Guild of Pastoral Psychology

The next Guild Webinar will be on Saturday 22nd June 2024 at 2pm.
The title is Makeda, The Black Queen of Sheba.

Click below for more and to book -

https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/makeda-the-black-queen-of-sheba/

Here is more about he session.

“I fell because of wisdom but was not destroyed: through her I dived into the great sea, and in those depths I seized a wealth bestowing pearl … I marvelled at that light and grasped it, and brought it up to the sun. I laid hold upon it and will not let it go.” Words spoken by Makeda the Queen of Sheba found in the Kebra Negast, the sacred text of Ethiopia.
Taking seriously the promptings of the unconscious as manifested in dreams, in particular one which was synchronous with the finding of an Ethiopian silk scarf, I began to research the Queen of Sheba. I had found a story and an archetype that I felt wanted attention.
The images of that scarf tell the story of the Queen of Sheba’s visit to the Court of King Solomon. In this presentation I will use the orientation of Jungian depth psychology to shed some lunar light into the Biblical, mythical and historical remoteness of this Queen. I hope to respectfully lift a veil and offer a hint of this feminine divine archetype.
The Queen of Sheba is described as an ‘explorer of heart’, it is clear from the story that she has the courage of a lion and yet there is also an obvious humbleness as she searches for wisdom. I believe she underlies inner feminine nature of the heart’s desire and stirs the heart of both men and women therefore needs to be lovingly attended.
In the legend printed on the scarf the Queen of Sheba initiates a meeting with King Solomon, they meet as equals and from their union, a coniunctio, new life is born.

The Speaker is Tricia Harragin here is what she says about herself:

I first qualified as a counsellor in 1994. I continued my training at Re.Vision (Counselling & Psychotherapy with a Soulful Perspective) and completed the Re.Vision Diploma in Psychotherapy in 2008. After a number of years in private practice, much to my surprise my dreams led me to Switzerland where I trained as a Jungian Analyst. I graduated from the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology According to C G Jung and Marie Louise von Franz, Zurich in 2022. I live in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where I continue in private practice.

After a wonderful Spring Conference on the Climate Crisis and the responsibility of Analytical Psychology we are very excited to announce our Summer conference - Re-enchanting the World: Necessity, Theory and Experience. Friday 23rd August 2024 - Sunday 25th August 2024

This event is at the wonderful Worcester College in Oxford - a treat in itself.

The speakers are -

Andrew Fellows is a Jungian analyst (with private practices in Bern and Zurich), a training analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP) Zurich, deep ecologist, and writer. He holds a doctorate in applied physics and enjoyed two decades of international professional engagement with renewable energy, sustainable development and environmental policy. His special interests include the anima mundi, the mid-life transition, the new sciences, and the use of depth psychology to understand and address global collective and environmental problems. His first book is Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene (Routledge 2019). Andrew and Yuriko live over three thousand feet above sea level in rural Switzerland without a car.

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Yuriko Sato is a Japanese Jungian analyst and psychotherapist, and a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich. She studied medicine and worked as a psychiatrist in Osaka and Kyoto. She has private psychotherapy practices in Zurich and Bern, and is a training and supervising analyst at ISAP Zurich (International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich), where she teaches on topics such as the Eastern (Japanese) psyche, narcissism, and psychiatry

Booking can be either in-person or online see link below for further details.

More posts to follow.

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📆📌18 MAY 2024 - During the latest , held in Egypt in November 2022, , Secretary General of the UnitedNations, entreated the World with the following words: “We are on a freeway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator!”

In the face of such disaster, the question arises:

What is my responsibility?
What is the responsibility of ?

Let's explore insightful responses to such a topical question, spiritual orientation in the present catastrophe and reasons to believe in our power to change the narrative through a profound psychic transformation.

Join us in-person or online, at our Spring Conference 2024 on Saturday 18 May.

Bookings still available for a limited time:
- In-person in Oxford: https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/2024-spring-conference-the-responsibility-of-analytical-psychology-at-the-time-of-climate-disaster-in-person/
- As a webinar: https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/2024-spring-conference-the-responsibility-of-analytical-psychology-at-the-time-of-climate-disaster-webinar/

o First Talk: Śiva Naṭarājā – The Lord of Dance
o Second Talk: Facing the Ecological Abyss: Can Mysticism Inspire the Required Psychic Transformation?

The new year brings with it a new cycle of enlightening webinars and conversations at the Guild of Pastoral Psychology with a first one (and certainly not the least!) on Saturday 13th January from 5.30 to 7:30pm GMT.

Tomorrow's presentation will explore the evolution of ’s opus into a coherent world view throughout his lifetime.

Participants will get a feel of ’s completed writing as one cogent piece as we focus on his understanding of psychological transformation from confronting the unconscious (1913 – 1928) to his last mature writings (1951 – 1954). We will recognize significant ways Jungian psychology facilitates healing on the individual, as well as collective level.

Read more about eminent speaker and Jungian Analyst J. Gary Sparks at https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/the-call-of-destiny-and-beyond/ and don't forget to book online by 3:30pm GMT latest.

If you are fascinated by themes like , spirituality, destiny as well as and its social meaning, you will be undoubtedly delighted with tomorrow's webinar.

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The other speaker at the Summer Conference

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One of the speakers at the Summer Conference

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Please be aware of the booking deadlines
(see below)

Summer Conference : On the Threshold – The Experience of Liminality

Talks by MONIKA WIKMAN and TOM ELSNER

Please be aware the deadline of the 11th August 2023 relates to the IN PERSON bookings only. You can book onto the webinar any time until the 24th August 2023.

Friday 25th August to Sunday 27th August 2023
Worcester College, Oxford
Residential - non-Residential - with meals - without meals
An option to suit everyone :)

To book in person go to
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/summer-conference-on-the-threshold-the-experience-of-liminality/

To book for online only go to
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/summer-conference-on-the-threshold-the-experience-of-liminality-webinar/

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The Spring Conference is almost upon us - you can book for the webinar or even better attend in person - go to the guild website for more details.
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/spring-conference-the-lightness-of-being-jung-neuroscience-and-self-regulation-in-person/

This is a fascinating resource for all things Jungian.

JungianDirectory Analysts, Events, Training, CPD, Books, etc

And here are the in person booking details - for the Spring conference

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The Spring Conference is on the horizon now and you can attend in person or on the Webinar - here are the Webinar booking details.

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Highlights from past Talks

'Echoing Jung's well-known description of his dream of the dirty dark streets of a place called Liverpool, which radiate outwards from a blossoming magnolia tree in the heart of the dream city,
Jung says in an interview:

"We all need nourishment for our psyche. It is impossible to find such nourishment in urban tenements without a patch of green or a blossoming tree", such as he says, "The allotment gardens in and around our cities"'

From Architecture of the Self : Towers Of Nietzsche & Jung by Lucy Huskinson Guild Paper 338

'It may be that, in the end, humility (so counter-cultural these days in the era of instagram and selfies and Facebook likes and the rest) is a rare, elusive quality that some people possess, perhaps unbeknown to themselves."

Howard Cooper -Too Humble is Half Proud Guild Paper 341

Photo Credit Adrian G R Scott

Save the Date

Enchantment - Wonder in Modern Life
Speaker: Patrick Curry
Venue: Essex Church, 112 Palace Gardens Terrace, Notting Hill, London W8 4RT
Date: March 18th 2023 - 2-4 pm
Our first Face-to-Face of 2023

'The restoration of the feminine principle embedded in the teachings of the Kabbalah potentially facilitates a symbol of the masculine and feminine in equal balance and thus redeems the image of the 'girl-God' that my young naive psyche projected onto the Golden Wings.'

Lynne Radomsky - Redeeming the Feminine - Symbols from the Jewish Kabbalah. Guild Paper 340

From a wonderful talk given in March 2022

To see more like this go to the Guild Website
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk

If you haven't already you could become a member and receive these talks in pamphlet form, access the archive and find new events, Webinars, Conferences and talks.

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Correction
Enchantment – Wonder in Modern Life
Date: Saturday 18th March 2023 Location: this event will be in person and live streamed

See https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/enchantment-wonder-in-modern-life/
for updates

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Gaia and the Tree of Life
Dr Stephan Harding

Date: Saturday 7th January 2023 Webinar
5:30pm - 7:30pm

to book go to https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/gaia-and-the-tree-of-life/

The Tree of Life is an ancient image that comes to us from deep within psyche. It has appeared across different cultures and throughout the ages. It has enabled many individuals to realise that their true happiness is inseparable from the well-being and health of nature, of Gaia, of our living earth.
Greek myths tell us that Gaia was the first born of primordial Chaos and that she gave birth to the starry heavens and then to all the beings here on earth. She is the mother of us all, including the Tree of Life.
In this talk we’ll explore whether the power of the myths and images of Gaia and The Tree of Life can help us harness the imaginative possibilities in the contemporary sciences of Gaia to solve our terrible contemporary global crisis. Together we’ll enquire whether this might enable us to embed ourselves in the living body of our sacred animate earth, open to its richness and ready to act in service of all her beings, peacefully and democratically.

Dr Stephan Harding holds a doctorate in behavioral ecology from the University of Oxford. He Coordinated the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College for almost two decades and has been the College’s resident ecologist and tutor since its inception in 1991. He has worked and taught alongside many of the world’s leading ecological activists, thinkers and writers, including Fritjof Capra, Brian Goodwin, Lynn Margulis, and James Lovelock, with whom he has collaborated scientifically for a number of years. Stephan is highly acclaimed around the world for his electrifying and deeply inspiring talks and lectures on the themes of Gaia theory, ecophilosophy and sustainable living. He is the author of Animate Earth (2009) and Gaia Alchemy (2022)

Here is a list of Guild events in 2023 - please feel free to share throughout your networks. More details to come.

Join us for our Autumn Conference on 22nd October @ 4-7pm GMT and hear Joseph Cambray deliver two talks.

1st: Outlining how a 21st Century Model of the Psyche is evolving from recent work on states of consciousness and adaptive eco- systems and how this may help in meeting the pressing challenges we are currently facing;

2nd: A look at the emerging pathway to re-enchantment of the world by combining new approaches in archaeological and classical studies on the nature of divination with Jung’s concept of synchronicity.

Joseph Cambray Ph.D is the President CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute and Past President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

For more information and to sign up visit:
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/autumn-conference-2022-towards-a-21st-century-model-of-the-psyche/

Join us this Thursday, 5th May at 19:30, for a video lecture and panel discussion on the The Eleusinian Mysteries.
Find out more and sign up on our website here:
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/the-eleusinian-mysteries/

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West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy are hosting their spring conference tomorrow: Uncaring: What climate change can teach us about how we avoid pain.
Sally Weintrobe, Rebecca Nestor and WMIP member Judith Anderson will offer ways to think about and work with the unthinkable and emotionally unendurable current predicaments as they emerge in society, the individual, the group and in the therapeutic role.
To find out more and book your tickets follow the link here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uncaring-what-climate-change-can-teach-us-about-how-we-avoid-pain-tickets-251322842387

There is still time to join up for our talk with Satya Byock tomorrow on "The First Half of Life."
Find out more and book here:
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/the-first-half-of-life-reimagining-jungs-forgotten-developmental-stage/

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Join us on Saturday at half 5 with Satya Byock who is giving a talk on Jung's Forgotten Development Stage, "The First Half of Life.” Find out more and sign up here https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/the-first-half-of-life-reimagining-jungs-forgotten-developmental-stage/

On the 5th of February join us for a talk from Satya Doyle Byock about “The First Half of Life.”

For more information and to sign up for the webinar, follow the link below: https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/the-first-half-of-life-reimagining-jungs-forgotten-developmental-stage/

And for more information on our speak, check out her website: https://quarterlife.org/satya-doyle-byock

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Join us this Saturday, 8th January, as we welcome back George Bright who spoke to the Guild in March 2019 on Jung’s Red Book. George is an analytical psychologist who has worked in private practice for thirty years. In 2016 he co-founded with two colleagues, The Circle of Analytical Psychology to develop ways of studying Jung’s Red Book/Liber Novus in small committed groups over a six term period.
The Black Books are Jung’s contemporaneous and spontaneous record of his unique ‘confrontation with the unconscious’ between 1913-1932. They contain his records of his active imaginations and descriptions of his mental states together with his immediate reflections on these. This is the primary material on which The Red Book draws.
For more information and registration go to
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/.../jungs.../

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We are delighted to welcome back George Bright who spoke to the Guild in March 2019 on Jung’s Red Book. George is an analytical psychologist who has worked in private practice for thirty years. In 2016 he co-founded with two colleagues, The Circle of Analytical Psychology to develop ways of studying Jung’s Red Book/Liber Novus in small committed groups over a six term period.

The Black Books are Jung’s contemporaneous and spontaneous record of his unique ‘confrontation with the unconscious’ between 1913-1932. They contain his records of his active imaginations and descriptions of his mental states together with his immediate reflections on these. This is the primary material on which The Red Book draws.

For more information and registration go to
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/jungs-black-books/

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Our final talk of the autumn promises to be a fascinating look at the inner consequences of an apparently senseless act on the perpetrator, the “ancient mariner”.
The speaker, Johnathan Sunley, is a psychotherapist in private practice in London. He is a member of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP) and in institutional settings has worked both with prisoners and prison officers.

Join us on Thursday 4th November at 19.30, by following the link here to sign up:
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/the-crime-of-the-ancient-mariner/

Members: Free
Non-Members: £10

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Join us on Thursday 4th of November at 19:30 as Johnathan Sunley talks about "the Crime of the Ancient Mariner."
Find out more and sign up on website here:
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/the-crime-of-the-ancient-mariner/

Join us for our Autumn conference this Saturday by following the link here:
https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/autumn-conference/
Keith Silvester will be giving a talk and Q&A: concerning Alexander Technique.
In the afternoon, Alexandre Winkler will be giving a talk with Q&A : concerning Homeopathy.
Members tickets: £12
Non-member tickets: £20

For more information and to book follow the link here: https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/autumn-conference/

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