2008–2009 Jungian Public Lectures
Saturday 8th November 2008
Social Dreaming Matrix
Led by Laurie Slade
Social Dreaming is a way of working with dreams in a communal setting, developed by Gordon Lawrence and others at the Tavistock Institute in the 1980’s. In a matrix, we meet with a specific task, to share dreams and our associations to them, making links where possible. The focus is not on what dreams mean for the dreamer, but on our responses to the dreams we share – a process which enables us to pool our creative resources in an imaginative way. A period of reflection, after the matrix has closed, enables us to identify emerging themes, and to relate these to the subject-matter of the day.
Laurie Slade is a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists, the Confederation for Analytical Psychology, and the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society. He has hosted social dreaming sessions for the past 7 years, in a variety of settings, both in the UK and abroad.
More about Social Dreaming Matrix
Climate on the Couch:
Unconscious Processes in Relation to our Environmental Crisis
Mary-Jayne Rust
What are the archetypal themes of our ecological crisis? Can insight into unconscious processes help us, collectively, to respond to the precarious situation we find ourselves in? Are we, for example, in the midst of a giant eating problem? It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the crises we face, and this can paralyse our thinking and ability to act. In this talk I will first explore some collective themes in our relationship to nature, to the wild, and to the body. Then I will give some examples of how these issues emerge in the therapy relationship, and how we might respond.
Mary-Jayne is a Jungian analyst and an art therapist. During the 1980’s she worked in a men’s prison as well as the Women’s Therapy Centre. A large part of her therapy work has been with women with eating problems. This experience has led her to explore the roots of consumerism, as well as the links between psyche and soma, nature and culture, soul and the land. After several trips to Ladakh in the early 1990’s, she became acutely aware of our environmental crisis; this led her to explore ecopsychology, the study of our relationship with the earth. She has lectured widely as well as contributing to books and journals on this subject. She has also worked for two green NGOs. See www.mjrust.net
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