Instructors:  Weyler Greene Ordinary People is a story of the disintegration of an upper middle-class family living in Lake Forrest, Illinois following the death of one of their two sons in a boating accident. The film focuses primarily on the surviving son, his guilt, and the relationship to his parents. It also portrays an extraordinary (more…)

The 2016 June Singer Memorial Lecture  CEUs: 5 Instructors: Barbara Friedman & Doris Klinkhamer Carl Jung engaged in a process of deep change that restructured his consciousness.  This change in consciousness was informed by moving away from strictly scientific and rational constructs toward a focus on non-ordinary perception.  Join us as we come together for a day (more…)

CEUs: 5 Instructor: Barbara Burns, Joan Kram, Dan Ross Alzheimer’s is an increasingly prevalent disease. This workshop will explore both the daily reality of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s, as well as the more archetypal perspective of loss and grieving, from a Jungian perspective. The morning session will be conducted by Joan Kram and Barbara Burns. (more…)

Instructors:  Barbara Burns Steve Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies was a box office success worldwide and yielded 6 Academy Award nominations and won Best Supporting Actor for Mark Rylance. The story follows James Donovan, an insurance lawyer who negotiated during the Nuremburg Trials, who is recruited by the CIA to defend Russian Spy Colonel Rudolph Abel (more…)

Instructors:  Daniel Ross The Revenant is a film by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, following his previous Academy Award winning film, Birdman, from the previous year.  In each film, there is a man being stripped down to his bare essentials by the forces of nature.  In Birdman, those forces are psychological and in the context of the (more…)

Instructors:  Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin & Tom Lavin Based on the best selling novel written by Colm Toibin, Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan stars as Eilis Lacey, an Irish immigrant navigating through 1950s Brooklyn, New York.  Following a rough start, including homesickness and feelings of isolation, Ellis begins to develop friends, stable work, and a romance. Her (more…)

CEUs: 2 Instructor: Ken James This year’s Jungian Concepts Seminar is being presented by six seasoned Jungian analysts.   This seminar is open to anyone interested in exploring Jung’s concepts, and is suitable for both new and returning participants, clinicians and non-clinicians.  Questions and discussion will be welcome at each session. The May topic is Struggling with The Self and the (more…)

CEUs: 3 Instructor: Sensei Mui & Charlotta Koppanyi C.G. Jung was among the first psychiatrists who worked with art as a gateway to reach, communicate and understand his patients’, and his own, psyche.   Jung concluded that spontaneous and intuitively expressed art carried symbols and archetypes and therefore connected us to a deeper level of our (more…)