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Oakland, CA
What are your main areas of interest?
Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Mythology, Transpersonal Psych
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?
A deeper understanding of depth psychology through participating in conversations with pracitioners.
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Welcome Monica,
Glad you found and joined the Alliance. There are many members here that range from newcomers to depth psychological thought to those "well seasoned" in the discipline. I hope you have found many topics to your interests and will join the discussions. Again, welcome and I look forward to your posts.
Ed
Hello Monica. Glad you've found the Alliance, and please forgive the belated greeting.
I hope you've had a chance to explore the community a bit and that you are finding a dynamic group of likeminded 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.
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. You can also post a few paragraphs of your own blog in the Blogs section and put a link so people can go to your site and read the rest.
Also, you may want to consider joining the online book club—There's a new author each month, and you can jump in at anytime and participate at whatever level you wish. Even if you don't have the book for this month, you can order it from Assisi Institute now and have it within a couple of days.
The Book Club is all done via writing in an open forum, so you can read all the comments that have gone on so far (including past authors in January and February!) and get a feel for what's happening. As you may know, in March, we are featuring a wonderful book from Jungian Analyst Dr. Michael Conforti, a specialist in archetypes and new sciences, "Field, Form, And Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, and Psyche." April will bring a whole new topic: "Eros and the Shattering Gaze: Transcending Narcissism" with Ken Kimmel.
Finally, I see you're in the Bay Area so you may want to join "Bay Area Hive" (under "Groups") to get updates and connect with people here. We're planning our first in-person meetup and speaker evening in Marin this Friday, March 23. It should be a great opportunity to actually get some in-person connection. You can see more about the event here: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=l548rqeab&...
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