Programs


Spring 2025 Programs

Please join us for the following programs which will be only  ZOOM due to financial challenges. Many thanks to those who donated in our recent fund-raising campaign.  We have been able to continue to serve the North Dallas community and beyond with exceptional, albeit remote, programming. We intend to have some in-person gatherings, so please watch your email or Facebook for those opportunities.  Not on our email list?  Please contact us at info@jungdallas.org in order to request placement on our email list for programs and gathering opportunities.


James Hollis

James Hollis, (PhD)  is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst who has a practice in Washington, DC. He also has written seventeen books, the latest being Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Times of Change and Prisms: Reflections on this Journey We Call Life.

 

February 14, 2025, James Hollis, Ph.D

Zoom Only - 7:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. Central

Presentation: On the Psychology of Comedy
What is comedy? Why is it so often paired with its dark twin tragedy? Why do we laugh? Is comedy healthy, or pathological? (Freud, who was rather dour, wrote a book on the subject, and Jung, known for his earthy humor and voluminous laugh, did not). How does comedy reveal both the admirable and repulsive in our nature, our vulgarity and our sublimity?

 

Join us for James Hollis’ presentation with audience questions on Friday, February 14, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.

General Registration: $20.00

Follow this link to register

Registration Link

  • Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
  • Student Registration: $10.00
    Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org

Jerry Ruhl

Jerry Ruhl, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in Boulder, CO.  He trained in depth psychology and co-authored three books with best-selling Jungian author Robert A. Johnson. He has been a student of Japanese Buddhism for more than three decades and visited Japan last year to meet artists and research Japanese prints. Dr. Ruhl can be reached at Jerryruhl.com.

 

March 14, 2025, Jerry Ruhl, Ph.D

Zoom Only - 7:00 P.M.

Nature and Art:  Restorative Environments for Anxious Times
Through psychology and environmental research, we are learning that one of the best antidotes for human anxiety is a restorative environment in nature, yet we find such places harder and harder to find.  When pressure builds in the human psyche, people will say they want to “get away from it all,” but get away to where? We don’t heal ourselves with long lines at airports and selfies in front of famous places. This program will explore how certain landscapes and landscape art provide antidotes for our restlessness, alienation, and despair.

Join us via Zoom for Dr. Ruhl’s presentation with audience questions on Friday, March 14, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.

General Registration: $25.00

Follow this link to register for the presentation:

Registration Link

  • Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
  • Student Registration: $10.00
    Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
  • Continuing Education Credit
    We are offering 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.


March 15, 2025, Jerry Ruhl, Ph.D

Zoom Only - 9:30 A.M.

Restorative Visions of Nature in Japanese Art
Landscapes are not just interesting -- they can be healing. For more than a century Americans have dreamed of escape through Japanese prints, with their beautiful, bucolic scenes of nature. Of the tens of thousands of Japanese prints purchased by Americans in recent decades, 90 percent are landscapes. Modern Japanese prints are the most affordable and democratic of art forms. Through the lenses of Shintoism, Buddhism, and modern psychology we will explore numerous modern Japanese prints and discuss how and why certain landscapes and landscape art portray elements that we find calming, interesting, and restorative.

Join us via Zoom for Dr. Ruhl’s workshop with audience questions on Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Central Standard Time.

General Registration: $45.00

Follow this link to register for the presentation:

Registration Link

  • Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
  • Student Registration: $10.00
    Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
  • Continuing Education Credit
    We are offering 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.

Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D

Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., is a researcher focusing on dreams in history, religion, science, and art. He is director of The Sleep and Dream Database and The Dream Library Foundation, and author of several books, including Dreaming in the World’s Religions, Big Dreams, and The Spirituality of Dreaming. He lives in Estacada, Oregon.

 

April 11, 2025, Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D

Zoom Only - 7:00 P.M.

Dream Interpretation: Ancient and Modern
The transformative power of dreaming is a central feature of Jung’s thought, and current research has validated his revolutionary synthesis of ancient teachings about the spiritual wisdom of dreams with modern psychological theories and practices. This lecture will discuss three of Jung’s greatest innovations in this realm: his focus on “big dreams,” his method of analyzing dreams in a series, and his emphasis on the relevance of individual dreams for collective concerns. Although Jung developed these ideas in the context of his clinical work, new research not only confirms his core insights but expands the potential range of applications of dreaming as a valuable resource for personal and communal growth. Especially in these times of cultural crisis and apocalyptic anxiety, Jung’s approach to dreaming can help to reconnect us with a perennial wellspring of healing, growth, and inspiration.

Join us via Zoom for Dr. Bulkeley’s presentation with audience questions on Friday, April 11, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time.

General Registration: $25.00

Follow this link to register for the presentation:

Registration Link

  • Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
  • Student Registration: $10.00
    Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
  • Continuing Education Credit
    We are offering 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.


April 12, 2025, Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D

Zoom Only - 9:30 A.M.

Enhanced Methods of Jungian Dream Interpretation 
This workshop will teach participants how Jung’s insights about dreaming can be applied in a variety of settings with special relevance to the challenges of life in the 21st century. Participants will learn about the most effective principles of dream-sharing groups, the creative dynamics of dream-inspired art, and the emerging benefits of new technologies like the Elsewhere dream journaling app. 

Goals and objectives:
  • To introduce Jung’s core ideas about the interpretation of dreams;
  • To describe how current dream research supports and enhances Jung’s approach;
  • To illustrate practical methods of applying Jungian dream interpretation. 

Join us via Zoom for Dr. Bulkeley’s workshop with audience questions on Saturday, April 12, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time.

General Registration: $45.00

Follow this link to register for the presentation:

Registration Link

  • Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
  • Student Registration: $10.00
    Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
  • Continuing Education Credit
    We are offering 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.

Connie Zweig, Ph.D

Connie Zweig, Ph.D. is a retired Jungian therapist and author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends Shadow-work into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. Her book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, extends shadow-work into religion and spirituality. Her new PODCAST, Dr. Neil’s Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality, posts on all podcast platforms. See her new SUBSTACK for livestreams and new writing: https://www.shadowworkawareness.com/about.

 

May 2, 2025, Connie Zweig, Ph.D

Zoom Only - 7:00 P.M.

Shadow Work for Conscious Relationships
This interactive presentation about shadow work explores how the unconscious erupts in our lives and sabotages our relationships in repetitive arguments, criticism, distancing, projections, addictions, and life transitions. It explains why the shadow forms in childhood, how to detect it when it emerges, and how to use this practice to make a conscious relationship with it and choose different outcomes. We will explore three examples in depth, including times for self-reflection.

Join us via Zoom for Dr. Zweig’s presentation with audience questions on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time.

General Registration: $25.00

Follow this link to register for the presentation:

Registration Link

  • Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
  • Student Registration: $10.00
    Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
  • Continuing Education Credit
    We are offering 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.

Shirl Terrell, Ph.D

Shirl Hughes Terrell, holds a PhD in Arts and Humanities from UT-Dallas and an M.A. in Depth Psychology, with a focus on Jungian and Archetypal Studies, from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Shirl is a language and communication specialist and was faculty at Collin College for 22 years.  She currently serves as Board member of the C.G. Jung Society of North Texas where she has held the offices of president, secretary, and treasurer. Shirl provides training for National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and has worked for Traffick911, whose mission is to free youth from sex trafficking through trust-based relationships.

 

May 3, 2025, Shirl Terrell, Ph.D

Zoom Only - 9:30 A.M.

Archetypes and Abstract Expressionism: Intersecting Hilma af Klint and C.G. Jung
This workshop is a brief sojourn into the lives and works of Swedish abstract expressionist artist and mystic Hilma af Klint, 1862 –1944, and Carl Gustaf Jung, 1875 –1961, Swiss psychiatrist, mystic, and artist. Although their paths never crossed, the striking similarities in their creations appear to stem from a collective archetypal wisdom.

In this discussion, we examine the interconnectedness of these two luminaries whose influential works, grounded in mysticism, art and science, reveal the essence of the numinous. Often elucidating the constructs of Jung’s theories of archetypes and dualism, af Klint’s artwork portrays a life steeped in scientific endeavors, privileged art education, and the will to persevere.  Jung’s artwork, in large part, resulted from his encounters with the unconscious and struggles with his Shadow.

Both Jung and af Klint contributed to their fields by making the invisible visible, by formulating the path leading beyond the invisible (unconscious) to the visible (conscious). Jung argued that the unconscious could be accessed through carefully attending to dreams and visions which could result in numinosity.  Af Klint’s artwork intuitively achieved the same psychic inroads which conveyed the interior (emanating from the unconscious) to the exterior (the conscious).  The prescient aptitudes of both scholars reveal an uncanny sense of foretelling future events, such as sickness, death, and war.

Join us via Zoom for Dr. Terrell’s workshop with audience questions on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time.

General Registration: $45.00

Follow this link to register for the presentation:

Registration Link

  • Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link for joining the webinar.
  • Student Registration: $10.00
    Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
  • Continuing Education Credit
    We are offering 2.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.