Upcoming Events

This seminar explored our relationship with nature within the broader context of eco-psychology by examining both personal and archetypal structures in the human psyche. The seminar explored personal and collective expressions of nature in myth, story, and dreams. This Seminar was not open to the public. 

A presentation on the archetypal structures in the human psyche inherited from nature and their expression in myth, story, and dreams. Presented to the Minnesota Jung Seminar. This three day seminar was not open to the public. 

An Overview of the Basic Psychological Concepts in C.G. Jung’s Approach to Alchemy and the Archetypal Patterns of Transformation presented for the Colorado Sandplay Therapy Association. This presentation will introduce the metaphorical materials to be worked, the processes that bring about change and the transformative stages through which the psyche must pass to achieve healing. 

Jung said that the greatest threat to earth is humanity; that was in the context of the atomic bomb, but it applies to our current relationship to nature as well. With Dr. Foster we will examine the Archetype of Nature in its bipolar qualities of light and shadow. Alchemists, attempting to liberate spirit from matter, developed the concept of Anima Mundi­­—World Soul—which expanded to Ecopsychology in the image of Gaia, or earth as a living organism. The images of this archetype may contain the seeds of transformation needed in these challenging times.

Presenting with Danial Shaw for the Boulder Jung Seminar

A lecture for the Boulder Friends of Jung. Jung viewed himself as a scientist and was fascinated by physics as a way to understand the psyche. His conversations with Einstein and Wolfgang Pauli are examples of how Jung investigated the world around him so as to understand the inner world of the individual. This lecture explored the collaboration between Pauli and Jung.

An all day course, taught in Boulder Colorado, on fairy tales from a Jungian perspective, with CU Professor Dr. Ann Schmiesing. 

Presentation for the BAJA Seminar on Norse mythology was an oral tradition of the Norse people, who lived in Iceland, Norway and areas around what is now called “the North Sea.”  The Prose Edda was believed to have been written by Snorri Sturluson around 1220.  The mythological system is complex; the figures are strong and multidimensional. The Aesir (or Gods) were constantly in conflict with the Jotuns (the Giants) who were a race that came before them; it was from the corpse of one of these Giants (Ymir) that the world was created.  The greatest of the Aesir was Oden, All Father, and creator of all things in the nine worlds of the Norse.We will explore selected myths that include death (a common theme in Norse myths) and work with the associated psychological parallels of trauma, violence, loss, deception, abandonment and other archetypal themes.  We will examine the idea of psychological death/rebirth, and the eternal cycle it suggests, the darkness of winter and the rising of a new warming sun in the spring.