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Wholeness
Featured Presentations and Presenters
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The Books
of Night and Day
Learning from Bishop Synesius of Cyrene How to Practice
Dreamwork as Real Church
Robert Moss
We have direct access to sacred knowledge, in our dreams. Our dreams are a
personal oracle that reveals the future and helps us prepare for it. We must not
let anyone tell us what our dreams mean or stand between us and the direct
experience of the sacred that is available in dreaming. We want to pay attention
to signs from the world around us in the knowledge that everything in the
universe is interconnected and constantly interweaving. We need to journal both
our dreams and our waking experiences in our Books of Night and Day.
These insights come from a fifth-century bishop of the church, Synesius of
Cyrene, whose treatise On Dream is one of the wisest books ever written
on how to work with dreams and synchronicity. We can learn from him how to
practice dreamwork as real church, and move beyond the sad situation Jung evoked
when he said that “one of the main functions of formalized religion is to
protect people against a direct experience of God.”
Tapping the Power
of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination
Robert Moss
In this fun, high-energy program we'll learn techniques for empowering and
healing our lives, every day, through dreams, coincidence and imagination.
Dreaming, we have access to rich sources of healing and creativity. In our
dreams, we are coached on how to handle challenges and opportunities that lie in
the future; we become time travelers and communicate with spiritual teachers and
allies.
Coincidence may be a signal from a deeper world, and a chance encounter may be
an amazing opportunity. By monitoring the play of coincidence, we awaken to a
hidden logic of events, and gain access to extraordinary counsel. Synchronicity
opens paths we never noticed before, and draws new people and events towards us
according to our passions and our willingness to go with the flow.
Through the practice of imagination, we can help to heal our bodies and
move towards the manifestation of our heart’s desires. As Tagore said, with a
poet’s insight, “the stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.”
 Robert
Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism
and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death
experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world,
including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and a lively
online dream school. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian
National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent
scholar. His seven books on dreaming and imagination include Conscious
Dreaming, Dreamgates, The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power
of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination and The Secret History of
Dreaming. His novels include his cycle of the Iroquois: Fire Along the
Sky, The Firekeeper and The Interpreter. His website is
www.mossdreams.com.
Edge of the
Forest
Muriel E. McMahon*
In
this lecture, Jungian analyst and First Nations Elder, Muriel McMahon discusses
how the roots of Ancient wisdom, born from all traditions, remind us of our
place in the cycle of Life. To awaken we must journey to the Edge of the Forest,
and acknowledge the grief which clouds our vision, tightens our throats, and
sits heavy on our hearts. We must re-member how to sit together, and through
ceremony, open our eyes, throats, and hearts to the wisdom of the Ancient Ones
who are ever with us and ever praying for us.
 Muriel E. McMahon*
www.murielmcmahon.com
is an analyst, teacher, and Elder in the Algonkin, Kipawa First Nations
tradition. Raised as an Irish Catholic in small town Ontario, CANADA, counselled
out of the Sisters of Providence, schooled in English Literature and psychology,
retired from a successful career as a high school guidance counsellor/vice
principal, trained as a Jungian analyst in Zurich Switzerland, she is currently
in private practice in Guelph, ON. CANADA. Her connections to her indigenous
roots (Celtic and Native), her professional pursuits, her creative writing, her
daily walks along the Speed River with her dog Shadow, her full family life with
her husband parenting three adult sons, and her Jungian analytical practice
affirm her belief that the “tribal unconscious” and the “primitive psyche” can
lead all of us back home to the Sacred Fire of the Great Peace. She is
passionate about dreams and community building and is a ardent supporter of the
work of Soul of the Mother
www.soulofthemother.org.
Carl Jung
and Christianity
The Rev. John L. Martin, D. Min.
In this lecture, John will lead us in an exploration of the role of symbol in
Carl Jung’s understanding of religious faith. In so doing, he will provide a
lens through which we will be enabled to view a post-modern alternative to the
traditional approaches one finds in the Christian churches of today.
 Dr.
Martin is a retired Presbyterian (USA)
minister. He is a former board chair and one among the favorite presenters and
teachers at "Journey into Wholeness." Along with his wife, Carolyn, he teaches
the very popular Journey Conferences Pre-conference event: "Language of the
Soul" seminar, which they have been teaching and refining for more than twenty
years.
Workshops and Special Events
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for added information about workshops
and special events.
W orkshops
The
Spiritual Warrior Within
Muriel E. McMahon*
 In
this workshop, Jungian Analyst and Indigenous Elder, Muriel McMahon will offer
Traditional teachings and Ceremony to awaken the Spiritual Warrior. The focus
will be on the “Council Fire” within the spiritual warrior. Through Traditional
stories, dreams, and ceremony we will rediscover the rhythm of our
interconnectedness, which is a basic pattern revealed within all faiths.
Embodied Spirit can awaken and can be brought to bear on all of life's
challenges. Muriel will invite us to find our Sacred Place and develop a renewed
relationship with Nature. By listening, praying, and asking important questions,
the sacred interconnectedness of all living things can be made manifest.
Jung and Play
Mary Alice Long, Ph.D*
Jung
said, "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative
mind plays with the objects it loves."
Jung
knew how to play. Even as an elder, Jung could still sit for hours at the
lakeside where he built his retreat and play with a stick on the sandy shore,
creating small rivulets for the water to travel.
Play
is relaxing. It energizes us. For most of us play is fun, even joyful. Play and
your burdens feel lighter and doorways open to new possibilities. Play goes even
deeper.
Jung wrote: "... without playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet
come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
As Jungian Analyst Joan Chodorow notes: "All the creative arts therapies can
trace their roots to Jung’s early contribution." (in the areas of active
imagination, play, and creativity).
In
this workshop we will explore how Jung's playful relationship with the inner
world opened up the vast world of the collective unconscious. As we observe play
as a factor both in the natural world and in the ways that we as individuals
create through our own playful forms and expression, we will discover how we
each are called to our own playful exploration.
 Mary
Alice Long, Ph.D. is a Jungian-oriented therapist, play consultant, and
writer. Mary Alice earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacifica
Graduate Institute. She is currently researching Jung’s life work in the
development of analytical psychology with a focus on how play allows access to
portals of transformation. Mary Alice is the director of Play=Peace
devoted to inquiry through an ethic of play.
Mandala: A Tool for Inner
Work
Dorothy Campbell B.Sc.N.
, M.P.N. ,*
Jung believed that the mandala is a symbol of the
Self for the Western person. Making a mandala often brings us to a sense of
wholeness, or reveals a side of ourselves of which we are not conscious. In this
workshop each person will create a mandala with simple drawing materials. One
does not need drawing skills for this endeavor; a kind of attentive meditative
scribbling within the mandala circle can beautifully reveal aspects of oneself.
A sense of calmness and fulfillment is often the result. It is a tool that we
can return to again and again for balance, wholeness and self-discovery. We will
spend time as a group looking and learning from the individual mandalas, on a
voluntary basis.
 Dorothy
Campbell is a Jungian analyst, graduated from the International School of
Analytical Psychology-Zurich. She received her B.Sc. in Nursing from McGill
University, Montreal, and her Masters in Psychosocial Nursing from the
University of Washington, Seattle. Before completing her Masters, she worked in
an acute care medicine. As an advanced practice psychiatric nurse she worked
extensively in adolescent psychiatry. She also has held positions in large city
hospitals, as the director of a counseling program, and as a psychiatric nursing
liaison, working with individual patients, and with staff in individual and
group situations. She also attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston as a full time student in painting and drawing for three years; she has
continued over the years, to pursue her interest in painting.
Special Events
Sacred Fire
Ceremony
Muriel E. McMahon*
 A
North American Hopi prophesy teaches:
Great Spirit gathered the peoples of this earth together… He said to the
human beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm going
to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachings and you
will call these the Original Teachings and when you come back together with each
other you will share these Original Teachings so that you can live and have
peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about."
As we all know, the legacy of colonialism on Turtle Island (North America) is a
painful one. Sensitivities to sharing original teachings and sacred knowledge
must be understood within this context. Once understood, the healing and the
sharing can truly begin. In this Sacred Fire Ceremony, First Nations Elder and
Jungian analyst, Muriel McMahon will invite us to use ritual to open to the
wisdom of the Ancestors. She will offer Original Teachings that the Ancient Ones
sitting around the Council Fire of the Creator and are ever praying for us and
with us. Using the ceremonial protocol of a Sacred Fire, Muriel will arrange us
as a tribe and invite us to reclaim our place in the Medicine Wheel.
There is a ceremonial protocol that will be offered upon registration.
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