SCHEDULE OF EVENTS – ALL

Mining The Unconscious: Exhibit I – Opening Night

Exhibit closes August 26, 2011

A juried exhibition of art by 32 New Mexico artists working in all media and referencing Jungian themes explored in C. G. Jung’s groundbreaking and beautifully illustrated Red Book, published posthumously in 2009.

(Free)

Poetry Workshop

Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate

Jane Lipman, 2009 & 2010 NM Book Award finalist in poetry

RSVP  Jane Lipman, 505-982-0999

How does the outer world fuel the inner?  In this workshop we’ll explore how the outer world serves as muse as much as the inner.  We’ll invite participants to write from their own image-rich lives, dreams, and loves, as well as from the gallery art and from how what is “out there” triggers our own deep responses.

(Free)

The Art of Self-Compassion and the Craft of Compassion (Workshop)

Michael Ortiz Hill, referred to as a “magician healer”, is a registered nurse, a Buddhist practitioner, AND an initiated medicine man with tribal people of Zimbabwe.

RSVP to:  Deanne Jameson, 982-7580

The core of Michael Ortiz Hill’s spiritual practice has been the refinement and activity of compassion.  Ortiz Hill pulls from many different religions, practices, and concepts creating a unique blend of both Western and Native approaches to learning which allows participants to embrace his ideas without becoming too didactic.  He personalizes the craft of compassion by sharing his own journey.  “Each participant will find through shared stories a wisdom that sings to their own experience and fuels empathy for others.”  As Ortiz Hill reminds, “Empathy is where two stories run parallel to each other and then meet.”  Participants will do a writing exercise eliciting self-compassion.  Writing will be shared and questions fielded on the way of compassionate activity.  Participants need to bring pen and paper to the workshop.

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating Limited to 15 participants!   First come, first served.

Ancestors and Spirits of the Dead (Lecture)

Robin van Löben Sels, PhD,
Jungian Analyst

In the Red Book when Jung left the “spirit of the times” to enter the “spirit of the depths”, he met both ancestors and spirits of the dead and resumed a dialogue with his soul.  I suggest that here and now we can find an “Intersection of the Spirit” which we can experience in our “times” wherein collective consciousness is transformed by a necessary enlargement of Being that includes our ancestors, spirits of the dead, ourselves, and the world we now have.

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating Limited to 75 people!  First come, first served.  Check this site and page for updates.

Introduction to the Red Book (Lecture)

Jacqueline West, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst
Monika Wikman,  Ph.D., Jungian Analyst

Jungian analysts, Monika Wikman and Jacqueline West, will introduce the Red Book.  Stories and images of Jung that set the stage for his creation of this book will supplement various reflections about the nature of the work itself, including its psychological, spiritual, political, and artistic explorations.

(Donation)

NOTE:  Seating limited to 50 people!  First come, first served.

The Box and the Labyrinth (Workshop)

Connie Doughman, Artist
Colleen Kelley, Artist
Jeff Strong, Drummer

Introduction to the ceremony, myth, and structure of the labyrinth utilizing The Box, Remembering the Gift.

For thousands of years labyrinths have echoed through the human unconscious as an archetypal image of wholeness.  Walking the path provides an authentic experience and a metaphorical journey where, held within the circle, one can engage the unconscious.

The Box is a change agent: an interactive, self-guiding journey of initiation, awakening, and renewal.  It is a tapestry of powerful imagery, quotes, symbols, poetry, and prose with food for thought and tales of other travelers.  It is for people searching for their gift, purpose, or mission.  For those who have seen their vision and are ready for change, it offers direction, guidance, and support.  For those already on their path it is a resource, a visionary tool for building community, and a source of renewal.

(Donation)

Poetry Reading

Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate
Jane Lipman, 2009 & 2010 NM Book Award finalist in poetry

Reading of poems created in Mining the Unconscious’ Poetry Workshop on June 18^th.  The participants who created poems will be invited to read.

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating limited to 75 people!  First come, first served.

Speaking to the Daimons in Search of Soul (Workshop)

Ann Yeomans, Archetypal Therapist
RSVP to Ann Yeomans, 983-6070

Jung’s Red Book is a shamanic journey where he longingly called for his lost soul.  He invited daemonic inner characters or “divine influxes” of the psyche to present themselves, like Odysseus in his voyage to the underworld, which Jung named his Confrontation with the Unconscious.  In his quest he made the move from the literal to the imaginal summoning up his courage and approaching them as though they were real people while listening intently to what they told him.  By the way of active imagination and fantasy he reached uncharted areas of the soul and deepened what he learned by recording his experiences and later working on concentrated paintings to manifest more intensely what he couldn’t explain.  In this workshop we will trace the dialogues with strange figures and bizarre experiences to create our own work of soul.  We will use illustrations from dream work and alchemy to further enact the use of active imagination.

(Free)

NOTE:  Limited to 25 participants!

"Thoroughly Modern Mabel: The New Art, the New Psychology and the New Woman at the New York Salon of Mabel Dodge" (Lecture and Fundraiser Luncheon)

Lois Rudnick, Presenter
Lois is a retired professor of American Studies who taught for 36 years at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published numerous books and essays on New Mexico modern artists and writers, including “Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture”

Lois Rudnick will focus on the famous/infamous salon of Mabel Dodge (before she moved to Taos and became Mabel Dodge Lujan). Dodge’s salon had its heyday between 1913 and 1915 at 23 Fifth Avenue, on the cutting edge of Greenwich Village. Here radical politics, art, feminism and psychoanalysis met, clashed and inspired dreams of a New America.

($40.00)

Tickets available from The Lensic beginning June 13th: walk in, buy tickets on line, or phone the box office on 505-988-1234.

Kahlo, Carr, and O’Keeffe (Lecture)

Jacqueline West, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst
Monika Wikman,  Ph.D., Jungian Analyst
Sharyn Udall, Ph.D., Curator/Author

In an era short on cultural heroes, Frida Kahlo, Emily Carr, and Georgia O’Keefe testify to the fading belief that painters can convey social and mythic meaning while creating widely memorable images.  All were artists of unique perception and mind whose creative lives show unusual efforts to define themselves both culturally and individually.

(Free)

NOTE: Seating limited to 50 people!   First come, first served.

Psyche's Art Making Session (Workshop)

Southwestern College of Art Therapy Counseling and New Mexico Art Therapy Association

RSVP: Shanta DiCesare-Pannutti at 505-264-3933

Surrounded by the art from the Mining the Unconscious Exhibit, the facilitators will help generate an environment for participants to create and process their own impression of the unconscious through visual imagery, writing, and sculpture.   2 CEUs

Participants need to bring art supplies and paper; some supplies will be available.

(Free)

I-Ching – Mothering Change: The Shaman of the Shadows (Lecture)

Stephen Karcher, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized scholar, translator and initiated diviner, teaching and lecturing on the Yijing and other divination systems for over 30 years in the U.S., Great Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa.  He “liberates meanings…that have been missing from our understanding for a couple of thousand years…revealing a whole new landscape of interpretation that makes previous translations feel cramped by comparison.”  Stephen was Research Director of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland from 1988-1996.

Julie Chase-Daniel

Introduction by Elizabeth Retivov, MSW, Jungian Analyst

Dr. Karcher’s presentations in Santa Fe represent the launch of a new I Ching translation centered on the importance of the Feminine. It was created in collaboration with Julie Chase-Daniel and the website community “In the Family Way”. The lecture is a brief description of what the I Ching or “Change” is and how we can access it. We will look at “Change” primarily as tool for cultural transformation through what is called the Rainmaker effect: the synchronistic effect of inner work to effect change in the world that is impossible through direction action. There will be opportunity for individual questions and will culminate in a group divination.

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating limited to 75 people!  First come, first served.

Mining The Unconscious: Exhibit II – Opening Night

Exhibit closes August 5,^, 2011

A documentary film of the project, also entitled Mining The Unconscious, screens at all galleries.

An invited exhibition of works by 42 New Mexico artists that focuses on the creative process.  Taking their cue from Jung’s use of “active imagination”, these artists manifest their own encounters with the unconscious drawing on the riches of alchemy, archetype, dream, prophecy, spirituality, shamanism, and symbol.

(Free)

DAY 1, I-Ching – Mothering Change: The Imaginal Menagerie

PLEASE NOTE: This is a FULL WEEKEND WORKSHOP. The Sunday session lasts from 9:30 – 2:30.

Stephen Karcher, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized scholar, translator and initiated diviner, teaching and lecturing on the Yijing and other divination systems for over 30 years in the US, Great Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa.  He”liberates meanings…that have been missing from our understanding for a couple of thousand years…revealing a whole new landscape of interpretation that makes previous translations feel cramped by comparison.” Stephen was Research Director of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland from 1988-1996.

Julie Chase-Daniel

RSVP to Sofiah Ngoran 505-982-9088

An Interactive Weekend Workshop on the I Ching or “Change”

We will explore ways in which we can “open our hearts to Change,” as the tradition says, through an encounter with its interactive symbols, letting them deconstruct our habitual patterns of thought and open us to the holographic modeling capacity of the mythological mind. This process is designed to work through what we see as our ancestry and open us to the Ancestors, the Dream Animals that people the deep psyche. The process proceeds not through a heroic journey to bring back the treasures, but by letting the symbols transform our imagination, letting us disappear, as it were, into the great forest of symbols like a painter disappearing into the work he or she has created. A great paradigm here comes from Edith Cobb’s study of the Ecology of the Imagination in Childhood: The child seeks to create a world in which to discover a self.

NOTE: Private consultations by Dr. Karcher will be available during the week following the workshop, location to be determined. Fee is $150; for workshop attendees, the fee is $100.

PLEASE CHECK WEBSITE PERIODICALLY FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON THE WORKSHOP AND PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS.

(Fee for entire workshop – Saturday & Sunday sessions: $125)

NOTE:  Limited to 25 participants!

DAY 2, I-Ching – Mothering Change: The Imaginal Menagerie

PLEASE NOTE: This is a FULL WEEKEND WORKSHOP. The Saturday session lasts from 9:30 – 5:30.

Stephen Karcher, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized scholar, translator and initiated diviner, teaching and lecturing on the Yijing and other divination systems for over 30 years in the US, Great Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa.  He”liberates meanings…that have been missing from our understanding for a couple of thousand years…revealing a whole new landscape of interpretation that makes previous translations feel cramped by comparison.” Stephen was Research Director of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland from 1988-1996.

Julie Chase-Daniel

RSVP to Sofiah Ngoran 505-982-9088

An Interactive Weekend Workshop on the I Ching or “Change”

We will explore ways in which we can “open our hearts to Change,” as the tradition says, through an encounter with its interactive symbols, letting them deconstruct our habitual patterns of thought and open us to the holographic modeling capacity of the mythological mind. This process is designed to work through what we see as our ancestry and open us to the Ancestors, the Dream Animals that people the deep psyche. The process proceeds not through a heroic journey to bring back the treasures, but by letting the symbols transform our imagination, letting us disappear, as it were, into the great forest of symbols like a painter disappearing into the work he or she has created. A great paradigm here comes from Edith Cobb’s study of the Ecology of the Imagination in Childhood: The child seeks to create a world in which to discover a self.

NOTE: Private consultations by Dr. Karcher will be available during the week following the workshop, location to be determined. Fee is $150; for workshop attendees, the fee is $100.

PLEASE CHECK WEBSITE PERIODICALLY FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON THE WORKSHOP AND PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS.

(Fee for entire workshop – Saturday & Sunday sessions: $125)

NOTE:  Limited to 25 participants!

Artists on Art Panel I: Why Do Artists Make Art?

Download the flyer for the Artists on Art Panels

Moderator: Donna Ruff. Contributing Faculty, Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Panelists: Lisa de St. Croix, Taylor Oliver, Raymond Petersen, Eliza M. Schmid, Barbara Shapiro

Underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Tsosie Jr.

Taking the Inside Outside: Creating Images from Nature and the Unconscious (Workshop)

Jane Shoenfeld, ART-BC, LPAT

Nationally exhibited & published landscapeartist, teacher & Licensed Art Therapist;  RSVP to Jane Shoenfeld at jane@skyfields.net or 505-986-1108

This creative expressive art workshop will be held primarily outdoors with Shoenfeld’s beautiful Santa Fe studio as a base.  Pastels and a variety of papers will be supplied.  No previous art experience required.

Workshop is approved for CEUs for Counselors, Art Therapists, and Social Workers.    4 CEUs

(Fee: $90)

NOTE: Limited to 12 participants!

CLOSED – Dream Workshop

This workshop is now full and enrollment is CLOSED. Thank you.

Marilyn Matthews, M.D., Jungian Analyst
RSVP to Joslyn Werner, 505-930-8115

Dreams are the voice of our unconscious.  They can guide us to know ourselves more fully.  There are many different kinds of dreams: prophetic, collective, repetitive, “big” dreams, problem-solving dreams.  Please bring a dream or two to the workshop along with paper and pen.

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating Limited to 20 participants!

Artists on Art Panel II: How does art affect/reflect culture?

Download the flyer for the Artists on Art Panels

Moderator: Kathleen Mccloud, Writer, The New Mexican, The Santa Fean, NM Magazine

Panelists: Michael Billie, Betsie Miller-Kusz, Sallyann Paschall, Iris Vazquez.

Underwritten by The Hotel Santa Fe

CLOSED – Life Journey: Mandala Workshop

This workshop is full and enrollment is now CLOSED. Thank you.

Michele Altenberg, Artist
RSVP to Michele Altenberg, 505-982-2972

A documentary film of the project, also entitled Mining The Unconscious, screens at all galleries.

Introduction to the mandala and hands-on experience creating an artist’s journal centered on the concept of the mandala.  This journaling workshop will use the mandala form for its root system.  C. G. Jung used this approach to encourage his students to react to the creative process.  A journal book and art supplies will be provided.  You can enhance this with your own art supplies as well.  You do not need any art background to join and go on this archaeological dig into the creative process.  You will begin a book that will become a legacy for you.

(Free)

NOTE:  Limited to 25 Participants!

Artists on Art Panel III: What is the role of the unconscious in creativity?

Download the flyer for the Artists on Art Panels

Moderator: Anne Farrell, Retired Chair, Media Arts, SF Community College

Panelists: Steve Counsell, Ralph Greene, Joe Griffo, John Hogan, Caroline Williams, and Stan Yeatts.

Schizophrenia and Art (Lecture)

Barry Altenberg, M.D.
Michele Altenberg, Artist

RSVP to Michele Altenberg, 505-982-2972

A documentary film of the project, also entitled Mining The Unconscious, screens at all galleries.

This presentation will cover the similarities in art among psychotic artists.  We’ll explore the exquisite work of “John” with whom Dr. Altenberg has worked over the past twenty years in his battle with schizophrenia.  Dr. Altenberg will discuss the medical aspect of this person while Michele Altenberg will do a comparative study of John’s early to mature art work.

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating limited to 25 people!

The Tree of Hope (A Play)

Patricia Crespin, Playwright
Joe Abraham Dean, Multimedia Artist
Karen Paramananda, Actress
Kieran Sequoia, Director
Produced by Relative Goods Productions

The Tree of Hope is a one woman multimedia  play monologue based on the surreal life of Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican painter.  These talented theatre artists have captured the dream within the life of Kahlo through spoken word, sound, and multimedia projections.  Many of the insights and images were drawn from Kahlo’s personal diary which shows her tumultuous inner life and her most intimate thoughts.  The performance hopes to draw the audience into the mind of Kahlo.  In order to fully understand her we must understand her obsessions, passions, love, heart, and most of all pain.

A documentary film of the project, also entitled Mining The Unconscious, screens at all galleries.

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating limited to 75 people!  First come, first served.

The Shaman’s Doorway to Power, Myth, and Creativity (Workshop)

Amy Cortese, M.S., C.S.C., L.P.C.C.
RSVP to Amy Cortese, 505-466-6686

Participants will be introduced to the cross-cultural origins of shamanism and the shamanic journey.  Through story, the shamanic journey and its discussion, we will explore the importance of our relationships with helping spirits as we deepen our understanding of the forces inspiring our souls’ creativity.

4 CEUs

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating Limited to 25 participants!

Spanish Mustang Workshop

Robin Doughman, M.F.A., Professional Horseman
Julia Lanham, Pacifica Graduate Institute

RSVP and Directions to the Workshop:
Robin Doughman or Connie Doughman 505-466-1549 or robindoughman@aol.com

The symbolic meanings of the horse go back to prehistory.  The first written acknowledgement of the horse was in the third millennium BC.  Slate tablets referencing the wild horse were uncovered in Elam, present day Iraq and Iran.  The horse is a strong dream symbol of strength, grace, beauty, power, nobility, perseverance, and freedom.  Spanning both sexes it presents and enduring image of the mare and motherhood, as well as masculine strength and power.  The Spanish mustang travels through our imagination into the archetypal images of dreamscapes carrying with it creative inspiration.

(Free)

Mining The Unconscious: Exhibit III – Opening Reception

Gallery is open weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) 1- 6 p.m. or by appointment

A documentary film of the project, also entitled Mining The Unconscious, screens at all galleries.

An exhibition by the members of the International Encaustic Art Institute demonstrates the versatility of the encaustic (pigmented wax) medium in expressing dreamy abstract qualities of the unconscious with its inherent layered complexity.

505-424-6487

Dreamwork in Action: Experiencing the Red Book from the Inside Out (Workshop)

Ann Hollier, PhD

Carl Jung was a trailblazer.  The Red Book, his illustrated journey into the unconscious through dreams and active imagination, holds a unique position in Western literature.  Yet the journey itself is nothing new.  Jung’s encounters with the growing edge of the Self are what life requires of all of us.  What makes the Red Book unique is Jung’s ability to embrace the process fearlessly while documenting it for us, both verbally and through lush provocative images, with a scientist’s meticulous attention to detail.  Like Jung we are constantly pulled into terra incognita and challenged to integrate parts of ourselves too strange, too powerful, too dark, too wonderful to previously have been imagined – - – or embodied.  The Red Book provides a valuable guidebook mapping this process and helping us embrace the cycle of psychological death and rebirth as a necessary and inevitable part of our own growth.

(Free)

NOTE:  Seating Limited to 75 people!  Check this site and page for updates.