Hansel and Gretel: A tale of abandonment, loss, courage and growth.
A presentation by Mary Raftopoulos
Supper (optional): 7:00pm – 7:30pm
To Book:
Pay cash on the day or pre-pay by direct deposit and email your payment receipt and booking information (your name, phone number, and the name of the activity you wish to attend) to
events@jungqld.com.
Direct Deposit Details:
Account Name: C.G. Jung Society of Queensland
BSB: 313 140
Account No.: 12363389
Reference: Please use your name as the reference
It is requested that members include their new membership code when booking for their free Zoom link.
In this presentation we will venture into the forest and explore the fairy tale – Hansel and Gretel. I will offer a depth psychological interpretation of the key motifs and symbols featured in the Hansel and Gretel tale. Woven into the seminar will be opportunities for self-reflection as well as clinical case examples. The theoretical component of this day draws on the work of Jungian analysts: Marie Louise von Franz, Jacqueline Schectman, Hans Dieckmann, Erich Neumann, Theodore Seifert and incorporates the scholarship of psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim.
My hope is that by participating you will deepen your knowledge of the archetypal
meanings underlying this special fairy tale and consider how these learnings may apply in your own life and/or to your clinical work.
Presenter | Mary Raftopoulos
Mary is a registered Psychologist and Board Approved Supervisor (AHPRA), Internationally Certified Sandplay Therapist-Teacher (ISST/STANZA), and Play Therapist/Supervisor (APPTA). Mary is the current Chair of the Sandplay Therapy Association for New Zealand and Australia (STANZA) and she also holds the Membership Executive role in STANZA. Mary has over 20 years’ experience working therapeutically with children, teens, families and adults, in Australia and internationally. Her particular interests are intergenerational trauma (and its transmission), childhood trauma and its impact, life transitions and parenting. For over 10 years Mary worked as a Senior Psychologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, specialising in treating the impact of childhood trauma and abuse. She is now in full time private practice. Mary’s PhD, which focused on exploring the intergenerational transmission of trauma in the families of those raised in Children’s Homes and Orphanages, along with her clinical experience, has affirmed her appreciation of the psyche’s capacity to strive towards healing and growth. Along with supervision, consultation and training to colleagues, Mary offers psychotherapy, sandplay therapy and play therapy to help her clients.