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The Journey Circle
with Nanette Giacoma

Thursdays, February 3, March 3 & 31, May 5 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $65, Non-Members $75

Exploring a different archetype each class, we will delve into your psychic and intuitive self through a guided journey. As you engage your dreaming mind you will bodily, emotionally and psychically experience a unique journey that will expand your consciousness. Because your brain doesn’t know the difference between what you consider “reality” and the “dream” you will actually change biochemically and neurologically and begin to make small changes in your everyday actions. You will start to notice signs, symbols and synchronicity you may previously ignored, as messages meant to guide you on your life path. And as you tap in to this Universal Wisdom you will begin to transform your life.

The Circle goes back eons (pre-history) as a place humans gathered to tell stories around a fire. It creates a safe energetic space for our personal journeying and subsequent storytelling. In an open circle we will face each other and exchange energy without blocks. We will communicate at a deeper level through this energy exchange. As we get at the roots of our stories, then we then begin to see the greater web we co-create with each other and Spirit, and how the energy that we put out in the world comes back to us.

Nanette Giacoma, is an author, speaker, energy coach and healer, teacher, intuitive and artist, walks between the worlds of traditional and alternative practices  Integrating 30 plus years of business experience and 15 years of coaching experience using alternative methods, Nanette works energetically with her clients to help them align their energy with their professional and personal potential. She lives for those profound moments of insight that are the harbingers of change and transformation for her clients. Nanette has an MBA and an MA in Art and Consciousness Studies, and she is a Usui and Kundalini Reiki Master. Nanette is also a Level III Intuitive and Certified Master Intuitive Coach. In December of 2018, Nanette published her first book, Open for Business: How to Achieve Professional Success Using the Power of Chakras. She is currently working on a new book, Walking a Mystical Path Wearing Practical Shoes.

Stop Motion Fairy Tales
with Laura Lewis-Barr

Sunday, February 6 | 2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $20, Non-Members $25

Explore 5 award-winning stop motion films based on folk and fairy tales. Filmmaker Laura Lewis-Barr created these films in honor of the work of Marie Louise Von Franz. Sessions will include watching and discussing a short film (5-15 minutes).

Laura Lewis-Barr has been studying fiction and non-fiction storytelling since childhood. She is an award-winning writer and filmmaker and she teaches storytelling to business leaders and job seekers. Laura first explored Jungian writings during graduate school in a clinical transpersonal psychology program. She eventually switched majors to complete her MA in Drama but Laura continued to study Jungian thought, especially all the writings of Marie Louise Von Franz. In this workshop Laura will share her journey as an artist through a Jungian lens. She will share some of her stop-motion fairy tale films and explore their usefulness for innerwork. Laura continues to create these films with a Jungian audience in mind. You can see some of Laura’s early films at https://www.dailymotion.com/MythicTalesForPsyche. To read more about Laura’s work visit https://lauralewisbarrfilms.com.

Upstander Project’s ‘Dawnland’
Facilitated by Jeff Pinnette
February 11 | Starts at 7 pm
Free for Members & Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Must Pre-Register (Free)

For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from
their homes to “save them from being Indian.” In Maine, the first official Truth and Reconciliation
Commission in the United States begins a historic investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as
this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for
state and tribal relations. Dawnland aired on Independent Lens on PBS in November 2018 reaching
more than 2 million viewers. The film won a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Research in 2019
and made the American Library Association’s list of 2020 Notable Videos for Adults: “a list of 15
outstanding films released on video within the past two years.”

For most of the 20th century, government agents systematically forced Native American children from
their homes and placed them with white families. A 1977 US Senate report (p. 287) found that as
recently as 1975, Native children in Maine were 19 times more likely to be removed by child welfare
workers than non-Native children. Many children experienced devastating emotional harm in homes
that shamed, demeaned, and erased their culture.

Dawnland is a film that everyone should see. Removal of Native children isn’t just something that
happened far away and long ago, but to Wabanaki communities in Maine in the late 20th century.
Watch and be outraged, heartbroken, and hopeful as the Wabanaki labor to protect and heal their most
precious and vulnerable members, and some of their non-Native neighbors struggle with the challenge of
moving from the role of occupiers to neighbors.

— Cedric Woods, Ph.D., (Lumbee) Director of the Institute for New England Native Studies at UMass-
Boston

Marion Woodman and the Conscious Feminine: In Conversation with Marlene Schiwy
2nd Saturday of the Month | 10 am to 12 pm
Free for Members and Non-Members | Zoom Link Here
Facilitated by Susan Farwell & Cybele Brandow

Marion Woodman was a very productive, grounded, and successful Jungian analyst in a range of applications including the feminine and masculine principles, body/mind work, and addiction. Her journey through and to individuation is deeply compelling. (Perhaps made even more so with her wonderfully trained voice). In this series, Marlene Schiwy interviews Marion Woodman on a wide variety of topics: the Death Mother and Death Father archetypes, the essence of dreams, the spiritual meaning of addiction, creativity as a healing force, and stories from Marion’s own analyses with Dr. Bennet and Miss Hannah. Additionally, there is a one-hour segment featuring both Marion and Ross Woodman and another hour with Marion and Marlene together on screen. In this discussion group, each day we will watch one of the six, 90-minute segments together, then spend up to another hour (as needed) in an informal discussion concerning what arises for each of us out of the images, thoughts, and dialogues shared by Woodman and Schiwy.

Science and Spiritual Practice by Rupert Sheldrake: A Book Discussion Group
3rd Saturday of the Month | 10 am to 12 pm
Free for Members and Non-Members| Zoom Link Here
Facilitated by Jeff Pinette

This discussion group will explore the effects of spiritual practices through Rupert Sheldrake’s book entitled Science and Spiritual
Practices. The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. In this book, Sheldrake illustrates how science helps validate seven practices that underpin all major world religions:

◊ Meditation
◊ Gratitude
◊ Connecting with nature
◊ Relating to plants
◊ Rituals
◊ Singing and chanting
◊ Pilgrimage and holy places.

Sheldrake summarizes the latest scientific research on what happens when we take part in these practices and suggests ways that readers can explore these fields for themselves. Science and Spiritual Practices illuminates the evolutionary origins of various spiritual traditions and gives a new appreciation of their power. It also shows how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all, without the need to subscribe to a particular religious belief system. Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. He is the author of more than eighty-five scientific papers and twelve books. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England.

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments. This discussion group meets on the third Sunday of the month from 10 am to 12 pm.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and currently serves as co-chair of the Center’s Board and as the Program Committee Chair. He lives in Topsham.

The Tarot Explosion: How Times Have Changed!
with Jeanne Fiorini

Sunday, February 20 | 2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $20, Non-Members $25

If it was 1960 and you were looking to explore the Tarot, you had two options for Tarot decks: the 18^th-century Marseilles Tarot which featured pictorial images on the Major Arcana only and a simplistic representation of “six swords” or “two cups” on the Minor cards, or you could try to locate the more “modern” Rider Waite Tarot (published in 1909) with its groundbreaking use of graphics on every card. My, how times have changed! A quick search on Amazon will offer the seeker 687 different Tarot decks to choose from. Can there really be that many ways to conceptualize the 78 cards of the Tarot system? The publishing world has responded with a resounding YES!

This presentation will illustrate the variety of themes, images, worldviews, and creativity which comprises 21^st-century Tarot. Along with a short overview of the chain reaction of interest in the Tarot in the 1960’s, an extensive slide show will compare and contrast specific cards from various decks. A lot of information has been poured into the collective pool of Tarot thought over the past 50 years!

Jeanne Fiorini has had a life-long interest in the unknown and the unseen. She studied transpersonal psychology at The Synthesis Center in Massachusetts, earned a BA in Art History, holds a certificate of training in mediation, as has extensive experience with the Tarot and archetypal psychology. As a Tarot author, reader, and teacher, the personal and professional goals eventually come down to Truth and Authenticity: uncovering it, supporting it, speaking it, living it. All of Jeanne’s work strives to enhance truth and authenticity in service of the expansion of consciousness. Please visit http://www.tarotworks.com for more information.

The Racial Complex: Race, Racism and Cultural Complexes
with Fanny Brewster

Friday, February 25 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $20, Non-Members $25

Just as the coloured man lives in your cities and even within your houses, so also he lives under your skin, subconsciously.  Naturally it works both ways.  Just as every Jew has a Christ complex, so every Negro has a white complex and every American (white) a Negro complex.
—C.G. Jung, Collected Works, Vol. 10, para 963

As we encounter the issue of race and therefore racism, witnessing the constellation of cultural complexes in actions of racial violence, marching protests, and global engagement, it appears important to visit the Jungian concept of psychological complexes.  Jung’s early work on the “color” complex, what I have named the racial complex, has with few exceptions, not been reviewed and investigated for almost one hundred years.  It appears that Jung’s early attempt to define ethnicity and culture within the context of a racial complex, had the hallmark of 19th Century colonial-influenced thinking.  As we work within a 21 st century consciousness, we are required to deconstruct psychological theories that are relevant specifically to Jungian psychology and in general to the field of Psychoanalysis.  This deconstruction allows us to question, inquire of and re-define both the interior unconscious space of complexes, and the exterior relationship with a differing cultural/ethnic “Other,” in deepening our understanding of racial relationships.

Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Jungian analyst and holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction. She is the author of African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss and The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race (Routledge). She is a published poet and author of dream related and American Culture journal articles. Her most recent book, currently in production is Race in the Unconscious: A Depth Psychology Perspective on Africanist Dreaming (Routledge).

The Racial Complex: Race, Racism and Cultural Complexes
with Fanny Brewster

Friday, February 25 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $30, Non-Members $35

Just as the interpretation of dreams requires exact knowledge of the conscious status quo, so the treatment of dream symbolism demands that we take into account the dreamer’s philosophical, religious, and moral convictions.
—C.G. Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy, para. 339

The workshop will provide a deeper understanding of ethnicity and Africanist culture in dream imagery. Almost all of Jung’s exploration of dream study was exclusive of individuals of African descent and people of color. His most related effort was during a visit to Washington D.C. where he remained for one month researching the dreams of 15 hospitalized African American men. We will review this visit, as much of his findings as we can, and further consider dreams inclusive of people of color.

A most significant part of our time together will be the sharing of dream images in which BIPOC individuals are present, issues of race are apparent and or imagery related to culture. This is an area of little exploration within Jungian psychology as connected with our multicultural society. We will have an opportunity to share, discuss and perhaps find new openings for discussion and ways of considering how ethnicity and culture manifest in the Unconscious through our dreaming lives. Please bring a dream for sharing and discussion with the group.

Suggested Readings:
1) Jung, C.G. A Review of the Complex Theory, Collected Works (CW), vol 8
2) Jung, C.G. The Complications of American Psychology, CW, vol 10
4) Jung, C.G. The Fight with the Shadow, CW, vol 10
5) Brewster, Fanny, The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race
(Routledge)

Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Jungian analyst and holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction. She is the author of African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss and The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race (Routledge). She is a published poet and author of dream related and American Culture journal articles. Her most recent book, currently in production is Race in the Unconscious: A Depth Psychology Perspective on Africanist Dreaming (Routledge).

Fairy Tale Reading Group
Facilitated by Debb Freedman
Last Sunday of the Month | 2 to 4pm
Free for Members and Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

In the ‘Mirror Mirror on the Wall’ Fairy Tale Reading Group, we explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing, and interpreting them can unearth kernels of universal truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories. 

The January meeting of the Fairy Tale Reading Group will focus on a tale by the Brothers Grimm called Iron John. Please click here if you would like to read this tale ahead of time, or have it downloaded/printed for the meeting.

Deborah Eve Freedman has been creating fairy tales for others for over twenty-five years. This ancient language of home as place on the outside and heart on the inside arrived as a surprise. She has presented her process during two global conferences at Oxford University and continues to be awed by its relevance.

The Journey Circle
with Nanette Giacoma

Thursdays, February 3, March 3 & 31, May 5 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $65, Non-Members $75

Exploring a different archetype each class, we will delve into your psychic and intuitive self through a guided journey. As you engage your dreaming mind you will bodily, emotionally and psychically experience a unique journey that will expand your consciousness. Because your brain doesn’t know the difference between what you consider “reality” and the “dream” you will actually change biochemically and neurologically and begin to make small changes in your everyday actions. You will start to notice signs, symbols and synchronicity you may previously ignored, as messages meant to guide you on your life path. And as you tap in to this Universal Wisdom you will begin to transform your life.

The Circle goes back eons (pre-history) as a place humans gathered to tell stories around a fire. It creates a safe energetic space for our personal journeying and subsequent storytelling. In an open circle we will face each other and exchange energy without blocks. We will communicate at a deeper level through this energy exchange. As we get at the roots of our stories, then we then begin to see the greater web we co-create with each other and Spirit, and how the energy that we put out in the world comes back to us.

Nanette Giacoma, is an author, speaker, energy coach and healer, teacher, intuitive and artist, walks between the worlds of traditional and alternative practices  Integrating 30 plus years of business experience and 15 years of coaching experience using alternative methods, Nanette works energetically with her clients to help them align their energy with their professional and personal potential. She lives for those profound moments of insight that are the harbingers of change and transformation for her clients. Nanette has an MBA and an MA in Art and Consciousness Studies, and she is a Usui and Kundalini Reiki Master. Nanette is also a Level III Intuitive and Certified Master Intuitive Coach. In December of 2018, Nanette published her first book, Open for Business: How to Achieve Professional Success Using the Power of Chakras. She is currently working on a new book, Walking a Mystical Path Wearing Practical Shoes.

The Tarot’s Major Arcana through a Pandemic Lens
with Jeanne Fiorini

Sundays, March 6, 13 & 20 | 2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $50, Non-Members $60

One of the reasons the Tarot continues to grow and thrive in popular culture is its ability to transcend the particulars of our life by speaking to us on an archetypal level about our joys and our struggles. As we attempt to move toward “the new normal” forced upon us by a global pandemic, the Tarot is more persistent than ever in its call to begin again … to create anew!

Two years of dealing with COVID and its numerous cultural side effects has many people facing the challenges (and opportunities) of rethinking work, reassessing relationships, and reevaluating priorities. This 3 week class will move us through the 22 cards of the Tarot’s Major Arcana series with a mind toward considering how and what we create as our “new normal.” Consciousness is our best survival tool; let the Tarot and its timeless wisdom help find the way forward with authenticity, purpose, and intention!

Jeanne Fiorini has had a life-long interest in the unknown and the unseen. She studied transpersonal psychology at The Synthesis Center in Massachusetts, earned a BA in Art History, holds a certificate of training in mediation, as has extensive experience with the Tarot and archetypal psychology. As a Tarot author, reader, and teacher, the personal and professional goals eventually come down to Truth and Authenticity: uncovering it, supporting it, speaking it, living it. All of Jeanne’s work strives to enhance truth and authenticity in service of the expansion of consciousness. Please visit http://www.tarotworks.com for more information.

Marion Woodman and the Conscious Feminine: In Conversation with Marlene Schiwy
2nd Saturday of the Month | 10 am to 12 pm
Free for Members and Non-Members | Zoom Link Here
Facilitated by Susan Farwell & Cybele Brandow

Marion Woodman was a very productive, grounded, and successful Jungian analyst in a range of applications including the feminine and masculine principles, body/mind work, and addiction. Her journey through and to individuation is deeply compelling. (Perhaps made even more so with her wonderfully trained voice). In this series, Marlene Schiwy interviews Marion Woodman on a wide variety of topics: the Death Mother and Death Father archetypes, the essence of dreams, the spiritual meaning of addiction, creativity as a healing force, and stories from Marion’s own analyses with Dr. Bennet and Miss Hannah. Additionally, there is a one-hour segment featuring both Marion and Ross Woodman and another hour with Marion and Marlene together on screen. In this discussion group, each day we will watch one of the six, 90-minute segments together, then spend up to another hour (as needed) in an informal discussion concerning what arises for each of us out of the images, thoughts, and dialogues shared by Woodman and Schiwy.

The Tarot’s Major Arcana through a Pandemic Lens
with Jeanne Fiorini

Sundays, March 6, 13 & 20 | 2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $50, Non-Members $60

One of the reasons the Tarot continues to grow and thrive in popular culture is its ability to transcend the particulars of our life by speaking to us on an archetypal level about our joys and our struggles. As we attempt to move toward “the new normal” forced upon us by a global pandemic, the Tarot is more persistent than ever in its call to begin again … to create anew!

Two years of dealing with COVID and its numerous cultural side effects has many people facing the challenges (and opportunities) of rethinking work, reassessing relationships, and reevaluating priorities. This 3 week class will move us through the 22 cards of the Tarot’s Major Arcana series with a mind toward considering how and what we create as our “new normal.” Consciousness is our best survival tool; let the Tarot and its timeless wisdom help find the way forward with authenticity, purpose, and intention!

Jeanne Fiorini has had a life-long interest in the unknown and the unseen. She studied transpersonal psychology at The Synthesis Center in Massachusetts, earned a BA in Art History, holds a certificate of training in mediation, as has extensive experience with the Tarot and archetypal psychology. As a Tarot author, reader, and teacher, the personal and professional goals eventually come down to Truth and Authenticity: uncovering it, supporting it, speaking it, living it. All of Jeanne’s work strives to enhance truth and authenticity in service of the expansion of consciousness. Please visit http://www.tarotworks.com for more information.

Introduction to Psychological Types from a Jungian Perspective
with Chris Beach

Wednesdays, March 16, 23 & 30, April 6, 13 & 20 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Via Zoom
Members $95, Non-Members $110

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. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator is, for example, one of the most widely administered psychological instruments in the United States. 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, Marie Louise von Franz, and Dr. John Beebe have envisioned.

This six-evening, twelve-hour seminar introduces the student to psychological type from personal and depth perspectives. It is designed to help one better understand one’s own type and how it impacts one’s life, as well as to better know and appreciate other psychological types. We will take examples from everyday life, dreams, and literature to see the many ways that types affect our lives. Chris’ manual, Knowing Yourself in Depth: Psychological Type from a Jungian Perspective, forms the core of the course. It can be purchased for $30 (plus shipping if you live far away from Portland or Brunswick). If for some reason hard copy reproduction will not work for you, Chris will try to email you relevant chapters for each class, but this will be the first time Chris has tried this method of communicating the manual, so no promises and fingers crossed.

As knowledge of your psychological type is essential to getting the full benefit of this course, if you are at all unsure of your MBTI psychological type, it is strongly reccomended that you contact Chris Beach at (207) 772-2779 or at beachris99@gmail.com when you register. Then, as soon as his schedule permits, he will send you Form M of the MBTI and later “meet” with you for two hours to help you identify and begin to understand your type. The charge for this is $100, or what toward that amount you can afford.

Chris Beach, J.D. is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Portland. He has long worked with psychological type as a therapist, teacher, and author. Earlier in his life, he served as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and as an assistant attorney general in Maine.

Upstander Project’s ‘Bounty’, ‘Dear Georgina’ & ‘First Light’
Facilitated by Audrey McMorrow
March 18 | Starts at 7 pm
Free for Members & Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Must Pre-Register (Free)

Bounty: We are citizens of the Penobscot Nation. For this film, we bring our families to Boston to read our ancestors’ death warrant. This abhorrent proclamation, made in 1755 by the colonial government, paid settlers handsomely to murder Penobscot people. It declared our people enemies and offered different prices for the scalps of children, women, and men. Bounty proclamations like this, some even paid in stolen land, persisted for more than two centuries across what is now the United States. The memory of being hunted is in our blood. We know this to be true, and the science now affirms that trauma can be passed down from generation to generation. In Bounty we take control of this process by inviting our children into the colonizer’s hall of injustice, to read their hateful words and tell the truth about what was done to our ancestors. We exercise our power by sharing the horrors of this hard history as an act of resistance, remembrance, and a step toward justice.

Dear Georgina: Dear Georgina is a follow-up to the Emmy® award-winning Dawnland (2018), in which Georgina told a portion of her harrowing story of surviving foster care. Georgina is just one of many thousands of Indigenous children with similar stories.

First Light: For centuries, the United States government has taken Native American children away from their tribes, devastating parents and denying children their traditions, culture, and identity. First Light documents these practices from the 1800s to today and tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in truth-telling and healing for Wabanaki people and child welfare workers in Maine.

Science and Spiritual Practice by Rupert Sheldrake: A Book Discussion Group
3rd Saturday of the Month | 10 am to 12 pm
Free for Members and Non-Members| Zoom Link Here
Facilitated by Jeff Pinette

This discussion group will explore the effects of spiritual practices through Rupert Sheldrake’s book entitled Science and Spiritual
Practices. The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. In this book, Sheldrake illustrates how science helps validate seven practices that underpin all major world religions:

◊ Meditation
◊ Gratitude
◊ Connecting with nature
◊ Relating to plants
◊ Rituals
◊ Singing and chanting
◊ Pilgrimage and holy places.

Sheldrake summarizes the latest scientific research on what happens when we take part in these practices and suggests ways that readers can explore these fields for themselves. Science and Spiritual Practices illuminates the evolutionary origins of various spiritual traditions and gives a new appreciation of their power. It also shows how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all, without the need to subscribe to a particular religious belief system. Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. He is the author of more than eighty-five scientific papers and twelve books. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England.

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments. This discussion group meets on the third Sunday of the month from 10 am to 12 pm.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and currently serves as co-chair of the Center’s Board and as the Program Committee Chair. He lives in Topsham.

The Tarot’s Major Arcana through a Pandemic Lens
with Jeanne Fiorini

Sundays, March 6, 13 & 20 | 2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $50, Non-Members $60

One of the reasons the Tarot continues to grow and thrive in popular culture is its ability to transcend the particulars of our life by speaking to us on an archetypal level about our joys and our struggles. As we attempt to move toward “the new normal” forced upon us by a global pandemic, the Tarot is more persistent than ever in its call to begin again … to create anew!

Two years of dealing with COVID and its numerous cultural side effects has many people facing the challenges (and opportunities) of rethinking work, reassessing relationships, and reevaluating priorities. This 3 week class will move us through the 22 cards of the Tarot’s Major Arcana series with a mind toward considering how and what we create as our “new normal.” Consciousness is our best survival tool; let the Tarot and its timeless wisdom help find the way forward with authenticity, purpose, and intention!

Jeanne Fiorini has had a life-long interest in the unknown and the unseen. She studied transpersonal psychology at The Synthesis Center in Massachusetts, earned a BA in Art History, holds a certificate of training in mediation, as has extensive experience with the Tarot and archetypal psychology. As a Tarot author, reader, and teacher, the personal and professional goals eventually come down to Truth and Authenticity: uncovering it, supporting it, speaking it, living it. All of Jeanne’s work strives to enhance truth and authenticity in service of the expansion of consciousness. Please visit http://www.tarotworks.com for more information.

Introduction to Psychological Types from a Jungian Perspective
with Chris Beach

Wednesdays, March 16, 23 & 30, April 6, 13 & 20 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Via Zoom
Members $95, Non-Members $110

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. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator is, for example, one of the most widely administered psychological instruments in the United States. 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, Marie Louise von Franz, and Dr. John Beebe have envisioned.

This six-evening, twelve-hour seminar introduces the student to psychological type from personal and depth perspectives. It is designed to help one better understand one’s own type and how it impacts one’s life, as well as to better know and appreciate other psychological types. We will take examples from everyday life, dreams, and literature to see the many ways that types affect our lives. Chris’ manual, Knowing Yourself in Depth: Psychological Type from a Jungian Perspective, forms the core of the course. It can be purchased for $30 (plus shipping if you live far away from Portland or Brunswick). If for some reason hard copy reproduction will not work for you, Chris will try to email you relevant chapters for each class, but this will be the first time Chris has tried this method of communicating the manual, so no promises and fingers crossed.

As knowledge of your psychological type is essential to getting the full benefit of this course, if you are at all unsure of your MBTI psychological type, it is strongly reccomended that you contact Chris Beach at (207) 772-2779 or at beachris99@gmail.com when you register. Then, as soon as his schedule permits, he will send you Form M of the MBTI and later “meet” with you for two hours to help you identify and begin to understand your type. The charge for this is $100, or what toward that amount you can afford.

Chris Beach, J.D. is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Portland. He has long worked with psychological type as a therapist, teacher, and author. Earlier in his life, he served as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and as an assistant attorney general in Maine.

Fairy Tale Reading Group
Facilitated by Debb Freedman
Last Sunday of the Month | 2 to 4pm
Free for Members and Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

In the ‘Mirror Mirror on the Wall’ Fairy Tale Reading Group, we explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing, and interpreting them can unearth kernels of universal truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories. 

The January meeting of the Fairy Tale Reading Group will focus on a tale by the Brothers Grimm called Iron John. Please click here if you would like to read this tale ahead of time, or have it downloaded/printed for the meeting.

Deborah Eve Freedman has been creating fairy tales for others for over twenty-five years. This ancient language of home as place on the outside and heart on the inside arrived as a surprise. She has presented her process during two global conferences at Oxford University and continues to be awed by its relevance.

Introduction to Psychological Types from a Jungian Perspective
with Chris Beach

Wednesdays, March 16, 23 & 30, April 6, 13 & 20 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Via Zoom
Members $95, Non-Members $110

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. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator is, for example, one of the most widely administered psychological instruments in the United States. 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, Marie Louise von Franz, and Dr. John Beebe have envisioned.

This six-evening, twelve-hour seminar introduces the student to psychological type from personal and depth perspectives. It is designed to help one better understand one’s own type and how it impacts one’s life, as well as to better know and appreciate other psychological types. We will take examples from everyday life, dreams, and literature to see the many ways that types affect our lives. Chris’ manual, Knowing Yourself in Depth: Psychological Type from a Jungian Perspective, forms the core of the course. It can be purchased for $30 (plus shipping if you live far away from Portland or Brunswick). If for some reason hard copy reproduction will not work for you, Chris will try to email you relevant chapters for each class, but this will be the first time Chris has tried this method of communicating the manual, so no promises and fingers crossed.

As knowledge of your psychological type is essential to getting the full benefit of this course, if you are at all unsure of your MBTI psychological type, it is strongly reccomended that you contact Chris Beach at (207) 772-2779 or at beachris99@gmail.com when you register. Then, as soon as his schedule permits, he will send you Form M of the MBTI and later “meet” with you for two hours to help you identify and begin to understand your type. The charge for this is $100, or what toward that amount you can afford.

Chris Beach, J.D. is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Portland. He has long worked with psychological type as a therapist, teacher, and author. Earlier in his life, he served as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and as an assistant attorney general in Maine.

The Journey Circle
with Nanette Giacoma

Thursdays, February 3, March 3 & 31, May 5 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $65, Non-Members $75

Exploring a different archetype each class, we will delve into your psychic and intuitive self through a guided journey. As you engage your dreaming mind you will bodily, emotionally and psychically experience a unique journey that will expand your consciousness. Because your brain doesn’t know the difference between what you consider “reality” and the “dream” you will actually change biochemically and neurologically and begin to make small changes in your everyday actions. You will start to notice signs, symbols and synchronicity you may previously ignored, as messages meant to guide you on your life path. And as you tap in to this Universal Wisdom you will begin to transform your life.

The Circle goes back eons (pre-history) as a place humans gathered to tell stories around a fire. It creates a safe energetic space for our personal journeying and subsequent storytelling. In an open circle we will face each other and exchange energy without blocks. We will communicate at a deeper level through this energy exchange. As we get at the roots of our stories, then we then begin to see the greater web we co-create with each other and Spirit, and how the energy that we put out in the world comes back to us.

Nanette Giacoma, is an author, speaker, energy coach and healer, teacher, intuitive and artist, walks between the worlds of traditional and alternative practices  Integrating 30 plus years of business experience and 15 years of coaching experience using alternative methods, Nanette works energetically with her clients to help them align their energy with their professional and personal potential. She lives for those profound moments of insight that are the harbingers of change and transformation for her clients. Nanette has an MBA and an MA in Art and Consciousness Studies, and she is a Usui and Kundalini Reiki Master. Nanette is also a Level III Intuitive and Certified Master Intuitive Coach. In December of 2018, Nanette published her first book, Open for Business: How to Achieve Professional Success Using the Power of Chakras. She is currently working on a new book, Walking a Mystical Path Wearing Practical Shoes.

Death Café
Facilitated by Martha Spruce
Fridays, April 1st and June 17th | Starts at 7pm
Free to Members and Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

“Death is psychologically as important as birth, and like it, is an integral part of life.” ~ C.G. Jung

Let’s gather together to talk about death. Not to grieve, not to seek therapeutic support, but simply to have a group-directed discussion with the broad intention to increase our awareness of death. Perhaps that greater awareness might help us to deeply appreciate our lives right now, right here. Death Cafes around the world give us all, young and old, an opportunity to talk about death without any agenda, advice, objective, or conclusion. We agree to respect each other’s viewpoints and confidentiality. Donations to the Jung Center are welcomed. You can find the Zoom link in the description above. The two discussion dates do not imply a progression of any theme and so you may attend one (or both) session(s). Covid has brought death very close to many of us. A Death Café may help us to become open to more acceptance and curiosity. Let’s refrain from trying to outsource death. It belongs to each of us, intimately.

Martha Spruce, the founder of Hearts & Hands Reiki, has been practicing and teaching Reiki in the mid-coast area for over 25 years. During that time, she has also cared for terminally ill people as a certified hospice volunteer and homecare provider. She has also volunteered as a certified pastoral chaplain at Mid Coast Hospital. Being with people who are dying has helped her to learn what death might give as well as what it takes.

A Course in Miracles: Christian Teaching in the Vedic Tradition 
with Amy Haible

Sunday, April 3 | 2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $15, Non-Members $20

“Nothing real can be threatened.  Nothing unreal exists.  Herein lies the peace of God.”

The opening words to A Course in Miracles (ACIM) are a direct reflection of the teaching in the Bhagavad Gita which states, “That which is never ceases to be; that which is not never comes into existence.”  What is “real”?  What is it that “never comes into existence?”  Why are these questions important to us now, more than ever before? A revolution in Christian thought, ACIM consists of three separate writings: the Text, the Workbook, and a Manual for Teachers.  Read separately, or together, these teachings explore “the mother of all problems” – the illusion of the separate self or ego.  

In this short program, Amy will share some of the fundamentals of ACIM and briefly compare the teachings with the writings of Rupert Spira, an internationally renowned spiritual teacher who draws from the Advaita Vedanta tradition.  Some guided meditations will help the students experience the teachings more directly.  Discussion and sharing are encouraged.

Amy Haible has been a student of ACIM for over twelve years. She has led several workshops at the Jung Center on topics such as emotional energy patterns, and Joachim Wolf’s book The Inner Logic of Spiritual Reality. Amy is the author of Training Wheels: An Experienced Guide to the Lessons of ACIM. She has a Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning from The George Washington University, and a Master’s of Transpersonal Psychology from Atlantic University.

Introduction to Psychological Types from a Jungian Perspective
with Chris Beach

Wednesdays, March 16, 23 & 30, April 6, 13 & 20 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Via Zoom
Members $95, Non-Members $110

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. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator is, for example, one of the most widely administered psychological instruments in the United States. 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, Marie Louise von Franz, and Dr. John Beebe have envisioned.

This six-evening, twelve-hour seminar introduces the student to psychological type from personal and depth perspectives. It is designed to help one better understand one’s own type and how it impacts one’s life, as well as to better know and appreciate other psychological types. We will take examples from everyday life, dreams, and literature to see the many ways that types affect our lives. Chris’ manual, Knowing Yourself in Depth: Psychological Type from a Jungian Perspective, forms the core of the course. It can be purchased for $30 (plus shipping if you live far away from Portland or Brunswick). If for some reason hard copy reproduction will not work for you, Chris will try to email you relevant chapters for each class, but this will be the first time Chris has tried this method of communicating the manual, so no promises and fingers crossed.

As knowledge of your psychological type is essential to getting the full benefit of this course, if you are at all unsure of your MBTI psychological type, it is strongly reccomended that you contact Chris Beach at (207) 772-2779 or at beachris99@gmail.com when you register. Then, as soon as his schedule permits, he will send you Form M of the MBTI and later “meet” with you for two hours to help you identify and begin to understand your type. The charge for this is $100, or what toward that amount you can afford.

Chris Beach, J.D. is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Portland. He has long worked with psychological type as a therapist, teacher, and author. Earlier in his life, he served as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and as an assistant attorney general in Maine.

Reading Blake
with Mary Dowd

Thursdays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28 | 7 to 9 pm
Held via Zoom
Members $65, Non-Members $75

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

William Blake was a poet, painter, engraver, satirist, radical thinker, prophet and visionary. All his life he saw visions and these informed all his work. He can be lyrical, gnomic, crude, inspirational, ranting, outrageous, and obscure all at the same time. He despised hypocrisy, dogma, and cant. He was thought mad by the critics of his day. And even a hundred years after his death, publishers were still reluctant to publish him. His ideas on human psychology prefigure some of Jung’s conceptions. Like Leonardo, Blake was out of his place in time. He strove all his life to raise “other men into a perception of the infinite.”

Reading him can be delightful, difficult, and exasperating. In this workshop we’ll look at his poems and paintings and prophecies and try to come to some understanding of the man and his times.

Mary Dowd, MD, is a physician and poet. Her poems have appeared in Chautauqua, the Atlanta Review, in the Shambhala Sun newsletter, Letheon, Ekphrasis 2013, the Hippocrates Prize Anthology 2017, and various other minor and sometimes defunct journals. In 2018 her collection of poems, The Heroin Diaries was published by Permanente Press. She has led poetry workshops for the Transformational Language Arts Network at Goddard College and The Examined Life Conference at the University of Iowa. For many years she led a workshop reading and writing poetry with men in long term treatment for addiction at Milestone Foundation. Since 2007 she has run the Poetry at the Library series at Merrill Library in Yarmouth, bringing poets, performances and writing workshops to the community. She is a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society and the Almost Dead Poets’ Society.

Marion Woodman and the Conscious Feminine: In Conversation with Marlene Schiwy
2nd Saturday of the Month | 10 am to 12 pm
Free for Members and Non-Members | Zoom Link Here
Facilitated by Susan Farwell & Cybele Brandow

Marion Woodman was a very productive, grounded, and successful Jungian analyst in a range of applications including the feminine and masculine principles, body/mind work, and addiction. Her journey through and to individuation is deeply compelling. (Perhaps made even more so with her wonderfully trained voice). In this series, Marlene Schiwy interviews Marion Woodman on a wide variety of topics: the Death Mother and Death Father archetypes, the essence of dreams, the spiritual meaning of addiction, creativity as a healing force, and stories from Marion’s own analyses with Dr. Bennet and Miss Hannah. Additionally, there is a one-hour segment featuring both Marion and Ross Woodman and another hour with Marion and Marlene together on screen. In this discussion group, each day we will watch one of the six, 90-minute segments together, then spend up to another hour (as needed) in an informal discussion concerning what arises for each of us out of the images, thoughts, and dialogues shared by Woodman and Schiwy.

Picasso and the Archetypal Imagination
with Joan Uraneck

Sunday, April 10 | 2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $20, Non-Members $25

In her recently published article, “Picasso and the Archetypal Imagination” (Jung Journal, Psyche and Culture, Vol.15, 2021, Issue 2) Professor Joan Uraneck describes (through Jungian exploration and interpretation) nine paintings completed by Picasso in 1946 in Antibes, France, where he moved at the end of the German occupation of Paris. The paintings depict the Roman mythological figure of the faun. Professor Uraneck describes how Picasso’s archetypal imagination used this image to lead him on a journey of individuation. Relevant to anyone interested in individuation- all are welcome- including artists, art historians, Jungian scholars, analysts, and enthusiasts as well as students and the general public. The program will include a visual presentation with time for questions and conversation.

Joan Uraneck is an art historian with a lifelong interest in Jung, reading and studying his work for years out of personal interest and also as a way to explain to students a way to understand and interpret images from the past. She taught art history for forty years at the Maine College of Art and frequently was asked about the meaning of a particular symbol and also why similar images appear all over the world at different times and places. It was to Jung that she turned for answers. Professor Uraneck is retired but still actively writing, researching, and publishing. She just can’t seem to stop the passion for seeking to explore the experience of the mysterious works and manifestation of our psyches and of the collective unconscious.

Introduction to Psychological Types from a Jungian Perspective
with Chris Beach

Wednesdays, March 16, 23 & 30, April 6, 13 & 20 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Via Zoom
Members $95, Non-Members $110

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. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator is, for example, one of the most widely administered psychological instruments in the United States. 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, Marie Louise von Franz, and Dr. John Beebe have envisioned.

This six-evening, twelve-hour seminar introduces the student to psychological type from personal and depth perspectives. It is designed to help one better understand one’s own type and how it impacts one’s life, as well as to better know and appreciate other psychological types. We will take examples from everyday life, dreams, and literature to see the many ways that types affect our lives. Chris’ manual, Knowing Yourself in Depth: Psychological Type from a Jungian Perspective, forms the core of the course. It can be purchased for $30 (plus shipping if you live far away from Portland or Brunswick). If for some reason hard copy reproduction will not work for you, Chris will try to email you relevant chapters for each class, but this will be the first time Chris has tried this method of communicating the manual, so no promises and fingers crossed.

As knowledge of your psychological type is essential to getting the full benefit of this course, if you are at all unsure of your MBTI psychological type, it is strongly reccomended that you contact Chris Beach at (207) 772-2779 or at beachris99@gmail.com when you register. Then, as soon as his schedule permits, he will send you Form M of the MBTI and later “meet” with you for two hours to help you identify and begin to understand your type. The charge for this is $100, or what toward that amount you can afford.

Chris Beach, J.D. is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Portland. He has long worked with psychological type as a therapist, teacher, and author. Earlier in his life, he served as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and as an assistant attorney general in Maine.

Reading Blake
with Mary Dowd

Thursdays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28 | 7 to 9 pm
Held via Zoom
Members $65, Non-Members $75

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

William Blake was a poet, painter, engraver, satirist, radical thinker, prophet and visionary. All his life he saw visions and these informed all his work. He can be lyrical, gnomic, crude, inspirational, ranting, outrageous, and obscure all at the same time. He despised hypocrisy, dogma, and cant. He was thought mad by the critics of his day. And even a hundred years after his death, publishers were still reluctant to publish him. His ideas on human psychology prefigure some of Jung’s conceptions. Like Leonardo, Blake was out of his place in time. He strove all his life to raise “other men into a perception of the infinite.”

Reading him can be delightful, difficult, and exasperating. In this workshop we’ll look at his poems and paintings and prophecies and try to come to some understanding of the man and his times.

Mary Dowd, MD, is a physician and poet. Her poems have appeared in Chautauqua, the Atlanta Review, in the Shambhala Sun newsletter, Letheon, Ekphrasis 2013, the Hippocrates Prize Anthology 2017, and various other minor and sometimes defunct journals. In 2018 her collection of poems, The Heroin Diaries was published by Permanente Press. She has led poetry workshops for the Transformational Language Arts Network at Goddard College and The Examined Life Conference at the University of Iowa. For many years she led a workshop reading and writing poetry with men in long term treatment for addiction at Milestone Foundation. Since 2007 she has run the Poetry at the Library series at Merrill Library in Yarmouth, bringing poets, performances and writing workshops to the community. She is a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society and the Almost Dead Poets’ Society.

Coyote Wisdom: The Healing Power of Story
Facilitated by Lois LeBlanc
April 15 | Starts at 7 pm
Free for Members & Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

In Coyote Wisdom, Lewis Mehl-Madrona explores the healing use of stories passed down from generation to generation in Native American culture and describes how we can apply this wisdom to empower and transform our own lives. A storytelling approach to transformation starts with how we were created and how we can re-create ourselves through the stories we tell. As we explore the archetypal characters and situations that populate the inner world of our stories, we can experience breakthroughs of healing and even miracles of transformation.

This approach to healing through stories runs counter to the current model of modern psychology. The stories we tell about ourselves may model our lives, but by introducing new characters and plots, we can come to see ourselves in a new way. The author also draws upon the cultures of other indigenous peoples–the Maori, East Africans, Mongolians, Aborigines, and Laplanders–to illustrate the healing use of stories throughout the world.

Science and Spiritual Practice by Rupert Sheldrake: A Book Discussion Group
3rd Saturday of the Month | 10 am to 12 pm
Free for Members and Non-Members| Zoom Link Here
Facilitated by Jeff Pinette

This discussion group will explore the effects of spiritual practices through Rupert Sheldrake’s book entitled Science and Spiritual
Practices. The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. In this book, Sheldrake illustrates how science helps validate seven practices that underpin all major world religions:

◊ Meditation
◊ Gratitude
◊ Connecting with nature
◊ Relating to plants
◊ Rituals
◊ Singing and chanting
◊ Pilgrimage and holy places.

Sheldrake summarizes the latest scientific research on what happens when we take part in these practices and suggests ways that readers can explore these fields for themselves. Science and Spiritual Practices illuminates the evolutionary origins of various spiritual traditions and gives a new appreciation of their power. It also shows how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all, without the need to subscribe to a particular religious belief system. Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. He is the author of more than eighty-five scientific papers and twelve books. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England.

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments. This discussion group meets on the third Sunday of the month from 10 am to 12 pm.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and currently serves as co-chair of the Center’s Board and as the Program Committee Chair. He lives in Topsham.

Introduction to Psychological Types from a Jungian Perspective
with Chris Beach

Wednesdays, March 16, 23 & 30, April 6, 13 & 20 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Via Zoom
Members $95, Non-Members $110

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. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator is, for example, one of the most widely administered psychological instruments in the United States. 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, Marie Louise von Franz, and Dr. John Beebe have envisioned.

This six-evening, twelve-hour seminar introduces the student to psychological type from personal and depth perspectives. It is designed to help one better understand one’s own type and how it impacts one’s life, as well as to better know and appreciate other psychological types. We will take examples from everyday life, dreams, and literature to see the many ways that types affect our lives. Chris’ manual, Knowing Yourself in Depth: Psychological Type from a Jungian Perspective, forms the core of the course. It can be purchased for $30 (plus shipping if you live far away from Portland or Brunswick). If for some reason hard copy reproduction will not work for you, Chris will try to email you relevant chapters for each class, but this will be the first time Chris has tried this method of communicating the manual, so no promises and fingers crossed.

As knowledge of your psychological type is essential to getting the full benefit of this course, if you are at all unsure of your MBTI psychological type, it is strongly reccomended that you contact Chris Beach at (207) 772-2779 or at beachris99@gmail.com when you register. Then, as soon as his schedule permits, he will send you Form M of the MBTI and later “meet” with you for two hours to help you identify and begin to understand your type. The charge for this is $100, or what toward that amount you can afford.

Chris Beach, J.D. is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Portland. He has long worked with psychological type as a therapist, teacher, and author. Earlier in his life, he served as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and as an assistant attorney general in Maine.

Reading Blake
with Mary Dowd

Thursdays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28 | 7 to 9 pm
Held via Zoom
Members $65, Non-Members $75

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

William Blake was a poet, painter, engraver, satirist, radical thinker, prophet and visionary. All his life he saw visions and these informed all his work. He can be lyrical, gnomic, crude, inspirational, ranting, outrageous, and obscure all at the same time. He despised hypocrisy, dogma, and cant. He was thought mad by the critics of his day. And even a hundred years after his death, publishers were still reluctant to publish him. His ideas on human psychology prefigure some of Jung’s conceptions. Like Leonardo, Blake was out of his place in time. He strove all his life to raise “other men into a perception of the infinite.”

Reading him can be delightful, difficult, and exasperating. In this workshop we’ll look at his poems and paintings and prophecies and try to come to some understanding of the man and his times.

Mary Dowd, MD, is a physician and poet. Her poems have appeared in Chautauqua, the Atlanta Review, in the Shambhala Sun newsletter, Letheon, Ekphrasis 2013, the Hippocrates Prize Anthology 2017, and various other minor and sometimes defunct journals. In 2018 her collection of poems, The Heroin Diaries was published by Permanente Press. She has led poetry workshops for the Transformational Language Arts Network at Goddard College and The Examined Life Conference at the University of Iowa. For many years she led a workshop reading and writing poetry with men in long term treatment for addiction at Milestone Foundation. Since 2007 she has run the Poetry at the Library series at Merrill Library in Yarmouth, bringing poets, performances and writing workshops to the community. She is a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society and the Almost Dead Poets’ Society.

Fairy Tale Reading Group
Facilitated by Debb Freedman
Last Sunday of the Month | 2 to 4pm
Free for Members and Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

In the ‘Mirror Mirror on the Wall’ Fairy Tale Reading Group, we explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing, and interpreting them can unearth kernels of universal truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories. 

The January meeting of the Fairy Tale Reading Group will focus on a tale by the Brothers Grimm called Iron John. Please click here if you would like to read this tale ahead of time, or have it downloaded/printed for the meeting.

Deborah Eve Freedman has been creating fairy tales for others for over twenty-five years. This ancient language of home as place on the outside and heart on the inside arrived as a surprise. She has presented her process during two global conferences at Oxford University and continues to be awed by its relevance.

Reading Blake
with Mary Dowd

Thursdays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28 | 7 to 9 pm
Held via Zoom
Members $65, Non-Members $75

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

William Blake was a poet, painter, engraver, satirist, radical thinker, prophet and visionary. All his life he saw visions and these informed all his work. He can be lyrical, gnomic, crude, inspirational, ranting, outrageous, and obscure all at the same time. He despised hypocrisy, dogma, and cant. He was thought mad by the critics of his day. And even a hundred years after his death, publishers were still reluctant to publish him. His ideas on human psychology prefigure some of Jung’s conceptions. Like Leonardo, Blake was out of his place in time. He strove all his life to raise “other men into a perception of the infinite.”

Reading him can be delightful, difficult, and exasperating. In this workshop we’ll look at his poems and paintings and prophecies and try to come to some understanding of the man and his times.

Mary Dowd, MD, is a physician and poet. Her poems have appeared in Chautauqua, the Atlanta Review, in the Shambhala Sun newsletter, Letheon, Ekphrasis 2013, the Hippocrates Prize Anthology 2017, and various other minor and sometimes defunct journals. In 2018 her collection of poems, The Heroin Diaries was published by Permanente Press. She has led poetry workshops for the Transformational Language Arts Network at Goddard College and The Examined Life Conference at the University of Iowa. For many years she led a workshop reading and writing poetry with men in long term treatment for addiction at Milestone Foundation. Since 2007 she has run the Poetry at the Library series at Merrill Library in Yarmouth, bringing poets, performances and writing workshops to the community. She is a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society and the Almost Dead Poets’ Society.

Making it Through: Bosnian Survivors Share Stories of Trauma, Transcendence, and Truth
with Demaris Wehr

Friday, April 29 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $20, Non-Members $25

Based on Wehr’s book, Making it Through: Bosnian Survivors Share Stories of Trauma, Transcendence and Truth, this presentation will explore Vahidin Omanovic’s story, which revolves around his slow, agonizing journey toward forgiving the Serbs—the group who were the most responsible for the Bosnian war/genocide.  We will learn the profound mind/body connection between hating and physical ailments, and forgiving and the healing of those ailments. Wehr will tell the story of how the book came to be as well as how she came upon the main theme, the “centerpost,” a sustaining, natural, instinctive value that arose within each one of them as they “made it through” the horrific conditions of the war. Participants will consider the primary importance of our having a centerpost, or several of them, ourselves as we make it through similarly chaotic and confusing times of global unrest. We want to resist falling prey to archetypal madness.  As Jung said, “there is no lunacy people under the domination of an archetype will not fall a prey to.”  (Jung: CW, Vol. 9 I, 47-48).

Demaris Wehr, Ph.D., is the author of Jung and Feminism: Liberating Archetypes (Routledge)  and Making It Through:  Bosnian Survivors Share Stories of Trauma, Transcendence, and Truth. Demaris has had a lifelong interest in peacebuilding, starting with her Quaker upbringing. She taught Religion and Psychology for many years, including at Swarthmore College, Harvard Divinity School, and the Episcopal Divinity School. Demaris began her practice as a Jungian psychotherapist in 1993. She and her late husband, Jungian analyst David Hart, had a joint practice in Dialogue Therapy (a form of couples therapy), which they did together as the therapist couple. Demaris is on the core faculty of the Sophia Center for Transformative Learning: Integrative Studies in Psyche and Soul. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. 

Forgiveness in the Face of Genocide
with Demaris Wehr

Saturday, April 30 | 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $30, Non-Members $35

The workshop will begin with a short (4 min.) film titled “Forgiveness: Even in the Face of Genocide?”  Discussion will follow. We will then consider our own definitions of forgiveness and possible resistance we may have to it.  We will do this in breakout groups, later to be shared with the whole group. Next we will reflect on Vahidin’s definition of forgiveness.  If we accept this new definition, we will then look at ways that we can possibly really do it. Using examples from our own lives, we will again break out in small groups to consider the need and practicality of forgiveness, learning from each other how it may actually, heartfully, be achieved.  (The person we need to forgive may be ourselves.) We will complete the workshop with a bringing-together of our learnings.

Demaris Wehr, Ph.D., is the author of Jung and Feminism: Liberating Archetypes (Routledge)  and Making It Through:  Bosnian Survivors Share Stories of Trauma, Transcendence, and Truth. Demaris has had a lifelong interest in peacebuilding, starting with her Quaker upbringing. She taught Religion and Psychology for many years, including at Swarthmore College, Harvard Divinity School, and the Episcopal Divinity School. Demaris began her practice as a Jungian psychotherapist in 1993. She and her late husband, Jungian analyst David Hart, had a joint practice in Dialogue Therapy (a form of couples therapy), which they did together as the therapist couple. Demaris is on the core faculty of the Sophia Center for Transformative Learning: Integrative Studies in Psyche and Soul. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. 

The Journey Circle
with Nanette Giacoma

Thursdays, February 3, March 3 & 31, May 5 | 7 to 9 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $65, Non-Members $75

Exploring a different archetype each class, we will delve into your psychic and intuitive self through a guided journey. As you engage your dreaming mind you will bodily, emotionally and psychically experience a unique journey that will expand your consciousness. Because your brain doesn’t know the difference between what you consider “reality” and the “dream” you will actually change biochemically and neurologically and begin to make small changes in your everyday actions. You will start to notice signs, symbols and synchronicity you may previously ignored, as messages meant to guide you on your life path. And as you tap in to this Universal Wisdom you will begin to transform your life.

The Circle goes back eons (pre-history) as a place humans gathered to tell stories around a fire. It creates a safe energetic space for our personal journeying and subsequent storytelling. In an open circle we will face each other and exchange energy without blocks. We will communicate at a deeper level through this energy exchange. As we get at the roots of our stories, then we then begin to see the greater web we co-create with each other and Spirit, and how the energy that we put out in the world comes back to us.

Nanette Giacoma, is an author, speaker, energy coach and healer, teacher, intuitive and artist, walks between the worlds of traditional and alternative practices  Integrating 30 plus years of business experience and 15 years of coaching experience using alternative methods, Nanette works energetically with her clients to help them align their energy with their professional and personal potential. She lives for those profound moments of insight that are the harbingers of change and transformation for her clients. Nanette has an MBA and an MA in Art and Consciousness Studies, and she is a Usui and Kundalini Reiki Master. Nanette is also a Level III Intuitive and Certified Master Intuitive Coach. In December of 2018, Nanette published her first book, Open for Business: How to Achieve Professional Success Using the Power of Chakras. She is currently working on a new book, Walking a Mystical Path Wearing Practical Shoes.

The Last Resort
with Kay Tobler Liss

Saturday, May 14 | 9:30 to 11:30 am  
Held Online via Zoom
Members $50, Non-Members $60

In this course, Kay Tobler Liss will present a three-part program based on her recent novel “The Last Resort.”  The novel’s main theme explores our connection to nature and a secondary theme concerns social and environmental justice for a Native American tribe.  The story traces the journey of a Manhattan lawyer seeking a different life who ends up living near the ocean where he meets a Native American woman who becomes his spiritual guide.

Topics to be discussed include: the mythic hero’s journey; the four ancient elements as actual characters and symbols of transformation; the power of dreams to aid in self-actualization; active imagination through writing; Native American wisdom versus Christian beliefs; and how the philosophies of Fredrick Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Thomas Berry, and Henry David Thoreau are woven into the story to reflect the hero’s path of individuation and integration. 

The three sessions will be divided into the beginning, middle, and end of the novel, roughly 60 pages each covering the 180 pages. For more information about the book and the author, one can visit https://kaytoblerliss.com/  The book can be purchased through the Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick or other venues noted on the website.

Kay Tobler Liss, BA studied English Literature at Bard College and completed a year-long certificate program in Environmental Studies at Southampton College of Long Island University. She was a journalist for newspapers and magazines, in New York and Maine, and also taught literature classes on the high school level and for Coastal Senior College and the former Round Top Center for the Arts in Maine. She has been a member and participant at the MJC since 2006. The Last Resort is her first novel.       

An Interview with Sanu Shamdasani on the Black Books
Facilitated by Misha Klimov
May 13 | Starts at 7 pm
Free for Members & Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

This interview with noted Jungian scholar, Sonu Shamdasani, dives into what The Black Books actually represent, what they could teach us about Carl Jung which we weren’t aware of before, and how Sonu views Jung’s work more as a visionary tradition not unlike the work of Swedenborg, Dante and William Blake. The Black Books are a testimony to how Jung became Jung, and how by going his own way he developed his own mythology or – as Sonu calls it – Jung’s personal cosmology. 

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Good Wine from Maine Grown Grapes: Is It Possible? 
with Bill Holt

Saturday, May 14 | 9:30 to 11:30 am  
Held Online via Zoom
Members $15, Non-Members $20

Growing grapes (viticulture) and making wine (viniculture) is an art older than recorded history.  Beginning in the region now called Slovenia some 8,500 years ago, it spread over the millennia across Asia Minor into Greece and Rome.  The religious, cultural, and practical contributions to both Western and near-Eastern civilization have been profound.  Varieties of Vitus Vinifera grapes grow well in moderate climates like much of Europe and the types of wine we know today all have their origin there.  But in colder climates such as the northern US, vinifera grapes do not survive very well. Hardy native wild grapes are found here, but most don’t make palatable wine.  Breeders have been trying to develop cold-hardy hybrids, combining cold tolerant and vinifera varieties with some recent success.  While I will cover this history, most of the presentation will be of my own trials growing these hybrids over 25 years in Cape Elizabeth.  I have benefitted from much reading, many courses, visits to vineyards, and just the experience of many errors and mistakes.  Making wine begins with good grapes, but northern hybrids also require new winery techniques as well as some chemistry, both of which I will also cover in this presentation. Good tasting, balanced red and white wines have become possible.  We are now beginning to see the development of commercial wineries in the upper Midwest and New England.  This avocation has proven to be a major ingredient in my retirement adjustment and emotional well-being…and besides, enjoying your own wine is its own reward!

William (Bill) Holt, MD. is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College and of Harvard Medical School.  A retired ophthalmologist, he is a co-founder of the Eyecare Medical Group in Portland.  Introduced to Jung by Chris Beach, for many years he has attended and participated in many of the Center’s activities.  He has presented at the Center on topics related to the Gnostics, the early history of Christianity, and Jung’s own Gnostic thinking.  About 25 years ago, challenged by the aphorism that “You can’t grow good wine grapes in Maine”, he set out on a very different venture. If individuation is being led unexpectedly into new territory, then viticulture and viniculture have qualified for him. 

Science and Spiritual Practice by Rupert Sheldrake: A Book Discussion Group
3rd Saturday of the Month | 10 am to 12 pm
Free for Members and Non-Members| Zoom Link Here
Facilitated by Jeff Pinette

This discussion group will explore the effects of spiritual practices through Rupert Sheldrake’s book entitled Science and Spiritual
Practices. The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. In this book, Sheldrake illustrates how science helps validate seven practices that underpin all major world religions:

◊ Meditation
◊ Gratitude
◊ Connecting with nature
◊ Relating to plants
◊ Rituals
◊ Singing and chanting
◊ Pilgrimage and holy places.

Sheldrake summarizes the latest scientific research on what happens when we take part in these practices and suggests ways that readers can explore these fields for themselves. Science and Spiritual Practices illuminates the evolutionary origins of various spiritual traditions and gives a new appreciation of their power. It also shows how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all, without the need to subscribe to a particular religious belief system. Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. He is the author of more than eighty-five scientific papers and twelve books. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England.

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments. This discussion group meets on the third Sunday of the month from 10 am to 12 pm.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and currently serves as co-chair of the Center’s Board and as the Program Committee Chair. He lives in Topsham.

The Last Resort
with Kay Tobler Liss

Saturday, May 14 | 9:30 to 11:30 am  
Held Online via Zoom
Members $50, Non-Members $60

In this course, Kay Tobler Liss will present a three-part program based on her recent novel “The Last Resort.”  The novel’s main theme explores our connection to nature and a secondary theme concerns social and environmental justice for a Native American tribe.  The story traces the journey of a Manhattan lawyer seeking a different life who ends up living near the ocean where he meets a Native American woman who becomes his spiritual guide.

Topics to be discussed include: the mythic hero’s journey; the four ancient elements as actual characters and symbols of transformation; the power of dreams to aid in self-actualization; active imagination through writing; Native American wisdom versus Christian beliefs; and how the philosophies of Fredrick Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Thomas Berry, and Henry David Thoreau are woven into the story to reflect the hero’s path of individuation and integration. 

The three sessions will be divided into the beginning, middle, and end of the novel, roughly 60 pages each covering the 180 pages. For more information about the book and the author, one can visit https://kaytoblerliss.com/  The book can be purchased through the Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick or other venues noted on the website.

Kay Tobler Liss, BA studied English Literature at Bard College and completed a year-long certificate program in Environmental Studies at Southampton College of Long Island University. She was a journalist for newspapers and magazines, in New York and Maine, and also taught literature classes on the high school level and for Coastal Senior College and the former Round Top Center for the Arts in Maine. She has been a member and participant at the MJC since 2006. The Last Resort is her first novel.       

The Last Resort
with Kay Tobler Liss

Saturday, May 14 | 9:30 to 11:30 am  
Held Online via Zoom
Members $50, Non-Members $60

In this course, Kay Tobler Liss will present a three-part program based on her recent novel “The Last Resort.”  The novel’s main theme explores our connection to nature and a secondary theme concerns social and environmental justice for a Native American tribe.  The story traces the journey of a Manhattan lawyer seeking a different life who ends up living near the ocean where he meets a Native American woman who becomes his spiritual guide.

Topics to be discussed include: the mythic hero’s journey; the four ancient elements as actual characters and symbols of transformation; the power of dreams to aid in self-actualization; active imagination through writing; Native American wisdom versus Christian beliefs; and how the philosophies of Fredrick Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Thomas Berry, and Henry David Thoreau are woven into the story to reflect the hero’s path of individuation and integration. 

The three sessions will be divided into the beginning, middle, and end of the novel, roughly 60 pages each covering the 180 pages. For more information about the book and the author, one can visit https://kaytoblerliss.com/  The book can be purchased through the Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick or other venues noted on the website.

Kay Tobler Liss, BA studied English Literature at Bard College and completed a year-long certificate program in Environmental Studies at Southampton College of Long Island University. She was a journalist for newspapers and magazines, in New York and Maine, and also taught literature classes on the high school level and for Coastal Senior College and the former Round Top Center for the Arts in Maine. She has been a member and participant at the MJC since 2006. The Last Resort is her first novel.       

Fairy Tale Reading Group
Facilitated by Debb Freedman
Last Sunday of the Month | 2 to 4pm
Free for Members and Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

In the ‘Mirror Mirror on the Wall’ Fairy Tale Reading Group, we explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing, and interpreting them can unearth kernels of universal truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories. 

The January meeting of the Fairy Tale Reading Group will focus on a tale by the Brothers Grimm called Iron John. Please click here if you would like to read this tale ahead of time, or have it downloaded/printed for the meeting.

Deborah Eve Freedman has been creating fairy tales for others for over twenty-five years. This ancient language of home as place on the outside and heart on the inside arrived as a surprise. She has presented her process during two global conferences at Oxford University and continues to be awed by its relevance.

Lesya Ukrainka’s Forest Song: a Fairy Drama in Three Acts
with Misha Klimov

Saturday, June 4 | 10 am to 12 pm 
Held Online via Zoom
Members $20, Non-Members $25

Throughout the Ukrainian world, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) is being celebrated this year. Ukrainka wrote “Forest Song” two years before her death. When first presented, B. Yakubsky wrote: “In truth, this is a symbolic drama of profound psychological interest, of an extraordinarily deep and tender lyricism whose language, full of the rich treasures of native folklore, is most harmonious and musical. It is an outstanding creation, not only of Ukrainian but of world literature.”  

Set against the background of Ukrainian mythology with “the activity of the manifold spirits behind the visible world,” the work interprets a myth about Mayka, a woodland nymph who falls in love with a human. Suffering from bone tuberculosis from early childhood, Ukrainka insisted that, like Mayka, her spirit could transcend physical suffering. At the end of the play, Mayka becomes immortal as she turns into a willow tree: “I am alive! I will live eternally; I have that in my heart which cannot die. I love my pain, for I gave life to it.” 

The play is saturated with the energy of tensions of the binary oppositions that strive for balance and unity, such as human-animal, sanity-insanity, sacred-profane, body-soul, feminine-masculine, animus-anima, mortality-immortality.  Exploring the motive of shifting boundaries between the forces of nature and human civilization, we are reminded that myth is alive, visionary, and prophetic.  

Michael Klimov, MA, holds a master’s degree in Foreign Languages (English and French) from Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Modern Languages degree in Russian and French through Middlebury College in Vermont. This presentation is related to Klimov’s dissertation research on mythical consciousness in Russian fairy tales. Michael Klimov has been a member of the Maine Jung Center for a number of years, and has always appreciated its intellectual, welcoming, inspirational, and healing atmosphere.

Awakening the Christ Within: An Exploration of Jesus’ Non-Dual Inter-Personal Consciousnes
with Robert Jonas

Saturday, June 11 | 9 am to 12 pm
Held Online via Zoom
Members $30, Non-Members $35

For most of Christian history, followers of Jesus focused almost exclusively on his divine identity. In recent decades, theologians began discussing Jesus as a historical figure. Yet, until now, hardly anyone has explored Jesus’ psychological and spiritual awareness.  What does St. Paul mean when he maintains that we have “the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16)?  What is “the mind of Christ,” anyway, and what practices and perspectives might help us to experience it ourselves?       

Following a trail of scripture sayings and stories, as well as the teachings of ancient Christian mystics, Dr. Jonas explores the possibility that any of us can discover and awaken the mind (Greek: nous) of Christ.  In his forthcoming book, My Dear Far-Nearness, Jonas suggests that Jesus’ consciousness circulated in three portals of knowing that are both trinitarian and non-dual — and that, with practice, all of us can learn to awaken this human-divine awareness.  

Robert A. Jonas, Ed.D, M.T.S, is the founder and director of the Empty Bell, a contemplative sanctuary in Northampton, MA, with an emphasis on Buddhist-Christian dialogue and the arts. Jonas is an author, musician, environmental activist, and retreat leader. A Christian in the Carmelite tradition, he has also received spiritual formation with Buddhist teachers. He is a student of Suizen, the Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flute, a member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and the Eckhart Society, and a past board member of the Kestrel Land Trust and the Henri Nouwen Society. He is the author of several books and articles including The Essential Henri Nouwen and Rebecca: A Father’s Journey from Grief to Gratitude. He is the author of the upcoming book, My Dear Far-Nearness: The Holy Trinity as Spiritual Practice (Orbis Books). Glimpse Jonas’ shakuhachi music on iTunes by searching for “Blowing Bamboo” and his name.  For more information, visit emptybell.org.

Death Café
Facilitated by Martha Spruce
Fridays, April 1st and June 17th | Starts at 7pm
Free to Members and Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

“Death is psychologically as important as birth, and like it, is an integral part of life.” ~ C.G. Jung

Let’s gather together to talk about death. Not to grieve, not to seek therapeutic support, but simply to have a group-directed discussion with the broad intention to increase our awareness of death. Perhaps that greater awareness might help us to deeply appreciate our lives right now, right here. Death Cafes around the world give us all, young and old, an opportunity to talk about death without any agenda, advice, objective, or conclusion. We agree to respect each other’s viewpoints and confidentiality. Donations to the Jung Center are welcomed. You can find the Zoom link in the description above. The two discussion dates do not imply a progression of any theme and so you may attend one (or both) session(s). Covid has brought death very close to many of us. A Death Café may help us to become open to more acceptance and curiosity. Let’s refrain from trying to outsource death. It belongs to each of us, intimately.

Martha Spruce, the founder of Hearts & Hands Reiki, has been practicing and teaching Reiki in the mid-coast area for over 25 years. During that time, she has also cared for terminally ill people as a certified hospice volunteer and homecare provider. She has also volunteered as a certified pastoral chaplain at Mid Coast Hospital. Being with people who are dying has helped her to learn what death might give as well as what it takes.

Fairy Tale Reading Group
Facilitated by Debb Freedman
Last Sunday of the Month | 2 to 4pm
Free for Members and Non-Members
Held Via Zoom | Zoom Link Here

In the ‘Mirror Mirror on the Wall’ Fairy Tale Reading Group, we explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing, and interpreting them can unearth kernels of universal truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories. 

The January meeting of the Fairy Tale Reading Group will focus on a tale by the Brothers Grimm called Iron John. Please click here if you would like to read this tale ahead of time, or have it downloaded/printed for the meeting.

Deborah Eve Freedman has been creating fairy tales for others for over twenty-five years. This ancient language of home as place on the outside and heart on the inside arrived as a surprise. She has presented her process during two global conferences at Oxford University and continues to be awed by its relevance.