Jung in Ireland Annual Seminar
Passions, Compulsions and Obsessions:
The Forces That Drive Us
March 31–April 7, 2025 | County Galway
Program Overview
Passion is a powerful drive that propels us, and, like all archetypes, can be helpful or harmful in our lives. Sometimes these drives can manifest themselves in obsessive thoughts or even compulsive behavior that may have a negative impact on us and cloud our judgment. Alternatively, our passions and obsessions can be positive forces in our lives if we harness them and they lead us toward the soul’s call for transformation.
We can forget too easily that when we “follow our bliss” we may be overtaken by compulsion, obsession, or even addiction if we are not conscious. We can be obsessed by someone we envy, find ourselves straying from our partners, fall into compulsive eating or other addictive behavior or be led astray in a multitude of ways when, as Jung has made clear, a search for spirit and meaning in our lives has not been dealt with.
During the course of this week, we will focus on how our lives are awakened by passion, providing direction and meaning while furthering our pursuit of the numinous — all essential to our journey toward individuation. We will look at psychological complexes that may have originated in childhood and now manifested as addictions, compulsions, depressions, or anxieties. In the process, we will examine Jung’s concept of Libido and learn how our psychic energy can guide us in our search to individuate. We will explore the dynamics of the psyche that drive this search and how the psychology and ideas of Jung may help further our own psychological development.
Through presentations, group discussion, and workshops, we will gain insights into how to embark on, and sustain the Self-discovery path and learn the importance of listening to our own, authentic, true voice. Inspired by an outstanding faculty of analysts, we will examine the ways in which consciousness of our passions, obsessions and compulsions are essential to our psychological growth, and how messages from the unconscious in the form of images, symbols, and myths often appear at critical junctures in our lives guide our path toward individuation.
March 31–April 7, 2025 | County Galway
Annual Seminar: Passions, Compulsions and Obsessions: The Forces That Drive Us
Cost: $2,990*
includes:
- Seven nights’ accommodations at Connemara Coast Hotel
- All presentations and workshops
- Full Irish breakfast daily; all breaks for coffee, tea, and scones; two lunches; and two dinners.
All program costs are based on double occupancy. Single supplement ($450) and Gratuities ($135) additional. Cost after January 10, $3,150.
CEs and Certificates of Attendance
The Jung in Ireland Series — both programs: in County Limerick with the Monks of Glenstal Abbey and the Seminar in County Galway — offer continuing education credits and certificates of attendance.
The Setting: The Wild Atlantic Coast, County Galway
Known as the City of the Tribes, Galway sits perched on the roaring River Corrib overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, at the heart of the Wild Atlantic Way touring route along Ireland’s western seaboard. Galway’s rich history is evident at each turn, from the 13th-century walls that once defended the city from attack — now part of the bustling Eyre Square Shopping Centre — to the 16th-century Spanish Arch on the banks of River Corrib. The streets and bars are filled with music year-round. There’s shopping and eateries of many flavors, as well as historical sites and museums to visit.
Accommodations: Connemara Coast Hotel
Overlooking Galway Bay, the lovely Connemara Coast Hotel is magnificently set along a rugged coastline edged with golden beaches. Located just six miles west of Galway City, the Connemara Coast seminar site offers old-fashioned Irish hospitality, excellent cuisine that features the best of local seafoods; a modern, fully equipped health club and spa; indoor and outdoor Jacuzzis; and a large indoor swimming pool. Against a backdrop of the magical Aran Islands, with many rooms affording a view of Galway Bay, the Connemara Coast Hotel will provide a scenic and ideal setting for our program.
Meals together…
Meals will be wonderful times to get to know one another and interact with presenters. Every day will begin with a hearty, full Irish breakfast, complemented by a wide selection of fresh fruit, local Irish cheeses, and fresh breads. Those who have been with us before know what a treat is in store with gourmet meals and outstanding Irish service at the Connemara Coast Hotel.
Our breaks will feature fresh brewed coffee, traditional Irish and herbal teas, and freshly baked scones. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will lunch together at the elegant Connemara Coast Hotel, where we will also enjoy festive gourmet opening and closing dinners.
Meals included: Full breakfast daily; all breaks for coffee and tea; 2 lunches (April 1 and 2); welcoming and closing dinners (March 31 and April 6).
Optional Outing Friday April 4
Explore the Sacred Landscape of the Burren
The trip will be limited to 35 participants; details and sign-up information will be sent prior to the beginning of the program.
Faculty
Ashok Bedi, MD, is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a member of the Royal College of psychiatrists of Great Britain, a diplomat in Psychological Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His books include In the Eye of the Storm: Staying Centered in Personal and Collective Crisis; The Spiritual Paradox of Addiction; Crossing the Healing Zone; Awaken the Slumbering Goddess: The Latent Code of the Hindu Goddess Archetypes; Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path; and Path to the Soul. He is the liaison for the IAAP for developing Jungian training programs in India and travels annually to India to teach, train the consult with the Jungian Developing groups at several centers in India including Ahmedabad and Mumbai. He leads the annual “A Jungian Encounter with the Soul of India” study group to several centers in India under the auspices of the New York Jung Foundation and the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
August J. Cwik, Psy.D., (a.k.a. Gus) is a clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and Jungian analyst in private practice in the Chicago area. He has been a Jungian analyst for 35 years. He is a member of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts and the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and the executive board for the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. He was co-director of training of the Analyst Training Program and the Clinical Training Program in Analytical Psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He has published articles on thirdness, the structure of analysis, alchemy, supervision, dreams, active imagination, training, and numerous reviews. 
John Michael Hayes, PhD, has had a long career as a psychologist/psychoanalyst in the Baltimore-Washington area. A graduate of Catholic University of America, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and recently the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association’s analytic training program, he serves on the faculties of the University of Maryland Psychiatry Department, the Baltimore Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and St. Mary’s Seminary and University. He also holds degrees in theology and is a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He has a private analytic practice in Baltimore, Maryland, where he lives with his wife psychotherapist Karen Jones, and his four adult children and six grandchildren nearby. 
Margaret Klenck, MDiv, LP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York. A graduate of Union Theological Seminary, she is past president of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York, where she teaches and supervises trainees. Margaret has lectured and taught nationally and internationally. Her most recent publications are two books in which she is a featured interviewee: Visible Mind: Movies, Modernity and the Unconscious, by Christopher Hauke; and There’s a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak, by Jonathan Cott. Before becoming an analyst, Ms. Klenck had a 20-year acting career, appearing on stage, television, and film.
Ronnie Landau, MA, is a certified Jungian psychoanalyst and senior training analyst and supervisor with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. Her private practice is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has taught widely throughout the U.S. and Zurich. She is the author of the article “Dreaming for the World: A Jungian Study of Dreams During the Covid-19 Pandemic” published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She has written a chapter called “The Dark Feminine Rising: A Psycho-cultural and Clinical Meditation” in Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire.
Anne Pickup, M.A., LCMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and Jungian analyst with a private practice in Washington D.C. She holds a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. She received her diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles in 1995. She is a founding member of the C.G. Jung Study Center of California and is a member of their board of directors. She is past president of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, and past president of the Jungian Analysts of the Washington Area. She is a member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Anne has lectured and taught in New York, California, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. on themes of separation and loss and the Individuation process. She lives in Virgnia.
Diana Rubin, LCSW, co-director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies, has organized and led Jungian Seminars and Study Tours for over 25 years. Currently she has a private psychotherapy practice in New York City and New Paltz, New York, where she works with individuals and groups and also works remotely. A former staff psychotherapist at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health’s Institute for the Performing Artist, Ms. Rubin has a special interest in the interface of psychotherapy and the creative process. 
Aryeh Maidenbaum, PhD, Jungian analyst, is co-director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies. His publications include “The Search for Spirit in Jungian Psychology”; “Sounds of Silence”; “Psychological Types, Job Change, and Personal Growth”; and “Anti-Semitism: The Jungian Dilemma”, which appeared in a recent book entitled Psychiatry and Anti-Semitism. In addition, he was co-editor of Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism; and editor of and contributor to, Jung and the Shadow of Anti-Semitism. His forthcoming publication is Jung and the Jewish Experience: Reflections by a Jungian Analyst, to be published by Routledge in December 2024.
Daily Schedule
Monday, March 31
Check in to the Connemara Coast Hotel; relax, and enjoy the hotel’s amenities
5:30 p.m. Orientation and an opportunity to get to know one another
7:30 p.m. Welcome dinner at our hotel (included)
Tuesday, April 1
7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Full Irish breakfast, served daily.
9:15 a.m. Diana Rubin and Aryeh Maidenbaum, Opening Remarks; Margaret Klenck, Compulsion is the Great Mystery of Human Life (C.G. Jung)
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m. Gus Cwik, Fascination, Desire and Compulsion: A Compass for the Individuation Process
1:00 p.m. Break for Lunch (included)
2:30 p.m. WORKSHOPS I
- Ashok Bedi, Creating a Narrative of Passions Over Your Lifetime
- John Hayes, Reflections on the Irish Myth “Buile Shuibhine,” translated by Seamus Heaney
- Ronnie Landau, The Dark Feminine: A Psycho-Cultural Perspective
- Anne Pickup, Cards on the Table: The Paradoxical Possibility of Reaching a State of Unity with Our Own Opposing and Competing Energies
Evening: free; dinner on our own
Wednesday, April 2
9:30 a.m. Anne Pickup, The Terrible Price of Love
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m. WORKSHOPS II
- Ashok Bedi, Mapping and Engaging Your Emerging Passion
- Gus Cwik, Desire, and How it Shapes the Personality: Personal Reflections Welcomed
- Ronnie Landau, Discussions with Lilith; Image, Body, Sex, Compulsions, Transformation
- Aryeh Maidenbaum, Positive and Negative Compulsions: A Workshop for Men
1:00 p.m. Break for lunch (included)
2:30 p.m. WORKSHOPS III
- Gus Cwik, How Much Can One Learn by Being with an Unknown Other: the Reality of the Relational Field
- John Hayes, Reflections on the Irish Myth “Buile Shuibhine,” translated by Seamus Heaney
- Margaret Klenck, Oh the Wind and the Rain: Music as a way into the Feelings of Passion and Obsession
- Aryeh Maidenbaum & Diana Rubin, Working With Dreams: an Experiential Workshop
Afternoon and evening: free; dinner on our own.
Thursday, April 3
9:30 a.m. Ronnie Landau, Addiction to Perfection and Other Such Attachments
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m. WORKSHOPS IV
- Gus Cwik, Desire, and How it Shapes the Personality: Personal Reflections Welcomed
- John Hayes, Reflections on the Peregrinito (Wandering) of St.Brendan the Navigator
- Margaret Klenck, The Tension of Soulfulness Between Passion and Obsession
- Anne Pickup, Sounds of Silence and the Spaces in Our Often Competing, Soundbyte Directed World
Afternoon and evening: free; lunch and dinner on our own
Friday, April 4
Free day to rest, enjoy the hotel’s spa and surroundings and explore Galway on your own,
Or, for those who have signed up in advance, optional Outing to the Burren, considered the richest archaeological landscape in western Europe, crowned with dozens of prehistoric tombs and archaeological sites and monuments — including the densest concentration of Megalithic Tombs in Western Europe.
Evening: free; dinner on our own
Saturday, April 5
9:30 a.m. John Hayes, The Soul’s Imperatives: Our Relentless (and often misdirected) Pursuit of the Numinous
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m. WORKSHOPS V
- Ashok Bedi, Creating a Narrative of Passions Over Your Lifetime
- Ronnie Landau, The Dark Feminine: A Psycho-Cultural Perspective
- Margaret Klenck, The Tension of Soulfulness Between Passion and Obsession
- Anne Pickup, Sounds of Silence and the Spaces in Our Often Competing, Soundbyte Directed World
Afternoon and Evening: free; lunch and dinner on our own
Sunday, April 6
9:30 a.m. Ashok Bedi, Profiles in Passion
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee and tea
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Faculty review, followed by faculty-participant discussion
Afternoon free to relax, enjoy wandering about Galway town, visit sites of interest on our own, and/or enjoy the hotel’s spa and amenities.
7:30 p.m. Festive Closing Reception and Dinner (included)
Monday, April 7
Departures for Dublin Airport and Maldron Hotel Dublin Airport.
Please note: Daily schedule subject to change
Registration Information
March 31–April 7, 2025 | County Galway
Annual Seminar: Passions, Compulsions and Obsessions: The Forces That Drive Us
Cost: $2,990*
includes:
- Seven nights’ accommodations at Connemara Coast Hotel
- All presentations and workshops
- Full Irish breakfast daily; all breaks for coffee, tea, and scones; two lunches; and two dinners.
All program costs are based on double occupancy. Single supplement ($450) and Gratuities ($135) additional. Cost after January 10, $3,150.
Reserve your space.
A deposit of $600 for each program is required to reserve your space. Registration form must be completed in full, including credit-card information. Register online or call the office: 845-256-0191, we will be happy to help you register, provide more information, and/or help with your travel plans.
Payment in full is due by January 10, 2025. Subject to availability of space, participants may still register after this date, at a cost of $3,150 per program.
Stay for both weeks and the extra night is on us.
Register for both programs and your overnight accommodations on March 30 are complimentary, along with transportation from Limerick to Galway.
Participation
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. No prerequisites are required. The March 24–30, 2025 program at Glenstal Abbey is limited to 45 participants.
Arrangements can be made for family or friends interested in accompanying participants (but not attending) either or both programs. Call our office for more information.
Continuing Education Credits
Both programs in the Ireland Series offer continuing education credits as well as certificates of attendance.
Complete details are available here.
Travel Arrangements for Jung in Ireland
March 24–30, 2025 Glenstal Abbey Program in Limerick
Transportation by coach from the Maldron Hotel Dublin Airport to the Castletroy Park Hotel on March 24, and from the Castletroy Park Hotel to Dublin airport on March 30, will be available at a cost of 40 euros per person in each direction. Please call our office for details and departure times before you make your airline reservation.
March 31–April 7, 2025 Seminar in Galway
Transportation by coach from the Maldron Hotel Dublin Airport to the Connemara Coast Hotel in Galway on March 31 and from the Connemara Coast Hotel to Dublin Airport on April 7, will be available at a cost of 40 euros per person in each direction. Please call our office for details and departure times before you make your airline reservation.
Help with Travel Arrangements
One of the services we supply, at no additional charge, is to help with your travel arrangements. Our knowledgeable and patient staff can assist you in making your travel plans — including booking reservations that are available from the various airlines. If you need help booking your flight, contact our office at 845-256-0191, or email us.
Trip Cancellation Insurance
Participants are strongly urged to purchase travel insurance for losses necessitated by having to cancel participation. For your convenience, insurance information will be sent upon registration — or consult your own insurance agent.
Other Information
Tax Deductions Seminars of this type generally meet the requirements for IRS deductions.
Faculty and Other Changes All rights are reserved by the program directors to make faculty substitutions and/or modify the program (including hotels) if needed. All rights are reserved to ask a participant to leave who is disruptive to a program.
Cancellations and Refunds Deposit is refundable, less $195 administrative fee, if request is received in writing on or before December 10, 2025. No refunds after this date.
Disclaimer of Responsibility: By registering for this program, participant and/or accompanying guest specifically waives any and all claims of action against the New York Center for Jungian Studies and their respective staffs for damages, loss, injury, accident, sickness, or death incurred by any person in connection with this tour. The New York Center for Jungian Studies and their respective staffs assume no responsibility or liability in connection with the service of any train, vessel, carriage, aircraft, or other conveyance which may be used wholly or in part in the performance of their duty to the passengers. Neither will the New York Center for Jungian Studies or their staff be responsible for any injury, death, loss, accident, sickness, delay or irregularity through neglect or default of any company or person engaged in carrying out the purposes for which tickets, vouchers, or coupons are issued. No responsibility is accepted for losses or expenses due to sickness, viruses, weather, strikes, hostilities, wars, terrorist acts, or acts of nature, local laws, or other causes, or for any baggage or personal effects of any individual, or their accompanying guests, participating in one of the New York Center for Jungian Studies programs. In the event it becomes necessary or advisable for any reason whatsoever to alter the itinerary or arrangements for reasons outside the control of the New York Center for Jungian Studies, such alterations, including hotels, guides, scholars, or postponement of a program be made without penalty. All rights are reserved to require any participant, and/or their accompanying guests to withdraw from the program at his/her own expense when such an action is determined by the program staff to be in the best interest of the participant’s or accompanying guest’s health and safety, and/or that of the group in general. This agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, where it was made, and any action or proceeding concerning the subject of this agreement shall be commenced in the District Court of the County of Nassau.