Out of a Mountain of Despair, a Stone of Hope:
The Relationship Between Hope and Despair in Times of Crisis
Lecture: Friday, March 9, 7:30pm – 9pm
Using Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement as a case study, this lecture explores the opposite but intertwined affects of hope and despair, and their relationship to our ability to take action in times of crisis. King’s complicated history with hope and despair is worth mini for its inspiration and wisdom today, as we too are living in a time of cultural disintegration and collective despair. The lecture will end by offering the symbol of the manorial as a way to hold the tension of these opposite affects and still take action on behalf of King’s beloved community.
Taking Creative Action in Times of Crisis Through Jung’s “Four Great Gifts of Grace”
Faith, Hope, Love and Understanding
Workshop: March 10, 10am – 1pm
Jung believed that religion’s-and by comparison-therapy’s greatest gift was giving people what they need to live a meaningful life: faith, hope, love and understanding. He called these “the four great gifts of grace” which can both heal the suffering and liberate the soul of humanity.
This workshop builds on the evening lecture and expands upon Martin Luther King Jr, as a theologian and a civil rights activist who, along with Jun as a therapist, were those “great and wise men” who possessed and proved faith, hope, love and understanding to theyr congregants, to their clients, and to the citizenry at large.
Participants will be encouraged, through journaling and discussion, to take a current issue where they struggle with despair, and consider it in light of each of these four gifts of grace.
Jennifer Leigh Selig, Ph.D. is an author of Integration: The Psychology and Mythology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Nad his (unfinished) therapy with the soul of america. She is on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute and has been formally studying and speaking on Marin Luther King, Jr. For the last 16 years.
Location: The Butler Room, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC 20016
Register: www.jung.org/programs
