Jung Winter Forum Event: Who Do You Think You Are? (Public registration page)

We hope to engage everyone in a deep exploration of Jung’s Shadow Concept through guided meditation, a children’s story, a film clip, and a conversation between us about the sometimes very painful as well as creative dialogue we had over the ten years with each other leading up to the publication of Jung’s Shadow Concept: The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves. Much of our writing took place on the liminal space between land and sea, where the rhythm of certainty and chance dance together.

We intend to raise in the personal and collective awareness the vital need to understand that, once we have very gently and carefully opened ourselves to what frightens, shames and makes us despise ourselves, we feel enlivened, energised and emboldened towards adventure. We can become deeply enriched by re-possessing what we have disowned – bodily, emotionally, spiritually.

That process of re-connection helps us to see and relate to the ‘other’ as someone from whom we can potentially learn and with whom we may dialogue.

Running order: 

11:15: Arrival, registration and welcome coffee 

11:30 -13:00 Presentation (In person & Online via Zoom)

13:00 -13:30 Shared Lunch

About the speaker 

Christopher Perry is a retired analyst, training supervisor and a former Director of Training of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He is the author of Listen to the Voice Within: A Jungian Approach to Pastoral Care. He has long been engaged with the application of Jungian ideas outside the consulting room.

Rupert Tower, a member of the Society of Analytical Psychology, is a psychologist, psychotherapist and a Jungian Analyst in private practice. Previously, he worked in the Arts and as an applied social psychologist and a director of an international qualitative research consultancy. He has published articles on Social Psychology, Market Research and Jung’s concept of the Shadow in organisations.

*If you are a psychotherapist or counsellor residing in an active conflict zone, you are eligible to attend this event free of charge (regardless of whether you are a bpf member or not). Please email membership@bpf-psychotherapy to enquire about a ticket.