A Rich Tapestry: Mid-Life and Beyond
Conference: March 3-10, 2007
Kilkenny County, lined with castles, steeped in Irish history and containing some of the most beautiful countryside in Ireland, will provide the setting for this year’s Jung in Ireland conference: “A Rich Tapestry: Mid-Life and Beyond.”
The New York Center for Jungian Studies has assembled a distinguished, dynamic and international faculty to help us explore this exciting, vital and creative period in our lives. Among others, our faculty will include Andrew Harvey, Thomas Patrick Lavin and Wendy Doniger from the U.S.; Jan Bauer and Guy Corneau from Canada and Aryeh Maidenbaum, Ph.D. & Diana Rubin, L.C.S.W. Directors, N.Y. Center for Jungian Studies Maureen Concannon and Noirin Ni Riain from Ireland, who will help us celebrate, struggle with and deepen our understanding of what Jung calls the search for meaning in the second half of life.
This unique program, our seventh in Ireland, provides participants with the rare opportunity to combine workshops, presentations, discussion groups and dialogue with sightseeing, traditional Irish music, and optional excursions to historic and scenic sites in the “Sunny Southeast”—Ireland’s driest and warmest corner of the country.
We invite you to join us in Ireland this coming March!
Aryeh Maidenbaum, Ph.D. & Diana Rubin, L.C.S.W.
Directors, N.Y. Center for Jungian Studies
Tentative Daily Schedule
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
For those in need of transportation from Dublin airport, board luxury coachF for drive to Lyrath Estates. En-route, rest stop and time for lunch in Kilkenny before proceeding to the Lyrath Estates. One of Ireland’s finest, five star hotels, the Lyrath includes a traditional 17th Century house, over 170 acres of scenic parkland and is ideally situated a five minute drive from Kilkenny and other important sacred sites in the area. Check in to the Lyrath, rest, relax and enjoy the hotel’s amenities. Evening: Orientation and festive opening dinner.
SUNDAY, MARCH 4
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Welcome, and opening remarks.
Wendy Doniger, “Myths of Masks and Identity: Pretending to be Who You Are”
12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Break for Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Choice of Workshops:
Jan Bauer, “Personal Authority in the Second Half of Life: Where Life and Shadow Collide”
Andrew Harvey, “The Sacred Marriage: Union of Body and Soul”
Tom Lavin, “The Sage: Slowly Slipping Into Wonder”
Noirin Ni Riain, “Mo Sceal Fein—Sceal Gach Duine; My Story—Everyone’s Story (ancient Irish Proverb). Finding a spirituality through sound, song, listening and silence.”
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Break for Coffee and Tea
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Choice of Workshops:
Maureen Concannon, “Transforming the Past: Filling in the Gaps and Letting go—with the help of Brigid, Goddess and Saint. Reuniting Father Sky and Mother Earth”
Guy Corneau, “A Time for Creative Impulses”
Wendy Doniger, “Mythology of the Face Lift”
Diana Rubin, “Remembering How to Play”
MONDAY, MARCH 5
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Jan Bauer, “Necessary Changes: What Remains to be Done? (and how do we know it?)”
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Break for Coffee and Tea
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Tom Lavin, “The Art of Growing Wiser: Comedy and the Transcendent Function”
1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Break for Lunch
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Choice of Workshops:
Maureen Concannon, “Creating the Future— Rebirthing into Spiritual Awareness. Bringing Out New Creativity with Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom)”
Guy Corneau, “Overcoming the Fear of Change”
Wendy Doniger, “Myths of Gender Bending”
Andrew Harvey, “Sacred Activism: Union of Inner and Outer Transformation”
Noirin Ni Riain, “Towards a Poetics of Listening: a work/playshop for everyone (singers and listeners alike) who is drawn to the innate power of sound to transform”
TUESDAY, MARCH 6
Free Day. Enjoy the hotel’s spa facilities; explore Ireland on your own, OR: Optional trips Led by licensed Irish guide Conor Ellard to the port town of New Ross, including visit to the “historical tall ship” Dunbrody (an extraordinary reconstruction of the original Famine Ship) and other interesting sites in the area…OR… Vigorous excursion to archaeological sites personally guided by one of Ireland’s leading archaeologists, Michael Gibbons.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Guy Corneau, “A Chance to Recreate Oneself at Mid-Life and Beyond”
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Break for Coffee and Tea
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Noirin Ni Riain, “Mid-Life Theosony: A Time for Listening Obediently to the Sounds of the ‘ear of the heart’”
1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Break for Lunch
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Choice of Workshops:
Jan Bauer, “Money in Mid-Life—a Map of Our Archetypal Imperatives”
Maureen Concannon, “Facing the Fears— Lying in the Bed of the Fearsome Hag: The Banshee and Sheela na Gig”
Andrew Harvey, “Yoga and Mysticism”
Tom Lavin, “The Fool: Time to ‘fool around’”
Aryeh Maidenbaum, “If Not Now, When?”
Evening: (Optional) music and camaraderie at
traditional Irish Pub in Kilkenny.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Maureen Concannon, “Mid-Life and Later— Growing into Real Power. When Living Itself Becomes the Friend”
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Break for Coffee and Tea
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Choice of Workshops:
Jan Bauer, “Envy as We Age: Sign of Life or Impasse?”
Guy Corneau, “Prioritizing and Realizing Life Values and Ideals”
Wendy Doniger, “The Evolving Mythology of Death in India”
Tom Lavin, “The Magician: Show them your Magic”
Noirin Ni Riain, “The Happy Heart is True (Brigid, 4th century): The Wisdom of the Mythological Cailleach Bheara/Brigid Goddess and Christian Saint, and the Three Marys”
Afternoon: Free to explore Kilkenney and vicinity on your own. OR (optional) activities:
- walking tour in Kilkenny city, including Kilkenny Castle, and the Black Abbey
- visit to the famous Waterford Crystal factory.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Andrew Harvey, “The Way of the Heart”
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Break for Coffee and Tea
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Faculty Panel Discussion and conference closure.
Afternoon: Free…
Evening: Festive, closing, farewell dinner with
traditional Irish Music performed by local Irish
musicians.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10
Departure from Lyrath Estates.
PLEASE NOTE:
- Final schedule may be modified and subject to change.
- Full Irish breakfast (daily); all coffee and tea breaks; three lunches and two dinners included in conference tuition.
- Optional activities at additional charge— details will be sent upon registration.
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