Confronting Climate Chaos: Inner and Outer Realities
Jungian psychology offers us refreshingly original ways to engage with the climate emergency. We will present the basic science, postulate some underlying archetypal dynamics from different perspectives, and explore our own feelings of "eco-anxiety".
Date & Venue
18–19 September 2020
Stampfenbachstr. 115, 8006 Zürich
Tram 11 or 14 to Beckenhof
Event Schedule
Friday, 18 September
19:00–20:45
Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD
The Science and Psychology of Climate Chaos
Human caused climate chaos is disrupting life on Earth. The psychological dimensions of this issue are explored from a Jungian perspective with emphasis on activated cultural complexes and archetypal forms. Pathways are presented to creatively engage with these psychic realities.
Saturday, 19 September
10:00–11:45
Andrew Fellows, PhD
Towards a New Worldview 1
Synergies between a Jungian understanding of psyche, Gaia theory, the Pauli-Jung conjecture and nonlocal mind are presented to offer a radically different worldview that is needed to navigate climate chaos and other challenges of the Anthropocene.
13:00–14:45
Andrew Fellows, PhD
Towards a New Worldview 2
Our failure to adapt to the reality of climate chaos adequately is analysed using Jung’s lifetime developmental theory, and parallels are established between the inner individuation process and the outer principles of deep ecology.
15:00–16:45
Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD
Engaging with Eco-Anxiety
The daily onslaught of climate chaos information has led to growing eco-anxiety, evidenced also via clinicians who are reporting increased instances of clients experiencing eco-anxiety. Jungian and mindfulness approaches to work with eco-anxiety are provided for both clinicians and those involved in environmental action.
Cost & Registration
Payment in cash at the door
The Complete Lecture Series
General Entry: CHF 100
Students, Seniors, Disabled: CHF 60
Per Lecture
General Entry: CHF 30
Students, Seniors, Disabled: CHF 20
Gratis for ISAP Students and Analysts
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else.
Find Us
Tram 11 or 14 to Beckenhof / Tram 11 oder 14 nach Beckenhof