Being Courageous: The Hero Within

Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D.

"Being Courageous: The Hero Within"

What story are you living? If someone followed you with a camera, what kind of movie would they make? What would you do if you were really bold or lived in harmony with your authentic desires? In her presentation, Dr. Pearson will describe a variety of archetypal stories that require different kinds of courage and challenges. Additionally, in smaller group workshops, she will walk us through the process of exploring the universal stories we currently live, and help us identify ones that might be beckoning.

Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., is Director of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and a Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland College Park. Dr. Pearson’s work applies Jungian principles to everyday life and work. Among her numerous publications are The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By; Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes that Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World, and The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes.

Gilda Frantz, M.A.

"Agelessness: The Very Soul of Beauty"

Deep suffering can constellate the question, “Why me?” Once we ask that question, our quest for meaning begins. This quest has to do with aging as well as an expression of our spiritual and creative instincts. Combining presentation and workshop, we will learn what is essential and necessary to the “third half of life,” and how to achieve this as we discuss examples from lives of so-called ordinary people, and explore the need for meaning in our lives…and becoming ageless.

Gilda Frantz, M.A., is a Jungian analyst living and practicing in Santa Monica, California. She has been president of the C.G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles, and taught and served on many of its boards. Gilda has lectured in the United States, Asia and Europe, is on the board of the Philemon Foundation, and is co-editor-in-chief of the highly respected journal “Psychological Perspectives,” of which she was a founding editor.

Ann Ulanov, Ph.D.

“The Courage to Embrace Our Inferior Function ”

Each of us contains all the aspects of “personality type”—i.e. thinking, feeling, intuition, sensation and introversion or extraversion. For each of us, some functions are used more than others, but the “inferior” function (the least used) really is inferior. It may be a source of transformation, but we don’t know how. We encounter it, but don’t understand it. It is as if opening the door and a rhino confronts us, or, for some, coming upon a mathematician in the basement talking in numbers. We will circle round this lively beast in lecture and discussion and see what happens!

Ann Belford Ulanov, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, is a Jungian analyst in private practice. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Spiritual Aspects of Clinical Work; The Functioning Transcendent; and The Wisdom of the Psyche. Additionally, together with her late husband Barry Ulanov, she co-authored many books and articles, including Transforming Sexuality: The Archetypal World of Anima and Animus. Her most recent book: The Unshuttered Heat: Opening to Aliveness and Deadness in the Self, is scheduled for publication in October, 2007..

Ashok Bedi, M.D.

“The Hero’s Journey in Second Half of Life—
An Eastern Perspective”

The Hero is a familiar archetype for the Western Psyche and builds on the supposition that the soul guides the Hero’s journey towards maturation and individuation in the second half of life while helping further one’s individual destiny. Alternatively, Dr. Bedi will explore the Eastern perspective for this maturation process as it unfolds in the lives of men and women along parallel but different paths. Case examples will be presented as illustrations.

Ashok Bedi, M.D. is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and faculty member at the Jung Institute of Chicago. Trained in India, Great Britain and the U.S., he is interested in the emerging frontiers of Spirituality and Healing. Some of his many publications include “Accidents and Synchronicity: Messages From the Soul”; Path to the Soul, and Retire Your Family Karma.

Additional Workshop - Week One
Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.

“Choreographies in Courage: Our Natural Inheritance”