With Gillian M Brown, Susanna Bucher, Andrew Fellows, Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Orsolya Lukács, Dale Mathers.
Curated and chaired by Andrew Fellows.

November 22 – December 7, 2025

6 two-hour sessions

9:00am PST, 12:00pm BST, 5:00pm GMT, 6:00pm CET

Beyond Jung: Jung & Ecology

Six Jungian analysts and academics at the cutting edge of this exciting and crucial area of research and practice share their diverse modes of professional engagement.

This is the second set of talks in a new ‘Beyond Jung’ series hosted by the Pari Center, honouring the seminal work and inspiration of the Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung. Our title, ‘Jung and Ecology’, refers to the contribution of Jung’s prescient insights, and of his Analytical Psychology in general, to the emerging discipline of ecopsychology. This can be summed up in his famous and alarming assertion that “The world hangs by a thin thread… and that thread is the psyche of man.” Despite his old-fashioned language, four of our six presenters are women!

Ecopsychology is a broad church, gaining momentum over recent decades as our awareness of the ecological crisis and our alienation from nature increase. It embraces a range of approaches, from using psychology to address environmental issues to integrating the natural world into psychotherapeutic practice. Our six expert presenters will share their individual approaches across this spectrum, five of them as practising Jungian analysts. Their professional backgrounds, which include ecology, education, climate science and renewable energy, inform and enrich their diverse perspectives. We are also honoured to count an Indigenous Jungian analyst among our presenters.

We look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be a highly topical and engaging series of presentations.

Program of Event

Saturday November 22, 2025
Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology
with Andrew Fellows PhD

Sunday November 23, 2025
Encountering the Eco-symbolic: A Jungian approach to the discovery of meaningfulness in the other-than-human world
with Gillian M Brown PhD

Saturday November 29, 2025
A Jungian Perspective on Climate Change
with Jeffrey T. Kiehl, PhD

Sunday November 30, 2025
Facing the Ecological Abyss: A Collective Search for Transformation
with Susanna Bucher, Dr. sc. nat. ETH

Saturday December 6, 2025
Control, Creation, and the Future of Nature
with Orsolya Lukács PhD

Sunday December 7, 2025 
Time and Climate Change  
with Dale Mathers MD