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Where: Conference & Retreat: “Dark I am, yet lovely.” – Embracing the Exiled Feminine

Jungian Odyssey - May 2025 | ISAPZURICH

When: May 22, 2025

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​Connecting with a Cosmopolitan Witch & her Alchemical Cauldron located within the Center of a Woman`s Body, for the Healing of Transgenerational Trauma​​

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Read more: Within the feminine core resides a powerful force of life, death, and regeneration—a sacred rhythm centered in the pelvic floor, often called a woman’s second heart, a Holy Grail. Unlike the physical heart, however, this center requires conscious engagement—an intentional ebb and flow, contraction and expansion—to remain vibrant and alive. I will speak about specific methods of engaging with the pelvic floor. Women are tied to their biological cycles as they transition from maidens to crones, whether or not they choose to become mothers. Female individuation is embodied, and our work is enriched by embracing the body. 

 

For instance, it is difficult to remain indifferent to the epidemic of autoimmune diseases which most often affects women (80%), diseases in which the autoimmune system attacks one's own body.

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​Workshop on Lecture: Working with the Pelvic Floor 

 

Where​​Developing Groups – International Association of Analytical Psychology – IAAP (Shanghai)

When: October 25, 2024 â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹

In this Workshop we will give voice & love to this sacred woman space beyond logos-centric communication, through movement, dance, breath and sound. We will let go of the old and make the space for the new and healthy life. You are welcome to join in.

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​​​Where: ISAP Zurich training program fall semester 2024 (ISAPZURICH)​

When: September 24, 2024​​​​

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Cultural complexes & body politics of gender.

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Through looking at the Greek Myth of silent Philomela and her transformation, this lectur explores connecting with the dark feminine and using one’s own voice in the redemption of trauma.​

Read more: In my lecture I invite the listeners to explore the lived experience of the feminine body and psyche. By using myth and body work, my lecture is a lab for psychotherapists who hold space for women in their practices. Together, we have the opportunity to honor the feminine voice, foster its healing, and create a more balanced, inclusive, and regenerative cultural narrative within analytical work. 

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Within the feminine core resides a powerful force of life, death, and regeneration—a sacred rhythm centered in the pelvic floor, often called a woman’s second heart, a Holy Grail. Unlike the physical heart, however, this center requires conscious engagement—an intentional ebb and flow, contraction and expansion—to remain vibrant and alive. I will speak about specific methods of engaging with the pelvic floor. Women are tied to their biological cycles as they transition from maidens to crones, whether or not they choose to become mothers. Female individuation is embodied, and our work is enriched by embracing the body. For instance, it is difficult to remain indifferent to the epidemic of autoimmune diseases affecting women worldwide (80%), diseases in which the autoimmune system attacks one's own body. This is at least partially a result of trauma. 

 

By using the myth of a silent and raped Philomela, we will learn to name the individual and collective cultural trauma we all face, particularly as women.

 

My focus is on the potential for women to find pathways toward wholeness and restoration. In the symbolic language of the myth, this process is akin to stitching together the broken pieces of a story, reimagining them as threads in a new, unified fabric. Such an approach holds the promise of not only personal but cultural transformation, where the feminine body and psyche are no longer defined by wounding but by resilience, creativity, and regeneration.

 

I will also emphasize on the politics of the body through the lens of gender, sexuality and race – determining factors for mental, physical and spiritual health. What complexes are constellated around these topics?

 

Analytical Psychology is especially enriched by a truly feminine perspective – integrating an archetypal understanding with embodied experience. Unfortunately, the legacy of our field has been largely rooted in a masculine, patriarchal perspective. Together we can co-create new ways of further enriching well-established analytical methods in the support of women’s growth and flourishing.

 

In this lecture, I wish to move beyond logos-centric communication to using the non-rational language of the heart and the female body.  This is the language of the mythical Philomela who moves from isolation back to public life. You are welcome to join in.

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Where: AGAP Forum: Collective Shadows and Individual Suffering: Implications for Our Practice?

AGAP - Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists

When: September 7, 2024

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Looking into cultural complexes and body politics of gender, sexuality and race in the light of contemporary social movements. Jungian Psychology in 21st century: Questions, Reflections, Explorations.​​​​

Read more: The vast of intersectional injuries and complexes we meet in our practice every day which derive from our culture, as Samuel Kimbels observed, are seen by our Jungian tradition as exogamous for the development of the individual and its influence on the individuation process is often overlooked. My interest in what is going on in justice movements around the body made me think of parallels to our fundaments of analytical psychology we stand on and our own history and injuries within the Jungian tradition around gender, sexuality and race. This talk is an opening discussion with others who are also interested in deepening these thoughts and reflecting on how analytical psychology can integrate aspects of these topics, so essential to a practice today for all our clients as well as for our community. Can we individuate together?

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​​Where: ISAP Zurich training program spring semester 2021 (ISAPZURICH)

When: May 4, 2021

Jungian Psychology in 21st century: Questions, Reflections, Explorations.​​​​​​​

Looking into cultural complexes and body politics of gender, sexuality and race in the light of contemporary social movements.

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