Presenting the 22nd Annual
Jung in Ireland
Rich in history, alive with impeccable natural beauty, and steeped in mythology, Ireland once again provides the setting for our spring travel programs.
Ireland Overview
We are pleased to be able to return to Ireland and continue our annual tradition of Jung in Ireland programs. April 5–11 at Glenstal Abbey for Chaos and Order: Resilience of the Psyche, and April 12–19 for our annual seminar, Dreams, Synchronicity and Other Non-Verbal Pathways to Healing. For our 22nd year in Ireland we look forward to welcoming participants from around the world in an exploration of C.G. Jung’s work and related themes.
Rich in history, alive with impeccable natural beauty and steeped in mythology, Ireland provides a magical, inspiring setting. Open to individuals from all fields as well as mental health professionals, our programs provide an extraordinary opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with participants from diverse backgrounds and to interact with the dynamic monks of Glenstal Abbey and internationally known Jungian analysts and authors.
A combination of inspired content, magical settings, superb accommodations, and gourmet meals provide an unforgettable experience, and a unique and meaningful learning vacation.
We invite you to join us for one or both unique programs and experience the magical setting of Ireland!
—Aryeh Maidenbaum and Diana Rubin, Directors, New York Center for Jungian Studies
Two Weeklong Programs
Stay for both weeks and get an extra night on us.
Register for both programs and your overnight accommodations on March 26 are free, along with transportation from Limerick to Galway.
April 5-11, 2024
County Limerick
A Special Program with the Monks of Glenstal Abbey
Chaos & Order:
Resilience of the Psyche
Once again we return to extraordinary Glenstal Abbey, set on over 300 magnificent acres of farmland, forest, lakes and streams for a special program with the monks of Glenstal Abbey. Join us and hear presentations by some of the Abbey’s monks and our outstanding faculty of Jungian analysts, including John Hill, Margaret Klenck, Anne Pickup, and Tina Stromsted, as we explore this all important theme. Meet participants interested in exploring the psychology and ideas of C.G. Jung, attend a musical performance by noted Irish musician Nóirín Ní Riain, and enjoy Ireland’s unparalleled hospitality.
April 12-19, 2024
County Galway
A Seminar
Dreams, Synchronicity and Other Non-Verbal Pathways to Healing
Our 22nd annual Jung in Ireland seminar offers a week with leading Jungian analysts and authors including Joe Cambray, Linda Carter, Lionel Corbett, Marian Dunlea, Janis Maxwell, and Dennis Patrick Slattery. Over the course of our week, through a unique combination of presentations and experiential workshops, we will learn how Jung understood the importance of understanding, and accepting, and explore how these non-rational processes can help the healing process.
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Chaos and Order: The Dance of Creative Forces
April 5–11, 2024 | County Limerick A Special Program with the Monks of Glenstal Abbey
Once again we return to extraordinary Glenstal Abbey, set on over 300 magnificent acres of farmland, forest, lakes and streams for a special program with the monks of Glenstal Abbey. Join us and hear presentations by some of the Abbey’s monks and our outstanding faculty of Jungian analysts, including John Hill, Margaret Klenck, Morgan Stebbins, and Tina Stromsted, as we explore this all important theme. Meet participants interested in exploring the psychology and ideas of C.G. Jung, attend a musical performance by noted Irish musician Noirin Ni Riain, and enjoy Ireland’s unparalleled hospitality.
Program Overview
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. —C.G. Jung
Sometimes, our lives can feel chaotic, unstable, and disorienting. The outer world around us can also seem to be falling apart and in disarray. We crave order, sanity and inner peace. For change to happen, however, old patterns and ways need to be disrupted on both the personal and collective levels.
In modern chaos theory, we now realize that order and structure can be spontaneously generated out of disorder. What seems like randomness, can give way to new underlying patterns that evolve and self-organize.
In our psyches, chaos, mayhem and disorder can lead to a time of renewal, generativity, wisdom and growth that we didn’t know we had within us. It can assist us in reinventing ourselves and harnessing the creative forces within. By holding the tension of opposites—of chaos and order—what Jung calls the Transcendent Function emerges—a resolution that is neither order nor chaos, but rather a third and entirely new entity.
Join our outstanding faculty of Jungian analysts, and the erudite monks of Glenstal Abbey as we explore the dance of creative forces in chaos and order.
Through a combination of presentation by our faculty and the monks of Glenstal Abbey, we will draw on the potential we all have to find hope and meaning and to foster our resilience for the challenging days ahead.
Dreams, Divination & Synchronicity: Pathways to Healing
Annual Seminar April 12–19, 2024 | Location TBD
Our 22nd annual Jung in Ireland seminar offers a week with leading Jungian analysts and authors including Joe Cambray, Linda Carter, Lionel Corbett, Marian Dunlea, Janis Maxwell, and Dennis Slattery. Over the course of our week, through a unique combination of presentations and experiential workshops, we will learn how Jung understood the importance of understanding and exploring how these non-rational processes can help the healing process.
Program Overview
Throughout the ages, humanity has often turned to dreams, oracles, and omens to connect the limits of consciousness to divine omnipotence as a way to chart the course of our lives. The search continues to this day. Many of us seek out psychotherapists to help us decipher our dreams; we turn to astrologers to find out what the cosmos has in store for us, and we invest the I Ching, rune stones, angel cards, the Tarot, and even fortune cookies with mysterious powers that can somehow foresee our destiny in the messages they deliver.
Dreams have long been revered as a source of wisdom. The world’s sacred texts reveal messengers appearing in dreams to guide us, warn us, inspire us, comfort us, and even -as in the case with an angel and Jacob in the book of Genesis – wrestle with us. For Jung, dreams come from the Unconscious, the part of our psyche which transcends the ego – a message from the Self within that guides and communicates with us and offers a golden opportunity for insight.
On other levels, Jung himself explored not only dreams, but also astrology, the I-Ching, and Alchemy- all methods of exploration of the Unconscious. He believed that seemingly random events were often points of contact between our conscious and unconscious. He believed that the Unconscious creates a physical manifestation of external reality which in turn creates what he terms Synchronicity, a meaningful coincidence.
Like Jung, many of us also witness and are even a part of these occurrences that seem to happen beyond all probability and we cannot deny their reality. Moreover, they can even provide a sudden breakthrough for our most entrenched dilemmas and personal issues that cannot be solved within the limits of reality or reason. Others, however, believe that nothing occurs outside the realm of chance, scientific causality, or statistical probability. Synchronicity and signs, they feel, are the language of fools, all gibberish and utter nonsense or, worse, some sort of black magic. Are they right?
Each of us is called upon to consider these questions: is the universe just a collection of arbitrary elements and random events, or is there some sort of ultimate meaning in it for our lives, and if so, how do we find it? It may be happening all around us, but what are the methods of discernment we can tap into to find this meaning without being fooled?
Through presentations and experiential workshops, during the course of this seminar we will explore the importance of these non-rational mediums as a source of divination, inner guidance, and wellspring of creativity.
Special Arrangements for attending both programs:
For those participating in both the Glenstal and Seminar programs, overnight accommodations will be provided at the Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick on March 26 and transportation included to the Connemara Coast Hotel, Galway on March 27.