Archive of
Events - 2021
Friday 5th February 2021
"Exploring the
Sacred, Complex Dialog Space
for the
Emergence of Healing"
Dr Rajiv Singh
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and by Zoom)
Watch the video!
The therapist tries to help clients to tell their stories.
He is responsible for the creation of a context in which the
"not-yet-said" can be said, or, in other words, for the creation of
a safe therapeutic culture in which subjugated knowledge can be
accessed.
This is a culture where the therapist is present
as a person who has respect and empathic recognition for the stories
the clients tell. By contributing to such a safe therapeutic
culture, the therapist helps to make space for the "not-yet-said"
(paraphrased from Rober, 1999).
In this talk Rajiv will cast
a closer look upon dialogic space. In a previous talk, he had
touched on the resemblance between dialogic space and Jung’s
Temenos. Now, Rajiv invites us to explore this sacred, complex
therapeutic space in more detail and its potential in the emergence
of healing.
Dr Rajiv Sing trained as a psychiatrist in India
and then obtained specialist training and qualifications from
Australia in child & adolescent psychiatry. He has been working as a
consultant for the last many years, having practiced in India,
Australia and New Zealand. Rajiv has a strong interest in Dialogic
Practice in therapeutic work and has completed three years of
training in Open Dialogue.
Cost:
Jung Society members
free, Guests $15, Seniors/Concession $10.
Pay by cash at the door
or bank transfer or by credit card via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner with the Speaker et al is at 6:15pm at Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on (0432) 599 826 for location and details.
We
meet from 7:30 pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion
and library.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8 pm for an
hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion,
finishing at 10pm.
Watch the video!
SPECIAL EVENT
Six-Week Dream Group Series
facilitated by Dorothea Wojnar
Six
Mondays: 22nd Feb, 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 28th March 2021
7:00 -
9:30 pm
(at Wesley Uniting Church, 22 National Crt, Forrest,
ACT)
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most
secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which
was psyche long before there was any ego consciousness, and which
will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
For all ego-consciousness is isolated; because it separates and
discriminates, it knows only particulars, and it sees only those
that can be related to the ego. Its essence is limitation, even
though it reaches to the farthest nebulae among the stars. All
consciousness separates; but in dreams we put on the likeness of
that more universal, truer, more eternal man dwelling in the
darkness of primordial night. There he is still the whole, and the
whole is in him, indistinguishable from nature and bare of all
egohood. It is from these all-uniting depths that the dream arises,
be it never so childish, grotesque, and immoral.
(CG Jung
"The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man" (1933). In CW 10:
Civilization in Transition. pg. 304)
The group will be
facilitated by Dorothea Wojnar. Members of the group are encouraged
to share their dreams and we will be using active imagination in
working with the dreams. Please let Dorothea know if you are
planning to attend.
Sharing your dreams is not required - You
can enjoy sharing and working with everyone else's!
Dorothea
is a Jungian Analyst, Counsellor and Psychotherapist in private
practice. Dorothea has extensive experience as a group leader and
therapist across a range of people and issues and has worked in both
a public health facility as well as in private practice.
For
further information, please contact Dorothea Wojnar on 6292 2014 or
(0413) 245 835.
We meet before 7:00 for introductions and
catch-up over a cuppa and snacks, prior to working on the dreams.
Cost: $90 for the series. We encourage participants to engage
with the whole series if possible.
Pay by cash at the door or
bank transfer or by credit card via TryBooking.
Friday 19th (changed from 12th) March
2021
7:00 - 7:30 pm
Canberra Jung
Society Inc. Annual General Meeting
and Election
of Office Bearers
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St,
Lyneham, ACT
All financial members (from last year, or paid-up for this year),
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 (Full), $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.
The 7pm meeting will be quite
short, leaving us time to chat, to meet the evening's presenter Val,
peruse the library and meet the new Committee! There might be some
celebratory bubblies and things at this auspicious event :-).
Then, following the AGM, at the usual time 8pm, we will have our
usual monthly meeting, with a presentation by Valerie Albrecht (below).
The Canberra Jung Society Constitution is available for your
perusal here.
Friday 19th (changed from 12th) March 2021
"Homed, Un-Homed, Re-Homing and Jung”
Valerie Albrecht
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and by Zoom)
Watch the
video!
For this presentation, Valerie related my evolving Essays “Homed
Un-Homed Re-Homing” to Jung’s thinking and writing on home, grief
and “homing.”
The Homed essays concern the lifetime quest of
finding and making personal and collective home/s. The Un-homed
essays tell of their undoing in 2020, the grief of this undoing,
un-believing and un-belonging. The Re-Homed essays explore
responsive emotions, beliefs, belonging, home/s.
My 2020
writing has, as has that of many artists, been driven by our world
becoming irrepressibly unhinged by smoke, inexistent flora, seared
animals, deathly physical contact and outrageous political actions
and statements. All of which do not undermine the predominant
positive of 2020 which seems to me to be our individual intensified
dedication to taking care of our community home/s.
Valerie
invited us to bring any artworks we have created in response to 2020
and offer the evening as a sharing of both being “un-homed” and
becoming “re-homed”.
Valerie Albrecht has lived, worked and
offered a bridge through her writing and speaking between western
medicine as a Speech Pathologist and Educator, Eastern Medicine as a
Yoga Practitioner and Indigenous Traditional medicine as a learner
of and biographer with Traditional Medicine Men and Women. She
encapsulates her meaning and purpose as “speaking writing moving
truths stories voices” and has found, most unexpectedly, Canberra to
be home.
Valerie Albrecht www.theoceansofenergy.com
Cost for attendance:
Jung Society members free, Guests $15,
Seniors/Concession $10.
Pay by cash at the door or by bank
transfer or by credit card 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.
Preliminary dinner with the Speaker et al is at
6:15pm at Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on (0432) 599 826 for location and
details.
We meet from 7:30 pm for tea and coffee and snacks,
music, discussion and library.
The Guest Speaker's presentation
is at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and
discussion, finishing at 10pm.
Friday Meeting: or online:
Click here for the Zoom meeting.
Watch
the video!
Friday 9th April 2021
"How is
Consciousness Structured"
Shauna Winram
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and by
Zoom)
Watch
the video!
In
any given moment, when we are conscious, we may experience numerous
contents of consciousness – such as the image of the screen in fount
of me, the sound of the birds around me, and the feeling of warmth
around my body.
Does my conscious experience amount to the
sum of these various contents, or is there an underlying subjective
field that exists which is modulated by these various contents?
These contrasting views form the two positions in the debate about
the structure of consciousness. The structure of consciousness
concerns the question of how our various conscious contents are
related to one another.
In this talk, Shauna explores this
idea. I begin by defining consciousness and various related terms in
an accessible way. This gives us the tools to think more clearly
about consciousness. By thinking clearly, we come to a closer
understanding of this mysterious phenomenon.
Shauna Winram is currently completing a PhD in
philosophy at the Australian National University. She has an
interest in consciousness and psychosis, and her thesis attempts to
show how changes to the dimensions and structure of consciousness
affect first-person experience during psychosis.
Location:
MacKillop Conference Centre, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT.
Cost:
Jung
Society members free, Guests $15, Seniors/Concession $10.
Pay by
cash at the door or bank transfer or by credit card via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner with the Speaker et al is at
6:15pm at Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on (0432) 599 826 for location and
details.
We meet from 7:30 pm for tea and
coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library.
The Guest
Speaker's presentation is at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we
resume for questions and discussion, finishing at 10pm.
Watch
the video!
Friday 7th May 2021
"Intelligence Beyond the
Brain"
Mary van de Graaff
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
From the
early 1970s onwards, I attended
various personal development,
meditation and spiritual
awareness groups. All groups
concentrated becoming our true
selves and finding inner peace
within one’s psyche. However, it
was not until the end of my 10
day, live-in Sidha Yoga
Intensive I attended at an
Ashram in Melbourne in 1985,
that I actually gained insight
into other dimensions of
existence.
Figuring that
meditation was about relaxing, I
arrived at the Ashram ready to
relax and do nothing. Big, big
mistake! Sleeping in bunk beds
was a challenge. But the very
worst part for me was what I
call ‘living on the floor’. By
that I mean: there were no
chairs or tables, no radio or
TV. One gathered for meals,
chants, meditation and talks
sitting on the floor (preferably
in the Lotus position). Plus,
apart from daily chores and
queuing up for drinks and meals,
there was absolutely nothing ‘to
do’.
With the group, I
chanted for hours every day till
I was blue in the face and the
lengthy daily meditations also
bored and frustrated me. Utter
boredom! Instead of the
‘insight, joy, bliss and love
within,’ I had come to find, I
found myself getting angrier and
angrier by the minute! I had
never, ever experienced such
anger!! When it dissipated it
was suddenly replaced with
insights and understanding.
I had arrived two days early
to prepare myself and not miss
anything. Despite people
queueing up for me to read their
palms, I was literally bored out
of my mind and was sensing at a
deeper level. Suddenly, I
understood and knew things I had
never seen or heard before. The
void of boredom can be very,
very powerful!
What I
felt and understood was that in
the vacuum of nothingness is all
the knowledge in the universe
and the beginning of everything!
The words ‘In the beginning
there was a void’, from the book
of Genesis, came to mind. The
void beyond the rational brain
is the actual space where we
create/recreate our own reality
within ourselves which we have
the power to change.
Clairvoyance is about sensing as
opposed to thinking and knowing.
I now believe that what we
term ‘Depression’ is really a
void which can lead us to the
beginning of a new life.
Contact:
mary.vdgraaff@gmail.com
Mary van de Graaff
has conducted Self-Awareness and
Personal Development workshops
in Canberra, the South Coast and
overseas for over 30 years. She
has regularly presented
interactive talks for the
Belconnen Women’s Group for 14
years and for 35 years conducted
talks and public demonstrations
for the Canberra Spiritualist
Association Inc.
Location:
*
MacKillop Conference Centre, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT.
* or on-line via Zoom.
Cost:
*
Jung Society members free.
*
On-line via
Zoom: $10: Pay by credit card or
PayPal via TryBooking.
*
In-house at
MacKillop Conference Centre:
Guests $15, Seniors/Concession
$10.
Pay by cash at the door or bank
transfer or by credit card or
PayPal via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner:
* with the Speaker et al is at
6:15pm at Lyneham.
* RSVP
Trish on (0432) 599 826 for
location and details.
We meet from
7:30 pm for tea and coffee and
snacks, music, discussion and
library.
*
The Guest Speaker's
presentation is at 8 pm for an
hour or so,
*
then we resume
for questions and discussion,
finishing at 10pm.
Updated by Robert James
8th
May
2021
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