EVENTS

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.

Susan Meindl | 2 hour lecture, accessible at your leisure | Potentially appropriate for 2 CEs* Explore the history of Jung’s interest in fantasy life, distinctions he made between different types of fantasy, and the role of fantasy in the work of self-understanding and self-actualization which Jungians call “individuation”.

Saturday, January 11, 2025 5pm - 7pm CT FREE Artists' Reception

Sean Fitzpatrick and Beth Quill Wednesday, Jan, 15 12 - 1p CT Explore the aging journey with Beth Quill and Sean Fitzpatrick as they dive in with curiosity, reluctance, anxiety, and humor.

Alejandro Chaoul, Ginger Clarkson, 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.

Michele Pola | Seventeen Fridays, Jan 17 - May 9 | 7:30 - 7:45a CT Carry the ease of the morning into the busier parts of the day.

Gika Rector Saturday, Jan 18 12:30 - 4p CT Manipulate wool fibers into small objects and vessels whose colors, shapes and textures suggest ideas, memories and possibilities.

Cherry Steinwender Monday, Jan 20 6 - 8p CT Join us as we move beyond talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter From Birmingham Jail to reading and interacting with it.

Jennifer Embry Six Tuesdays, Jan 21 - Feb 25 5:30 - 7pm CT Potentially appropriate for 9 CEs* Deepen your understanding of what makes a dream group "Jungian," and how a shared language can build community.

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.

Saturday, Jan 25 | 2 - 3:30pm CT | FREE | Skip the evening traffic and come to the Community for Conscious Aging’s Afternoon Artist Talk!

George Hu | 8 Mondays, Jan 27 - Mar 17 | 4:45 - 6pm CT Meditate through movement using Tai Chi Chuan.

Michele Pola Five Mondays, Jan 27 - Feb 24 6 - 7:30pm CT Join us for an introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful awareness practices, with a view to taking the edge off.

Gika Rector Saturday, Feb 1 12:30 - 4p CT Expand your capacity and make breathing, and maybe even your life, easier and more efficient.

Sean Fitzpatrick Four Wednesdays, Feb 5 - 26 6 - 7:30pm CT Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs* Grab some popcorn and discover how film and psychology go together like Mike and Ike!

Rie Kojima Angeli | Saturday, Feb 8 | 1:30 - 3:30pm CT | Practice mindfulness and origami while creating a Valentine's Day card.

Mehrnaz Gill Tuesday, Feb, 11 12 - 1p CT Plan your aging journey well with tools, resources, and next-step advice for greater independence as you age.

Helen Spaw | Wednesday, Feb 12 | 12 - 2p CT | Explore how to use art as a wellness practice for centering, mindfulness, insight, stress relief, empowerment, and enjoyment.

Kelly Penrod & Michael Winters Saturday, Feb 15 1 - 4pm CT Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs* Explore the transformative power of connection and acceptance in this interactive and engaging "playshop."

Lee Coffee Thursday, Feb 20 12 - 1p CT Have fun learning to reduce stress with therapeutic laughter techniques that improve breathing, relaxation, and well-being.

Anna Guerra | Friday, Feb 21 | 9am - 12:15pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 3 Ethics CEs* | Explore the meaning of play in our work, differentiate play from pretend, and explore how ethical approaches to our work might be informed by seeing through the lens of play.

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

C.C. Lee Saturday, Feb 22 10 - 11:30a CT Cultivate insights and make more meaningful connections by exploring human nature and social relationship through the lenses of Stoicism and Confucianism.

Ellen Safier | Friday, Feb 28 | Free social and screening begins at 5:15pm CT | Presentation ($20) from 8:00 to 9:00pm CT | co-presented with the Houston Psychoanalytic Society | Potentially appropriate for 1 CE* | Explore the mysterious and haunting ways activated childhood memories can play out in our adult lives.

Karuna Haber Saturday, Mar 1 10a - 12:30p CT 25 max attendees Explore sacred movement through a gently facilitated experience of creativity and healing.

Brooke Summers-Perry Saturday, Mar 1 2 - 5p CT 25 Max Attendees Discover how easy it can be to get out of your head and connect with the wisdom of the heart.

Mansoor Abidi | Four Wednesday nights, Mar 5 - Mar 26 | 6 - 7:30p CT | Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs* | Dive into the unconscious processes of growth and self-realization through the lens of Jung's alchemical symbols.

Cherry Steinwender Thursday, March 6 12 - 1p CT Examine racial conditioning and see the transformation that new knowledge brings while adding months, even years to the life of Cherry Steinwender, the executive director and co-founder of The Center for the Healing of Racism.

Kathleen Chavoor, Shivam Gosai, Michelle Kucera-Jewell | Six Fridays, Mar 7 - Apr 11 10 - 11:30a CT | Potentially appropriate for 9 CEs* | With curiosity and attention, uncover the hidden factors that guide our lives.

Joe Aker | Saturday, Mar 8 | 2 - 3:30pm CT | FREE | Skip the evening traffic and come to the Community for Conscious Aging’s Afternoon Artist Talk!

Michele Pola Saturday, Mar 8 9 - 11a CT Location: Bell Park (4800 Montrose) 15 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.

Ginger Clarkson Saturday, Mar 8 9a - 1pm CT 16 Max Attendees Use classical music to facilitate a connection with your inner resources, and to open creative pathways to dealing with challenging times.

Brooke Summers-Perry | Sunday, Mar 9 | 1 - 3p CT | 25 Max Attendees | Tend to self and mend the social fabric through curiosity, creativity, and compassion.

Sally Davis | Wednesday, Mar 12 | 10a - 12pm CT | Practice proven memory enhancing techniques that address common, everyday memory concerns like remembering names and faces, recalling appointments and plans, avoiding misplacing objects, and overcoming those “tip of the tongue” memory slips.

Clint Smith | Tuesday, Mar 18 | Starting at 6pm | Join us at our Annual Spring Benefit to get to know author Clint Smith, to enjoy an inspiring and beautiful dinner, and to support The Jung Center.

Mary Anne Casey | Thursday, March 20 | 6 - 8p | Learn how listening to ourselves and others through a structured process can access both our painful feelings and or joyful triumphs to honor and allow healing.

Kenneth Gayle, Carolyn Johnson, and Rodney Waters | Saturday Mar 22 | 7:30 - 8:30p | Suggested Donation, $15 | Limited seating, registration required | Unity Fine Arts, generously underwritten by The Bosarge Family Foundation, invites you to The Jung Center Gallery for a lyrical exploration of music and poetry.

George Hu | 8 Mondays, Mar 24 - May 12 | 4:45 - 6pm CT Meditate through movement using Tai Chi Chuan.

Karuna Diedericks | Thursday, Mar 27 | 6 - 7:30p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Learn mindful food preparation and consumption that calm the mind, improve digestion, and help us cultivate reverence in our relationship with food.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche | Friday, Mar 28, 7 - 8:30p | Saturday, Mar 29, 10am - 5pm CT | Sunday, Mar 30, 10am - 3:30pm | Welcome and recognize brilliant and innate awareness through practice and integrating insights in daily life.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche | Friday, Mar 28 | 7 - 8:30p | Welcome and recognize brilliant and innate awareness through practice and integrating insights in daily life.

Judy Wilbratte | Two Saturdays, Mar 29 and Apr 5 | 2 - 3:30p CT | Join our community for two fun and informative Zoom video gatherings where we watch a video of nine men and women of each Enneagram type talk about how their type affects their relationships and what has helped them grow.

Sean Fitzpatrick and Anna Guerra | Four Tuesdays, Apr 1 - Apr 22 | 6 - 7:30p CT | Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs* | Discover how cultivating our powers of empathy and vulnerability helps to facilitate connections to both ourselves and others, and that helping people is always an opening-up of our own depths that may leave us forever changed.

Robert Snellgrove | Four Thursdays, Apr 3 - Apr 24 | 5:30 - 7pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 6 CEs* | 20 Max Attendees | Explore how spirituality, sexuality, and our own mortality influence the many complex relationships between our conscious and unconscious minds.

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

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

Susan Meindl | Two Wednesdays, Apr 9 - Apr 16 | 6 - 8 p CT | Potentially appropriate for 4 CEs* | Deeply explore the impacts fantasy and imagination can have on our life experiences, understanding, healing, and individuation.

Houston Playback Theatre | Friday, Apr 11 | 7 - 8:30pm CT | Relax and enjoy an evening with Houston Playback Theatre as the true stories of audience members come to life.

Brooke Summers-Perry and Claire Villarreal | Saturday, Apr 12 | 1 - 4p CT | Explore what the bardo state has to show us about moving through the messy middle, from the no longer to the not yet that exists in life transitions.

Ron Pevny | Saturday, Apr 12 | 9a - 4pm CT | Explore the rich possibilities of choosing to age with purpose and passion, the challenges that accompany such a commitment, and some of the key practices that make a conscious elderhood possible.

Helen Spaw | Wednesday, Apr 16 | 12 - 2p CT | 25 Max Attendees | Explore how to use art as a wellness practice for centering, mindfulness, insight, stress relief, empowerment, and enjoyment.

Rie Kojima Angeli | Saturday, Apr 19 | 1:30 - 3:30pm CT | Dive into origami with a fun, easy, and pretty twist on traditional origami.

Karen Walrond | Wednesday, April 23 | 12 - 1p CT | Join our Community for Conscious Aging in learning how to radiantly rebel against the fads and assumptions about aging that hold us back, redefine the adventure of getting older, and create a shining future of expanded potential.

Adam Brownstein | Friday, Apr 25 | Doors open at 6p. Free screening begins at 6:15pm CT | Presentation ($20) from 8 to 9pm CT | co-presented with the Houston Psychoanalytic Society | Potentially appropriate for 1 CE* | Discover the reparative power of connection that can facilitate growth and change.

A Religion, Mental Health, and the Search for Meaning Conference | Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison | Friday, Apr 25 | 9am - 12pm | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs | In this half-day conference, we will explore how to care for another with compassion and empathy at the end of life while tending to our own well being.

Stephanie Gonzalez and Melody Locke | Saturday, Apr 26 | 2 - 3:30pm CT | FREE | Skip the evening traffic and come to the Community for Conscious Aging’s Afternoon Artist Talk!

Bridget Fernandes Saturday, Apr 26 9:30a - 1p CT 15 Max Attendees Discover how love and feminism can guide our daily actions and lived experiences.

Brooke Summers-Perry | Sunday, April 27 | 1 - 3p CT | 25 Max Attendees | Tend to self and mend the social fabric through curiosity, creativity, and compassion.

Thomas Cole | Three Tuesdays, Apr 29 - May 13 | 5 - 6:45p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Explore and encounter angels in history, art, and personal experience using guided meditations imagery, and contemporary observations from a book-in-progress.

Tracie Jae | Wednesday, Apr 30 | 6 - 8 pm CT | Engage with the works of Dr. Clint Smith and uncover deeper layers of American history to explore your own role in creating a more just and equitable future.

Alejandro Chaoul and Chris McKann | Tuesday, May 1 | 5:00 - 7 pm | Experience the meditative ritual of drinking tea like Japanese monks have practiced for centuries and learn about the various and significant health benefits attributed specifically to green teas.

Rosalinda 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.

An Archetypal and Alchemical Analysis in The Handless Maiden, Frau Holle, and Snow White | José Leal | Saturday, May 3 | 1p - 4pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs* | Through the study of three fairy tales and a brief active imagination exercise we discover powerful archetypal symbols that help us untangle our moments of confusion and frustration.

Liz Seitz | Wednesday, May 7 | 6:30 - 8pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 1.5 CEs* | Join us as we explore the connection between the ways we adapted to our childhood struggles and the complications in our adult relationships.

Melanie Lown and Jasmine Shah | Saturday, May 10 | 2 - 4p | Find balance with rest, creativity, compassion, and courage when there is so much demand for productivity.

Connecting to our Inner Space through Breath, Sound, and Movement | Alejandro Chaoul | Saturday, May 10 | 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.

Rachel Cohen | Wednesday, May 14 | 5 - 8pm CT | Through simple, fun exercises playing with movement, sound, and language, come meet more of yourself.

Brooke Summers-Perry | Thursday, May 15 | 12 - 1p CT | Navigate life transitions while honoring your needs comprehensively and make decisions that spend your energy and time wisely.

Chris Becker and Rachel Cohen | Two Performances | Friday, May 16, 7:30 - 8:45pm CT | Saturday, May 17, 2 - 3:15pm CT | Through intimate videos and live performances, explore impermanence, ancestry, artist identity, and the human effort to fit the pieces together.

Masumi Kishimoto | Friday, May 16 | 10a - 12p CT | 20 Max Attendees | Move consciously and joyfully through everyday actions as a result of understanding and respecting the postures your body inherently knows.