All Programs

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Psychology of the Future by Stanislav Grof

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

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

For more information and detailed syllabus, see:

Psychology of the Future 2018-19 Discussion Group Syllabus

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

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: What Matters Most by James Hollis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Psychology of the Future by Stanislav Grof

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

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

For more information and detailed syllabus, see:

Psychology of the Future 2018-19 Discussion Group Syllabus

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

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: What Matters Most by James Hollis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Valentine Celebration and Gathering
Seven Ways in the Art of Loving… Body, Soul, Mind, and Spirit
New Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019; 2019
Sunday, February 10, 2019; 1 to 3 pm
Members $20, Non-Members $25

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

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

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

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

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

The Many Faces of the Wild Woman Archetype in Time of Transition
Three Sundays: March 24, 31, & April 7, 2019; 2 to 4 pm
Members $60, Non-Members $70

But even where the transformative character of the Feminine
Appears as a negative, hostile, and provocative element, it compels
Tension, change, and an intensification of the personality.
– Eric Neumann, The Great Mother

The ‘Wild Woman’ archetype seems very much present in the collective landscape, calling to be recognized as evident in the transformative power of ‘The Women’s March’ and the ‘#Me Too Movement’. In this time of change, a new paradigm not necessarily of our conscious choosing is emerging. Fundamental principles are changing in the collective landscape. We each must decide whether we want to become co-creators or be swept along by these wild forces.

The Webster Dictionary defines the word ‘Wild’ as: living in a state of nature, not domesticated; impatient when subject to restraint or regulation; destructive, ferocious; turbulent, stormy; unrestrained, fantastic in appearance or ideas; visionary, crazy; eager with desire or enthusiasm, angry… Each of these states is familiar to me… are they to you?

In this three week seminar we will explore together the transformative energy of the ‘Wild Woman’ archetype. How can we recognize ‘Her’? How can we hold and use ‘Her’ power and energy to navigate the here and now? The ancient goddess Artemis will be our guide as we explore these transformative times.

Paola Biola, M.A., is a Jungian analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institute-Zurich. Paola has a private practice in Harpswell, where individuals or couples can stay for a weekend of intensive work. She has served as a member and Co-Chair of the Board of the Maine Jung Center.

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Psychology of the Future by Stanislav Grof

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

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

For more information and detailed syllabus, see:

Psychology of the Future 2018-19 Discussion Group Syllabus

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

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: What Matters Most by James Hollis

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

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

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

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

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

The Many Faces of the Wild Woman Archetype in Time of Transition
Three Sundays: March 24, 31, & April 7, 2019; 2 to 4 pm
Members $60, Non-Members $70

But even where the transformative character of the Feminine
Appears as a negative, hostile, and provocative element, it compels
Tension, change, and an intensification of the personality.
– Eric Neumann, The Great Mother

The ‘Wild Woman’ archetype seems very much present in the collective landscape, calling to be recognized as evident in the transformative power of ‘The Women’s March’ and the ‘#Me Too Movement’. In this time of change, a new paradigm not necessarily of our conscious choosing is emerging. Fundamental principles are changing in the collective landscape. We each must decide whether we want to become co-creators or be swept along by these wild forces.

The Webster Dictionary defines the word ‘Wild’ as: living in a state of nature, not domesticated; impatient when subject to restraint or regulation; destructive, ferocious; turbulent, stormy; unrestrained, fantastic in appearance or ideas; visionary, crazy; eager with desire or enthusiasm, angry… Each of these states is familiar to me… are they to you?

In this three week seminar we will explore together the transformative energy of the ‘Wild Woman’ archetype. How can we recognize ‘Her’? How can we hold and use ‘Her’ power and energy to navigate the here and now? The ancient goddess Artemis will be our guide as we explore these transformative times.

Paola Biola, M.A., is a Jungian analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institute-Zurich. Paola has a private practice in Harpswell, where individuals or couples can stay for a weekend of intensive work. She has served as a member and Co-Chair of the Board of the Maine Jung Center.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) | Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Viewing facilitated by Christos Gianopoulos

After the untimely death of 16-year-old Martin’s father on the operating table, little by little, a deep and empathetic bond begins to form between him and the respected cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Steven Murphy. Right from the start, a vague, yet unnerving feeling overshadows Martin’s honest intent. In the end, as the sins of one burden the entire family, only an unimaginable and unendurable decision that demands a pure sacrifice can purge the soul. But to find catharsis, one must first admit the sin.

Death Café
Sunday, April 14, 2019; 1 to 3:30 pm
FREE for Members and Non-Members
(Donations Welcome)

Maximum Participants: 14

In this meeting lasting for two and a half hours, we will gather to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death. The objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. This is a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session. Death Cafes have been held across the U. S. and much of Europe.

These Cafes are offered on a not-for-profit basis (participants may be invited to make a minimal donation), held in an accessible, respectful, and confidential space, and are open-ended having no intention to lead people to any conclusion, product, or course of action. Refreshments, including cake, are provided.

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst practicing in Maine. She has taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Maine Jung Center, the Boston Jung Institute, and various other Jungian associations.

Will Furber, J.D., is a Jungian analyst from North Bath, Maine. He helped found the Maine Jung Center 30 years ago and is a former Board Chair. He is a faculty member of the Boston Jung Institute, where he co-leads a recurring seminar which has as one of its principal aims the enrichment and development of collective life.

The Individuation Process of the Transgender Individual Using the Major Arcana of Tarot
Saturday, April 27, 2019; 1 to 4 pm
Members $30, Non-Members $35

This talk will use the images of the Major Arcana of the Tarot, often referred to as the Fool’s Journey (from nigredo to individuation), to paint a landscape of the individuation process of the transgender individual.

Topics to be covered include: analytic dynamics, coming out, community, rites of passage, parents and mentorship, sexual orientation, the Self, politics and justice, liminality, the struggle for equality, sexual differences, addiction, mental health/substance abuse disorders, the use of language, self-acceptance, and individuation.

Rick Bouchard, LCSW, IAAP, is a clinical social worker and Jungian analyst. He has been in private practice in Southern Maine since 1999, working with adolescents, adults, couples and offers an ongoing dream group. Rick received his analytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute-Boston. He is a member of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts (NESJA), and has taught on the faculty of the Jung Institute analyst training program. Rick works with the transgender community in his analytic practice. He currently attends Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis working on his Doctorate in Psychoanalysis. He is 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 Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month:
Starting April 28, 2019
2 to 4 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will 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. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Psychology of the Future by Stanislav Grof

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

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

For more information and detailed syllabus, see:

Psychology of the Future 2018-19 Discussion Group Syllabus

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

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: What Matters Most by James Hollis

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month:
Starting April 28, 2019
2 to 4 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will 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. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

Myth of the Labyrinth
Saturday, May 4, 2019; 10 am to 4 pm
Members $50, Non-Members $60

The labyrinth serves as an archetypal symbol of the journey of consciousness and as integration of various parts of ourselves, bringing us closer to the “Self” as eternal.

Using active imagination and expressive tools, we will explore how the Greek Myth of the Labyrinth provides a metaphor for this process. In this myth, the bestial minotaur is imprisoned in the labyrinth by King Minos, who embodies aggression and greed. It was designed to protect others in the same way that we bury and compartmentalize our own inner shadow characters.

King Minos has a daughter, Ariadne, whose name means “Most Holy”. Ariadne appeals to Theseus, promising him that she will give him the means to slay the minotaur and a string to guide him out if he will take her with him when he leaves, which he does. Theseus comes to symbolize the power and limits of our inner heroism.

Lois LeBlanc, LCPC, CPT, is a psychotherapist and certified polarity therapist whose work and life is informed by her interest and training in energy fields and depth psychology. She is a past president of the Maine Mental Health Counselors Association and currently serves on the program committee at the Maine Jung Center. Her intimacy with the natural world and her love of people provides the platform from which she functions personally and professionally as clinician and educational presenter. She lives in rural Maine.

Bodhi Simpson, LCPC, ATR, is a Registered Art Therapist. She is a Past President of the Maine Mental Health Counselors Association and is student at Wisdom University working toward a Ph.D. in Wisdom Studies. Bodhi provides individual and group sessions, workshops, trainings, and retreats that incorporate creative expression and work with imagination, intuition and metaphor.

Major Spring Program 2019 – Beverley Zabriskie
Emotion: The Alchemistry of Life

(Lecture) Friday, May 17, 2019; 7 to 9 pm
Members $20, Non-Members $25

(Workshop) Saturday, May 18, 2019; 9:30 am to 1:30 pm
Members $40, Non-Members $50

On the one hand emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all superfluities to ashes. But on the other hand, emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.
– C. G. Jung

Friday Lecture
Emotion moves us, and is a force by which we are moved. Emotion is a dynamism and daemon in, through, and across the spectrums of our beings and lives. Emotion harmonizes or divides, attracts or repels, injures or fosters selfhood and resilience, enables repair after rupture. It colors, resonates, imprints, and impacts both self and other.

In nature, emotion serves survival. In relationship, our emotions foster connection and internal balance, or trigger trauma and chronic disorientation. In culture, it leads to creativity.

Jung’s view of psyche as an emotional process allows us to experience and engage, endure and recover as we reflect and imagine ourselves and our world.

Saturday Workshop
Emotion is the essential factor in nature, culture, and psyche. This discussion will evoke species-wide wisdom, the Jungian perspective on the affective psyche, dream imagery, and current neuroscience to explore how emotions appear and are processed in the considered and experienced life.

Jung once wrote that the fateful alternatives in life are between bitterness and wisdom. How we engage emotion in day-to-day contexts, how we receive the emotional narratives of our conscious reactions and dreams determines our memories, expectations, and felt sense of personhood in engagement with self, society, and universe.

In therapeutic and educational settings, the capacity to engage the range of emotion shapes our learning curves, and sculpts our receptivity, authenticity, and integrity while engaging with an inner and outer other.

Do we have emotions? Or do our emotions have us? In Jung’s view, emotion links or severs body and mind, provokes reaction, or fuels insight and imagination. In his scheme, emotional equilibrium allows us to be the subjects of our own lives, rather than the objects of our history. Our ability to feel, recognize, and express the spectrums of emotions informs our resilience in meeting and enduring the destructive and healing emotions implicit in our species’ existence.

Beverley Zabriskie is a Jungian Analyst in New York City, a founding faculty member and former President of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA). She is a past President of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), and past Vice-President of the Philemon Foundation which published The Red Book and other volumes by C. G. Jung. She is currently on the Executive Committee of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Her many publications include “Spectrums of Emotion” in Research in Analytical Psychology: Applications from Scientific, Historical and Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 1 (2018); “Energy and Emotion: C. G. Jung’s Fordham Declaration” in Jung in the Academy and Beyond: The Fordham Lectures 100 Years Later (2015); “Time and Tao in Synchronicity” in The Pauli-Jung Conjecture and Its Impact Today (2014); and “A Meeting of Rare Minds”, the Preface to Atom and Archetype: The Pauli-Jung Correspondence (2001).

Journey of the Universe (2011) | Directed by David Kennard & Patsy Northcutt
Viewing facilitated by Thankful Butler

Using his skills as a masterful storyteller, author and evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme Swimme connects such big picture issues as the birth of the cosmos 14 billion years ago to the invisible frontiers of the human genome as well as to our current impact on Earth’s evolutionary dynamics. Through his engaging and thoughtful observations we discover the profound role we play in this intricate web of life.

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: What Matters Most by James Hollis

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month:
Starting April 28, 2019
2 to 4 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will 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. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

The Enneagram and Conscious Relationships
Saturday, June 1, 2019; 1 to 3:30 pm
Members $30, Non-Members $35

Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves.
– C. G. Jung

Often, we’re aware that certain relationships in our lives challenge us, but we aren’t sure how to improve them. We may ask, “How can she behave that way?” or “Doesn’t he have any feelings?” or “What could that person be thinking?” And we may experience the same frustrating relationship pattern repeating itself with different people.

This workshop will cover the nine Enneagram types and how each is oriented toward relationships with others. Understanding our type—and the types of those around us—can liberate us from stuck patterns of interaction and behavior. As we bring awareness to the inner blueprints we carry unconsciously, we can begin to “wake up” to the authentic potential every relationship holds.

Through lecture, small-group exercises, guided meditation, and music, we will explore the typical “object relations” of each type, how to identify and work with our “instinctual stack,” and some key ways to improve any relationship. This workshop is appropriate for those who are new to the Enneagram as well as longtime aficionados.

Grace Holland, M.A., received her teaching certification from the Enneagram Institute in 2010. Her teachers, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson, are renowned Enneagram scholars and authors of The Wisdom of the Enneagram and other bestselling books. Before becoming an Enneagram teacher, Grace worked for a number of years in the fields of communication and publishing. She has used both the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs as a personal and career coach, as well as in her family life. Grace is a member of the International Enneagram Association and has taught in university, church, and small group settings. She lives in Maine with her husband and their two teenage daughters. Grace also helped parent three stepchildren.

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

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: What Matters Most by James Hollis

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month:
Starting April 28, 2019
2 to 4 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will 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. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month:
Starting April 28, 2019
2 to 4 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will 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. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month:
Starting April 28, 2019
2 to 4 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will 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. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month:
Starting April 28, 2019
2 to 4 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will 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. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.