Held in-person with book signing following
Brooke Laufer
CEUs: 2

Limited to 15 participants.

This talk will be an overview of Brooke’s recently published book, Uncovering the Act of Maternal Infanticide from a Psychological, Political, and Jungian Perspective, and will include sales of the book and a signing. Using slides, Brooke will share an overview of the book’s topic, maternal infanticide, and discuss it utilizing a Jungian approach. Jungian theory and an integrated and forensic view of this issue will be explored as an aggregate of personal and political moments, and as a feminine and feminist outcry urging human evolution. Brooke will explore the identity of the infanticidal mother and the Death Mother archetype by providing firsthand accounts of patients she has worked with during her professional career. She will offer interpretations of the act of maternal infanticide, including the patriarchal construct of Motherhood as a way of explaining the drive and actions of an infanticidal mother. Finally, she will use the Jungian concept of transmutation to address what is required in our modern world for mothers caught in the archetypal death mother.

About the Instructor
Brooke Laufer, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist with a Jungian orientation, in private practice in Evanston, Illinois. Brooke began her clinical work in psychiatric wards with the severely mentally ill, then in schools with adolescents and their families.  After having her first child, Brooke had a disturbing postpartum OCD experience which inspired her to begin researching, understanding, and specializing in the treatment of perinatal mental illness.  In addition to her practice, she works as an expert witness for women who have committed a crime during a postpartum episode.

Recommended Reading
Uncovering the Act of Maternal Infanticide from a Psychological, Political, and Jungian Perspective by Brooke Laufer (available for purchase at lecture)

*The lower cost for this program is being offered by the Jung Center and Brooke Laufer to allow for purchase of her book.

*Program CEUs are an additional $15 processing fee. Please note that the current CEU processing time is around 2-3 weeks.

Held via Zoom
Kenneth James, PhD and Laura McGrew, LCPC
CEUs: 2.5

This class will focus on autocracy and democracy as a set of internal opposites that exists in all of us. Both autocracy and democracy carry a level of consciousness in us, and each one has its own shadow—both bright and dark. Using readings from Jung’s Black Books, which were his own personal journals, and other passages from the Red Book and the Collected Works, we will explore how these opposites have been woven into our lives in rather ordinary and, at times, extraordinary ways.

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.

*Program CEUs are an additional $15 processing fee. The current CEU processing time is 2-3 weeks. Continue reading Autocracy & Democracy: Oppositional Aspects within our Individual Psyche →

Held via Zoom
Ellen Blum Barish
CEUs: 2

Carl Jung famously wrote that the first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego and the second half is going inward to let go of it. This workshop is designed for those looking to turn a story from their life to the page as a personal essay or memoir – to let go of ego in order to make art. Writing personal narrative is a lot like psychoanalysis – each involves remembering, returning and rejourneying. However, thoughts and reflections expressed verbally can easily disappear after the therapy session ends. Writing commits the story to specific words and solidifies it in one’s memory. Together these processes mirror the archeological one in which there is some digging, decoding and depiction. Ellen Blum Barish will discuss phases of writing this kind of personal story and will offer tools to support where you are or would like to be on this journey.

This is a single-session, two-hour, online workshop. It includes slides, writing samples, prompts and discussion.

About the Instructor
Ellen Blum Barish is the author of the memoir, Seven Springs, an essay collection and a contributor to two anthologies. Her essays and poems have been published in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Tablet, Lilith, Brevity, Full Grown People, Five Minutes, Still Points Arts Quarterly, Yellow Arrow Journal and Ritualwell. Ellen has taught writing at Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago and Story Studio Chicago, tells stories on Chicago-area stages and works privately with writers on essay collections and memoir.

*Program CEUs are an additional $15 processing fee. The current CEU processing time is 2-3 weeks. Continue reading The Dig: Memoir as Personal Archeology →

A day of reflection, dreamwork and gentle movement

Held In-Person
Ann Shine Duck and Keren Vishny
CEUs: 6

Limited to 8 participants.

Join a respectful, nonjudgmental community of individuals as we take time out from the fast pace of daily living to reconnect with ourselves and each other.  Attuning to the rhythms of late fall, we’ll drop into slow-time. We’ll draw on exercises and contemplative practices  from Natural Dreamwork, BodySoul Rhythms and NARM traditions to  align with the rhythms of body and dream.

We will begin the day in a circle, getting to know one another and creating personal intentions for our day. With the support of guided meditation, we will drop into the dream world to revive and deepen our dream experience. Each participant will have the opportunity to explore dream material through dream embodiment, reflective journaling and image-making. These practices will be interwoven with gentle movement to support integration of the material.

In the afternoon, we will use Natural Dreamwork 5D dream enactment to explore 2 or 3 dreams in greater depth. 5D work brings the group together as a community: group members volunteer to embody the various dream entities thus allowing the dreamer to walk through their dream. In this way the experience becomes a “living dream” allowing us to reclaim feelings we have brushed aside, recognize the Sacred Encounters each dream holds, and find ourselves pulled into dream roles that resonate with our own healing, growth and deep desires.

*includes a 1.5 hour break for lunch, not  provided

About the Instructors
Ann Shine Duck, PhD, LCPC – Ann works as a psychotherapist and Certified Natural Dreamwork practitioner in private practice in Winnetka, IL. She has a longtime interest in dreamwork and contemplative practices. She received her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2001. Ann is also trained in Somatic Experiencing and NeuroAffective Relation Model, working with attachment, relational and developmental trauma.

Keren Vishny MD, MA – Keren works as  a psychotherapist, as well as a practitioner and teacher of Natural Dreamwork. She completed the BodySoulRhythms ® Leadership Training Program offered by the Marion Woodman Foundation in 2007, and certified in Mind-Body Medicine in 2015. Keren has offered numerous classes and workshops through the CG Jung Center and the Marion Woodman Foundation. To learn more visit her website, www.kerenvishny.com.

*Program CEUs are an additional $15 processing fee. Please note that the current CEU processing time is around 2-3 weeks.

Held via Zoom
Kelley Williams
CEUs: 3

*Limited to 20 participants. 

The Intensive Journal^® Method is a nationally recognized technique for self-discovery and self-reflection that uses writing exercises.  Created by Ira Progoff, PhD, in the mid-1960’s, this technique is now taught by certified instructors.

As the first American to complete his doctoral dissertation on the work of Dr. Jung, Dr. Progoff was invited by Dr. Jung to study with him in Switzerland in the early 1950s.  Dr. Progoff’s work in Depth Psychology culminated in the Intensive Journal method.  While the Intensive Journal is distinctly Dr. Progoff’s own method, Jung’s influence on him was significant as evidenced by the inclusion of the concept of the unique seed potential of each person, the importance of the spiritual dimension in overall psychological growth and the power of symbols and imagery in one’s search for meaning.

This program provides an introduction to the Intensive Journal method, which utilizes an integrated system of writing exercises for self-awareness.  This method can be used to gain insights into personal relationships, career/interests, body/health, major events, dreams, and meaning in life.  It may also be useful for working through transitions, reducing stress, and resolving issues.

The unique workshop atmosphere is critical for the method’s success.  You work privately to feel safe to write without censorship.  You are not writing your life story but rather writing what comes from within.  The instructor will provide a program overview, including the major rules for using the method and the underlying principles of holistic Depth Psychology.  You will be guided through sample exercises to experience how the method works.

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.

*Program CEUs are an additional $15 processing fee. Please note the current CEU processing time is around 3-4 weeks.