The Wayne E. Oates Institute is a Connected Learning Community exploring spirituality and health as a way to advance integrative care for the whole person. The Oates Institute is a non-profit educational organization made up of caregivers from the medical, spiritual and counseling communities providing a forum for joining together as an interdisciplinary dialogue toward understanding the relationship between spirituality and the healing process.

As we enter baseball's second season, we are offering a seminar that uses a baseball movie to explore life transitions and the journey toward wholeness. Carl Jung coined the term synchronicity to refer to a “meaningful coincidence.” Such can be said of the film Field of Dreams, which was adapted from the book, Shoeless Joe, by J.D.Kinsella. Neither the writer nor the screen producer intended it, but the film provides a powerful dramatization of Jung’s theory of the mid-life transition and the process of “individuation,” which is the process of coming into “wholeness,” a mid-life journey of integration of our outer driven “ego” with the center of existence, the “self” or soul.

This seminar will also contrast Field of Dreams with two other films that provide meaningful coincidence, Fried Green Tomatoes and A River Runs Through It; each having similar offerings to explore regarding our search for wholeness, spiritual integration, and integration of conscious and unconscious material.

The seminar, offered October 5-23, provides participants the opportunity to reflect on personal narratives and engage in dialogue around the development of these themes and clarify such fundamental Jungian categories as self, anima, shadow, collective unconscious and the process of individuation.. The seminar is limited to 12 participants and offers 12 contact hours of continuing theological education. Members of the Oates Institute may register for free, others may register for only $60.

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