Events

Becky Dodds, Ann Friedman, Stanley Merrill, Jasmine Shah, Claire Villarreal | See Event Description for Dates and Times | Join the community of The Jung Center's Mind Body Spirit Institute to recenter in the midst of your busy day, and learn and develop stress-busting tools for everyday life.

Jennifer Embry | Seven Tuesdays, Sep 1 - Oct 13 | 6 - 7:30p CT | Maximum capacity of 30 |Deepen your understanding of what makes a dream group "Jungian," and how a shared language can build community. | Potentially appropriate for 10.5 CEs*

Michael Escamilla | Six Thursdays, Sep 3 - Oct 8 | 6 - 8p CT | Max attendees 12 | Explore C.G. Jung's Liber Novus (The Red Book) through guided reading and discussion, reflecting on its images, archetypes, and the development of analytical psychology while discovering how Jung's practice of Active Imagination continues to illuminate the unconscious. | Potentially appropriate for 12 CEs*

Michele Pola | Fifteen Fridays, Sep 4 - Dec 11 | 7:30 - 7:45a CT | Carry the ease of the morning into the busier parts of the day.

Denise Bossarte | Four Wednesdays, Sep 9 - 30 | 6 - 8p CT | 25 Max Attendees | Practice contemplative photography to slow down, deepen presence, and connect with the beauty around you while expanding awareness and creativity through mindful visual exploration.

Lance Westendarp | Thursday, Sep 10 | 12 - 1:30p CT | Explore movement as more than exercise, discovering how mindful physical practice can cultivate resilience, deepen connection, and enrich the experience of aging through awareness, creativity, and relationship.

Michelle Kucera-Jewell | Six Tuesdays, Sep 15 - Oct 20 | 11a - 12:30p CT | Discover how Integrative Depth Somatics™ uses body awareness, imagination, and Jungian psychology to move beyond insight, offering practical tools for engaging the unconscious in both clinical practice and everyday life. | Potentially appropriate for 9 CEs*

Wednesday, Sep 16 | 12 - 1:15p CT | Explore practical strategies for facing life's uncertainties with greater confidence by cultivating curiosity, hope, and resilience, transforming how you navigate difficult decisions, personal challenges, and an ever-changing world.

Lance Westendarp | Five Tuesdays, Sep 22 - Oct 20 | 12 - 1:30p CT | Discover how mindful movement can cultivate resilience, deepen connection, and enrich the experience of aging through awareness, creativity, and relationship in this transformative five-week program.

Brandi R. Muñoz, EdD, PCC, SPHR | Thursday, Sep 24 | 11a - 1p CT | Max 30 attendees**| Navigate the future of work with confidence by exploring an interactive, holistic approach to career development that strengthens resilience, fosters supportive networks, and aligns professional success with personal well-being. | Potentially appropriate for 2 CEs*

Denise Bossarte and Mary Fehr | Saturday, Sep 26 | 1 - 4p CT | Max 25 attendees | Connect with your inner wisdom through SoulCollage®, an accessible, hands-on process of creating personal collage cards that fosters self-discovery, reflection, and meaningful insight—no artistic background needed.

Mary Anne Casey | Saturday, Sep 26 | 1 - 3p CT | Practice using a structured and safe container for deep listening to help you process your life with compassion, connection, and non-judgmental attention.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer | Tuesday, Oct 6 | 5:30 - 8p CT | Embrace the journey of aging through poetry and creative exploration, discovering new ways to reflect on your life's stories, deepen self-understanding, and celebrate the wisdom that comes with time.

Abha Rajbhandari | Friday, Oct 9 | 11a - 1p CT | Explore how scientific insight and spiritual wisdom reveal a deeper dimension of the self that transcends life's apparent dualities of joy and sorrow, life and death, and good and bad.

Hilda Davis and Sarah Garcia | Four Tuesdays, Oct 13 - Nov 10, no class on Oct 27 | 3 - 5p CT | Begin again with intention in this experiential workshop designed to help you cultivate resilience, clarify purpose, and sustain well-being through life’s inevitable transitions. | Potentially appropriate for 8 CEs*

Bridget Fernandes and Anne Colton | Four Tuesdays, Oct 13 - Nov 10, no class Oct 27 | 6 - 8p CT | Discover the power of resilience by exploring the history of women-led community organizing, reflecting on your own experiences, engaging with the documentary Rebel Bells, and developing a creative or community-based project that inspires empathy, collective action, and social change.

Katherine Grabar | Four Thursdays, Oct 15 - Nov 5 | 6 - 8p CT | Discover the Enneagram as a powerful framework for personal transformation, learning growth practices that foster Presence, compassionate self-awareness, and greater freedom beyond habitual ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.

Cherie Ray | Friday, Oct 16 | 1 - 4p CT | Discover what becomes possible when you step beyond inner critique and engage in experiential creative exercises designed to reconnect you with inspiration, freedom, and authentic self-expression.

Houston Playback Theatre | Friday, Oct 16 | 7 - 8:30p CT | 70 max attendees | Relax and enjoy an evening with Houston Playback Theatre as the true stories of audience members come to life.

Brandi Khan | Saturday, Oct 17 | 1 - 3p CT | Examine the relationship between astrology and Jungian psychology by exploring the zodiac signs as archetypal patterns that illuminate human experience, meaning, and self-understanding.

Akane Saitoh | Saturday, Oct 17 | 10a - 12p CT | Max 20 attendees** | Discover the calming practice of Japanese sashiko embroidery while cultivating mindfulness skills that support relaxation, focus, and resilience in everyday life. | Potentially appropriate for 2 CEs*

Karen Fang | Saturday, Oct 17 | 12 - 4p CT | Max 15 attendees* | Create a meaningful and enduring obituary in this guided workshop that offers tools, structure, and reflection to help you honor a life with clarity, depth, and care.

George Hu | Six Mondays, Oct 19 - Nov 23 | 4:45 - 6p CT | Meditate through movement using Tai Chi Chuan.

Angelina H Rodriguez | Friday, Oct 23 | 10a - 1p CT | Max 12 attendees** | Participate in a creative ritual inspired by Día de los Muertos, blending art-making, depth psychology, and ancestral practices to explore grief, remembrance, and ongoing relationship with those who have died. Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs*

Jim Benton | Saturday, Oct 24 | 12 - 4p CT | Max 20 attendees* | Activate your sensory awareness in this experiential workshop, using neuroscience-informed practices and hands-on exploration to deepen focus, joy, and connection in daily life.

Mary Anne Casey | Saturday, Oct 24 | 1 - 3p CT | Practice using a structured and safe container for deep listening to help you process your life with compassion, connection, and non-judgmental attention.

Marcelo Zigaran | Four Wednesdays, Oct 28 - Nov 18 | 6 - 7:30p CT | Max 30 attendees** | Engage with Jacques Lacan’s clinical theory of psychosis in this introductory course, investigating how language structures subjectivity and how Lacanian concepts both challenge and reframe Jungian psychology. |Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs*

A Religion, Mental Health, and the Search for Meaning Conference | Sister Ilia Delio and Bill Kerley | Friday, Oct 30 | 9a - 4p CT | Explore the potential rewards and responsibilities we each have to the entangled and expanding evolution toward relational wholeness with the author of The Not Yet God, Sister Ilia Delio and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Spiritual Director, Rev Dr Bill Kerley. | Potentially appropriate for 7 CEs.*

Bridget Fernandes and Anne Colton | Tuesday Nov 3 | 7 - 8p CT | Max 90 attendees* | Engage with the film and a panel discussion, including the documentary’s film-maker, to explore how the Rebel Bells—an all-girls, youth-led collective founded by environmental justice organizers in the Calumet region of Chicago and Northwest Indiana—empower the next generation of activists through social justice education, community organizing, and collective leadership.

Thomas Cole and Laura Spector | Five Thursdays, Nov 5 - Dec 10 (No class Nov 26) | 2 - 3:15p CT | 15 Max Attendees* | Explore the four soul levels of Jewish Mysticism—body, emotions, ideas, and the transpersonal—through guided meditation, creative expression, and shared reflection to deepen self-awareness and inner understanding.

Michele Pola | Saturday, Nov 7 | 9 - 10:30a CT | Max 15 attendees | Learn tools for being in and with nature to relax, calm the mind and possibly leave feeling fulfilled.

Sean Fitzpatrick | Four Tuesdays, Nov 10 - Dec 1 | 6 - 8p CT | Explore how Jung's psychology offers a critical path to reconnect with the depths of your soul. | Potentially appropriate for 8 CEs*

Lorenzo Cohen and Alison Jefferies | Wednesday, Nov 11 | 12 - 2p CT (1-1:30p discussion) | Reflect on autonomy, love, grief, and dignity through an intimate, firsthand account of a family’s experience accompanying loved ones through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from early conversations to final moments.

Anna Guerra | Four Thursdays, Nov 12 - Dec 10 (No class Nov 26) | 6 - 8p CT | Take a hands-on approach to the tools and techniques that depth psychologists use to access, restore, and support our relationship with the natural processes of change. | Potentially appropriate for 8 CEs*

Leslie Cuenca | Friday, Nov 13 | 1 - 4p CT | Max 10 attendees* | Experience the harmony of body, mind, and creativity through a unique class that blends mindfulness, gentle yoga, breathwork, and ink painting to cultivate presence and artistic flow.

John Hopkins | Saturday, Nov 14 | 10a - 12p CT | Max 30 attendees* | Discover what becomes possible when you begin with the end in mind through a powerful workshop that uses mortality awareness to illuminate purpose, priorities, and a more intentional life.

Gika Rector | Saturday, Nov 14 | 12:30 - 4p CT | Rediscover ease and balance through gentle movement practices that rebuild your relationship with gravity and support, helping you move, sit, and stand with greater comfort and alignment.

Nicole Ponce and Tierra Ortiz-Rodriguez | Saturday, Nov 21 | 10a - 12:30p CT | Max 20 attendees** | Explore the depths of the psyche through guided meditation and SoulCollage®, working with inner archetypes in a creative, contemplative process that fosters self-awareness, compassion, and integration. | 20 max attendees | Potentially appropriate for 2.5 CEs*

Michael Winters and John Milkereit | Saturday, Nov 21 | 1 - 4p CT | Unlock deeper self-understanding through a creative, poetry-based workshop that blends reflection, expression, and meaning-centered psychological insight. | 30 max attendees** | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs*

Vipul Mankad and Shivam Gosai | Two Wednesdays, Dec 2 - 9 | 6 - 8p CT | Explore the rich dialogue between Jungian psychology and the ancient spiritual and yogic traditions of India to deepen your understanding of the Self, the unconscious, inner transformation, symbolic life, and contemplative practices that illuminate the path to greater meaning and psychological wholeness. | Potentially appropriate for 4 CEs*

Carrie De Martini and Paul Gilford | Thursday, Dec 3 | 12 - 2p CT (1-2p discussion) | Cultivate resilience, connection, and meaning by engaging with Francis Weller’s The Wild Edge of Sorrow, exploring the five gates of grief and sampling the ritual process of Grief Elegy.

Michele Pola | Saturday, Dec 5 | 9 - 10:30a CT | Max 15 attendees | Learn tools for being in and with nature to relax, calm the mind and possibly leave feeling fulfilled.

Sarah Sudhoff and Jenny Hughes | Saturday, Dec 5 | 10a -1p CT | Discover how to recognize and transform the effects of vicarious trauma by exploring evidence-informed strategies that foster resilience, renewal, and well-being through empathic engagement with others. | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs*

Lee Coffee | Saturday, Dec 5 | 1 - 2p CT | 25 attendees max | Have fun learning to reduce stress with therapeutic laughter techniques that improve breathing, relaxation, and well-being.

Kristina Koutsoudas | Thursday, Dec 10 | 6 - 8p | Reconnect with your cosmic heritage through stories, poetry, music, meditation, visualization, and movement as you explore the stars as ancient sources of guidance, inspiration, and spiritual connection.

Gika Rector | Saturday, Dec 12 | 12:30 - 4p CT | Max 15 attendees* | Embark on a playful journey with layers of wool fibers in various colors and textures that become a felted object.

Christina Kaufman | Saturday, Dec 12 | 2:30 - 4p CT | Max 16 attendees | Reframe grief through symbolism, illuminating how experiences such as denial, anger, despair, acceptance, and meaning-making mirror the alchemist’s journey through a Jungian lens. | Potentially appropriate for 1.5 CEs*