The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
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Winter Celebration
Winter Celebration is when members and friends gather around mulled wine and mince pies to share stories, poems and songs celebrating the dark days of winter. Tickets available on the door: FREE for Guild members, £15 for non-members, £9.00 concessions
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‘The artist…the sign-maker…the sacrament-maker’: an exploration of the work of David Jones, poet and visual artist
Called by T. S. Eliot one of ‘the most distinguished writers of his generation,’ David Jones was a writer and visual artist of extraordinary depth and vision. His vision of art and aesthetics was caught up in the local and the physical, and yet also expressed deeply his commitment to…
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The emerging scientific understanding of unified reality, the human psyche, and Jung’s symbolic life
This is a one day conference in association with the C.G.Jung Club, London. In ‘The Symbolic Life’ Jung maintained that the human psyche needs reference to the Eternal and the perceived sanctity of symbolic rituals and sacraments, both for mental well-being and as a means of making sense of the…
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The Imagination of God; Owen Barfield, Religion and the evolution of Consciousness
The Inkling, Owen Barfield, whom both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien regarded as the most innovative of the celebrated Oxford group, argued that the experience of being human changes dramatically over periods of cultural time. Our consciousness shifts, and in the modern period it has evolved in a particularly striking…
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Oxford Conference – “The Tree of Knowledge” NOW SOLD OUT
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of C.G.Jung's talk "The Symbolic Life" given to the Guild in 1939 The Oxford Conference this year will be hosting two classically trained Jungian analysts from Switzerland, Hansueli F. Etter and Jacqueline Dürmüller. This conference will…
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The Bell, the Messenger of Transformation
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The Secret of Love in Alchemy
Western Alchemy and Christianity We look at Jung’s discovery of alchemy, which emerged as an experience without a name, in his work on the Red Book. With his lover and companion, Toni Wolff, Jung shared his journey, which also became her journey, and another dimension of Christianity opened up. It…
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Jung’s insights on ‘The Symbolic Life’ through Maximus the Confessor’s concept of ‘divine logoi – as virtues’: a Christian Orthodox approach
Dr Grigorios Chrysostom Tympas has degrees in medicine (registered with the General Medical Council, UK) and theological studies, both from the Aristotle University of Thessalonika, as well as a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex. He has published books and papers focusing on the relationship between early…
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Where did Jung’s Red Book come from, and why does it matter?
The publication of Jung’s Red Book, Liber Novus in 2009 challenged the Jungian professional world to revise the various ways in which they have received and developed Jung’s thought and psychotherapeutic approach. In this talk, Liber Novus is put into the context of Jung’s life and work 1900 - 1920,…
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The Third Image: in film and psychotherapy
Some of the most powerful moments in psychotherapy are not consciously understood, instead they are felt. So too in the cinema our emotional responses are often strong and puzzling. This talk explores how the personal meanings we find in therapy and in films are psychologically illuminating and personally beneficial. Luke…