Fri, 10 Apr 2020 01:56:07 -0400WeeblySun, 02 Apr 2017 15:17:31 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/colleen-el-bejjani-at-harvard-street-integrated-wellness 
Reflective sessions with Colleen EL-Bejjani
Harvard Street Integrated Wellness
18 Harvard Street
Rochester, New York 14607
interiorityanddreams@gmail.com
 
“Everything we can possibly know and experience consists of soul stuff, has been filtered through language and images. We touch an oak tree and think that we touch the real thing, but what we touch is ‘oak tree,’ which is a human concept and image. We see a cow, a mountain, the moon, a fog, my mother, but all these perceptions are linguistic and mental concepts. Even the idea of something incomprehensible and the idea Jung toyed with … of an extra-linguistic reality as an absolutely unknowable X (‘the essence of things external to ourselves’) is a linguistic concept. There is for us no exit from the soul, the soul in this general sense, and soul is here synonymous with consciousness.” Wolfgang Giegerich, What Is Soul? New Orleans: Spring Publications, 2012, p. 75.  
 
Have you ever felt that you and others seem to be disengaged from meaningful lives in an increasingly fast-paced world?
 
Why does it seem that cultural institutions such as family, religion, and education seem to be failing? 
 
Would you like to find a way to view cultural phenomenon objectively to better understand its effect on daily experience?
Interiority Studies is an approach toward personal and cultural reflection that engages the client/student intellectually as well as emotionally. Deeply seeped in the Jungian tradition, re-thought through the eyes of Jungian analyst Wolfgang Giegerich and the work of various writers engaged in the Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority (PDI), Interiority Studies explores the movement of objective soul expressed within cultural phenomenon and individual life. As well as the recursive reflection that occurs in conversation, clients explore dream images, fantasy, and reflect on selected readings that are psychological, philosophical, and/or poetic. Colleen’s clients possess the willingness to deeply engage in the subject matter that holds them in its grip – whether that be a relationship, world view, dream/fantasy, or work of art.
Colleen EL-Bejjani serves on the Executive Committee for The International Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority (ISPDI) and holds monthly international tele-seminars for the ISPDI community known as Open Inquiries. She has presented her work on Interiority at international and national conferences, including Berlin, Germany, Malibu, California, Rochester, New York, Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Canada. Colleen holds an M.A. in Liberal Arts from the New York State University at Empire State College, and has served as the artistic director of Bush Mango Drum & Dance from 1988 - 2016. She has also completed her Archetypal Pattern Recognition certificate from The Assisi Institute: The International Center for the Study of Archetypal Patterns. After a long career performing and teaching dance in community, university, and city school settings, she currently teaches poetry at Northeast High School in Rochester, New York.  To schedule an appointment, email interiorityanddreams@gmail.com.
 
 

]]>Wed, 25 May 2016 16:16:01 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/interiority-begins-with-what-isHow do we each create meaningful lives in a world where "Meaning" is no longer a given? Meaning en masse has become obsolete. Humankind isn't unified within a living concept in the Gods, Goddesses, God, or any one singularly potent system of identification with Meaning, our selves, or each other. Our soul/world relationship is all together ours to make. Of course, some have strong belief systems that mask this reality, such as religion, activism, or a morality that supersedes all else. Even schools of psychology have belief systems that are rooted in biology, anthropology, or medicine - all existing external to soul.

Interiority roots itself in the noetic, not the reified, obsolete images or concepts of what was once soul, but the living, temporal moments of soul-making when the subject of our inquiry (psychology itself!, our dreams, whatever has us in its grips) is not thought about, but is negated until its very essence reveals its truth.

Interiority is a methodological way to perceive the world as it is - not as it once was, or how we hope for it to be. Interiority begins with what is.






]]>Sun, 22 May 2016 13:40:13 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/friday-may-27th-introductory-sessionsOn Friday, May 27th I will offer 5 introductory sessions to anyone interested in my work though unsure if it is the right fit.  The cost of introductory sessions are $25. They are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. You can secure a time by using the "schedule an appointment" page. Be sure to include your Skype address so I can phone you at the scheduled time.  Looking forward to talking with you.

Available times are:
12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m.
1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.


]]>Mon, 16 May 2016 15:49:31 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/accepting-new-clientsI will be accepting new clients beginning June 1st, 2016. I work mainly through Skype. If you are interested in finding out more information about how I work with psychology, you can contact me at interiorityanddreams@gmail.com.
]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:52:35 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/the-dreams-self-character-sunday-april-19th-2015The Dream's Self Character
Sunday, April 19th, 2015
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
This is the second free introductory workshop exploring dream interpretation.
You need to be able to access Google Hangouts to be part of the video call.

Focusing on dream interpretation, aspects of interiority will be introduced and participants dreams will be pre- chosen to serve as our text. (If you want to offer a dream, submit it to interiorityanddreams@gmail.com before April 17th).  Anyone interested in dream work is welcome to attend. You will learn some of what distinguishes interiority's view of dream interpretation from other interpretative methods, and what it means to allow the dream full Self-character. ]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:11:31 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/on-line-dream-workshop-sunday-april-12thThe Dream's Self Character
Sunday, April 12th
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
This introductory workshop is free, though you do need to register here.
I will be using Google video call for the workshop. You will need a Gmail address for me to invite you to the video call.

Focusing on dream interpretation, aspects of interiority will be introduced and participants dreams will be pre- chosen to serve as our text. (If you want to offer a dream, submit it to interiorityanddreams@gmail.com before April 6th).  Anyone interested in dream work is welcome to attend. You will learn some of what distinguishes interiority's view of dream interpretation from other interpretative methods, and what it means to allow the dream full Self-character.
]]>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:21:46 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/when-the-search-creates-the-lossClosure, wholeness, healing, recovery, meaningfulness, authenticity, transformation, life purpose...
All common language in the endless menu of options within the "healing" and "self-development" movements.  The incessant quest within modernity to feel optimized, complete, better, happier, healthier, spiritually connected, successful, purposeful, etc., and the subsequent development of experts eager to guide the quest is undeniably part of mainstream culture. And it appears that the gulf between the quest and the thing sought becomes greater as the menu of options for a path toward these goals present themselves.
Might it be that what creates the gulf is the psycho-logical form of the quest itself? Might it be that what we, as a culture and as individuals, are hoping to find is irrevocably lost to us as modern human, and that what is needed is a new psycho-logical perspective, not another simulated version of a historically bygone form of being-in-the-world?




]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:07:56 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/colleen-scheduled-to-lecture-at-the-university-of-rochester-rush-rhees-library-on-friday-july-3rd
Colleen will be presenting Dancing with the Dialectic: Interiority's Psychological Stance
(a lecture followed by Q & A)
Friday, July 3rd at 8:00pm
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester
Free and open to the public - though you must visit Flower City Forum to RSVP.

Colleen’s lecture will serve to introduce the dialectical approach to psychological interpretation. Psychology as the discipline of interiority (PDI) is rooted in the notion of depth psychology, or a psychology with soul.  This attitude or stance which recognizes the unity of unity and difference, absolves the internal/external, subject/object relationship. This uroboric and recursive mode of reflection is the psychology project of Jungian analyst, Wolfgang Giegerich.  Colleen is on the executive committee of The International Society of Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority (www.ispdi.org) and has her own site, www.interioritystudies.com.  Both sites offer links to essays and articles for further reading about the topic.



]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:01:46 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/taking-the-next-stepThere are many reasons someone may be called to engage in one on one study of the psychological stance presented by interiority. It be an overall interest in psychological thinking, or an attempt to discover the logic that drives your own world view. It may be your responses to disappointments in life, or the search for a way to better understand an overall sense of anxiety, or inability to form meaningful relationships. It may be the search for a lost connection to what is soulful, or meaningful in daily life.  Whatever the reason, I look forward to working with you. Visit the Schedule and Appointment page to begin. ]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:22:33 GMThttp://www.interioritystudies.com/blog/permanent-water
Concepts such as soul,  truth,  justice, and love, aren't pre-packaged, static givens. They are, in each moment and instance of their aliveness, performative. They are made anew at each encounter through the conscious act of thinking them, thus enlivening, and expanding their definitions as  concepts.

The alchemists graced us with concepts from which the psychological methodology of interiority can drink languidly; concepts such as the noetic fluidity implicit within “permanent water”, and the internal contradiction of “the stone that is not a stone, and only a stone.”  These invisible realities can only be accessed through the act of thinking. They are held within consciousness. No one can take your hand and lead you to them, for they do not exist  as reified, positive objects.  Like life itself, they are invisible, and come into sharper focus only by their absence. They cannot be jangled in our pockets like blue marbles and house keys. They can’t be tucked in our sock drawer like old photographs.

These thoughts that think themselves into being as concepts must dance! They remain alive only by their constant movement toward re-definition. These unseen realities, such as truth, justice, love, soul -  dance united by, and absolved from their own internal difference.

Permanent water. Stable fluidity. Certain uncertainty. Motherless child. Virgin birth. Human god. These are all ways to access what the psychology as the discipline of interiority terms the psychological difference - the unity of unity and difference. “So it is only in the return itself that what we return to emerges at all” (Zizek 2014). It is only by our performance of reflection that what we reflect upon comes into bein
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