The Hudson Valley’s premiere of the new film “Finding Joe” about the use and impact of the work of Joseph Campbell is being hosted by the Center for Symbolic Studies. The film will be followed by a Q&A by biographers, and personal friends of Joe, Stephen and Robin Larsen along with Richard Schwab, the leader of the Joseph Campbell RoundTable of New Paltz.
Click here to watch the trailer, and check back for tickets to buy on our website only!
Finding Joe – Trailer V.7 from pat solomon on Vimeo.
Sat eve, 9pm, Folks begin to gather; we open the celebrations with the Brigit welcoming ritual when enough of the community is present; storytelling and music continues through the night until we put out the candles at dawn. We clean up and close the space by 9am Sunday.
Please Bring:
We will also have the movement space available as a quiet space for those who want to sleep earlier or relax.
Suggested Donation: $10
See you there!
Joseph Campbell Round Table, Center for Symbolic Studies
Sunday, Jan 15, 2012 5:30-8:30
This is a special presentation of the Joseph Campbell Round Table to honor the legacy of Roger Woolger, Ph.D. who passed to another life on November 18, 2011. He was, we believe, one of the foremost Jungian Analysts of our time, but one who followed Jung’s dictum of being more than just a “Jungian”.
In effect, Roger achieved a synthesis of Jungian and “regression” therapy with truly “transpersonal” dimensions. While Jungian therapy has always been criticized for being too “intellectual” Roger’s approach to therapy is direct and experiential, not to mention highly catharctic.
This year the Joseph Campbell Round table is celebrating Jungian thinkers, with James Hillman (also recently passed) in November, Clarissa Estes in December, and while Roger’s spirit and work is so strong in our minds and hearts, Roger Woolger in January. On this occasion we will assemble his friends and professional colleagues, read from his writing, both published and unpublished, and create an audio tape, and possibly a transcript of the whole proceedings. We hope this will pave the way for a “festschrift” conference in the not-too distant future in which distinguished presenters from all over the world will talk about Roger’s influence on their own scholarship, and approaches to healing.
Our Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTable meets monthly on the 3rd Sunday, in the FireplaceRoom at the Center for Symbolic Studies (see Directions). We are located at the crossing of River Road and Springtown Road, about 5 miles north of New Paltz. Bring your curiosity, a story or two if you have them, and either a $20 donation or snack to share with the group if that’s more convenient. Contact us if you have a question or request.
Women who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
This month we will be discussing the book Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD. This is truly one of the great books in the field of interpretive mythology, in which Estes gives rise to the natural Wild Woman Archetype that resides in us all.
We will discuss and share the bones of these stories, which resurrect the archetypal motifs that set a woman’s inner life into motion, such as the transformative function of the psyche, the retrieval of the deep knowing intuition, and how to find one’s pack.
If you’ve ever felt that sense of yearning deep in your bones, you’ve heard the call. Wake up, stretch, sniff the breeze, and join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion. Whether male or female, all are welcome. Come and share a meaningful section of the book, or just come to learn more about women’s mythology!
Myth Group: Women who Run with the Wolves – Sunday Dec 18th 5:30pm-9:30pm
Please bring a story of the theme above, and a donation (recommended $20) or light snack.
Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTables are held in the FirePlace Room at: 310 River Road Ext. New Paltz, NY 12561
This months’ meeting will be focused on the work of James Hillman who passed away last week. He was the founder of depth psychology and author of countless books including the best selling “The Soul’s Code”. His work focused on many wonderful ideas such as the active participation of soulmaking, seeing the mythical realm in every day life and the connection between the dreams and the underworld.
Since James Hillman was a friend of ours, we will be discussing a summary of his work and sharing some of his quotes and meaningful writings with each other.
Please be aware that we have now shifted these meetings from 2pm to 5:30pm for the winter. Also we encourage a donation of $20 or to bring a dish or some munchies to share with the group.
This meeting will be in the Fireplace Room in the Main Center Building: 310 River Road Ext. New Paltz, NY 12561
One of the most crucial lessons and for many people, the introduction to unravelling stories for their meaning below is the Monomyth, now frequently known as the Hero’s Journey.
In this roundtable we’re going to try our hands at uncovering the mythic roots of our favorite stories. Be they films, tales, novels or portions of our own lives we’ll glimpse to see where these patterns arise in the stories we all know so well and how they connect and resonate for ourselves.
Please bring a story of the theme above, and a donation (recommended $20) or light snack.
Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTables are held in the FirePlace Room at: 310 River Road Ext. New Paltz, NY 12561
Finding Our Personal Myth
A Workshop with Stephen & Robin Larsen
October 28-29-30, 2011
Friday 8-10pm, Introductory Lecture (CSS donation)
Sat.10am to 6pm, Sun. 10am-4pm (tuition $100)
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us
act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in
its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“I came to regard it as my “task of tasks” to find out what myth I am living.”
— Carl Jung
What Myth are you living? What ancestral and personal resources do you draw
upon? What dreams, what creative sources and inspirations? What Helping
Animals, what Allies in Nature?)
Join us on Halloween weekend for a deeper exploration of the magical realm we
glimpsed at our MidSummer Festival one-day workshop. Friday evening will
provide an Introduction for those who did not attend the July one-day, and
additional insights for returning participants. This workshop will be both didactic
and experiential, and will allow more time for participants, through a variety of
modalities, to arrive at a sense of their own “personal mythology.”
Personal Mythology work contains the key to one’s own life-choices, decisionmaking, creative projects, life partners, dreams and aspirations.
Coping with Trauma, Stress, and Depression after the Flood
at the Center for Symbolic Studies, with Staff of Stone Mountain Counseling & other Mental Health Professionals
Saturday, October 8, 2-8 PM
310 River Road Extension, New Paltz, NY 12561
845-658-8083
Problems with sleep, hypertension, irritability, flashbacks, depression or anxiety?
Trauma, acute and chronic stress, economic problems, and their effects on the human nervous system are no strangers to Ulster County these days.
As a consequence people may experience anxiety, depression, insomnia, disturbing thoughts, bad dreams, even nightmares, panic attacks, social and family disruptions, adding to the stress.
Although the flooding, loss of housing, property, even whole neighborhoods and towns, looms foremost in our minds, we also include the cumulative stress of economic hard times, foreclosures, health problems without adequate coverage, lingering 9/11, and other generic traumas in our inventory of stressors. People with cumulative chronic stresses find that one more acute episode puts them over the line into dysfunctionality. (All stresses, alone or together makes you eligible.)
Many of us have indeed stretched our own resources: Financial contributions, food and clothing donations and well-wishes of our neighbors let us know that we live in community, and that we are all in this together. Hence this offering—of what we feel we do best!
Our special expertise at Stone Mountain Counseling is Stress-reduction and Mental Health, with many talented professionals to provide help using our stress-reduction toolkit. The six-hour Saturday program will include:
We invite other mental health professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers to join us, and hope this will be the first of a series of such offerings.
The common pattern (motif) of the flood in stories is one of the most far-reaching themes in myth. There are stories about floods and deluges caused from the breaking of springs, the rising of rivers, battles between rain gods and sea gods or battles between sea monsters. Floods can flow from a character’s tears of repentance or from tears for a lost love. Still other stories have floods coming from losing a fairy’s horse, from slaying a giant, from poisoning a whale or even because the Moon has fallen from the sky and into the sea.
In this Mythological RoundTable, we’re going to wade through the endless variations on the stories of the flood, talk about the symbology of water in an attempt to help re-ground ourselves after the devastating floods and devastation caused by Hurricane Irene and the subsequent rains here in the Hudson Valley.
Please bring a story of the theme above, and a donation (recommended $20) or light snack.
Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTables are held in the FirePlace Room at: 310 River Road Ext. New Paltz, NY 12561
The human race has spent many a creative night discovering gems of songs, stories, ideas and inventions. Of course, there’s been just as many days trying to figure out how those gems sprouted so easily and how to reproduce them.
In this Mythological RoundTable, we will be reading through Myths of Creativity around the world and the metaphors beneath them. We’ll go through Spirit Guides, Genies, Angels, Wayakins, Faeries, and Quarim. We’ll uncover hidden secrets to well known myths by unlocking the meanings of characters’ names, look at some of the oldest rituals on creative flow and discuss Jung’s archetypes of the Anima and Animus.
Be sure to bring your notebook, songbook, drawing pad or sculpting clay because in the end we’ll finish off with a creativity based guided meditation for unleashing the flow of ideas for any of your projects or ambitions. Continued…
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