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Jung in July
Films, interviews and conversation on the life and work of Carl Jung. All events are free.
Dates: Thursdays, 7-8:30 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St. on the downtown mall in Charlottesville.
Film: Jung on Film
A 1957 interview by Richard Evans. This compelling film represents a rare record of Jung. He speaks of his collaboration with Sigmund Freud, about the insights he gained from listening to his patients' dreams, and about the fascinating turns his life has taken.
Date: July 3, 7-8:30 pm Fee: Free
Film: At the Threshold
A Journey to the Sacred through Integration of Jungian Psychology and the Expressive Arts, hosted by Simona Aronow, M.A., Registered Dance Movement Therapist. This film presents dance therapy and sand tray as a means of expressing unconscious images, symbols and themes that are embodied and explored in the process of individuation.
Date: July 10, 7-8:30 pm Fee: Free
Film: Appointment with the Wise Old Dog: Dreams in a Time of Crisis
The story of conductor/cellist David Blum (introduced by Yo-Yo Ma), as he faces the end of life and discovers guidance from dreams. This film contains many beautiful and poignant pictures of dreams painted by Mr. Blum in the years leading up to his death.
Date: July 17, 7-8:30 pm Fee: Free
Apology to the Serpent
The psychospiritual significance of the serpent in myth and dreams. Len Worley, Ph.D.
Date: July 24, 7-8:30 pm Fee: Free
Interview with Jungian analyst Marita Digney
Len Worley interviews Marita Digney on The Two Sides of Jung. Please note that the basis for this interview will be chapter 3, Student Years, found in Jung’s autobiography, Memories, Dreams & Reflections. Marita Digney, D. Min. is a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst and Licensed Psychologist, as well as the former Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute. She now resides and works in Charlottesville.
Date: July 31, 7-8:30 pm Fee: Free
DREAM STUDIES
The Voyager Group
Long-term Expeditions to Chart the Future Self
Three month and Year Long Experiential Dream Studies Groups (six person limit).
More about Dream Mentoring
Time: Ongoing
Reservations: Call 434-953-5399 to inquire about openings.
PSYCHOSPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
The Men’s Lodge
For Ritual, celebration, laughter and tears
Explores psychospiritual issues in masculine development. Meets quarterly.
Next meeting: January, 2008. To apply for entrance, contact Len Worley.
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an interview with Len about The Secrets Men Keep.
The story of conductor/cellist David Blum (introduced by Yo-Yo Ma), as he faces the
end of life and discovers guidance from dreams.
Date: July 26, 7-8:30 pm Fee: $15
Jung as Spiritual Friend
A personal look at Jung the man, using his autobiography, Memories, Dreams & Reflections
Date: July 5, 12,19, 7-8:30 pm Fee: $45
The Dream as an Ally in Clinical Practice
Two Approaches
...with Phyllis Koch-Sheras, Ph.D. & Len Worley, Ph.D.
This is a professional training for psychotherapists.
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4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available.
Date: Friday, June 22 Fee: $75 if postmarked by June 15;
$85 thereafter. An additional $25 — paid separately — will secure 4 CEUs through Old Dominion University. Registration: Send a check to Len Worley, Ph.D., 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA 22902 Location: 211 W. Main St., downtown mall
in Charlottesville, VA
Fairytales for Adults
Seeing one’s life myth in the stories of childhood
Discover the deeper truths in Beauty & the Beast, (on the Transformation of the Negative Masculine) and in Hansel & Gretel (on Overcoming the Negative Feminine).
Date: June 7, 7-8:30 pm Fee: $15
Basics of Dreamwork
Witness and experience the wisdom available in the dream. Essential principles will be discussed and live demonstrations offered.
Date: June 14, 21, 28; 7 pm Fee: $45
Basics of Dreamwork
Essential principles and demonstration
Date: May 3, 7-8:30 pm
Heart’s Desire:
Six Practices for Saving Your Life
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer in our
culture. Unknown to many chronic stress often plays a bigger
role in weakening the heart than traditional risk factors
such as diet, smoking and high cholesterol. If you are
interested in guarding the health of your heart and in
discovering the essential psychological nutrients for
emotional fulfillment, this mini-series is for you. Drawing
on the latest research that documents the heart as a knowing
organ, you will see learn to access heart intelligence
through a simple and powerful breath technique that calms
the body and grows positive emotion. With this tool you will
find a new relationship with the difficult emotions of
anger, fearfulness, worry and depression.
The Practices:
Breathe into the heart.
Listen to anger.
Learn from shame but not humiliation.
Turn and face your fear.
Know what you are intending.
(Number six is individualized and given during the course)
Date: Thursdays, 5:30-7, March 8-April 26
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, downtown mall
Fee: $125 (pre-registration required: 953-5399 or
email me)
The Wisdom of the Serpent
Dreams & Dances of the Animal Powers
Dance performance, tribal music and reflections on the instinctual wisdom of animals in dreams.
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2-4 pm
Location:
This event has been moved from Keswick due to
predicted rain. It will now be in Charlottesville right off
the downtown mall at Hiromi’s Tai Chi Studio, Suite 110 in
the Old Michie Building at 609 E. Market St. The entrance to
the studio is actually on the side of the building facing
7th St. NE. Parking is easily available in the surrounding
community on Sunday afternoon and in the Market St. parking
garage. Please note that shoes cannot be worn in this studio!
Fee: $25 (pre-registration required: 434-953-5399 or
email me)
SACRED SEXUALITY
Book presentations and ceremonial dance
Three Saturdays this summer, 7 pm, $15 each
All events will begin at Studio 206 (206 E. Market St.,
upstairs) with ceremonial folk dance led by Susan Oberman,
followed by a book presentation a half block away at Len Worley's
office on the downtown mall: 211 W. Main St.
It is not
necessary to have read any book prior to attending these
events.
Date: June 17
The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida.
One of
the most important books written for men after feminism,
enabling men to move into the power and elegance of the
masculine while honoring the deep feminine. Thus, this is a
most important book for women.
Date: July 15
Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex by David Deida.
Blue Truth contains practical exercises and understandings
for finding the Divine in every present moment, under all
circumstances, and especially through sex. How can we awaken
as the bare openness we are, moment by moment, no matter
what is going on? How can we honor our depth, appreciate
dissatisfaction, express who we really are, allow love's
hurt, and hold nothing back?
Date: August 12
Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love by Daniel Odier.
As a 29 year old man searching to reconcile his quest
for spiritual openness and his love of life on earth in a
human desiring body,, Odier encounters a Tantric
practitioner living alone in the Himalayan mountains of
northern India. This book describes his three month
initiation into the mysteries of the divinely erotic in
every day life. It is a testament to how far we can allow
the sensuality of the physical world to inspire us towards
God.
THE WISDOM OF THE SERPENT
Dreams and Dances of the Animal Powers
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Carl Jung
Date: Saturday, July 22, 7 pm
Fee: $15
Location: Studio 206 (206 E. Market St.)
Presented by Len Worley, Ph.D., along with African dance
performance, bamboo flute, interpretive dance of the
serpentine powers and words about the instinctual wisdom
available to us through dreams of animals.
