5.21.26 | Guest Presenter: Laura Hensley, LMHC | Making Mandalas- Imaging the Whole Self
Join the C.G. Jung Library of Tampa Bay and Library board member/guest presenter Laura Hensley for a Red Book inspired evening of exploration and visual creativity. We will dive deeply into the symbolic nature, psychological function, and cultural history of mandalas, and participants will be invited to give form and expression to the archetype of […]
3.19.26 | Guest Lecturer: Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath | Behold the Gates of Mercy
This presentation draws principally on two models of substrate consciousness: Jung’s collective psyche and Buddhist understandings of mind and suffering. Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath explores trauma not only as a personal psychological wound, but as a shared human condition that shapes ethical life, imagination, and responsibility. Using the image of the “Gates of Mercy,” she considers […]
5.16.24 | Guest Speaker Lindsey Geiger, LMFT & Jungian Analyst | Lecture | Never Not Broken: Alchemical Transformation of the Animal Body in Trauma Resolution
In trauma, primal instincts to survive collide with powerful archetypal experiences, setting off seemingly endless cycles of pain. We suffer greatly in our reactive responses to trauma, making it difficult to realize that our animal bodies hold invaluable capacities for mending our soul’s wounds and fractures. As Jung suggested, alchemy beautifully illustrates the intricate processes […]
9.19.24 | Guest Speaker LuAnn Conforti-Brown, PhD | Lecture | On Sacred Ground: Breakthrough Experience as A Manifestation of The Self Archetype
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi The eruption of the Sacred into the world of matter has been chronicled throughout history in cultural myths and stories, religious traditions, and even personal narratives. Divine revelation or intervention is often unbidden, i.e., the ego is overtaken by unconscious content. Experiences which […]