PAST CONFERENCES

History of Presentations and Presenters from Past Conferences of the
C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado

12th Annual Conference June 12-14, 2025

This was our first conference to begin with a full day of retreat time for the analysts. We shared personal, professional, collective experiences, threw the I Ching, shared dreams, and were replenished by each other.
Fireside Fairy tales – all analysts participated
Keynote presentation:” The Reign of the Queen Archetype:Above and Below, Around and Within, Life and Death – She Rules” presenter: Claudia Schmitt
“Dionysus and Ariadne – An Ancient Myth for Modern Times” presenter: Nancy Ortenberg
“Evolution, Neuropsychology, and Jungian Theory: Contributions Toward the Study of Archetypes, Dreams and the Transcendent function” presenter: Stewart Gabel
“The Magic Drum” presenter: Kornelia Grabinska
“Holding Tension in the Body: An Imaginal Experience” presenter/leader: Lindsey Geiger

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11th Annual Conference – May 31-June 1, 2024

Keynote Address: “A Journey through Chaos to Clarity: Erich Neumann’s Wisdom for our Chaotic World” presenter: Nancy Furlotti
“Eros in Dark Times: A Call for the Restitution of the Feeling Function” presenter: Lynne Radomsky
“A Life of Death and Rebirth” presenter: Doug Graves
“An Individuation Journey through Songs, Dreams and Other Things” presenter: Lindsey Rutledge
“Xenophobia Summons Wotan: Evolutionary, developmental and analytical aspects of a precursor to genocide” presenter: Stewart Gabel
“Water of Life, Water in Life” presenter: Kornelia Grabinska
"Revelations from the Collective Unconscious” analysts and candidates share material

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Tenth Annual Conference – June 2-3, 2023 (10th anniversary)

Keynote Address: “Living in Service to the Inexplicable and Paradoxical” presenter: Jeffrey Kiehl
“What Does it Mean to be Jungian?” panel
“The Institute’s Life and People in These 10 Years” slide show and presentation by president, Kathryn Kuisle

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Ninth Annual Conference – June 3-4, 2022

Keynote Addres: “The Self in Exile—Amplifications on the Cassandra Complex: Loneliness, Specialness, Disbelief, Betrayal” presenters: Lourdes Albarran, Christine Chao, Grazia Di Giorgio
“Opening Ourselves to Cassandra: Inside and Outside” Panel: Lourdes Albarran, Christine Chao, Grazia Di Giorgio
“The Phoenix: Suffering and the Path to Renewal and Wholeness” Presenter: Douglas Graves
“Dogs and Roses (and cats too!): My Jungian Journey Individuation Presentation: Debby Monniger “Voices from the Autonomous Psyche in Perilous Times” Presenters: Kornelia Grabinska and Lara Newton

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Eighth Annual (Zoom) Conference – June 5, 2021

Welcome Presenter: Laurel Howe
“Living a Symbolic Life” Presenter: Lara Newton
“Symbolic Life of an African Healer”Presenter: Lynne Radomsky.
“Paying Off Promethean Debt” Presenter: Jeff Kiehl
“Astrological and Symbolic Picture of the CGJIC” Presenter: Monika Wickman

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Seventh Annual Conference – June 6, 2020

An in-person Conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A Zoom business meeting was held June 6, 2020

Sixth Annual Conference – May 31- June 1, 2019

“A Lecture in Memory of Erel Shalit” Presenter: Nancy Furlotti
“Watching and Waiting in the Wanderings of Life” Presenter: Kathryn Kuisle
“Living the Imaginal Life” (open to registered guests) Presenter: Lara Newton and Jeff Raff
“Approaching Death, the Final Chapter. Dreams of a 92 years old woman” Presenter: Kornelia Grabinska
“To Whom do You Pray, Cross Cultural Change from a Jungian Perspective, a Study of Zulu Healers, Traditional Isangomas and A.I.C. Prophets” Presenter: Margaret Johnson

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Fifth Annual Conference – June 1-2, 2018

Keynote Address: “Guardians at the Gate: I Have to But I Can’t” Presenter: Cindy Smock
“Encounters with the Animal Soul: A Voice of Hope for our Precarious World” Presenter: Nancy Swift Furlotti
“The Redemption of the Feminine: A Study on the Archetypal Image of Mary’s Assumption as a Healing Symbol in Times of Crisis” Presenter: Grazia Di Giorgio
“Images on the Journey of Individuation: A Handcar Woman, a Cairn and a Fairy Tale” Presenter: Claudia Schmitt

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Fourth Annual Conference – June 1-3, 2017

Keynote Address: INTERESTING TIMES Presenter: Jeff Raff
“My Story – As Far As I Can Tell” Presenter: Mark Palmer
“The Alchemical Yellow in Dreams and Image” Presenter: Nancy Ortenberg
Intersecting Stories: A Jungian Musing on Mixed Race, Ethnicity and Religion Presenter: Christine Chao
The Tree-of-Life and the Wonder-Working Plant Presenter: Ronda Martin
Seismic Political Shifts: A Panel Addressing Our Country’s Rapidly Changing Political Landscape and Its Effect on the Psyche Presented with open discussion by John Todd & Laurel Howe

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Third Annual Conference – June 3-4, 2016

Psyche and Reflections on Mortality A Panel with Bernice Hill, Jeff Raff, Linda Leonard and Deborah Bryon
Healing the Split with our Sacred World (Plenary Address) Presenter: Jeff Kiehl

A Candle for Medusa Presenter: Margaret Dozier
The Cave Presenter: Claudia Schmitt
The Maiden and the Devil – Feminine Development Against All Odds Presenter: Lara Newton
Sandplay and the Alchemical Imagination Presenter: Laurel Howe

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Second Annual Conference – June 5-6, 2015

Alchemy in our Practices and in our Lives A panel with Margaret Johnson, Jeff Kiehl, Lara Newton and Jeff Raff
Jung-Neumann Letters (Plenary Address) Presenter: Nancy Furlotti
Images of Individuation Presenter: Nancy Ortenberg
Hidden in Plain Sight Presenter: Grazia Di Giorgio
The Evolution of Archetypal Forms in Western Civilization Presenter: Jeffrey Kiehl
Shadow of the Bat resenter: John Todd
The Owl, the Goddess, and the Psyche Presenter: Mark Palmer

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First Annual Conference – June 6-7, 2014

What is Jungian Analysis? A Panel with Nancy Furlotti, Bernice Hill, John Todd, and Jeff Kiehl
The Annunciation Its Symbolism and Transcendence Presenter: Kathryn Kuisle
Psychology and History: A New Look (Plenary Address) Presenter: Jeff Raff
Borderlands of the Psyche: Multiple Perspectives on How Culture and Country Meet Jungian Psychology Presenters: Lourdes Albarran, Christine M. Chao, Grazia DiGiorgio
I Saw a Whooping Crane, Crowned in Crimson Presenter: Judith Slimmon
Face–‐to–‐Face with the Absolute: The Binding of Isaac and the Archetype of the Patriarch Presenter: Mark Palmer
The Eye of the Camera, Synchronicity and Constructed Reality Presenter: Stephen Witty

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