C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleWorkshop: Saturday, September 25, 2004, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Whidbey Island
$46 members, $56 nonmembers (includes lunch)
To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
This event will take place in the workshop space of the
facilitators at their home on Whidbey Island, surrounded
by artist Jerry Wennstrom’s murals and life-size
interactive cedar sculptures. We will begin by helping
participants shift from the routines and pressures of
their daily lives into a more introspective, listening mode
through drumming and chanting led by Marilyn Strong.
We will then show the 30-minute Parabola Magazine
documentary, In the Hands of Alchemy, which provides an overview of Jerry and
Marilyn’s art and lives, followed by discussion.
After engaging Jerry and Marilyn’s personal stories of transformation, the workshop is designed to help participants work with the transpersonal and universal aspects of surrender and metaphorical death inherent in the archetypal journey that Jung called Individuation. Many know this in myth as “the descent,” as the mystic’s “dark night of the soul," as alchemy’s nigredo phase, the “black blacker than black.” We will work with the fears and limitations that hold each of us back from our own personal surrenders, releasing those fears through sacred ceremony. We will explore together how joyful expression is our birthright and introduce a way to open creatively to the mystery and the unknown in our lives.
In 1979, Jerry Wennstrom was a rising star in the New York art world when he decided that, in order to truly live, he must take the ultimate leap of faith. He destroyed his large body of art, gave away all his possessions and spent the next ten years wandering, seeking, and trusting. He is author of The Inspired Heart: An Artist’s Journey of Transformation.
Marilyn C. Strong holds a B.A. in Religion and Adult Education and an M.A. in Spirituality and Culture. She is a skilled group facilitator, counselor, drummer, singer, and has studied ritual and ceremony, depth psychology, Jungian dream analysis, and alchemy.
For more about their work and art, visit www.handsofalchemy.com.
Directions: Take Interstate 5 (I-5) North to Mukilteo/Clinton Ferry to Whidbey Island exit. Then just follow the signs to the Ferry. Once you are on Whidbey and driving off of the ferry, stay on that highway (525) for about one mile to the top of the long hill. The first road that crosses the highway at the top of the hill is Campbell Road. Go left on Campbell and stay on it for less than 1/4 mi and you will cross over Cultus Bay Rd. Continuing on Campbell rd, our driveway is 1/4-ish mile beyond Cultus Bay rd. on the left. You will see the driveway for The Waldorf School/Chinook/Whidbey Institute on the left and Fox Hill Lane is the next drive past Chinook’s driveway, also on the left. That is the beginning of our driveway. There is a picture of a fox up in the tree at the beginning of the driveway. Drive back Fox Hill a little ways and you’ll come to a fork in the road. Take the middle driveway with a sign in the tree “STRONG” 6365 S. Fox Hill Lane, that is our driveway.
Updated: 3 September 2004
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