EINSIEDELN CONFERENCE
"THE SYMBOLIC IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND
SPIRITUALITY: MYTHS AND FAIRY TALES
RETOLD FOR OUR TIMES"
JUNE 14 - JUNE 27, 2008
EINSIEDELN, SWITZERLAND
Through myths and fairy tales participants of the Einsiedeln Conference are invited to step into the symbolic world, integrating the depth psychology of Carl Gustav Jung and spirituality. In the 2008 Conference ancient myths and stories evolving from cultures over centuries (fairy tales) will be discussed, explored and broken open, inviting participants into the depth of richness the stories bring to our contemporary culture, spirituality, and psychology. In Jung’s writing in Man and His Symbols, he notes that nature has lost its symbolic implications for people, thus we have lost an "emotional unconscious identity" with natural phenomena. He says the river no long contains a spirit; no tree is the life principle of man, no snake the embodiment of wisdom. With this lack of contact with nature, a profound emotional energy has slipped away that was supplied by this symbolic connection. (p. 95) How do we reclaim this connection? One way is through delving into myths and fairy tales and discovering their meaning at levels below what first appears. Various fairy tales and myths, filled with masculine and feminine energies, rich in symbolism, will be addressed in lectures given by Zurich-based Jungian analysts and psychotherapists with Jungian orientation. The theme will also be explored through rituals and experiences with art expression. All of this takes place in a beautiful Swiss village and countryside.
41 CEU Credits Approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences
46.5 CEU credits approved by the NASW New Mexico Chapter, and recognized by
the New Mexico Therapy Practice Board.
FUTURE CONFERENCE: THE NEXT EINSIEDELN CONFERENCE WILL BE IN JUNE, 2010 (NO CONFERENCE IN 2009). WATCH FOR WEB UPDATES REGARDING THE 2010 CONFERENCE IN FALL/WINTER, 2008.
For more information please contact:
Einsiedeln Conference, Inc
P.O. Box 6771
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502-6771
(505) 992-9779
Email: kaykwagner2001@aol.com