Lecture and Speaking Schedule
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine, Urgent Message from Mother, and Like a Tree with over eighty foreign translations. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing's "Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award", and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She was in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film Women—For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board's Goddess Remembered. The Millionth Circle Initiative was inspired by her book and led to her involvement at the UN. She is the initiator and the leading advocate for a UN 5th World Conference on Women (www.5wcw.org), which was supported by the Secretary General and the President of the General Assembly on March 8, 2012.
Photo by Pauline H. Tesler
Schedule for 2013
Sunday, June 2, Corte Madera, CA
Book Passages — Book Signing
4:00 pm
Moving Toward the Millionth Circle
Subtitle: Energizing the Global Women’s Movement
Location:
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA 94925
For More Info:
(415) 927-0960
www.bookpassage.com/event/jean-shinoda-bolen-moving-toward-millionth-circle
Friday, June 7 - San Francisco, CA
Lecture 7 to 9 pm
Writing and the Inner Life Symposium
California Institute of Integral Studies
Location:
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Info:
Phone 415-575-6100
Website: www.ciis.edu/Public_Programs/Public_Programs_Events/Bolen_SU13.html
June 22-29, Helena, MT
Feathered Pipe Ranch
Women’s Workshop with Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD and Barbara McAfee
Times of Change and Creativity: At the Crossroad with Hecate
We invite Artemis and Hecate (and women who know or want to know them) to come to this summer’s women’s workshop at the Feathered Pipe Ranch. Both are goddess-archetypes of the moon. With the full moon in Cancer on June 23 following the shortly after the Summer Solstice, this retreat is a time for clarity and reflection. Hecate is a liminal figure between upper world and underworld. She exists at transitions between one phase of life and the next, between this world and the other side, between past, present and future. Midweek we will enter into a shamanic cave through a labyrinthine passage that has metaphoric meaning as a descent into the underworld and as a womb space and birth passage for new life, activism and creativity when we come back into the upper world. There will be music and song in the circle and sound that will resonate in the cave because Barbara McAfee is joining Jean as a co-leader. Some form of singing, chanting or humming will find a place in most aspects of this workshop. We’ll find that sound and vocal presence resonates with the heart center--the inner compass on a path with heart or soul journey.
Location:
Feathered Pipe Ranch
Helena, MT
Contact:
Feathered Pipe Foundation
P.O. Box 1682, Helena, MT 59624 USA
Tel: 406-442-8196 • Fax: 406-442-8110
More Info at:
http://featheredpipe.com/feathered_retreats/times-of-change-and-creativity-a-workshop-retreat-for-women/
August 18-23, 2013 - Copenhagen, Denmark
XIXth International Congress for Analytical Psychology
100 Years on: Origins, Innovations and Controversies
Thursday August 22
3:30 pm – 5 pm
Break-Out Session
Emergence of Empowered Conscious Feminine:
Women, Archetypes, Planetary Crisis - a Jungian Perspective.
Registration open to Jungian analysts and candidates
Congress Program www.cg-jung.dk
(click on the English flag at the top right)
September 5 – 8, St. Louis, MO
The C.G. Jung Society of Saint Louis
Third Jung in the Heartland Conference, “Healing by the Numinous”
Friday, Sept. 6th, 7 to 9 pm
Lecture: The Meaning We Make of the Numinous
We come into the world with the capacity for awe and wonder. We are receptive to the numinous and through the millennia, have worshiped divinity in countless forms This is what distinguishes us from all other creatures with whom we share much DNA. Sacred experiences like synchronicities are subjective, some are major special moments in which we feel connected with Divinity, the Great Mystery, the Tao, the Self. A profound sense of connection and meaning often accompanies the numinous, which is gnostic not intellectual, and comes via active imagination, dreams, physical and spiritual experiences.
Saturday, Sept. 7th, 10:45 am to 4:15 pm
Workshop: Path with Soul, Path with Heart: the Inner Compass
We have an innate sense that there is a purpose to life which is related to the idea that life is a soul journey. To do what we came to do and be who we were meant to be is not so easy. Jung’s individuation, Campbell’s finding your personal myth, the hero’s journey, Persephone’s abduction into the underworld, the gods and goddess archetypes may help support the choices we make. In this workshop. Jean Bolen invites us to remember and connect with our inner compass: it may be what we know in our bones, which as in her book, Close to the Bone, is soul knowledge that we may decide to trust in the midst of a potentially terminal illness. Or it is heart-chakra information: what our heart knows is true for us. The most difficult experiences in life may be opportunities to align with soul. It is soul that recognizes the numen — or divine spark in others and in ourselves.
Location:
King’s House, Belleville, Illinois
Contact:
Phone: 314-533-6809
E-mail: cgjungstl@sbcglobal.net
September 20-21, 2013, Vancouver Island, BC
Annual Labyrinth Society Gathering
Friday, Sept. 20th, 7pm
Keynote: Labyrinths for Global Healing, Landscapes for the Soul
The labyrinth is a powerful image and metaphor for a soul path. Walking a labyrinth with this awareness deepens the metaphor and is an enactment of it. Making a labyrinth in silent absorption taps into a deeper knowing. Going to sacred places with the receptivity of a pilgrim is to take a labyrinthine journey to a place of centering, to receive something, and return with it. All are ritual acts. In this keynote, Jean will describe her experiences with the archetype and reality of the labyrinth and tell how she uses and draws upon it in her work as a Jungian analyst and as a global activist.
Saturday, 9 to 11:15 am
Workshop: Living Life as if in a Labyrinth
Saturday, 9 to 11:15 am
Workshop: Living Life as if in a Labyrinth
Soul work, one’s personal myth, Jungian concept of individuation, midlife centering possibilities, life-threatening illness, spiritual beings on a human path, descents into the underworld, becoming a heart-centered activist are all labyrinthine journeys. In walking a labyrinth and musing upon our lives, we realize that there are no dead-ends, only unexpected turns that test our faith that there is meaning to being here. As Jean tells stories and myths, we find ourselves remembering and reflecting upon significant times in our lives. Whether we know it or not, at every significant juncture in our lives, we have been at a crossroad with Hecate, that place of consciousness and choice.
(ref: Close to the Bone, Goddesses in Everywoman, Goddesses in Older Women, Gods in Everyman)
Circle Experience: “Circles with a Sacred Center”
Jean will convene this as a circle with the invisible presence of Hestia goddess of the Hearth and Temple at the center, an experience of a circle as a “temenos” or sanctuary, that also contributes toward the metaphoric, tipping point, “millionth circle."
Location:
Tigh Na Mara Resort & Conference Center
Parksville, BC, Canada
Contact: Holly Letcher
Email: pathways2wellness@bell.net
Phone: 250-927-3730
Website: http://www.labyrinthsociety.org/annual-gathering
October 4 – 5, Colorado Springs, CO
The C. G. Jung Society of Colorado Springs
Friday, Oct. 4th, Lecture 7-9PM
Catching Fire: Imagination and Activism
Imagination precedes change—psyche is activated by stories, role models, and dreams that touch soul. Passion and imagination precedes creativity, healing, activism on behalf of ourselves and others. Compassionate action is spiritual activism. Fierce compassion says “enough is enough!” Outrage in defense of what and who we love is mother bear activism and the protective masculine that finds the strength to rise up to save what we love, which can be a precious part of ourselves. When a vision of who we could be catches fire, we become activists on behalf of ourselves. To live our personal myth, individuation, finding meaning are related to small and large acts of courage. Heart-centered activism inspired her newest book, Moving Toward the Millionth Circle.
Friday, Oct. 5th, Workshop 9AM - 5PM
Path with Soul/Path with Heart: the Inner Compass
Friday, Oct. 5th, Workshop 9AM - 5PM
We have an innate sense that there is a purpose to life which is related to the idea that life is a soul journey. To do what we came to do and be who we were meant to be is not so easy. Jung’s individuation, Campbell’s finding your personal myth, the hero’s journey; Persephone’s abduction into the underworld, the gods and goddess archetypes may help support the choices we make. In this workshop Jean Bolen invites us to remember and connect with our inner compass: it may be what we know in our bones, which as in her book, Close to the Bone, is soul knowledge that we may decide to trust in the midst of a potentially terminal illness. Or it is heart-chakra information: what our heart knows is true for us. The most difficult experiences in life may be opportunities to align with soul.
Contact:
Phone: 719-527-0622
E-mail: info@csjung.org
Website: www.csjung.org
Saturday, October 12, 2013 — San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Writing for Change Conference -- 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Keynote 1:00 pm Writing for Change: in the Psyche and in the World
Location:
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
1187 Franklin Street (at Geary), San Francisco, CA
Registration is $99 until October 1, 2013, $150 thereafter.
A box lunch is included, and there’s a no-host dinner afterwards.
Register online: sfwritingforchange.org
Questions? Call Richard at 925.420.6223