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.

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.

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.

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.