The Pari Center’s “Beyond Jung: Jung & Ecology” conference series addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time by exploring how Jungian insights can illuminate humanity’s relationship with the natural world and is running November 22 through December 7, 2025.
This second installment in the “Beyond Jung” series honors Jung’s environmental prescience, particularly his alarming assertion that “The world hangs by a thin thread… and that thread is the psyche of man.” The conference demonstrates how analytical psychology contributes to ecopsychology, an emerging discipline gaining momentum as awareness of ecological crisis and human alienation from nature increases. Six expert presenters—analysts and academics at the cutting edge of this field—will share diverse professional approaches across the ecopsychological spectrum, from using psychology to address environmental issues to integrating natural world perspectives into psychotherapeutic practice.
The program opens with Andrew Fellows exploring “Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology,” followed by Gillian M Brown’s examination of “Encountering the Eco-symbolic” in the other-than-human world. Jeffrey T. Kiehl brings climate science expertise to his “Jungian Perspective on Climate Change,” while Susanna Bucher addresses “Facing the Ecological Abyss” and our collective search for transformation. Orsolya Lukács examines “Control, Creation, and the Future of Nature,” and the series concludes December 7th with Jeanne A. Lacourt’s exploration of “Jung, Natives, and Nature – Eros and Reciprocity,” bringing Indigenous perspectives to this vital conversation.
The presenters’ diverse professional backgrounds in ecology, education, climate science, and renewable energy enrich their analytical perspectives, with five of the six being practicing Jungian analysts. Running across six two-hour sessions at internationally accessible times, this online format makes cutting-edge ecopsychological work available globally.
This timely gathering coincides with The Pari Center’s 25th anniversary celebration, marking a quarter-century of providing “a haven of peace and gentle action in a world increasingly gripped by crisis and turmoil” in a medieval Italian village dedicated to “the wholeness of knowledge; the arts, science, ethical values, community and the sacred.” Founded in 2000 by physicist-philosopher David F. Peat and educator Maureen Doolan, the Center has established itself as a unique space for interdisciplinary dialogue where scientific inquiry meets psychological understanding.