The workshop will propose an immersive exploration into one’s own shadow world.

Through self reflection, journaling and inquiry, we will invite participants to explore their shadow.

In the first workshop we will look briefly at Jung’s theory and then turn the light to ourselves. We will question our personal conscious point of view as well as our persona, family values and ways in which we have unconsciously adapted. We will consider what is disliked, detested, even hated: what we do not allow in ourselves and not permit in others.

The workshop will propose an immersive exploration into one’s own shadow world.

Through self reflection, journaling and inquiry, we will invite participants to explore their shadow.

In the first workshop we will look briefly at Jung’s theory and then turn the light to ourselves. We will question our personal conscious point of view as well as our persona, family values and ways in which we have unconsciously adapted. We will consider what is disliked, detested, even hated: what we do not allow in ourselves and not permit in others.

He sits like a man taking a hearing test, big headphones clamped over his ears, his body and face frozen, listening for a faraway sound. His name is Gerd Wiesler, and he is a captain in the Stasi, the notorious secret police of East Germany. The year is, appropriately, 1984, and he is Big Brother, watching. He sits in an attic day after day, night after night, spying on the people in the flat below. The flat is occupied by a playwright and his mistress, an actress. Wiesler has been trained by his life to reflect no emotion. Sometimes not even his eyes move; he is like a cat awaiting a mouse. And he begins to internalize their lives -- easy, because he has no life of his own, no lover, no hobby, no distraction from his single-minded job. Then, something happens that will change his life forever.

The title of this movie is borrowed from a poem by Walt Whitman “The Untold Want”:

The untold want by life and land ne'er granted,

Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

It is indeed the voyage that Charlotte Vale, a drab, quiet woman who is brutally dominated by her mother, must take. It is a voyage from rejection to love, from fear to the courage to face an abusive parent and from pain to healing.

Walter Vale is a widowed College economics professor who lives a fairly solitary existence. His life will change when a chance encounter with an immigrant couple forces him to face issues relating to identity, connectedness, immigration and cross-cultural communication. The story of a transformation from being a visitor to his own life to truly embracing life in all its joys and sorrows.

Individuation is a process rather than a final product, a journey of self-discovery rather than a final destination, a circumambulation rather than a straight trajectory. On that journey, answering the call, taking a risk and staying related in times of crisis is of primary importance.

There is no Individuation without relatedness, whether it is to others or to oneself.

We will examine a mother/son-type relationship in Central Station
(Walter Salles, 1998), exploring themes that are inseparable from the process of Individuation, including: confronting one’s shadow, remaining present to suffering, taking a risk and accepting sacrifice: finding the treasure and letting it go.

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Individuation is a process rather than a final product, a journey of self-discovery rather than a final destination, a circumambulation rather than a straight trajectory. On that journey, answering the call, taking a risk and staying related in times of crisis is of primary importance.

There is no Individuation without relatedness, whether it is to others or to oneself.

We will examine a mother/son-type relationship in Central Station
(Walter Salles, 1998), exploring themes that are inseparable from the process of Individuation, including: confronting one’s shadow, remaining present to suffering, taking a risk and accepting sacrifice: finding the treasure and letting it go.

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Analysts and Analysands discuss introductory questions about Inner Work and the Individuation Process.

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Past Event. As a continuation of our seminar “On the Path of Individuation: Answering the Call” we will explore the themes of risk, honesty, authenticity, sacrifice, and surrender in love and friendship in the movies Besieged (B. Bertolucci, 1998) and in The Visitor (T. McCarthy, 2007).

Seminar open to OAJA Training Candidates only.

Past Event. Individuation is a process rather than a final product, a journey of self-discovery rather than a final destination, a circumambulation rather than a straight trajectory. On that journey, answering the call, taking a risk and staying related in times of crisis is of primary importance.

We will examine a mother/son-type relationship in Central Station (Walter Salles, 1998).

Seminar open to OAJA Training Candidates only.

Past Event. What is the Animus? How does it come into being? How does it manifest in our lives, both positively and negatively? How can we dialogue with the Animus? The seminar will look at what has been written on the subject of the Animus – the writings of C. G. Jung as well as those of Jungian analysts, particularly women. We will also explore the manifestation of the Animus in art and literature.