Stephen Martz, DMin. 56 minutes. Video Download.

Topics: Archetypes, Family and Intimate Relationships, Life Cycle, Mind and Body.

Clobbered by an Archetype: How the Good Shepherd Knocked Me Over and Carried Me Home

Stories make ideas come alive.  The idea that animates this personal presentation is the astonishing ability of an archetypal image to enter, transform, and ground an individual life.  The story that gives rise to it is a visceral and humbling encounter I had at age 28 with an archetypal image that seemed to come out of nowhere to transform and ground my life. 

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The conference Awakening Archetypal Awareness in Dreams and Daily Life includes the following lectures:

1. Sharing Essentials: Archetypes and Intersubjective Space - Sherry Salman, PhD
2. Lessons from the Consulting Room: Thirdness - Archetype of Intimacy - August Cwik, PsyD
3. The Body: Our Container for the Archetypal Experience - Jane Kelley, LCSW
4. Clobbered by an Archetype: How the Good Shepherd Knocked Me Over and Carried Me Home - Stephen Martz, DMin
5. Panel Discussion with August Cwik, Jane Kelley, and Stephen Martz moderated by Barbara Friedman, PhD

Sample

These videos will help you:

1. Observe and describe archetypal symbols in dreams, waking life, and contemporary culture.
2. Recognize the difference between genuine symbols and manufactured images.
3. Discuss why being aware of what is archetypal in dreams, waking life, and culture is important as we try to be responsible to ourselves and one another in a global world.

Stephen Martz, DMin is a senior analyst in private practice and president-elect of the Jung Institute.  His clinical interests include spirituality, sexuality, illness, dying, sand tray, and mentoring clinicians and clergy.  He is a member of the Institute’s Executive Committee, a past director of its Jungian Psychotherapy/Studies Program, and teaches in all of its programs.  Steve is also an Episcopal priest who spent 20 years in parish ministry.

© 2015 Stephen Martz
℗ 2015 CG Jung Institute of Chicago