The Soul of Toni Wolff and the Magic of the Feminine Psyche

Since the publication of The Red Book in 2009, Toni Wolff has taken a higher profile. She was the collaborator, friend, lover and guide of Carl Jung.  We must be thankful to her for supporting and guiding Jung through his experience of the collective unconscious, recorded in The Red Book.  Wolff had a fine and strong intellect, an enormous heart, and an exceptional quality of intuition.  She was a collaborator in the dangerous work to uncover the mysteries of the unconscious.  Wolff gave Jung boundaries, helped to stop his impetuous temperament from carrying him away.  She gave him the human support and courage to make an experiment with his own life.  As Helen Luke, the Jungian psychologist said:

No man can safely enter the dark gate of the shadow world without knowing that some deeply loved and trusted person has absolute faith in the rightness of his journey and in his courage and ability to come through.

Toni Wolff was born in Zürich.  Her activity with Jung begins at the turn of the 20th Century.  At that time, Switzerland had more fierce respectability than Victorian England.  Her relationship to Jung was tolerated but disapproved of.  Jung insisted on the openness of their relationship, she was more to him than a mistress on the side.  They researched together, went on holiday together, they listened to each other’s dreams, went to conferences.  For Sunday lunch she visited the Jung household and joined the family openly.  Although much younger than Jung, she died before him and seemed forgotten until the deeper biography of Jung emerged many years after his death revealing the crucial role she played in the development of his psychology. 

• Brenda Crowther, MA initially studied Fine Arts, which included painting and art history and obtained her BA (Hons) in London. She exhibited her work for many years and spent some years in India and Asia studying the ancient sites and philosophies. After a teaching diploma, she taught in Art Colleges and Brighton University, where she was both studio teacher and lecturer in art history. Brenda had been reading the work of Carl Jung since she was 18 years old, and his way of using symbolic images influenced the development of her paintings and attitude. From an early age, her dreams showed that alchemy was her path, and she knew that Jung has researched this intensely.
  
  Many years later she resolved to study the work of Jung formally and to train as a Jungian Analyst. As a Master’s degree was required to prepare for this, she decided to study French Philosophy and obtained her MA from Sussex University. Then the immense study to be an analyst began. This covered the history of religion, the myths and fairy tales of all nations, the origin and development of consciousness, archaic man, alchemical studies, besides the more conventional study of psychiatry and psychological complexes, and of course, case work. The richness of this study ended with a thesis of 50,000 words, which gave her a Diploma as a Jungian Analyst easily described as doctoral level.
  
  At present, she prepares a book on her relationship to nature in both a symbolic and psychological way. She has written many articles and was editor of Harvest Journal for Jungian Studies in UK for six years. Recently she received the honour of the title of Fellow of the Guild of Pastoral Psychology in UK for her continued contribution to the field of Jungian psychology through conferences, articles and seminars.

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Democracy and Governance I: The Practice of Democracy

The Practice of Democracy Collective is a transdisciplinary design approach to navigate the intersectionality of architecture, planning, and systems thinking to develop contextualized frameworks that advance more equitable, humane, and just representations of spatial authorship addressing the collateral consequences of redlining, urban renewal, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, homelessness and the impact on democracy.

Moderator:

• George Cappannelli, CEO, Age Nation

Panelists:

• April De Simone is a transdisciplinary design practitioner with over 20 years of experience addressing society’s most pressing and interconnected challenges. Ms. De Simone, has worked on numerous projects demonstrating the equitable, humane, and just capacities of architecture and design mediums, including a supervised visitation site at the Bronx Borough Courthouse and the social enterprise venture Urban Starzz.  
  
  In 2015, she co-founded designing the WE (dtW), where she co-created the nationally recognized Undesign the Redline (UTR) platform  Her new platform, Spatial Forensics, launched in the Fall of 2021. Spatial Forensics is a research and design studio investigating the implicit and invisible relationship between architecture and human condition. Spatial Forensics works with diverse stakeholders as an interdisciplinary studio, connecting a deeper understanding of how inequity, supremacy (in its various forms), and dehumanization become spatialized and proliferated. From this context, opportunities for a new pedagogical and methodological approach expands the agency of design to interrogate and deconstruct existing paradigms, while simultaneously advancing an emergence of projects within the built environment centered on equity, justice, and inclusion.
  
  Ms. De Simone continues to be an invited lecturer, speaker, and facilitator at numerous institutions. She sits on progressive boards, including that of the American Sustainable Business Council and works closely on a local and national level with diverse stakeholders within the design sector, including the Urban Design Forum,  on issues of race, equity, and new economies. A Dean Merit Scholar recipient, she received her Master of Science in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design. Currently she is pursuing her Masters in Architecture.
  
  
• Anne Robertson has concentrated her energy for 25 years on the effect that toxic chemicals have on human health, especially the health of our children. Chronic illness and emotional distress among our nation’s youth have increased at an alarming rate during the past 20 years due to such exposure. It is this concern that has led Anne on a journey of discovery and why she has committed her time, resources and talents to unite a coalition of concerned individuals, organizations, businesses and communities to come together for the sake of our children’s future.
  
  She is a  dedicated advocate of environmentally conscious organizations and serves on the Board of several national environmental health organizations, including Healthy Child Healthy World and Mt. Sinai’s Children’s Environmental Health Center. She has also served on the Board or Advisory Board of several other non-profits including Texas Campaign for the Environment, Clean Production Action, the Sustainable Food Center, HealthCode and the Arkansas Fashion Council.
  
  Anne is the great-granddaughter of Richard S. Reynolds, the founder of The Reynolds Metals Corporation and the great, great-grand niece of RJ Reynolds Tobacco. This upbringing has provided a very unique perspective on the power big business can yield in the marketplace. While there are many fantastic examples of corporations being good stewards, she has discovered there is a dark side to companies that operate with impunity toward the health and well-being of the planet and she is dedicated to finding a new and better way for business to operate by building innovative collaborations. 

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Democracy and Governance II: Next Steps

As a follow-up to our 25 program Democracy Dialogue Series on Humanity Rising in 2022 that brought together an outstanding group of leading authors, experts, innovators, activists and candidates dedicated to advancing the goal of saving and protecting our democracy in the November midterms, we - George Cappannelli, John Steiner and Margo King - are pleased to announce the expansion of the series in 2023 to include the subject of governance here in the US and around the world.

We have expanded the series because we believe this it is vitally important that we not only capitalize on the momentum gained in the midterms, but also recognize, as should be clear to all from the insanity passing as governance in the US House of Representatives, the continuing efforts of Donald Trump, and those who support him and governors and state legislatures in the Red States who are all committed to undercutting our Democracy that we are not yet out of the woods and that there is much that still needs to be done to save democracy and also to revisit and strengthen it here in the US and in other countries as well.

To this end, throughout 2023 we will again to our best to bring you people who are on the front lines who were there in 2018, 2020 and 2022 and will be there again in answering the core question in 2024 and beyond – What’s Next In The Battle To Save Democracy and What Can Each of Us Do To Contribute.

Another primary goal of the series is to bring to our audience that currently includes viewers in 130 countries around the world, insights, perspectives, and recommendations advanced, from the left, center and right, by those who are committed not only to saving democracy, but also revisiting, redefining and renewing its true promise.

Host:

• George Cappannelli, CEO, AgeNation

Panelists:

• Mark Gerzon, leadership trainer and mediator, and best-selling author, is a former EWI Distinguished Fellow. He spearheaded EWI's Global Leadership Consortium, which harnesses talent from around the world to address threats to global peace and security. Gerzon is the author of "Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences Into Opportunities," Harvard Business School Press. Using the "mediator's toolbox" described in his book, he coaches leaders in both the private and public sectors on how to bridge the divisions in their companies and communities. Called an "expert in civil discourse" by The New York Times, for the past 20 years Mark has been President of the Mediators Foundation, a non-profit incubator of conflict resolution projects.
  
  Mark is co-founder and co-director of the Global Leadership Network, an international organization whose members are leadership trainers from every region of the world. Among the Network's projects are a book on the global dimensions of leadership, and a Global Leaders program being designed in partnership with Outward Bound International. He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program and its Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
  
  Since designing and facilitating the first and second United States House of Representatives' Bipartisan Congressional Retreats, he has continued to conduct dialogue trainings for Chiefs of Staff from both parties in the United States House and Senate, and to facilitate "cross-spectrum" dialogues between Left, Center and Right. Both in the private as well as the public sector, his goal is to support leaders who can build bridges across their differences in order to find common ground and solve critical problems.
  
  
• Steven Olikara is a nationally recognized political commentator, speaker, non-profit founder, and change-maker. He is the Founder & Former CEO of Millennial Action Project (MAP), the largest organization of young elected leaders in the U.S. Through MAP, Steven has been on the front lines of passing legislation on democracy, gun violence prevention, climate, veterans employment, and more. Steven’s commentary has been featured in numerous national media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NBC, the Washington Post, USA Today, and more. This past fall, Steven served as a political analyst for NBC's largest affiliate in Wisconsin. He recently made history as the first South Asian candidate for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, running on a platform to renew our democracy.
  
  Steven is the subject of the documentary film, "The Reunited States," on Amazon Prime, and co-author of the book, JFK: THE LAST SPEECH, on the role of artists in democracy. He is a frequent speaker on leadership and politics at venues such as Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, SXSW, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the White House, the United Nations, and more. In 2018, he was invited to testify before Congress on issues facing millennial entrepreneurs and gig economy workers. An avid musician, and host of the podcast series, “Meeting in Middle America.”

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Democracy and Governance III: The Insidious Undermining of The Far Right

Hosts: 

• George Cappannelli, CEO, AgeNation, and Tom Eddington, CEO, Endangered Global

Panelist:

• Stephan Schwartz – My life has been spent exploring extraordinary human functioning, and how individuals and small groups can, and have, affected social change. I’ve done this both as an experimentalist in parapsychology, and by being privileged to have been a part of several major social transformations: civil rights in the 1960s, the transformation of the military from an elitist conscription organization to an all-voluntary meritocracy in the 70s, and citizen diplomacy between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 80s and 90s. Both the experiences and the research have convinced me that all life is interconnected and interdependent; which you’ll see reflected in the site’s several sections: my books, and research papers on Remote Viewing and Archaeology, Anthropology, Medicine and Healing, Creativity, and Social Policy; magazine articles and interviews; biographical material; and, experiential CDs, videos, and DVDs. You can read much of this material online, and download what you find of particular interest. The 8 Laws of Change is Stephan A. Schwartz’
groundbreaking work that studies the key factors in advancing social change that fosters wellbeing. 

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Democracy and Governance IV: Evangelicals For Democracy & Faiths United to Save Democracy

Hosts:

• John Steiner, Networker, George Cappanelli, CEO, AgeNation

Panelists:

• Reverend Dr. Richard Cizik is the President of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good (NEP), a faith-based organization he founded in 2010 to foster an agenda that promotes values consistent with an open and free society, such as ensuring civil liberties, equal rights and equal access to the ballot for all voters, as well as being a leading advocate for climate change. He also co-led the successful Evangelicals for Biden campaigns in key battleground states during the 2020 election, which has led to Evangelicals for Democracy in 2022 and beyond. He served for ten years as Vice President for Government Affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE),  a lobbying effort to Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court, a post he left after expressing support for civil unions and climate change Fast Company placed him on the list of its “Most Creative Minds” and in 2008, Time Magazine named him to its list of the “Time 100” most influential people.
  
  
• Jim Wallis, co-founder with Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner of Faiths United to Save Democracy,  is a globally respected public theologian, writer, teacher, preacher, and justice advocate who believes the gospel of Jesus must be transformed from its cultural and political captivities. His podcast, The Soul of the Nation with Jim Wallis, features conversations with grassroots organizers and political leaders and discusses how to take action to promote racial and social justice, life and peace, and environmental stewardship. He served on President Barack Obama's White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and has taught faith and public life courses at Harvard and Georgetown University. “Coach Jim” also served for 22 seasons as a Little League coach for his two baseball playing sons. In 2020, after founding and leading Sojourners for 50 years, Rev. Jim Wallis accepted an invitation from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy to serve as the inaugural chair and founding director of the Center on Faith and Justice.
  
  
• Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, CEO and co-founder of Skinner Leadership Institute, is a trusted advisor, public policy strategist, faith and community leader, author, lecturer, educator, executive coach, and mentor. She has made an indelible imprint in American public policy, government, diversity, and community relations. She and her late husband, Tom Skinner, founded the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Prayer Breakfast that annually attracted over 3000 leaders across the nation. She regularly works with interfaith leaders on issues like health care, criminal justice reform, and voting rights.

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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