Sunday, May 10, 2020

Kirstin Robertson-Gillam: "A Jungian Approach to Therapy using Music and Creative Arts"

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Friday 12th June, 2020

Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, PhD, RMT, CMPACFA, CMAMTA:

"A Jungian Approach to Therapy using Music and Creative Arts"


Reflections and discussions will focus on ideas expressed in Joel Kroeker’s book “Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings”.

Kirstin will discuss Kroeker’s six principles of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy (Kroeker, 2019) & make comparisons to the six principles of Creative Music Psychotherapy (Robertson-Gillam, 2014):

1. Perception: A creative act of perceiving sound.

2. Loosening attachment to mastery and liberating expression.

3. Improvisation; Improvisation is the inner state manifested in outer form; “music is metaphor in motion”. The expression of spontaneous composition can be a means for unconscious contents to be communicated, which are currently beyond the reach of words.

4. Sound; Is an image between sound perception and mental imagination regarding affect, somatic response and chains of echoic association. Sound is an “auditory image, a psychological expression of the totality of the self” as auditory mandalas. (Jung, 1972: 20).

5. Active Imagination; Through Musical Images.

6. Holding irrelevant aspects that can lead to consilience.

Robertson-Gillam’s six principles of Creative Music Psychotherapy are under the acronym C.R.E.A.T.E. and are aimed at improving mental, spiritual and physical health and increasing brain integration:

1. C=Cognitions; involves practising mindfulness techniques.

2. R = Relaxation; involves learning the stress response,

3. E= Effort – which involves learning focused attention,

4. A = Awareness – learning to build awareness,

5. T = Talk it, sing it, draw it, tame it,

6. E = Energy flow from negative to positive.

The Friday night lecture will touch on salient points of this topic and will be further worked through the next day, Saturday in a workshop setting.

Dr Kirstin Robertson-Gillam is passionate about empowering people to achieve their potential. She has a private practice specialising in communication disorders and issues of trauma, dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, and general and EAP counselling. She developed her unique psychotherapeutic approach using imagery and visualisation, mindfulness meditation, visual arts, music making and singing from her own research. She underpins her work with psychological theories and current research.

Kirstin completed a psychology major in her BA along with ethnomusicology and musicology majors at the University of New England. She then studied a Master of Counselling at Western Sydney University followed by research in a Masters degree which focused on reducing depression in severe dementia with a choir therapy and reminiscence program. Her PhD is focused on reducing depression in mid-later life with a community choir therapy program.

You can contact Kirstin directly:
P: (0409) 533 466
E: kirstinrg@bigpond.com
W: www.kirstinrg.com

While prevented from meeting face-to-face at Lyneham,
we are meeting on-line via Zoom.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing by 10pm.

Cost: Jung Society members free, All guests $10.
Pay via TryBooking: https://www.trybooking.com/BJNNV

(When you pay, you'll receive an email with link to tickets,
which has a link to the on-line meeting!)

or pay via bank transfer:
to Canberra Jung Society, BSB: 012 951 Account: 2141 58567
(Reference your name and send us your email,
so we can give you the link to the on-line meeting!)

Details: www.CanberraJungSociety.org.au

Monday, March 23, 2020

Friday 3 April 2020
7:30 for 8:00 pm
A special evening of story, song and reflection
with Glenda Cloughley & friends from A Chorus of Women
(at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT)


The spirits of the Wellsprings never die
They are the mothers of tghe Songs of Life.

Sadly, this face-to-face gathering has been cancelled,
but we are "gathering at home"  via video-conferencing as above,
for Kirstin's very special presentation and discussion!

This evening will be dedicated to some of the life-nurturing characters who have inspiredCanberra’s A Chorus of Women.Among them are those we call our ‘spiritual greatgrandmothers’,including the Englishwoman Eglantyne Jebb (1876-1928), North Americans Jane Addams (1860-1935) and Julia Grace Wales (1881-1957), and Australian Eleanor Moore (1875-1949).
Others, like New Zealander Jacinda Ardern (born 1980) and Swedish Greta Thunberg (born 2003),are global spiritual leadersof our time. All live by thefirst story of the world that is forever bubbling up from The Wellsprings, regenerating possibilities for harmony, fulfilment of potentials and ecological balance.

All have lived in times
 whentheother story of the world seems dominant, withscapegoating, revenge and desecration of natural lawbringing vicious cycles of discord, trauma and war. With help from C G Jung and archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas, Glenda will set out the dynamic structures of these ‘two stories of the world’, which drive the action ofher big works for citizens choruses.

A Chorus of Women’s musical leaders Johanna McBride and Meg Rigby will join Glenda and storyteller Miriam Pickard as performance ensemblefor the evening. More singers will bring their voices for harmonies and singalong video clips ofone or two favourite ‘wellspring’
 moments from our Passion productions.
Dr Glenda Cloughley is a Jungian analystwho loves to tell stories, compose music and sing. Another of her long-timedelights is encouraging the creative spirit in people to stir up social equivalents to C G Jung’s notion of individuation.

For 17 years, within the collaborative culture of A Chorus of Women,
 she has written many songs and largeworks for citizens choruses that follow the course of regeneration law from lament to renewal. A Chorus of Women has staged numerous major productions of Glenda’s 
"Songs to the Earth" (2006), "The Gifts of the Furies" (2008-12), "A Passion for Peace(2015) and "The People’s Passion" (2018 and 2019).
See www.chorusofwomen.org
We meet from 7:30 pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing at 10pm.

Cost: Jung Society members free, Guests $15, Seniors/Concession $10.
Pay by cash at the door or bank transfer or by credit card via TryBooking.



Shauna Winram: "The Problem of Thought Insertion"

Friday 6 March, 20207:30 for 8:00 pm

Shauna Winram
"The Problem of Thought Insertion"
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT.
Thought insertion is a symptom in schizophrenia where subjects report experiencing thoughts that are not their own.

One way to interpret thought insertion is that subjects are conscious of thoughts, but these thoughts lack subjectivity. This challenges what is arguably the dominant way to think about consciousness; that is, that consciousness is connected to subjectivity.

I discuss what consciousness is, and why it poses a challenge to science, before exploring the apparent incompatability between subjectivity theories of consciousness and thought insertion. I then address some empirical problems that thought insertion poses. For example, why do subjects form the belief that inserted thoughts are not their own?

I propose two factors that distinguish inserted thoughts from normal thoughts and suggest these factors lead to this inference. Further, I adjust Robert Van Gulick’s (2006, 2015) higher-order global state (HOGS) theory of consciousness to explain these factors. To conclude, I explore the relevance thought insertion has to Jungian ideas about complexes.
Shauna Winram has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Analytical Psychology degree from Western Sydney University, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the Australian National University, where she is beginning a PhD in philosophy. She spent many years producing art, and a selection of her work can be found at her website: www.shaunawinram.com and at her blog: www.shaunawinram.org


Cost: Jung Society members fre
e, Guests $15, Seniors/Concession $10.
Pay by cash at the door or bank transfer or by credit card via TryBooking.


Preliminary dinner with the Speaker et al is at 5:30pm at Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on (0432) 599 826 for location etc.


We meet from 7:30 pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library.

The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing at 10pm.



Canberra Jung Society
is a non-profit organisation,
which aims to provide a contact for people 
interested in the psychological insights of Carl Gustav Jung.
Through monthly meetings, workshops, other activities and our library,
we seek to help people to understand their own inner journey and the world today –
from a Jungian perspective.

PO Box 554,
Dickson, ACT 2602.
www.canberrajungsociety.org.au
   

Rev. Dr. Professor Bruce Stevens: "The Unconscious Revisited"

Friday 7 February, 2020
Rev. Dr. Professor Bruce Stevens:
"The Unconscious Revisited"

at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT.
The unconscious was pioneered by Freud and Jung with relevance for therapy and personal growth. Bruce looked at this concept from a different perspective that of implicit learning which has considerable research backing. This has implications for discovering our earliest spiritual awareness which will also be explored.
Professor Bruce A Stevens (adjunct CSU; PhD Boston Uni 1987) is the founder of Canberra Clinical and Forensic Psychology level 10 AMP Building, 1 Hobart Place. He has 25 years of clinical and forensic experience. He convened the clinical psychology training program at the University of Canberra (2009-2014) and became a research professor at Charles Sturt University (2015-2019).
Bruce is an endorsed clinical and forensic psychologist who offers workshops to train practitioners in Australia and overseas.  He has written ten books the most recent is Before Belief: Discovering first spiritual awareness
 (Lexington, 2020).
 
Cost: Jung Society members free, Guests $15, Seniors/Concession $10.


Canberra Jung Society
is a non-profit organisation,
which aims to provide a contact for people 
interested in the psychological insights of Carl Gustav Jung.
Through monthly meetings, workshops, other activities and our library,
we seek to help people to understand their own inner journey and the world today –
from a Jungian perspective.

PO Box 554,
Dickson, ACT 2602.
  
www.canberrajungsociety.org.au

Tuesday, August 20, 2019



Saturday, 7th December 201

*** Christmas Party! ***

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham)

Noooo, it's not tooo early to plan ahead ...




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Canberra Jung Society is an incorporated non-profit organisation which aims to provide a contact for people interested in the psychological insights of Carl Gustav Jung.



Through monthly meetings, workshops, other activities and our library, we seek to help people to understand their own inner journey and the world today - from a Jungian perspective. 

Yearly membership is $75 (or $60 concession), to be paid in March each year,
entitling members to attend our 10 meetings plus receive two newsletters. 
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We normally meet on the first Friday each month (February to November)
from 7:30pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library. 
Then the Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8pm for an hour or so, then we break for supper,
then resume for questions and discussion, finishing at 10pm.



Cost for these meetings:

  Free for members of the Canberra Jung Society, else $15 ($10 concession/senior).


PO Box 554, Dickson, ACT 2602.



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