April 25, 2026, 10am-1:15pm EDT
PART 1—INTRODUCTION TO THE FUNDAMENTALS AND CORE CONCEPTS OF JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY: Becoming Who We Really Are
Course Description—A 2 Part training for clinicians and the general public—CEU’s available
Participants will examine the basic and fundamental Jungian ideas that will help clinicians guide their clients in the process that Jung calls “individuation.”
Carl Jung’s psychology begins with a simple, humane observation: much of our inner life is unconscious, and what we do not know about ourselves quietly shapes our choices, relationships, and suffering.
At the center of Jungian thought is the psyche, made up of consciousness and the unconscious. The unconscious has two layers. The personal unconscious holds forgotten memories, emotional wounds, and unfinished business. Beneath it lies the collective unconscious, a deeper layer shared by all humans, expressed through universal patterns called archetypes—the Hero, the Mother, the Shadow, the Wise Old Man. These archetypes appear in dreams, myths, symptoms, and relationships. Some of Jung’s most practical ideas for all of us is the understanding and integrating the Shadow, the Persona, the Anima and the Animus and without thorough knowledge and implementation in the therapeutic setting we are constantly engaging in painful projections and projection damages so many relationships.
INTRODUCING MYTHOLOGY, METAPHOR, and SYMBOL AS HEALING MODALITIES: The Odyssey, The Lind Worm and Iron John
Course Description: Part 2
Most people who walk into therapy offices are not confused because they lack insight. They are confused because they are lost in a story they don’t know they are living.
Myth, symbol, fairy tales and allegory provide a kind of language that addresses this kind of lostness like no other psychological or therapeutic modality can provide.
When someone keeps ending up in the same relationship, the same burnout, the same emotional cul-de-sac they are usually on the long road or the incorrect road home. The Greeks call this “The Odyssey” and they can’t remember why they left home in the first place and spend years trying to get back home.
In the ancient story of the Lind Worm shows up when men and women are tangled up in something dark, devouring and frightening—shame, trauma, addiction or rage. The mistake we make is trying to kill our monsters too quickly. The old stories that we will examine tell us something wiser—stay, listen, and stop the defenses slowly and gradually.
And finally, The tale of Iron John reminds us that most men are not broken; they are uninitiated and they missed the fires, the messages from elders and mentors that turn boys into men and do not break away from the force field of the mother.
Myths, fairytales and symbols don’t diagnose; they orient.
I hope you will join me and refer this unusual presentation to friends, clients and colleagues.