Happiness: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You… & The Broken Mirror: the Difficulty of Knowing Oneself
Happiness: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You…
Lecture presented by James Hollis
We are enjoined to be happy. But what is happiness? Does it ever fall under our control, or are we at the mercy of the unknown forces within and without us? This talk explores our expectations regarding happiness and the role that not being happy plays in our experiencing happiness.
The Broken Mirror: the Difficulty of Knowing Oneself
Workshop presented by James Hollis
I: Fear, Skepticism, Lassitude: The Recovery of an Inner Life
Resistance is always in due proportion to the anxiety generated by some invitation or challenge. Inside of each of us is continuing civil conflict, and typically our protective instincts are easily intimidated by the magnitude of the tasks life brings us. Moreover, we are often flooded with skepticism regarding our inherent resources for the trial, and an internal aversion to the struggle. These engagements, these battles of outer and inner worlds, are only resolved when we are led to a change of attitude, a risker but more considered intent, and a consistent, daily showing up to tilt the balance between regression and progression.
II: Necessary Fictions: Therapy as the Critique of “Stories”
We are creatures who need to understand, at any cost. And so we “story” our experiences, and those stories, provisional, localized, and often created at an early stage of our history, become defining narratives. The disarray of our histories nevertheless can be a powerful clue to the “meta-stories” to which we have been in service for many years. Therapy can be understood as the identification of and critical analysis of our operative or “meta-stories.” Until these “narrative interpretations” can be smoked out, we remain their captive. In a series of questions, we will be invited to examine the stories.
James Hollis, Ph.D., was born in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from Manchester University in 1962 and Drew University in 1967. He taught Humanities 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland (1977-82). He is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He served as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and now was Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington until 2019, and now serves on the JSW Board of Directors. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation. Additionally he is a Professor of Jungian Studies for Saybrook University of San Francisco/Houston.
He lives with his wife Jill, an artist and retired therapist, in a suburb of Washington, DC. Together they have three living children and eight grand-children.
He is a Jungian Analyst in Washington, DC, the author of 19 books, the latest two being The Broken Mirror and A Life of Meaning.
We will also be showcasing art inspired by C.G. Jung created by Nancy Goodheart Matthews
Nancy Goodheart Matthews, a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands, was educated in Switzerland, the School of Visual Arts in New York City and the Art Institute in San Francisco. In addition to living throughout the Caribbean she lived in very primitive conditions among the Native Americans of coastal Oaxaca Mexico.
Relocating to the Sarasota area, she has for the last forty years worked as an architectural ceramicist creating interior and exterior carvings and mosaics on buildings, walls, and in pools. She is well known for her largest publicly displayed work, the Mermaid Fountain in Pineapple Park, Sarasota Florida. In addition she is well known for her dolls, drawings, jewelry, and other fabric arts. Much of her imagery comes directly from the unconscious and dream work, Carl Jung having played a huge role in her life.
Her hope in participating in this workshop is to help others connect with their imagination; to go home and be sparked to create something.
This is a hybrid event – Dr. Hollis will be presenting VIRTUALLY via Zoom. While it is recommended to attend this seminar in person, all registrants have the option to join us via Zoom online. Zoom links will be emailed upon registration.
Hourly Schedule
January 27, 2024
- 9:00am - 11:00am
- Lecture
- Happiness: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You...
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Speakers:
James Hollis
- 11:00am - 12:30pm
- Lunch Break
- 12:30pm - 4:30pm
- Workshop
- The Broken Mirror: the Difficulty of Knowing Oneself
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Speakers:
James Hollis
Date
- Jan 27 2024
- Expired!
Time
- 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Cost
- $85 Members / $100 Non-Members
Labels
- Lecture,
- Workshop
Location
- 1001 Love Ave, Sarasota, FL 34232
Speaker
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James Hollis
James Hollis, Ph.D., was born in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from Manchester University in 1962 and Drew University in 1967. He taught Humanities 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland (1977-82). He is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He served as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and now was Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington until 2019, and now serves on the JSW Board of Directors. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation. Additionally he is a Professor of Jungian Studies for Saybrook University of San Francisco/Houston.
He lives with his wife Jill, an artist and retired therapist, in a suburb of Washington, DC. Together they have three living children and eight grand-children.
He is a Jungian Analyst in Washington, DC, the author of 19 books, the latest two being The Broken Mirror and A Life of Meaning.
