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Facilitated by Jennifer Morris
Second Saturday every Month:
Continuing October 5, 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, PhD. 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.

Tools of Individuation
Psychotherapy with Psychotics: Notes from a Beginner
Robert J. Kamman

Sunday, October 6, 2019
2 to 4 pm
Maine Jung Center, 183 Park Row, Brunswick
Members $15, Non-Members $20

The poet T. S. Eliot said, “All your secrets are discovered in an image. To locate the image is to locate our innermost secrets.” How can we come to know these images in the shadowy regions of the psychotic mind and even in our own mind? Dr. Kamman will reflect on his 32 years working with psychotic patients and how he came to understand what Jung meant when he said, “The wealth of the soul exists in images.”

Today people are not so comfortable being alone with their own images and their own thoughts. Because the function of the image is to create our conscious experience of psychic reality, what can we learn from the images that spontaneously arise from our own souls? Our personal growth depends upon this.

Robert J. Kamman, PhD, received his BA in Philosophy and Classical Languages. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Physics and Chemistry from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, CA. His Doctoral Dissertation was titled, “An Investigation into the Parallels and Correspondence Between Jung’s Structure of the Psyche and Quantum Physics”.

He taught high school Physics and Mathematics for five years and after receiving his Doctorate he spent 32 years at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center working with seriously and persistently mentally ill patients. He spent 5 years in analysis with Robert Johnson while in San Diego. He is now retired and lives with his wife on the lake at Panther Pond.

Embodying the Symbols of the Tarot
Rick Bouchard

Saturday, October 12
11 am to 4 pm
Portland Friends Meeting, 1837 Forest Ave, Portland
Members $50, Non-Members $60

This program will integrate aspects of Jungian psychology with the tarot, particularly the relationship between the four functions, the archetypes, and the corresponding images within the tarot. We will focus on a juxtaposition of the Tarot’s four suits (pentacles, swords, cups, and wands) with the four corresponding elements (earth, air, water, and fire, respectively), and the four Jungian functions (sensation, thinking, feeling, and intuition, respectively) by using various formats of “live” tarot readings.

Rick Bouchard, LCSW, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Southern Maine since 1999, working with adolescents, adults, couples and offers an ongoing dream group. Trained at the C. G. Jung Institute-Boston, Rick Bouchard is a member of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts and has taught on the faculty of the Jung Institute analyst training program. He currently attends the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis working on his Doctorate in Psychoanalysis. He’s a student of the Tarot and did his Diploma Thesis for graduation from the Boston Jung Institute on “The Use of Tarot in the Jungian Analyst”.

Facilitated by Peggy Schick
Third Wednesday every Month:
Starting October 16, 2019
6 to 8 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change by Sherri Mitchell

The Maine Jung Center is pleased to offer a new book group beginning Wednesday, October 16, that will meet to read and discuss Sherri Mitchell’s 2018 book Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. The Center is also excited to announce that Ms. Mitchell will be speaking to our community on April 3-4 in Portland. 

This book discussion experience will serve as an immersion into Mitchell’s profound and loving insight around affecting true global consciousness and change. Sacred Instructions is described as a narrative of Indigenous wisdom that provides a road map for the spirit and a compass of compassion for humanity.

Sherri Mitchel is a Native American attorney, author, teacher and activist from Maine. She has been actively involved with Indigenous land and water rights and the Indigenous way of life in the US, Canada and abroad for more than 25 years. Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, in Sacred Instructions Mitchell addresses some of the most crucial issues of our day, such as environmental protection and human rights. Sharing the gifts she has received from elders around the world, Mitchell urges us to decolonize our language and our stories. For those seeking change, this book offers a set of cultural values that will preserve our collective survival for future generations.

This book group will be gently led by Peggy Schick, astrologer, Reiki practitioner, activist, and co-chair of the board of the Maine Jung Center.

Samsara (2011) | Directed by Ron Fricke
Viewing facilitated by Audrey McMorrow

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. Samsara travels the globe from Tibetan monks, to east African tribesmen, to Chinese factory workers, to the tangled web of freeways in Los Angeles, to the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, and more. Throughout the visual epic, it maintains the themes of life and death, permanence and impermanence, and the flow and rhythm of our world’s energy.

*Content Warning: Contains graphic scenes concerning food processing and other potentially disturbing content.