It’s a tough year for everyone this year - we’re definitely seeing the shadow side of many recent business and financial decisions. So rather than trying to arrange meetings and cancelling them, we waiting till after the summer for our first event. Hopefully we will see some recovery by then.

We also felt it would be useful to get back to the real basics and origins of Type theory - and are delighted that Steve Myers is going to join us to give us an interactive day to explore the Fundamentals of Jung’s theories.

So put the date in your diary: Tuesday 22nd September, University Women’s Club, London.

The Agenda

The Fundamentals of Jung’s Theories

Introduction

Jung and Myers Briggs
- similarities and differences between Jung’s and Briggs Myers’
theories of psychological type
- consciousness and the unconscious (personal/collective)
- compensation and the inferior function
- normality, neurosis, complexes and archetypes
- ego, persona and psychological type

Jung’s model of normal growth/development
- the key archetypes (shadow, anima/us, self/god-image)
- myth, symbol and the transcendent function
- otherness, opposites and the integration of evil
- individuation as a natural process
- the role of dreams for non-neurotics
- alchemy and transformation

Religion and Christianity
- Did Jung believe in God?
- Jung’s critique of Christianity
- Christianity and Alchemy
- Synchronicity
- Jung’s myth of the incarnation of God

Applications of Jung’s ideas
- Illustration of some principles through the examination of the
impact of President Obama’s leadership on international relations

1st - 2nd March sees John Beebe sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm for Type and Archetype in a 2-day workshop sponsored by EM power UK ltd. Thanks Susan. Contact Susan Nash, Susan.Nash@em-power.com, for more information.

For more information, and to reserve your place, contact Gill Clack, gill.clack@kcl.ac.uk

Dec 6th: Liberating your Shadow Side: Fun and Frolics for the Festive Season

Please add your information as a Write Post - using your name as the Title.
Then repeat your name and perhaps email as the first line of the post.
Then insert the more tag and the rest of your details after the tag.

That way we should be able to see the list of members at a glance.

We’ll work on getting a more robust profiling system up if this doesn’t give us what we want.

Thanks - Clare

Conference
May 12-14 (Friday evening to Sunday)
Theme: Type and Stereotype in gender and culture.
Guest speaker: Otto Kroeger

WANTED!
Sessions, activities, sideshows supporting either of these themes.
To offer to contribute, please email mike.cashman@actalpha.com

Contact address: 28 the Academy, 20 Lawn Lane, London SW8 1GA. Tel: +44 7773 800 741

Where? 28 the Academy, 20 Lawn Lane, Vauxhall, London.

Focus of meeting:

1. “Share a resource” - what have you been reading, what have you been doing; how has Type been coming alive for you recently? The theme of the meeting will be to share resources, books, exercises or whatever you’ve been using recently in your journey with Type. Ideally, we will then use this sharing of experiences and resources to start to populate our website.
2. Introduction to our website, www.londontype.co.uk (thanks Dom!) - registering, how to use it, bringing it to life.
3. Themes for future meetings: at the inaugural meeting in May, a preference was expressed by some to have a focus and theme for future meetings. So please come with some suggestions.

Contribution to costs: £5.00 per person, payable in cash on the night (and you’ll get a glass of wine, or tea or coffee depending on your personal preferences).

Are you coming? Please email clare.howard@e-coaches.co.uk so that I can make sure we have enough chairs.

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