Crossing Cultures: Old Roots, New Soil

This workshop will explore the psychological impact of cultural disruptions and losses that occur in the immigration process

In new soil old roots regenerate as tender shoots emerge.

This workshop will explore the psychological impact of cultural disruptions and losses that occur in the immigration process. Instruction and discussion will be facilitated by two Jungian analysts with first-hand bi-cultural experience, Chie Lee, originally from China, and Lynn Alicia Franco from Colombia. Through both clinical and personal perspectives, the Instructors will address how personal and cultural complexes entwine psychologically in the individual psyche. They will illuminate the way traumas-, incurred in the migratory journey are woven together with the strength and flexibility developed for survival and adaptation within the unfamiliar context of American culture. Both analysts will address how loss and disorientation presents and integrates creatively in the analytic relationship. They will elaborate on the theme that development of an appreciation for one’s ancestral history and an understanding of internalized dynamics related to core cultural values are integral to the individuation process.

Chie Lee, MFT, is a Jungian Psychoanalyst with a private practice in Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles. She was trained at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and received her diploma in 2000. Chie teaches and supervises in the Institute training program and serves on the Board of Directors as well as many committees. She was the president of the Los Angeles Institute from 2010-2012. Chie has given seminars on Chinese fairy tale, film and Chinese avant-garde art. She is a contributor to Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way, published in 2012 by Fisher King Press.

Lynn Alicia Franco, LCSW, is a sculptor and multicultural/bilingual Jungian analyst. She has taught, supervised and consulted for more than thirty-five years at the C.G. Institute of San Francisco and the Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley. During the past ten years she has developed and taught clinically oriented seminars, dedicated to a depth psychological approach of culture identifications and disruptions in the processes of individuation. Her analytic practice in Berkeley is conducted in both English and Spanish with individuals and couples.

The Jung Institute of San Francisco is accredited by the Institute of Medical Quality/California Medical Association (Imq/Cma) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.The Jung Institute of San Francisco takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this Cme activity. 3 Ama Pra Category 1 Credits™ are offered for this event.