Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Jungian Lecture with Dr. Kira Celeste

About this Event

JUNGIAN LECTURE: “Integrity: A Jungian exploration of the relationship between wholeness, accountability and the necessity of facing one’s shadow”

by Kira Celeste, PhD

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious” ~Carl Jung, CW 12, p. 99

The word integrity comes from the Latin root meaning soundness, wholeness, or completeness. To be in integrity means to be accountable for the totality of oneself—the good as well as the bad. Accountability is integral to integrity, and in Jungian terms, taking responsibility for one’s shadow is essential on the path to wholeness. Through myth, psychology, and personal reflection, we will examine how facing the shadow—rather than rejecting it—leads to greater depth, authenticity, and inner sovereignty. We will also explore what it means to strive for integrity in a world where that often feels impossible. Using the myth of Persephone as a guide, we will navigate the journey of fragmentation to wholeness. Join us in this talk as together we delve into all that we normally avoid facing, into the challenge of the Shadow.

Bio: KIRA CELESTE, PhD

Kira Celeste, PhD is passionate about supporting individuals in their journeys towards integrity with self and others. Kira has a PhD in Depth Psychology and is the author of The Colonial Shadow: A Jungian Investigation of Settler Psychology, examining colonial psychology that caused such devastation in what is now known as Canada. As a white settler, she gratefully acknowledges that the land on which she lives and works as a depth psychotherapist, registered clinical counsellor, and writer is the Unceded Traditional Territories of the K'ómoks and Qualicum First Nations.