MT Friends of Jung presents: Polly Young-Eisendrath
Montana Friends of Jung will present a weekend with author and Jungian psychoanalyst Polly Young-Eisendrath, Friday and Saturday, November 10th–11th. Events will take place at Element Bozeman, located at 25 E Mendenhall. Here’s a look at the lecture and workshop schedule.
Polly’s Friday evening lecture, “Gathering Up Our Brokenness,” will be held from 7–8:30pm. Often, we hear about grieving our mistakes, failures, losses, and imperfections, but rarely do we learn how to mine them for their richness. Because human beings are naturally broken — with personalities that are largely unconscious, reactive, and hard to manage — we have countless opportunities in our relationships and work to see ourselves in the cracks of the mirror. This lecture draws on Carl Jung’s psychology of individuation and the Buddha’s teachings on awakening to offer a new vision of imperfection with its inherent openings to compassion and love.
Saturday’s lecture and workshop, “Love is a Spiritual Path: Relationship as Psycho-Spiritual Development,” will run from 9am–4:30pm. This workshop will explore the nature of “true love” or “personal love,” defined as mutual love between equals, requiring insight, mindfulness, equanimity, emotional maturity, open communication and honesty. True love, in this sense, is different from romance and from biological attachment bonds. Polly guides participants toward understanding how and why well-meaning people get caught up in harmful emotional patterns if they do not understand their inner-lives as individuals. The workshop will show participants how to “mind the space” between them with respect and compassion.
The Friday evening lecture is $20, while Saturday’s lecture and workshop package is $170. Seven (7) Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available to participants. For further details, visit www.montanafriendsofjung.org. Email valerie@valerieharms.com with additional questions and to register.
Polly Young-Eisendrath is an engaging and imaginative speaker, writer, Jungian analyst, and mindfulness teacher. She is the author of True Love Ways: Relationship as Psycho-Spiritual Development; The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery; The Self-Esteem Trap; Hugs and Heroes: A Feminist Approach to Jungian Psychotherapy with Couples; Gender and Desire: Uncursing Pandora; Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy; Female Authority; and The Cambridge Companion to Jung. Learn more about Polly at www.young-eisendrath.com.
Montana Friends of Jung is a nonprofit educational organization for all individuals interested in the ideas of psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung and an approach to daily living through depth psychology. The organization, run by a volunteer Board of Directors, facilitates the formation of dreamwork and Centerpoint study groups. They sponsor events, lectures, and seminars by noted analysts, scholars, and writers in the field of Jungian psychology and serve as a hub of information for Montanans interested in this work. Montana Friends of Jung also invite workshop proposals from members of the community. They have an inclusive, lay membership not limited to mental health professionals. •
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Revenant author lectures as part of MSU series about North American West 10/16/2017 502 N
From MSU News Service
Michael Punke, author of The Revenant and former deputy U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, will give the second talk in the Center for Western Lands and Peoples’ Perspectives on the American West Lecture Series on Monday, October 16th.
Punke’s lecture, “Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo and the Birth of the New West” is set for 6pm at the Museum of the Rockies’ Hager Auditorium and is free and open to the public. It will be preceded by a book-signing at 5:30pm and followed by a reception, both in the museum’s lobby. Doors open at 5:15pm.
Punke will discuss the saga of George Bird Grinnell, a scientist, journalist, hunter and a conservationist, who led the battle to save the buffalo from extinction and gave birth to the American conservation movement. In the final decades of the 19th century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million was reduced to 23 animals. Fighting in the pages of magazines, in Washington’s halls of power and in the frozen valleys of Yellowstone National Park, Grinnell and his allies sought to preserve the icon. Grinnell shared his adventures with some of the greatest and most infamous characters of the American West — from John James Audubon and Buffalo Bill, to George Armstrong Custer and Theodore Roosevelt.
Punke is currently the vice president for Global Public Policy at Amazon Web Services. From 2010 to 2017, he served as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He had lead responsibility for international trade negotiations including the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the Trade in Services Agreement, the Environmental Goods Agreement and all negotiations under the auspices of the WTO.
From 2003 to 2010, Punke lived in Missoula, where he continues to keep his family home, and worked as a writer, consultant and adjunct professor at the University of Montana. His novel, The Revenant, served as the basis for the award-winning film of the same name. The Revenant has been translated into more than 20 languages and was an international bestseller, including four weeks as a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. He has also written several screenplays, as well as two works of narrative nonfiction: Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917, published in 2007, and Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West, published in 2009.
The American West lecture series features experts from around the country discussing the history, literature and culture of the West; issues affecting the wildlife and fisheries of the region; and the West’s geography, geology and resources. The series is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Architecture and the Burton K. Wheeler Center. It is a program of the Center for Western Lands and Peoples, an interdisciplinary research center within the College of Letters and Science that is focused on the places and peoples of the Western United States and Canada. •
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