JUNG at HARP
Most Fridays at 9:15-ish AM ET
Join us on the playground of thought where Art meets Psyche
a weekly video conversation with Deborah Henson-Conant & Kathleen Wiley
Streaming Live on YOUTUBE and sometimes also on FACEBOOK
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Watch and listen to the most recent episode below.
Why We Created “Jung at Harp”
You hear people all day long on the internet selling to you, telling you how to be smarter, better, more effective. But to expand fully, your mind needs to engage in inquiry and exploration. It needs to watch other minds explore, see the interplay of questions and ideas, to watch ideas unfold.
In “Jung at Harp” you jump into a conversation that explores the world where music and the psyche meet. Two experts in their own fields – of music and psychoanalysis – in a conversation about ideas without any ulterior agenda. These conversations aren’t about trying to prove, teach or sell.
This is the art of conversation, the joy of exploration – and YOU are invited to be part of it.
It all started in an old car. I was in Charlotte, NC for a series of workshops. Kathleen Wiley, a Jungian Psychoanalyst and budding harpist, was a member of the local Harp Society who offered to host me in her home, and ferry me to the workshop site.
It was in those car rides that we started a conversation about how the mind, emotions and music influence each other — and I never wanted those conversations to end.
But you know how it is – you mean to keep in touch, but life intrudes. So three years later, we decided to do an experiment. What if the best way to continue the conversation regularly was to do it as a weekly broadcast? A weekly conversation series about the rich land where music and the psyche meet, illuminated by Kathleen’s expertise in the work of Carl Jung and my lifelong work as a composer and performer.
We both play harp, so we called it “Jung at Harp”
If you listen to the episodes from the beginning you’ll see we explore different formats for the conversation – but it always centers on the same theme: the place where music and psyche meet – and how that can illuminate us and transform our lives.
Episode #1: IMPULSE
Impulse is the desire to do, be, have, touch. It’s the first step to creative expression. But what is it, really? And how do you sustain your creative impulse when it may take hours, days, weeks or even years to transform a creative impulse to something you can actually share with the world?
(Recorded Dec. 1, 2019)
Episode #2: STRUCTURE
Structure is at the heart of creative freedom – when it’s an internal, flexible structure – like our own skeleton.
(Recorded Dec. 13, 2019)
Episode #3: CHARACTER
Character is the flavor, the scent, the expression – the ineffable that gives meaning to the concrete.
(Recorded Dec. 20, 2019)
Episode #4: ROLES
Roles give you the power to work spontaneously with others. If you’ve ever watched or played team sports, you know that positions or roles give you the freedom to play with others, even if you speak different languages!
(Recorded Dec. 29, 2019)
Episode #5: PRACTICE(S)
There are two ways of looking at the word ‘practice‘ – one is the act of practicING to ‘get something’ you want to be able to do. The other is the act of developing A PRACTICE so that you create conditions so that what you want can get to YOU.
(Recorded Jan. 3, 2020)
Episode #6: DECONSTRUCTION
Structure, DEconstructed or distilled, bcomes the seed or blueprint for countless new creations – even in completely different media.
(Recorded Jan. 10, 2020)
Episode #7: LIFT-OFF
In the moment of performance, we drop conscious practice. We speak fluently in a language where perfection is irrelevant, because we are simply revealing what it means to be human.
Lift-off is the moment when we stop trying to perfect, and fully embrace what we are and what we can do in this moment.
(Recorded Jan. 30, 2020)
Episode #8: INTEGRATION
In this episode we talk about what it looks like to integrate every string, and how that works.
(Recorded Feb. 7, 2020)
Episode #9: AUTHENTICITY & WHOLENESS
In this video we are exploring authenticity & wholeness as they relate to the “Strings of Passion” principles we explored in the first 7 conversations.
(Recorded Feb. 21, 2020)
Episode #10: RELATIONSHIPS
In this video we are exploring relationships as they relate to the “Strings of Passion” principles we explored in the first 7 conversations.
(Recorded Feb. 28, 2020)
Episode #11: ANXIETY
How can we deal with anxiety? Where does it comes from? How to break it down and how to deconstruct the impulses that disconnect us from each other (and ourselves) when we’re anxious?
(Recorded Mar. 6, 2020)
Episode #12: OVERWHELM
In this video we looked at how the “Strings of Passion” principles and Jungian concepts can help us when we’re feeling overwhelmed.
(Recorded Mar. 13, 2020)
Episode #13: TRANSFORMING ISOLATION TO SOLITUDE
In this video we are talking about how transform isolation into solitude, especially in the midst of crisis.
(Recorded Mar. 20, 2020)
Episode #14: What is FLOW? (And how do I find it?)
Are you struggling getting from point A to point B? Are you getting distracted? What is keeping you from fluency in your life? In this video we are talking about flow – What it is, how to find it, and the difference between straight focus versus curved focus.
(Recorded Apr. 3, 2020)
Episode #15: How do we CHANGE? (and deal with it around us?)
In this episode we talk about change – both the expected and unexpected – and how we deal with it.
(Recorded Apr. 10, 2020)
Episode #16: How to GROUND yourself
In this video we looked at how to find ways to ground ourselves through the principles of creative resonance, music (specifically the Blues) and Jungian principles.
(Recorded Apr. 27, 2020)
Episode #17: How to have a RICH life
In this video we looked at how to sink a line into your raw creative energy, refine that energy and use it to power the vehicles of creative expression that are important to you – so you become the mechanism to transform raw creative energy into FORMS (music, art, ideas, yoga classes, apps, recipes, ad infinitum) that enrich humanity.
(Recorded May 1, 2020)
Episode #18: Vulnerability, Unreliability & Precariousness
In this video we looked at vulnerability, unreliability and precariousness: What they are and what’s different and similar about them.
(Recorded May 8, 2020)
Episode #19: Musicality
In this video we looked at MUSICALITY – what it is in your life, and what it is in music.
(Recorded May 29, 2020)
Episode #20: Antidote to Perfectionism
In this video we explored the antidote to PERFECTIONISM.
(Recorded June 6, 2020)
Episode #21: The Tyranny of Should, Must & Ought-to
In this video we explored the how to escape the TYRANNY of shoulds, musts & ought-to’s.
(Recorded June 19, 2020)
Episode #22: The Fear of Shining
In this video we explored the FEAR of shining when things are going great.
(Recorded July 24, 2020)
Episode #23: What is Creativity
In this video we asked the question “What is CREATIVITY” through the lenses of the ‘Strings of Passion’ and Jungian Concepts.
(Recorded July 31, 2020)
Episode #24: How to LET Yourself Change
In this episode we looked at what it takes to LET ourselves change – how playing music, or any art form – can become the vehicle for our own change if we LET ourselves become affected by our own play – or as my teacher Tony Montanaro used to say, “You must become a victim of your own work.”
(Recorded August 28, 2020)
Episode #25: How to Reconnect to Parts of us Frozen by Trauma
In this episode we looked at what it takes to reconnect to that frozen or traumatized part of ourselves that we seem to have no access to.
(Recorded September 11, 2020)
Episode #26: Higher Self versus Lower Self
What’s our Higher Self? What’s our Lower Self? Is there a Greater Self? An Ego self? What ARE these things? Do we really have them – and how do they affect the way we live and ‘be’? We explored these questions in this week’s episode.
(Recorded September 17, 2020)
Episode #27: How to Recover Your Essence when the Blueprint gets Soggy
Episode #29: Inviting the Undiscovered Self
(Recorded October 16, 2020)
Episode #30: The Search for Vulnerability
(Recorded October 24, 2020)
Episode #31: How Does Imagination affect faith, hope, belief … and avoidance?
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