“In the course of the millennia, we have succeeded not only in conquering the wild nature all around us but in subduing our own wildness.”

Seminar Welcome & Land Honoring

Friday 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

with Rewilding Psyche Faculty

We open the year by gathering together to honor the land and space that will hold us for this seminar. We'll discuss the seminar's ethos and founding vision, establish group expectations, and begin getting to know one another as a cohort. The session includes a land honoring ceremony, group introductions through personal objects, and a group sand tray. 

Jung's Key Concepts in Dream Interpretation

Friday 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

with Stephen Foster

This opening class devoted to dreams will review Jung’s fundamental ideas and the terminology used to describe the "parts and processes involved," such as  Jung’s proposed structure of the psyche, the concepts of psychic energy and the transcendent function, and Jung’s synthetic method. 

Dream and the Underworld: A Teaching Seminar

Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

with Mike Box

Drawing on James Hillman’s The Dream and the Underworld and Jung’s Dream Analysis as primary sources, this seminar explores the dream not as a message to be decoded but as a living voice to be heard. The dreamer is not the interpreter. The dream has its own maker and its own language. This seminar is an immersion in that language.

The Elemental Aspects of Dreams: Incubating earth, water, fire and air

Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

with Nora Swan-Foster

Jung’s synthetic or constructive method provides the gateway into the mystery of dream content. In this seminar we will review basic elements of dream history and interpretation (Meier, 1987), but we will primarily practice interpreting dreams using the synthetic method as an embodied repetitious disciplined practice that can become contemplative. 

Chaining the Eagle and the Toad

Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

with Lindsey Geiger 

Deciphering the felt sense of the body’s helpful guidance, communicated in both pleasure and pain, allows a connection to symbol and image from the perspective of sensation. After a brief lecture on the complex theory and its application to dissociations (from complexes to trauma dissociation), we will engage the important dialogue between the body and the inner imagination in a series of experiential exercises.  

Jung’s Occult Phenomena & The Spiritual Proof of Presence  

Photo: Josep Castells (Unsplash)   

Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

with Jennifer Phelps, guest faculty 

Jung experienced paranormal events from a young age, and based his doctoral dissertation on his observations of seances that were performed at his own home. We will explore Jung’s lived experiences of spiritual phenomena and synchronistic events, and discuss our own personal experiences with synchronicity as a sign of spiritual presence.

Mediating the Transcendent Function Through Active Imagination    

Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

with Lourdes Hernandez

Jung’s concept of the transcendent function is among the least understood ideas in Analytical Psychology, despite the fact that he addressed it in eight published works and five seminars. We will explore how Jung discovered the transcendent function and how we might access—or court—this numinous “real therapy” to facilitate both our own personal growth and that of our clients.

Experiencing the Synchronistic Potential to Constellate Archetypal Resonances within a Psychodramatic Group Process

Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

with Robin McCoy Brooks

This seminar offers participants an opportunity to experience the healing power of psychodramatic group process using an integrative approach that incorporates the theories and practices of J. L. Moreno and C. G. Jung. 

Once the psychophysiological continuum is activated and recognized, meaningful connections or patterns may appear.  

The Greening of Psyche: Creative Force and the Soul’s Own Work 

Friday 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

with Rewilding Psyche Faculty

This weekend is dedicated to participants' creative projects, with ample opportunity for embodied experience connected to the material covered throughout the year. The projects offer each participant a meaningful, personal way to engage with and integrate the content.