“What Matters Most: Living A More Considered Life”

“As Jung observed,…‘Man’s worse sin is unconsciousness, but it is indulged in with the greatest piety’…In the end, having a more interesting life, a life that disturbs complacency, a life that pulls us out of the comfortable and thereby demands a larger spiritual engagement than we planned or that feels comfortable, is what matters most.” James Hollis from What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“If we fail to engage in some form of cogent dialogue with the questions which emerge from our depths, then we will live an unconscious, unreflective, accidental life.” –James Hollis from What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

In the evening session, Dr. James Hollis will introduce participants to the characteristics of a more considered life. While relationships, love, honor, good work and reputation are important, what really matters most is: exploring shock and awe-that life not be governed by fear; saving appearances-that we learn to tolerate ambiguity; and starving in abundance-that we consider feeding the soul. During the day-long workshop, Dr. Hollis will lead participants into the depths of the most important aspects of life: that we respect the power of Eros; that we step into largeness; that we risk growth over security; that we find and follow the path of creativity and delight in foolish passions; that we engage spiritual crises and other “bad days at the office”; that we write our own story; that we fight fate and love it also; that we live more fully in the shadow of mortality; and that we accept that our home is our journey, and our journey is our home. It is having wrestled with these issues, having kept the mystery before us, that is what matters most.

James Hollis, Ph.D., has a compelling gift for distilling complex literary, artistic, historical, philosophical and scientific material and conveying their symbolic essence. He is a Zurich-trained, licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Houston, Texas, where he served as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was the first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation (dedicated to the publication of the complete works of Jung). He is also Director of the Jungian Studies program of San Francisco’s Saybrook Graduate School, the first degree-granting program focusing on original Jungian texts. Dr. Hollis is one of the most widely published Jungian authors with 13 books, including Archetypal Imagination, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, and his most recent work, What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life. His works have already been translated into 13 languages.

Learning Objectives:
Following the completion of this program, participants will be able to:
1.     Define what is most important in life, in one’s own and in the lives of one’s clients;
2.     Redefine what actually matters most as the consideration of ambiguity;
3.     Comprehend the power of projection of unclaimed shadow issues in oneself and in one’s clients;
4.     Understand the need for honoring but wrestling with the fear and lethargy behind our modern
obsessions with materialism, hedonism, and narcissism;
5.     Recognize our need to connect and relate to others, in one’s own life and in the lives of one’s clients;
6. Identify the importance of moving beyond the comfort level into largeness, in one’s own life and in
one’s clients’ lives;
7.     Cultivate the genuinely creative in oneself and in one’s clients; and
8.     Experience the burden and freedom that comes with accepting our mysterious journey

You may register online with a credit card or by filling out this form and mailing your check made to CJSSF to: Patrick Parham, P.O. Box 669, Hallandale, FL 33008 OR call our Message Phone at: 954-525-4682 to GUARANTEE your place, if space is available. Someone will return your call.

* Late Registration begins November 1, 2010
· Note: Space may not be available after November 16, 2010

Directions to the Riverside: 620 East Las Olas Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33001
Take I-95 to Broward Blvd. (Exit 27), take Broward Blvd. EAST past Federal Highway for a half block to NE 8th Avenue, turn RIGHT, go past Las Olas Blvd. for one block, then turn Right on SE 4th Street to back entrance to the Riverside Hotel and valet park for $6 per day, saying you are with the Jung Center. Our event will be on the 8th Floor of the Tower.

For overnight guests:
A limited number of rooms will be available at the Riverside Hotel at a discount for Dr. Hollis’s Workshop. Call 954-467-0671 for reservations and say that you are with the Jung Center. 

*Photograph of the China Portal generously loaned to CJSSF by Raymond Gehman. See raymondgehman.com