If you are in Victoria, Australia on March 23, 2023, it’ll be worth your while booking into the Queenscliff Library 2-3 p.m. Denise Main will be there to give an author’s talk on her spy fiction novel, Mission: Angela.
Free Event: Meet the author. Bookings are essential:
In person at any branch, or phone 03 4201 0500
Feather Knight Books’ recent release, Mission: Angela by Denise Main is a heady mix of intrigue, romance and espionage that crosses international borders.
In this highly charged spy-thriller, the suspense builds as the heroine, Angela, develops a dangerous attraction for the enemy, Oberleutnant Axel Hempf. Angela, an MI6 agent, carves a strong path in her plight to save others and is willing to sacrifice her own life. But in her mission, she must also face an internal battle between heart and mind—desire and duty.
Denise Main has a natural flair for getting inside her characters’ minds to bring them to life and her gripping story has made a splash since its Queenscliff launch in 2022. You can purchase a copy of Mission: Angela at the event. It is also available at Queenscliff, Grove Books Ocean Grove, SpringDale Neighbourhood Centre Drysdale, Book Barn Rosebud and other good bookstores.
Jungian Talks & Workshops for Everyone
Know Thyself Through Individuation
What is individuation?
A presentation by Dr Toula Gordillo
C. G. JUNG
SOCIETY OF
QUEENSLAND
Thursday, April 6, 2023
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Venue: St Mary’s Anglican Church Hall
455 Main St. Kangaroo Point, QLD 4169
Admission: Members & Concession: $10 • Non-members: $15
Jung asked what it is, in the end, that persuades a man or woman to go their own way? To rise from an unconscious identity with the masses as though emerging from a “swathing mist?” He called it vocation, and identified this illogical factor that destines a man or woman to emancipate themselves “from a herd and its well-worn paths.” Jung went further to say that any person with a vocation hears the voice of the inner man or woman. In other words, they are called.
In Jungian psychology, individuation is considered an important life goal. It occurs differently for each person and generally takes place in the second half of life. Individuation is the process of realising one’s true personality, including discovering our life purpose or calling. Our vocation.
Individuation sometimes occurs when a person loses touch with aspects of their personality through trauma or a major life event. They may then reintegrate certain parts of their nature, thereby finding it easier to maintain their spiritual (as well as social, emotional and mental) equilibrium. Trauma was the catalyst for Jung’s individuation process, and Jung’s experience provided a guide for Dr Toula Gordillo’s own healing process.
Using examples from Jung’s life, as well as her own, in this talk Toula demonstrates her individuation journey. She describes her personal reflection methods and the product of her vocation—the creation of Story Image Therapy (SIT®) based on Jung’s ideas and knowledge. In particular, Dr Gordillo will discuss Jung’s understanding of the Chiron myth and the archetypal wounded healer and how this has ‘played out’ in healing her own negative adolescent complex. This is the subject of her soon-to-be released second book, The Magic of Jung.
About Dr Toula Gordillo
Dr Toula Gordillo is a practicing Clinical psychologist and Jungian psychotherapist based on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. She is also a former schoolteacher, guidance officer intensive behaviour support and acting head of student services in some of Queensland’s largest state high schools. Dr Gordillo is a published author of numerous academic and non-academic journals, magazines and books including: Youth Voice Journal, Viewpoint, The Artifice, Immanence – Journal of Applied Myth, Story and Folklore and Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Toula is a member of the CG Jung Society of Queensland, the International Depth Psychology Alliance, the Australian Society of Authors, The Queensland Writer’s Centre and the Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network (ACATLGN).
The Jake Hunt Series: Block 33 Book Launch Queenscliff
On Thursday 24th November, a hundred keen Jed Hart fans gathered at 360Q restaurant in Queenscliff on the Bellarine to launch Jed’s latest novel, Block 33, the second book in the Jake Hunt Series. The first in the series, Without Warning, was published in 2020.
How do you launch a book? There’s no blueprint so we called in Michael Scott a veteran of the microphone on the Bellarine Peninsular, to act as Master of Ceremonies, and the regionally famous Yea singing group, The Four Fathers, to entertain between courses.
The mood was upbeat, the food provided by Barry Iddles and his team was excellent. The singing called for encores and audience participation.
Michael interviewed Jed and the discussion ranged from writing discipline, to getting shot down in war time, and making love during an earthquake. This fascinating insight into the writer’s craft left the audience wondering how much of the Jake Hunt Series is fiction and how much actually happened.
It was a special night. Caroline Mullarkey from Feather Knight Books, publisher of the Jake Hunt Series, spoke after which there was a stampede for books. Without Warning, Block 33 and Jed’s children’s book Zac’s Magic Legs and the great toilet roll heist of 2020 were sold and signed by the dozens. All titles are available from featherknightbooks.com and selected bookstores; both paperback and digital versions from amazon.com.au.
The third book in the Jake Hunt trilogy, Just Reward, is currently being edited in New York and will be published in 2023.
We can hardly wait.
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