The Australian and
New Zealand Society
of Jungian Analysts
Professional Development Programme for 2025
Seminars for Clinicians
ANZSJA offers professional development programs/events for clinicians who wish to expand their clinical approaches to include Jungian and post Jungian perspectives.
ANZSJA Analysts also offer public talks and events for people interested in exploring Jungian and post-Jungian ideas and their application to the individual, society and culture.
These events may include public lectures, seminars and workshops, screenings, performances and exhibitions.
Our listings include diverse events across Australia and New Zealand.
The Alchemy Series
A Three-Part Seminar Series
Presented by Dr Chris Milton
The Alchemy Series is a three-part seminar series exploring alchemy as a practical discipline, a psychological language, and a psycho-spiritual framework. Across three consecutive Saturdays, the series traces alchemy from its laboratory origins through its psychological elaboration in analytical work, and into its role as a language of spiritual transformation.
Participants may attend individual seminars or enrol in the full series.
Seminar Schedule
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Saturday 7 March 2026, 9.00am – 12.00pm AEST / 11.00am – 2.00pm NZST
Part One – Practical Alchemy -
Saturday 14 March 2026, 9.00am – 12.00pm AEST / 11.00am – 2.00pm NZST
Part Two – Alchemy and Psychology -
Saturday 21 March 2026, 9.00am – 12.00pm AEST / 11.00am – 2.00pm NZST
Part Three – Alchemy and Spirituality
Part One – Practical Alchemy
Saturday 7 March 2026
This seminar introduces the foundational concepts of practical alchemy, with a focus on the Lesser Circulation — the original form of laboratory alchemy working with plant materials rather than metals. It explores the gathering of prima materia, the structuring of the laboratorium and oratorium, and the essential processes of maceration, circulation, extraction, fermentation, calcination, and distillation.
Attention is given to alchemical vessels, materials, and heat sources, alongside the Paracelsian Three Primes (salt, sulphur, and mercury) as organising principles of matter. The seminar establishes alchemy as both practical discipline and contemplative orientation, introducing how literal processes such as solutio, calcinatio, and mortificatio later become metaphors for psychological transformation.
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Part Two – Alchemy and Psychology
Saturday 14 March 2026
This seminar explores the psychological dimensions of alchemy, examining how metallurgical processes became metaphors for psychic transformation within analytical psychology. Drawing on C.G. Jung’s use of alchemical language, the seminar considers differentiation, suffering, ego dissolution, and the emergence of meaning through stages such as nigredo, albedo, and rubedo.
Key concepts including mortificatio, separation, reincrudation, and the coniunctio are examined in relation to transference, symbolic material, and analytic technique. Distinctions between the Lesser and Greater Coniunctio are introduced, highlighting their differing implications for adaptation and transformation in clinical work.
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Part Three – Alchemy and Spirituality
Saturday 21 March 2026
The final seminar explores alchemy at the intersection of psychology and spirituality, focusing on alchemical thought as a language for psycho-spiritual transformation. Drawing on the work of Gerhard Dorn, Rabbi Isaac Luria, and C.G. Jung, the seminar examines themes of fracture, repair, and integration through concepts such as Unio Mentalis, Unus Mundus, Tzimtzum, Shevirat ha-kelim, and Tikkun olam.
Distinctions between spiritual development and spiritual bypassing are clarified, emphasising differentiation and lived experience rather than premature transcendence. The seminar concludes with reflections on nondual awareness, the Witness, and the experiential dimensions of Da’at and the Unus Mundus.
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Please click on the link below to view the papers from this Behind Closed Doors Seminar as published by Psychoanalysis Down Under and available to view online.
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