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Core Course: Psychological Type
Knowing Yourself in Depth: Psychological Type from a Jungian Perspective
Saturdays: February 23 & March 2, 2019; 9 am to 4 pm
Members $120, Non-Members $130

My life has been permeated … by one idea and one goal: namely, to penetrate into the secret of the personality. … [E]very judgment made by an individual is conditioned by his personality type…and every point of view is necessarily relative. – C. G. Jung, MDR, pp. 206-7

Jung’s Psychological Type (1921) has profoundly influenced the field of psychology. Significantly based on Jung’s ideas, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is, for example, one of the most widely administered psychological instruments in the world. Its results are used to help individuals with their relationships, social environments, and careers. Yet, psychological type is too rarely linked to individuation and archetypal psychology in the way that Jung, von Franz, and Dr. John Beebe have envisioned.

This 12-hour seminar introduces the student to psychological type from a personal and depth perspective. It is designed to help the student better know their type and how that impacts their life, as well as to learn about other psychological types, particularly those present in the class. We will take examples from everyday life, dreams, film, and literature to see how and how much psychological type influences our lives. We will use the model that John Beebe has developed while also referring to the ideas of Jung, von Franz, and authors closely connected with the MBTI.

*Strong Recommendation: Knowledge of your psychological type is essential to get the full benefit of this course. If you are at all unsure of your MBTI psychological type, please contact Chris Beach (772-2779) when you register. Prior to the course, he will administer the MBTI at a reduced fee of $40 and meet with you for two hours to help you identify and begin to understand your type. We strongly recommend that you take advantage of this offer.

Chris Beach, J.D., is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Portland. He works extensively with psychological type as a counselor and teacher, and has written the detailed training manual used in this course. Earlier, he worked as a headmaster in Kenya and as an assistant attorney general here in Maine.

Emerging Images and Mercurial Myths
Saturday March 9, 2019; 9 am to 3 pm
Members $60, Non-Members $70

In this hands-on, expressive arts workshop, we will discover mythological imagery through a painting exercise similar to finding images in the clouds or in grains of wood. The use of active imagination in this workshop is similar to Jung’s use of active imagination in dreamwork.

Emerging images can be seen as communications from the unconscious that are not only meant for our own development but also for the healing and development of the collective. Through the use of emerging image art, a dialogue takes place as a dance between that which wishes to emerge from our psyche and that which we are able to allow to emerge. Jung directs us to exert as little influence on this inner conversation as possible, discovering the images and giving them life without judgement or critique.

The resultant images bear with them symbols that suggest myths that are both individual and collective. These myths also emerge over time, changing as we emerge, mercurial in nature.

Each participant will produce an emerging image artwork on a square canvas, and the emerging myths will be collectively and individually discovered. Supplies will be provided. You will take home a 12” x 12” painting.

Susy Sanders, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and artist with a private practice and retreat center in Phillips, ME. She has studied Jungian and depth psychological theory since the age of 18, in 1971, beginning with the Wilhelm Edition I Ching.

The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) | Directed by John Sayles
Viewing facilitated by Lois LeBlanc

10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie—a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother washed out to sea in a cradle shaped like a boat. Then Fiona catches sight of a naked little boy on the abandoned isle and takes an active role in uncovering the secret of Roan Inish.

Tools of Individuation
Cooked in the Vessel: A Personal Experience of Alchemy in the 21st Century
Saturday, March 16, 2019; UPDATE: 9:30 am to 12 pm
Members $20, Non-Members $25

Jung abruptly stopped work on The Red Book to pursue alchemy, which he saw as a mirror image of the individuation process. “The experiences of the alchemists were, in a sense, my experiences, and their world was my world,” he wrote in Psychology and Alchemy. What was it that he saw? What the alchemists called the Philosopher’s Stone, Jung thought of as the Self. In this presentation, Diane Croft will show how she got “cooked” in the alchemical vessel in the same way the alchemists described the transformative operation centuries ago. She will bring life and currency to a psychological process that is not about changing a person into someone else; it’s about bringing something out in a person that has been there all along.

Diane Croft, Ed.M., is a graduate of Wittenberg and Harvard University. She spent most of her career as a publisher at National Braille Press in Boston, MA. For three years, Diane had access to a hidden, animated realm, described by C. G. Jung as “the collective unconscious,” which she describes in her book The Unseen Partner: Love & Longing in the Unconscious. A recent review in Quadrant described it as comparable to Jung’s Red Book but easier to understand.

Seven Ways in the Art of Loving… Body, Soul, Mind, and Spirit
New Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019; 2019

POSTPONED INDEFINITELY

Members $20, Non-Members $25

Nothing is possible without love…for love puts one in a mood to risk everything.
– C. G. Jung
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Laozi

A gathering and conversation to explore, discover, recover and FOCUS on a synchronistic, healthy, “mature” way to love and be loved. This will be an exciting, powerful, dynamic experience in the content and process of how, when and why­—not in ways and means.

Utilizing SELFMAP, we will explore and experience integration in the art of loving and being loved in your life. We are masters of our own excuses, if not deceptions. Let us “search” together to explore Jung’s understanding of loving and being loved.

Rev. Dr. Richard A. Dannenfelser is Bronx born and bred, a Presbyterian minister, clinical psychologist, certified sexuality counselor and therapist (trained by Masters and Johnson). In private practice in Providence, RI, he is a specialist in PTSD. Dr. Dannenfelser will be teaching The Spirituality of C. G. Jung at Yale University Divinity School in the Fall of 2019.

“The only time we’ll have peace on earth is when the power of love surpasses the love of power.”
– R. Dannenfelser
“The world is much too big for anything but the truth and too small for anything but love.”
– R. Dannenfelser