Welcome to the Canberra Jung Society

Four-Week "Fairy-Tale Group

Facilitated by Dorothea Wojnar

Tuesdays 20, 27 August and 3,10 September 2019

7:30 - 9:30 pm

Venue: Vercoe Room, Wesley Uniting Church 22 National Circuit, Forrest ACT

Beginning with the fathers of the field, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, psychoanalysts have turned to fairy-tales in an effort to understand the human mind. Fairy-tales are inextricably linked to the work of Carl Jung. The “collective unconscious” that lies at the core of his work, and which is shared by all human beings, is revealed through archetypes, forms and symbols found in fairy-tales.

Fairy-tales are oral forms of folk tales with moral and ethical aspects, which teach us how to behave and how to deal with others in the community. Marie-Louise von Franz considers fairy-tales as the purest and simplest expression of the collective unconscious of psychic processes. Fairy-tales represent the contents of the collective unconscious, the archetypes. Fairy-tales offer an understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche and can guide us through the individuation process.

Working with your favourite fairy tale

Participants are asked to bring their favourite tale either one they have heard and love or a fairy-tale they have written. We will be experiencing the fairy-tales through enacting the fairy-tales. Participants will have the opportunity to become archetypal characters in the fairy-tale. This can be a powerful experience as you become for a short time the witch or the evil king or the divine child. Participants will be asked to bring various props that will help them to become the characters in the tale. After de-roling, each participant has an opportunity to share within the closed group about what it felt like to be in that role and how they experienced the other characters.

The group is confidential, and participants are asked not to discuss personal material from the group outside the group. Acting ability is not important, because we will focus on developing an ability to experience your own and other’s psyche. Most of us acted out stories and tales as children - this is similar to that with two major differences - we become archetypal characters with intention, and we have an opportunity to discuss the experience.

Dorothea is a Jungian Analyst, Counsellor and Psychotherapist in private practice. Dorothea has extensive experience as a group leader and therapist across a range of people and issues and has worked in both a public health facility as well as in private practice.

For further information, please contact Dorothea Wojnar on (0413) 245 835.

Check our website: www.canberrajungsociety.org.au

Cost: $40 for the series (Try to attend all four sessions!).
Pay by cash at the door, or by bank transfer, or by credit card via TryBooking

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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.