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
What are your main areas of interest?
Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Mythology, Somatic Psychology, Transpersonal Psych
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
Other type of Psychology
If so, from what institution?
BA from Long Beach State in Psychology
Are you a licensed or clinical therapist?
No, but I am a Stress Management consultant, stress Profiler. Certified life coach with a very strong Jungian approach to my work. I am a paid speaker on Stress Management.
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 am working on writing a book, and being a Jungian all my adult life, I want to be part of a community to keep in touch locally in my area of what is going on to share, and participate.
Do you belong to any other online Psychology-related communities or orgs? If so, which?
I attend the Jungian Seminars at the San francisco Jungian Institute.
If you have a Twitter, Facebook, Blog, or LinkedIn account and would like to have people "follow" you, list it here
I do I would like to post them later
Comments
Hi Lera. Greetings, and welcome to the online depth psychology community. I'm glad you've joined us, and it's great to know you're in the Bay Area. We've had some great meetups this year and hope to do one more before its done.
Meanwhile, as you may know, here in the Alliance we currently have nearly 1600 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: writers, doctors, healing professionals, counselors, students, business people, etc--so there is much cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience here to be shared.
On that note, 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.
Also you may want to join the online book club. In September, we're featuring "Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung" with Eliza... October will bring us the only book of poetry in the 2012 lineup: "Telling the Difference" with Jungian Paul Watsky. Since the Book Club is all done via writing in an open forum, you can participate at your own level and schedule--and you can join the discussion even if you don't have the book.
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. ~Bonnie Bright, Founder