EVENTS

Houston 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.

Mark 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.

Saturday, August 23, 2025 | 5pm - 7pm CT | FREE Artists' Reception

Saturday, August 23, 2025 | 5pm - 7pm CT | FREE Artists' Reception

Alejandro Chaoul, Thomas Cole, Ann Friedman, Stanley Merrill, Jasmine Shah, Claire Villarreal | See Event Description for Dates and Times | Join the community of The Jung Center's Mind Body Spirit Institute to recenter in the midst of your busy day, and learn and develop stress-busting tools for everyday life.

Sean Fitzpatrick | Four Tuesdays, Sep 2 - 23 | 6 - 8p CT | Potentially appropriate for 8 CEs* | How can we free ourselves from the stories others have written for us and live a meaningful life?

Alejandro Chaoul | Consulte la descripción completa para conocer fechas y horarios. | Como parte de nuestros programas para la comunidad, seguimos brindando meditaciones en Español, apoyando la comunidad latina en EEUU e internacional.

Devika Srivastava | Thursday, Sep 4 | 12 - 1p CT | *Potentially appropriate for 1CE | Explore beliefs around death, grief, loss, and partner loss from various collectivistic cultures around the world. The perspective of collectivism is shared by the majority of cultures around the world and highlights interdependence rather than independence.

Michele Pola | Fourteen Fridays, Sep 5 - Dec 12 | No class Nov 28 | 7:30 - 7:45a CT | Carry the ease of the morning into the busier parts of the day.

Gail Peter Borden and Katia Machado | Saturday, Sep 6 | 2 - 3:30pm CT | FREE | Join the Community for Conscious Aging as we meet the artists behind The Jung Center Gallery’s current exhibitions: Figured Frames and The Spaces I Imagine and enjoy a rich, intimate conversation with your peers and the artists themselves.

Bridget 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.

Mary 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.

Joyce 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.

Gika 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.

Gwendolyn 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.

Jennifer Embry Seven Tuesdays, Sep 16 - Oct 28 | 6 - 7:30pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 10.5 CEs* | Deepen your understanding of what makes a dream group "Jungian," and how a shared language can build community.

Father Richard Rohr | Wednesday, Sep 17 | 6 - 9pm Learning to find peace within.

Karuna Diedericks and Jasmine Shah | Friday, Sep 19 | 5:30 - 8p CT | 24 Max Attendees | Cultivate soulful connection and mindful nourishment through a conscious Ayurvedic dinner experience featuring meditation, authentic dialogue, and a seasonal three-course meal that honors food as sacred medicine. Generously underwritten by Nina K. Andrews

Brooke Summers-Perry | Friday, Sep 19 | 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 is inspiring us and what we are learning.

Tiffany 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.

George Hu | Six Mondays, Sep 22 - Oct 27 | 4:45 - 6p CT | Meditate through movement using Tai Chi Chuan.

Mehrnaz Gill | Tuesday, Sep 23 | 12-1p CT | Discover practical strategies and resources to navigate the challenges of caring for both children and aging parents.

Gail Oktavec | Four Wednesdays, Sep 24 - Oct 15 | 6:30 - 8p CT | 12 Max Attendees | Embark on a transformative four-week journey using conscious connected breathwork to unlock inner potential, regulate the nervous system, and foster deep emotional well-being and self-awareness.

A Religion, Mental Health, and the Search for Meaning Conference | Bill Kerley and Brooke Summers-Perry | Friday, Sep 26 | 9a - 4p CT | Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs | Explore how shadow work -- the conscious practice of examining and transforming our unconscious beliefs and patterns -- can deepen our helping and healing work.

Jill 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.

José Leal and Jack Reardon | Saturday, Sep 27 | 1p - 4pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs* | Engage in a combination of fast-paced lecture and rich discussions based on the tale of 'Vasalisa the Brave. Explore Jungian archetypes, compassionate inquiry, and methods for confronting the shadow and untangling projections applicable in both clinical practice and everyday life.

Hadley McIntosh | Five Wednesdays, Oct 1 - 29 | 12 - 1:30p CT | 20 Max Attendees | Explore the Jungian approach to midlife transformation in this 5-week book study, as you examine key concepts like individuation, developmental shifts, and barriers to personal growth while engaging with thought-provoking questions and shared resources for continued support.

Houston 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.

Gika Rector | Friday, Oct 3 | 12:30 - 4p CT | 20 Max Attendees | Enhance your breathing efficiency and physical ease through simple Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® sequences that expand lung capacity and promote effortless airflow.

Saturday, October 4, 2025 | 5pm - 7pm CT | FREE Artists' Reception

Sandra G Moore | Saturday, Oct 4 | 10a - 4p CT | Potentially appropriate for 5 CEs* | 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.

Kazu Haga and Cassie Manley | Saturday, Oct 4 | 12 - 3p CT | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs* | Explore the Fierce Vulnerability framework through embodied practices, dialogue, and tools for healing and emotional regulation to support sustainable justice movements.

Marcelo Zigaran | Four Thursdays, Oct 9-30 - 30 | 6:30 - 8p CT | 40 Max Attendees | Potentially appropriate for 6 Ethics 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.

Denise Bossarte | Friday, Oct 10 | 12 - 4p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Practice contemplative photography to slow down, deepen presence, and connect with the beauty around you while expanding awareness and creativity through mindful visual exploration.

Esha Khuruna and Shivam Gosai | Three Fridays, Oct 10 - 24 | 9:30a - 11a CT | Potentially appropriate for 4.5 CEs* | Integrate Jungian depth psychology with Gendling’s Focusing technique, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and relational techniques to cultivate embodied presence, soulful perception, and inner connection.

Karuna Haber | Saturday, Oct 11 | 10a - 12:30p CT | 25 Max Attendees | Invite deep healing and creativity through gently guided movement, breath, and embodied exploration in a safe, compassionate space that nurtures connection, joy, and personal expression.

Karuna Haber | Saturday, Oct 11 | 2 - 4p CT | 20 Max Attendees | Experience a gently guided 2-hour workshop to reconnect with your body and soul in the second half of life, fostering acceptance, compassion, creativity, and a sense of timeless presence. The physical component includes gentle movement and breath cues inspired by DancemeditationTM and Yoga traditions, sensory and tactile awakenings, and somatic explorations that can nourish and enliven, even within restricted movement capacity.

Asli Baykal | Friday, Oct 17 | Doors open at 5p. Free screening begins at 5:30p CT | Presentation ($20) from 8 to 9p CT | Co-presented with the Houston Psychoanalytic Society | Potentially appropriate for 1 CE* | Explore complicated grief and attempts to resolve it through “perverse pacts.”

Susan Schwartz | Saturday, Oct 18 | 10 - 11:30a CT | Potentially appropriate for 1.5 CEs* | Based on Susan’s latest book, An Analytical Exploration of Love and Narcissism, learn how the narcissistic response drives the Jungian process of individuation by confronting internal splits, shadow aspects, and self-dissociation to move beyond imposter feelings and facades toward growth and expansion.

Laura 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.

Mark Ryan | Tuesday, Oct 21 | 12 - 1p CT | Explore the historical and scientific search for evidence of life after death in this thought-provoking Lunch & Learn, deepening your understanding of consciousness, the body-mind connection, and your own beliefs about the afterlife.

Mansoor Abidi | Four Wednesdays, Oct 22 - Nov 12 | 6:30 - 8p CT | *Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs | Discover inner alchemy through depth psychology and sacred symbolism in this four-week course based on Mansoor’s new book by the same name, and deepen self-understanding, engage with archetypal transformation, and apply alchemical principles to personal growth and life transitions.

Saturday, Oct 25 | 2 - 3:30pm CT | FREE | Join the Community for Conscious Aging as we meet the artist behind The Jung Center Gallery’s current exhibition: Personal Stories, and enjoy a rich, intimate conversation with your peers and the artist herself.

Chaden Yafi | Saturday, Oct 25 | 10a - 12p CT | Discover the parallels between musical interpretation and navigating diverse worldviews, drawing on philosophy, anthropology, and existential questions.

Kenneth 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.

Kenneth 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.

Michele Pola | Saturday, Nov 1 | 9 - 10:30a CT | Bell Park, 4800 Montrose | 12 Max Attendees | Listen to poetry, practice being aware of our reciprocal connection with nature, and cultivate qualities of gratitude, openness, kindness, and appreciation for all that the Earth provides.

George Hu | Six Mondays, Nov 3 - Dec 8 | 4:45 - 6p CT | Meditate through movement using Tai Chi Chuan.

Michele Pola | Five Mondays, Nov 3 - Dec 8, no class Nov 24 | 5 - 6:30p CT | 22 Max Attendees | Join us for an introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful awareness practices, for some ease in your day.

Shifting Embodiment and the Alchemical Way Through | Jane Clapp | Thursday, Nov 6 | 12 - 1p CT | The presenter will be participating online | *Potentially appropriate for 1.5 CEs | Reclaim menopause as a sacred initiation in this seminar that explores it not just as a medical event but as a mythic, psychic, and somatic journey into sovereignty, soul, and embodied wisdom.

Jill Carroll | Thursday, Nov 6 | 6:30 - 8p CT | Challenge the cultural tendency to dehumanize by exploring its roots and learning concrete actions to foster greater awareness and promote individual and collective flourishing.

Lee Coffee | Friday, Nov 7 | 11a - 12p CT | Have fun learning to reduce stress with therapeutic laughter techniques that improve breathing, relaxation, and well-being.

Irving 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.

Irving 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.

Tessara Tucker | Two Thursdays, Nov 13 - 20 | 6:30 - 8p CT | online follow-up Dec 12 | 4:45 - 6p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Learn about the brain and body relationship, and discover ways to strengthen the connection.

Sean Fitzpatrick | Friday, Nov 14 | 9a - 12:15p | Potentially appropriate for 3 Ethics CEs* | Explore the nuances of compassion — the potential for unintended harms and the value of ethical boundaries — as we learn to practice it with depth, awareness, and responsibility.

Nnemoma Chukwumerije and Jasmine Shah | Friday, Nov 14 | 6:30 - 8:30p CT | 30 max attendees | *Potentially appropriate for 2 CEs | Learn to cultivate hope alongside life’s challenges through guided visioning, positive psychology, and flow breathwork to foster resilience, transformation, and alignment with your highest self.

Sharon Blackie | Saturday, Nov 15 | 10a-12p CT | *Potentially appropriate for 2 CEs | The presenter will be participating online | Rediscover powerful female archetypes of elderhood in European myths and fairy tales to reclaim a bold, purposeful vision of aging rooted in wisdom, guidance, and community contribution.

Kelly 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.

Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 5pm - 7pm CT | FREE Artists' Reception

Alejandro Chaoul | Saturday, Nov 22 | 9a - 1pm CT | Discover how the Tibetan understanding of well-being can enrich your life as you create a toolbox of mind-body healing practices.

Brooke Summers-Perry | Saturday, Nov 22 | 2 - 3:30p 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 is inspiring us and what we are learning.

Thomas Cole and Laura Spector | Three Tuesdays, Dec 2 - 16 | 5:30 - 7:15p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Explore angels in religious history and consider the relevance of the recent eclipse of angels in modern culture.

Karuna Diedericks | Wednesday, Dec 3 | 6 - 7:30p CT | 20 Max Attendees | Explore seasonal cooking with the Ayurvedic tradition, embrace nature’s bounty, and learn to prepare nutritious dishes that support health and strengthen community with a live demonstration with plant-based and gluten-sensitive ingredients.

Sarah Garcia | Thursday, Dec 4 | 12 - 1p CT | Potentially appropriate for 1CE* | Explore the roots of modern grief-tending alongside Jungian insights, analysis of media, and practices for deepened healing.

Alejandro Chaoul and Chris McKann | Thursday, Dec 4 | 6:00 - 8p CT | Through this hands-on session, experience a variety of teas and supportive meditative practices in community, while learning about the unique benefits of each tea and enjoying traditions that Japanese monks and other Eastern cultures have taken part in for centuries.

Duke Hunter and Farida Meguid | Saturday, Dec 6 | 11a - 1p CT | 40 Max Attendees | Engage with stories of creativity and resilience while cultivating relaxation, embodied awareness, and community connection through music, group rhythm and movement.

Hannah Armbrust | Friday, Dec 12 | 9am - 12pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs* | Explore the intricate connections between the mind, body, and spirit, particularly within the context of secondary trauma.

Friday, Dec 12 | 2 - 4p CT | FREE | Celebrate the season by discovering unique gifts and meaningful reads during a festive, guided tour of The Jung Center Bookstore—complete with holiday cheer, community connection, sweet treats, and exclusive discounts.

Saturday, Dec 13 | 2 - 3:30pm CT | FREE | Join the Community for Conscious Aging as we meet the artist behind The Jung Center Gallery’s current exhibition: Bipeds: Mirrors of the Psyche, and enjoy a rich, intimate conversation with your peers and the artist himself.