Canberra Jung Society Inc.

Archive of Events - 2024

Friday 2nd February 2024

"Experiences of Providing Therapy in Nature"

Dr Saan Ecker, Clinical Psychologist

at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham ACT (and by Zoom)

video recording

Saan presented on experiences of providing therapy in nature including equine assisted therapy and eco-therapy.

Saan (psychologist) and her psychotherapist partner have provided therapy and workshops from their rural facility for 10 years and have worked with everyone from children living with neurodiversity to company directors, supplementing their therapy skills with time in nature and with the inclusion of a herd of Arabian horses.

Saan shared how interactions with the natural world enhance therapeutic experiences with references to Jungian concepts of synchronicity, interconnection, messages of meaning from external objects (pan-physicism) and the projection of our psychology onto nature. Saan will lead reflection on Jung’s knowing of the pathology associated with the absence of connection with nature and the ways we can help people accept the healing available in nature.

Dr Saan Ecker (she, her) is a Clinical Psychologist (Masters of Clinical Psychology) and has membership with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), and membership with the APS and ACPA. She also has a Diploma in Buddhist Psychotherapy and Counselling. Saan has provided psychology, psychotherapy and counselling for over 15 years to a range of people of all ages.

Saan also works in the not-for profit mental health sector. Saan has a PhD in human ecology and continues her long career in social science research including current research on the impacts of LGBTIQA+ minority stress.

Saan is also an ecologist and committed conservationist and combines eco-therapy in her practice model for those who value this.

We meet from 7:30 pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing by 10 pm.

video recording

Friday 1st March 2024 7pm

Canberra Jung Society Inc
Annual General Meeting and Election of Office Bearers

at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT

All financial members are welcome, and eligible to stand for office.

This is when you can nominate for an office-holder position (President, Secretary etc) or as a Committee Member. You can nominate yourself or somebody else, by email (as below) or by contacting Secretary Trish on (0432) 599 826.

So this is a great time to renew your membership or join-up for the current year: Cost: is $75 ($60 Concession / Senior). This entitles you to free entry to monthly meetings, two newsletters per year, use of the library, and discount on cost of workshops etc.

Pay on the night, or any time by bank transfer or TryBooking. Here is our Constitution for your reference.

This 7pm AGM will be quite short, leaving us time to chat, to meet the evening's presenter Dr Craig San Roque,
peruse the library and meet the new Committee! There might be some celebratory bubblies and things at this auspicious event :-).

Then, we'll have our usual monthly Friday meeting (as below).

Canberra Jung Society Inc.
Annual General Meeting 01/3/2024

Agenda

1. Opening, Greetings

2. Attendance:

3. Apologies:

4. Minutes of the last AGM 3rd March 2023.

5. Business Arising

6. Reports
        a. President
        b. Treasurer
        c. Membership Sec.
        d. Newsletter Editor
        e. Public Officer
         f. Librarian
        g. Internet Manager

7. Elections:

        Appointment of Returning Officer, then:

        a. President
        b. Vice President
        c Secretary
        d. Treasurer
        e. Membership Secretary
        f. Newsletter Editor
        g. Publicity Officer
        h. Librarian
        i. Public Officer
        j. Committee members

        k.Appointment of Auditor.

8. General Business

9. Closure.

Then ... Friday public meeting, with Dr Craig San Roque (below) ...

Friday 1st March 2024 (following the 7pm AGM)

"The Lemon Tree

Stillness Turbulence and Pressure –
a personal story from Central Australia”

With Dr Craig San Roque

<See the Video>

at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham ACT (and by Zoom)

Individuation is dependent upon relationships with others. Jung went so far as to say: “The self is relatedness…’ Schmidt

"The Lemon Tree" is the story of a remarkable man, Paul Quinlivan whose family live/d in Canberra and Central Australia, where Paul managed a remote aboriginal community and then a health clinic.

I will introduce you to my home in Alice Springs and surrounding sacred sites. It was here by the lemon tree in my yard where Paul and I met for three conversations on individuation, the civilisation of relationships and the dynamics of cultural pressures in Central Australia. He intended to contribute a chapter to Placing Psyche.

I see his story as revealing his relationship with the solar plexus of this country - a story of telos, of stillness and turbulence, of self-gathering and self-dispersal - specific to Australia’s cultural ferment and some hard dynamics of indigenous reality. Paul’s story and mine overlap.

As some of you may know I had a hand in the development of the local Jungian community from 1986 when I returned from London and began to practise in Sydney/ Canberra. In 1992, unexpectedly, I took on unique intercultural therapeutic projects in Central Australia, remaining there over 30 years, intimately involved in Aboriginal affairs, yet also able to stay involved with ANZSJA trainings, the Uni. of Western Sydney Masters in Analytic/Cultural Psychology and the Social Ecology/ Environmental Psychology linkages.

This personal integration of Jungian practice, indigenous involvement and ecological thinking expanded my sense of the nature of ‘Jungian individuation’ in an Australian context - such themes are also explored in Placing Psyche by David Russell, Amanda Dowd, Ute Eickelkamp, Patricia Please, Peter Bishop and others who you may know.

Please see this helpful account of Jung’s notions of individuation.
https://www.thesap.org.uk/articles-on-jungian-psychology-2/about-analysis-and-therapy/individuation/

This is the first of two talks for the Jung Society, set within the context of relationships.
In September In ‘The Grey Eyed Owl’ I will reflect upon and pay homage to the works and days of Glenda Cloughley.

Dr Craig San Roque: As well as psychological practice in diverse settings, Craig’s published works include:
* the award winning graphic novel The Long Weekend in Alice Springs, Sydney/Purgatorio,
* The Second Goya (on the American oligarch) in Singer’s Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America
and a keynote talk:
* An Older Voice - Things I heard in Warlpiri Country @ the 2023 Freud Conference, Indigenous Voice/s Psychoanalytic Listening.

We meet from 7:30 pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing by 10 pm.

Cost for attendance (at MacKillop House):
Jung Society members free,
Guests $15 (Seniors/Concession $10),
Pay by bank transfer or by vredit card or PayPal via TryBooking.

Cost for on-line access:
Jung Society members free (We'll send you a link).
Guests $10:
Pay by bank transfer or by credit card or PayPal via TryBooking.

<See the Video>

Friday 5th April 2024

"Moral Injury"

Dr Martin Hess

<See the video>

at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham ACT (and by Zoom)

Moral injury occurs when a person believes or realizes accurately or not that they have compromised their own standards of conduct or have violated universal moral standards and bear significant responsibility for that violation.

Relating to the pain you've caused someone or breaking your moral code are two of the core reasons you may experience guilt. Whether you broke your partner's favorite pen, forgot an important anniversary, or cheated your way to a promotion, feeling a sense of wrongdoing is equated with the emotion of guilt.

Moral Injury arose from the 1999 UN sponsored ballot in East Timor, known as UNAMET, of which I was a police member.

This was a seminal mission for many reasons, not the least of which was that it paved the way for the eventual independence of the nation of Timor Leste in 2002. Unfortunately, UNAMET experienced a great deal of pre-mediated violence on the part of those tasked with security and protection, the Indonesian police, military and militia proxies.

The protectors became predators and the resultant destruction of most of the infrastructure and the murder of a confirmed 1,400 (suspected 1,600) East Timorese and the forced deportations of a further 250,000 East Timorese to West Timor marred this ballot.

Due to a flawed security agreement negotiated between Indonesia and Portugal, under the auspices of the UN, unarmed UN Civilian Police (UNCIVPOL) lacked a mandate and capacity to prevent this violence as we were outnumbered and out gunned, but stood as witnesses to many of these atrocities, until we were withdrawn to Darwin under threat of death. Many UNCIVPOL stood between predator and intended prey at the extreme risk to their own lives.

The violence was so extensive that an international military intervention led by Australia (INTERFET) was raised and deployed.

Service with UNAMET was traumatic but has been overshadowed by INTERFET and has been downplayed for various reasons, including the strategic relationship between Australia and Indonesia, in the light of an ascendant China and increased Islamic jihadism. This has resulted in inadequate post mission support and recognition for police, which has compounded the trauma experienced during the mission itself.

This is a complex story with many moving parts and various agendas, which we will consider and discuss.

Dr Martin Hess was a member of the Australian Federal Police for 30 years. Detective. Background in investigations, intelligence, surveillance, close protection and international police deployments. PhD in Australian international policing from Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy at Australian National University. Interested in inter-agency, whole if government cooperation, criminology and geo-strategic affairs.

<See the video>

^{^{Everyone is welcome.}

We normally meet at 7:30pm on the first Friday each month for music
and coffee and chat,
Guest Speaker at 8pm, break for supper around
9pm, resume for questions and discussion until 10pm.

Location:
Usually
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT.
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Updated by Robert James 25th April 2024

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