Program Description
This course will explore dynamic matters at the intersection of music, research methodology, inclusivity, and depth psychology. The book Music in Arts-based Research and Depth Psychology: Listening for Shadow as Inclusive Inquiry (Brun, 2024) attends to the place of sonic imagination in inquiry. Because judgments involved in a listening experience are largely unconscious (Becker, 2004), the field of depth psychology is uniquely …
Based in Rev. Dr. Hancock’s groundbreaking dissertation, Mythic Mapping starts you on the journey to self-discovery utilizing the Jungian Psychology concept of Archetypes. Combining art therapy, active imagination, Journeywork and the investigation of your own favorite myth—this unique program offers a lifetime of opportunities to explore the Self. Conceived as a system for self-analysis for those who have experienced trauma, Mythic Mapping provides an opportu…
Fanny Brewster, PhD, is a Core Faculty member in the Depth Psychology Specialization in Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her publications include, African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows, and, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss, as well as selections from poetry, Journey—The Middle Passage, in Psychological Perspectives Journal. Dr. Brewster is additionally o…
with Kyrié Carpenter
The statistics are sobering: more than 6 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s with that number expected to rise to nearly 13 million by 2050. Alzheimer’s and other dementias disproportionately impact women, Hispanics and Black Americans. Over 11 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an additional 1.2 million additional direct c…
Myths, fairytales and sacred texts are replete with stories of the amputated and sacrificed feminine. From Medusa to the Handless Maiden, from Iphegenia to Jepthah’s daughter, the feet, hands and heads of women and girls are routinely disposed of, often with narrative alacrity. In the fairytale of The Red Shoes, Karen, the orphaned girl, approaches the executioner and pleads with him to cut off her feet at the ankles. The lines that follow this horrific request are reveali…
Redreaming a World in Crisis: Soul, Science and Imagination at the Edge of the Abyss
“We can only make a future from the depth of the truth we face now.”
–Ben Okri
Perhaps never before has the world been engulfed in such a trifecta of crises: the pandemic crisis, the climate crisis, and the ongoing mental health crisis have converged on this moment in history. In a recent article in The Guardian, award-winning author, Ben Okri, writes:
“…we are on the edges of …
This course is designed to examine, liberate, and reconfigure the mythic and archetypal images and stories of time functioning in our lives. The time of modernity yokes together understandings of self and the other with colonial-technological narratives of progress. It has helped ordain the hegemony of the Eurowestern capitalist order. We will consider the politics of time and link to the lineages and tellings of time that draw us into repair and revitalization. In the p…
According to Dr. Jan Collins and Dr. Marc Hamer, “the phenomenology of romantic love involves the full spectrum of human behavioral determinants, incorporating our biological endowment; the inner world of psyche, spirit, soul, and Self; as well as the outer world of our society, others, and the sociocultural chronicles of romantic love that are expressed in myth, art, literature, philosophy, and religion.”
Please join the authors as they discuss their article:…
In this presentation, Dr. Merskin explores Jung and Freud’s foundational theories of projection — a psychological defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unconscious feelings, thoughts, or desires onto others. Drawing on her expertise in media, identity, and representation, Dr. Merskin delves into how Freud and Jung conceptualized projection as a crucial tool for understanding human behavior, relationships, and even broader cultu…
The figure of the cantaor is found within two great lines, the arc of the sky on the outside, and on the inside the zigzag that wanders like a snake through his heart.
Federico Garcia Lorca
The great Spanish writer of the 20th century, Federico Garcia Lorca, wrote extensively about this “mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains,” which is the Duende.
In this three-session workshop we will seek that Duende by tapping in to our soulful reservoir …
with Kim Bateman, Ph.D.
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle, everything I do is stitched with its colors.” -W.S. Merwin
A father records his dying son’s heartbeat with a stethoscope before the boy’s organs are donated and composes songs using the heartbeat as the bass. A woman smashes the colored bottles her daughter collected before she died by suicide and makes an owl out of the pieces. A man hangs his fiance’s wedding dress inside the Temple at Burn…
“Emptiness” is a central idea in several spiritual traditions, where it usually refers to non-attachment and the unknown or mysterious dimension of all that we think and do. Today people like to be more practical and focus on cleaning out the details of ordinary life, from a daily schedule to a clean house. All kinds of emptiness are relevant and connected. This course will explore the deep traditional ideas about emptiness in Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Christianity, and t…