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2/21/2015 – Confronting Your Personal Shadow

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Saturday February 21, 2015 10am-3pm Smith Campus’s Seelye Hall, Rm 105

Confronting Your Personal Shadow
A Seminar by Thayer Greene

Date:  Saturday February 21, 2015 10am-3pm

Location: Smith Campus’s Seelye Hall, Rm 105

Cost: a voluntary contribution of $30 or less depending on what you can afford

The most difficult aspect of becoming a whole person psychologically, i.e. becoming authentic and real, requires an honest and often painful engagement with disowned and split off parts of our personality. We cannot grow into our full potential unless we are willing to make such an effort. This seminar will explore the ways and means for such a transformation.

Seminar will meet Saturday Feb 21 10am to 3pm in room 105 Seelye Hall, Smith College. To register either sign your name and tel# on a sheet available next Friday (2/6) at the lecture about Contempt & Shame in Seelye Hall Rm#106 or call my Home number 413-253-9343 and leave a message with your name and tel#. The suggested contribution is $30 but but give what you can. You will be welcome.

Thayer Greene, Ph.D., is a graduate of the Jung Institute of New York, and a training analyst at the Jung Institute of Boston. He has a private practice in Amherst.  

To confirm that you are coming please call Thayer at 413-253-9343 and leave your name and phone number.

2/26/15-4/30/15 A Discussion Group of Jung’s Memoir: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Thursdays February 26-April 30, 2015 7pm-9pm at the house of David & Carol Beauvais

A Discussion Group of Jung’s Memoir: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Facilitated by Carol Beauvais

Dates: We will meet on Thursdays, 7-9PM, from February 26-April 30 with the exception of weeks there are a Friday JAWM lecture.

Location: Meetings are at the house of David & Carol Beauvais (for address contact Carol at (413) 584-5244 or carolbeau@msn.com).

Cost: Free

A DISCUSSION GROUP OF JUNG’S MEMOIR

Invitation from Carol Beauvais, Ph.D. clinical psychologist, board member Jung Association of Western Mass

Dear Community,

Recently, Rebecca Odegard, “on behalf of a number of you who have met and shown a deeper interest and longing for a place to share and discuss your thoughts and reflections on Jung”, has requested to the board that a reading group of Jung’s memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections be offered.

In response to this request, it would be my pleasure to facilitate a reading group for Jung’s memoir. The group’s purpose will be, not only to read and discuss Jung, but also to explore what Jung’s memoir catalyzes in each of us as we reflect upon our own historical time and our own life journey.

We will meet on Thursdays, 7-9PM, from February 26-April 30 with the exception of weeks there are a Friday JAWM lecture. Meetings are at the house of David & Carol Beauvais (for address contact Carol at (413) 584-5244 or carolbeau@msn.com).

Rebecca is coordinating the group and will be in contact regarding any schedule changes due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances. I will facilitate the group, which means being responsible for its format and members’ safety. Erica Lorentz, president of JAWM, will join us as she is available, to add her extensive knowledge of Jung to the mix. We are looking forward to taking this journey together. We hope to see you there.

To register you can sign up at Fridays’ lecture on 2/6 or email Rebecca Odegard, Odegardstudio@gmail.com.

I can be reached at (413) 584-5244 or carolbeau@msn.com

Sincerely,

Carol Beauvais, Ph.D.
Board member, JAWM
01/31/15

3/22/2015 – Meet the Greek Gods and Goddesses

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Sunday, March 22, 2015 1:30pm to 3:00pm

Meet the Greek Gods and Goddesses
A Field Trip with the Western Mass. Jung Society to the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, MA

Date:  Sunday, March 22, 2015 1:30pm to 3:00pm

Location: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, MA

Cost: $11, $9 for Seniors over 60

Spend an afternoon with the Western Mass. Jung Society getting to know the Greek Gods and Goddesses in the plaster cast collection of the Smith Museum in Springfield.  Museum docent Ellen Peck will take us on a tour of the statue hall where we can see how the ancient Greeks personified the archetypes.  We will be accompanied by a local Jungian analyst to discuss how these embodiments help us to understand the forces which they represent.

DemeterPersephone Athena

Ellen Peck was born in Pittsburgh where she was a devotee of the Carnegie Museum and its classical collection of statues. She did her graduate work at Stanford in English and American Literature. She taught literature at both Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke. After a year living in Rome, she became interested in classical art and became a museum docent at both Mt. Holyoke museum and the Springfield Museums. She has also moderated a seminar on The Gods and Goddesses for the Learning in Retirement program. She has had a year of Jungian therapy but has done most of her psychological reading on her own.

 GWVSmith

5/10/2014 – Dreams: “The Royal Road to the Unconscious” Seminar by Thayer Greene

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Saturday May 10th, 2014 10am-3pm Smith Campus’s Seelye Hall, Rm 105

Dreams: “The Royal Road to the Unconscious”
A Seminar by Thayer Greene

Date:  Saturday May 10th, 2014 10am-3pm

Location: Smith Campus’s Seelye Hall, Rm 105

Cost: a voluntary contribution of $30 or less depending on what you can afford

Both Freud and Jung understood the profound importance of our dreams as revelatory of what lies below the surface of our conscious life. This seminar will provide an intensive exploration of the structure of dreams, significance of initial dreams, the personal and archetypal layers of dreams, the diagnostic and prognostic value of dreams and much more.

Thayer Greene, Ph.D., is a graduate of the Jung Institute of New York, and a training analyst at the Jung Institute of Boston. He has a private practice in Amherst.  

To confirm that you are coming please call Thayer at 413-253-9343 and leave your name and phone number.

11/2 & 11/16: Jung, His Theories, and His Healing Approach to the Human Psyche by Thayer Greene

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AN INVITATION TO ALL THOSE INTERESTED IN JUNG, HIS THEORIES, AND HIS HEALING APPROACH TO THE HUMAN PSYCHE
by Thayer Greene

Carl Jung photo_01

I am offering a two seminar presentation on Jung’s basic concepts and methods at Smith College in room 105 Seelye Hall on Saturday Nov 2 and 16 from 10am to 3pm with an hour break from 12-1.

I welcome anyone interested in this topic, particularly those who attend the lectures of the Jung Association of Western Mass, I need a minimum of ten people for me to do this and will invite a voluntary contribution of $30 or less depending on what you can afford for each of the lectures. I shall invite much discussion and questions during the eight hours together. If someone cannot make both seminar times, I invite you to come to one. You can either bring something for lunch or go out nearby.

To confirm that you are coming please call my home phone, 413-253-9343.

I look forward to sharing my many years with Jung with those of you who are interested and able to come.

Thayer Greene

 

9/13/12 An Exploration Into Dreams by Nomi Kluger-Nash, Ph.D.

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An Exploration Into Dreams Nomi Kluger-Nash, Ph.D., Jungian Psychotherapist

Jung Photo at Bollinger 1958–photo by Yechezkel Kluger, Nomi Kluger-Nash’s father

Alternate Thursdays, beginning September 13th, 2012 @ 7:00 until February 14, 2013.

This shall be what I call “Attentive Meandering”, as we continue reading Jung’s “Dream Seminars” in a serious study of his work, as well as a jumping off place for our own explorations into dreams and the symbolic life.

As Jung analyses his patient’s dreams, amplified by myth and culture worldwide, so may we (if desired or applicable) bring in our own dreams and notions as we mull, question and ponder on the utterances arising from the depths of the psyche as they fill out the realities of our daily lives.

Nomi Kluger-Nash, Ph.D., Jungian Psychotherapist, is a psychologist and author with her doctorate in Analytical Psychology and her analytic training at the Jung Institutes of Los Angeles and Israel.  She teaches at the Jung Institute in Switzerland and has a private practice in Amherst. WHEN: Alternate Thursdays beginning September 13, 2012 WHERE: Nomi’s house in South Amherst, MA COST: $10.00 – $15.00 per 2 hour sessions (depending on individual’s means) TO REGISTER CALL: 413-230-3909 or EMAIL: woodwinds1@comast.net

9/22/12 Introduction to the Life and Work of C.G. Jung by Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, IAAP

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Introduction to the Life and Work of C.G. Jung Workshop
Erica Lorentz,  MEd, LPC, Jungian Analyst

Carl Jung photo_01

“The unconscious can only be reached by symbols . . . The symbol is the primitive exponent of the unconscious, and at the same time an idea that corresponds to the highest intuitions of the unconscious mind.” CG Jung (CW 13, p. 28)

This workshop will familiarize you with the foundation of Jung’s life and his basic concepts. Terms such as shadow, complex, individuation, ego, Self, symbol, typology, personal and collective unconscious, etc. will be explored. Jung never meant his work to be just an intellectual exercise, so we will discuss how his ideas relate to our real lives. The format will be lecture and discussion. Film clips and case material will augment our understanding.  No prior knowledge is required.

Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, Jungian Analyst, is in private practice in Northampton, MA, and Brattleboro, VT. Presently, she is a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the New England Society of Jungian Analysts where she is on the Board, and she is the president of the WMA Jung Center. She was an adjunct faculty member at Antioch School of Professional Psychology and has lectured around the US and Canada since the 1980s. 

WHEN: Saturday, September 22, 2012, 10-4pm
WHERE: Northampton, MA
COST: $60
TO REGISTER CALL: Erica Lorentz at 413-835-0060

9/28/12 The Truth Behind A Dangerous Method by Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, IAAP

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The Truth Behind A Dangerous Method 
Erica Lorentz,  MEd, LPC, IAAP
(presented by The New England Society of Jungian Analysts)
What is the real story of the relationships between Sabina Spielrein, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud? The recent Hollywood film A Dangerous Method (2011) over dramatizes and sensationalizes the very complex and intense relationships between the three. As compared to it, Elisabeth Marton’s award winning documentary My Name Was Sabina Spielrein (2002) carefully chronicles the truth of the encounters between Spielrein, Jung, and Freud through a close examination of the letters they exchanged with one another. How did their relationships really unfold? How did they influence each other? What did they learn from one another that changed their understanding of their clinical work, and further shaped modern psychoanalysis? In her talk, Erica Lorentz will compare the two films using source material she has researched and lead a discussion with the audience.
Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, Jungian Analyst, is in private practice in Northampton, MA, and Brattleboro, VT. Presently, she is a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the New England Society of Jungian Analysts where she is on the Board, and she is the president of the WMA Jung Center. She was an adjunct faculty member at Antioch School of Professional Psychology and has lectured around the US and Canada since the 1980s.

WHEN: Friday, September 28, 2012, 7-9pm
WHERE: C.G. Jung Institute – Boston, 21 Hartford St, Newton,  MA, 02461
COST: $20
CEU’s: 2
TO REGISTER: click here

9/29/12 Healing Through the Imaginal Realm: Active Imagination Retreat by Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, IAAP

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Healing Through the Imaginal Realm: Active Imagination Retreat
Erica Lorentz,  MEd, LPC, IAAP
(presented by The New England Society of Jungian Analysts)

The mundus imaginalis or imaginal realm known to the Sufis is where the archetypal unconscious is met. Active imagination was Jung’s preferred method for engaging these depths, and as recorded in his Red Book. The method of active imagination is a journey that can be variously understood as one which weaves between right and left brain, conscious and unconscious, body and mind, psyche and soul. In this workshop we bring this method to bear on a variety of forms of expression – undirected movement meditation, drawing and writing – in the interest of discovering the deep psychological meanings that might be seeking further articulation through them. Sharing without judgment or interpretation provides a safe container within which to gently open to the imaginal realm, and consider those contents that may be asking for further integration into our conscious lives. No prior experience is necessary. Please bring your lunch.

Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, Jungian Analyst, is in private practice in Northampton, MA, and Brattleboro, VT. Presently, she is a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the New England Society of Jungian Analysts where she is on the Board, and she is the president of the WMA Jung Center. She was an adjunct faculty member at Antioch School of Professional Psychology and has lectured around the US and Canada since the 1980s.

WHEN: Saturday, September 29, 2012, 10am – 4pm
WHERE: C.G. Jung Institute – Boston, 21 Hartford St, Newton, MA, 02461
COST: $60
CEU’s: 5
TO REGISTER: click here

JUNG SPEAKING: THE DREAM SEMINARS

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JUNG SPEAKING:
THE DREAM SEMINARS
Zürich 1928 – 1930

Jung Photo at Bollinger 1958–photo by Yechezkel Kluger, Nomi Kluger-Nash’s father

Explorations in Theory and Practice

A Weekly Workshop, November 18, 2011 – January 13, 2012
Hosted by Nomi Kluger-Nash, Ph.D.

These conversational and off the cuff seminars which Jung held for his students were not meant for publication. They therefore carry a liveliness of spirit and a goodly glimpse into his mind and heart as we hear him developing his thoughts and responding to comments.

Our aim in this workshop is to carry on with our own spirited heart and mind as we ponder and question from our variety of backgrounds the richness of symbolic material and its place in analysis. Contrasts and comparisons are welcome. Personal experience is invited.

To be held in Amherst, on Fridays at 7:00 p.m. excluding those Fridays that coincide with the lectures of the Jung Center of Western Massachusetts, which sessions (2) will be credited or replaced with additional sessions

Tuition is $185.00. Refreshments will be served.
Certificates of Attendance will be provided for the 16 hours of participation

Nomi Kluger-Nash is a psychologist and author with her doctorate in Analytical Psychology. Her analytic training was at the Jung Institutes of Los Angeles and Israel and she has been in practice since 1977. She taught a Masters Program in psychology at international College, and has lectured extensively. Since 2005 she has been teaching at the Jung Institute in Switzerland.. Previous careers were in theatre and in politics.

For information contact nomi.woodwinds@yahoo.com, tel: 413-230-3909

“It is important that the doctor admits he does not know; then both (patient and doctor) are ready to accept the impartial facts of nature, scientific realities. Personal opinions are more or less arbitrary judgments and may be all wrong; we are never sure of being right. Therefore we should seek the facts provided by dreams. Dreams are objective facts. They do not answer our expectations, and we have not invented them ….”
C. G. Jung, Dream Seminar 1928