Workshops and Presentations

TEACHING AND PRESENTATIONS

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, CA, Extended Education Program: 

May 30, 2026, “Meister Eckhart and C.G. Jung: On the Vocation of the Self.”

September 14, 2024, “Fate and Destiny in the Works of G.G. Jung and Emily Dickinson.

November 5, 2022: “William James and C.G. Jung: Doorways to the Self.” 

January 5-26, 2009: “The Unfolding Self of the Child: Imagination and Play,” 

“Aggression and violence and development of the masculine in a 5-9-year-old boy.”

March 1, 2008: “The Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, and Active Imagination.” 

Jan. 7 - Feb. 11, 2008: “The Child: A Yearlong Seminar on Child Development and Clinical Practice”: “Early Latency (6-8 yr.).” 

March 26 & 27, 2004: “Melville’s Moby-Dick/Islam and the West” with Jungian analyst Tom Singer. 

Embassy of the Free Mind: Amsterdam, Holland / Netherlands: 

May 16, 2026, Symposium: Spontaneous Thought in Archetypal Narrative, “Talk on Henri Corbin” with Barbara Miller and Joshua Gentzke.  

November 24, 2023: In the Footsteps of Jakob Böhme: “Meister Eckhart and C.G. Jung: Practical Teachings on the Birth of Christ in the Human Soul.”

Cambridge Jungian Circle, UK:

March 20, 2026, “Meister Eckhart, C.G. Jung, and the Holy Grail.”

Jung Society of Washington DC:

February 21. 2026, “The Mystery of our Destiny: A Workshop.”

February, 20, 2026, “Destiny Dreams: Path to Transformation: A Lecture.”

Psychosocial Wednesdays, Berlin, Germany:

January 14, 2026, “Transformation, Individuation, and Ways to the Self” book talk with Jungian analysts Steven Herrmann, Murray Stein and Stefano Carpani. 

Jung and the World Podcast, Australia:

January 9, 2026, “Spiritual Democracy” interview with Jon Wilson.

December 19, 2025, “The Shaman’s Call” interview with Jon Wilson. 

Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts:

November 5, 2025, “Jung and Alchemy” book talk with Laura London and Murray Stein.

C.G. Jung Institute of SF Analytic Training Program:

October 3, 10, 17, 2025, “Jung and Yoga.”

January 24, 31, & February 7, 2025, “The Development of the Personality.”

Chicago Psychoanalytic Society:

June 3, 2025, “Spiritual Democracy in the works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Carl Jung” lecture with Jungian analyst Stephanie Ferris. 

Economics & Beyond, Institute for New Economic Thinking (NET):

October 10, 2024, “Steven Herrmann: America’s Shaman-Poets’ Vision for a Better Future” podcast with Robert Johnson. 

June 8, 2023, “Steven Herrmann: the Shaman’s Call and Finding your Inner Voice” podcast with Rob Johnson. 

Phoenix Friends of C.G. Jung, Arizona:

November 2, 2024, “Vocational Dreams, Journaling, and Active Imagination”― 

via Zoom.

C.G. Jung Institute of SF Library:

November 1, 2024, “Vocational Dreams: Calling Archetypes and Nuclear Symbols” book reading.

Integral Dream Circles (CIIS)

July 18, 2024, “Vocational Dreams, Psychic Antibodies, and Jungian Dream Analysis.”

Seattle Jung Society, Washington:

April 20, 2024, Spiritual Democracy: Its Current Relevance in American Culture” workshop with Randy Morris. 

April 19, 2024, “Spiritual Democracy and the World Soul: A Jungian Vision for the Future” lecture. 

Bangalore Society of Analytical Psychology, India:

April 5, 2024, “Swami Vivekananda, C.G. Jung, and Spiritual Democracy.”

March 26, 2024, “Development of the Personality.”

Netherlands Association for Analytical Psychology (NAAP): 

February 24, 2023, “William James & C.G. Jung.”

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, CA, Analyst Membership Meeting:

September 8, 2022, “Spiritual Democracy and its Current Relevance in Analytic Work.”

Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco:

September 11, 2022, “Swami Vivekananda and C.G. Jung: Yoga in the West.

September 13, 2020, “Vocational Dreams & Synchronistic Phenomena” with Steven Herrmann, PhD, MFT, YouTube Video uploaded at Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco APC-SF. 

Unitarian-Universalist (UU) Church of Berkeley, Kensington, CA:

October 9, 2022, “Swami Vivekananda and C.G. Jung: Yoga in the West.”

September 19, 2021, “William James and C.G. Jung: Doorways to the Self.”

October 6, 2019, “Carl Jung’s Spirituality: Living the Symbolic Life.”

September 17, 2017, “The Future of Transpersonal Psychology.”

April 22, 2018, “Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman for our Times.” 

September 25, 2016, “Vocational Dreams.”

October 25, 2015, “C. G. Jung & Teilhard de Chardin: Peacemakers in an Age of Spiritual Democracy.” 

February 28, 2015, “Early Visionaries of Spiritual Democracy: Walt Whitman & Swami Vivekananda.”

November 2, 2014, “Spiritual Democracy.”

November 17, 2013, “Meister Eckhart: Leaving God for God.”

January 8, 2012, “Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” 

December 16, 2012, “William Everson on the Shamanic Archetype.” 

February 6, 2011, “Walt Whitman’s Vision of Spiritual Democracy” with conversant Matthew Fox.

Convergence Co-Lab: 

May 11, 2021, “Emily Dickinson & Julian of Norwich: Mystic Shamans for our Times” workshop with Steven Herrmann, Cameron Trimble, and Matthew Fox.

April 9 & 10, 2021, “Psychology & Spirituality: William James, Carl Jung, Meister Eckhart in dialogue” lecture and workshop with Steven Herrmann, Matthew Fox and Cameron Trimble. 

C.G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, Extended Education Program: 

October 10, 2020, “Spiritual Democracy, Jung, and the American Psyche.” 

Walt Whitman Initiative:

August 27, 2020, “Walt Whitman and Carl Jung, Selective Affinities” with Matt Miller, Steven Herrmann and Jay Sherry. YouTube Video Channel WWI: New York City Cultural Outreach Group.

Eckhart @ Erfurt, Germany: 

June 16-21, 2019, Art as Meditation with Matthew Fox & Steven Herrmann, “Dreams and Journaling with Eckhart.”

National Cathedral, Washington DC: 

June 1, 2019, “Walt Whitman 200 Festival, ‘Beyond Psycho: The Musical Genius of Bernard Herrmann.’” 

Lone Star College, Texas: 

May 2, 2019, Writers in Performance, “Walt Whitman’s Birthday Celebration.” 

DC Integral Emergence, Washington DC. 

August 9, 2018, “Integral Emily Dickinson: Mystic and Shaman” with Neil Richardson.

Sofia University, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), Palo Alto, CA. 

January 13-March 16, 2016, “History of Transpersonal Psychology: James, Jung, and Vivekananda.”

Sept. 2015, “William James & C.G. Jung: The Emergence of the Field of Transpersonal Psychology.”

IAAP & IAJS Conference, Yale University, Connecticut:

July 4, 2015, “C.G. Jung’s Vision of Spiritual Democracy.”

Robinson Jeffers Association Conference, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA:

February 15, 2014, “Jeffers, Whitman, and the Cosmos,” and “Panel Discussion.”

May 26, 2012, “The Shamanic Archetype in Robinson Jeffers Poetry.”

Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum, Joaquin Miller Conference Program. Mt. Shasta, CA:

October 11, 2013, “Poetry and Praise of Mt. Shasta and its Native Peoples.”

October 12, 2013, “Joaquin Miller’s Vision of Spiritual Democracy: Integrating his Dualisms into the Unity of the American Character.” 

East Bay CAMFT, St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, Orinda, CA.

March 10, 2012, “Walt Whitman’s Vision of Same-Sex Marriage and the Call of MFT’s.”

Berkeley City College & UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), “The Birth of a Poet: William Everson Centennial:

September 21, 2012, “William Everson: The Vocational Archetype,” Berkeley.

Oct. 20, 2012, event organizer and presenter of “Committee Chair’s Welcome” and “The Shamanic Archetype in William Everson’s Poetry” at UCSC, Kresge College.

International House (I-House), UC Berkeley, CA:

February 10. 2011, “Walt Whitman’s Global Vision of Spiritual Democracy.”

The Journal of Analytical Psychology (JAP) IX International Conference, San Francisco, CA:

May 30, 2009, “The Transcendent Function in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.”

IAAP-IAJS ETH Conference, Zürich, Switzerland: 

July 3, 2008, “The Case of Jacob: The Emergence of Moby Dick in the Dreams of a Five-Year-Old Boy.”

North-South Conference for Jungian Analysts and Candidates, Carmel, CA: 

March 2, 2007, “The Case of Willy: Transformation of Terror into Joy.” 

C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Il, The North American Conference for Jungian Analysts and Candidates: 

Sept. 23, 2005, “The Emergence of the Cultural Complex in Walt Whitman.” 

John F. Kennedy University (JFKU), Career Development Program, Orinda, CA:

July 16, 1995, “Career Vision.” 

August 1991, “Vocational Dreams and Synchronistic Events.”

August 3, 1991, “Spirituality and Work.”

July 18, 1991, “The Vision Quest in Native North American Indian Cultures.”

August 1990, “Vocational Clarification through Dream.” 

July 1990, “On the Nuclear Self.”

July 10, 1990, “Christ as an Exemplar for Vocational Development.”

Dec. 6, 1989, “Vocation and Psychological Types.”

John F. Kennedy University (JFKU), School of Professional Psychology, Orinda:

Summer 1992, “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment in Childhood.” 

Fall 1990, “The Father-Son Relationship.” 

UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), CA: 

Fall 1980-Winter 1981, Teaching Assistant for William Everson’s course “Birth of a Poet.”