Lecture and Speaking Schedule
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. 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. She is a major advocate of a United Nations 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW), a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco
Photo by Pauline H. Tesler
Schedule for 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - Seattle WA
East West Bookshop of Seattle
Talk & Book Signing – 7:00 pm
Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet
The learning experience that led to this talk and Jean’s latest book, Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet began when a huge beautiful tree in front of her house was cut down through a vote by a homeowner’s association. The tree came down while she was at the United Nations, where in a conversation about her unsuccessful effort to save the tree, Gloria Steinem, remarked; “Remember Jean, you are a writer, and a writer has the last word. That there is a difference between “tree people” and “not-tree people” was a beginning insight. Her words will lead us from knowledge of what what trees are and what they do, to the symbolic, sacred meaning, soulfulness and wisdom of trees. She invites us to be mystical activists, visionary activists, and sacred-feminine feminists-- to heed a call that touches heart and soul.
Location:
East-West Books
6500 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115
eastwestbookshop.com/events/3217
February 16-18, 2012 - Seattle, WA
Women of Wisdom Foundation Conference
Radiate the Divine Feminine. Our World is Ready
Thursday, February 16 – Keynote:
Gaia the Living Earth, Goddess, Archetype and Mother of Us All
Gaia is in the photograph of Earth from Outer Space, at Newgrange on the Winter Solstice, and in the song, “We all come from the Goddess and to her we shall return ...” She is ancient mother and whose health is threatened by global warming and nuclear winter, now that humanity has the destructive power to turn our beautiful planet into a wasteland. In the Grail Legend, there is a mysterious grail, which is always carried by a woman, and a wounded Fisher King (patriarchy) whose kingdom is a wasteland. Only the grail can heal him and restore and green the wasteland. Might we individually and collectively be grail carriers? (that it is up to us to save the planet is her message in Like a Tree). Might the whole world be in our hands? Gaia Hypothesis, Quantum science, the need for an indigenous spirituality are related insights.
Location:
Seattle First Baptist Church
1111 Harvard Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Fri., February 17, Workshop:
Grail, Goddesses, Circles and the Sacred Feminine
In her workshop, Jean Bolen will take us deeper into themes introduced in the keynote lecture. The Sacred Feminine, the Grail and goddesses are symbols and psychic realities with depth and meaning. Cut off from sources of meaning, without a connection to the feminine principle, the inner landscape of the soul becomes a wasteland. The wounded Fisher King and the abduction of Persephone are metaphors for depression, alienation, life-threatening illness, and addictions on a personal level, that are related to the loss of creativity, spontaneity, and love. These are also metaphors for what ails the planet. We will listen to Jean tell stories; participate in a guided meditation and a circle experience. This workshop will provide opportunities to be in touch with inner sources of wisdom and compassion, encourage the formation of circles with a sacred center, and inspire possibilities of change and transformation.
Location:
North Seattle Community College
9600 College Way N
Seattle, WA 98103
Contact information:
Women of Wisdom
852 Northwest 85th Street
Seattle, WA 98117-3264
Tel: (206) 782-3363
More Info:
www.womenofwisdom.org/2012Conference/2012Conference.php
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February 27 – March 9, 2012 - New York, NY
UN Commission on the Status of Women - Fifty-sixth Session
www.ngocsw.org
Parallel Events
Monday, 27 February 2012 – New York
2:30pm to 4:00pm
Wise Like a Tree: Ecological Wisdom, Maternal-Feminist Activism,
Archetypal Roots, NGOs, 5WCW
Panelists:
Nina Simons, Co-Founder of Bioneers, Author,
Donna Goodman, Founder of Earth Child Institute,
Jean Shinoda Bolen, Author,
and others TBA
2:30pm to 4:00pm
Wise Like a Tree: Ecological Wisdom, Maternal-Feminist Activism,
Archetypal Roots, NGOs, 5WCW
Panelists:
Nina Simons, Co-Founder of Bioneers, Author,
Donna Goodman, Founder of Earth Child Institute,
Jean Shinoda Bolen, Author,
and others TBA
Earth is an island in a vast sea of space. If we follow the example of Easter Island, there will be not enough trees, too many people, and a similar result--a beautiful, abundant island becomes barren and life becomes unsustainable. Ecological wisdom follows Mother Nature's example, which has to do with diversity, adaptation, interdependency, and masculine-feminine balance. Seven billion people and growing, with interminable conflicts, deforestation, global warming grow out of the psychology of male dominance, left-brain thinking, and the effects of testosterone and adrenaline on decision making. The antidote is balance which requires empowered women in sufficient numbers, egalitarian education of girls and boys, reproductive rights and a shift in consciousness and activism from the ground-up. The expression of this shift in consciousness begins in the psyches of women and in circles of women that result in creating NGOs. In fertile ground, seeds which are NGOs can become part of a movement to bring balance and wisdom, with a UN NGO 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW) accelerating the process of reaching a tipping point.
Location:
Main Auditorium
Salvation Army Building
221 East 52d Street
New York, NY
Thursday, March 1, 2012
8:30am to 10am
Panel: Need for a UN NGO 5th World Conference
on Women & Girls (5WCW)
Panelists TBA
on Women & Girls (5WCW)
Panelists TBA
Convening a UN NGO 5th World Conference on Women & Girls (5WCW) A UN NGO 5WCW will grow the next generation of global and local women leaders. The previous four were significant, initiatory, and crucial to the women who attended in sharing vision, practical and political help through the friendships and alliances made at them. 5WCW would support the implementation of UN documents that are models for women's empowerment and equality (SC# 1325, CEDAW, Beijing PFA, MDGs). 5WCW would be the first one to use internet, social networks, satellite links to simultaneously held local and national women's conferences. 5WCW would be a major step toward reaching a tipping point of empowered multicultural and geographically diverse women. When decision-making power is held by women and men together, the inherent differences of the female brain which we know from neuroscience, and the physiological oxytocin-estrogen response to stress can finally be put to use toward sustainability and peace for the children and thus for us all on the planet.
Location:
Downstairs Room
Salvation Army Building
221 East 52d Street
New York, NY
(These events are open to the public)
Sat. March 10, 2012 - San Luis Obispo, CA
Symposium
"Women of Wisdom: Midwifing Conscious Change"
Keynote: Women of Wisdom Midwifing Conscious Change
We approach a major fork in the road where Hecate Goddess of the Crossroads and archetype of the midwife, witness, witch and wisewoman is to be found. Will humanity stay on the path of interminable conflicts, overpopulation, global warming, and the possibility of nuclear winter, which leads toward turning our beautiful planet into a wasteland? Or will we take the second path toward an evolutionary change in consciousness that incorporates the nurturing, multi-tasking and multi-perceptive empathic aptitude that are feminine qualities which would make use of women’s wisdom, maternal values, spirituality and insights from quantum science? That it is up to women (and exceptional men) to save the planet is Jean’s message in Like a Tree and Urgent Message From Mother. We have the Women’s Movement of the 1970s as the example of how women acting individually and in consciousness-raising groups changed our world. Jean invites us as individuals to carry the grail that can heal the wounded patriarchy and restore the wasteland into our world through our choices and commitments.
Location:
San Luis Coastal Adult School
1500 Lizzie Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Contact:
www.spiritualcircle.org/symposium
March 30-31, 2012 - San Francisco
California Institute of Integral Studies
Fri., March 30, 2012: Lecture:
Trees and Tree People: Greening Ourselves, Saving the Planet
The learning experience that led to this talk and Jean’s latest book, Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet began when a huge beautiful tree in front of her house was cut down through a vote by a homeowner’s association. The tree came down while she was at the United Nations, where in a conversation about her unsuccessful effort to save the tree, Gloria Steinem, remarked; “Remember Jean, you are a writer, and a writer has the last word. That there is a difference between “tree people” and “not-tree people” was a beginning insight. Her words will lead us from knowledge of what what trees are and what they do, to the symbolic, sacred meaning, soulfulness and wisdom of trees. She invites us to be mystical activists, visionary activists, and sacred-feminine feminists-- to heed a call that touches heart and soul.
The last words of Like a Tree: “This is, of course, the hope: that there is enough time for trees and tree people to save our beautiful planet from turning into a wasteland, and heal the wounds of patriarchy with its focus on dominance over everything. It is this dominator mentality that separates us from each other, from all other species and makes it impossible to have soul connections or sense them. We are in a period of crisis—where danger and opportunity exist side by side. The situation calls for intelligence, mysticism, wisdom and compassion to find ways we can act individually and together to save the planet and restore soul. Whatever comes to your mind and heart as an intention or a dream, take the first step that has its origins in who you are and what has meaning for you. The path will open up as you travel it. There will be companions.”
Sat. March 31, Workshop:
Grail, Goddesses, Circles, and the Sacred Feminine
Grail, Goddesses, Circles, and the Sacred Feminine
The grail and goddesses are archetypes, symbols with depth and meaning. In this workshop, Jean Shinoda Bolen will bring us into the legendary, mythic and spiritual realm of the sacred feminine. Cut off from sources of meaning, without a connection to the feminine principle, the Tao or the Self, the inner landscape of men and women becomes a wasteland. The wounded Fisher King, the abduction of Persephone, Siddharta's quest are metaphors for depression and alienation and the loss of creativity, spontaneity, and love. We will listen to Jean tell stories, participate in a guided meditation, and learn about circles with a spiritual center as vessels of creativity and healing. This workshop will provide opportunities to be in touch with inner sources of wisdom and compassionate action and encourage the formation of circles with a sacred center that can nourish and support who we are and what we are here for--as spiritual beings on a human path.
Location:
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel: 415.575.6100
Contact: www.ciis.edu
Saturday, April 7, 2012 – Palo Alto, CA
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Awaken and Aging Retreat
(For ITP graduate students)
Keynote: 2 to 4 pm
Awakening and Aging: Act III of Your Life
In the theater, Acts I and II build toward resolution in Act III. Such also is life. We are surprised at how fast time and years have gone by and wonder, “How did I get this old?, and (if we are fortunate), How young I still am.!” People born at the beginning of the 20th century did not expect to live much past 50. Now, 50 is what 30 used to be— and at 50, 60. 70, 80 —we think of living to 100. The personal myth or individuation story or soul journey—all have meaning as a premise for being here. With more years to live, there are major choices to be made that shape who we are becoming. It is in the third act, that character shows, wisdom and humor matter, and cultivation of an inner life is compatible with making a difference in the world.
Location:
Lucie Sterns Community Center
Fireside Room
250 Hamilton Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
http://itp.edu
April 20-21, 2012 -- Chapel Hill, NC
C.G. Jung Society of the Triangle
Fri. April 20, Lecture:
Trees and Tree People: Saving the Planet
C.G. Jung Society of the Triangle
Trees and Tree People: Saving the Planet
The learning experience that led this talk and Jean’s latest book Like a Tree began when a huge beautiful tree in front of her house was cut down through a vote by a homeowner’s association. The tree came down while she was at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, where in a conversation about her unsuccessful effort to save the tree, Gloria Steinem, remarked; “Remember Jean, you are a writer, and a writer has the last word. That there is a difference between “tree people” and “not-tree people” was a beginning insight. Seeing a connection between trees and girls as property added another dimension. Add a Jungian-Feminist lens as in her book, Ring of Power and the result is a way of seeing how archetypes and individuation can result in activism. Her advocacy of a UN 5th World Conference on Women is an expression of this. Jean invites us to be mystical activists, visionary activists, sacred-feminine feminists—or green and juicy people!
Lecture Location:
Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church
1712 Willow Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
April 21, 2012 Workshop:
The Sacred Feminine: Grail, Goddesses & Circles
The Sacred Feminine: Grail, Goddesses & Circles
The grail and goddesses are archetypes, symbols with depth and meaning. In this workshop, Jean Shinoda Bolen will bring us into the legendary, mythic and spiritual realm of the sacred feminine. Cut off from sources of meaning, without a connection to the feminine principle, the Tao or the Self, the inner landscape of men and women becomes a wasteland. The wounded Fisher King and the abduction of Persephone are metaphors for depression, alienation, life-threatening illness, and addictions on a personal level, that are related to the loss of creativity, spontaneity, and love. These are also metaphors for what ails the planet. We will listen to Jean tell stories, participate in a guided meditation and a circle experience. This workshop will provide opportunities to be in touch with inner sources of wisdom and compassion, encourage the formation of circles with a sacred center, and inspire possibilities of change and transformation.
Workshop Location:
New Hope Camp and Conference Center
HWY # 86 (Old Airport Rd)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Contact:
General Info: www.jungnc.org/program-pages/2012-programs/bolen.html
Fees-Location: www.jungnc.org/html/fees-etc.html
CEU Information: Email: cmiller3@email.unc.edu
May 4-5, 2012 -- Santa Fe, NM
C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe
Lecture, Friday, May 4, 2012
7 – 9 pm, $10 2 CEU’s
Trees and Tree People: Greening Ourselves, Saving the Planet
The learning experience that led to this talk and Jean’s latest book, Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet began when a huge beautiful tree in front of her house was cut down through a vote by a homeowner’s association. The tree came down while she was at the United Nations, where in a conversation about her unsuccessful effort to save the tree, Gloria Steinem, remarked; “Remember Jean, you are a writer, and a writer has the last word. That there is a difference between “tree people” and “not-tree people” was a beginning insight. Her words will lead us from knowledge of what trees are and what they do, to the symbolic, sacred meaning, soulfulness and wisdom of trees. She invites us to be mystical activists, visionary activists, and sacred-feminine feminists-- to heed a call that touches heart and soul.
Workshop, Sat. May 5, 2012
9 am – 5 pm, $80 6 CEU’s
Grail, Goddesses, Circles and the Sacred Feminine
Workshop, Sat. May 5, 2012
9 am – 5 pm, $80 6 CEU’s
The grail and goddesses are archetypes, symbols with depth and meaning. In this workshop, Jean Shinoda Bolen will bring us into the legendary, mythic and spiritual realm of the sacred feminine. Cut off from sources of meaning, without a connection to the feminine principle, the Tao or the Self, the inner landscape of men and women becomes a wasteland. The wounded Fisher King, the abduction of Persephone, Siddharta's quest are metaphors for depression and alienation and the loss of creativity, spontaneity, and love. We will listen to Jean tell stories, participate in a guided meditation and a circle with a sacred center. This workshop will provide opportunities to be in touch with inner sources of wisdom and compassionate action and encourage the formation of circles that can nourish and support who we are and what we are here for--as spiritual beings on a human path.
Location:
Center for Spiritual Living
505 Camino de los Marquez
Santa Fe, NM
Contact:
For more information and workshop registration
Contact Monika Wikman
Tel: 505-989-7205
More Info at:
www.santafejung.org
May 25-28 2012 -- Rhinebeck, NY
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Workshop
Your One Wild and Precious Life: A Deepening Gathering for Women
In Jean’s storytelling, myth come to life. In listening, there is resonance with the archetypal depth in the psyche. The premise of Jean’s Jungian, feminist, and spiritual perspective begins with the notion that it matters what we do with our “one wild and precious life,” a quote from the poet, Mary Oliver. To find and live our personal myth, is to be true to who we are. The goddess archetypes in us and the expectations and limitations from outside of us, act powerfully on us. What happens to us and the choices we make ourselves, shape the path we are on. What happens in us, is soul-shaping. While any of the archetypal goddesses and gods may be active, a workshop that invites self-reflection and deepening, will invite us to meet Hecate. the goddess-archetype at the threshold of transitions. Hecate was goddess of the crossroads, with the attributes of midwife, witness, witch, and personification of intuitive and psychic wisdom. She is an inner figure, and the third, crone aspect of the great goddess, associated with the waning moon, autumn and the third phase of women’s lives. Jean sees humanity at a Hecate crossroad and women’s consciousness and choice as crucial to what happens to humanity and the planet.
In this workshop, the experiential elements include a guided meditation, inner reflection, and participation in a circle with a sacred center. Circles such as these are in the shape of a mandala, with Hestia at the center. Hestia, goddess of the hearth and temple, was present in the fire at the center of a round hearth, and as such, is a symbol of the Self or divinity. Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and moon, is likely to be one of the active archetypes in participants. Music and poetry will add to the experience.
Location:
Omega Rhinebeck Campus
150 Lake Drive
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
Registration information:
http://eomega.org/omega
For more information:
Call 877.944.2002 (US) or 845.266.4444 (International)
or email: registration@eomega.org
Website Link:
www.eomega.org/omega/workshops/cadf13475c1d6c381ed62d63f80066e7/
June 25-28, 2012 – Kusnacht, Switzerland
C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich
June 25
Lecture 08.05 pm
June 26
Seminar 02.05 pm and 04.05 pm
June 26
Lecture 08.05 pm
June 27
Seminar 02.05 pm and 04.05 pm
June 28
Seminar 02.05 pm and 04.05 pm
Goddesses in Everywomen (public lecture)
Archetypal Patterns as Sources of Meaning
Gods in Everyman (public lecture)
Archetypal Patterns as Sources of Meaning
Seminars are for students and candidates only
Goddesses in Everywoman (Seminars)
Archetypal Patterns as Sources of Meaning and of Clinical Aspects
Gods in Everyman (Seminars)
Archetypal Patterns as Sources of Meaning and of Clinical Aspects
http://www.junginstitut.ch
Location:
C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich,
Kusnacht
Hornweg 28
CH-8700 Kusnacht
July 27-29 – Stockbridge, MA
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
Weekend Retreat:
Archetypes, Angels, Ancestors and Trees
This workshop will be an exploration and remembering of the liminal world. Liminal comes from Latin for threshold, the transition zone, where visible and invisible realms overlap. Linear time drops away at such times. There is a sense of living one’s own myth when archetypal and personal come together. Visitation dreams, active imagination, visual, auditory or the felt presence of people “from the other side,” are liminal as well. Many cultures and individuals communicate with ancestors. Experiences with whatever angels may be, are yet another phenomenon. Jean Shinoda Bolen is a Jungian analyst and author of Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, and Goddesses in Older Women - -books about archetypes and the connection between them and meaningful lives. The two symbols for this workshop are the vesica piscis from Glastonbury and in Crossing to Avalon and the tree from Like a Tree. There will be stories, shared experiences, a guided meditation, meetings in a circle with a sacred center, and the intention that this be an inner experience within the workshop.
Location:
57 Interlaken Rd
Stockbridge, MA 01260
Contact:
Tel: 800-741-7353
Email: registration@kripalu.org
More Info at:
kripalu.org/program/view/GGCC-121/archetypes_angels_ancestors_and_trees
August 25-September 1, 2012 - Helena, MT
Feathered Pipe Foundation Workshop
Jean Shinoda Bolen and Monika Wikman
Women’s Wisdom, Pregnant Darkness
This workshop is intended to tap into women’s spirituality, womb wisdom, our connection to Mother Earth, Moon Cycles, and the Seasons of Our Lives. We will meet in large and small circles with a sacred center, listen to stories and myths that touch upon what is true for us because the archetypes are in us. We will go into a shaman’s cave in the oldest once-inhabited cave system in North America, and as we descend into the darkness, personal myth and ancestral memories may come together. In the heat and darkness of a sweat lodge (optional), more may emerge that is personally important. Prayer, reflections, dreams may arise. In sharing, we are mirrors for each other. This week which marks the last of summer for most of us, is an opportunity to be in a liminal space, perhaps at the threshold between one phase of life and the next. Belly laughs, tears, moments of comfort, issues, similarities and synchronicities may come into the experience, shared by women who are drawn to be in a women’s workshop, held in Montana, and led by these two Jungian analysts.
Co-leader: Monika Wikman, Ph.D.
Website: www.monikawikman.com
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:
featheredpipe.com/women’s-wisdom-pregnant-darkness
November 16-18, 2012 – Big Sur, CA
Esalen Institute
A Workshop for Women
Your One Wild & Precious Life
“Doesn’t everything die at last and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
—Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”
In this deepening gathering for women, Jean will bring myths, goddess archetypes, dreams and the sacred feminine to life, in order to evoke a deep knowing in us. Contemplating or facing a life transition—in a significant relationship, career or work, motherhood, health, menopause, a life-threatening illness or decision to follow an activist or spiritual calling--invites sitting with Hecate, archetype of the wisewomen, medium, midwife and goddess of the crossroad. It matters which path we take, especially if we accept the premise that we are spiritual beings on a human path, or seek individuation, or sense having a personal myth. In the depth of her soul, every woman is moved by symbols, images, and feelings, related to the archetypes in her. The phases of the moon or the maiden-mother-crone aspects of the Great Goddess whose worship preceded patriarchal gods are powerful metaphors. Humanity and the planet also approaches a Hecate crossroad. 2012 may truly be a transition time for patriarchy. The outcome of which may depend on women. Through storytelling insights, guided meditation, self-reflection, and in sacred circles, as in The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World, we are invited to share and learn from one another, reconnect with archetypal sources of meaning and creativity, and acknowledge what is true for us. Music and poetry will add to the experience as we gather and explore what the poet Mary Oliver called our “one wild and precious life.”