Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: A Depth Psychological Exploration of Spirituality (Online)

Do you feel spiritually disillusioned?  Have you experienced betrayal by a spiritual leader who abused power?  Come learn how the wisdom of depth psychology can be brought to the exploration of your own spiritual wounds.  Our innate yearning for the divine can guide us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experiences, but things can go awry when we project the divine onto a teacher who is all too human – whose unhealed wounds, undeveloped empathy, or authoritarian tendencies indicate an individual who has an unexamined shadow.  When a teacher in any denomination abuses power – through sexual, financial, or emotional coercion – we feel the shock of betrayal.  Join us as we uncover the tools of depth psychology and spiritual shadow-work that can help us recover from disillusionment and rekindle the flame of longing in our souls. Based on the instructor's book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: A Depth Psychological Exploration of Spirituality, this presentation will look at the spiritual and clinical applications of the concepts of personal projection and archetypal transference, and will explore why we are drawn to charismatic leaders, what we unconsciously give away to them, and how to reclaim it for our inner treasury.

This program is being offered ONLINE only. Recordings will be distributed to registrants only, and are not available for individual purchase.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.

Connie Zweig, Ph.D. is a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold COVR Award, the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her new book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, is available now. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.