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.

Friday April 10, 7-9 pm
Sensei Mui
Held in-person at the Jung Center
Live only, not recorded
$50, CEUs: 2

*Limited to 15 participants.

In Vajrayāna Buddhism, the Dakini—often translated as “sky-goer”—offers a radical understanding of the Divine Feminine. From a Dzogchen perspective within the Khyentse lineage, the Dakini is not primarily a goddess or archetype, but the dynamic activity of awakened awareness itself. She manifests when fixations soften, expressing herself as emotional intensity, erotic energy, disruptive change, or piercing clarity.

This two-hour presentation introduces the Dakini in a way accessible to a Jungian and psychologically informed audience, while carefully distinguishing contemplative insight from anima or archetypal interpretation. Drawing on classical teachings and lived phenomenology, the talk explores how feminine wisdom functions beyond comfort or integration, and how numinous experience can be approached without reification or dismissal. The class combines lecture, guided reflection, and dialogue.

About the Instructor
After multiple tours of duty in Vietnam as a combat medic, Sensei Mui was ordained in Thailand as a Buddhist monk in the Forest Tradition, practicing for ten years. He holds a Doctorate in Buddhist Studies (DBS) from the Pāli Institute in Sri Lanka and a PhD in psycholinguistics. During the past fifty years, Sensei has studied and been ordained in multiple Buddhist disciplines, continuing to filter his learning through the lens of the original teachings. Sensei acts as a Buddhist therapist utilizing meditation as a tool to foster emotional and cognitive well-being. He works with both individuals and groups in both private and corporate settings.

Saturday April 25, 1-3:30 pm
Laura McGrew, LCPC
Held in-person at the Jung Center
Live only, not recorded
$55, CEUs: 2.5

*Limited to 15 participants.

“How often in the critical moments of life everything hangs on what appears to be a mere nothing.”  C. W. vol. 9i par. 408.

This class offers the challenging experience of discovering the tale’s ‘mere nothings’ and will perhaps reveal a few of our own along the way.  This story is described as one of the most unsettling of the Grimms tales and yet, this centuries old tale somehow depicts themes that exist in our culture today and, for that reason, it feels worthy of our focus. As we explore the characters, there is the opportunity for each of us to become part of a deeper world within ourselves.  Everyone interested is welcome.

About the Instructor
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.

Saturday May 23, 10 am – 12 pm
Rodger Kamenetz, MA
$50, CEUs: 2

In The Red Book Carl Jung writes of the power and necessity of imagery as a way to depth. “My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths.”

How can we learn to speak in images, to think in images and to feel with images? We experience images through poetry and art, through verbal images and music. But directly, personally, we experience our own images in three ways: in dreams, in memory, and in perception. The last of these is often overlooked, but the poet William Wordsworth wrote of “the world of eye and ear” “both what we half create and perceive.” There’s an element of imagination in all three of these domains.

Working from his new book, Seeing Into the Life of Things, which is recommended as a text to be read before the class, Rodger will teach practices for cultivating the imaginative contemplation of images as they arise in perception, in memory and in dreams. He will also conduct a simple practice of morning blessing, which allows us over time to collect “blessings” in each day, and to bring them to life in imagination. We will share our images together and learn from one another their power, their beauty and their uniqueness.

Recommended Reading
Seeing into the Life of Things by Rodger Kamenetz

About the Instructor
Rodger Kamenetz is an award-winning poet and author. He wrote the international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus and the National Jewish Book Award-winning Stalking Elijah. His nine books of poetry include The Lowercase Jew (Northwestern University Press) and The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022. Kamenetz has been called “the most formidable of the Jewish-American poets.” His book The History of Last Night’s Dream was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s “Soul Series.” His new book Seeing into the Life of Things focuses on the power of imagination for spiritual practice. Mirabai Starr called it “a harvest of living wisdom.” Kamenetz is professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University. He is the founder of Natural Dreamwork, an international group of dreamwork practitioners. He lives in New Orleans.

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.