"Cultivating Hope through Imagination" (Lecture)
We will explore imagination as a creative resource for discovering and holding onto hope in the darkness of uncertainty and distress. We will examine how imagination facilitates our capacity to wait, endure longing, develop resilience, and foster discernment in the service of awakening new life. We will look to archetypal stories to guide us.

"Listening to Our Soul" (Seminar on Lecture)
We will seek insight and movement in our individuation journeys using journaling and active imagination to the burning questions: What is the Self asking of me? What is the next step I need to take to respond to that which lies deepest within?

1 June 2026
Jungian Odyssey - International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich

"Pain Explored"
Emotional pain signals something is amiss. Our psyche may try to avoid pain with defensive strategies, such as denial, splitting, and shutting down. Suffering that is overwhelming and unacknowledged readily turns into anger and resentment. But cries of pain can also lead to creative expression and healing. We will explore examples of dealing with pain by dissociation, by revenge and retaliation, and by creativity and action evoked by suffering.

3, 5, 10, 12 November 2026
International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich

"Encountering What Lies Within"
Jung tells us, "Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions." (MDR, p. 3)  What wants to manifest in our lives at this time? Engaging with modes of active imagination, we will allow images and energies to emerge from the unconscious and explore the healing and guidance they offer.

14, 15 November 2026
International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich

"Case Colloquium"
Listening to case material, we will seek to discern, understand, and respond to core issues behind our analysands' troubling situations and relationships. We will focus on the hurt, loss, grief, and emotional pain we hear in the material and on our capacity to be emotionally present. How may we be stretched and grow from our work with analysands whose struggles resonate with us?

Dates, Times, & Location TBA
International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich

 Recent Lectures and Seminars

  • Spring 2026:  "Bringing Light to Our Shadow", "What Does Individuation Ask of Us?", & "Foundational Steps in the Unfolding of the Ego-Self Relationship"
  • Spring 2026:  "Bringing Light to Our Shadow", "What Does Individuation Ask of Us?", & "Foundational Steps in the Unfolding of the Ego-Self Relationship"
  • Fall 2025:  "Exploring What Lies Within", "The Power of Images: A Case Study", & "The Call of the Self: My Story" (Chats with Analysts)
  • Spring 2025:  "Active Imagination as a Way In" &  "Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble ...": The Wrath of the Injured Feminine"
  • Fall 2024:  "Exploring Archetypal Themes in Art", "Living Meaningfully”, & “Nature and Nurture: Archetypal Forces in Early Child Development"
  • Spring 2024: “Working with the Twists and Turns of Life” & "Living a Creative Life"
  • Fall 2023: "Making a Good End" & "Culture, Identity, and the Self" 
  • Spring 2022: “Ethnology as Mirror" & “The Legacy of Screams that Could Not be Screamed”
  • Fall 2021: “Insights from Myths Across Cultures” & “Exploring Our Many Selves"
  • Fall 2020: “The Symbolic and the Relational in Analysis”
  • Fall 2019: "Integrating the Shadow: The Pull of the Psyche to Heal"
  • Spring 2019: "In the Service of the Self" & "Portraits of Marriage" 
  • Fall 2018: "Discovering What Lies Within" & "Trauma in Greek Tragedy"
  • Spring 2018: "Issues and Development in Early Childhood" & "Dreams and Active Imagination"
  • Fall 2017: "Analysis, Activism and Non-Violence" & "Living a Creative Life"
  • Spring  2017: "A Mythic Journey" & "Healing in Analysis"
  • Fall 2016: “Picasso and Klee in Lucerne: An Excursion” & “Developmental Tasks in the First Half of Life”
  • Spring 2016: “Active Imagination and Non-Violence” & “Stepping Stones on the Journey of Individuation”
  • Fall 2015: “The Contribution of Ethnology to Jungian Psychology” & “Creativity, Anxiety, and Play”
  • Spring 2015: “A Self of One’s Own” & “The Undiscovered Self: An Experiential Seminar”
  • Fall 2014: “The Significance of Early Development” & “Art and Imagination”
  • Spring 2014: “Exploring Fundamentals of Jungian Psychology”
  • Spring 2013: "Wounds, Tears, and Healing"
  • Fall 2012: “Pilgrimage to the Black Madonna: An Excursion to Einsiedeln”
  • Spring 2012: “Initiation: An Experiential Seminar”

Other Presentations

  • “A Therapeutic Journaling Process with Women in Prison”, Capitol Hill Center, Washington, DC, USA; July 2019
  • “Three Levels of Identity”, 76th Feria Nacional de la Plata 2013, Taxco, Mexico; November 2013
  • “Rites of Passage and the Wisdom of Myth”, Psychologische Gesellschaft Basel, Switzerland; April 2012
  • "Grieving and the Path of Individuation", C.G. Jung Analytical Psychology Club, London, UK; April 2012
  • "A New Look at an Old Tale: The Story of Penelope", DACOR Bacon House, Washington, DC, USA; February 2012