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Facilitated by Jeff Pinnette
One Sunday per Month:
Starting October 28, 2018
10 to 12 pm

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Psychology of the Future by Stanislav Grof

This is an accessible and comprehensive overview of the work of Stanislav Grof, one the of the founders of transpersonal psychology. It serves as a summation of Grof ‘s enormous contributions to the fields of psychiatry and psychology, especially his central concept of holotropic experience, where holotropic signifies “moving toward wholeness.” Grof maintains that the current basic assumptions and concepts of psychology and psychiatry require a radical revision based on the intensive and systematic research of holotropic experience. He suggests radical inner transformation of humanity and a rise to a higher level of consciousness might be humankind’s only real hope for the future.

Stanislav Grof heads the Grof Transpersonal Training Program. He was formerly Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute.

For more information and detailed syllabus, see:

Psychology of the Future 2018-19 Discussion Group Syllabus

Bio: Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board co-chair and four as Program Committee chair.

Facilitated by Jennifer Morris
One Saturday per Month:
Starting February 9, 2019
10 to 12 pm

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: What Matters Most by James Hollis

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
– C. G. Jung

Please join us for Jungian focused discussions about books, mythology, and fairy tales. Together we can explore the stories that, throughout time, give us important clues on how to live our lives more fully.

We will begin by reading What Matters Most by James Hollis. Taking a fresh look at the concept of happiness, Hollis uses a warm, accessible tone to encourage readers to learn to tolerate ambiguity, embrace growth rather than security, respect the power of Eros, engage spiritual crises, and acknowledge the shadow of mortality.

James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice and executive director of the Jung Society of Washington. Educated at Manchester College, Drew University, and the Jung Institute in Zurich, he was a humanities professor for more than twenty years and is the author of fifteen books, including the best selling The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning at Midlife and The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other. Based in Washington, D.C., he lectures frequently throughout the country and worldwide, and has spoken at the Maine Jung Center numerous times.

Jennifer Morris’s Jungian experience started with seven years of personal work with a remarkable Colorado analyst, Katherine Kuisle, Ph.D. This experience profoundly changed Jennifer’s life, opening her heart to the guiding symbology around us and within us. She grew up in Yarmouth and lived in Maine for 40 years before moving to Colorado where she lived—when not working as a physician assistant in Alaska or adventuring on a sailboat in the Bahamas—for 23 years. Now retired, she and the cat are quite settled in South Portland, surrounded by her gardens.

When Love is Not Enough (2010) | Directed by John Kent Harrison
Viewing facilitated by Peggy Schick & Jeff Pinnette

Bill and Lois Wilson each started movements (AA and Al-Anon) that have helped millions of people around the world. They also had an inspiring love story. The two married following Bill’s return from World War I. Despite concerns over Bill’s drinking, Lois believed he was destined for greatness, and she believed her love and support would eventually persuade him to quit drinking. When he finally attained sobriety, he poured his time and energy into helping other alcoholics, which led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Lois felt resentment that her patience and devotion were not acknowledged. When she discovered the wives of other alcoholics experienced the same anger and frustration, Lois realized her own experience could be invaluable in helping families of other problem drinkers. This was the beginning of Al-Anon.

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.