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 8pm
on the first Friday of each month
at MacKillop House Conference Centre,
50 Archibald Street, Lyneham (See map)

Special announcement: You can now read the full text, and hear the audio,
of Robert Tulip's July presentation "Commentary on Carl Jung's Answer to Job".

Coming Meetings:

Friday 5th October 2018

Note change of programme:
Unfortunately, Kaye Gersch will not be able to deliver her presentation
"Dark Night of the Soul"
due to health issues.

but we will instead have:

Dr Kirstin Robertson-Gillam PhD, RMT, CMPACFA, CMAMTA:

"When Words Fail -
Using creative therapies within existing practices
to address complex trauma"

When Words Fail is a music-based psychotherapeutic approach that gives clients the opportunity for non-verbal expression, using symbolism, imagery and visualisation with music, visual arts, movement and drama. Deep emotional expression within the symbolism of rhythm and drumming, song expression, music improvisation, art mandalas, working with collage, verse in song and in poetry, are enjoyable and creative forms of expression to accompany existing therapeutic practices when dealing with physical and psychological trauma.

Kirstin’s presentation will include how psychological theories underpin her work along with current neuroscientific research and case studies videos.

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.

Special Event

Dorothea Wojnar's Dream Group

Six Wednesdays starting Wednesday 10th October 2018.
7:30 pm (not 8 pm)

Wesley Uniting Church,
22 National Crt, Forrest, ACT
(NOT our usual meeting place at Lyneham)

Cost: $ 10 per evening to cover costs.
Any surplus goes to the Jung Society.

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.(1)

The group is facilitated by Dorothea Wojnar. Members of the group shared their dreams and used active imagination in working with the dreams.

Dorothea is a psychotherapist and she is currently training as a Jungian analyst with the C. G .Jung Institute of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts. Dorothea has extensive experience as a group leader and therapist across a range of people and issues, working 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.

(1) Jung, C.G. (1933) The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in Collected Works Vol 10 Civilization in Transition. pg. 304.

Special Event

Wednesday 17th October 2018 5:30 pm

Eva K. Warren
Book Launch: "A Dream in a Teacup"

at the "Fox and Ivy Cafe", Liversidge St, Acton

Book Launch: 'A Dream in a Teacup' written by one of our members Eve Warren, will be launched at the 'Fox and Ivy cafe' Liversidge Street Acton on Wednesday 17th October at 5-30 pm.

"A Dream in a Teacup" is set in working class Canberra in 1949. Brigid, the protagonist holds great stead with her dream. In an effort to make some sense of her life, she records and works through them daily. Through her next door neighbour, Brigid comes to hear about Carl Jung, and from what she could gather, Carl Jung and Hildegard von Bingen, the eleventh century nun, shared quite a lot in common and ultimately, both becoming a catalyst in Brigid's redemption.

"A Dream in a Teacup" by Eva K Warren.

Friday 2nd November 2018

Evelynne Joffe

"Journey Throught the Archetypes of the Tarot"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

“Just as for the purpose of individuation, or Self-realisation, it is essential for a man to distinguish between what he is and how he appears to himself and to others, so it is also necessary for the same purpose that he should become conscious of his invisible system of relations to the unconscious.”
("Two Essays on Analytical Psychology" by Carl Jung).

In this talk we will undertake a journey through the 22 cards of the Major Arcana of the Tarot. Carl Jung saw all of the Tarot images as "descended from the archetypes of transformation" (Jung, 1959/1990, p. 38).

Each of these cards represents a lesson that a human soul must learn in order to individuate, to become an authentic Self.

This searching for wholeness as well as the teachings of the shadow and of archetypes can all be paralleled to the psychological journey towards wholeness on this journey.

Evelynne Joffe has been a teacher of Kabbalah and of Tarot for over 25 years. She is in a private practice as a counsellor and dream therapist in Melbourne and uses the imagery of the Tarot as a counselling tool. She is a past President of the Tarot Guild of Australia and has written and lectured widely on the subjects of Kabbalah and Tarot in many forums, in Australia and overseas.

Saturday 3rd November 2018

Evelynne Joffe

"A Workshop: Shadow Work and the Tarot"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

“If it is not attended to, the shadow will appear in the world around us as fate” .. C.G. Jung

The personal shadow contains the parts of ourselves that we have disconnected from, our unresolved inner conflicts and unexpressed emotions. The shadow, if not faced, can lead to self destructive behaviour, depression and illness. The shadow also contains any undeveloped abilities, our artistic, musical, creative parts that have never been expressed.

The Tarot also has its shadow side. In this workshop we shall use the Tarot to shed light on the shadow aspect of the cards and how we can work with them to discover the shadow self and once discovered, work to integrate it.

If you have a set, please bring Tarot cards, preferably Rider Waite cards. This is not essential though.

Contact Information:
Website: www.spiritualstudies.com.au
Email: ejoffe@iprimus.com.au

Friday, February 2019

Valerie Albrecht:

"Watch this space"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

Valerie Albrecht is a Western Eastern Health Practitioner, Speech Pathologist, Yoga Practitioner, Author Biographer with Aboriginal People, and Story Healer. She currently lives in Canberra.

Friday, March 2019

Padma Menon:

"Indian Dance, the Agama Traditions and Direct Experience as Knowledge"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

Indian dance traditions have been framed theoretically by the text Natya Sastra (estimated between 1^st century BCE and 3^rd century CE) which sets out the purpose and the practice of dance as a pathway to moksha or accessing the Brahman or expanded consciousness spaces.

In this talk, Padma Menon will draw on her experience of studying dance under a traditional teacher who was a tenth generation dancer in a lineage of priests ordained to perform dance as part of temple rituals. She will reflect on the ways in which dance practice was a contemplative tradition where knowledge through direct experience under structured experiential frameworks was valued.

The text, like other texts on embodied practices like the Yoga Sashtra, is thus a signpost, and the practice was the space of insight and transformation. While Natya Sastra’s position as the fifth Veda and the breaking of dance lineages in modern times has tended to align dance with the more intellectual and philosophical Vedanta traditions, there is much in the practice that points to more symbolic, ritual and archetypal interpretations (the Agama approaches).

Padma will include reflections on Carl Jung’s experiments as detailed in the Red Book, where he also delved into deliberate invoking of archetypes through personal practice. In times where intellectual knowing becomes the only recognised form of knowledge, Jung’s work and traditions such as Indian dance remind us there are experiences which could be embraced in richer ways through other means of ‘knowing’.

Padma Menon has over 30 years of international experience as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and facilitator. She has performed in hundreds of venues all over the world and created numerous contemporary and traditional Indian dance productions for high profile festivals and venues internationally.

Padma enjoyed a successful career in India performing professionally as a soloist since the age of nine. In her early twenties she founded one of Australia’s first professional multicultural dance companies and established a national and international reputation for cross-cultural work. She has worked in Europe in the renowned Korzo Production House as house choreographer and her work has been showcased in international festivals such as Cadance and the Holland Dance Festival.

The centre she founded in India in 2006 was part of the arts activism movement in India, working closely with human rights and social justice organisations to raise awareness of issues such as women’s rights. Padma spent fifteen years studying and performing in three classical Indian dance theatre styles—Bharatha Natyam, Kuchipudi and Mohini Attam. Padma also holds post graduate qualifications in Choreography specialising in Laban Movement Analysis from the Netherlands. She has also studied contemporary western dance, yoga and the Indian martial art form of Kalaripayattu.

www.movingarchetypes.com.au

Friday, April 2019

Suzanna:

"Watch this space ..."

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

Suzanna

Friday, May 2019

Jennifer Hume:

"Embodying Imagination"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

Jennifer Hume

Friday, June 2019

Dr Kirstin Robertson-Gillam PhD, RMT, CMPACFA, CMAMTA:

"Watch this space ..."

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

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.

Friday 5th July 2019

Dr David Russell

"The Art of Dying: Carl Jung and Shadow Work"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

Carl Jung wrote a lot about the dead and post-death experiences but precious little on the psychological experience of dying. This was not unusual as in his writings he celebrated the light, individuation and one’s personal myth. As we know, the more powerful the brightness of the sun the bigger the shadow that is cast. The force of the shadow is unconscious.

Ars moriendi, the classical literature on the art of dying needs to be revisited and Jung’s shadow work is proposed as a useful vehicle for this task.

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.

Saturday 6th July 2019

Dr David Russell

"Making the Insights of Carl Jung Useful in Therpeutic Work"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

The focus of the workshop will be Jung’s notion of ‘soul’. How soul manifests, demands attention and desires deep satisfaction.

This workshop is open to all.

While the therapeutic relationship will be central to the material presented any relationship including the one we have with ourselves will be addressed.

The format of the workshop will be a mixture of presentation and discussion with personal experience being at the heat of all that is done.

Six hours of Professional Development Points will be available to psychologists, therapists and counsellors.

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.

Friday, August 2019

Robert Tulip

"Modern man in Search of a Soul"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

Robert Tulip has Bachelors and Masters Honours Degrees in philosophy from Macquarie University. After thirty years working for the federal government, he is now returning to focus on these intellectual interests, especially the philosophical problems of psychology and religion.

Friday, September 2019

Terry Curtin

"Jung and Meister Eckhart"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

.. only in Meister Eckhart did I feel the breath of life...” Memories p87. Who was Meister Eckhart and how did he influence Carl Jung?

Terry Curtin, BA(Psychology), B Theology, MA(Theology), Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, with a background in scholastic theology and Jungian counselling, will reflect on how a 15thC Dominican theologian/mystic had such a profound impact on Carl Jung.

Friday, October 2019

"Watch this space ... "

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

Friday, November 2019

Dorothea Wojnar

"Story Telling"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham 8-10 pm)

We normally meet at 8pm on the first Friday of each month
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT.