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.
New Bern, North Carolina
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, Transpersonal Psychology, Art or Art Therapy, Dreamwork
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
M.A., Jungian
If so, from what institution?
Pacifica Graduate Institute
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?
Narrative psychology combined with social systems on the "outside" and Jungian understanding of the interior "systems" make a nice pairing. Currently working on soul-related theoretical research establishing that soul is a misnomer. A proper understanding begins with seeing that souling as process is a better beginning to understanding the workings within the Psyche.
Do you belong to any other online Psychology-related communities or orgs? If so, which?
Many, but most are Jungian based.
What is your WEB SITE (IF you would like to promote it)?
https://ekoffenb22.wordpress.com/
Comments
Hi Ed!
You're most welcome for the videos posted. They are all wonderful uses of time. And thanks for the nudge about Jung in the South. We emailed about it waaay back when I was brand new and I'm probably still in the same place except now my Pacifica program has just begun (the MA in Engaged Humanities, the Creative Life) and I'm a bit "anxious" about finding that balance between school/work/art/downtime that everyone on this site knows so well. Therefore, it's important to not take on too much new stuff, since just about everything in my life right now is new!
That said, I know we talked about Haden and I wonder if anyone here is coming up/down for their summer dream conference? I recall making a mental note long ago to try to attend some of the functions if it meshed with my cohort time in person. Maybe someone will post about that here when the date draws closer and we can have a meet up of some sort there/here?
Laura
I wonder if the most important element in this process of transformation is for people to understand how our experiences of being affect what Heidegger (1962) refers to as the phenomenology of Dasein (human being, not human doing).
If we are able to expose ourselves to our deepest 'being', we may ultimately better understand our modes of being-in-the-world. As we do, changes take place both in our reasoning and, more importantly, in our ‘sense-ability’ to understand the greater mysteries and relate to God & the Other in love.
I beginning to believe the way(s) people acquire such wisdom (epistemologically speaking), allows them to begin to ask the deeper question "what is the nature of this being?" ― further allowing them to reason this more deeply in the light of love.
My interests in Depth psychology stems from four plus years' experience journeying with men through their "crises of limitations" [see www.mtmaustralia.org.au for an overview]. Also I read a copy of Dr. Robert wood’s dissertation (2010, ITP) which he spoke on “Shadow Aspects & Rites of Passage” and “Psycho-Spiritual Transformation”. What intrigued me most was the 12 lenses he selected to make sense of a participant's transformations, namely:
"...greater self-awareness ...achieved through archetypal encounters in Nature, through ritual, and through reflecting unconscious material onto Nature; and integration of such greater self-awareness ... promotes psycho-spiritual transformation."
Many of Dr. Wood’s lenses resonated deeply with me as an ‘initiate’ as well as a counsellor; most particularly, as they relate to my experiences in "journeying with the Other" through subtle varieties of psycho-spiritual transitions: such as transcendent, or immanent, ecstatic “holy grail experiences” (Gow, 2006). During these, people seem to enter into ‘Liminality’, to coin van Gennep― which seems to “crack open the Ego”, opening wide the doors of perception, granting one ‘the eyes to see’ how our being is shaped or influenced, and how it might shade our sense of 'knowing', we are freer to participate in deeper transformational experiences.
Hi Ed,
The Jung Center of Houston is fantastic and has the best book store ever! Three semesters a year with many great programs, plus they collaborate with the Saybrook Graduate School. Here's the link: The Jung Center of Houston
Regards,
Sally
Hi Ed,
Thanks for your welcome. Yes I am a member of the Jung group in South Florida. I also studied in their training program for one year. Yes Sandplay Therapy is a very unique area which gives one immediate access to the archetypes. I see you are attending Pacifica. I've known several clinicians who graduated from there and loved it.
Hope it is as meaningful to you,
Patricia