The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is offering a Certificate Program in Jungian Studies for clinicians and non-clinicians. This version of the Certificate Program is intended for a public interested in the in-depth study of Jung’s psychology. It is not limited to licensed mental health professionals.  The program consists of 16 sessions of 3 hours from September 2023 through June 2024. All the sessions will be on Saturdays from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm [Pacific Time]. Please check our Course Schedule below for exact dates and times.

Certificate: A Certificate in Jungian Studies will be awarded to participants after completion of the program. Participants may miss 3 sessions at most and still receive the certificate.

The format of this program is online only. Continuing Education credits are not available for this program. 

COURSE SCHEDULE (All Times Below are Pacific Time)

A Saturday Lecture with J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A.

Saturday, September 23, 2023; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
JUNG’S UNIQUE PSYCHOLOGY
The presentation will explore an overview of how Jung’s psychology developed over the course of his lifetime, focusing on his understanding of psychological transformation, beginning with his personal crisis (1913 –1928) through his last mature writing (1951 – 1954). In our discussion, we will address some of the ways in which Jungian psychology can facilitate healing for the individual on a personal as well as a collective level.

J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A., is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA; and the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament (2007), Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number and Time with Marie-Louise von Franz (2009), Carl Jung and Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning Work (2017), and also co-editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Science of the Soul (2002) and Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets (2000). Based in Indianapolis, he is widely known for his lectures and seminars on the significance and application of Jungian psychology.

Two Saturday Lectures with Robert Moradi, M.D.

Saturdays, October 7 & 21, 2023; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
DREAMS: WHY DO WE HAVE THEM AND WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
Dreams are products of the unconscious that emanate from our uniquely individual history, and yet paradoxically and simultaneously, can also serve to remind us of our oneness with everything that has ever existed.  Dreams can liberate us from our conscious mind but also require our conscious engagement with them if we are to understand their symbolic language and decipher their meaning.  Dreams can tell us how we have been injured, personally and collectively, and sometimes even the reasons for our struggles.  More importantly, dreams can show us how to bear the pain of our suffering and make meaning out of a challenging experience. In this seminar we will discuss different types of dreams and ways of understanding our dreams on a personal as well as a collective level.

Robert Moradi, M.D., is a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice in Santa Monica. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine. Currently, he teaches and writes on Jungian approaches to clinical practice.

Two Saturday Lectures with Corey Hooper, M.A., L.M.F.T.

Saturday, November 4 & 18th, 2023; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
WHY STUDY ARCHETYPES AND COMPLEXES?
On both weekends we will explore two of Jung’s seminal concepts, archetypes and emotionally toned complexes. Archetypes are invisible, inherited, structuring patterns of the psyche shared by all. Archetypes cannot be seen, per se, but can only be experienced through images, symbols, and other outer manifestations, such as myths, fairy tales, dreams, etc. A complex is composed of images and ideas gathered around an archetype, often characterized by emotionally toned behavior. Attention will be given to core archetypes Including, the mother, father, child, rebirth, the trickster, and the Self. We will engage in this material in a manner that will assist participants in identifying complexes and archetypes in personal life as well as when engaging with others.

Corey Hooper, M.A., L.M.F.T., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Pasadena, California. She is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles where she chaired the ethics committee in the past and currently teaches candidates in training. She is also a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and serves on an archetypal exam committee. Corey was trained as a botanical artist, worked for a nonprofit spiritual organization for many years, and was a pharmacist in her early years. In her free time, she enjoys the solitude of walking, being in nature, and spending time with family and friends.

Two Saturday Lectures with Thomas Singer, M.D. 

Saturdays, December 2 & 16, 2023; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
THE PSYCHE IN THE WORLD: HOW CULTURAL COMPLEXES CAN TAKE POSSESSION OF OUR SOULS
Differentiating the personal, group, and archetypal levels of cultural complexes is not easy but can be quite rewarding in terms of helping ourselves and the groups to which we belong see more clearly how our lives are deeply influenced by these complexes which operate at many levels of the psyche. Drawing from his research in Australia, Latin America, Europe, and East Asia, Dr. Singer will examine the basic concept of cultural complexes and ways in which they operate—in individuals and in groups—that can be based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and national identity in the emerging global community. Utilizing case material, we will look at a potent cultural complex manifested in the life of an individual. We will study some of the ways in which cultural complexes can live and function both within a group and between groups. In the second session, we will follow how an archetypal energy takes form through history in personal and cultural complexes, as developed in my essay “A Fool’s Guide to Folly.” Throughout the workshop, participants will be encouraged to identify and share their own experiences of cultural complexes—whether it be in personal experience, clinical examples, or in the emerging national and world upheaval.

Thomas Singer, M.D. is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco, and current president of ARAS, an archive of symbolic imagery. Author of The Vision Thing:  Myth, Politics, and Psyche in the World, he has also edited a series of books exploring cultural complexes that includes Placing Psyche (Australia), Listening to Latin America, Europe’s Many Souls, and The Cultural Complex.  The most recent books in this series include Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America and Cultural Complexes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan: Spokes in the Wheel.

Two Saturday Lectures with Stephen Kenneally, M.A., M.B.A., M.F.T.

Saturday, January 6, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
IN SEARCH OF THE SELF
Jung’s concept of the Self seeks to capture the experience of something greater in the psyche than our familiar ego consciousness. This can feel like an inspiring inner guide that facilitates and brings meaning to life, and it can feel like a tormenting fate that keeps us at odds with ourselves. How can we talk about it as a psychological concept on the one hand, and treat it with the reverence of spiritual yearning on the other? This is Jung’s great insight; we have within us dimensions that must be stood up to and understood, as well as dimensions that must be submitted to and served. The task of our consciousness is to learn how to discern the right approach. Too much rationalism cuts us off from our deeper  knowing of ourselves. Too much superstitious reverence for the inner/outer Other in our psychic field and we fall into inflations, deflations, and fundamentalism. An ethic for life emerges if we tolerate this complex notion of the Self.

Saturday, January 20, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
INDIVIDUATION
Individuation is the process of living into an aspect of the innate potential of one’s personality. If we are true to our individuation, the sense of being related to something greater in the psyche (Self) emerges. While we cannot live all the potentials we are born with, and we must adapt to a demanding world, Jung’s concept of individuation helps us to bear this process of becoming who we are most “meant to be” as consciously as possible. This requires continuous differentiation of the inner and outer influences that want us to simply drift in the direction of the current. Confronting these cultural, collective, and internalized schemas requires bearing guilt and holding the “tension of the opposites”. We will explore the role of the shadow, the animus/anima, the Self, dreams, and active imagination in the process of individuation, and explore some archetypal material that illuminates this process.

Stephen Kenneally, M.A., M.B.A., M.F.T. is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Santa Monica, CA. He is active in the training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and has taught for over ten years at Antioch University. Stephen has also worked at an experiential retreat center, and prior to that, worked in finance in New York city.

Two Saturday Lectures with John Beebe, M.D. 

Saturday, February 3 & 17, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
WHAT’S THE REAL STORY?
Movies frequently turn real life into stories, and these days so does most television reporting. We are
often led to wonder how we can distinguish the stories we enjoy following from the truth of the matter
put before us. It helps to take a psychological look at the points of view of the storytellers, the intentions
and ambitions that shape both their distortions and their discoveries. This seminar, led by Dr. John
Beebe, will look through the lens of Jung’s typology at scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man
and James Brooks’ Broadcast News that show this story behind the story, which reveals the reality of the
psyche that is often hiding in plain sight.

John Beebe, M.D.,  is a Jungian analyst and past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco who has spearheaded a Jungian approach to the analysis of film. In teaching and writing, he has often used psychological type and archetype to explore developments in the cultural and political unconscious. His books include Integrity in Depth and Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type. With Virginia Apperson, he has co-authored The Presence of the Feminine in Film.

Two Saturday Lectures with Jeanne A. Lacourt, M.S., L.P.C., N.C.C., Ph.D.

Saturday, March 2, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
WE THINK WITH OUR HEARTS: READING JUNG THROUGH NATIVE EYES
This presentation will review how some of Jung’s ideas (mis)represented Native cultures. The notion of the “primitive,” participation mystique, dreams, and animals will be explored. Two psychic paradigms, dominion, and reciprocity, will point to important differences between Indigenous and Western cosmologies and may offer a path away from our current trend toward self-destruction.

Saturday, March 16, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
INDIGENOUS IDEAS OF SPIRIT AND TRANSFORMATION
This presentation will introduce participants to the Menominee origin story and the important relationship Native people have with spirit beings. Specifically, we will focus how human-animal transformation in story is integral to establishing a reciprocal relationship with land, animals, and all spirit beings.

Jeanne A. Lacourt, M.S., L.P.C., N.C.C., Ph.D., is a Professor of American Indian Studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, a faculty member of the Minnesota Seminar in Jungian Studies, and a Jungian Analyst in private practice. She has authored a book on traditional Indian Education, edited a book on racial issues in the United States, and her articles in Spring Journal focus on the intersections of Indigenous and Jungian Studies. She is most intrigued with the theme of human-animal transformation in Indigenous origin stories. Her home community is with the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

Two Saturday Lectures with David Schoen, L.C.S.W., M.S.S.W.

Saturdays, April 13 & 20, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
JUNG, AA, AND ARCHETYPAL EVIL
The first presentation will draw from my book, The War of Their Gods in Addiction; C.G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Archetypal Evil. The first session will explore the definition of a true psychological addiction based on the Bill W. and Carl Jung letters from 1961, the development of a typical addiction, and an understanding of archetypal shadow/archetypal evil. There will be time for questions, comments, and discussions. The second presentation will cover how the healing process of the 12 steps in AA counters the addiction and neutralizes the archetypal shadow/archetypal evil aspects of addiction through the Self or the Higher Power described in AA. These presentations would interest recovering and non-recovering individuals interested in addiction, AA, and Carl Jung. 

David Schoen, L.C.S.W., M.S.S.W., is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and an I.A.A.P. Certified Jungian analyst practicing in Covington, Louisiana, near New Orleans. He has a background as an alcoholism chemical dependency counselor. He is a senior analyst in the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, co-founder and coordinator of the New Orleans Jungian Training Seminar, and advisor to the C.G. Jung Society of Baton Rouge. David lectures and teaches nationally and internationally. He has published internationally and is a Louisiana poet. His books include Divine Tempest: The Hurricane as Psychic Phenomenon (1998), The War of the Gods in Addiction: C.G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous and Archetypal Evil (2009), and Always a Fighting Tiger: Memoir of an Ordinary L.S.U. Football Fan (2014). 

 

Two Saturday Lectures with Michael Gellert, M.A., L.C.S.W.
JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY AS A CONTACT SPORT 

Saturdays, May 4 & 18, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
WRESTLING WITH BIG DREAMS
Borrowing a notion from the Elgonyi natives of central Africa, Jung designated “big” dreams as those “concerned not only with the more or less personal relations of an individual to his family or to a wider social group, but with his relations to society and to the human community in general.” Having universal significance, such dreams often comment on the human condition, history and the evolution of consciousness, or social problems of great magnitude. As we will explore how to work with big dreams so as to extract their wisdom and integrate their value into our individual, everyday lives, participants are encouraged to bring their dreams.

Saturdays, May 18, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
WRESTLING WITH THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
What is evil? Is it a divine force, or a psychic one—or both? Or is it neither, but rather only the absence of good, as St. Augustine believed? In this talk we will explore these questions, as well as what the phenomenon we call “evil” feels like when it emerges in our everyday lives and situations.

A Saturday Lecture with J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A.

Saturday, June 1, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ’A AURORA CONSURGENS
The presentation explores Marie-Louise von Franz’s psychological interpretation of Aurora Consurgens, a medieval text that illustrates feminine divine truth manifesting in individual emotional experience. Originally published in German with Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis, von Franz’s rich commentary considers the nature of healing, destiny, and love in psychological and cultural contexts.

J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A., is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA; and the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament (2007), Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number and Time with Marie-Louise von Franz (2009), Carl Jung and Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning Work (2017), and also co-editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Science of the Soul (2002) and Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets (2000). Based in Indianapolis, he is widely known for his lectures and seminars on the significance and application of Jungian psychology.