2018 Schedule

1/12/18–How the Secret Esoteric Teachings of the Past Can Help us Through These Bewildering Times-Tim Swisher, MHR, LIMHP, LADC, Certified Jungian Psychotherapist will review some of the main “secret teachers” (Pythagorus, Hermes and several other to demonstrate that while these times may seem bizarre and strange, historically they are similar to other historic times and therefore, we may be able to learn something by studying them.

Objectives:

1. Be able to understand what is meant be “secret teachers”

2.Be able to identify the nature and similarities of the “rejected knowledge”.

3.Be able to identify on way you may use “aperspectival vision” in you practice and in your life.

2/9/18-Video presentation on Erich Neumann on the Feminine.

The Asheville Jung Center says:

As theoretician of feminine development and the archetypal ground of the feminine in individuals and culture, Neumann had considerable influence on Jungian thinkers that followed him. Lance Owens will present as well as Israeli Jungian psychoanalystRina Porat, whois intimately familiar with this aspect of Neumann’s oeuvre and will summarize his views and offer her reflections on Neumann’s importance for their own thinking and practices.

3/9/18-Videoconference: The Tension of the Opposites with Dr. Marty Klein and Dr. Carolyn Bates.

When: March 9th, 2018

Time: 12:30-5:00 PM (sign in starts at 11:30 PM)

Where: Mastercraft Living Room, 1218 Nicholas St

Cost: $90.00 – members, and $100.00 – non-members

CEU: 4.5 LCSW/LMHP

To register, please go to our website and click on Payment or contact Lynn Anderson DeMott at 402-330-1537 extension 14

12:30-2:30 PM-Sexuality: When we desire clarity but value ambiguity, what is possible? Marty Klein, Ph.D

In contrast with many other world cultures, Americans say they value directness, transparency, and clarity in both the personal and public realms.

Sexuality, however, is an exception. Relaxed and skillful flirtation, seduction, playfulness, and ambiguity are generally considered part of sexual sophistication. Furthermore, the standard consensual male-female sexual dynamic still involves far more male initiation and female gate-keeping than the reverse. In that context, most men and women agree that a certain amount of ambiguity is both attractive and necessary. Paradoxically, power dynamics in consenting sexual relationships are best enjoyed when they are unspoken.

A culture as ambivalent about female sexuality as ours demands that women elide their real interest in eroticism–and that men cooperate in this illusion by driving a couple’s erotic behavior, overlooking women’s alleged lukewarm interest. Some women resent when men get it wrong and mistake genuine lack of interest for affectation. Other women resent when men get it wrong and take their strategic ambiguity for true rejection, forcing a woman to “come out” as erotically interested.

We can see this paradox at work in the public sphere now, as society wrestles with issues like consent, regret, coercion, inappropriateness, exploitation, and misunderstanding. Virtually no one wants to strip daily public interaction of its informal, mildly erotic frisson. At the same time, a huge number of women are complaining about men feeling entitled to sexualize them in mundane, non-erotic situations that women simply don’t want and shouldn’t have to tolerate.

In this seminar, we’ll examine the key role ambiguity plays in adult eroticism, and how both genders’ demands for that ambiguity create problems in the workplace. We’ll also look at the apparent willingness of some men to sexually exploit women, and the yearning to clearly define the boundaries of such unacceptable behavior.

Finally, we’ll talk about the implications of this issue for how parents need to discuss sex with their children–and with each other.

Learning Objectives

1. To learn the role of ambiguity in sexual communication, both verbal and behavioral

2. To describe the continuum of unwanted sexual experiences, and common sequelae

3. To describe common impacts of gender-based power norms in sexual dyads

The Presenter

Dr. Marty Klein has been a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist for 37 years. His is the award-winning author of seven books about sexuality, including America’s War On Sex; Sexual Intelligence; and the new His Porn, Her Pain.

Dr. Klein’s clinical work combines insights from sociology, linguistics, history, depth and narrative psychologies, and a deep trust in what he calls the therapist’s “tenacious presence.” He lectures internationally, is a qualified forensic expert in state and federal courts, plays in a baroque quartet called Behinde The Tymes, and enjoys biking and hiking near his home in Silicon Valley, California. His blog and website are at www.SexEd.org.

2:30-4:30 PM- Dr Carolyn Bates, Jungian Psychoanalyst.

Scapegoating Sexuality: Embodied shame and the return of the repressed in modern day America

Abstract:

“The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul and creativity is what makes life worth living.”

Marion Woodman

Why this quote? If we are to engage in a dialogue around sexuality, with its longstanding conflictual attributions and assumptions about “what is” versus “what should be” we must rely on a creative process; one that is free of self-judgment and the judgment of others.

Jungian theory, with its emphasis on intense curiosity about the manifestations of the psyche, which include our experiences of our own and others’ sexuality, gender norms, and internalization of gender roles, may support us in discussion these things from a perspective free of judgment…and perhaps, if we are daring…free of shame.

We will explore Jung’s concepts of the Feminine and Masculine archetypes, as they may inform us as to how to hold the tension of opposing stances. Exploring both the creation story of Adam and Eve and the myth of Poseidon and Medusa, we will discuss the repression of desire, the embodiment of shame, and the dynamic of scapegoating.

Learning Objectives

1.Explore personal unconscious biases related to gender norms.

2.Recognize how aspects of the Feminine and Masculine archetypes influence individuals irrespective of gender.

3.Apply an archetypal perspective to the current cultural movement around sexual boundary violations, the diminishment of tolerance for those violations, and the finding of a collective voice in response to them.

Carolyn Bates is a psychologist and diplomate Jungian analyst in Austin, Texas. In addition to her analytic practice, she currently serves as President of the Texas Seminar of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts training institute and is a senior training analyst with the I-RSJA. She has offered multiple workshops and lectures on ethics and boundary violations, technology’s influence within the collective, the symbolism of pilgrimage, the feminine archetype in dreams and fairy tales, and the phenomenon of synchronicity and trauma in the collective. While she recently set aside an avid motorcycling hobby for the more grounded hobby of keyhole and spiral herb gardening, she continues to support motorcycle safety and awareness, with a keen appreciation for the archetypal nature of the mechanical horse. Correspondence: drbates-austin@scbglobal.net.

CANCELLED/ 4/13/18-RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 11-Dr. Jeff G. Hart-Psychological Type, Emotions & Behaviours: Thoughts of Jung & Indigenous Tribal People related to Stages of Life, Consciousness & Unconsciousness

Synopsis:

What is psychological type, and its relationship to emotions & behaviours?

Do we think much about the stages of life, stages of development?

What about connections with the conscious and the unconscious?

Presentation and discussion of the MBTI psychological type instrument, and the EBW emotional intelligence instrument, with an opportunity for participants to complete a one-page self-assessment for each instrument.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be abel to identify one parallel between C. G. Jung and indigenous tribal people related the stages of life, the stages of development.

2. Participants will be able to identify how the conscious and unconscious might affect an individual’s innate Type preferences, their learned emotions & behaviours, and the influence this may have on an individual’s stages of life, stages of development.

Presenters Bio:

Dr. Jeff Hart has 43 years of experience teaching, presenting and coaching self-awareness, personal/team development, leadership skills, and building relationships. He is a Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Master Practitioner, certified in MBTI Steps I-II-III. Dr. Hart’s research includes indigenous tribal populations, building self-awareness using Type, MBTI, and Emotions and Behaviours at Work (EBW) Emotional Intelligence. Dr. Hart has additional certifications in various psychological and behavioural instruments.

Recent research includes: Exploring and discovering significant parallels between thoughts of Carl Gustav Jung and Indigenous Tribal people related to stages of life development, development of innate Type, learned emotions & behaviors, and awareness of consciousness & unconsciousness.

5/11/18-see April above.

Master Strategies in the Treatment of Trauma: The Latest Interventions Can Reduce Symptoms and Speed Healing

This series of webinars will be held starting 1/26/18 from 12:30-2:30 PM. These are the following dates: 2/23/18; 3/23/18; 4/06/18; 4/27/18.

You can view the course outline and info at http://www.nicabm.com/treatingtrauma2017/post-info/

Cost: $97.00 to National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine

6/10/18-Ethics in Mental Health Practice.Ethics in mental health practice usually consists of the legal aspects or licensing rules and regulations. But what about the ethical considerations within a therapy session? Ethical dilemmas probably occurs daily for most practitioners. How we learn to handle these situations can determine how the therapy proceeds of even if it does.

The Omaha Friends of Jung have dedicated much of the education and training opportunities to focusing on clinical matters from unique and varied perspectives. This workshop will fall under both those categories.

Objectives:

1.Participants will be able to identify need for both an ethical and analytic attitude in psychotherapy.

2.Participants will understand the importance of holding the tension of shame, uncertainty and confusion that comes from maintaining an ethical attitude

3.Participants will be able to identify the difficulties when working with the unconscious and ethical attitudes in therapy and supervision.

7/13/18-Shame and Trauma. Shame often goes hand in hand with trauma. During this presentation we will watch several videos describing how shame affects the nervous system and ways to conceptualize treating patients with trauma.

8/10/18-Interviews and Lectures with James Hillman-A Retrospective.on August 10, 2018 from 12:30-2:30 PM, we will watch a video retrospective of lectures and interviews with the the late James Hillman followed by a discussion. Many of you know his work and have been perplexed and entertained by what his take on psychology is. In this video we get a glimpse into the depth and breadth of his thinking.

9/14/18-Video with Andrew Samuels, Jungian Analyst-New Politics for Therapy

Andrew Samuels has been one of the main voices in depth psychology that takes us outof the consulting room and puts us in the world we spend most of our time in. Like James Hillman he preceievs psychotherapy as too insular and cut off from the political collective psyche. In this video from 2017 at Pacifica Graduate Institute he will discuss the political, social and cultural aspects that have a profound effect on the individual.

10/12/18-A video-Christopher Bollas- The Democratic Frame of Mind.

Christopher Bollas is one of the most original thinkers in modern psychoanalysis. In well over 100 published papers, Bollas has made a very wide contribution. His work covers psychoanalytic theory, clinical technique and psychopathology; he has applied psychoanalytic thinking to fields such as literature, architecture, history, social anthropology and politics, and he has produced three novels and a volume of plays. Bringing together theory and technique, normality and pathology, he explores the complex inter-relationship between the private, internal, subjective world and the world of external objects.

11/09/18-A video-Confronting the Signs of a Society in Decline—Chris Hedges in Conversation with Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.

In this depth psychology oriented discussion (powered by Pacifica Graduate Institute, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Chris Hedges speaks with Depth Psychologist, Bonnie Bright, Ph.D, about how how, as both individuals and civilizations, we encounter cycles of growth, maturation, decadence, and decay, and death.

In contemporary society—especially modern society—we can see the signs of morbidity around us, in our boundless use of harmful fossil fuels, in much sought-after expansion beyond the capacity to sustain ourselves, and in the physical decay of the environment and in the places we inhabit. There are common patterns and common responses to decline and collapse across eras and cultures, Hedges notes.

While our culture is more technologically advanced in comparison with that of Easter Island, for example, it is arguable that human nature has not really changed. Who was it that cut down the last tree on Easter Island, for example?

12/14/18-Holiday Party and a discussion of the article Spirituality and Psychotherapy lead by Crystal Anzalone, MS, LMHP.

Here is what Crystal has to say:

Psychotherapy has cultivated an awakening to spiritual dimensions for me and I recognizes the challenge religious people face in integrating psychotherapy into the western Judeo-christian church.

The Salon on December 14 will briefly explore various lenses of Psychotherapy with Freud and Jung through the transpersonal psychology of Roberto Assagioli, Teilhard de Chardin, Stanislaw Groh and others. A final flourish with Ken Wilber’s thoughts on Prerational, Rational and Transrational will complete the discourse.

Please come prepared to season the discussion with your assumptions, both comfortable and uncomfortable, and enter the conversation dealing with a client’s emotional disturbances which may misrepresent itself as a mental disorder, rather than an issue of spiritual confusion or spiritual abuse.

After the discussion we will partake of food and refreshments. We would enjoy seeing you and ending another successful year of the OFOJ!

To accsess to article:

Spirituality and Psychotherapy Andrew Powell and Chris MacKenna livepage.apple.com