Jung Association of Central Ohio

JUNGIAN BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES BEGINNING APRIL 30 LED BY ETHAN FINLEY
2023-04-30 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Led by Ethan Finley, a Jungian oriented therapist, JACO Board member and JACO office manager, this series of zoom meetings will focus on the book, Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe by Bernardo Kastrup. The series will start on Sunday April 30th from 3pm to 4pm and continue bi-weekly on Sundays from 3pm to 4pm until we’ve finished the book. This event series will be offered for free though donations are welcomed. A brief description of the book and author is below.
More than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the 20th century’s greatest articulator of the primacy of mind in nature, a view whose origins vanish behind the mists of time. Underlying Jung’s extraordinary body of work, and providing a foundation for it, there is a broad and sophisticated system of metaphysical thought. This system, however, is only implied in Jung’s writings, so as to shield his scientific persona from accusations of philosophical speculation.
The present book scrutinizes Jung’s work to distil and reveal that extraordinary, hidden metaphysical treasure: For Jung, mind and world are one and the same entity; reality is fundamentally experiential, not material; the psyche builds and maintains its body, not the other way around; and the ultimate meaning of our sacrificial lives is to serve God by providing a reflecting mirror to God’s own instinctive mentation. Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force, and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect’ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on ‘Scientific American,’ the ‘Institute of Art and Ideas,’ the ‘Blog of the American Philosophical Association’ and ‘Big Think,’ among others.
Click HERE to take a closer look at the book. scroll below to receive a link to join the discussion. We are most grateful for donations (suggested $20 but please know you are welcome to attend even if you can’t or aren’t ready to donate at this time).

JACO Member Virtual Art Exhibit
2023-05-01 04:30 - 2023-07-31 17:00
Click here to go directly to the art gallery https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/

From a Jungian perspective the psyche works to bring unconscious material to consciousness through symbols and images to facilitate personal growth and development. This is a journey of self-discovery that emphasizes the importance of finding meaning and purpose in life. Jung himself used active imagination to explore his unconscious through art.
In his Red Book, he states, “I took great care to try to understand every single image, every item of my psychic inventory, and to classify them scientifically—so far as this was possible—and, above all, to realize them in actual life.”
The JACO community has received many gifts of creative expression from its members through the years and we are profoundly grateful to continue our long history of exhibiting member artwork. This current exhibit features JACO members Belinda Gore, Ann Sullivan, Christina Comer and Lucy Linik.

Two Spiritual Art Experiences, with Jungian Artist James Slouffman
2023-05-13 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This will be an in-person event. Please scroll below to RSVP. It is essential that we learn of the attendance number, for special space arrangements must be made for this immersive experience.
Jim’s artwork was featured in the fall 2022 JACO Virtual Art Exhibit. His creations are breathtaking, and he kindly offered a Second Saturday last November to explain the Jungian concepts that guide his artistry. One piece features a tabernacle, the story of which is enchanting. With that tabernacle as his spotlight, Jim is offering us the gift of a two-part program. In his words:
First, we will start with a discussion of how synchronicity moved the tabernacle into my possession so that I could transform it into a contemplative Art Object. Next, we will relax and meditate during the fifteen-minute visual and musical presentation that the tabernacle experience provides. We will wait five minutes in silence to reflect upon the experience and then share our experiences in an open discussion group.
The second half of our session will take us back to a primal setting to experience a Shamanic Drum Circle. I will explain the basics of this experience and provide the ritual dedication to the four directions and the above and below. I will drum at around 120 beats per minute which will synch our energies with the natural resonance of the earth. 🌎 I will drum for 20 minutes. We will sit in silence again for five minutes to process our experience then have another open discussion group.

Dream Groups
2023-05-20 10:00 - 12:00
YOU’VE RESPONDED, AND WE HEARD YOU. DREAM GROUPS ARE COMING.
Whether you are a trained facilitator (or have had some experience) or are brand new to the idea of dream groups (or have been in one before) and are interested in being in one now, this Program is for you. It is designed to facilitate the establishment of Dream Groups in our community. All 3 sessions will be on Zoom.
On May 20, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. we want to meet with you and have a Brainstorming Session..
We will provide you with the basics of what we are proposing. We will then open the floor to you. We need your input! What prompted you to sign up? What has been your experience? Positives/Negatives– As a facilitator; as a participant? Size of group? People known to you/People new to you? Level of autonomy? What are you looking for? What would meet your needs? What role do you want to play? There is no cost for this meeting.
On July 22, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. we will have an Orientation Session. This Session will provide education on best practices for facilitating and participating in a Dream Group. It will also incorporate what we learned from the Brainstorming Session including how we can help facilitate the establishment of Dream Groups within our community. There is a $30 fee for this session. CEUs will also be available. You must have attended (or subsequently listened to the recording of) this Session in order to attend the July 29th Session.
On July 29, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. we will have a Dream Session.
One or more dreams will be presented to the group for a hands-on experience i.e., we will work through the dream(s) as if we were, in fact, a Dream Group. Debriefing will follow. There is a $30 fee for this session. CEUs will also be available.
Scroll below to sign up for the brainstorming session.

A June Art Exhibit Retrospective Featuring Artist Jim Slouffman
2023-06-06 08:00 - 2023-06-30 17:00
Enter the Tabernacle
To view the slideshow click here: June Retrospective Slideshow Featuring Artist Jim Slouffman

We just have to exclaim over Jim Slouffman’s Second Saturday May 13 spiritual art experience. He traveled from Cincinnati with his opera singer wife Caroline, to follow up his Fall 2022 JACO virtual art exhibit with the spotlight on his tabernacle. What a sacred term! Tabernacle! So many reverent meanings across cultures. Consecrated! Jim received a tabernacle as a gift. It had been part of a church sacrament but was deconsecrated when the church closed and found its way to this devoted artist. He reconsecrated it as an image of the divine within.
Jim shared the story of how he received the tabernacle and how he re-fashioned it to be a symbol of meditative power. A relic without. Within, the chalice. He added hidden lights. The door to the tabernacle – on the inside he imprinted the butterfly nebula (image captured by the Hubble spacecraft).
“The great mystery of the Butterfly Nebula on the inside of the tabernacle door? A new vision of eternity inward and outward? THE BIRTH OF A NEW GOD IMAGE? Possibilities!” The Butterfly Nebula is a cosmic wonder with a wingspan of three light-years and a scorching hot central star. What a perfect symbol of rebirth. We can go deeply into this image and find hope. Jim explained how meaningful this work has been to him and invited participants to travel to the outer realms of the cosmos to find connection, beginnings, endings, and the promise of teleological essence.
Jim Slouffman has spent his entire creative life in pursuit of inner awareness. His paintings and drawings serve as investigations of symbols, nature and ideas that move the spirit. The sources of his inspiration are personal realizations (Gnosis) nurtured by his in-depth studies of psychology, mythology, metaphor, philosophy, music, and spirituality.
Recent ideas that have influenced his imagination are many and include the eternal feminine, sacred geometry, alchemical and archetypal symbolism. His works often reflect the symmetrical and centering power felt in mandalas and mystical contemplative art. His use of gold & silver leaf and gold painted elements speak to his spiritually creative style.
Jim has been an artist and educator for more than 50 years. He received his BFA from Wright State University in 1972 and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 1976. He is a member of The Greater Cincinnati Friends of Jung where he has presented on a variety of subjects. His artwork is in collections across the United States and Europe.

Active Engagination, with JACO Member Mike Schaefer
2023-06-10 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This will be an in-person event at First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd, 43212. To help us plan the space and refreshments, kindly RSVP below. This rare program takes us back to the heady days of yore when we gathered in person to explore in dialogue with each other captivating mysteries of the conscious and the unconscious. We are so happy Mike is offering this opportunity to us. We hope very much to see you there.
Can we facilitate Individuation in a group setting? If the experience of Individuation is about a full engagement between Psyche and Cosmos or between Self and the World, what do we call it when experienced in a group setting? Come and explore this experience that will attempt a flowing of consciousness through the group that is created from within and fosters a shifting from intellectual understanding to living process. Any moment itself provides the material for something like Active Imagination (which is a process typically used for introspection or as a means for working with dream images). As a group we can create a process with one another to explore Jungian topics that emerge from a seed image and processed through group experience. The intent here would be to get into the flow of the process with no agenda trusting the impulses and desires of the group to determine the course of exploration. It would be like an active engagement in one another’s imagination as a means to facilitate individual and group Individuation. We could call it Active Engagination.
Mike is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. He received a master’s degree from the University of Dayton and has practiced with individuals (including adults, adolescents and children), couples and families in a private agency and with clients in nursing facilities. He is also a former member of the Board of Trustees for JACO.

Virtual Art Gallery Show - Remedios Varo
2023-08-02 08:00 - 2023-10-31 17:00
Remedios Varo, born in Spain, found her palette come alive in Mexico, where magical realism was a creative host to her surrealistic compositions. She wove into her paintings a wide range of religious, mystic and hermetic traditions, as well as animistic faiths. She was learned in the sciences yet incorporated with equal interest the ideas of Carl Jung, Meister Eckhart, and the Sufis. She saw in each of these an avenue to self-knowledge and the transformation of consciousness.
To learn more and to view Varo’s work, please visit the Art Gallery at this location: https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/

Family Hauntings, Presented by Jeff Holman
2023-08-05 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
In person at First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd. and by zoom
To help us plan for space and refreshments kindly RSVP below. This will also enable us to send a zoom link. This is a free program but donations are deeply appreciated. Just click here, with our gratitude.
This program blends Hollis’ (Jung’s) Hauntings theory with Family Systems Theory and Eudaimonic fulfillment, i.e. living one’s values and integrity for enduring contentment. Jeff starts with describing complexes, moves on to family dynamics and ancestral projects, then focuses on meaningful living.
Jeff is originally from western NC. He became familiar with Jungian theory when he was a chaplain and in formation to train chaplains with ACPE. He began reading and teaching Jungian theory at that time, met with a Jungian analyst for years, and was certified by ACPE in part due to his competency with Jungian theory for spiritual care. In the past decade, he’s worked as a Certified Educator with ACPE and now works at OhioHealth training others how to teach chaplains while leading the system’s CPE programs. He is on two leadership commissions with ACPE, one on certification and the other on professional wellbeing. He has been a member of JACO since moving to Columbus in 2016 and lives in Hilliard with his wife Sheila Moorman and son Noah.

Dream Group Workshop
2023-08-19 10:00 - 12:00
This is a free program but RSVP below to receive the link.
One of the things people have asked JACO is recommending local dream groups in which they can participate. The community has been involved in several dream groups in the past and many are interested in reconnecting.
After our initial meeting, we have found that there are people interested in forming groups, in person and online. Our next workshop on dream groups will be led by Janice Bachman and Maggi Colwell. The meeting will include the following:

Gathering information to get interested people connected to those willing to host and facilitate
Demonstrating on how a lay person group would work through a dream.
Background context for how to approach dream content.

All are welcome. No experience needed.
Maggi Colwell, MS, ATR-BC is a Jungian oriented art therapist in private practice in Columbus Ohio. Their final graduate community project at Florida State University focused on dreams in an art therapy group setting. They received a masters level dream pattern analysis certificate from the Assisi Institute. Maggi is currently continuing their studies at the CG Jung Institute Zurich as a training candidate.
Janice Bachman, a Jungian psychoanalyst in practice in the Greater Columbus area, has offered several dream workshops for JACO members and has worked with a variety of groups focused on interpreting their dreams as a way of accessing a deeper meaning in their lives.

Love, Power, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo
2023-09-09 10:00 - 15:00 | First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W Weisheimer Rd, Columbus, OH, 43214, United States
Presented by Dennis and Rebecca Pottenger, authors of “Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo”
The morning lecture (10 AM to Noon) is both in-person and online
The afternoon experiential workshop (1 PM to 3 PM) is in-person only
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W Weisheimer Rd, Columbus, OH 43214 To register scroll below to tickets. CEUs are available: 2 for the morning session and 2 for the afternoon session. You will find separate tickets for the CEUs. Pricing is based on member and non-member status. There is a program registration fee discount if you register for both the morning AND the afternoon sessions. Scholarship assistance is available – email jungaco@jungcentralohio.org. PLEASE NOTE WHEN YOU SCROLL BELOW TO TICKETS: THERE IS A MEMBER REGISTRATION TICKET FOR MEMBERS OF JACO AND A SEPARATE MEMBER REGISTRATION TICKET FOR MEMBERS OF The Greater Cincinnati Friends of Jung, the Jung Education Center of Cleveland, and the Jung Association of the Miami Valley
See images (the Pottenger’s Power Point slide show) of Varo’s work in the Art Gallery at this location:
https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/
Patriarchy is a word that triggers strong emotion. Men can feel defensive and attacked, made to feel bad or wrong. Women feel oppressed, silenced, annihilated. As a system of power and domination, patriarchy hurts people of all genders, and all of us are needed to create a world that works for everyone.
How can we, as female, nonbinary, and male persons work together to transform a culture that harms us all by misusing the archetypal masculine and feminine principles present in each person for the purposes of power and domination?
How can we make a world based on inclusiveness, equality, and psychological wholeness—a world in which people of all genders embody the integration of both rationality and feeling?
The paintings of Remedios Varo engage the viewer in a mercurial movement of misty swirls and eerie distortions of perspective. Her figures are isolated and often confined in secluded spaces—a tower or forest—and held captive by unknown forces. Personally engaged in spiritual practices dedicated to self-knowledge, in her paintings Varo often depicts a relationship between human figures and a mysterious force from which an essence is being extracted, woven, or brewed.
Varo was 55 years old when she died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Mexico City in the fall of 1963. Since then, the art and life of this traumatized and reclusive artist has been carefully investigated—each painted image marveled at and inspected in a bid to pinpoint the origin and allure of imaginal characters who are determined to seek out the numinous unseen forces that animate human life.
Today, Varo’s work is being re-discovered by a new generation. In this half-day presentation and experiential workshop, Dennis and Rebecca Pottenger explore the transformative presence of the archetypal Feminine in Varo’s artwork as the artist challenges the mythic underpinnings of patriarchy and through her paintings re-imagines a male-dominated world that can now embrace the presence and power of women and the Feminine in people of all genders.
In both the online and in-person portions of the program, Dennis and Rebecca host a space in which the presence and perspective of each participant is welcome and valued.
This program is based on Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo: Cultural Complexes and the Redemptive Power of the Abjected Feminine, the book Dennis published in Routledge’s Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies series in 2021. Rebecca edited the Varo book and wrote the introduction. Here is a link to an excellent review of the book by Narelle C. Bouthillier that offers very insightful Jungian commentary:
https://jungianjournal.ca/index.php/jjss/article/view/216/131
This is an excerpt from the review:
“As they show, Varo’s paintings form a series of unique alchemical emblems created from the feminine perspective. The authors challenge depth psychologists and researchers to consider that a feminine form of alchemy does not look like the masculine form of alchemy as we have tried to understand it primarily through the works of Jung. Women participated in classical alchemy; however, in traditional alchemical images, they did so largely from the male perspective. Even Marie-Louise von Franz, Jung’s closest collaborator in his alchemical studies, noted in her biography of him, C.G. Jung: His Myth in our Time (1972), that he only “took up the rejected masculine-spiritual half of the hermaphrodite” (p. 235). Although the feminine side of things deeply influenced Jung’s character, life, and work, his study of alchemy is missing a deeper analysis of the female experience of it. The Pottengers considered Varo to be “a female alchemical adept” (p. 29) who “read and studied Jungian psychology” (p. 6) and alchemy—as the influences of alchemy can be clearly seen in her paintings. The authors have now taken up the rejected feminine-spiritual half of the hermaphrodite and have made a major contribution to the study of the female experience of alchemy and alchemical transformation in the psyche. The book also provides us with knowledge about Varo’s initiatory and metaphysical (p. 62) quest to weave (p. 7) and birth (p. 35) healing forces out of the darkness of her own deep and harrowing trauma into this world through her art, not only for herself, but also for the collective (p. 66)—a main argument of the book.”
Over the first 90 minutes of the program Dennis and Rebecca follow the Varo book and explore the symbolism in a number of the artist’s paintings, including The Encounter, where a woman comes in from the woods of the unconscious carrying a dangerous secret.
In the Varo book, Dennis looked in some detail at an important dream Varo recorded in her only published diary. This was an encounter with an executioner ordered to kill her for possessing a secret so dangerous the fabric of the world would be destroyed if everyone knew about it. Varo’s Dream of the Executioner is the focus of the second half of today’s presentation, which includes PowerPoint presentation, art-based experiential exercise, and a closing ritual. The aim is to explore the symbolism in Varo’s dream, which communicates piercing truths about the way patriarchy silences women and cuts men off from intimacy with others and with themselves.
In the second half of the program Dennis and Rebecca also explore the presence in Varo’s work of the Kore goddess, an archetypal presence who helps us discover what Safron Rossi has called “the ground of our own values, ideals, and emotional reality.”
As we weave our way through Varo’s imaginal world as she brings forth the kore in herself and her work, Dennis and Rebecca pause frequently to make space for comment and reflection. Through image, idea, and imagination, the intention is to thread into our own lives what Varo’s alchemical practice of painting might offer us as individuals and as a collective.
Dennis Pottenger is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in California. Dennis studied psychotherapy at Pacifica Graduate Institute and works often with trauma, identity, and diversity issues. An award-winning literary journalist, Dennis is the author of Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo: Cultural Complexes and the Redemptive Power of the Abjected Feminine (Routledge, 2021), and Great Expectations, a season in the life of a professional football franchise (Prima, 1991). On a personal level, Dennis is a proud step-father to four multi-racial children (Alisha, Veronica, Coreana, and Jasynte) and step-grandfather to Ezra, who is 3 years old, and Ariah, who will be 2 years old early next year.
Rebecca Livingston-Pottenger is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and Adjunct Faculty Member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she advises MA candidates and edits master’s theses and dissertations. Rebecca is a feminist scholar and gifted intuitive healer who has practiced and taught Reiki, a hands-on Japanese healing art, for more than 30 years. Rebecca loves to work with women in small groups and with individuals. She facilitates intimate, transformational retreats using experiential modalities ranging from movement, vocal, and creative practices to guided visualization and Tarot. Rebecca brings extensive presentation skills to the Varo material, having given papers at several conferences hosted by the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies over the past decade.

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

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.

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.
Scroll below to tickets.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.
