Jung Society of Colorado

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado presents

Never Not Broken: Alchemical Transformation of the Animal Body in Trauma Resolution

by  Lindsey Geiger

[PRINTABLE PDF]

February 2^nd, 2024 at 7:00 pm.

Park Hill Congregational (UCC) Church,

2600 Leyden Street 

Cost: $15; $10 students and seniors

This presentation explores the unconscious place where instinct and archetype meet, as commonly experienced in trauma and trauma resolution. Jung’s Complex Theory as well as some of his ideas about instinct and archetype will be briefly discussed before moving into the alchemical work. Alchemy illustrates the processes of transforming the psyche, including work with the matter of the body as a balancing opposite to the spiritual work. A series of compelling alchemical images of animal transformations will be explored, helpfully illuminating the psychological transformations in the matter of the nervous system, the heart work of relational trauma, and shifts in the higher aspects of thought and spiritual practice.

Lindsey Geiger, LMFT, is a Jungian Analyst in Evergreen, Colorado. She is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado. She received her MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and her work in private practice focuses on treatment of anxiety and trauma, religious and spiritual wounding and resolution, and spiritual recovery.

For further information, please contact The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado at (720) 291-1505; or go to https://jungsocietyofcolorado.wordpress.com

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado presents

Sacred Disobedience: A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil

by Sharon Coggan.

[PRINTABLE PDF]

April 1^st, 2022 at 7:00 pm.

Park Hill Congregational (UCC) Church,

2600 Leyden Street 

Cost: $15, $10 students and seniors

This presentation traces the ancient Greek God Pan, who became distorted into the image of the Devil in early Christianity. When Pan was demonized, the powerful qualities he represented became repressed. In ancient Greek religion, Pan was worshipped as an honored deity, corresponding to an inner psycho-spiritual condition in which the primitive qualities he represented, the Shadow in Jungian parlance, were fully integrated into consciousness, and these qualities were valued and affirmed as holy. But in the era of early Christianity Pan “dies,” and the Devil is born, a twisted inflation, due to an underlying repression signifying a diseased, inflated Shadow. In the Jungian system, repressed psychic contents do not disappear, as proponents of the new order tacitly assume, but distort and grow more powerful, or “inflate,” to cripple the psyche that refuses to incorporate these split-off elements. Since the Shadow holds the primal material of the inherited self, including the savagery, violence and primal drives built into us by nature it is one of the most dangerous elements of the Psyche to repress. It is more important than ever in today’s world, where we see evidence of the diseased inflated collective Shadow all around us, to explore these themes and work to bring a healthy Shadow back into collective consciousness and into the character of the Deity.

Sharon L. Coggan, Ph.D. holds the B.A. from the University of Denver, a M.T.S (Master of Theological Studies) from Harvard Divinity School, a M.A. from Stanford University, and the Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Now retired, she was an Associate Professor Clinical Teaching Track at the University of Colorado Denver, and served as Director of the Religious Studies Program, which she created. Her areas of study include History of Religions, and Psychology of Religion. She is the author of the book, Sacred Disobedience: A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil

For further information, please contact The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado at (303) 575-1055; or go to https://jungsocietyofcolorado.wordpress.com

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado presents

Our Promethean Debt

by  Jeffrey Kiehl

September 24^th, 2021 at 7:00 pm.

Exclusive Zoom Presentation

Cost: $15, $10 students and seniors

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This past year has felt apocalyptic in so many ways. First, with the appearance of COVID which has led to a staggering number of deaths and illnesses. The pandemic has initiated us into lockdowns, shutdowns and even put-downs from those denying COVID’s reality. Chaotic divisiveness erupted, from the White House to our family’s house. Racism, misogynism, xenophobia and generalized claustrophobia erupted everywhere. Hope is a word that has faded from our vocabulary. In addition to these cataclysms, climate chaos continues to make itself known with unbearable heatwaves, flaming forests, and life-choking smoke. A billion animals lost their lives in the Australian fires—a story, by the way, which was never frontpage news. How do we stay sane in such a world? How do we find wholeness in a world full of so much dissociation? According to Jung, we have accrued a tremendous Promethean debt due to our pursuit of meaningless materialism. The story of Prometheus provides a rich, complex figure that has captured the imagination of poets and artists for millennia. Using this ancient Greek myth, we will delve into trickery, theft, fire and hope to better understand our current debt to the archetypal forces at play today.

Jeffrey T. Kiehl, PhD,  is a Diplomate Jungian Analyst and senior training analyst for the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He is also an adjunct faculty member of Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he teaches a course on Ecopsychology. He is the author of the book Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future. He has also authored, “The Mandala as Portal to Healing” for the ARAS Journal; “Engaging the Green Man” in Depth Psychology and Climate Change; and “A Tale of Two Cultures: Climate Change and American Complexes” in Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America.

For further information, please contact The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado at (303) 575-1055; or go to https://jungsocietyofcolorado.wordpress.com

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

Fall 2019 Lecture Series

Please note our location and our format:

All lectures will be held at the Park Hill United Church of Christ, at 2600 Leyden Street, on the northeast corner of 26th Avenue and Leyden Street. The entrance to the sanctuary, where the lectures are held, is on Leyden Street just north of the Montessori playground.

There is plenty of parking available on Leyden Street. The sanctuary entrance is on one level and is handicapped accessible.

Cost: free to members,  $15 at the door, $10 students and seniors

The Jung Society will be presenting lectures this academic year for the FALL SEMESTER ONLY. We will be taking a much-needed hiatus during the spring 2020 semester. We hope to see you at our lectures this fall! Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to enjoy social time and refreshments with us.

Great Again: The longing for rebirth in an American cultural complex

 a lectureby Kaitryn Wertz

December 6^th, 2019 at 7:15 p.m.

This presentation explores the archetype of rebirth in American collective consciousness. The rise of Donald Trump has polarized the culture with intense emotion and a push toward extremism. At the heart of Trump’s message is fear and demonization of the “other,” who must be eliminated so that “real Americans” can rebirth an imagined past greatness.  From a Jungian perspective, the American psyche is in the grip of a cultural complex, rooted in images of violence and scapegoating. The presentation will also consider signs of a compensatory American myth, visible in a recent stream of children’s films. Each tells a similar story: a courageous girl renews the people and restores the land through her ability to empathize with what seems profoundly ‘other.’ Psychological themes in these children’s films will be amplified by dreams arising in individuals since Trump’s election, suggesting a possible, more hopeful direction of the collective psyche.

Kaitryn Wertz, M.Ed., LMHC, LPC,is a diplomate Jungian Analyst in private practice in Broomfield, Colorado, witha thirty-five-year background as a therapist, public speaker, and workshop leader. She is especially interested in the ways in which Jungian psychology can help us to understand the changes occurring in society and to make ethical choices about them. Kaitryn currently serves as Vice President of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.  

Our sister group, The C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado is an official Training Society of the IAAP. Please check out their news and programming at http://www.junginstituteofcolorado.com

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO SPRING 2020 LECTURES! WE WILL BE TAKING A ONE SEMESTER HIATUS!

SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE  2019 FALL LECTURE SERIES!

The Jung Society is a non-profit group that presents lectures on Jungian psychology and related issues to the public. Our subscriptions are somewhat like tuition for a semester of school.

By becoming a member, you are admitted to lectures free, at a great savings over purchasing separate admissions at the door.

Make your check payable to the C.G. Jung Society of Colorado.

We will send you an email confirmation.

If you would like a receipt, please enclose a self- addressed, stamped envelope.

Mail it to us at 

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

1776 S. Jackson #203

Denver, CO 80210

Phone:(303) 575-1055

https://jungsocietyofcolorado.wordpress.com

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

Fall 2019 Lecture Series

Please note our location and our format:

All lectures will be held at the Park Hill United Church of Christ, at 2600 Leyden Street, on the northeast corner of 26th Avenue and Leyden Street. The entrance to the sanctuary, where the lectures are held, is on Leyden Street just north of the Montessori playground.

There is plenty of parking available on Leyden Street. The sanctuary entrance is on one level and is handicapped accessible.

Cost: free to members,  $15 at the door, $10 students and seniors

The Jung Society will be presenting lectures this academic year for the FALL SEMESTER ONLY. We will be taking a much-needed hiatus during the spring 2020 semester. We hope to see you at our lectures this fall! Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to enjoy social time and refreshments with us.

Archetypes, Propaganda and Conspiracy Theories

a lecture by Vladislav Šolc

November 1^st, 2019 at 7:15 p.m.

Is global warming a hoax? Is Earth actually flat? Is the CIA responsible for the attack on the WTC in New York? Why do many believe various bizarre theories despite the wealth of counter-evidence? Conspiracy theories have been gradually occupying larger domains of cultural and political life. The rise of fake news, alternative facts, and conspiracy theories, along with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and propaganda from around the world calls for a no-holds-barred depth psychological exploration.

This lecture will explore depth-psychological phenomena and dynamics underlying religious extremism, fundamentalism and its parallels to conspiracism. Inadequate and non-credible representations of numinous energies in consciousness can unwittingly contribute to the creation of structures with notable mythological parallels. This phenomenon that Jung referred to as an “axiom of psychology” can explain both the archetypal nature of conspiracism and its resistance to rational correction. We will explore how the Self influences the way one holds onto the radical creed, and Vladislavwill introduce some mythological themes and explore other patterns consistent with Dark religion. 

Vladislav Šolc, M.S.,  is a psychotherapist and Jungian Analyst practicing in Glendale, WI. He  received training from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and Charles University in Prague. Vlado lives in constant awe about the miracle of existence. He is an author of four depth psychology-oriented books published in Czech Republic:Psyche, Matrix, Reality; The Father Archetype, In the Name of God – Fanaticism from Perspective of Depth Psychology, Dark Religion (with George Didier).

Our sister group, The C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado is an official Training Society of the IAAP. Please check out their news and programming at http://www.junginstituteofcolorado.com

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO SPRING 2020 LECTURES! WE WILL BE TAKING A ONE SEMESTER HIATUS!

SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE  2019 FALL LECTURE SERIES!

The Jung Society is a non-profit group that presents lectures on Jungian psychology and related issues to the public. Our subscriptions are somewhat like tuition for a semester of school.

By becoming a member, you are admitted to lectures free, at a great savings over purchasing separate admissions at the door.

Make your check payable to the C.G. Jung Society of Colorado.

We will send you an email confirmation.

If you would like a receipt, please enclose a self- addressed, stamped envelope.

Mail it to us at 

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

1776 S. Jackson #203

Denver, CO 80210

Phone:(303) 575-1055

https://jungsocietyofcolorado.wordpress.com

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

Fall 2019 Lecture Series

Please note our location and our format:

All lectures will be held at the Park Hill United Church of Christ, at 2600 Leyden Street, on the northeast corner of 26th Avenue and Leyden Street. The entrance to the sanctuary, where the lectures are held, is on Leyden Street just north of the Montessori playground.

There is plenty of parking available on Leyden Street. The sanctuary entrance is on one level and is handicapped accessible.

Cost: free to members,  $15 at the door, $10 students and seniors

The Jung Society will be presenting lectures this academic year for the FALL SEMESTER ONLY. We will be taking a much-needed hiatus during the spring 2020 semester. We hope to see you at our lectures this fall! Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to enjoy social time and refreshments with us.

Pulcinella: Image of the Forgotten Trickster

a lecture by Grazia Di Giorgio

October4^th, 2019 at 7:15 p.m.            

As Carl Jung wrote in 1959, “The so-called civilized man has forgotten the trickster… He never suspects that his own hidden and apparently harmless shadow has qualities whose dangerousness exceeds his wildest dreams. As soon as people get together in masses and submerge the individual, the shadow is mobilized, and, as history shows, may even be personified and incarnated.” (CW 9.1, par. 478)

In this presentation we will be invited to remember and explore the historical development, the dangerousness, and the contemporary healing potential of this powerful archetype, starting from the ancient and fascinating figure of Pulcinella, a mercurial character from the Italian Commedia dell’Arte whose roots go all the way back at least to the Roman Atellanae ofthe IV century BCE.

Grazia Di Giorgio, M.A., L.P.C.is a Jungian Analyst with a background in Political Science and Performing Arts, and a long-standing interest in contemplative and somatic psychotherapy. A graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado, she currently shares her life and professional practice between Italy and the United States.

Our sister group, The C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado is an official Training Society of the IAAP. Please check out their news and programming at http://www.junginstituteofcolorado.com

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO SPRING 2020 LECTURES! WE WILL BE TAKING A ONE SEMESTER HIATUS!

SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE  2019 FALL LECTURE SERIES!

The Jung Society is a non-profit group that presents lectures on Jungian psychology and related issues to the public. Our subscriptions are somewhat like tuition for a semester of school.

By becoming a member, you are admitted to lectures free, at a great savings over purchasing separate admissions at the door.

Make your check payable to the C.G. Jung Society of Colorado.

We will send you an email confirmation.

If you would like a receipt, please enclose a self- addressed, stamped envelope.

Mail it to us at 

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

1776 S. Jackson #203

Denver, CO 80210

Phone:(303) 575-1055

https://jungsocietyofcolorado.wordpress.com

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

Fall 2019 Lecture Series

Please note our location and our format:

All lectures will be held at the Park Hill United Church of Christ, at 2600 Leyden Street, on the northeast corner of 26th Avenue and Leyden Street. The entrance to the sanctuary, where the lectures are held, is on Leyden Street just north of the Montessori playground.

There is plenty of parking available on Leyden Street. The sanctuary entrance is on one level and is handicapped accessible.

Cost: free to members,  $15 at the door, $10 students and seniors

The Jung Society will be presenting lectures this academic year for the FALL SEMESTER ONLY. We will be taking a much-needed hiatus during the spring 2020 semester. We hope to see you at our lectures this fall! Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to enjoy social time and refreshments with us.

Watching and Waiting in the Wanderings of Life

a lecture by Kathryn Kuisle

September 13^th, 2019 at 7:15 p.m.

In this world of speed and rapid change, watching and waiting often get forgotten or ignored.  In this lecture, I will address the concept of watching, keeping vigil and waiting in our lives, in our analytical work and the individuation process, as well as the ritual of vigil that is an aspect the collective appears to need.  Considering “vigil” as an archetypal image, I will explore its ancient presence and meaning found in myth, Scriptures, various cultures, and rituals, as well as pondering how in 2019, we need the richness of this ancient ritual of waiting and watching.

Kathryn Kuisle, Ph.D.is a Diplomate Jungian analyst and graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. She holds a Ph.D. in analytical psychology from Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, OH. She has a private practice in Colorado Springs, is the President of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and is an affiliate faculty member for Regis University.

Our sister group, The C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado is an official Training Society of the IAAP. Please check out their news and programming at http://www.junginstituteofcolorado.com

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO SPRING 2020 LECTURES! WE WILL BE TAKING A ONE SEMESTER HIATUS!

SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE  2019 FALL LECTURE SERIES!

The Jung Society is a non-profit group that presents lectures on Jungian psychology and related issues to the public. Our subscriptions are somewhat like tuition for a semester of school.

By becoming a member, you are admitted to lectures free, at a great savings over purchasing separate admissions at the door.

Make your check payable to the C.G. Jung Society of Colorado.

We will send you an email confirmation.

If you would like a receipt, please enclose a self- addressed, stamped envelope.

Mail it to us at 

The C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

1776 S. Jackson #203

Denver, CO 80210

Phone:(303) 575-1055

https://jungsocietyofcolorado.wordpress.com