The Chrysalis Group offers special programs year-round. These events are listed below. We encourage you to register online and attend! Scholarships are available based on financial need and other criteria. If interested in applying, please contact The Chrysalis Group or call 804-359-0384.
Location
First Unitarian Universalist Church 1000 Blanton Avenue, Richmond, VA See www.richmonduu.org for directions.
More Information
For more information, contact Vicki Saunders vbsaunders@comcast.net or 804-269-1629.
The Psychology of Love
Back by popular demand, Pittman McGehee will lead us through an exploration of what Jung called, in his later years, "the incalculable paradoxes of love." Our single word "love" fails to adequately capture and express the powerful, often contradictory feelings that drive behavior and animate one's soul. We will turn to the three Greek words for love (Eros, Philia, and Agape) and explore the psychological distinctions they express. We will look at both the inter-personal and intra-psychic dynamics of love, as well as its light and dark sides. Finally, we will address the healing and wounding nature of this greatest of paradoxes.
About J. Pittman McGehee
J. Pittman McGehee is an Episcopal priest and Jungian analyst in private practice in Houston, Texas. He is widely known as a lecturer and educator in the field of psychology and religion, as well as a published poet and essayist. He is the author of The Invisible Church: Finding Spirituality Where You Are (Praeger Press, 2008), and Raising Lazarus: The Science of Healing the Soul (2009). He also has a DVD entitled "Slender Threads," which is a 3-hour interview with Robert Johnson, exclusively available at the Jung Center Houston. For more information please visit his website http://www.pittmanmcgehee.com/welcome.htm.
Cost
$25 Chrysalis members $35 non-members* Register by August 16th and receive a $5 early registration discount.
Exploring the Paradox of Love
Carl Jung called "love" one of the incalculable paradoxes of human existence. This workshop will dig deep into the powerful, often contradictory, feelings that drive behavior and touch our souls regarding the tremendously important feeling of love. Sanskrit has 96 words for love, ancient Persian has 80, Greek has three and English has only one. Robert Johnson writes, "[w]here there is no terminology, there is no consciousness." We will explore in depth these complex Jungian concepts of love, both the light and dark sides, and make them more accessible. With understanding and insight comes healing.
$60 Chrysalis members $75 non-members* Register by August 16th to receive a $10 early registration discount.
The Chrysalis Gathering Space
Join Corrine McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, co-authors of the newly released The Practical Visionary to explore astounding evidence of a powerful new world growing in our midst--if you know where and how to look. Discover the eight keys to spiritual growth and social change. You can change yourself and the world if you become a practical visionary. Learn how to keep your eyes on the horizon, your feet on the ground and your heart on fire for a better world! http://www.thepracticalvisionary.org/ http://www.visionarylead.org/aboutus.htm About the PresentersCorrine and Gordon have also co-authored Spiritual Politics (with forward by the Dalai Lama) and Builders of Dawn. They are co-founders of The Center for Visionary Leadership in California and of Sirius, an ecological community in Maine. Corrine coordinated a national ltask force on Sustainable Communities for The President's Council on Sustainable Development.Cost$30 Members$40 Non-Members
* Register by September 7 to receive a $5 early registration discount.LocationGathering SpaceMore InformationContact Karen Conrad at keconrad@verizon.net or (804) 221-7124.