Speaker: ffiona Von Vesthoven Perigrinor

In this workshop participants will have the opportunity to further explore the numinosity of the child archetype with its power and shadow and share their memories and dreams of childhood. You will also have the opportunity of making your own "inner child" hand puppet. All materials will be provided, but please bring scissors, a favourite piece of material and two photographs of yourself as a child, with or without mother and family.

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ffiona Von Vesthoven Perigrinor trained at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and is a senior member of GAP and IGAP. She has a private practice in West Oxfordshire, lectures widely in England and has been visiting China as an analyst since 2007. She is particularly interested in bringing insights from Eastern wisdom together with Jung's understanding of the psyche. She is also a medievalist with a special interest in pilgrimage. www.perigrinor.co.uk

• Friday evening only: £25 (Club Members £20)
• Saturday only: £60 (Club members £55 inc materials)
• Friday/Saturday: £80 (Club Members £70 inc materials)

Speaker: Mark Vernon

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is many things: a personal crisis, a diatribe against politics and the church, an unsurpassed exploration of love. But at heart, it is an unfolding of the realisation that "I am more than I am", discovered by journeying through aspects of reality. This seminar examines the transformation Dante underwent, which human beings can still undergo, and focuses on the emergence of Dante's spiritual intelligence, examining these alongside the insights from various psychodynamic traditions, including Jung's. Dante anticipates many features of depth psychology: enantiodromia, the timelessness of the psyche, the integration of desire and intellect, the encounter with spiritual entities, the function of transcendence.

Dr. Mark Vernonis a psychotherapist and writer. He has a PhD in philosophy, degrees in theology and physics, and has studied at the universities of Durham, Oxford and Warwick. His most recent books include Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps (Iff books), Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey (Angelico Press), A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness (John Hunt). For more visit, www.markvernon.com

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• £50 (Club Members £45)

Speaker: Sulagna Sengupta

Carl Jung's history with India spans more than three decades and helps in understanding the notion of the Other in the unconscious psyche. India evoked in Jung a range of reactions, with his views undergoing significant changes during his lifetime. While he sustained his relations with India, Jung's defining experience was his journey there in 1937-1938. His presence at a prestigious science congress in India brings up the complex dynamics of science, philosophy, colonialism and Freud, the dramatic contents of which unfolded during Jung's historic tour. Sulagna will present snapshots of that history, its significance for contemporary Jungian work and the impact India left on Jung's life and work. 

Continued at venue - Essex Church - Saturday April 20 DECOLONIZING JUNG: MYTHS OF ANIMA AND ANIMUS – AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE (see Sat/Weekend Seminars)

About the speaker.
SULAGNA SENGUPTA is a Jungian scholar and cultural historian based in India. Her first book, 'Jung in India' (2013) traced Jung's unknown history with India through the original archives.'Animus, Psyche and Culture', (2024), her second book, locates culture as integral to understanding psyche, re-envisioning Jung's idea of contra-sexuality in feminine histories and lived realities. Sulagna lectures worldwide, publishes regularly and is editorial advisor to Jungian journals. She is currently working on a Jungian interpretation of the Indian epic The Ramayana in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at University of Essex, UK. Her website is: https://jung-india.org

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Speaker: Sulagna Sengupta

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Jung's concept of archetype has been critiqued extensively in Post Jungian discourse. Decolonizing Jung uses culture in amplifying Jung's concept of contra-sexuality, through myths and symbols of the feminine and their resonance in lived worlds. The contra-sexual archetype shows remarkable diversity of meaning when seen within cultural contexts. Jung equated feminine with Eros and women, and masculine with Logos and men, describing unconscious contra-sexuality as compensatory to conscious gender. We will explore Jung's concepts of anima and animus in social histories and cultural narratives, and in lived experience of the feminine, with reference to Indian mythology. 

About the speaker.
SULAGNA SENGUPTA is a Jungian scholar and cultural historian based in India. Her first book, 'Jung in India' (2013) traced Jung's unknown history with India through the original archives.'Animus, Psyche and Culture', (2024), her second book, locates culture as integral to understanding psyche, re-envisioning Jung's idea of contra-sexuality in feminine histories and lived realities. Sulagna lectures worldwide, publishes regularly and is editorial advisor to Jungian journals. She is currently working on a Jungian interpretation of the Indian epic The Ramayana in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at University of Essex, UK. Her website is: https://jung-india.org

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Speaker: Meg Bisset et al

As familiarity with dying diminishes, we have witnessed a growth in movements aiming to increase awareness or control over the dying process. We have, argues Lyn Loftland (1978), entered an age of 'thanatological chic'. Yet our understanding about attending to dying minds is often limited and unconscious processes close to death can be overlooked. This weekend event considers being 'mortally wounded'. When we, or others close to us, become sick enough to die. We will reflect on stories of Soul Pain, Death & Healing. To help us travel, this event will be a unique collaboration Jungian Analysts and clinicians with long expertise in Palliative Care. We will explore dying minds from several vantage points throughout the weekend.

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Saturday Workshop Includes:

Meg Bisset, Jungian Analyst & Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. Sarah Hall, Art Psychotherapist and Jungian Analyst. Ivor Williams, Design Leader working in health, care & innovation, Lead for end of life care, Institute of Global Health Innovation.

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• Friday evening only: £25 (Club Members: £20)
• Saturday only: £50 (Club Members: £45)
• Friday/Saturday: £75 (Club Members £65)

Speaker: Mary Smail

The poet Rumi speaks of two kinds of knowing; one, he says, "is acquired, as a child in school memorises facts and concepts from books." The other, soul knowing, "doesn't move from outside … it is a fountainhead from within you, moving out." While there is a place for the 'clinical' in Jungian analysis access to an embodied creative approach ultimately allows a soft listening into the depths of soul agenda. Soul speaks through metaphors, imagination and embodiment of archetypes in traditional stories and makes a home for what has been wounded or lost. The day will introduce the Sesame Approach – a worldwide Jungian-based trauma therapy that has been working since 1964. It will explore this 'lower education' curriculum through enactment, spontaneity and playful-ness. Participants are asked to wear clothes suitable for gentle movement.

Mary Smail is a dramatherapist and psychotherapist in the UK.   She was Director of the Sesame Institute for 20 years and lectured on the MA Drama and Movement Therapy (Sesame) at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She presently trains psychotherapists at Re-Vision, works in private practice and convenes the Psyche and Soma CPD training which looks at the "reversed curriculum" of soul knowing and how this manifests in today's troubled world.

• £50 (Club Members £40)