LITERATURE + LECTURES

Jung Center of Houston presents Departures: Healing and Homecoming Through Acceptance and Relationship. Jungian analyst Diana Heritage presents a workshop and free film screening exploring the ways that unexpected events can spark questions about the meaning of our experience.

Explore how fate violates our conscious intentions and shapes our world in ways we never could have imagined. The moving Japanese film Departures depicts the ways that such unexpected events reflect the Self, urging us on a journey that reunites us with our deepest nature in ways we could not have predicted. As Jung wrote, "[God] is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans, and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse."

We will view the film on Friday night. In Saturday's workshop we will reflect on the parallels of the story that we see in our own lives. We will examine how traumatic experiences spark questions into the spiritual nature of our existence and into the meaning of the madness that visits each of us on our human journey. Bring writing materials.

Diana Heritage, LCSW, Jungian analyst, holds a masters degree in social work from the University of Houston and is a graduate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She has been in private practice in Houston since 1993.