History of the Jungian-Shamanic Groups

Rodney Karr has facilitated Gay Men's support and growth groups in San Francisco for 25 years. Grounded in this extensive Gay group experience, he began developing Gay Men's Jungian-Shamanic groups. This has been a gradual and experiential process to develop these groups and processes. We are very thankful to the many members of our groups, over the last four years, especially those who have remained long-term (over a-year-and-a-day) and have been initiated. The members of these groups who have shared their lives, desires, dreams and creative ideas, have helped to formulate and polish what we are doing. We plan to remain open to the input and creativity of our members to continue to grow, learn and change. Living ritual, living tradition and living people, must continue to grow and change or become stagnant. A major function of the oral traditions is to encourage living change versus written traditions that have tendencies to become legalistic and stuck in the literal written word.