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Constitution
Updated by Robert James
19th February 2021
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A non-profit organisation, which aims to provide a
contact for people
interested in the psychological insights of Carl Gustav
Jung.
Through monthly meetings, workshops, other activities
and our library,
we seek to help people to understand their own inner
journey
and the world today - from a Jungian perspective.
We normally meet at 7:30 for 8:00 pm
on the first Friday of each month
at MacKillop House Conference Centre,
50 Archibald Street, Lyneham (See
map).
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
(We've had to change date of
this meeting to Friday 19th
because of a room-booking
conflict!)
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
Val 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)
For
this presentation I will relate
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.
I invite you to bring
any artworks you 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 9th April 2021
"How is Consciousness
Structured"
Shauna Winram
at
MacKillop House, 50 Archibald
St, Lyneham, ACT (and by Zoom)
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, I explore 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.
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.
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.
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.
Friday 4th June 2021
"Herakles at the Gates of
the Underworld:
Carl
Jung’s assertion that
approaching the numinous
was a necessity for
everyone.
Necessity, belief, and
the experience of
being-acted-upon.”
David
Russell
*** Online (by Zoom)
only ***
The main
interest of my work is not
concerned with the treatment of
neurosis but rather with the
approach to the numinous. But
the fact is that the approach to
the numinous is the real therapy
and inasmuch as you attain to
the numinous experience you are
released from the curse of
pathology. Carl Jung
(Letters 1,
p.377, to Martin, 20 August
1945)
Jung time and time
again insisted that he was not a
theologian. From the beginning
to the end of his professional
life Jung called himself a
psychologist. And for him,
different to mainstream
psychology as we know it today,
being a psychologist meant that
his focus was on the
psychological experience, the
experience of the
soul-in-action. Not our
cognitions or our sensations or
our behaviours but
soul-in-action.
So, his
concern, primarily, was the
desire for the numinous, the
desire for transcendence and
less so, on the numinous as the
object of the desire. My
interpretation of Jung’s
attitude was that he wanted to
view this more as a
process-of-striving rather than
a point-of-arrival.
The
deeper psychological attitude is
working-with-the-desire: what it
looks like, how it manifests,
and who (what mythic figure) is
being represented.
I will
tell the archetypal story of
Orpheus and Eurydice: a story of
desire and of the imaginal
world. I will also give my
account of a journey into the
underworld by Herakles as an
illustration of how we might
approach the numinous in our
daily lives.
David Russell is a past
president of the Sydney Jung
Society. He completed his
undergraduate and postgraduate
studies and research in
psychology at the University of
Sydney. Here he was introduced
to the writings of Sigmund Freud
(unusual for a Department of
Psychology) and developed an
ongoing enthusiasm for the
history and philosophy of
psychology.
After a few
years in private practice he
moved into an academic career,
which culminated in the
establishment of the Master of
Analytical Psychology degree at
the University of Western
Sydney. David has currently
returned to private practice in
Sydney CBD.
Start-time: 8pm.
Log-on before then, to check
your Zoom link!
Cost:
This is an on-line
presentation only, so there is
no door fee.
Jung
Society members free, Guests $10.
Pay by
bank transfer or by credit card
via TryBooking.
Friday 2nd July 2021
"The Age of Aquarius"
Robbie Tulip
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald
St, Lyneham, ACT (and by Zoom)

Robert Tulip
manages the chaplaincy at the
Australian National University.
He has BA Honours and MA Honours
degrees in philosophy from
Macquarie University, with the
masters thesis on The Place of
Ethics in Heidegger's Ontology.
He worked for the Australian
Agency for International
Development and the Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade for
nearly thirty years, and is now
working on his intellectual
interests including philosophy,
theology and climate change,
writing at
www.rtulip.net. 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.
Friday 6th August 2021
"Mandalas and Music"
Kirstin Robertson-Gillam
PhD, RMT, CMPACFA, CMAMTA
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
Dr
Kirstin Robertson-Gillam
is passionate
about empowering people to
achieve their potential. She has
a private practice specializing
in communication disorders and
issues of trauma, dementia,
Parkinson’s Disease, and general
and EAP counselling. She
developed her unique
psychotherapeutic approach using
imagery and visualisation,
mindfulness meditation, visual
arts, music making and singing
from her own research. She
underpins her work with
psychological theories and
current research.
Kirstin
completed a psychology major in
her BA along with
ethnomusicology and musicology
majors at the University of New
England. She then studied a
Master of Counselling at Western
Sydney University followed by
research in a Masters degree
which focused on reducing
depression in severe dementia
with a choir therapy and
reminiscence program. Her PhD is
focused on reducing depression
in mid-later life with a
community choir therapy program.
You can contact Kirstin
directly:
P: (0409) 533
466
E:
kirstinrg@bigpond.com
W:
www.kirstinrg.com
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.
Friday 3rd September
2021
"The Prince and the
Vizier's Son"
Dr Richard
Barz
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)

Dr Richard Barz is
a retired member of the School
of Culture, History and Language
in the College of Asia and the
Pacific at the Australian
National University. Since
accompanying a 1974 expedition
to record traditional sites of
the Wongkanguru people, he has
been fascinated by Aboriginal
culture and has spent the last
decade photographing the rock
art associated with it.
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.
Friday 8th October 2021
(topic TBA)
Timothy
Hatfield
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
For this
presentation I ...
Timothy Hatfield
has lived,
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.
Friday 5th November 2021
"Jung and the Dead"
Stephani Stephens
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
For this
presentation I ...
Stephani Stephens
has lived,
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.
Friday 4th December 2021
Christmas Party!
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St,
Lyneham, ACT

(Time and details to be determined)
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Disclaimer:
The Canberra Jung Society Inc. does not endorse and is not to be held
responsible for the content of any lecture or advertisement, nor is any
information or advice a substitute for professional counselling and
therapy.
If you believe that we have inadvertently breached any
copyright provision, please let us know and we will immediately rectify
the matter.
Cost: * Monthly Friday meetings:
* For non-members is $15 or $10
Seniors/Concession (members free).
* Special Events (eg workshops):
* Costs are specific to those events.
* Annual Membership
entitles members to: *
attend our 10 meetings at no cost,
* receive two newsletters per year, and
* share access to our extensive library! Cost
for membership for a full year is $75 (or $60 concession), to be paid in March each year,
For remainder of the current Membership Year (August 2020 -
February 2021): Membership costs just $37.50
(Conc. $30)
* Pay at the door, or by bank transfer, or with credit card at
TryBooking.
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.
During the Covid-19 crisis, we sometimes meet on-line (via ZOOM) - See
the event details, above.
Location:
Usually
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT.
*** Please check the website for any changes to date/time and locaton of
events ***
Web:
www.CanberraJungSociety.org.au
Email:
jungsoccanberra@yahoo.com.au Postal: PO Box 554, Dickson, ACT 2602, Australia
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