Continuing the theme of Community Day, \u201cBridging the Cultural Divide: From Complex to Consciousness,\u201d this year\u2019s Summer Intensive Seminar offers five days to explore unconscious complexes through engaging creative processes that transcend insight or intellectual awareness. Our belief is that experiential therapeutic methods incorporating myth, story, and image can act as powerful catalysts for an alchemical transformation. The result may be a new quality of consciousness that embraces the terrible reality of experience within a context of profoundly felt meaning. The modalities will include journaling, image-making, active imagination, shamanic ritual, astrological reflection, story-telling, and theatrical explorations.<\/p>\n
This seminar will feature a brief reading, followed by a workshop addressing creativity from a Jungian perspective. The workshop will address the role of personality typology in locating one\u2019s creative potential, exploring the power of the tertiary and inferior functions as well as the age-old concept of \u201cmuse.\u201d We will acknowledge the content of the unconscious as the fountainhead of inspiration, and discuss the need to counterbalance numinous experiences with personal accountability; we will also review the concept of psychic libido from an artist\u2019s perspective. Via experiential activities, we will explore the concept of the artist as \u201ctransceiver\u201d and practice openness to transmissions. This workshop will also discuss the relationship between the individuation process and the artistic journey, i.e. complexes as fodder for artistic growth and the role of shadow, anima, and the Transcendent Function. In keeping with the Summer Seminars\u2019 larger theme, lecture and activities will promote inner exploration in the interest of enriching consciousness and our sense of Meaning in a tumultuous world.<\/p>\n
All workshop content will be supplemented by the work of Carl Jung and various Jungian scholars.<\/p>\n
Note: It is recommended that participants bring a notebook and pen.<\/p>\n
Suggested Readings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Learning Objectives<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Elizabeth Genovise<\/strong> carries an MFA in creative writing\/fiction and has served as a workshop leader, course instructor, and private writing coach since 2010. She has been the recipient of the O. Henry Prize and several Pushcart nominations, and has published five collections of literary short stories, a novelette, and a novel via independent and university presses. Her two most recent books have been marketed as Jungian literary fiction (Lighthouse Dreams<\/em> and Third Class Relics<\/em>). She completed the Jungian Studies Program at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago in 2025 and is now serving as a Fellow in the Institute’s Jungian Psychotherapy Program. She has two dovetailed novels, Suspirium<\/em> and Inspiratio<\/em>, forthcoming from Texas Review Press\/Texas A&M; these are tales of Jungian individuation. She also works as a counselor at a holistic clinic in Knoxville, TN where she employs sandplay therapy and other modalities. elizabethgenovisefiction.org<\/a><\/p>\n The importance of images, symbols, and signs are evident in the individuation journey. Jung\u2019s struggle to grapple with the division between interior and exterior life is expressed through an ongoing exploratory generative process. Daily methods of reflection, writing, and creating become the foundation for organizing a phycological, spiritual, and intellectual way of being in the world.<\/p>\n This is an experiential workshop that centers in imagery erupting from the underlying world of the unconscious. Not representational, it is a process of spontaneous expression created through dialogue with perception, materials and reflection. We are identifying and expanding our life patterns through intuitive exercises, reminiscent of Jung\u2019s practice with active imagination, dream work, journaling and ritual.<\/p>\n Constructing a personal soul revival, relinquishing creative inhibitors, allowing us to open portals of imagination begins with where you are present, seeded by the past, and growing with potential transformation.<\/p>\n Learning Objectives Andrea Gaspar, PsyD<\/strong>, is a clinical psychologist practicing in the Chicagoland area with a focus on the treatment of trauma and sexual abuse utilizing Jungian and somatic approaches. She was a Fellow of the Jungian Psychotherapy Program (2018\u20132020) and graduate of the Jungian Studies Program (2014\u20132016) at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago and has served as the program\u2019s Co-Director since 2021. Dr. Gaspar also co-developed and co-directed the six-month training program Memories, Dreams, Reflections: Exploring the Depths with colleagues Adina Davidson and Daniel Ross. Her current research is focused on collective psyche, cultural complex, and the application of trauma theory to the sociopolitical climate and she has lectured on psychodynamic theory, trauma, and culture.<\/p>\n Cynthia Hellyer Heinz<\/strong> is an artist and educator with a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Northern Illinois University where she has been teaching drawing for the last twenty-five years. Her background is in the field of illustration and drawing with an emphasis on the biology of nature and the body. Cynthia\u2019s work has been exhibited and published nationally. She is concentrating on the connection between what is culturally seen as beautiful and the underlying sustainable mystery that is filled with creative potential through the imagination.<\/p>\n As an educator, Cynthia is focusing on the development of synergistic use between art making, significant learning, and the relevance of creative expression and invention. She has been a board member of the Illinois Higher Arts Association and past Vice President of Development for Integrative Teaching International. For the past five years Cynthia has been studying Jungian psychology at the Chicago Jungian Institute where she was a Fellow. The incorporation of Jung\u2019s ideas is part of her mandala work and teaching. Cynthia is dedicated to the empowerment of students through acknowledging their strengths and promoting ongoing passion for innovative thinking through diligent, joyful practice.<\/p>\n Fairy tales and myths are dreams of the collective.\u00a0 Our dreams are our personal fairy tales.\u00a0 This workshop will be in two parts.\u00a0 During the morning session we will use theatre games, journaling, and dream exploration to create small theatrical moments.\u00a0 In the afternoon we will do a deep dive into one fairy tale, \u201cThe Fitcher\u2019s Bird,\u201d to explore key events on a personal level through journaling and on a collective level through guided theatrical exploration.<\/p>\n Learning Objectives Joanne Underwood, LCSW<\/strong>, is a fellow in the JPP\/JSP two-year program, a therapist in private practice, and a senior teacher at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston.\u00a0 Trained in theatre games, story theatre, and fairy tale adaptation by Joyce and Bryne Piven, she has thirty years experience in creating theatrical spaces and exploring story events as both a teacher and a director.\u00a0 She is particularly interested in the intersection of Jung\u2019s idea of active imagination and Viola Spolin\u2019s idea of releasing the unconscious through play.<\/p>\n Sarah Bendix, LCSW<\/strong>, is an alumnus of the faculty of the Piven Theater Workshop and a psychotherapist in private practice and at Northwestern Medicine. As a therapist she has received advanced training in the feminist relational model, Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems. Her work in theater has focused on ensemble created work and visual story telling through movement, puppetry and masks.<\/p>\n Astrology, like tarot and the I Ching, is a form of divination\u2014not as a causal force, but as a symbolic mirror; it is a language of synchronicity revealing the psyche\u2019s relationship to cyclical time. Each season carries archetypal themes that can deepen our understanding of individuation, typology, and the soul\u2019s journey through the year. In times of outer turbulence, these seasonal rhythms offer an interior compass\u2014a way of staying rooted in cyclical wisdom when the world feels anything but cyclical.<\/p>\n At each station, participants will encounter curated materials: music, planetary chimes, zodiacal symbols, correlating I Ching hexagrams and tarot cards, Jungian typology connections, poetry, literature, and quotes from Jung, von Franz, Woodman, and many other depth psychologists. We will read aloud, listen, reflect, journal and share personal stories.<\/p>\n This session is designed to be accessible to astrology newcomers while offering depth for seasoned practitioners. The emphasis is on living the seasons consciously\u2014transmuting astrological knowledge into embodied soul wisdom. Participants will leave with a repeatable framework for engaging any season or zodiacal energy psychologically and ritually.<\/p>\n No prior astrological knowledge required. Individual birth chart consultation is outside the scope of this seminar. Bring curiosity and willingness to engage symbolically with the turning wheel of the year.<\/p>\n Learning Objectives Anita Ashland<\/strong> is a writer and astrologer who weaves together Jungian psychology, astrology, tarot, and the I Ching to help people live more consciously through the seasons of life and the turning year. She is a graduate of the Jungian Studies Program at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. She is a professional affiliate of the Institute and volunteers on their Program Committee. She writes weekly essays exploring the intersection of astrology, divination, and Jungian thought, and publishes a monthly newsletter, Reading in Depth<\/em>, where she shares insights from her ongoing study of depth psychology literature.<\/p>\n As an astrologer, Anita offers consultations, bringing a Jungian lens to chart interpretation. Her teaching approach emphasizes storytelling, experiential learning, and the practical application of symbolic wisdom. She draws on years of facilitation experience to create sessions that are accessible, participatory, and psychologically substantive. You can find her work at AnitaAshland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n We live in a time of profound disruption \u2014 political fracture, social upheaval, and collective uncertainty press upon the individual psyche in ways both seen and unseen. The outer chaos of our cultural moment does not stay outside; it seeps into our dreams, our relationships, our sense of self and meaning. How do we meet this chaos without being consumed by it?<\/p>\n Drawing on the depth psychology of C.G. Jung and the ancient wisdom of shamanic traditions, this immersive training invites participants to cross inner thresholds where personal and collective experience converge. Jung understood that the individual psyche and the collective unconscious are not separate \u2014 what erupts in the world has roots in the deeper layers of the human soul. Shamanic traditions offer tools for healing, vision, and restoration of right relationship within these invisible realms.<\/p>\n Through teachings, ceremony, ritual, and guided journeying, we explore the personal and cultural complexes shaping our responses to an increasingly divided world \u2014 working with symbol, opposites, and the transformative potential of liminal space.<\/p>\n This is an embodied encounter with the unconscious \u2014 a reclamation of soul in turbulent times. Together, we become more conscious participants in collective transformation.<\/p>\n Learning Objectives Doris Klinkhamer<\/strong> is a psychotherapist in private practice in Chicago. Doris graduated from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and completed the two-year clinical training program in Jungian Psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has taught at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago on topics related to Jung and shamanism. Doris has studied with the Q\u2019ero shamans of Peru and weaves her training as a Jungian informed psychotherapist with the wisdom of indigenous shamanic traditions. Doris also leads retreats, lectures, and workshops rooted in Jungian psychology and shamanic practices and is the co-founder of Soul Spring.<\/p>\n Lynn Hynes<\/strong> is a psychotherapist in private practice in Indianapolis, holding an MA\/PhD in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and an MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from Walden University. Her deep interest in ecopsychology and indigenous cultures was awakened in 1999 when she travelled to Peru to hike the Inca Trail. Since then, Lynn has returned to Peru, other South American countries, and Mexico to study various shamanic traditions, including field work with indigenous sacred plant medicine during her graduate studies. Of particular interest to Lynn is the work of C.G. Jung and the intersectionality of his writings and shamanic traditions. Lynn has led retreats, lectures, and workshops helping people connect to their inner and outer landscapes and facilitate healing and growth in the natural world. Lynn and Doris are co-founders of Soul Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In-Person Only\n
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\nTuesday, June 23 at C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago<\/span><\/h5>\n
Envisioning: Opening Portals to the Unconscious<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Andrea Gaspar, PsyD & Cynthia Hellyer Heinz, MFA<\/em>
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\n<\/strong><\/span>After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:<\/p>\n\n
\nWednesday, June 24 at Grace Episcopal Church<\/span><\/h5>\n
Sacred Play: Touching the Archetypal through Theatre<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Joanne Underwood, LCSW & Sarah Bendix, LCSW<\/em>
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\n<\/strong><\/span>After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:<\/p>\n\n
\nThursday, June 25 at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago<\/span><\/h5>\n
Living Seasonally with Astrology<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Anita Ashland<\/em>
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\n<\/strong><\/span>After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:<\/p>\n\n
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\nFriday, June 26 at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago<\/span><\/h5>\n
Bridging Collective and Personal Complexes through Shamanic Practices<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Doris W. Klinkhamer, MA, LCSW & Lynn M. Hynes, PhD, LMFT<\/em><\/h5>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:<\/p>\n\n
\nMonday, June 22 \u2013 Friday, June 26, 2026 | 10am-4pm
\nM\/T\/TH\/F @ C. G. Jung Institute (53 W Jackson Ste 438 – Map<\/a>)
\nW @ Grace Episcopal Church (637 S Dearborn St – Map<\/a>)
\n25 CEs Available<\/p>\n