Jung Association of Central Ohio

SATURDAY CONVERSATIONS
2025-03-22 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | 1550 Old Henderson Road, Suite N142, Columbus, OH 43220, 1550 Old Henderson Raod, Suite N142, Columbus, OH, 43220, United States
MARCH 22, 2025
10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Dr. James Fidelibus Jungian Analyst
In Person Only
1550 Old Henderson Road, Room 131 (North Entrance which is in the back)
What an amazing get together on February 8! Familiar faces and new faces and wonderful conversation. So, we are going to keep doing this. And we will mix it up a bit to keep it interesting and engaging for everyone. Our next get together will be Saturday, March 22, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. – Noon. The “seed” of our conversation will be our Bauza Program to be held on March 15th. Did you like it? Did you not? What were your take aways? How can you apply what you learned while on your path to wholeness? Dr. Jim Fidelibus, one of our Board members and a Jungian analyst, will lead us in our conversation. You do not need to have attended the Bauza lecture to join us. Conversation and community are our main focus.
This is a free event but please scroll below to RSVP if you plan to join us, which we very much hope you will!

TENTH ANNUAL BAUZA LECTURE - THE SPIRITUAL PARADOX OF ADDICTION: THE CALL FOR THE TRANSCENDENT
2025-03-15 09:30 - 12:30
March 15, 2025, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm EST [The Ides of March]
Ashok Bedi, M.D., Jungian Analyst
3 CEUs are available
Zoom Only

Viewing Party at 1550 Old Henderson Road, Conference Room (back entrance), Columbus, OH 43220
Although this program is by Zoom, you have 2 options:
1. Watch it from home
2. Watch it in community at the Conference Room at 1550 Old Henderson Road. The cost is the same except that if you join us for the Viewing Party, we provide snacks, coffee, and tea.
Regardless of where or how you will be joining us, please scroll below to register. There are 4 ticket options. If you are not currently a member and wish to take advantage of the member registration fee, you may click here to join.
A description of the program and information about Dr. Bedi follows. Click on INTERVIEW WITH DR. BEDI to learn a little more.

Last year, the topic of our Bauza lecture was “Psychedelics & The Dynamics of Transformation: A Jungian View.” It focused on the use of psychedelic drugs in treatment. As a variation on this issue, we reached out to Dr. Ashok Bedi, who has written several books on healing, the most recent of which is the topic of the lecture. This book is addressed to people with addiction issues, their families and friends, as well as interested laypeople, government policy makers, and treatment professionals.
Although we had originally hoped for this to be in person, in working with Dr. Bedi and his challenging scheduled, we decided on a Zoom only platform. Dr. Bedi was trained in India, Great Britain, and the United States. He has been a psychiatrist in Milwaukee since 1976 and now practices adult psychotherapy and Jungian psychanalysis. He is interested in the emerging frontiers of spirituality and healing, and the synapses of the mind, body, soul, and spirit. He is the liaison person for the International Association of the Analytical Psychologists for developing Jungian training programs in India.
Dr. Bedi will be speaking to the issue of the high degree of spiritual drive he has found in individuals with whom he has worked who have dealt with mental illnesses in general and addiction in particular. Carl Jung, in his counsel to his patient Roland Herrington, prescribed that he needed a sort of religious or conversion experience to claim his sobriety. In his book, “The Spiritual Paradox of Addiction,” Dr. Bedi posits that instead of using addictive behaviors to attain connection with Spirit or the deeper, higher, and creative consciousness, recovering addicts can learn to engage with Spirit directly, thus making the addictive detours unnecessary. His thoughts and guidance to Spirit are applicable to all of us no matter our mental health, addictions, or day-to-day living.
Learning Objectives
1. Discuss the dynamics of the spiritual paradox of addiction
2. Present the Jung – Bill W. dialogue to understand the context of the 12 Steps program
3. Explore the 12 Steps program from an Eastern and Analytical lens
4. Explain the anatomy of the experience of connection with the spiritual life
5. Illustrate the contemplative practice of Mindfulness as a path to the Spirit
Ashok Bedi, M.D. is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a member of the Royal College of psychiatrists of Great Britain, a diplomat in Psychological Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and a training analyst at the Carl G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His books include In the Eye of the Storm- Staying Centered in Personal and Collective Crisis, The Spiritual Paradox of Addiction, Crossing the Healing Zone, Awaken the Slumbering Goddess: The Latent Code of the Hindu Goddess Archetypes, Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path and Path to the Soul. He is the liaison for the IAAP for developing Jungian training programs in India and travels annually to India to teach, train the consult with the Jungian Developing groups at several centers in India including Ahmedabad and Mumbai. He leads the annual “A Jungian Encounter with the Soul of India” study group to several centers in India under the auspices of the New York Jung Foundation and the Carl Jung Institute of Chicago. His publications and upcoming programs may be previewed at www.pathtothesoul.com

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2025 BOOK CLUB: "The New Polytheism"
2025-01-12 16:00 - 2025-02-23 17:30
January 12, January 26,
February 9,February 23
4:00 pm – 530 pm
Via Zoom
We hope you can join us starting on January 12, 2025 when Mary Marx will begin leading us through a discussion of David Miller’s book, The New Polytheism. David Miller is a well-loved teacher (Syracuse and Pacifica) and widely published author in religion, myth, depth psychology, and literary theory. According to Miller, monotheism wants everyone’s “explanation systems (e.g., theological, historical, psychological) under one all-embracing system … a single center that holds things together.” In contrast, polytheistic thinking frees us from having “to get it all together.” It is Miller’s premise that the “psyche” is polytheistic, with “multiple potencies, and structures of meaning and being.” As such, this approach better matches the plurality of our lived experience.
As always, Book Club is a free program for our members. But, in order to get the Zoom link, you need to register. So please scroll below to do so via the RSVP.

2025 TAROT WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
2025-01-07 19:00 - 2025-02-18 21:00
Zoom Only
January 7, January 21, February 4, February 18, 2025; 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST
Back by popular demand—JudyAnne Morse will be putting on a 4-part workshop on the Tarot. Ms. Morse is a graduate of the Pacific Mystery School and a certified teacher of Kaballah and Tarot in the Western Mystery Tradition. JudyAnne is a graduate of the Pacific Mystery School, obtaining a Teaching Certification for Kabbalah and Tarot in the Western Mystery Tradition. She is also a certified Visionary Cosmologist. She studied poetry and creative non-fiction at the College of Santa Fe and taught poetry and art journaling at The Diarist Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has published five volumes of poetry, and her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies.
2025 is the Year of the Hermit and so the first workshop will focus on this over-reaching archetype as well as guide you through drawing cards for each month and providing you with a focused question for each month. The second workshop will provide you with a deeper understanding of the Tarot by focusing on the structure of number and rank of the Tarot cards and their elemental association. The third workshop will focus on the importance of number and element in Tarot. Specifically, the focus will be on the Minor Arcana and its relationship to each of the Four Worlds of the Kabbalah and the Tarot suits. And finally, she will focus on the Court cards recognizing that they are complex and directly connected to number (rank) and are elemental guides for the worlds of Fire, Water, Air/Wind, and Earth.
Because of the integrative nature of this Workshop, we strongly recommend that you attend all sessions; however, in an effort to accommodate varying interests, it will be available as singular sessions as well. This is always a popular program, so sign up!
Cost of the workshop is $120 for members and $140 for non-members. Individual sessions are $35 each for members, and $40 each for non-members. If you purchase one session at a time remember to register for each one here at the web site.

Tarot Workshop - Interview with Presenter JudyAnne Morse
2025-01-06 05:00 - 2025-01-17 19:00
Click here to view.
See Registration to sign up.

FACING THE ARCHETYPE OF THE APOCALYPSE
2024-11-16 10:00 - 12:00 | 1550 Old Henderson Road, Suite N142, Columbus, OH 43220, 1550 Old Henderson Raod, Suite N142, Columbus, OH, 43220, United States
PRESENTATION BY REV. DAVID HETT
November 16, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
In Person and By Zoom
Conference Room, 1550 Old Henderson Road, Columbus, OH. 43220
$35 members/$45 non-members
Following Dr. Sweeney’s lecture on “Illuminating the Darkness,” what better way to round out 2024 than with a lecture by Rev. David Hett on the apocalyptic archetype. As explained by Rev. Hett, this election season has often been put in apocalyptic terms. But no matter how the election turns out, it is clear that, as expressed by Car Jung at the height of the Cold War and the nuclear threat “we are living in an apocalyptic age” and, as stated by Edward Edinger at the dawn of our new millennium, “the Apocalypse archetype is now highly activated in the collective psyche and is living itself out in human history.”
Many cultures in various eras of human history have their own myths of world destruction, suggesting the archetypal power of apocalyptic awareness. And yet, in all these aeons of suspected destruction, the universe, the earth, and humanity still exist pointing to a deeper, and inner, psychological-spiritual meaning of the world’s end. Which becomes even more apparent when we realize that the word apocalypse comes from a Greek root meaning a ‘revelation,’ ‘a ‘revealing,’ an ‘unveiling’ of some hidden wisdom.
Using insights from Edinger’s The Archetype of the Apocalypse: A Jungian Study of the Book of Revelation, and others, Rev. Hett will lead us into an exploration of this archetypal phenomena and how consciously facing, and even embracing, its inner richness has the transformative potential of enriching our souls and the world.
David is a retired teacher of the psychological-spiritual work called the Diamond Approach and a retired United Methodist minister. He is also a student of Jungian and archetypal psychology, and has spoken previously on Jungian topics, synthesizing Jungian concepts with progressive Christianity and other spiritual modalities. He will be facilitating the upcoming JACO book study on Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self. He currently resides in Chicago where he can be close to family and grandchildren.

Bollingen Conference Video and Panel Discussion
2024-11-08 11:30 - 2024-12-13 17:00
It is difficult to find the right words to express our appreciation for the amazing turnout for our October 19th 35th Anniversary Bollingen Conference. Dr. Sweeney, as always, brought such amazing insight on the question of what does it mean to be a strong person. The Silent Auction was a success. The panel discussion brought out some excellent ideas on how we can continue to grow in today’s changing environment, including rekindling Second Saturdays. And the reception was a wonderful time for getting to know each other better. And so, we thank you for being such a valued member of the JACO community. The recording of Dr. Sweeney’s lecture is now available. If you are interested, please reach out to our Office Manager, Stephen Weed, by emailing him here.
In addition, we are posting here the panel discussion. If you were at the conference, you know it was informative and entertaining. If you were not, check it out. It provided some valuable insights as to our roots and ideas for the future. It is available by clicking here.

Facilitated Discussion of Dr. Richard Sweeney's Bollingen Lecture
2024-10-20 16:00 - 17:30
October 20, 2024, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Zoom only
Dr. Sweeney always leaves us with lots to talk about and consider. To assist us in unraveling and further exploring this year’s Bollingen lecture, Rev. David Hett has agreed to hold an open forum. Together we can talk about those aspects of Dr. Sweeney’s October 19 lecture that best resonated with us or concerned us or left us with questions.
This is a free event but you need to sign up in order that we can send you the link. Please scroll below to register.

Preview Video & Registration for The Strength of Jungian Psychology: Illuminating the Darkness - Presented by Dr. Richard Sweeney
2024-10-19 14:00 - 18:30 | First Community North Campus, 3777 Dublin Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43221, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
Preview video – an interview with Dr. Sweeney with JACO Board member Maggi Colwell about the program he will be presenting.
35th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
October 19, 2024 by Zoom AND at First Community North (scroll down to see venue address)
2 pm to 4 pm Seminar Presented by Richard J. Sweeney, Ph.D. (2 CEUs available)
4:00 – 5:00 pm Panel of JACO scholars/founders/leaders through the years
5:00 -6:30 pm Reception
A Silent Auction will be taking place at this event. Bidding will open at 1 pm so that attendees can view the auction items before Dr. Sweeney’s lecture begins. To learn about the Silent Auction, click here.
Program Description: In genuine synchronistic fashion JACO’s 35th anniversary arrives in 2024, designated in Tarot symbolism as “The Year of Strength.” This occurs as people world-wide debate what truly constitutes ‘a strong man’ or ‘a strong woman.’ Jungian thought contributes significantly and uniquely to this conversation by arguing that true strength of character derives from “illuminating the darkness.” In other words, strength emerges from a particular orientation to the archetypal shadow, namely from an embrace of the less known and less accepted aspects of ourselves. Precisely what this entails will be the focus of this afternoon lecture and discussion. In so doing, we hope to illumine in some way the strength we can bring to the challenges before us in 2024. Scroll below for registration tickets and for CEU credits.

AN AMAZING 35TH ANNIVERSARY SILENT AUCTION
2024-10-01 17:00 - 2024-10-19 18:00
The Silent Auction will open at 1 pm October 19. At that time you can bid on an item, either by emailing JACO here – or by noting your bid on an on site bidding sheet if you are attending in person. Advance information is provided below.
Whether you are able to join us in person or not, you have the opportunity to participate in our Silent Auction which we are holding to help support our mission of discovery through Jungian psychology. Below is a gallery of not only amazing art donated by members of our community, including Claire Bauza, but also, a complete set (YES—all 21 volumes) of Jung’s collected works. We know that they will capture your imagination and heart and move you to participate in the auction.
Supporting the auction supports JACO so that we can continue to offer low registration costs, low CEU costs, and free programs helping to make Jungian psychology and concepts accessible to all. We thank you in advance for that support.
Rules of Bidding
The Silent Auction will open at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 19, 2024. It will close on-line at 4:00 p.m. It will close at the conference (First Community) at 6:00 p.m. (See additional information on the October 19 Bollingen program by clicking here.)We will post the estimated value and minimum bids on October 9th. You may bid on-site or on-line as explained below. Ownership will be transferred to the highest bidder. The successful bidder will be responsible for costs if shipping is required.
Bidding On-Site. Bid sheets with estimated value and minimum bid will be in front of each item. You may bid as many times as you want.
Bidding On-Line. You may submit one bid on-line. All bids received will be placed on the appropriate bid sheet at the on-site auction at 4:00 p.m. If you want to know how the bidding is going (and bid higher if someone has bid higher), you will need to arrange for an in-person attendee to do that for you.

Following the gallery of the auction items is pricing information to help you formulate your bid.

Dark Feminine West & East by Artist Jim Slouffman - two viewsDark Feminine West & East by Artist Jim Slouffman w detail of top 1/2 of the shadowboxClose-up of top half of Dark Feminine West & EastBottom Half of Dark Feminine West & EastDark Feminine West & East Concluding Statement by the artistTimeless Divine Feminine by Artist Jim SloughmanThe Timeless Divine Feminine
by Artist Jim Slouffman

Watercolor by Claire Hagan Bauza, JACO Co-FounderSoulful Encounter by Artist Kristin Moger 11x14 unframedA Rose by Any Other Name -
unframed acrylic by Artist & JACO Board Member Maggi Colwell

12” x 12” framed original mono print by local artist, late Viki BlinnTHREE 24” x 12” decretive glass wall hangings - a set in reds, gold, deep brown15.5 x 19” framed photograph of Biltmore Estates azaleas by John Hoenie20” x 16” framed photograph of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia by Joe Gore21.5 “x 17.5” framed photograph of Machu Picchu by Hope Shekya

Finding Freedom by Belinda Gore, PhDThe Collected Works of C.G. Jung

Below you will see the original price of the auction item followed by a slash sign and the minimum bid.
Heaven & Hell: $800/$200
Timeless Divine: $800/$200
Dark Feminine: $800/$200
Glass Wall Hanging: $150/$75
Vicki Blinn Print: $125/$60
Machu Picchu Photo: $175/$85
Winter Palace: $150/$75
Biltmore Estates: $165/$80
Rose: $275/$100
Claire’s Watercolor: Incalculable/$150
Monkey Print: $100/$50
Jung Collected Works: $3200-$4495/$799

Jung Book Club - “The Undiscovered Self”
2024-09-15 16:00 - 2024-10-13 17:00
Our Book Club is not only growing, it is thriving. We have just finished a number of meetings with Mary Marx where we explored, through video and discussion, Lionel Corbett’s vision of the concept of god from antiquity to Jung. Beginning on September 15 (and continuing September 29 and October 13), the Rev. David Hett will delve into Carl Jung’s book, “The Undiscovered Self.” In that book, Jung wrote that we have entered “an apocalyptic age filled with images of universal destruction,” and expresses how, as individuals, we must respond to this reality. In this fate-full fall presidential election season set in a time of extreme polarization, Jung’s book provides insight into the seductive power of “mass-mindedness” pulling the individual away from their own inner search and self-awareness. Further, Jung’s insights will resonate not only with the study of Lionel Corbett’s beliefs, but also, with the upcoming lecture by Dr. Richard Sweeney who, on October 19, 2024, will speak to the “Strength of Jungian Psychology: Illuminating the Darkness” as well as Rev. Hett’s November 16, 2024 presentation on “The Archetype of the Apocalypse.”
The book club meets on Sundays (see dates above) from 4:00-5:00 pm EST and is a Zoom only get-together. The book club is free (although donations are always greatly appreciated so we can keep doing what we do). You need to register so we can send you the zoom invite for the meeting dates. Scroll below to register.

Jung’s Psychology of the Complexes: A Program for Mental Health Professionals
2024-09-13 09:00 - 2024-10-02 12:30
We are once again honored to make available a program for mental health professionals; this year focusing on the issue of Jung’s Psychology of the Complexes. As many of you know, this clinical program was begun by one of our founders, Dick Sweeney, a number of years ago. We have been fortunate that the program has continued under the tutelage of psychologist and Jungian analyst, James Fidelibus, Ph.D. This year the program will run from September 13, through December 6, 2024, and consist of 7 two-hour sessions (9-11 am) for a total of 14 continuing education units. It is being offered by Zoom only. Dr. Fidelibus will delve into Jungian theory relative to the structure of complexes as well as the relationships among personal complexes and the architecture of Jung’s model of the psyche. He will also help develop insight into activation of complexes in various contexts (e.g., dreams, therapeutic relationships). Please refer to the syllabus for more detailed information. Scroll below to register.
Complexes Seminar Syllabus

MANDALA ART WORKSHOP: EXPLORING THE SELF
2024-09-09 19:00 - 21:00 | 1550 Old Henderson Road, Suite N142, Columbus, OH 43220, 1550 Old Henderson Raod, Suite N142, Columbus, OH, 43220, United States
Maggi Colwell will be offering a workshop where the participants will create a mandala unique to their internal world. At the workshop, participants will delve into the psychological and self-exploratory aspects of mandalas, using them as tools for self-awareness and personal growth. Art supplies will be provided; however, participants are also encouraged to bring small personal items to incorporate into their mandala such as photos, beads, and ephemera (sticks, small stones, shells, feathers, etc.) as a way of adding layers of meaning and personal significance to their artwork.
Maggi is a seasoned guide in the realms of creativity and dreams. Maggi holds a Master’s in Art Therapy from Florida State University, is a nationally board-certified art therapist, and has a master’s level Dream Pattern Certificate from the Assisi Institute. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Maggi works with clients individually through their private practice, Chiron Art Therapy. They also facilitate a weekly in-person art therapy group for women. Maggi continues to enhance their expertise as a training candidate in psychoanalysis at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich.
The cost of the program is $40 for members and $45 for non-members. …. This program does not qualify for continuing education credits. Please scroll down to register. The address where the workshop will be held is 1550 Old Henderson Road, Suite N142, Columbus, OH 43220

JACO Book Club - Lionel Corbett
2024-07-21 16:00 - 17:00
Artwork by JACO member Claire Hagan Bauza
Facilitated by JACO Board Member
Mary Marx
July 21, 2024 from 4 to 5 PM by Zoom
Register below
There will be one more meeting of the JACO Book Club to continue to explore Lionel Corbett’s view of Carl Jung. That meeting will be on July 21, 2024 from 4 pm – 5 pm by Zoom. At that time, participants will view portions of a video where Dr. Corbett expresses his views on synchronicities as well as transformation of the ‘god’ image as expressed in two dreams. Even if you have not attended the earlier sessions, please feel free to scroll below to sign up and receive a Zoom link.

The Unconscious Takes Note: Jungian Influence on the Poetry of Paula J. Lambert
2024-06-15 15:00 - 17:00
In person AND on Zoom. Registration required. Scroll below to register please. You will see one RSVP for attending in person and a separate RSVP if you will be participating by Zoom. In person attendance will be at 1550 Old Henderson Road, Suite N142, Columbus, OH 43220. Though this is a free program, donations are aways welcome and gratefully received. To donate, click here.
We are delighted to announce that Paula J. Lambert, an award-winning Ohio poet whose work has long been influenced by the work of C.G. Jung and her own intense dream work, will be our speaker in June. Ms. Lambert has authored five chapbooks, including Uncertainty (The Only Hope We Have) (Bottlecap Press 2023) and four poetry collections. Her newest collection of poetry, As If This Did Not Happen Every Day (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2024), will be the focus of her presentation. This collection moves forward from the mostly bird-oriented poems she has been working on for years, focusing now on creatures such as fish, whales, turtles, and snakes. In her presentation she will draw upon Jung materials as well as read from her own work. Ms. Lambert’s work reflects her belief that salvation, if it is to be had, is not in mimicking the patriarchal. Rather, grace lies within the larger, divine concept of a collective feminine intending to bring the world back to its natural balance.

Book Discussion on Lionel Corbett's "God-Image: From Antiquity to Jung"
2024-06-09 16:00 - 17:00
We have wrapped up Part I of Man & His Symbols. It has been a very interesting journey, and it has been wonderful having so many of you join us. We are giving serious consideration to continuing with this book in the fall. However, for now, and after much discussion, we have decided to explore a different angle of Jungian psychology/philosophy. Starting on Sunday, June 9, 2024, Board Member Mary Marx has graciously offered to lead a discussion on a 70-minute lecture by Lionel Corbett to study ideas from his book the God-Image: From Antiquity to Jung. We will meet 3-4 times watching segments of the video followed by discussion.
According to Corbett, a new God-image is emerging alongside our traditional God-images. According to Jung, an innate God-image (the Self) exists in the psyche and allows a personal connection to the sacred. Images of the Self have a particular quality about them, e.g., mysterious, fascinating, awesome, dreadful, and uncanny. They point to wholeness and completion. Corbett says that God images in traditional religions and sacred texts such as the Bible “might be intellectually and emotionally satisfying (even if not directly experienced) but personal numinous experience is more convincing.” In addition to explaining Jung’s approach and providing rich examples, Corbett shows how Jung’s ideas bypass difficulties in traditional teachings, such as how a God of Absolute Goodness can be reconciled with evil and suffering in the world.
All meetings will be by Zoom starting Sunday, June 9, 2024 from 4-5 pm and every 2 weeks thereafter. Coming to Book Club is free, but you do need to register so that we can send you the Zoom link and contact you in the event of any changes. If you have any questions, feel let us know. Otherwise, please scroll below to register (RSVP). This should be a great discussion!

Video Available: Psychedelics and the Dynamics of Transformation: A Jungian View
2024-05-14 08:00 - 2024-08-10 13:00
The 2024 book “Psychedelics and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts” (ed. Leslie Stein & Lionel Corbett) features 20 well-known Jungian psychologists, including JACO Board member Dr. James Fidelibus who spoke to this topic at the Jung Association of Central Ohio on April 6, along with Colorado based Dylan Rivard, certified in this specialized and growing field of therapeutic support. Happily, if you missed the program or are curious about this evocative subject, which Jim and Dylan illuminated with great wisdom, we can offer the video to you for a modest purchase price. Scroll below to request the video. After we receive payment confirmation we will send you the link. Thank you for your interest.

JACO (Jung Association of Central Ohio) Newsletter
2024-05-14 08:00 - 2024-05-28 23:00
The newsletter (with its striking images) is published on a regular basis. If you would like to be on the mailing list to receive it, please email jungaco@jungcentralohio.org
Your ideas and suggestions for programs will be most welcome.
Click here to open the current newsletter in your web browser. It is created in Constant Contact, so viewing it in a separate window will allow you to access the active links that are embedded in it. Thank you for your interest. We hope to see you at one of our programs.

The Use of Psychedelics in Psychotherapy
2024-04-06 09:30 - 12:30 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
APRIL 6, 2024 PRESENTATION: PSYCHEDELIC THERAPIES
Please scroll below to register. 3 CEUs are available. This program will be i n person at First Community (1320 Cambridge Blvd., Grandview Ohio 43212) AND by Zoom.
3 hour presentation. Each speaker will make a 1 hr., 15 min presentation. The expectation is to set aside 30 minutes for questions.

James A. Fidelibus
James A. Fidelibus, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in the State of Ohio and holds a diploma as a Jungian Analyst from the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He also has advanced training in couples therapy from the Gottman Institute and Ottawa Couple & Family Institute, as well as advanced training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy from the Cleveland Center for Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Fidelibus has published on psychotherapy outcomes and given presentations on analytical psychology locally, nationally, and internationally.
Presentation: Psychedelics, also known as entheogens, are catalysts of mystical experience. Transliterated from the Greek, these words refer to an ineffable experience of union with the divine or oneness with the universe. Under their influence, the ego recedes and there is a soul-connection with a reality beyond logical comprehension. Jung called this an experience of the numinous and remarked in a 1945 letter to a colleague that he considered the approach to the numinous, not the cure of neurosis, to be at the heart of his work. Unlike Freud, Jung saw the unconscious less as the container of repressions and more as the realm of the archetypes and the dwelling place of the divine. He did not use psychedelics or entheogens as a means to enter this realm. In fact, he warned against it. His approach was to make use of dreams, fantasy, mythology, fairy tales, and various art forms and artifacts to connect with a level of experience that the unaided ego could never approach on its own. Jung had his misgivings about creating spiritual experience with a pill. He was concerned, first, with overwhelming consciousness with archetypal images that could precipitate a psychosis. He was also concerned about taking short cuts that would prove to be ultimately hollow. Nevertheless, both research and clinical experience have proven the utility of psychedelics when used competently and responsibly within the context of analytic work. This presentation will examine a particular case from a Jungian perspective in which analysis was conducted over a two-year period following patient experience with psilocybin. Attention will be paid to the prerequisites for including psychedelics as an adjunct to analytic work, the stages of the psychedelic journey, and the stages of progression through the course of the analytic work itself.
Dylan Rivard
Dylan has an MA in Transpersonal Psychotherapy with a Wilderness Therapy focus from Naropa University. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado, as well as a Certified Hakomi Therapist. He has trained with the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI), and assisted in the Integrative Psychiatry Institute’s Psychedelic Therapy Certification. He serves as faculty for trainings with both Elemental Psychedelics and The Congregation of Sacred Practices, as well as serving on the board of The Nowak Society; a Colorado based non-profit focused on psychedelic advocacy and public education. With over 10 years of experience in mental health, he now runs his own private practice where he serves clients working through trauma, grief, and spiritual growth.
Presentation: Psychedelic therapies and research have exploded into the cultural consciousness in the last few years. With headlines claiming that psychedelics can cure depression and PTSD, along with stories of plane crashes caused by magic mushrooms, it is important to cultivate a critical lens through which to look at the emerging “Psychedelic Renaissance”. In this presentation Dylan Rivard will walk you through some of the current research and leading theories of psychedelic therapy, as well as looking at ways in which psychedelic work has been held historically. He will compare and contrast emerging psychological models with traditionally held indigenous viewpoints, as well as examining issues regarding community care versus individual self-actualization. Participants in this workshop will gain a greater understanding of the current uses of psychedelics in psychotherapy, issues of culture and oppression at play in the emerging psychedelic landscape, as well as a deeper understanding of the current critiques and limitations of psychedelic psychotherapy.

Carl Jung's Man and His Symbols Book Discussion
2024-03-10 16:00 - 17:00
The JACO Book Club is continuing its study of Part 1 of Jung’s Man & His Symbols. The next meeting is March 10, 2024 from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST, by Zoom. We will continue our discussion of the Section entitled, “The Archetype in Dream Symbolism.” If you are not already signed up, we would love to have you join us. Please scroll below to RSVP for a Zoom link.

A Tribute to JACO Artist Claire Hagan-Bauza in Honor of JACO's 35th Anniversary
2024-03-05 00:00 - 2024-10-02 12:30
Claire is one of JACO’s founders and established the art gallery at the very start of JACO’s creation. She is a beloved guiding star. Thirty-five pieces from her body of work were chosen to honor JACO’s 35th anniversary. Click here to see the exhibit of her artwork – a diverse, rich, wondrous, luminous collection.

The Trickster - The Unexpected Guide to the Self
2024-02-29 19:00 - 21:00
On Thursday, February 29, 2024, Dr. Judith Cooper will be presenting BY ZOOM a program on the Trickster. CEUs are available. Please scroll below to tickets (for both program registration and for CEUs). The zoom link will be sent a few days prior to the 29th.
The Trickster has many names such as the collective shadow (Jung), the Self (Doty), the personification of the Self-Care System (Kalsched), a metaphor for the Psyche (Samuels), the spirit of the transcendent function (McNeely), and the image of the individuation process itself.
“He is the god of the unexpected, of luck, of coincidences, of synchronicity…Whenever things seem fixed, rigid, stuck, Hermes introduces fluidity, motion, new beginnings and the confusion that almost inevitably precedes new beginnings.” Stassinopoulos, Gods of Greece.
It has been noted that the archetype of the Trickster defies and resists easy classification and unified definition due to a capricious and tricky ambiguous nature containing all conceivable opposites. Trickster has variously been named as the collective shadow (Jung), the Self (Doty), the personification of the Self-Care System (Kalsched), a metaphor for the psyche (Samuels), the spirit of the transcendent function (McNeely) and the image of the individuation process itself. We will attempt to capture this elusive, mercurial energy in all its paradoxical complexity and numinosity. Trickster appears in the field of liminality, bringing chaotic instability in its drive to subvert the social order, as a shape-shifter, thus carrying gender fluidity, crossing and violating boundaries, confusing and blurring distinctions between right and wrong, sacred and profane, male and female, living and dead. Trickster as an agent of a differentiation of morality, holds the potential for humanizing marginality, forcing us to question our ideas of order and morality, and, therefore, is a potent force for healing and revitalizing culture.
As archetypal amplifications we will identify “trickster works of art” (Beebe) connected to Jung’s concept of the “visionary,” that allows numinous images from the collective unconscious to emerge.
Film clips will be shown. Film is a formidable, potent psychological medium whose transformative spaces possess tricksterish qualities that dissolve the boundaries between the conscious and the unconscious, a cinematic liminality.
Dr. Cooper is a clinical psychologist and diplomate Jungian Analyst. She has lectured widely on the anima/animus and the use of film in clinical treatment. She presented “Hail, Aphrodite!: Re-sacralization of the Goddess of Love & Sex in David Ives’ Venus in Fur” at the IAAP Congress in Vienna.
She and a colleague have also aired a 7-part podcast series called Healing Cinema, which was posted on the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago’s website. The series analyses classical and contemporary films from a Jungian viewpoint including Hitchcock’s Rear Window, The Lost Daughter, and Tar.

Online Book Club - Man and His Symbols
2024-02-11 16:00 - 17:00
At our second of this four-part series, we will be discussing “The Function of Dreams” and “The Analysis of Dreams” sections of Man & His Symbols conceived and edited by Carl Jung.
The Club meets every other week. Next up:
February 11: “The Problem of Types” & “The Archetype in Dream Symbolism”
February 25: “The Soul of Man,” “The Role of Symbols,” & “Healing the Split”
Even if you miss a meeting, feel free to join us at any time.
Scroll below to RSVP for a Zoom link.

JACO (Jung Association of Central Ohio) Newsletter
2024-01-25 08:00 - 2024-02-09 17:00
The newsletter is published on a regular basis. If you would like to be on the mailing list to receive it, please email jungaco@jungcentralohio.org
Your ideas and suggestions for programs will be most welcome.
Click here to open the current newsletter in your web browser. It is created in Constant Contact, so viewing it in a separate window will allow you to access the active links that are embedded in it. Thank you for your interest. We hope to see you at one of our programs.

Book Discussion - Man and His Symbols
2024-01-14 16:00 - 17:00
Every other Sunday from 4 to 5 PM – by Zoom. To receive your Zoom link please scroll below to RSVP. The first meeting will be January 14, 2023 and will cover the first two sections of the book.

Tarot in the Year 2024 – The Year of Strength
2024-01-10 19:00 - 21:00
In 2023, we were fortunate enough to have JudyAnne Morse present both a program and a workshop on the world of Tarot. JudyAnne is a graduate of the Pacific Mystery School, obtaining a Teaching Certification for Kabbalah and Tarot in the Western Mystery Tradition. She is also a certified Visionary Cosmologist. She studied poetry and creative non-fiction at the College of Santa Fe and taught poetry and art journaling at The Diarist Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has published five volumes of poetry, and her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies.
She will be joining us again to present an online workshop for 2024—the Year of Strength. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST. The Strength card speaks to our inner strength and to the human spirit’s ability to overcome any obstacle. Strength, also known as Fortitude, (one of the Four Virtues), is about knowing how to endure life’s obstacles. The Strength card is also about deep healing. With all the challenges we face in our personal lives and as citizens of planet Earth, there could not be a better card for 2024. In the workshop participants will learn more about how Strength’s lessons can help one maneuver through 2024. Participants will also be pulling a Tarot card for each month of 2024 to help guide you through the coming year. Bring your favorite tarot deck and join us.
To register, scroll below for a ticket. A zoom link will be sent to all registrants a few days prior to the workshop.

The Poetics of the Flesh: Incarnation and Individuation, Presented by David Hett
2023-11-11 10:00 - 13:00 | First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W Weisheimer Rd, Columbus, OH, 43214, United States
We are happy to offer this event as a free program though donations are always welcome and deeply appreciated. You can donate by clicking here. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST RSVP (SCROLL BELOW) WHETHER YOU ATTEND IN PERSON OR BY ZOOM. Following David’s lecture, we will be having a reception to celebrate community and his presence among us.

My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconscious is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos. –D.H. Lawrence
Through poetry, psychology, and perennial wisdom, a holiday season view of the Incarnation – being embodied souls in the world.
In this presentation, David explores an understanding of incarnation from the integrated view of a progressive Christian framework (enlarging the concept—actually, the myth—of Jesus’ birth as the Incarnation, God becoming flesh), aspects of Jungian and archetypal psychologies, and the understanding of the psychological-spiritual work, the Diamond Approach, of which David is a long-time student and retired teacher. The Diamond Approach, as founder A. H. Almaas writes, “is a dynamic, evolving, teaching that leads to openness, freedom and realization of the many dimensions of our human potential—especially the amazing secrets of our spiritual nature.”
David is a retired minister with a private practice in spiritual direction, and a longtime member of the C.G. Jung Association of Central Ohio, currently serving on JACO’s program committee. He recently moved to the Chicago area, near his three children and eight grandchildren.

Bollingen Lecture and Workshop: The Power of Dreamwork - Friday Night Lecture (October 13 from 7 to 8:30 PM) and Saturday Workshop (October 14 from 9:30 AM to Noon) Presented by Lisa Marchiano
2023-10-13 09:30 - 2023-10-14 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
Online and in-person
Friday Night Lecture from 7 to 8:30 PM on October 13 1.5 CEUs
Saturday Workshop from 9:30 AM to Noon October 14 2 CEUs
Receive a discount if registering for both Friday and Saturday
Tickets are also discounted for members.
The CEU fee is separate from the program registration fee.
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Scholarship assistance is available – email jungaco@jungcentralohio.org
The Power of Dreamwork – Lecture
Dreams can be fascinating, beautiful, and intriguing. Dreams speak with the wisdom of a teacher, the aesthetic sense of a great novelist, and the wit of a comedian. Working with our dreams will be a source of interest and intellectual stimulation, but it will also be so much more. Dreamwork opens us up to the perspective of the dream maker, the other within who has much to say about where we are deceiving ourselves, approaching life with the wrong attitude, or defending against important feelings. In this lecture, I’ll discuss how dreamwork will allow us to make use of this important source of information so that we can solve problems, gain perspective, and grow into our fullest selves.
The Power of Dreamwork – Workshop
During this workshop, we’ll learn some tools for accessing the wisdom of the dream maker’s perspective. We’ll use our imagination and our embodied awareness to gain a deep understanding of the dream’s message. After a brief introduction to the topic, we’ll work together to interpret a few dreams. We’ll spend the last part of the workshop applying the new techniques to our own dreams. Please come to the workshop with a recent dream or two if possible.
Lisa Marchiano is a Jungian analyst, podcaster, and author. Lisa is the co-host of the popular depth psychology podcast This Jungian Life and the co-creator of Dream School. She is on the faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia and lectures widely on Jungian topics. She is the author of the award-winning book Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself. Her second book, The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire, will be published by Sounds True in February 2024. Lisa is currently working with her This Jungian Life cohosts Deb Stewart and Joseph Lee on a third book on dream interpretation due in the fall of 2024.

Book Club: "Dreams: God’s Forgotten Language" Starting October 1
2023-10-01 16:00 - 17:00
Please RSVP Below to receive a zoom link.

Our book club on Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics has left us wanting more. So, starting October 1, 2023 from 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., and every other Sunday thereafter, we will be working through a new book— John Sanford’s Dreams: God’s Forgotten Language. You can find the book online or, better yet, if you have not heard of Better World Books, check it out. They sell (new and used) and donate a book for each book sold. Hope you can join us.

Seminar on The Psychology of the Transference
2023-09-15 09:00 - 2023-12-08 09:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
FOR LICENSED CLINICIANS
DATES: Sept. 15, 29; Oct. 13, 27; Nov. 10, 24; Dec. 8. (2023) – 2 hours each session
Time: 9am to 11am for each session
REGISTRATION FEE: $250 REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS
CEUs: Based on number of sessions and hours each; thus 14 are available. CEUs are $2 for JACO members and $15 for non-members
LOCATION: May be by Zoom or in-person or both. To be determined. If in person will be at First Community 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus 43212
TEXT: Nathan Schwartz-Salant (1998). The Mystery of Human Relationship: Achemy and the Transformation of the Self.
FACILITATOR: Dr. Jim Fidelibus
For two personalities to meet is like mixing two different chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed. (CW 16, par. 163)
Jung was inspired to write about the transference at the age of 71 after encountering the woodcut images that accompany the alchemical text, the Rosarium Philosophorum. The discovery of this text brought home a connection between the psychology of the transference and Jung’s extensive study of alchemy. It became his model for framing a way of relating to transference phenomena that amplified relational patterns in archetypal terms.
Jung had been introduced to alchemy in 1928 by the missionary-sinologist Richard Wilhelm. For Jung, the connection with Wilhelm was utterly transformative. In the years immediately following his break with Freud, Jung had a set of psychic experiences now known as his “confrontation with the unconscious.” Analytical psychology was developed as he wrestled with an understanding of these experiences in the context of gnostic philosophy and cross-cultural mythology. His insights led him to regard his experiences as psychic processes rooted in the archetypes of the collective unconscious. But it was not until Jung read Wilhelm’s German translation of the ancient Chinese text, The Secret of the Golden Flower, that he took any real confidence in his conclusions. Jung found in this text a metaphor so compellingly descriptive of his psychic experience that he dropped his work on The Red Book. He was propelled into decades of exhaustive study of alchemy that ultimately resulted in the addition of three massive tomes to the Collected Works: Psychology and Alchemy (vol. 12), Alchemical Studies (vol. 13), and Mysterium Coniunctionis (vol. 14). In addition to these, among the many fruits of this labor and of particular relevance to this seminar was his 1945 essay, The Psychology of the Transference.
This seminar offers an opportunity to reflect from the perspective of Jung’s alchemical metaphor on our shared experience as clinicians in handling the dynamics of therapeutic interaction. Jung says, “In any effective psychological treatment the doctor is bound to influence the patient; but this influence can only take place if the patient has a reciprocal influence on the doctor. You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence” (CW 16, par. 163). The hope it that, as we consider transference and countertransference from our experience as clinicians and in the light of assigned readings, we will create a learning environment of mutual “susceptibility to influence” that will stretch and grow us clinically.
Learning objectives:

Participants will recognize and evaluate assumptions they have made historically in their clinical work with respect to transference and countertransference dynamics.
Participants will Identify new trends and/or insights that have affected their clinical work in some novel way.
Participants will be able to contrast examples of developmental and archetypal transferences from their clinical work and the way their differential approach to each has evolved over the course of their participation.
Participants will be able to express both consonances/agreements and dissonances/disagreements with authors’ theoretical understanding of how to understand and to work with countertransference.

Schwartz-Salant, N. (1998). The Mystery of Human Relationship: Alchemy and the Transformation of the Self. NY: Routledge.

1
9/15
Ch. 1 Alchemy and transformation in human relationship
pgs. 1 – 18
Ch. 2 Activating the experience of the field
pgs. 19 – 35

2
9/29
Ch. 4 The dynamics of the interactive field
pgs. 63 – 97

3
10/13
Ch. 5 The transformative power of the interactive field
pgs. 80 – 97
Ch. 6 The alchemical view of madness
pgs. 98 – 124

4
10/27
Ch. 7 The central mystery of the alchemical process
pgs. 125 – 149

5
11/10
Ch. 8 The alchemical attitude toward the transformation of relationship
pgs. 150 – 174

6
11/24

Ch. 9 Union, death, and the resurrection of the self
pgs. 175 – 215

7
12/8
Ch. 10 Approaching the mystery of relationship
pgs. 216 – 229
