“Evolving Archetypes: Revisioning and Redefining Ourselves and Our World”

Sunday August 2, 2009

Orientation, Opening meeting and
Welcoming Dinner!

 

Monday August 3, 2009

Joe Cambray, Ph.D.

The Fabric of the Psyche: Our Evolving Archetypes

After a century of depth psychology, it is time to assess the core concepts of the founders. One of Jung’s most important and unique contributions to our view of the psyche and psychic life is the idea of the archetype. The multiple sources Jung drew upon to create this vision, and the way it evolved in his thought over his long career, will be explored in the first part of Dr. Cambray’s presentation.  As psychological ideas are “living things,” they tend to change with each generation of practitioners.  How has our understanding of the archetypes altered in the years since Jung’s death?  What are the myths we live by today in a world increasingly conscious of interconnectedness? The relevance of these shifts in understanding will be linked to evolving clinical practice, and living a life of individuation, which will inform the second part of this presentation.

Jan Bauer, M.A.

Paradoxical Values for a Paradoxical Time

Tuesday August 4, 2009

Morning and Afternoon Workshop Choices:

Jan Bauer, M.A.

Money: Its Myths and Mysteries!

How to broaden the money archetype in a world that has reduced it to 'just' a dollar sign? Sometimes sacred, sometimes profane, always mercurial, money holds us in its thrall. We are all concerned with it but few of us can actually relate to it in a way where both head and heart, necessity and creativity, work together harmoniously. This presentation will explore some of money's myriad meanings, its history and mystery, and address the question of 'Why is it that the world of money and the world of psychology seem mutually exclusive?'.

 

Joe Cambray, Ph.D.

Psyche’s Patterns: Mythic Vision and Evolution

Janne Bresciani, Ph.D.

Myth, Movement and Metaphor: Our Changing Archetypes

 

 

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Melanie Starr Costello, Ph.D.

Reformulating Our Sense of Place in the World

In this “global age” of limited resources, we struggle for self-survival and species-survival while witnessing the demise of integral cultures and local economies. We observe unprecedented waves of human migration and an alarming escalation of communal warfare. At the same time, we collectively awaken to the interconnections in nature and between people of disparate cultural origins, and are witnessing a rising esprit of global consciousness.

How do our dreams help us adapt to such rapid and dramatic changes in our world? In this presentation, Dr. Costello will help us explore the images, symbols, and callings stemming from dreams appearing at this critical juncture. We will see how numinous dreams of nature and cosmos help us transcend the polarities behind our alienation from nature, our selves, and one another.  We will explore motifs in contemporary dreaming that reflect the ongoing evolution of the god-image and the interconnectedness of psyche and cosmos.

 

 

Thursday, August 6, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009

Jean Bolen, M.D.

Contemporary Myth Making: Constellating Obama in the Collective Psyche

President Obama is an example of an evolving archetype, symbolized by his identity as a mother’s son, in a partnership marriage, and as a father concerned with the well-being of daughters. His election could symbolize the emergence of the suppressed feminine and ‘dark other’ into the collective and individual psyche. He is a manly man, who exemplifies feminine values of reconciliation, interdependency, collaboration and communication. He comes into prominence at a time of crisis, with global warming and a global financial crisis, mythologically at the end of the Mayan Calendar and the end of a 28,000 year Hindu cycle (both in 2012), during the Aquarian Age and with 21st Century technology.

Jean Bolen’s speculations and observations have as much to do with each of us as it has to do with the first family. The archetype of the community activist is stirring in all of us who want to make our world better for having been here. There will be much food for thought and reflections on change and what it means to be living our personal myth.

 

Thursday Evening: Festive Dinner!