I Ching Study & Practice Group

September 26th - October 17th

Thursday evenings, 6:30-8pm

4 sessions - with option to continue

Inner NE Portland

with Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

This study group will be limited to a small number of participants for the sake of engaged learning through the I Ching, a tool used by leaders and sages for centuries.

The short course will begin with instruction on how to “throw” the I Ching, and then subsequent sessions will provide space for personal inquiry, reflection, discussion, and teaching.

The option to continue for an additional 4 sessions is available.

The oracle can be used for personal reflection, as well as inquiry into our personal responses to these extraordinary and often painful times.

Some people consult the oracle daily, others only once in a while. In this gathering, each person will have a chance to explore their own relationship with the text.

• Date/Time: Thursdays, 6:30-8pm — September 26th - October 17th. 4 sessions.

• Recommended texts: The I Ching Workbook - R.L. Wing translation and/or The Total I Ching - Karcher translation

• Cost: $120

• Location: Inner NE Portland

First They Came for the Immigrants:

Hannah Arendt on “the Banality of Evil”

September 6th - October 18th

Friday mornings, 9:30-11am

7 sessions, inner NE Portland

with Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

In 1961, Jewish political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt traveled to Jerusalem to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the mass deportation and extermination of Jews in World War II.

Commissioned by The New Yorker, Arendt’s report was originally published in the magazine in three parts, before being published as the book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem.” Highly controversial at the time, her writing on the trial challenged the world to wrestle with the concept of evil and the possibility that evil is far more banal than we would like to think.

In this seminar, we will explore Arendt’s insights from a depth psychological perspective.

We will see through her scholarship on how the legal government at the time perpetuated often “legal” acts of terrorism and genocide through a systematic take-over of a democracy. Arendt both lived through it and looked through it, seeing the nuances and banality of the extreme evil. She saw the insecurity underneath the men’s actions, not the power. She named the nuanced psychology behind their political motivations.

She also provided a step-by-step history on the escalation of mass extermination of the Jewish people, and others perceived as “degenerate” by the pervasive dehumanizing philosophy at the time, the same we see today in daily acts of horror: toxic masculinity and white supremacy.

Through a careful reading and discussion of Arendt’s master work, “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” we’ll walk through the unquestionable parallels between the methodical unfolding of anti-immigrant and anti-Jewish sentiment that led to mass extermination in WWII, and our present moment in American history.

Arendt leaves us psychological and political clues about how to respond. There are few books more valuable for depthful exploration at this moment in history.

Details:

• Date: Friday mornings, 9:30-11am, September 6th - October 18th, 2019

• Location: Inner NE Portland

• Cost: $200 for 7 sessions

• Required Text: “Eichmann in Jerusalem” by Hannah Arendt

The Lady Astronomer who Took on Dante

A Salon with New York Times Bestselling Author Tracy Daugherty

Saturday, June 1st

10am-12pm

*sold out - thank you*

Please join us for a salon with New York Times bestselling author, Tracy Daugherty, about his most recent book: Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens.

This unique book explores the life of pioneering astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed, an early female astronomer and pioneer.

Daugherty’s seemingly countless books include The New York Times bestselling biography of Joan Didion, “The Last Love Song”.  He lets his curiosity lead his pen into the world, never seeking to write about something that doesn’t interest him to his core. To those ends, and despite a dearth of information, Daugherty devoted himself to researching one of the world’s earliest female astronomers.

This gathering will include plentiful space for conversation about the history of astronomy, Dante, Mary Acworth Evershed herself, and what drew Daugherty to research and write on this woman’s life and work. It’s a Salome salon you won’t want to miss!

All attendees will receive a copy of this newly published book.

Register:

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Salon details:

Date: Saturday, June 1st, 10am-12pm

Location: Close-in NE; address shared with attendees.

Cost: $35; includes copy of Dante and the Early Astronomer

Analytical Psychology and the Feminine:

Claire Douglas and Images of the Goddess

May 24th - July 12th

Friday mornings, 9:30am-11am

8 sessions

with Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

*sold out*

Clinical Psychologist, Jungian Analyst, and author Claire Douglas dove deep into topics of the feminine and women in the history of Jung’s psychology. Her insights into these realms broke new ground with unapologetic reviews of Analytical Psychology, and unapologetic respect for Jung’s pioneering work in reexamining the value of the feminine for the patriarchal world.

The results are transformative for men, women, and gender non-conforming people.

In addition to our inquisitive intellectual engagement with Douglas’s work, participants will be encouraged to choose a figure of the Feminine from myth or history—personal or collective—to present to the group. We’ll sink into the images and background of this figure, allowing space for art and story-telling in each session.

Date: Friday mornings, 9:30-11am May 24rd- July 12th

Location: Inner NE Portland home

Cost: $225 for 8 sessions

Required Text: “The Woman in the Mirror,” Claire Douglas

Jung’s Red Book:

uncovering an antidote to (toxic) patriarchy

May 23rd - June 27th

Thursday mornings, 9:30am-11am

(6 sessions)

with Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

*sold out - thank you!*

Before Jung’s work was about the Shadow and the Self, it was about Salome: the young, sensual Jewish woman, the dancer, who requested the head of John the Baptist from the transfixed King Herod. Jung met this disheveled, discarded woman in the depths of his own psyche and withdrew in horror. “Let me be,” he tells her when they first meet, “I dread you, you beast.” But, Jung had embarked on this journey in order to pay attention to what arose. So over many nights of his descent into the unconscious (and his many years of exploring these early visions), Jung came to acknowledge Salome’s divine power. He experienced Her divinity within his own body, not as he had once understood the divine feminine in Mother Mary, but as Kali, the dark goddess of Hindu mythology. He wrote: this “many armed bloody Goddess—it is Salome desperately wringing her hands,” and in the face of his fear, he strained to witness her presence and power. She transforms as he does, and finally, Jung came to love her: “[she] takes hold of me, she is my own soul”. He discovered that She is him. She is that which brings him life and joy, the capacity to feel, to create art, to deeply connect, and to trust. But she had not come to him at first in the form of someone safe or beautiful; she did not descend from on high in golden light.

This 6 week seminar will provide ample space for exploration of this text, chapter by chapter, encountering all the characters with whom Jung traveled during his inner journeys in the early 20th century.

Register:

• Date: Thursday mornings, 9:30-11am May 23rd- June 27th

• Location: The Nightwood, 2218 NE Broadway, Portland, 97232

• Cost: $180 for all 6 sessions

• Required Text: The Red Book reader's edition

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Patrick deWitt

Friday, April 26th

9:30-11am

Award winning author, Patrick deWitt, will visit Salome for an intimate conversation about writing, process, and his book, The Sisters Brothers, short-listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

To read The Sisters Brothers is to journey into territory rich with questions of identity and purpose, emotions, life, death, and—for our distinct interest at Salome—all the things that make depth psychology, depth psychology. It’s a meditation on masculinity, love, and loyalty wrapped in the skin of a Western.

We are lucky to have Patrick deWitt join us to discuss this work, among other rich topics we’re sure to explore.

As attendance at this event is free and space is limited, registration will begin with a waitlist. We’ll notify each interested person if there is space to join us. (Thank you in advance for your patience.)

Salon details:

• Date: Friday, April 26th, 9:30-11am

• Location: Close-in NE; address shared with attendees.

• Cost: free

• Preparation/Materials: please read The Sisters Brothers in advance.

RSVP:

Please submit your name with interest and you will be notified if space allows. Thank you!

In collaboration with Design Portland, to be held at Portland’s Lumber Room

In this conversation between Randy Higgins, Senior Environments Designer with The Felt Hat and Satya Doyle Byock, Director of the Salome Institute of Jungian Studies, we’ll take a deep dive into the practice of design through examining Carl Jung’s "Red Book" and Hilma af Klint’s "The Paintings for the Temple" from the early 20th century -- both intentionally left un-published in their lifetimes.

Now recently published, both works offer enhanced understanding of methods beyond patriarchy’s influence on contemporary design practice and process. They help answer the question "How can the Feminine be invited into design?"

This conversation will include audience engagement organically. Coffee, tea and light snacks will be offered as we believe the body and the soul should always be invited into the room...

While the #metoo movement has punctuated the downfalls of patriarchy, there's more imbalance in the relationship between the masculine and feminine than just human resource issues. Satya Doyle Byock, Founder of The Salome Institute of Jungian Studies and Randy Higgins, Senior Designer of The Felt Hat invite attendees to join a larger community conversation about the way patriarchy has impacted design practices and how to return to a state of creative receptivity.

Using the recently published works of C.G. Jung’s Red Book and Hilma af Klint’s notebooks and paintings as a lens, visitors can expect a discourse around how to invite the feminine into a patriarchy-dominated space.

Tell us the story behind choosing these recently published texts for your Design Week Portland event.

This event is part of an ongoing conversation between the two of us around design and psychology. We each saw tremendous similarity between these two bodies of work—C.G. Jung’s Red Book and Hilma af Klint’s notebooks and paintings, all created at the beginning of the 20th century. We wanted to explore the similarities that lie behind their work, and what insights such work might offer us today, as creatives of all kinds. Both Jung and af Klint approached their art and creativity through listening: neither was guided by conscious goals for a specific outcome, but by a yin stance of receptivity, receiving, and creating what arose. This stance produced some of the most extraordinary work of the century, and it may hold the keys to tectonic shifts in our understanding, not just of creativity, but of culture.

What makes their content topical in today's design climate?

Both Jung’s Red Book and the works of af Klint address duality in the world from a perspective of gender—psychological or spiritual gender. They address what is out of balance and how to bring things back into balance.

Can you offer suggestions on how to invite the feminine in?

The process and product of Jung’s and af Klint’s great works provide clues to designers and creatives of all stripes: how can we listen to the muse versus impose ideas on our creative practice? How can we create an environment such that the muse wants to take up residence—to stay in perpetual dialogue and collaboration, versus arrive for our objectification, for us to use Her and then discard Her when we achieve the finished product that we sought?

While we have deadlines to meet and clients to please, the question of listening to the inner life as a guide in this process is of critical value—an area under-explored in our conversations.

The feminine honors process over product, the journey over the arrival, and the dialogue over the mandate. We’d like to explore in-depth how to bring these values more fully into our work as designers—as creatives working daily to bring new ideas and images into the world. How can these ideas and images be more deeply influenced by feminine process and inspiration from the beginning?

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Dangerous Women: The Astrology of the Feminine

Venus, Moon, Lilith & Ceres in the charts of remarkable women (*including yours)

February 16th & 23rd

Two Saturdays, 10am-4pm

with Carol Ferris

*Sold out*

“This question, ‘what makes a woman dangerous?’ —are women inherently dangerous? —presses on me, leads me to collecting articles on Gloria Steinem and Orianna Fallaci, obituaries of deceased women bullfighters, press releases about the newest comic book heroines who are taking their place alongside the Hulk, Captain America and Thor.  I convene dinner parties of women, think and talk about Venus and the Moon and Black Moon Lilith, the original bad girl of the Garden of Eden.” - Carol Ferris

In this seminar on the astrology of “dangerous women” we will take a deep dive into a few select planets and asteroids in the charts of revolutionary women throughout history. Spending time with specific birth charts, we’ll explore issues of safety and risk in their horoscopes. Some of these women took risks, some seem to have stumbled into revolution, and some made changes quietly on their home fronts.

Seminar participants will be led into a personal exploration of their own charts to ask questions:

• What’s an example of a “dangerous” woman?

• Where do you feel safe?

• Where would you like to take a risk?

• What women in history, or in your own lives, would you like to emulate?

Seminar details:

• Dates: Feb 16th & 23rd -- Two Saturdays, 10am-4pm

• Location: The Lumber Room, 419 Northwest 9th Ave. Portland, Oregon 97209

• Cost: $150 for two-session seminar

*No background in astrology required*

Carol Ferris, MA

Carol is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, "The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine" reflects her ongoing interest in the nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks -- astrological mapping and Jungian imagery -- as mutually beckoning guides to understanding how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Feminist & Feminist-Jungian Takes on The Feminine Within Patriarchy, and Beyond

January 4th-February 22nd

Friday mornings, 9:30-11am

with Satya Doyle Byock

*Sold Out

In this seminar, we’ll explore various takes on the Feminine and the Anima within Jungian psychology, and within psychologically-oriented feminist literature. We’ll seek to define these ideas as they relate to men and women, and to life within Patriarchy, as opposed to within Nature.

Purchase of books is not required as selections will be emailed in advance to all participants. Authors of selections will include mythologist Christine Downing; feminist poet and essayist Audre Lorde; the pioneering essays of Erich Neumann; Jung, and many more.

Some film and podcast selections may be incorporated as optional outside resources, or for group gatherings.

Seminar details:

• Dates: Jan 4th-Feb 22nd -- Friday mornings, 9:30-11am

• Location: Inner NE Portland, address provided to registrants

• Cost: $225 for eight-week seminar

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