Sylvia Brinton Perera, M.a.

“Special Weekend with Sylvia Perera

Sylvia Brinton Perera, M.a., is a jungian analyst who lives, practices, writes, and teaches in New York and Vermont. on the faculty and Board of the jung institute of N.Y., she lectures and leads workshops internationally. her publications include Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women; The Scapegoat Complex: Towards a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt; Dreams, A Portal to the Source (with e. Christopher whitmont); Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction: An Archetypal Perspective; The Irish Bull God: Image of Multiform and Integral Masculinity.

Friday evening:

The ‘Ritual Bridge’: From Concrete Need to Spiritual Communion

This evening’s presentation will examine vignettes from the story of a long psychotherapy in which an individual ritual created in an analysis played out over time. It supported the process of transformation and functioned to dose embodied needs and energies, shape aspects of the relational field, arouse consciousness, and enable the emergence of new relatedness between personal and archetypal dimensions, Ego and Self.

 

Saturday:

Celtic Well Rites and Rites of Individuation
A Day-Long, Experiential Workshop

In Ireland and Wales many rituals of the ancient cult of sacred waters survived into modern times and have relevance for contemporary Jungian therapy. The holy wells were considered sources of fertility, regeneration, deepened and expanded vision, sovereignty initiations, and are still visited for healing. Some of the rituals are similar to the Christian Eucharist, which Jung termed "the rite of individuation." During this day, we will each make our own imaginal journey to the wellspring to explore how the stages of the healing rites can attune us to the source and help us transform our relationships to our complexes. [For this workshop, bring a notebook for journaling.]