Saturday's workshop will be dedicated to reflection on our own individual experiences within the natural world: What qualities of eros (relatedness) have we experienced there? What creative impulses towards a transformed relationship with nature are moving within us? As a framework for these reflections, images of many gardens from different times and places will be presented, to help participants imagine the “home place” in nature that each might create (whether or not there are opportunities literally to get their hands in the dirt). Accompanying these reflections, and always in the background, will be the archetype of Home as understood in the Greek cult of Hestia, and the pre-human roots of this archetype in the animal world.
Free parking is available at the Best Western Village Park Inn. Register your vehicle's licence plate at the hotel registration desk when you arrive. Underground parking available.
Presenter Biography
Karen Hodges is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. Since 1996, she has been in private practice as a Jungian analyst in Charlotte, North Carolina. With a Ph.D. in English literature, she has presented lectures and seminars on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of psychology and the humanities. The material Dr. Hodges brings to the Calgary Jung Society draws upon her background in depth psychology, but also reflects a life-long interest in the relatively young scientific field of ecology.