JOIN US FOR A FREE TALK


Join us for a one-hundred-day guided practice of individuation
as a daily ethic, ritual, and meditation.

Stephen Farah will present a free talk and take questions on this course on Thursday 7 May 2025.
@ 1 pm New York; 6 pm London; 7 pm Cape Town


PROGRAMME DETAILS

Course Duration:     120 Days (4 Months)

Course Start Date:   9 May 2026

Tuition Fees: US $350 Single Payment (or 4 monthly payments of US $100 per Month)

Registration Closes: Friday the 8th of May at midnight (PST)


PROGRAMME STRUCTURE



Join us for a one-hundred-day guided practice of individuation
as a daily ethic, ritual, and meditation.

This practice includes and is inspired by the Taoist Microcosmic Orbit Meditation,
as detailed in the text of The Secret of the Golden Flower.

Included over the course of the 120 days:
- 10 days of preparation,
 - 100 days of practice10 days post practice debrief and assimilation.

We will guide you in understanding and applying the
Jungian ethic of individuation as a daily meditative, conscious,
and ritualistic practice. 

The programme is led by Stephen Anthony Farah MA, the programme architect,
who has developed this method and practice over the last two decades.
This method is and inspired by the Secret of the Golden Flower Text
and Jung’s psychoanalytic interpretation of the text.
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PROGRAMME CONTENT



8 LIVE WEBINARS:
Fortnightly throughout the programme on a Saturday at 17h00 (GMT).
(All webinars are recorded for later viewing for those unable to attend live.)

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PRIVATE STUDENT FORUM:

Membership of a private and facilitated Student Forum for all students
for the sharing and discussion of the applications
and other reflections throughout the programme,
with other students and the facilitation team.

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APPLICATIONS:

Detailed applications and exercises to follow for the duration of the programme.

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TEXT READINGS:

A close reading of a few texts related to the practice.

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LEARNING MATERIAL:

All essential learning material is provided.

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Additional film, video lecture and reading links and recommendations,
throughout the programme.

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ACCESS:

12 months access to all learning material after the end of the programme.

PLUS

BONUS LECTURE:


Where the Golden Flower is Blooming: The Resonances of Daoist alchemy and Jungian Psychology,
by Ann Chia-Yi Li, MA


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REGISTRATION

Start Date: 9 May 2026

Register for the Free Talk on 7 May 2026
@ 1 pm New York; 6 pm London; 7 pm Cape Town.

For more information, please contact Anja@appliedjung.com

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PROGRAMME LEADER


Stephen Anthony Farah, MA is the co-founder and Head of Learning and Research at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies South Africa. He held the position co-Chair of the International Association of Jungian Studies from 2020-2023. 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 he co-edited.

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FACILITATORS


Tasha Tollman, an Applied Jungian Practioner, 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. 

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Byron Gaist, an Applied Jungian Practioner, 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.Byron has also been in Jungian analysis and continues his personal psychotherapeutic work until today.  He believes the journey of becoming conscious through self-knowledge, personal growth and individuation never ceases, and for the mental health professional it is essential. In 2022, he decided to further his personal development along Jungian lines, by enrolling on the Magnum Opus online programme at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies, a four-part journey through the alchemical stages of personal transformation in Jungian psychology which he completed within a year, while also studying and completing the Jungian and Post-Jungian Clinical Concepts course with the CAJS.

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Johann Mynhardt is an Applied Jungian Practitioner 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. 

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TESTIMONIALS

Thank you for an amazing journey and right on the heels of finishing Magnum Opus. I began the Golden Flower meditation (GFM) on easter Sunday April 12. …I have noticed a definite increase in both virility and vitality.  I also noticed that I am sleeping much more soundly at night. The Light was easy enough to visualize and to move, in fact, it is easy to summon up at any moment now, meditating or not. throughout the course I experienced numerous moments of "ecstasis" my practice was at times uneven, but I stayed faithful to the daily engagement, there were times that the only reason I sat was my commitment to you all and this program. This class was a lovely gift from CAJS and it gave me, via the applications, to reflect, and apply, in a different context, on what i had learned in Magnum Opus. i would say that more than a third of the GFM was practiced in the great outdoors always waterside.  pictured is a spot that I would stop at on my way home from work. a secret quiet place, the sound of the flowing creek was a constant mantra and reminder of the flowing Light... ... may it bring you joy too!  
Chuck 

TESTIMONIALS

Such depth of emotion that I found myself longing that this might all be part of your destiny Stephen! Fantastic application and my heart is full as I feel the ending of this programme close by. ❤
El Aine

TESTIMONIALS

I have spent numerous years with CAJS coming to terms with my numerous childhood wounds, looking deep into my vast and deep shadow self and coming to know the hordes of complexes that dwell within me. Throughout this process I have often lamented where is the gold, where is the gold? There most be some gold underneath all of all this sh..t? And finally, here in The Secret of the Golden Flower, I tumbled into the question - what is your individuation imperative? and began a most unexpected journey, a journey that delivered the gold. Through the many twists and turns that I have travelled at last I have discovered, or is it uncovered, that my individuation imperative is to live each day in harmony with my true nature, others and the world according to the will of the divine. How such a simple sentence could alter my psyche and my life, I don't know but what I do know is that finally my childhood wounds have ceased to haunt me, I have been able to forgive and forget about them, to move on. I smile now with compassion and acceptance at all that is shadow within me and treat with co-operation and harmony all the complexes within, they too want to live. I have found that now the world comes towards me, success smiles on me, life and vitality rush to greet me, dreams are coming to fruition and for the moment all is well in my world. Thank you for this wonderful gift of harmony, long may it reign! Thank you Stephen for the journey of a lifetime, I look forward to next adventure.
Tasha

TESTIMONIALS

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Thanks Stephen, you have been a caring and inspiring leader in this journey . What an emotional last application. I am welling up a little.

Barbara  

TESTIMONIALS

This practice has not been without pain and discomfort. I came to recognize a deep-seated tiny seed of resentment living within me - yet unnamed - that is present in my chest and rears up when I’m not careful and highjacks my thoughts and sometimes my outer self. It has been with me for as long as I can remember. Is it a complex? Could be. If so it has been a part of my story for so long that it is nearly overwhelming to think about and frightened me and shook me to the core when I first ‘saw it’ on its own for possibly the first time. Overall, I am truly grateful to Stephen for this guided journey. I am growing fond of our little group existing in the ethers together during these extraordinary times. So I say from my heart, "thank you" and Namaste.          
Mary 

TESTIMONIALS

So inspiring and full of beauty! I can taste the holy ground♥️
Roisin 

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