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May 5 — 15, 2009
Jules Cashford, Julian David, Thomas Moore, Hari Kirin
In a society where material concerns are so dominant, it is hard to talk about or understand what we mean by “soul” and yet it is an integral part of leading a meaningful life. What insights and techniques can help us to bring soul into our lives?
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In the first week, this course addresses Jung’s thoughts on the powerful role of archetypes in understanding the human psyche and the world. Through an examination of myths and symbols, participants will explore our relationship to archetypes, the concept of the collective unconscious and what we mean by Self or Soul. In the second week, participants will engage in a variety of practices which can help to cultivate deep values of connection, beauty and community. Through in depth discussion and exploration, together with practices such as meditation, art and yoga the course will investigate ways to live soulfully. No previous experience of these practices is required.
This course is intended for: all those who wish to explore and understand their own sense of soul, or help others to do so: life coaches, counsellors, therapists, teachers, yoga practitioners, artists, storytellers, community officers, mental health practitioners and other interested individuals.
Please note: Due to the UK Bank Holiday on Monday May 4, the course starts on Tuesday May 5 at lunchtime and the first week’s teaching will end at lunchtime on Saturday, May 9.
Week 1: Jules Cashford and Julian David with Archetypes, Myth and the Collective Unconscious
What do we mean when we say “archetype”? Jung’s concept of the archetype is linked to that other mysterious term, “synchronicity”. Behind both is his continuous sense of the “eternal”. During this course, participants will have the opportunity to grapple with and hopefully become clearer about all these terms.
In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung raises these questions:
And thence to the fundamental question in psychology, which is consciousness:
In this, Jung is part of an ancient spiritual tradition familiar to us in, say, William Blake, and also in T.S. Eliot, whose Four Quartets is wholly concerned with the relation between time and that dimension in which “all is always now”. All myth and folk tales, all art and all religion are reflections of the eternal psyche and it is for us to make our own sense of where we stand. Because he is not a maker of dogma, Jung makes demands individually and it is for this reason that he is, for many, the great enlightener of our time.
The course will run between the two poles of the cognitive and those myths, folk tales and works of art which reach into that level. Jules Cashford and Julian David will share the teaching, with Julian exploring an archetype/theme each day and Jules discussing a myth or fairy tale that relates to it.
Advance reading: Memories, Dreams Reflections by C.G. Jung (Fontana paperback)
Week 2: Thomas Moore and Hari Kirin with Ecology of the Soul: Deepening Everyday Life through Art, Yoga and Discussion
Ecology usually refers to protecting the natural environment. Ecology of the soul is the process of tending deep values of connection, beauty and community.
Soul is not the same as spirit. Soul is what makes a person or a thing fully what it is and connected to the world. Through meditation, daily yoga, lecture/discussion and the arts (50% lecture/discussion, 50% experiential), this course explores ways to live soulfully, focusing on the following themes:
Monday: Ways to live soulfully – image and the poetic life
Tuesday: Desire and pleasure
Wednesday: Enchantment, community and beauty
Thursday: The imperfect life – depression, anger and failure
Friday: Calling, dharma and opus
No previous experience with art, meditation or yoga is necessary.
Advance reading: Care of the Soul or The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore.
Jules Cashford read philosophy at St. Andrews and did post-graduate research in literature at Cambridge, on a Carnegie Fellowship, studying for a Ph D on Tragedy in the novels of Joseph Conrad. She was a Supervisor in Tragedy at Trinity College, Cambridge for some years. She studied Psychology of Consciousness with Max Cade and lectured on Mythology at Birkbeck College of Extra-Mural Studies, University of London, in a course called ‘Before Philosophy.’ She trained as a Jungian Analyst with the Association of Jungian Analysts in London, and is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. She is the co-author, with Anne Baring, of The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image (Penguin 1993) (still in print, translated into Spanish, and a Japanese translation forthcoming). She is author of The Moon: Myth and Image (Cassell Illustrated, 2003), and translated The Homeric Hymns for Penguin Classics (2003). She wrote two books for children, The Myth of Isis and Osiris, and Theseus and the Minotaur (Barefoot and Shambhala, 1992 and 1994). She has contributed chapters and articles to various books, newspapers and journals including ‘Joseph Campbell and the Grail Myth,’ in John Matthews, ed., The Household of the Grail; ‘Homo Duplex: An Epilogue to Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer”’, Atalanta Ediciones, Girona, 2005; ‘Ímagining Eternity: Weaving “the heaven’s embroidered cloths,”’ in Cosmos and Psyche, ed., Nicholas Campion, Floris Books, 2006. With Kingfisher Art Productions she made a DVD exploring the symbolism of the Early Renaissance Painter Jan van Eyck, called The Mystery of Jan van Eyck. She now writes and lectures on Myth and Literature.
Julian David is a Jungian Analyst who trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich. Julian is a Founder Member of IGAP (the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists) and also Chairman of the Jung Club. He has a practice in Devon.
Thomas Moore is author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and ecology. He lectures frequently in Ireland and has a special love of Irish culture. He has a Ph.D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University and the Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University. He also writes fiction and music and often works with his wife, artist and yoga instructor, Joan Hanley (Hari Kirin). He writes regular columns for Resurgence, Spirituality & Health, and will soon publish Writing in the Sand: The Spirituality of Jesus and the Soul of the Gospels, The Soul of Medicine, and Hole in One: Stories about the Game of Life. He has two children and lives in New England.
Hari Kirin (Joan Hanley) has been a professional artist since finishing her BFA at Hartford Art School in 1976. Her twenties were spent between NY, at the School of Visual Arts or Columbia University, and Hartford, CT, where she participated in Real Art Ways. During this time she met her spiritual mentor, Mahan Tantric, Yogi Bhajan. In 1986 she moved to Cambridge MA to pursue her interest in art, healing and spirituality. In 1988 she received an MA in Creative Arts Therapies from Lesley University. At Lesley she was deeply influenced by psychologist James Hillman and writer Thomas Moore’s ideas about images. She began exploring these ideas in her painting, collaborative group performances, and therapeutic art events. She returned to graduate school and received an MFA degree from Vermont College in 2001. Her Faculty advisor, Steve Kurtz (CAE) described her thesis as “a brilliant, articulate document that clearly explains what constitutes the public sphere and how contestational cultural issues within this sphere can be addressed”. Her work has been reviewed in CIRCA, Resurgence and Aquarian Times. Recent lectures include the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Hofstra University, and the One Earth conference. She has been a visiting professor of Contemporary Art History at Marlboro College VT, and an artist teacher for Vermont College and Maine College of Art MFA programs. Hari Kirin lives in New Hampshire with writer Thomas Moore and their two children. In 2007 she took Sikh vows and changed her name from Joan Hanley to Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa.
For businesses: One week £1,200, Two weeks £1,800
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10% Spring Deal if you book your place(s) by 6 March 2009
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