Classes/Workshops
| Exploring Paradox: February 20 - March 13, 2007 |
| Exploring Aspects of Love Through Film: April 17-June 5, 2007 |
| Exploring Romantic Love through Film: October 25 - December 6, 2006 |
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| Exploring the Gifts and Opportunities of Mid-Life: A Jungian Perspective Free Talk at Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library 258 A Street, Ashland, Oregon Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:00 to 9:00 pm |
| MOVIES THAT MOVE YOU Every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 6:30 - 9:30 pm Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library 258 A Street, Ashland, Oregon Join us as we watch films, followed by discussions weaving in psychological, spiritual and cultural ideas. Click here & then on "Calendar" for schedule |
| One Sunday a month beginning September 23rd, 2007 Click for further details: Enneagram Point Groups with Carl Marsak |
| PAST |
| Conversations about Love Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library |
| Shadow, Defense Mechanisms & Self-love Free talk: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Workshop: Sunday, October 25, 2008 Click here for details |
| Exploring Shadow through Film Tuesday evenings, April 7-14-21-28, 2009 from 6:30 - 9:30 |
| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:30 - 10 pm EXPLORING RELATIONSHIP THROUGH FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION OF THE FILM AMY'S O Click for more information |
| "Embracing the Dark Night of the Soul" OPENING ART SHOW RECEPTION WITH SPEAKER MARLA ESTES Saturday, October 3rd, 6:30 pm Talent Art Gallery, 108 S. Market, Talent, Oregon |
| Exploring the Masculine: Inner and Outer [for Women] “The thousand and one statements that are made every day – “Isn’t that just like a man…women are more sensitive than men” – have to be swept from the mind like tattered autumn leaves from the garden path before it is possible to think clearly at all.” – Margaret Mead (1949) Our relationships with the other sex start from the inside; what I mean by this is that within each of us exists templates, or archetypes, created by early personal and collective conditioning (family, society, school, religious institutions, trauma). In order to change the outside, our inner landscape needs to change. What I am hoping to do through this series of classes is to explore which templates are in operation within each one of us, and see if there are ways that we can open up to a broader spectrum of our experience of maleness, using film as the main way into these questions. The other component of our exploration will be in which ways masculine traits exist inside of us. Jungians offer the thought that the feminine brings us into the depths and the masculine shows us how to get things done out in the world. (This isn't about which gender we are ~ it's about how we use masculine and feminine principles inside of ourselves). We'll have a look at who the male inside of us is, how he helps or hinders us in the world, and how we project him outside |
| Exploring Women's Themes Through Films |
| The Global Forum: Asking the Great Questions of Life Panel Discussion: Rich Lang, Richard Moeschl, Julie Excell, Roy Kindell, Ed Hirsch, Marla Estes and Steve Scholl Sunday, October 18th, 6:30 - 9 pm Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 87 Fourth Street For more information Click here |
| Exploring Relationship through Film Many of us want to move into new paradigms of love and relationship. How might we wean ourselves from the myth of romantic love? How can we keep the beauty of romance and yet break the spell of its illusion? How might we drop projections and expectation of the Other? How can we move away from family of origin issues in our marriages? How can we grow as individuals in our relationships? How can we get over what John Bradshaw calls "Post-Romantic Stress Disorder"? How does the "Battle of the Sexes" play into our relationships? What does the statement 'only those who are already married can actually get married' mean? What is the relationship between love, loss and dependency? How do affairs fit in? These are some of the mysteries that we will be exploring in this class. Using films as a springboard for discussion, we will weave in philosophical, psychological, sociological and Jungian thought, and explore the questions together. |
| Awakenings Through Film Presented at OLLI at SOU 5 Thursdays, Feb 11 - Mar 11, 1 to 4 pm We will be exploring various kinds of awakenings in films and how we can use them to help us to awaken more fully in our own lives. |
| Exploring Women's Themes through Film Presented at OLLI at SOU, Medford campus 5 Thursdays, April 1-29, 1 to 4 pm We will be exploring the arc of transformation possible in women's lives through a series of five films |
| EXPLORING THE UNLIVED LIFE Marla Estes, M.A. and Mary Marquiss August 13 - 14, 2011 / Friday: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. - Movie Saturday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. - Discussion and Art Mary's home in Bend, Oregon Sliding Scale - $75 - $95 / Limit: 8 Students Contact Mary at (541) 815-0839 or marquiss@bendbroadband.com All of us have a long black bag we drag behind us filled with all the aspects of ourselves that weren't safe to show or that were rejected by our growing-up environment. This is called our "shadow." Some of us think of the shadow as the evil or bad parts of ourselves, parts that we want to be rid of. But to be whole we need to integrate all of our facets and embrace all that we are. For instance, anger is an emotion that, particularly for women, is discouraged by our culture. Yet there is a lot of power and ability in the constructive use of anger. Also, many of us have put our creativity in the black bag; we may have been shamed or found "not good enough" when we were young. And it takes a lot of energy to keep the shadow hidden, like a beach ball that you try to hold under water. Which parts of you have remained in your "shadow"? Through this one and a half day workshop, explore parts of yourself that may be unlived, hidden or repressed through creating art, watching film and discussion. Mary's website www.marymarquiss.com |
| EXPLORING AWAKENINGS THROUGH FILM Mondays in June 2010, 6:30 - 9:30 click here for more details |
| The Battle of the Sexes: Dead or Alive Is the Battle of the Sexes really over? Do we give lip service to how things should be, but keep the “Battle” alive unconsciously? How does it show up in our personal relationships? What can we do to create something new? Join Our Conversation to Explore These Questions Thursday ~ June 24, 2010 ~ 7pm -9pm Ashland Public Library, Gresham Room Free Admission “As we began to look at all our personal concerns from a global perspective, we could see that the patterns of control, denial and projection that sabotage intimate relationships are the very patterns that endanger the world. To change these patterns is to change not just our social lives but our relationship to the planet.” (Terrance O’Connor, eco-psychologist, author of Therapy for a Dying Planet) |
| Who Does She Think She Is? Film Screening, Art Exhibit and Panel Discussion Friday, July 30, 2010, 5:30 - 9:30 RCC/SOU Presentation Hall, 101 S. Bartlett, Medford Admission Free Click here for more information |
| EXPLORING AWAKENINGS THROUGH FILM Mondays, August 2, 9, 16, 23 2010, 6:30 - 9:30 For more details, email marla16@charter.net or phone 541 482 4948 |