Before you go further, please be sure you are applying for membership with YOUR REAL NAME, FIRST AND LAST, or if you are signing up as an organization, publisher, or project, list the organization name here; then list the name of the contact person in the next question.
Santa Rosa, California, USA
Which of the following best describes your proposed membership status? If you are signing up with your first and last name, please choose "Individual." Please do NOT choose one of the other options unless you are creating a profile page with a business or organization name
Individual
What are your main areas of interest?
Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Mythology, Art or Art Therapy, Dreamwork, Shamanism
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
In progress
If so, from what institution?
Sonoma State University
Are you a licensed or clinical therapist?
No
Please share a little about yourself by way of introduction. What draws you to Depth Psychology and what are you looking for from this community?
I would like to find a higher degree of illumination. I would like to become a better artist. I would like to use dream interpretation to understand myself and unravel mysteries.
Do you belong to any other online Psychology-related communities or orgs? If so, which?
Jung Platform
Depth Psychology student SSU
Comments
You are welcome. How are your studies at Sonoma going? Would love to hear a bit about the program you're in if interested in sharing. I completed the masters level of a PhD program in depth psychology with emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies at pacifica this year and am now on leave of absence, trying to put together some vocational activities that use my training but support my family and ongoing tuition. It has been a breath of fresh air owning the work as a non-student, but a challenge to bring the work to a venue that supports our financial needs as a family. Still working out the details and the form.
--Mark
Greetings Catherine and welcome to the online depth psychology community. It's great you've found us. Hope you'll make yourself at home and jump right in wherever your interests take you. I am a recent transplant to Boulder after 16 years in the Bay Area. My tie to Santa Rosa is a yearlong guide training program with Mike Bodkin at Rites of Passage. Hope to see you online and beyond.
As you may know, we currently have over 2600 members from all over the world. I hope as you explore the community a bit you find a dynamic group of like-minded people who are all deeply drawn by the field of depth psychology. While there are many Jungian analysts and clinical psychologists here, our members come from many walks of life--artists, writers, doctors, healing professionals, counselors, students, business people, etc--so there is much cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience here to be shared.
We recommend that to get started, you personalize your profile photo by going to your "My page" and rolling your cursor over the default C.G. Jung image. That will give you the option to switch it out. As well, there are many opportunities to engage as you browse the site. When you're ready to jump in, please feel free to post a topic for discussion in the forum, respond to someone else's post, or share a link to an article or web site you like.
You may want to check out the September online Book Club, Isis Code with Ariane Page. It's all done in a written format and you can comment or ask questions as you like. Too, you can weigh in on the weekly depth discussions by clicking the image and quote at the top of the home page.
In case you need detailed help getting started and navigating the site, you can use the following link---- http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/page/navigating-the-site----and please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions at all! I look forward to seeing you around the community.
Best Regards, Mark Sipowicz
Mark Sipowicz, Jungian Rites of Passage Guide