June 2011 Event

    JUNE 16^TH EVENT!

Your Disowned Self:

The Shadow in Everyday Life

Don Mihaloew, Ed.D, LMFT

"Our normal waking consciousness is but one special way of consciousness......No account of the Universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded."      William James

"What people see in matter, or think they see, is chiefly the data of their own consciousness which they project into it.” Carl G. Jung

"A better way to understand the unconscious is to define it as the unadmitted." Alfred Adler

                                                                                                                       

The main focus of this presentation will be on WHAT the shadow is, WHERE and HOW the shadow operates, and WHY it is important to understand the benefits as well as the problems relating to it. Since the shadow is essentially a survival archetype of  human living, all efforts must be made to replace the moral judgement of it both in self and each other with a full acceptance of its place and function in the human personality and come to see it, but chiefly ourselves, as the repository of enormous transformational potential. Yet, the shadow holds the key to ethical responsibility and to the question of evil as well. If we do not recognize and deal with the shadow, we live safely, quietly, monotonously, and essentially alone nowhere near the potential transformation available to us. The fee charged to us for such searching and discovery, however, is that of personal vulnerability, a direct assault on the ego, and hence the "need" for our shadow personality. Shadow helps us survive, but deadens us in the end with anxieties. It is a Faustian "deal with the devil". One way or the other, we pay. It all depends on what you are purchasing, whether to survive or to thrive. It is the human way, and, as such, the only way. 

Don Mihaloew, Ed D, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an Assistant Adjunct Professor in Counseling Psychology at Portland State University. He has a wide background in human relations theory, application and practices from Jungian/Adlerian, Existential-Humanistic, Gestalt, and Family System approaches. Don and his wife, Betty Kellow, reside in Bellingham.

                                                       
                                 

                            

Thursday, June 16th

7pm-9pm (Doors Open at 6:30)

1117 12^th St, Bellingham (Fairhaven Library)

$5-$10 Suggested Donation: No one will be turned away!

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