Exploring the importance of symbols, stories and rituals in and for our lives and how we allow them to move us to a new place… as we will uncover through images, dreams and fairy tales eg Grimm’s Handless Maiden.

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth.  The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. CG. Jung

Cost: $30 or $20 (concession). Supper provided.
Registrations close: Monday, June 24 2024

To register, phone: (08) 8130 5900 or email infosa@sosj.org.au

Exploring a Jungian psychology of accompaniment in the “Coming and the Goings” of these times.  We will consider Jung’s vision of a transpersonal/cosmic dimension, the relevance of myth and  dreams as current paradigms shift and  as we live in transitional space that looks towards personal and collective healing and reconciliation.

“All the time, a myth is playing out in the unconscious… a stream of archetypal ideas that goes on through the centuries through an individual… It is like a continuous stream and comes to light in the great movements… and great change. (p.300, C.G. Jung Speaking, Interviews & Encounters)

Dr. Susan Pollard, is a Jungian analyst, psychotherapist & clinical psychologist.  She has a theological, teaching and educational administration background and has lived in Australia, Africa and Europe.  From 1991 to 2000, Susan Pollard was a training candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, and from where she graduated in July 2000. Susan Pollard is in private practice as a Jungian analyst in Adelaide.

A consideration of the essentials of Jung’s Analytical Psychotherapy that prompts us to go further on our Inner Journey.

“ Individual self-reflection, return of the individual to the ground of human nature, to (their) own deepest being with their individual and social destiny – here is the beginning of a cure for the blindness which reigns in the present hour.”  (C.G. Jung, Collected Works 7, par.8)

A seminar exploring through symbol, story and dream…  Actively reflecting on our spiritual journey taking us inward and downward through our own labyrinths especially in this age of Paranoia.  

Why go in and down?  Art provokes our reflection on important issues.…

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us.  But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world’s rim, you will find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here.  This is given.  It is not learned.  (p. 4 Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk)

To RSVP, phone 08 8130 5900 or email infosa@sosj.org.au

“The Orphan archetype” – and how the experience of difference, loneliness, abandonment, exile – might help us find our way home and to a place of belonging.

We will consider Jung’s understanding of the meaning of this complex for individuation. Examples from literature, fairy tale and dreamwork will help in understanding how this archetype of “the psychological orphan” affects our lives .

“The soul has its own peculiar world. Only the self enters in there or the man/woman who has completely become him/her self.”
C.G Jung, The Red Book, p.236

We will explore how “surviving” anxiety and fear can bring individuals to another awareness of inner resources. Our goal is allowing the positive movement of these emotions for psychic development or soul’s emerging. Through anecdotal and case studies we will consider how anxiety and fear are related to both destruction and to creativity and how dreams provide hints for our well-being.

“Emotion, incidentally, is not an activity of the individual but something that happens to him (her).”
C.G. Jung (CW9ii, par.15)

Individuation, Wisdom and Mysticism

A perspective informed by snippets from the life and writings of St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross, St Mary MacKillop and Fr Julian Tenison Woods.

“At the source of the longest river. The voice of the hidden waterfall...”
TS Eliot, Little Gidding

Cost: Full $30.00 or Concession $20.00
To register, phone 08 8130 5900 or email infosa@sosj.org.au
Registration essential: by Wednesday, 6 March

We will  take up a perspective informed by snippets from the life and writings of St Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross together with a note from Jung’s Visions Seminar where Jung says that:

The only question is how you live your life, how you experience it.  If your attitude is right, then things are right. (Visions 1, p.336)

Cost: F $30 or C $20 Supper provided.
Registrations close: Tuesday, July 3

To register, phone: (08) 8130 5900 or email: