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Constitution
Updated by Robert James
3rd March 2023
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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).
Most recent meeting: Dr
Theodora Volti:
"Self
and Ego: a Personal Encounter"
SPECIAL SERIES:
Eight Sundays 26th Feb, 5th,
12th, 19th, 26th March, 2nd,
9th, 16th April (3-5pm)
"Adventures in Mindfulness
Meditation"
Kirstin
Robertson-Gillam PhD
at Wesley Uniting Church
(Vercoe Room), 22 National Crt,
Forrest, ACT (and each
session will be available online
through Zoom)
Participants
will receive a copy of each
week’s meditation and an audio
recording of the meditation to
practise with during the
week.The weekly topics will
include: * body awareness,
* taste and smell, *
visualization and imagery, *
and emotional regulation.
Each session will begin with
an introduction, then a
meditation followed by mandala
drawing, and a discussion over
refreshments.
Dr Kirstin
Robertson-Gillam is a
specialised neurological
counsellor and psychotherapist.
She has worked with Dementia
Australia, Parkinson's NSW, and
remains associated with the
Parkinson's clinic at the
Concord Hospital in Sydney.
Her private psychotherapy
practice operates almost
exclusively online with people
around Australia.
Cost:
* Single session:
$20 per person per week
Pay
at the door by cash or credit
card,
or by
bank transfer,
or by credit card or PayPal via
TryBooking.
* Series Discount: $140 pre-paid for the
eight sessions (Preferred option, for
maximum enjoyment!)
Pay at the door by cash or
credit card,
or by
bank transfer, or by credit card
or PayPal via
TryBooking.
Bookings:
Phone/text Kirstin (0409) 533
466 or email
kirstinrg@bigpond.com.
Zoom 26/02/23
Friday 31st March 2023 (Shifted
from Good Friday 7th April)
"Dadirri - Deep Listening"
Carolyn Minchin
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham ACT (and
by Zoom)
Dadirri, or deep listening, is
an ancient wisdom practice
renewed in contemporary
Indigenous culture by Aunty
Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann
(Nauiyu Elder and Senior
Australian of the Year 2021).
Dadirri helps us to understand
how to walk between worlds and
connect with our deeper purpose
in life, through listening and
finding our connection to nature
and community.
https://www.miriamrosefoundation.org.au/
The Miriam Rose Foundation
(MRF) supports and encourages
education and inspires
creativity and self-expression
through a series of programs
inside and outside of the local
community.
Mindfulness is
increasingly accepted as the
foundation for contemporary
evidence-based therapeutic
practice. Indigenous mental
health leader Ken Zulomovski
makes the case that the lack of
recognition of Indigenous
culture creates an 'elephant in
the room' which can only be
overcome through real dialogue
and recognition of thousands of
years of wisdom practice. This
workshop explores the synergies
across cultures and acknowledges
the gift of Dadirri, deep
listening, through the
encountering work of Miriam Rose
Ungunmerr Baumann.
Workshop participants will be
able to experience Dadirri based
on the Gamarada Community
Healing group practice, and will
be guided in a gentle dialogue
to explore connections between
Jung's understanding of the
numinous and Indigenous practice
wisdom. Jung defines numinous as
"inexpressible, mysterious,
terrifying, directly
experienced, and pertaining only
to the divinity" (Jung, 1963).
Dadirri, deep listening,
provides guidance for being
present, listening, connecting
to country, understanding
seasonal change, understanding
the connection between people
and being connected, knowing how
to grieve and pay respect when
people pass, knowing what to do,
and when (Ungunmerr Baumann, A
Journey Through Listening,
Darwin 2011). Dadirri provides
an experiential framework for
approaching cross-cultural
awareness with respect for the
trauma of colonisation and the
need for trauma-responsive
dialogue.
Carolyn Minchin
(they/she) is a graduate of
Education at the University of
Canberra and a Master of Social
Work at Charles Sturt
University. As a volunteer
community social worker with the
Gamarada Indigenous Community
Healing group in Redfern,
Carolyn works to build a bridge
between Indigenous practice
wisdom and evidence-based
practice and is training in
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy,
(DBT) a behavioural approach to
therapy with people at risk of
suicide and self-harm.
Cost for
attendance (at
MacKillop House): Jung
Society members free, Guests
$15 (Seniors/Concession $10),
Pay 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.
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 10pm.
Friday 5th May 2023
"Holistic Thinking: Jung's
Ethical Worldview"
Robbie Tulip
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
A
reason why the psychology of
Carl Jung encounters such
contrasting receptions is his
holistic philosophy, his
assumption that a connection
between the individual and the
whole of reality at various
levels makes an essential
systematic contribution to
mental health and therapy.
This holistic approach led
Jung to explore topics such as
the spiritual analysis of
symbols and the totality of the
Self. His methods are widely
seen as of little use within
clinical psychology and broader
scientific communities, but are
respected by alternative
traditions as having valuable
ethical and psychological
insights.
This clash of
cultural perspectives over the
scholarly and professional worth
of Jung’s work reveals
underlying differences in theory
of knowledge and practical
priorities, with ethical and
moral implications. I will argue
that Jung’s holistic spiritual
ideas affirm and support
cultural identity and diversity,
and have important broader moral
benefits, while rejection of
these ideas can support a more
narrow and exclusive way of
thinking. Holism can affect
views on a wide range of fields,
including climate change,
theology, cosmology and ecology,
offering conceptual grounding
for practical visions of reform
and transformation.
Robbie Tulip
manages the Chaplaincy at the
Australian National University,
coordinates the Australian
Student Christian Movement and
writes on strategic concerns
around climate change and
religion. He has a Master of
Arts Honours Degree for a thesis
on The Place of Ethics in
Heidegger’s Ontology.
Cost for attendance
(at MacKillop House): Jung
Society members free, Guests
$15 (Seniors/Concession $10),
Pay 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.
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 10pm.
TAROT Workshop Series
Six
Tuesdays: 23rd, 30th May, 6th,
13th, 20th, 27th June 2023 (7:30
- 9:00 pm)
"TAROT Workshop series"
Terry Curtin
At MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham
WHEN
Tuesday
evenings 7.30 to 9.00 pm 23 May
to 27 June 2023
WHERE
MacKillop House Conference
Centre, 50 Archibald St Lyneham
ACT
WHAT
This is
soul work, work of the psyche,
guardian of our unique life
code.
The Tarot offers a way
for us to dialogue with our
soul. The images on the Tarot
cards draw our attention to
stages of our spiritual journey.
Reading the cards helps
us understand where we are on
our journey and what life
decisions we should make to keep
us on track.
The workshop will get you
started on how to read the cards
or perhaps give new perspectives
on existing skills.
WHO
For any
“seeker” whether from any
religious denomination or none.
LED BY
Jung
Society member Terry Curtin (BA,
BTheology, MA,Theology Diploma
of Transpersonal Counselling)
Presenter
of “Carl Jung and Meister
Eckhart” and “Carl Jung
and the Sacred Marriage”
Canberra Jung Society
Archives 6/9/19 and 4/2/22.
Many years experience
working with tarot and as a
counsellor.
COST
$10 per
person per night.
CONTACT
Terry Curtin, (0427) 751 605,
talcurt@bipond.com
Friday 2nd June 2023
"Everything I Need to Know about
Jung I Learned in 5th Grade"
Phillip
Kirby
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
This
interactive presentation is
inspired by Philip’ s experience
in leadership coaching and team
productivity. His experiences in
5th grade have extended and
informed his passion for
lifelong learning and so he
brings his experience of
coaching more than two thousand
people in career momentum,
efficiency, work-life balance
and gaining control over work
and life.
Philip will
take us on a journey where Carl
Jung’s ideas and observations
can be traced from early
childhood through to later life.
With practical examples and
‘stories from the trenches’
participants will engage with
techniques and practical insight
into people and their
motivations.
Philip Kirby is
the founder of KirbyCole
Consulting, a company that
provides exceptional coaching
and facilitation for individuals
and organizations. He has been
in the coaching business for
more than 15 years and
specializes in helping
individuals, teams, and
organizations at career
crossroads to beat obstacles and
execute productive work
patterns. Having coached
thousands of people, he has
extensive experience in
designing practical strategies
for people to work smart, be
less stressed, boost team
interactions, and get a
sustained, balanced approach to
success. Having also spent years
in the public sector he brings a
world view which spans different
work-cultures and expectations.
His
book “the 3 Gears That Drive
You – and your team and your
culture” comes from years of
learning and assisting
individuals and teams to
function well.
A
graduate of Charles Sturt
University (Australia) with a
Masters Degree in Human
Resources (Training and
Development), he lives in
Australia’s capital, Canberra.
As a recently accredited
empty-nester, Philip now has
time to share his techniques,
which have changed so many
lives, with a wider audience.
You can find Philip at
www.kirbycole.consulting
Cost for attendance
(at MacKillop House): Jung
Society members free, Guests
$15 (Seniors/Concession $10),
Pay 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.
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 10pm.
Friday 7th July 2023
"The Experience of Beauty in
Psychotherapy"
Dr David Russell
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
It
is our obsession with the self
that ironically preclude beauty.
We are touched by the experience
of beauty yet it plays no role
in theories of psychology or in
therapeutic practice. How come?
The field of psychotherapy
is characterised by an intense
subjectivity of self-reflection.
The mirror has become a
favourite metaphor as we focus,
almost as an obsession, on one’s
identity. Narcissism has become
the epidemic of our time. No
surprise there.
The
mythic story of Echo and
Narcissus provides us with a
meditation on the experience of
beauty. These two anima/dream
figures are an archetypal force
in our lives. They offer the
potential for greater aliveness
in all that we do.
My
intention is to link the
experience of beauty with the
experience of soul and thus with
the experience of depression. My
working hypothesis is that
depression is soul telling the
person that it is in need of
attention. Not just any sort of
attention.
Rather, the
need is for a very particular
manner of attending. And as such
it has the potential to express
a particular energy. James
Hillman puts it this way: “It
is only when [one] breaks down,
when depression comes in, and
you can’t get up and do it. When
impotence happens and you can’t
get on with it. When you feel
beaten, oppressed, knocked back
… then something moves and you
begin to feel yourself as a
soul. You don’t feel yourself as
a soul when you’re making it and
doing it.” (Hillman, in Inter
Views with Laura Pozzo, 1983. P.
11)
While I tend to
reference psychotherapy, this
talk is equally applicable to
every-day life.
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.
Cost for attendance (at
MacKillop House): Jung
Society members free, Guests
$15 (Seniors/Concession $10),
Pay 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.
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 10pm.
SPECIAL SATURDAY WORKSHOP:
Saturday 8th July 2023
"Carl Jung and the Healing
Archetype Being Touched and
Touching"
Dr David
Russell
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald
St, Lyneham, ACT (and by Zoom
In
Greek medicine there were two
archetypal themes: Hippocrates
under the patronage of the
sky-god Zeus and Asclepius under
the patronage of the earth-god
Chiron, half human and half
horse.
Another way of
seeing this manifestation is to
see the bi-polar nature of the
healing archetype with Zeus and
Chiron being the two pure forms.
Modern medicine including
modern psychology has followed
the path of Hippocrates and has
done so in such a single-minded
manner that it has totally
excluded Asclepius.
My
contention is, following Jung,
that an over reliance on
consciousness as expressed only
in our thoughts, tell us that we
are out-of-touch.
What
consciousness refuses to
acknowledge, the body always
manifests. In the words of an
important book, The body keeps
the score!
The over
reliance on the sky-god, on just
empirical medicine, has led to
the treatment model at the
expense of a touching, a
being-in-touch model.
The
temple of Asclepius, the
earth-god, has been abandoned in
favour of the physician’s
clinic. Through symbolism,
through the life of the soul,
Jung brought his
sensuousness/sensibility into
his clinical work. He could see,
hear, smell the other.
The Jungian scholar, Ginette
Paris, writes: “Just as the
body needs warmth, nourishment,
and protection, the psyche needs
an atmosphere where the heart
finds its niche, its nest, and
its rest. This is usually called
‘tenderness’. Without the
capacity of humans to provide
tender care to each other, the
human race would have become
extinct. … A culture that
separates people into ‘winners’
and ‘losers’ generates the kind
of acute anxiety that is a
rising phenomenon in all
advanced cultures.” G. Paris,
Wisdom of the Psyche, p.121
My example of the wounded
healer archetype comes from the
Biblical story in the Book of
Genesis. The focus of the story
is Jacob wrestling in a
hand-to-hand struggle with an
angel. This embodied encounter
is touch, big-time.
While this workshop references
the practice of psychotherapy
the theme and content are
equally applicable to ever-day
life.
An aim of the day
is to maximise interaction, so,
plenty of time for discussion.
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.
Cost for attendance (at
MacKillop House): Check the
website for details. Pay cash
at the door, or by bank transfer
or by credit card via
TryBooking.
Friday 3rd November 2023
"My Life Story" - a Jung Society
Project
Rod Taylor
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
Concept of this project:
A My Life Story is a brief
moment, a fragmentary story told
by a person about that captures
some part of how they see
themselves. Something in the
story appeals to the person
because it reveals an insight
into their character or their
life.
The simple reason
is that people are fascinated by
other stories. If that is all
the project achieves, that will
be sufficient, however it offers
the possibility that a suitably
qualified person might offer
commentary on what the stories
reveal (overall, rather than
individual stories). Word limit
might be around 2-300 words.
This
project aims to gather as many
stories as possible from a
diverse range of people. They
would be published initially
online and, if it gains enough
interest, potentially could be
published in a more ambitious
form such as a book. Writers can
remain remain anonymous and
include an alias of their
choosing.
Rod Taylor is a science writer,
radio broadcaster, newspaper
columnist and author. He has
written for numerous
publications including for The
Big Issue, Fairfax Media,
Australian Community Media and
motorcycle magazines.
Rod produces a weekly
science program and podcasts for
Radio 2XX in Canberra.
His weekly
science column for Fairfax Media
and ACM is in its 13th year. His
books include: • Ten
Journeys on a Fragile Planet,
Odyssey, 2020 • Contributor
to Best Australian Science
Writing, 2018 • Co-editor
Sustainability and the New
Economics, Springer 2022 •
Currently co-writing
Civilisation 2.0 with Dr Mark
Diesendorf.
https://tenjourneys.blogspot.com/2020/04/ten-journeys-on-fragile-planetcoming.html
@TenJourneysFragilePlanet
Tayloram2000@zoho.com (0419) 217
293
Cost for
attendance (at
MacKillop House): Jung
Society members free, Guests
$15 (Seniors/Concession $10),
Pay 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.
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 10pm.
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