Welcome to The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies

At the CAJS we strive to make Jungian psychology accessible to all. We focus on teaching Jungian psychology as a practical, accessible and real tool for personal transformation.

The principle goal of the Jungian journey is to find yourself, who you authentically are independently of what you have been told to believe about who you are. The Jungian approach encourages self expression, pursues self knowledge, rekindles meaning and enables the realisation of your optimum destiny, or what Jung called, individuation.

Usually access to Jung’s work is reserved for those who are able and inclined to enter analysis, or for those exceptional and privileged enough to spend many years studying the Collected Works (20 volumes) and the last eighty years of Jungian and Post Jungian literature, in other words – the privileged few.

We stress that the teaching and facilitation offered is not of a clinical nature and is not a substitute for those requiring or seeking analysis.

Meet the Team

Anja van Kralingen is the CEO of the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies. She has been a practicing Jungian for over 20 years. Her love and passion for the work of C.G. Jung inspired her to start teaching Jungian psychology in a practical and accessible way. Her interest is transformation and the experience of self through symbolism. She holds a Master of Science degree in Spirituality, Consciousness and Transpersonal psychology from The University of Middlesex. She has also done training in Existential Analysis and Trauma counseling.

Stephen Anthony Farah, MA is the co-founder and Head of Learning and Research at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies South Africa. He is the current co-Chair of the International Association of Jungian Studies. Stephen holds an honours degree in analytical philosophy from the University of the Witwatersrand and a master’s degree in Jungian and Post Jungian Studies from the University of Essex. Stephen’s areas of interest include psychoanalysis, film, psychoeducation, consciousness, individuation, and Future Studies. His published papers include ‘True Detective and Jung’s Four Steps of Transformation’ published in ‘The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies’ (2018) and ‘The Freak: in Search of Jung’s second Personality’, in the anthology ‘The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis: Political, Psychological and Sociological Perspectives’, (Routledge 2022) which Stephen co-edited.

Andrew Samuels is Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex and a Jungian analyst in practice in London. He has been referred to as ‘the most celebrated of today’s Jungian analysts’ (in American Imago). He is a former Chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. His many books have been translated into 21 languages and include the ground-breaking Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (1986), The Father: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives (1986), Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives (1989), and Persons, Passions, Politics, Psychotherapy: Selected Works of Andrew Samuels (2015). For more information visit https://www.andrewsamuels.com/.

Cyril Coetzee is a portrait artist and has painted both informal and commissioned portraits throughout his career, including the portrait of Nelson Mandela, which was used for the international stamp commemorating Mandela’s 90th birthday. He has served as a Fine Art lecturer at Port Elizabeth Technikon, as an Art History lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand and has been invited to give various lectures on Art History and on his own work in South Africa, England, Switzerland, the United States and Canada. His works are included in various public and private collections worldwide, including the Royal Ontario Museum, Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Standard Bank in London and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In 1996 he was commissioned by the University of the Witwatersrand to paint a 28 square meter canvas for the William Cullen Library, an internationally renowned archive, for the 75th celebrations of the University, which was unveiled by Judge Goldstone in 1999. Awards won include the: Helgaard Steyn Award (2003) and the Vita Art Award (1993). Coetzee has exhibited internationally and was invited to hold solo retrospective exhibitions at the University of South Africa Gallery, Pretoria, and the Getrude Posel Gallery at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1993.

Dr. Byron Gaist studied Psychology and Counselling Psychology at undergraduate and postgraduate level in England in the 1990s and has also completed trainings in person-centred psychotherapy and guided imagery work. He has been a practicing counselling psychologist and psychotherapist for nearly three decades now. He has worked in the areas of gerontology, family violence, addictions and in general private practice with a diversity of clients. Currently he is the head of the Policy Department at the Cyprus National Addictions Authority, and continues to work with clients in private practice, both in person and online.
In 2009 he completed his PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, which focused on the relationship between Analytical Psychology, Orthodox Christianity, and the archetype of the Wounded Healer. His thesis was published as a book by the Orthodox Research Institute in 2010.
Byron has been facilitating the CAJS Jungian Book Club on Facebook, discussing key texts in Analytical Psychology since 2022, and in July 2023 joined the permanent facilitator team, beginning with the Mundus Imaginalis course on active imagination.

Johann Mynhardt is a facilitator and mentor at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies. He first encountered Jung’s ideas in his early twenties while pursuing interests in comparative religion, philosophy and related subjects. Many years later he enrolled as a student at the Centre and attended programmes such as The 12 steps to individuation, The Conscious Living Programme and Clinical Concepts which deepened his theoretical knowledge of Jung’s work and allowed him to experience the transformative power of Jungian psychology first-hand. Having worked in the film industry Johann’s combined passions for film-making and Jungian theory have found a fertile partnership in the Centre’s Jungian Film School. Johann continues to deepen his undestanding of the human condition through continued interest and study in psychology, shamanism and related subjects.

Tasha Tollman a facilitator and mentor at The Centre of Applied Jungian Studies, encountered Jung for the first time in 2006, graduated from the Master Class and the Clinical Concepts Programme in 2014. Having directly experienced the transformative power of Jungian psychology, she enthusiastically shares her journey and knowledge guiding others along the path into the depths of the psyche. With her degrees in Adult Education, Training and Development (ETDP UJ) and NLP she continues to mine the depths of her psyche, describing the journey as exciting, enriching and meaningful.

Alexia Athalie Figgins started her Journey with The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies in 2013 when she enrolled in the 12 Steps to Individuation Programme. She later went on to complete the Conscious Living Program and is currently in the Centre’s Master Class. In 2021 she received certification from The Jungian Coaching School International.

Alexia manages the Centre’s social media pages, and co-facilitates the Cape Town classes and workshops. Alexia is a course creator, coordinator and moderator in the area of the arts & depth psychology. She is also interested in embodiment praxis (being an ex-ballet dancer) and how healing happens through the body.

Carli Castellani creates ritual, theatrical and interactive art experiences. She is the former artistic director of Status Hat Productions, a collaborative that, for 10 years, brought together artists, writers and musicians from diverse backgrounds to co-create new works together. She was co-hosted by The Tatarstan State Puppet Theater and Tatarstan Composer’s Union, in Kazan, Tatarstan (Russia), for a residency that gave her the honor of working in studios with artists that ranged from 18 to 80+ years old, as well as with with student groups of all ages. She was invited back to that region to participate in the “Volga is Our Home” project, which took a team of international artists on a 10 day journey between Kazan and Astrakhan along that waterway. Her landscape installations include “Games of Sticks and Stones…” a playable game room, and “Wheelhouse”, an interactive labyrinth, and her theatre pieces include, “Rock On, Genghis Khan“. Her mail-art ‘zine, Synthetica, appeared in the pre-internet era before the fall of the Berlin Wall, exchanging works with artists still behind the iron curtain at that time.

She began studying with the Centre in 2015, roped in by the allure of exploring the “Alchemy of Symbols”, and the journey has continued forward. She began facilitating classes and assisting with curriculum development in 2017, another honor with the opportunity to engage with amazing students and a world-class faculty. She is based in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she tends a dedicated art and wildspace sanctuary.

Jess Machanik is the Administrator and Key Accounts Manager at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies. Jess is a graduate from the 12 Step of Individuation Programme, The Conscious Living Programme and the Secret of the Golden Flower offered by the centre. Jess started her journey in her teenage years, being surrounded by Jungian books and Jungian Theory and started taking an interest in Jung through non-academic studies over the past 14 years. In 2016 she was introduced to the Centre through the Foundation Modules and certified in the courses mentioned above. She has supported the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies for 4 years now and has gained tremendous overview of all the CAJS courses and products offered. Her Jungian knowledge has been tremendously enlightened over the last 4 years.

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