We will be building a team to create the Beltane pageant script.  Come join us in a dialogue about choosing the mythological themes for Beltane 2012!

Click here to watch the trailer, and below to buy advanced / discount tickets!

Finding Joe – Trailer V.7 from pat solomon on Vimeo.

Please Bring:

• your sleeping bag / bedding, 
• a story, poem or song to share, 
• and some food as this is a pot luck. 

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  On this occasion we will assemble his friends and professional colleagues, read from his writing, both published and unpublished, and create an audio tape, and possibly a transcript of the whole proceedings.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

1:00-2:30: Board of Directors meeting
This will be a working meeting.  We encourage, and would love to see you there! Please RSVP so we can prepare adequately for the event, & focus the meeting to your strengths & interests.

Agenda:

Vision for the next 5 years at CSS.

Improvements in how we can run CSS (what’s working, what’s not working?).
Improvements to facilities & planning.

3:00- 5:00: CSS Community Meeting
All groups who have regular events at CSS are asked to bring an- up to 5 minute- presentation on what you do, what your 2011 was like, and your hopes for 2012. Please bring photos or video of your event at CSS (If possible send your pictures & video to us before-hand via email or drop by the office, or bring a thumb drive the day of).  
Agenda:

-Group presentations.

-Moving into the future: How can we help each other?

-Problem Solving: CSS needs & hurdles.

5:00- 6:00: Break (CSS team- assemble images & video for presentation during party)

6:00- 10:00: Potluck feast, video & photo presentation.  
Bring instruments, food & drink to make merry, celebrate 2011 & learn more about our 2012 calendar of events. 50/50 Raffle! Please invite your friend & family, all are welcome!

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

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.