Jung in Ireland
Dreams, Synchronicity and Other
Non-Verbal Pathways to Healing
Annual Seminar
County Galway
April 12-19, 2024
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.
April 12-19, 2024 | County Galway
Annual Seminar: Dreams, Synchronicity and Other Non-Verbal Pathways to Healing
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; three lunches; and two dinners.
All program costs are based on double occupancy. Single supplement ($435) and Gratuities ($125) additional. Cost after January 19, $3150
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 Saturday, Sunday, 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; 3 lunches (April 13, 14, and 17); welcoming and closing dinners (April 12 and 18).
Optional Outing Tuesday April 16
Exploring the Crannóg (Celtic Lake Dwellings) & Coastal Midden Sites of South Connemara.
On Tuesday April 16, Michael Gibbons, one of Ireland’s leading archaeologists, will personally lead an all day outing to explore the Crannóg (Celtic Lake Dwellings) and Coastal Midden Sites of South Connemara. This area mirrors the Outer Hebrides in Scotland and is rich in Iron Age (Celtic) lake dwelling or crannógs, and man made islands used as fortified farms and homes — including causeways to these islands. Sea level rise and worsening winter storms is exposing Midden Site or ancient rubbish dumps along the Connemara Coast so that monuments and artifacts from all ages are being discovered as we go beach walking.
The trip will be limited to 30 participants; details and sign-up information will be sent following registration for the seminar.
Faculty
Joe Cambray, Ph.D., is past-president-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; past-president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is also a Jungian analyst living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, a newly edited volume, with Leslie Sawin, Our World of Uncertainty: Possibilities and Challenges Through a Jungian Perspective. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals.
Linda Carter, MSN, CS, IAAP (USA), is a nurse and a Jungian analyst in private practice in Carpinteria, California and is a graduate of Georgetown and Yale Universities, and the C. G. Jung Institute in Boston. She has been on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute, teaches internationally (especially in China) and publishes widely. In addition, she is chair and founder of the Art and Psyche Working Group, a collaborative organization based on models of emergence, whose mission is to bring together members of the art world with psychotherapists and anyone interested in depth psychology. For the Journal of Analytical Psychology, she has served as the book review editor, US editor-in-chief, and more recently, editor of the film and culture section. As part of the Art and Psyche Working Group, Linda has won Gradiva awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) in the art category (2019) for the exhibition “The Illuminated Imagination, The Art of C.G. Jung;” in the digital media category (2021) for the service outreach project, “Art in a Time of Global Crisis: Interconnection and Companionship;” and she was short-list nominated in best article category (2022) for “Amazing Grace.”
Lionel Corbett, MD, trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. A professor of Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, he is the author of five books: Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion; The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering; and Understanding Evil: A Psychotherapists Guide; and co-editor of several volumes of collected papers: Psyche’s Stories, Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field; Psychology at the Threshold; and Jung and Aging. His latest book is The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung. 
Marian Dunlea M.Sc., IAAP, ICP, author of Body-Dreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach, is a Jungian analyst in Galway, Ireland. Marian is a Somatics practitioner who has been teaching and leading workshops internationally for the past 30 years on the theme of integrating body and soul. She is head of the BodySoul Europe training program, sister organization of the Marion Woodman Foundation, where she is a core faculty member. With the development of her unique approach, Marian incorporates developments in neuroscience, trauma therapy, and attachment theory with Jungian psychology, and the phenomenological standpoint of interconnectedness. In 2019 her book, Body-Dreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach, won the Gradiva Award for best book by NAAP (National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis) and shared first-place Best Book award from The International Association for Jungian Studies’.
Michael Gibbons, one of Ireland’s most respected archaeologists, is acclaimed for his ongoing fieldwork in Connemara. A popular presenter, he has lectured worldwide, including at Oxford, Cambridge, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Author of Connemara: Visions of Iar Chonnacht, as well as numerous articles, Michael is a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, the Croagh Patrick archaeological research team, and the Heritage Council of Ireland.
Janis M. Maxwell, PhD is a Jungian Analyst with a private practice in Easton, Maryland. She is a graduate, faculty member and supervising training analyst of the C. G. Jung Institute-Zurich and is currently a member of the Curatorium at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Dr. Maxwell is past president of the Philadelphia Jung Institute and has served as Director of Training for that Institute as well as the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She worked as a corporate officer of a major Fortune 500 company for 18 years before becoming an analyst, and holds degrees in mathematics and psychology. 
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. 
Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. He had been teaching there for 27 of his 55 years in the classroom. He is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 33 volumes, including 7 volumes of poetry as well as a co-authored novel. Dr. Slattery has also authored over 200 articles, book reviews and blogs on cultural topics. His most recent book is The Fictions in Our Convictions: Essays on the Cultural Imagination. He has also taught student inmates in a California prison for over two years using Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Aryeh Maidenbaum, PhD, Jungian analyst, is co-director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies. His publications include the articles The Search for Spirit in Jungian Psychology; Sounds of Silence; Psychological Types, Job Change, and Personal Growth, and, most recently, Anti-Semitism: The Jungian Dilemma, which appeared in a recent book entitled Psychiatry and Anti-Semitism, as well as co-editor of Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism and editor of, and contributor to, Jung and the Shadow of Anti-Semitism. Additionally, Dr. Maidenbaum, has organized and led Jewish Heritage Travel programs throughout the world and has recently completed a book on aspects of Judaism through a Jungian lens.
Daily Schedule
Friday, April 12
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)
Saturday, April 13
7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Full Irish breakfast, served daily.
9:30 a.m. Diana Rubin and Aryeh Maidenbaum: Opening Remarks
Lionel Corbett, Divination as a Spiritual Practice: Discerning the Will of the Gods
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m. Linda Carter, Concentric Circles of Influence: Knowing Through Play & the Arts
1:00 p.m. Break for Lunch (included)
2:30 p.m. Workshops I
- Marian Dunlea, Body Dreaming: an Approach to the Numinous
- Dennis Patrick Slattery, Interactive Fields in Everyday Life
- Joe Cambray, Divination and Oracles: When the Self Speaks, do we Listen?
- Janis Maxwell, Music and Active Imagination
***Evening: free; dinner on our own
Sunday, April 14
9:30 a.m. Janis Maxwell, Music as a Pathway to the Divine and Healing
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Workshops II
- Marian Dunlea, The Landscape of Dreams from an Embodied Perspective
- Lionel Corbett, Divination in Practice: Cards, I-Ching, Dousing Pendulum
- Joe Cambray, Manifestation of the Numinous
- Linda Carter, Balancing Grief on One Shoulder with Joy on the Other
1:00 p.m. Break for lunch (included)
2:30 p.m. Workshops III
- Aryeh Maidenbaum, Personal Stories of Synchronicity
- Janis Maxwell, Synchronicity and the Mystery of Number
- Dennis Slattery, Interactive Fields in Everyday Life
- Diana Rubin, Women’s Workshop — Honoring the Wonder in Our Lives
***Evening: free; dinner on our own.
Monday, April 15
9:30 a.m. Marian Dunlea, Body Dreaming: an Approach to Divination
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m. Workshops IV
- Joe Cambray, Divination and Oracles: When the Self Speaks, do we Listen?
- Lionel Corbett, Working With Dreams: Experiential Workshop
- Linda Carter, Communication Without Words in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
- Dennis Slattery, Poetic Divination as Personal Revelation: Writing Our Way Down
Afternoon and evening: free; lunch and dinner on our own
Tuesday, April 16
Free day to rest, enjoy the hotel’s spa and surroundings
—Or—
Full day field trip exploring the Crannóg (Celtic Lake Dwellings) and Coastal Midden Sites of South Connemara, led by noted Irish archaeologist Michael Gibbons. NOTE: This optional outing requires reservation in advance. Details will be sent upon registration.
Wednesday, April 17
9:30 a.m. Dennis Slattery, A Path to Personal Wisdom: Dante’s Divining Comedy
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m. Workshops V
- Lionel Corbett, Working With Dreams: Experiential Workshop
- Linda Carter, Balancing Grief on One Shoulder with Joy on the Other
- Janis Maxwell, Synchronicity and the Mystery of Number
- Marian Dunlea, Divination and the Body Psyche Dance
1:00 p.m. Break for Lunch (included)
***Evening: free; dinner on our own
Thursday, April 18
9:30 a.m. Joe Cambray, Listening to the Soul: Altered States of Consciousness and Synchronicity
11:00 a.m. Break for coffee, tea, and scones
11:30 a.m. Faculty and participant discussion; seminar closure
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. A complimentary shuttle van will be provided from the Connemara Coast hotel to and from Galway town.
7:30 p.m. Festive closing reception and dinner (included)
Friday, April 19
Departures for Dublin Airport and Radisson Dublin Airport Hotel. Times and sign-up sheets to be posted!
Please note: Daily schedule subject to change
Registration Information
April 12-19, 2024 | County Galway
Annual Seminar: Dreams, Synchronicity and Other Non-Verbal Pathways to Healing
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; three lunches; and two dinners.
All program costs are based on double occupancy. Single supplement ($435) and Gratuities ($125) additional. Cost after January 19, $3150
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 19, 2024. Subject to availability of space, participants may still register after this date, at a cost of $3150 per program.
Stay for both weeks and the extra night is on us.
Register for both programs and your overnight accommodations on April 11 are free, 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 April 5–11, 2024 program at Glenstal Abbey is limited to 40 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
April 5–11, 2024 Glenstal Abbey Program in Limerick Transportation by coach from the Radisson Blu Dublin Airport Hotel to the Castletroy Park Hotel on April 5, and from the Castletroy Park Hotel to Dublin airport on April 11, 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.
April 12–19, 2024 Seminar in Galway Transportation by coach from the Radisson Blu Dublin Airport Hotel to the Connemara Coast Hotel in Galway on April 12 and from the Connemara Coast Hotel to Dublin Airport on April 19, 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 $175 administrative fee, if request is received in writing on or before December 1, 2023. 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.