ideas, whether new to Jung or seasoned students, are welcome.

Jungian concepts will first be introduced and defined, followed by opportunities to explore them through participants’ own experiences. For example, as we may examine a concept, we will then explore how it contracts, expands, and changes, becoming increasingly aware of the inevitable shifts that occur within us, We believe that over time, through our own development and lived experience, we are continually being altered. Very little in Jung’s psychology can be understood deeply if it is treated as fixed or static. Each concept evolves as life affects and moves in us. In turn, we affect the life around us. For this reason, the classes will emphasize not only an understanding of Jungian ideas, but also their living, evolving nature. In this way, the exploration of Jungian psychology may parallel the process of our own understanding and appreciation of his ideas and ourselves.

About the Instructors
Laura McGrew is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Chicago. She is the emeritus board chair of The C.G. Jung Center, and a tireless worker in and for the field of Analytical Psychology.

Ken James is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Chicago. He is a training analyst with the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and has served on the board of the institute.

Thursdays: October 8, November 5, December 3, 2026,
January 7 & 28, February 25, March 18, April 22, 2027, 7-9 pm
Karol Weigelt, LCPC and Paul Roszkewycz, MA
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$240, CEUs: 16

*Max of 10

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, LCPC is a therapist and spiritual director in the Chicago area.  She facilitates dream groups as part of her work with clients and interested individuals.  She has done research in this area and served as adjunct faculty at Loyola University.

Paul Roszkewycz earned an M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northeastern Illinois University and has participated in dream groups and workshops at the C.G. Jung Center since 2018.

Friday October 9, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Anne Redlich, LCSW
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$50, CEUs: 2

*Limited to 18 participants.

Astrology is a symbolic language that speaks to the imagination and intuition. Its glyphs and symbols express archetypal patterns that appear in dreams, art, and human experience. As Jung observed, “Astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.” Learning the language of astrology can deepen our understanding of archetypes and the symbolic dimensions of the psyche. Like learning any language, the first step in reading a horoscope is becoming familiar with its alphabet. In this introductory lecture, we will explore the origins and meanings of the astrological glyphs and consider how astrology has appeared across cultures throughout history as a symbolic language expressed through art, myth, and imagination. We will also reflect on how symbolic thinking can enrich our understanding of dreams, creativity, and psychological life. Please feel free to bring a notebook and some pens so you can try to learn to draw the astrological glyphs while exploring their archetypal meanings.

About the Instructor
Anne Redlich is a therapist in private practice with over 40 years of experience. She has training in both contemporary and Jungian psychoanalysis. Anne has studied astrology for nearly five decades and her knowledge and understanding inform her approach to psychotherapy and dreamwork. Anne Redlich began her career working with emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. She was the assistant director at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago. She has also volunteered at the Kovler Center for the Survivors of Political Torture and at the National Immigrant Justice Center where she served as an expert witness in immigration and asylum cases.

Saturday October 17, 11 am – 1 pm
Hart Ginsburg, LCPC
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$50 (includes art materials), CEUs: 2

*Limited to 12 participants.

UDREAM Workshop aims to encourage imaginative expression and healing through multisensory art activities including short film, UDream Cards*, and response art. The workshop will provide a space for both individual and collective reflection and healing as well as tools to enliven therapeutic processes through creative arts. There are no requirements necessary, just an openness and interest to engage in participatory spaces. Participants will select which UDream cards they resonate with and arrange them into a miniature story or mandala. There will also be an opportunity to explore imagery/drawing for the purpose of self-discovery. This will be a playful activity intended to use drawing to identify visions and dreams for the future. After the workshop, we hope participants feel more aware of their inner gifts and creative needs to enhance daily life.
*Cards containing images used to evoke creative, emotional responses.

About the Instructor
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.

Saturday November 14, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Held in-person at the Jung Center
Melissa Perrin, PsyD
$55, CEUs: 2.5

*Limited to 18 participants.

Social media is the Collective Unconscious as it is expressed in 2026. Social media offers a shallow dreamscape on which to form a tenuous identity. For many, social media is the robust sense of connection and identity; deeper roots and connections forgotten or taken for granted. For others it is the unconscious made conscious as edges are pushed, truths and untruths offered and AI hallucinates. Archetypes abound. The algorithm provides targeted, marketable synchronicity.

Individuation is the act of separating oneself from the group and exploring. Many cultures have rituals that name and support this stage of development. Anxiety tends to express itself in direct proportion to the depth of the rootedness of our individuation. Social media offers a mid-point of belonging to a collective while having the phantasm of individuation while scrolling through the shallowness of the on-line collective.

In this gathering, participants will analyze aspects of social media, inclusion, exclusion and identity. We will examine aspects of wakeful dreamtime, both in social media and the embodied experience, and identity. We will discuss strategies to support and strengthen individuation for ourselves and those in our sphere of care.

About the Instructor
Dr. Melissa Perrin is a licensed clinical psychologist, whose 40-year career in psychology has centered on clinical practice. Whether speaking at Conferences, Retreats or providing consultation, Dr. Perrin brings research into the scope of human behavior with a deep and interwoven understanding of the human experience interacting with the larger story and energy of our experience.

A gifted teacher, she leads rich seminars and retreats with information that attendees are able to put into practice immediately. She teaches psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology; supervises clinicians; leads wellness retreats; teaches and provides psychospiritual support; and has provided consultation to religious institutions for over 35 years.

Dr. Perrin is a trusted consultant to religious leadership to facilitate healing when clergy have harmed individuals and parishes. She provides clinical consultation for individual clinicians, groups and institutions and is a trusted consultant to spiritual and religious leaders. Dr. Perrin is based in Evanston, Illinois.

Friday November 20, 7 – 9 pm
Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin, PhD
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$50, CEUs: 2

*Limited to 18 participants.

Using James Hilman’s directive to “Find the myth in the mess,” Dr. Lavin will discuss Ovid’s story of transformation using the myth of Baucis and Philemon. This is a story of an aging couple who hosted Zeus and Hermes in disguise and were then rewarded for their kindness and generosity. There are few stories in the Roman and Greek collection about elderly people. Most love stories are about infidelity, jealousy, anger, and resentment. In contrast, Baucis and Philemon give us a story of kindness, loyalty, and devotion ending in their transformation. We can take pause and learn that “Those who care for the Gods, may someday become Gods themselves.”

Recommended Reading
Eros and Pathos: Shades of Love and Suffering, Aldo Carotenuto
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell

About the Instructor
Dr. Lavin, PhD has been associated with Jungian Psychology since 1968 when she and Tom Lavin were married. A week later, they ended up in Zurich, where Tom was a student at the Jung Institute. Dr. Mary Ellen Lavin studied at the Institute and began a family. After living in Europe for 10 years, studying, working, and traveling, they returned to Wilmette. Tom set up his private practice and Mary Ellen enrolled at Pacifica Graduate Institute earning her PhD in Clinical Psychology. She has been a psychotherapist since 1994. She lectures and writes about Alchemy, Addiction, Dreams, Sandtray, and other various Jungian topics.

Helping Women Embody Courageous Change through the Shapeshifting Woman Archetype

Saturday January 30, 1-4 pm
Held via Zoom
Liza Hyatt, ATR-BC, LMHC
$65, CEUs: 3

In many myths and folk-tales, women heal and escape oppression by transforming into wild animals and plants. Shapeshifting transformations also occur in our dreams. The shapeshifting woman archetype helps us bear our grief for self and world, access feminine leadership, heal from trauma, reconnect with our bodies, and awaken courage to change personally. In our complex time of societal conflict, many women are turning to shapeshifting stories for guidance and strength.

This workshop will explore how the shapeshifter archetype connects to core Jungian concepts like the anima/animus, the trickster which is tied to the shadow, and our journey toward psychological wholeness (individuation). Shapeshifters empower us to become boundary crossers within our own psyches, disrupt rigid structures and challenge the conscious ego’s rules. This empowering enables us to live in new ways, more authentically aligned with the Sacred Feminine.

Through active imagination and expressive arts engagement, we will engage with three selected tales from Greek and Celtic mythology through storytelling, visual art-making, movement, and voice practices. These practices are designed to help women activate personal agency and shift out of nervous system overwhelm toward greater freedom. These practices also help women imagine new depths of healing and reclaim their natural soulfulness, something that is so needed in our times. Finally, we will honor how the shapeshifting woman archetype nourishes and sustains therapists, activists, and artists serving individual and collective psycho-spiritual maturation during the challenges of our current era.

Recommended Reading:
Foxfire, Wolkskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women, Sharon Blackie
She Shape Shifts: A Healing Woman’s Bond with the Animate World, Liza Hyatt

About the Instructor
Liza Hyatt, ATR-BC, LMHC is an art therapist with 40 years experience serving women healing from complex trauma. She practices at IU Health Charis Center for Eating Disorders, is faculty in art therapy graduate programs at Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College and Edgewood University, and is a dreamwork practitioner affiliated with the Natural Dreamwork international community. Her published work includes 5 books of poetry and an eco-art therapy workbook. She is the author of a new book that is a genre-blending writing, storytelling and visual art project celebrating the shapeshifting woman archetype.

6 Thursdays: March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2027, 7-9 pm
Joanne Underwood, LCSW
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$180, CEUs: 12

*Max of 12

Rediscover your sense of wonder, possibility, and power. Using Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way as a guide, this course is designed to help individuals deeply engage their own creative process. Within the sacred circle of the group, we will discuss how to reconnect with qualities that nurture and encourage creativity such as safety, identity, abundance, and power. In addition, this course provides participants with numerous tools and activities to engage their sense of play and possibility including free-form journaling and weekly artist dates.

Recommended Reading:
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

About the Instructor
Joanne Underwood, LCSW, is a fellow in the JPP/JSP two-year program at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago and a therapist in private practice in Evanston. She is also a senior teacher at the Piven Theatre Workshop where she has taught children and adults how to access their creativity through theatre games and improvisation for over twenty years. She is particularly interested in the intersection of Jung’s idea of active imagination and Viola Spolin’s idea of releasing the unconscious through play.