Anne Strain, LCSW
Wednesdays, 7:30 - 9 pm
Jun 4 - Jul 9
$105 ($90 Jung Center members)
9 CE hours
Where do we turn when our archetypal expectations are not met in an important relationship? In Sue Monk Kidd's delightful novel The Secret Life of Bees, 12-year-old Lily Owens is caught up in just this question. A quintessential motherless child, Lily journeys to uncover the secrets of her past. Along the way, she challenges our concept of family and propels us to re-think how we are shaped, for good and for bad, by our own family dramas. Finally, we are ushered into the realm of the transcendent through Lily's encounter with the image of The Black Madonna - and the archetypal energy of the divine feminine. This class will explore what it means to be fully present to the pains and joys integral to relatedness, wherever it manifests: within a relationship, a family, a community, a culture, a universe, and especially with and between the various facets of one's self.
Required reading: The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Anne Strain, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice and a candidate-in-training to become a Jungian analyst in the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.
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