In this presentation for the Myth Salon, Gary will illustrate the remarkable overlap between Toni Wolff’s structural forms of the psyche and Chögyam Trungpa’s Five Buddha families personality system. The stunning coordination of these models demonstrates the reality of the collective unconscious and reinforces the value of this approach to understanding personality. Coming from a Jungian background, Gary will present the basic archetypes of the model and their parallel Buddha family. For over 25 years, Gary has been a student and teacher of an archetypal personality system drawn from Toni Wolff’s work. He is leading a 9 week introductory exploration of this work beginning Jan. 14 - https://www.archetypalnature.com/tribes Gary S. Bobroff is the founder of Jungian Online - connecting clients with Jungian analysts via live video since 2011 - and the developer and facilitator of Archetypal Nature - a Jungian personality system rooted in the work of Toni Wolff. He is the author of Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung (2020) and Crop Circles, Jung & the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine (2014). He has a BA from the University of British Columbia, Canada and an MA in Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Vanessa Taylor visits the Myth Salon!

After a break for Thanksgiving, on Thursday December 3 at 5PM PST, Dr. Vorris Nunley will be presenting “Embracing the Heretical and Re-embodying the Dark Feminine.” Re-reading the Adam and Eve story of paradise through Goddess myths and Toni of Toni Morrison’s most mythic embodiment of the dark feminine, the mundane, everyday character Pilate (born without a navel) and the novel Paradise. This presentation will excavate and make legible the re-emergence of that which the Western imagination continues to torture and punish: the dark and the feminine. Dr. Nunley will re-examine notions of the underground, rootedness, darkness and the nigredo, and provocatively argue for the intersection of the feminine and blackness. Dr. Vorris L Nunley is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside who teaches rhetoric, philosophy, and literature. He is interested in issues of heretical energy, the dark feminine, gendered and racialized knowledge, and the demise of vulnerability. His most recent presentation was a Sophia Center seminar on “The Monstrous, Women, and Meta-narrative” where he addressed the Adam and Eve myth in contemporary culture. His most recent article: ”Adrift in Precarity: The Post-Family in an Neoliberal Era.”

On November 12th, 2020 at 5pm PST, the Myth Salon is very pleased to present Dr. Robert Hopcke speaking on Synchronicity and the Tension of Opposites. Jung’s concept of synchronicity or meaningful chance is one of his most engaging and familiar to the general public, and yet the fundamentally psychological nature of the phenomenon, which was Jung’s original focus, is often lost or overlooked. In his salon with us, Rob will be going “back to basics,” and presenting the four aspects of synchronistic events that make up Jung’s thoughts on this phenomena in order to place this notion within the overall context of Jung’s theories on analytical psychology. Using his own research on synchronistic events within various areas of people’s lives–love, family, work, spirituality and dreams–Rob will be using these “stories of our lives” to show how synchronicity discloses the archetypal currents beneath our everyday experience. Robert H. Hopcke has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Berkeley, California since 1986. Along with his numerous articles and reviews published throughout the world, he is the author of the national best-seller, There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives, which has been translated into over a dozen languages, most recently followed by his latest work, There are No Accidents in Love: Synchroncity and the Stories of Our Families. He has lectured and run workshops around the country on the concept of meaningful coinicidence for the past two decades, has appeared on Strange Universe and The Other Side, along with numerous other TV and radio interviews on the topic, and most recently he was featured in David Strabala’s documentary film, What is Synchronicity? released two years ago. Beyond his work in the field of synchronicity, Rob’s other writings include some now standard scholarly reference works within the field of analytical psychology, including Jung, Jungians and Homosexuality; Men’s Dreams, Men’s Healing; A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung; and The Persona: Where Sacred Meets Profane, and for a number of years he taught on the faculty of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, now Sofia University, in Palo Alto, California, in the areas of Jungian psychology, human sexuality and spiritual direction.

On October 29th, 5 PM Pacific, the Myth Salon is ecstatic to be hosting Dr. Carol Pearson, well-known author of The Hero Within and Awakening The Heroes Within, presenting her 12-archetype system: Idealist, Realist, Warrior, Caregiver, Seeker, Lover, Revolutionary, Creator, Ruler, Jester, Sage, and Magician. In her updated work, she’s integrating findings from neuroscience and recent developments in archetypal psychology. In her updated work, she integrates findings from neuroscience and recent developments in archetypal psychology. She demonstrates that the heroic quest isn’t just for certain people under special circumstances. Exploring the many heroic paths available to each of us, at every point in our lives, her innovative program enables us to live heroically by activating and applying twelve archetypes in our lives. Dr. Pearson co-created the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator® as a validated instrument with Dr. Hugh Marr, whom we are extremely honored will be joining the Myth Salon panel for the presentation along with Dr. Kesstan Blandin, the Director of Research at the Center for the Applications of Psychological Type in Gainesville, Florida, in addition to serving as faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. So, in addition to our usual stellar panel of scholars and educators, the Myth Salon will be joined by three experts in how to unlock the archetypes of our authentic nature and the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator.® Carol Pearson’s forthcoming book, What Stories Are You Living? is designed to help PMAI users recognize the archetypes that are unconsciously fueling the plotlines of our lives and to use that information to support our individuation. In this way, we develop archetypal narrative intelligence (NQ) as an important aspect of emotional intelligence (EQ) and individuation. NOTE TO PARTICIPANTS: She encourages salon visitors to take the PMAI® (go to www.storywell.com) before attending, although doing so is not necessary to understand the presentation or contribute to the discussion. Carol’s work has focused on developing a 12-archetype applied model that is utilized in personal development, leadership and organizational development, and branding. She is author of Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By; Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes To Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World; The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes (co-authored with Margaret Mark); Mapping the Organizational Psyche (co-authored with John Corlett); the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator™ (co-developed with Hugh Marr); and What Stories Are You Living? (Dec. 2020). Her book Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within (2015) explored archetypal roots of gender equity and partnership. She was Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Director of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and Executive Vice President/Provost, then President of Pacifica Graduate Institute. http://www.carolspearson.com, http://www.storywell.com

On Thursday, October 1 at 5PM Pacific Time, the Myth Salon is pleased to present Clay Boykin and his producer, Dennis Tardan, who are in search of the new compassionate male. It is no secret that centuries of patriarchy and a skewed sense of masculinity bear much of the responsibility for steering humanity away from the nature and the deep feminine. Male empowerment has formed the foundation upon which our current cultural and political conditions rest. Clay Boykin and Dennis Tardan believe that amidst the turmoil in the world the new compassionate male is emerging as the new archetype. While much of their work may focus on transforming males and the masculine, the core values and principles evoke the relational qualities of the deep feminine. Based in Austin, Texas, they are engaging thought leaders who have developed conversations with enlightened people of all stripes and we are deeply privileged that they are coming to the Myth Salon on Thursday, October 1st to explore this new paradigm. Clay Boykin is in Search of the New Compassionate Male. Since his book: Circles of Men: A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Creating Men’s Groups, was published in 2018, Clay has been on a global search in the belief that a New Compassionate Male is emerging as the new archetype for the 21st century. He has dedicated his next twenty years to making the world a better place by empowering men to cultivate and integrate the divine male and divine female essences within, and live a life centered on compassion and serving the greater good. Clay is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and corporate change agent with a deep-seated belief in servant leadership. He founded the Men’s Fellowship Network: Circles of Men Project in 2012, has facilitated hundreds of weekly circles, has led workshops and given seminars in North America and Africa, and has helped thousands of men learn about self-compassion and grow along their life journey. Dennis Tardan is an interviewer, communication coach and documentarian. For more than 40 years, Dennis has worked as a television interviewer and documentary producer and corporate communication coach for companies such as Shell, Farmers Insurance, ConocoPhillips, Siemens, Rice University and many others.