The Mask and the Masterpiece

Neurodivergence, Midlife, and theIndividuation Threshold

Event Details

TIME:

7:30pm - 9:00pm

Presenter: Bronwyn Lea Davis (Bron)

WHEN: November 6, 2026

VENUE: St Mary’s Anglican Church Hall

ADDRESS: 455 Main Street Kangaroo Point Qld 4169

FEE: $15 - $25 (Member / Non-member)

What happens when the identity you’ve spent a lifetime carefully constructing begins to unravel, and the unravelling turns out to be the point? This presentation explores the experience of late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD women navigating midlife through a Jungian lens, where the unconscious begins to surface what has long been masked, suppressed, or performed for survival. Drawing on depth psychology, current neurodivergence research, and the particular clarity that only lived experience provides, Bron examines how AuDHD masking mirrors Jung’s concept of the persona. And how its collapse in midlife so rarely signals breakdown, and instead offers something far more significant: the beginning of genuine individuation. Autistic burnout, hormonal transition, and identity disintegration are reframed here not as pathology or problems to be solved, but as the soul’s insistence on finally being known. Attendees will leave with new language for the midlife threshold, fresh frameworks for understanding neurodivergent identity formation, and a more nuanced, compassionate map of what it truly means to unmask and become.

The C. G. Jung Society of Queensland, is dedicated to making available to as wide an audience as possible the life and works of Dr Carl Gustav Jung.

The Society focuses on three main vehicles as a means to achieve this goal; through monthly meetings, presenting workshops, and by making available to members and scholars, a library which has been carefully developed and selectively pruned over nearly three decades.

The scope of our interests includes presenting the work of Jung’s colleagues, students, and contemporaries. Our speakers also will explore the writings of the “post” Jungian authors who re-envisioned, re-imagined and extended the reach of Jung’s thought.

When the opportunity arises we also will explore those subjects which form the tree and roots of human consciousness and which find parallels in the wide range of Dr. Jung’s work. Such presentations may include; the thought and practices of a variety of spiritual and religious traditions, enduring philosophical influences, and literary and artistic achievements occurring over the historical landscape of human evolution.

Dr Jung was first and foremost a healer. The Society promotes an understanding of Jung’s work through the exploration of psychological and spiritual applications to our individual journey, interpersonal relationships, and contemporary collective challenges. We believe this study ultimately can help to create a safer, more soulful world for women and men to fulfil their destinies.