Creating Your Life

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Explore how the arts and psychology work together to help us create well and whole lives.
What do the humanities and the wider psychoanalytic traditions have to teach us about the everyday, practical challenges of being human? How can the expressive arts help us journey inward and bring forward inner guidance that we may otherwise miss? In what ways can the arts help us deeply engage our curiosity, imagination, and innovation to create a more balanced and meaningful life?
You do not need to see yourself as creative to benefit from our Creating Your Life programs.
You may find that you have far more insights and innovative ideas for improving your life than you previously imagined.
Creating Your Life programs are aimed at increasing self-awareness, self-connection, emotional awareness and expression, stress reduction, decision-making and discernment, social awareness and connection, and living with meaning and purpose.
These objectives can be realized via practical application of various psychoanalytic traditions through the practice of writing and story-telling, film and book studies, performance and play, active imagination, visual arts, and by addressing challenges to improve daily life by applying the creative process; identify, imagine, analyze, plan, test, improve, reflect, and refine.
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Currently Scheduled Events
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The Transpersonal Psyche: A History (Access Anytime)
July 01, 2024June 30, 2025Mark Ryan | 8 lectures, accessible at your leisure | Explore the roots and development of a psychological tradition that explores the human mind's capacity for spiritual insight.
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Beyond the Selfie: Capturing Your Vision and Transforming Photos into Custom Art (Online)
May 03, 2025May 03, 2025Rosalinda Gonzalez | Saturday, May 3 | 1 - 4p CT | Learn to capture compelling photos and turn them into personalized art, gifts, and decor, ready for print and display.
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Alienation and Separation (Online)
June 05, 2025June 26, 2025Marcelo Zigaran | Three Thursdays, Jun 5 - Jun26, and one Tuesday, Jun 10 | 6 - 7:30p CT | No class Jun 19 | 30 Max Attendees | Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs* | Discover how Lacanian psychoanalysis explains the development of self through alienation and separation into society, revealing the powerful influence of language and social systems on our identity and desires.
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*Canceled* The Path to a Meaningful Life (Online)
June 06, 2025June 20, 2025Turkan Devrijova | Three Fridays, Jun 6 - Jun 20 | 12 - 1:30p CT | Explore self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and mindful living to cultivate a meaningful life through Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy insights.
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Collaging the Feminine (In-Person)
June 07, 2025June 07, 2025Bridget Fernandes | Saturday, Jun 7 | 9:30a - 1p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Create a collage expressing body image, feminism, or femininity inspired by Niki de Saint Phalle’s “Nana” sculpture.
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*Canceled* Interpreting Music, Interpreting the World: Listening Beyond Ourselves (Hybrid)
June 14, 2025June 14, 2025Chaden Yafi | Saturday, Jun 14 | 10a - 12p CT | Explore the parallel between musical interpretation and navigating diverse worldviews, drawing on philosophy, anthropology, and existential questions.
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Composing Your Life (In-Person)
June 16, 2025July 21, 2025Felix Scardino | Six Mondays Jun 16 | 6 - 9p CT | Max 16 attendees | Potentially appropriate for 18 CEs* | Discover how to awaken each morning anticipating what you are creating rather than worrying about what you fear.
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*Canceled* Creative Practice: Wellness Through Art June Session (Online)
June 18, 2025June 18, 2025Helen Spaw | Wednesday, Jun 18 | 10 - 12p CT | Explore how to use art as a wellness practice for centering, mindfulness, insight, stress relief, empowerment, and enjoyment.
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An Evening with Playback Theatre (In-Person)
June 27, 2025June 27, 2025Houston Playback Theatre | Friday, Jun 27 | 7 - 8:30pm CT | Relax and enjoy an evening with Houston Playback Theatre as the true stories of audience members come to life.
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Community Learning Lab in June (Online)
June 27, 2025June 27, 2025Brooke Summers-Perry | Friday, Jun 27 | 12 - 1:30p CT | Engage in collaborative learning, sharing insights, asking questions, and co-creating knowledge through active discussion and reflection centered on how we are applying what we learn at The Jung Center and in our daily lives.
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Regeneration: Creating New Values and Norms (In-Person)
June 28, 2025June 28, 2025Jill Carroll | Saturday, Jun 28 | 1 - 4p CT | Discover ways in which your life is constrained by values and norms that no longer serve you, and begin the process of creating new ones that generate fresh possibilities and ways of being for your life.
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The Transpersonal Psyche: A History (Access Anytime)
July 01, 2025June 30, 2026Mark Ryan | 8 lectures, accessible at your leisure | Explore the roots and development of a psychological tradition that explores the human mind's capacity for spiritual insight.
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Creative Practice: Wellness Through Art July Session (Online)
July 16, 2025July 16, 2025Helen Spaw | Wednesday, Jul 16 | 10 - 12p CT | Explore how to use art as a wellness practice for centering, mindfulness, insight, stress relief, empowerment, and enjoyment.
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*Cancelled* Felting A New Story (In-Person)
July 18, 2025July 18, 2025Gika Rector | Friday, Jul 18 | 12:30 - 4p CT | Create your own cloth by felting colorful wool fibers into fabric, crafting lightweight, textured “nuno felt” with provided materials.
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Freedom From Inherited Narratives (Hybrid)
July 19, 2025July 19, 2025Mary Anne Casey | Saturday, Jul19 | 1 - 5p CT | Explore how cultural conditioning and unmet needs shape self-perception, and discover the healing potential through awareness and freedom.
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Community Learning Lab in July (In-Person)
July 26, 2025July 26, 2025Brooke Summers-Perry | Saturday, Jul 26 | 1 - 2:30p CT | 25 Max Attendees | Engage in collaborative learning, sharing insights, asking questions, and co-creating knowledge through active discussion and reflection centered on how we are applying what we learn at The Jung Center to our daily lives.
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Fragmented Faces: Self-Portrait Collage and the Art of Hannah Höch (In-Person)
September 06, 2025September 06, 2025Bridget Fernandes | Saturday, Sep 6 | 9:30a - 1p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Explore identity, creativity, and social critique by creating self-portrait collages inspired by Hannah Höch’s photomontage techniques, while engaging in discussion and reflection on her work and activism.
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The Art of Deep Listening - The Clarity Process (Hybrid)
September 10, 2025September 10, 2025Mary Anne Casey | Wednesday, Sep 10 | 6 - 8p | 25 max attendees | Learn how listening to ourselves and others through a structured process can access both our painful feelings and our joyful triumphs to honor and allow healing.
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Women Writing Through Transitions (In-Person)
September 11, 2025October 02, 2025Joyce Boatright | Four Thursdays, Sep 11 - Oct 2 | 5:15 - 7:15p CT | 12 max attendees | Navigate major life transitions with a 4-week guided writing workshop designed to help you process change, gain insight, and transform challenges into wisdom in an emotionally healthy way.
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Tiny Felt Vessels (In-Person)
September 12, 2025September 12, 2025Gika Rector | Friday, Sep 12 | 12:30 - 4p CT | 12 Max Attendees | Create beautiful, functional felt bowls or vessels from dyed merino wool using fun, hands-on felting techniques that require no prior experience.
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Fractured Fairy Tales: What They Tell Us About Who We Are and What We Love and Fear (Hybrid)
September 13, 2025September 13, 2025Gwendolyn Diaz-Ridgeway | Saturday, Sep 13 | 1-4p CT | Dive deeply into universal archetypes through classic and contemporary fairy tales to increase self-awareness, understand motivational forces, and appreciate how narratives evolve over time.
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Elements Connected: Collage for Balance and Interconnection (In-Person)
September 20, 2025September 20, 2025Tiffany Heng-Hui Lee | Saturday, Sep 20 | 2 - 4p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Join us for a creative presentation and hands-on workshop in which we explore the interconnectedness of the five Chinese elements and their role in maintaining personal and ecological balance, through the practice of abstract paper collage art.
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The Nones: Who Are They and What's Their Deal? (In-Person)
September 27, 2025September 27, 2025Jill Carroll | Saturday, Sep 27 | 10a - 12p CT | Join us as Dr. Jill Carroll reveals the diverse beliefs and practices of the rapidly growing “nones” population—those who identify as having no religious affiliation—through new research insights that can foster better understanding within relationships and in broader contexts.
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An Evening with Playback Theatre (In-Person)
October 03, 2025October 03, 2025Houston Playback Theatre | Friday, Oct 3 | 7 - 8:30pm CT | Relax and enjoy an evening with Houston Playback Theatre as the true stories of audience members come to life.
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The Money Wound and Its Twelve Apostles (In-Person)
October 04, 2025October 04, 2025Sandra G Moore | Saturday, Oct 4 | 10a - 4p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Gain insight into the effects of hidden trauma and unconscious patterned fears that drive our relationship with money. Learn to uncover and heal these wounds to foster healthy financial habits.
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Ethics, Desire, and Music in Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Online)
October 09, 2025October 30, 2025Marcelo Zigaran | Four Thursdays, Oct 9-30 - 30 | 6:30 - 8p CT | 40 Max Attendees | Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs* | Gain understanding about the symbolic order, including language, culture, and the internalization of external influences and explore how Lacanian Psychoanalysis relates to ethics, desire, and music.
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Personal Stories: Art, Memory, and Reinvention (In-Person)
October 18, 2025October 18, 2025Laura Spector | Saturday, Oct 18 | 1 - 4p CT | Explore how personal reflection transforms into visual storytelling through symbolism, theatricality, and memory in artist Laura Spector’s Personal Stories series.
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Interpreting Music, Interpreting the World: How to Listen Beyond Ourselves (Hybrid)
October 25, 2025October 25, 2025Chaden Yafi | Saturday, Oct 25 | 10a - 12p CT | Discover the parallels between musical interpretation and navigating diverse worldviews, drawing on philosophy, anthropology, and existential questions.
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Listening to Orpheus: Friday Night Performance (In-Person)
October 31, 2025October 31, 2025Kenneth Gayle and Rodney Waters | Friday, Oct 31 | 7 - 8:30p CT | Suggested Donation, $15 | Limited seating, registration required | Engage with music’s transformative power in this brief lecture and concert inspired by darkness and the underworld through the myth of Orpheus. A Unity Fine Arts production generously underwritten by The Bosarge Family Foundation.
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Listening to Orpheus: Saturday Night Performance (In-Person)
November 01, 2025November 01, 2025Kenneth Gayle and Rodney Waters | Saturday, Nov 1 | 7 - 8:30p CT | Suggested Donation, $15 | Limited seating, registration required | Engage with music’s transformative power in this brief lecture and concert inspired by darkness and the underworld through the myth of Orpheus. A Unity Fine Arts production generously underwritten by The Bosarge Family Foundation.
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Archaeology Now: Explore, Preserve, Transmit Cultural Heritage: Friday Lecture (Hybrid)
November 07, 2025November 07, 2025Irving Finkel | Friday, Nov 7 | 6 - 7:30p CT | Join us as Dr. Irving Finkel, the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages, and cultures in the Middle East Department of the British Museum, uncovers how script began and what people wrote about in their now extinct languages. Generously sponsored by Archaeology Now in partnership with The British Consulate-Houston.
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Archaeology Now: Explore, Preserve, Transmit Cultural Heritage: Saturday Workshop (Hybrid)
November 08, 2025November 08, 2025Irving Finkel | Saturday, Nov 8 | 10a - 2p CT | Voyage through some of the world’s most iconic cuneiform texts in stories, letters, and music and explore the amulets, magical spells, and rituals used to address demons, devils, witches, and to summon ghosts. Generously sponsored by Archaeology Now in partnership with The British Consulate-Houston.
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Contradictory Truths: Connecting Through Discomfort, Dialoguing Through Discovery (In-Person)
November 15, 2025November 15, 2025Kelly Penrod & Michael Winters | Saturday, Nov 15 | 1 - 4pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs* | Develop emotional resilience and dialogic skills to engage empathetically with conflicting beliefs, stay connected during upheaval, and hold space for ambiguity and disagreement.
"I loved learning more about how to be more courageous in life and address what gets in the way of that goal."
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