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Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. has been teaching for 40 years. He is currently the author or co-editor of 12 volumes, including three volumes of poetry. His works include The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh. With Lionel Corbett, he has edited Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold. He has just published, with co-editor Glen Slater, Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture (Daimon Verlag 2008). He has also edited and contributed to a forthcoming collection of essays, co-edited with Jennifer Selig, Educating with Soul. |
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Marion Woodman, LLD, DHL, Ph.D. (Hon) is a Jungian analyst, teacher and author of numerous books. Marion has been exploring the relationship between psyche and soma through her work and teaching for 30 years. A visionary and teacher, she has developed some of Jung's ideas in an original and creative way. Marion is a founding member of the Marion Woodman Foundation, sponsor of BodySoul Rhythms Work. For more information on Marion’s work, visit www.mwoodmanfoundation.org. |
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Monday, August 25 with Dennis Patrick Slattery
Storied Self, Scripted Self:
The Journey of Life, the Journaling of a Life
Each of us begins inside a drama, a story, and a poiesis, a making of a life into a scripted coherent whole. When we remember, we reinvestigate the contours of a plot that has been unfolding without our conscious knowledge. We will pose through specific writing assignments, the question: What is the narrative we have been in without our knowing? |
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Tuesday, August 26 with Dennis Patrick Slattery
Reading, Re-reading, Writing: Reading Fiction and the Fiction of Reading and Writing
The manner in which we engage a work of fiction, poetry, or non-fiction opens a corridor into some of the contours of our personal mythology. Here we will read and then re-read a small number of poems and one short story as well as one non-fictional work in order to pay special attention to what attitudes, prejudices, insights, history we bring to a read work and what engages us in the act of re-reading. Part of our discussion will include a study of the Greek idea of Mimesis. |
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Wednesday, August 27 with Marion Woodman
Anchor of the Soul: A Lifetime of Journal Writing
In childhood, Marion Woodman began writing and drawing in her small locked diaries. This daily communication with her own soul became a necessity as her inner world shifted from obeying the outer to honoring the inner. Keeping in close touch with our soul’s delight and anguish in the world we live in is crucial to living our own destiny. For Marion, journal writing holds a strong container for the powerful dynamics that dare not be expressed publicly, offering an anchor of the soul. |
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Thursday, August 28 with Dennis Patrick Slattery
Writing the Wounded Self, Writing Towards Healing: The Fractious Fictional Self in Healing
What energy fields are engaged in wounding? Is wounding the inaugural first step in healing some aspect of the soul that is afflicted, as C.G. Jung himself wrote? Through poetry and our own memories, we will engage the wounded dimension of the soul, for it has a language, the lexicon of affliction. We will look together at a few pages from Dennis’ The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh. We will ask: what is it that woundings and afflictions make affectively present to the soul? |
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Friday, August 29 with Dennis Patrick Slattery
Writing One’s Spiritual or Sacred Autobiography:
Writing the Body’s Mythos
Many aspects of our present culture are disabusing themselves of the idea that body, psyche and spirit are separate and autonomous parts of one’s self. What is it to begin to remember and to write one’s spiritual autobiography? How is one’s personal myth implicated through our incarnation in that enterprise? What is it to imagine spirit-flesh within the realm of language, especially metaphor and symbol? |
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*Program is subject to change
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