Spring offers fresh opportunities for learning and growth, and 2026 brings three distinctive courses spanning the breadth of Jungian thought and practice. From the technical precision of archetypal astrology to the philosophical depths of Jung’s theology and the creative exploration of personal narrative, these programs offer varied paths into depth psychology’s transformative potential.
Beyond Rebellion and Shadow: A Rigorous Approach to Black Moon Lilith
Pacifica Graduate Institute is offering an exceptional Advanced Training Certificate course that challenges popular interpretations of one of astrology’s most misunderstood points. Running June 20 through August 15, 2026, “Black Moon Lilith: The Astrological Portal of Refusal and Liminal Intelligence” brings precision and depth to what is often reduced to simplistic narratives about sexuality, rebellion, or shadow projection.
Led by Dr. Laurence Hillman and Dr. Vanja Bokun Popović, this eight-week program works specifically with the True (Osculating) Black Moon Lilith as a precise astronomical point marking thresholds within the natal chart. Rather than treating Lilith as archetypal character or empowerment narrative, the course examines her as a liminal function that emerges when structures lose legitimacy and vigilance becomes necessary.
The curriculum progresses from technical foundations through embodied awareness and cultural context. Early weeks establish astronomical clarity, distinguishing True BML from Mean BML and asteroid Lilith, while examining how this non-planetary point functions as structural activation rather than personality trait. Mid-course sessions develop crucial discernment between projection, attachment patterns, and genuine liminal encounter—exploring how house placement marks the arena of activation, sign reveals instinct-language, and aspects show activation pathways. Later weeks engage mythic material including Isaiah 34:11-14, examining collapse as measured reconfiguration, and conclude by situating individual portal placements within broader cultural transitions.
Dr. Hillman, born in Zürich and in dialogue with archetypes for nearly five decades, brings expertise in archetypal astrology and leadership development. Dr. Popović, a child refugee of the Bosnian war with over 20 years of international experience, contributes depth in complexity, somatic awareness, and how human systems reorganize under pressure. Together they offer rigorous methodology that resists romanticisation while preserving paradox. The program includes eight pre-recorded lectures, eight live interactive sessions, online discussion forums, and 12 continuing education credits. Participants receive a Pacifica Advanced Training Certificate upon completion. Early bird rates apply until May 20, 2026.
Jung and God: A Nine-Session Exploration with Mark Vernon
What did Carl Jung really think about God? This question, contested and complex, lies at the heart of Dr. Mark Vernon’s nine-session course “The Armchair Guide to Jung and God,” beginning April 10, 2026. Vernon, a psychotherapist with a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy and degrees in theology and physics, brings unique interdisciplinary perspective to Jung’s most challenging spiritual territory.
The course arrives at a significant moment, just over 150 years since Jung’s birth in 1875, offering accessible yet rigorous exploration of the fundamentals of depth psychology and its significance for religious belief. Jung famously declared late in life that he didn’t believe in God but knew of God’s existence, and disagreed fundamentally with classical Christian conceptions of the divine. Vernon examines how Jung understood psychoanalysis as filling a vacuum created when western churches lost the ability to address pressing issues of inner life.
The nine sessions include six one-hour recorded lectures released in pairs each week, alongside three live group conversations scheduled for Wednesdays (April 15, 22, 29). This format allows individual pacing through foundational material while creating space for collective reflection, questions, and insight-sharing. The lectures progress from Jung’s biographical context and split with Freud through his understanding of modernity’s spiritual crisis, his critique of Christianity’s failures, phenomena like synchronicity suggesting complete metaphysics, and finally Jung’s theology, both its genius and it’s constraints.
Vernon’s background uniquely positions him for this inquiry. A former Church of England priest now working as psychotherapist and teacher, he’s authored books including “Carl Jung: How To Believe,” “A Secret History of Christianity,” and “Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination.” His work regularly appears on BBC programs and in the Idler magazine, and he directs the Realisation Festival, bringing together ideas and music to resource the soul for our times. The course appeals broadly to psychotherapy students and practitioners, religious professionals interested in psychological flourishing, those considering spiritual direction as vocation, people with active spiritual practices, and anyone drawn to questions of religion and inner life.
Mining the Hidden Syntax of Self: Paradox Simpatico
Beginning tomorrow March 7, 2026, artist Sue Pam-Grant invites participants into “Paradox Simpatico: Mining the Hidden Syntax of Self,” a five-week Saturday workshop series that engages the creative and frustrated desires of the heart and hand. This bespoke, interdisciplinary exploration offers fresh, innovative ways to access and express unique narrative and the creative impulse that ignites the “elusive idea.”
Structured as a “process-as-practice” masterclass, the course traces, tracks, mines, and maps the deep material of personal creativity, unfurling what Pam-Grant calls “the phonetics of the hidden self.” The artist serves as both guide and provocateur on an imaginative voyage through lost moments, hidden impulses, and forgotten desires. As Matsuo Bashō wrote, “Never let go of the fiery sadness called desire”—and this workshop creates space for participants to honor and explore exactly that fierce longing.
The five modules progress through distinct creative territories: Tracking and Tracing, Mining and Mapping, (In)Transit and The Stowaway, Personage Assemblage, and finally Reflections. Each three-hour live workshop on Zoom is recorded for those unable to attend in real time. Sessions take place Saturdays at 2:00 PM London / 9:00 AM New York.
The course fee is $290 and registration is still open.