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Tending to the soul of our community
Do concepts like the collective unconscious, archetypes, synchronicity and dream interpretation intrigue you? Join us for community-oriented, transformative events, workshops and gatherings.
All who are interested in soulful exploration are welcome.
Utah mental health professionals may receive CE credits for both lectures and workshops.
Learn more about our mission and sign up for our email list here: jungutah.com
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We look forward to connecting with you at our next immersive experience.
Upcoming events
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- $20.00
Living a "Symbolic Life" - Great Salt Lake as Symbol
UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT, US### We are excited to welcome Brooke Williams back this season!
### Tickets on Eventbrite. Saturday Depth Workshop tickets here.
"You see, man is in need of a symbolic life—badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary rational, or irrational things...but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere, except where we participate in the ritual of life..."
~Carl Jung
"Love the Lake" lawn signs across Salt Lake Valley. Billboards along the freeway. Everyday something new in the news about Great Salt Lake. The politicians, most of them developers, tiptoeing around the issue, knowing deep beneath the sludge of their own wealth that We The People don't want Her, Great Salt Lake, to dry up. We don't want and literally can't live with the toxic dust blowing regularly across Salt Lake Valley. We can't condone the disruption of massive wild bird migrations.
If Great Salt Lake symbolizes our psyche, originally, the conscious and unconscious elements of the psyche mixed more freely with each other. Modernity created a hard division between them, as the berm which separates the North Arm from the South Arm; suddenly Great Salt Lake broke from its physical bonds in ordinary reality and became a metaphor.
We still have access to our unconscious, our own balancing, 'adjustable berm.' Many believe, like Freud, that this north, wild, unconscious psychic side threatens society, and sealing it off may be what's best. The North Arm, like our unconscious (both darker, murkier, and still wild) needs to live as though our survival depends on it, because it does.
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Friday Evening: Part 1 - The Lecture
Living a "Symbolic Life" - Great Salt Lake as Symbol
Friday, October 2nd, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
UMOCA Theater
20 S. West Temple, SLC, UT 84113
Opening Poet: Sam
Live Music: Mike
Local Artist: Laurie Eastwood
[Saturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop](https://Saturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop "https://Saturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop")
Living a "Symbolic Life" - Great Salt Lake as Symbol
Saturday, October 3rd, 12:00pm – 5:00 pm
Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
1719 S Main Street, SLC, UT 84115***
### TICKETS:
Friday Only - Part 1: $20 Advance Tickets | $25 Same Day, if available (Your 1 ticket free for Members)
[Entire Weekend:](https://Saturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop "https://Saturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop") $70 (Members: $50) BEST PRICE!
[Saturday Only - Part 2: ](https://Saturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop "https://Saturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop")$75 Advance Tickets | $85 Same Day, if available
(Members: Your 1 ticket is $50)***
Schedule: Friday Evening Lecture
6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle
7:00 – 8:30 pm: Lecture with Brooke Williams
8:30 - 9:00 pm: Community Social
Schedule: Saturday Workshop
11:45 am: Arrive at Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
12:00 - 5:00 pm: Depth Workshop***
1.5 CEUs & 5 CEUs available (per event) for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)
Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!***
From Our Presenter:
For most of my life I’ve been passionate about the wild world. Earlier, this meant skiing and climbing in some of the great mountains of America, wandering the cliffs and canyons of the Colorado Plateau or naturalizing in some of the planet’s last great Edens. Lately, during long solo walks I’ve discovered my own vast and complex inner wilderness. I write in an effort to understand the importance of inner and outer wildness in modern life. Years ago, after encouragement from my mentor, the great teacher, William Kitteridge, I realized that the one story I would tell over and over again for the rest of my life would be this: “We live in bodies that are largely unchanged since the Pleistocene, trying to make them work in a world which is vastly different from the one for which evolution designed us. Perhaps acknowledging this is a big step toward solving some of our current problems.” My ‘one story’ appears in various forms in dozens of stories and articles, and five books including Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness, Open Midnight, and my latest, Mary Jane Wild: Two Walks and a Rant. My passion for wildness has informed the conservation work I’ve done, formally and informally for over four decades, most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. I have an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Terry Tempest Williams and I live with our dog, Winslow, and three cats near Moab, Utah, where we raise rabbit brush and sage, and too much cheatgrass, watch light, and wait for rain.
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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Generously supported by our season sponsors: Golden Braid Books, Fallow Renewal Jungian Life Coaching, The Nomad Literary Magazine, Sugar House Distillery, Liberty Broadband, and Amanda Butler LMFT
Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, DeVon Stanfield, & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy| |
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|2 attendees - $75.00
Experiencing the Enchanted World
Full Circle Yoga and Therapy, 1719 S Main St, Salt Lake City, UT, USWelcoming back Brooke Williams for a don't-miss weekend!
Immersive Evening Friday, April 3rd
Saturday Depth Workshop, April 4th!
Tickets: for Friday Immersive Evening Only
TICKETS: for Sat. Workshop OR Entire Immersive Weekend
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Re-enchanting the space around us...
"Forever, that is long before Brigham Young brought Mormons to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, Great Salt Lake was one vast presence. Then progress and commerce and railroads and in 1902 a long trestle from old-growth redwood (because it could withstand the saltier-than-the-sea water) was built across it, saving trains time in getting across America, because time had in fact become money.
For fifty years, water flowed freely both ways beneath this massive bridge, until it was replaced by the rock causeway that exists today. Flow through the causeway now occurs beneath a massive 180-foot-long bridge, controlled by an adjustable earthen berm.
Forever, our human psyches were intact, undivided. This changed as we began abandoning the lifestyle that worked miraculously for over 200 thousand years for civilization. This massive shift, “the grand mistake” precipitated a division in our psyches, a causeway, if you will—our conscious, everyday modern reality on the south side, our unconscious, evolutionary material we share with every human who ever lived on the north.
This side, our wild side, is made up mostly of what psychologist Carl Jung called the 'collective unconscious' which contains our entire evolutionary history, including everything we ever needed to save ourselves. Now, modern life no longer requires that we acknowledge our unconscious at all, since much of what is found there becomes less and less attractive (read 'bad for business'), as we become more and more convinced that we've made evolution obsolete. To our peril, I believe.
We still have access to our unconscious, our own balancing, 'adjustable berm.' Many believe, like Freud, that this north, wild, unconscious psychic side threatens society, and sealing it off may be what's best. The North Arm, like our unconscious (both darker, murkier, and still wild) needs to live as though our survival depends on it, because it does." ~Brooke Williams
*****
Friday Evening: Part 1 - The Lecture
Living a "Symbolic Life" - Great Salt Lake as Symbol
Friday, October 2nd, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
UMOCA Theater
20 S. West Temple, SLC, UT 84113
Opening Poet: Sam
Live Music: Mike
Local Artist: Laurie EastwoodSaturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop
Living a "Symbolic Life" - Great Salt Lake as Symbol
Saturday, October 3rd, 12:00pm – 5:00 pm
Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
1719 S Main Street, SLC, UT 84115***
### TICKETS:
Friday Only - Part 1: $20 Advance Tickets | $25 Same Day, if available (Your 1 ticket free for Members)
Entire Weekend: $70 (Members: $50) BEST PRICE!
Saturday Only - Part 2: $75 Advance Tickets | $85 Same Day, if available
(Members: Your 1 ticket is $50)***
Schedule: Friday Evening Lecture
6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle
7:00 – 8:30 pm: Lecture with Brooke Williams
8:30 - 9:00 pm: Community Social
Schedule: Saturday Workshop
11:45 am: Arrive at Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
12:00 - 5:00 pm: Depth Workshop***
1.5 CEUs & 5 CEUs available (per event) for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)
Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!***
From Our Presenter:
For most of my life I’ve been passionate about the wild world. Earlier, this meant skiing and climbing in some of the great mountains of America, wandering the cliffs and canyons of the Colorado Plateau or naturalizing in some of the planet’s last great Edens. Lately, during long solo walks I’ve discovered my own vast and complex inner wilderness. I write in an effort to understand the importance of inner and outer wildness in modern life. Years ago, after encouragement from my mentor, the great teacher, William Kitteridge, I realized that the one story I would tell over and over again for the rest of my life would be this: “We live in bodies that are largely unchanged since the Pleistocene, trying to make them work in a world which is vastly different from the one for which evolution designed us. Perhaps acknowledging this is a big step toward solving some of our current problems.” My ‘one story’ appears in various forms in dozens of stories and articles, and five books including Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness, Open Midnight, and my latest, Mary Jane Wild: Two Walks and a Rant. My passion for wildness has informed the conservation work I’ve done, formally and informally for over four decades, most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. I have an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Terry Tempest Williams and I live with our dog, Winslow, and three cats near Moab, Utah, where we raise rabbit brush and sage, and too much cheatgrass, watch light, and wait for rain.
- - - - -
Generously supported by our season sponsors: Golden Braid Books, Fallow Renewal Jungian Life Coaching, The Nomad Literary Magazine, Sugar House Distillery, Liberty Broadband, and Amanda Butler LMFT
Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, DeVon Stanfield, & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy| |
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|1 attendee - $20.00
Sovereignty - Meeting the Inner Queen and King
UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT, US| (Eventbrite ticket links, below. See also Dr. Shelby's Saturday workshop!)
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What does it mean to become sovereign in one’s own life?
Across mythology, depth psychology, and alchemy, the figures of the Queen and King symbolize something far greater than gender. They represent the emergence of inner authority—the capacity to govern one’s life from a deep center rather than from fear, conditioning, approval-seeking, or unconscious forces.
In this evening presentation, Dr. Stacey Shelby explores sovereignty as an archetypal journey. Drawing from Jungian psychology, mythology, dreamwork, and alchemical symbolism, she will examine the development of the Sovereign Queen and Sovereign King as expressions of mature consciousness. Together we will explore themes of self-rule, authority, vitality, desire, creativity, beauty, instinct, and the liberation of the psyche from inherited limitations.
The lecture will consider how sovereignty develops through life’s initiations, losses, and transformations, and why many people find themselves called toward a deeper relationship with power and purpose during periods of transition. Participants will leave with a richer understanding of sovereignty as both a psychological and spiritual task, as well as practical reflections for recognizing where greater authority and aliveness may be seeking expression in their own lives.
A brief experiential exercise will invite participants into a direct encounter with the archetypal energies being discussed.
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Welcome to Season 18 ~ Archetype
This season, our Friday evenings will have more audience engagement and participation. You will have the opportunity that evening to begin what we will dive into fully the next day, Saturday, in embodied, highly interactive exploration and practice- together! This season follows Jung's concept of archetype: a universal, inherited pattern of thought, image, and symbol that lives in the collective unconscious of all human beings. These deep mental blueprints shape how we feel, dream, and act, and they show up in myths and stories across every culture.
Consider investing in yourself each month this season. Give yourself an entire immersive, transformational experience with like-minded, like-hearted community. Renew your heart and soul. Dive and play with us, as Jung himself did, in the ether of soul and self. We will be weaving Jung's teachings deeply into our explorations.
*****
Friday Evening: Part 1 - The Lecture
Sovereignty - Meeting the Inner Queen and King
Friday, September 4th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
UMOCA Theater
20 S. West Temple, SLC, UT 84113
Opening Poet: Rachel Hodge
Live Music: Cherry
Local Artist: Kirsten
Saturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop
Sovereignty: The Queen, the King, and the Sacred Marriage
NOTE DIFFERENT TIME FROM OTHER WORKSHOPS:
Saturday, Sept 6th, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
1719 S Main Street, SLC, UT 84115
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|### TICKETS:
Friday Only - Part 1: $20 Advance Tickets | $25 Same Day, if available (free for Members and Sponsors)
Entire Weekend: $70 (Members: $50) BEST PRICE!
Saturday Only - Part 2: $75 Advance Tickets | $85 Same Day, if available
(Members: Your 1 ticket is $50)
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Schedule: Friday Evening Lecture
6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle
7:00 – 8:30 pm: Lecture with Robert Waggoner
8:30 - 9:00 pm: Community SocialSchedule: Saturday Workshop
11:15 am: Arrive at Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
NOTE NEW TIME: 11:30 am - 4:30 pm: Depth Workshop
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1.5 CEUs & 5 CEUs available (per event) for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)
Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!
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About Our Presenter:
Stacey Shelby, Ph.D., is a depth psychotherapist, author, speaker, and educator. In her private practice, she works with individuals online as they navigate life transitions, relationship challenges, anxiety, and questions of meaning. She serves as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) in Canada. She is a certified clinical dream tender and has studied extensively in plant medicine and yoga traditions. An entrepreneur, she is the founder of two therapy clinics and an AI therapy app.
Drawn to depth psychology by a desire to be in service to the deeper dimensions of human experience, Stacey's work attends to both practical realities and the symbolic language of the soul as it emerges through dreams, relationships, symptoms, life transitions, and everyday experience. Her approach fosters greater self-trust, emotional clarity, and inner authority—so clients can move forward with steadiness, insight, and a stronger connection to their lived experience.
www.drstaceyshelby.com
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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Golden Braid Books, Fallow Renewal Jungian Life Coaching, The Nomad Literary Magazine, Sugar House Distillery, Liberty Broadband, and Amanda Butler LMFT
Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, DeVon Stanfield, & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy| |
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|2 attendees - $75.00
Sovereignty - The Queen, the King, and the Sacred Marriage
Full Circle Yoga and Therapy, 1719 S Main St, Salt Lake City, UT, USNOTE NEW TIME! Earlier than other workshops this season. Ticket links to Eventbrite, below. See link to Friday night lecture, a part of this series.
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Jungian psychology, archetypal studies, personal development, dreamwork, alchemy, and the ongoing process of becoming who you really are...
This five-hour experiential workshop explores sovereignty as the inner capacity to govern one's life with integrity, self-trust, and self-belonging. Drawing from Jungian psychology, dreamwork, mythology, alchemy, and the psychology of love, participants will explore sovereignty not as domination or independence, but as the ability to remain rooted in oneself while fully engaged with life, instinct, relationship, and the demands of the world.The workshop follows a developmental arc: Instinct to Containment to Sovereignty to Relationship to Sacred Marriage.
We begin by exploring the distinction between power and authority, self-rule and domination, and heroic striving versus mature stewardship. Through reflective and experiential exercises, participants will consider where they have ceded authority to fear, conditioning, inherited expectations, or unconscious patterns.
From there, we move into the archetypal territories of the Sovereign Queen and Sovereign King. Through guided imaginal work, reflective writing, active imagination, and group dialogue, participants will encounter these inner figures and explore their relationship to authority, desire, creativity, responsibility, vitality, and self-governance. Particular attention will be given to the Queen's task of reclaiming authority and self-definition, and the King's task of developing a conscious relationship to power, service, emotional responsibility, and stewardship.Dreamwork becomes a bridge into the symbolic life of the psyche as we explore how sovereign, instinctual, and transformative images emerge through dreams. Drawing on the image of the tiger, we will consider sovereignty as a relationship with instinct—not its domination or suppression, but its conscious containment and integration.
The final portion of the workshop explores Eros, projection, and the alchemical Sacred Marriage through the myth of Psyche and Eros, and the alchemical coniunctio. Participants will engage in dream inquiry, journaling, projection work, guided visualization, pair dialogue, and active imagination as they explore how intimacy changes when it arises between two sovereign centers rather than from a search for completion.Together we will explore how instinct becomes contained, how containment gives rise to sovereignty, how sovereignty transforms relationship, and how the sacred marriage emerges as an ongoing practice of holding opposites: freedom and commitment, power and tenderness, instinct and consciousness, self and other.
*****
Welcome to Season 18 ~ Archetype
This season, our Friday evenings will have more audience engagement and participation. You will have the opportunity that evening to begin what we will dive into fully the next day, Saturday, in embodied, highly interactive exploration and practice- together! This season follows Jung's concept of archetype: a universal, inherited pattern of thought, image, and symbol that lives in the collective unconscious of all human beings. These deep mental blueprints shape how we feel, dream, and act, and they show up in myths and stories across every culture.
Consider investing in yourself each month this season. Give yourself an entire immersive, transformational experience with like-minded, like-hearted community. Renew your heart and soul. Dive and play with us, as Jung himself did, in the ether of soul and self. We will be weaving Jung's teachings deeply into our explorations.
*****
Friday Evening: Part 1 - The Lecture
Sovereignty: Meeting the Inner Queen and King
Friday, November 13th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
UMOCA Theater
20 S. West Temple, SLC, UT 84113
Opening Poet: Rachel Hodge
Live Music: Cherry
Local Artist: KirstenSaturday: Part 2 - The Depth Workshop
Sovereignty - The Queen, the King, and the Sacred Marriage
NOTE EARLIER TIME : Saturday, November 14th, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
1719 S Main Street, SLC, UT 84115***
### TICKETS:
Friday Only - Part 1: $20 Advance Tickets | $25 Same Day, if available (Your 1 ticket (PLUS ONE for this event!) free for Members and Sponsors)
Entire Weekend: $70 (Members: $50) BEST PRICE!
Saturday Only - Part 2: $75 Advance Tickets | $85 Same Day, if available
(Members: Your 1 ticket is $50 and comes with a PLUS ONE for this event***
Schedule: Friday Evening Lecture
6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle
7:00 – 8:30 pm: Lecture with Robert Waggoner
8:30 - 9:00 pm: Community SocialSchedule: Saturday Workshop
11:15am: Arrive at Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
NOTE DIFFERENT TIME FROM OTHER WORKSHOPS!
11:30-4:30 pm: Depth Workshop***
1.5 CEUs & 5 CEUs available (per event) for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)
Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!***
About Our Presenter:
Stacey Shelby, Ph.D., is a depth psychotherapist, author, speaker, and educator. In her private practice, she works with individuals online as they navigate life transitions, relationship challenges, anxiety, and questions of meaning. She serves as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) in Canada. She is a certified clinical dream tender and has studied extensively in plant medicine and yoga traditions. An entrepreneur, she is the founder of two therapy clinics and an AI therapy app.
Drawn to depth psychology by a desire to be in service to the deeper dimensions of human experience, Stacey's work attends to both practical realities and the symbolic language of the soul as it emerges through dreams, relationships, symptoms, life transitions, and everyday experience. Her approach fosters greater self-trust, emotional clarity, and inner authority—so clients can move forward with steadiness, insight, and a stronger connection to their lived experience.
www.drstaceyshelby.com
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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Golden Braid Books, Fallow Renewal Jungian Life Coaching, The Nomad Literary Magazine, Sugar House Distillery, Liberty Broadband, and Amanda Butler LMFT
Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, DeVon Stanfield, & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy| |
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|2 attendees
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