YesNow Productions

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Throughout the world, we have Angels. In Christianity, we see an angel appearing to Mary in the Annunciation. Angels wake up Joseph in dreams and protect the Christ Child. They are messengers of joy to the poor proclaiming a new world order. How do we listen to the angelic messages today in a world beset by darkness and war? This Workshop encourages us to listen deeply to the Voice of God through the Angels in our lives.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: This retreat presents the mysterious relationship between brokenness, sin and mercy. We live in a society that denies its sinfulness and increasingly claims a victim identity. From a Jungian-Christian viewpoint the reality of sin is uncovered which leads to authentic mercy rediscovered.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Many people are caregivers in today’s society, called to care for elderly parents or other family members, adult children back (or still) at home due to economic reasons, or the next generation of grandchildren. But who cares for the caregivers? This workshop articulates these challenges and proposes a spirituality of simultaneous self-care.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Compassion flows from our true Self; it is an encounter with the Spirit of God.  Compassion rises from human experience and Divine Grace.  This workshop uses a Christian-Jungian framework to encounter compassion as the face of God healing the soul, and will delve into our blockages to compassion for ourselves and others. This workshop includes input, reflection, sharing and prayer.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Compassion is a powerful force which refuses to be denied. The uncompromising mercy of God breaks in and breaks through our illusions of self care and self awareness…helping us to move forward toward surrender and submission. This workshop aspires to take compassion to a new level.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: To regenerate, to come to new life and spiritual understanding are the tasks of midlife and beyond.  This workshop integrates Jungian and Christian wisdom to live the later stages of life with a fresher view of aging and meaning.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Individuals who have worked hard to be good and religious all their lives sometimes have greater difficulty in heart felt conversion experiences.  This workshop will assist individuals in the tasks of both individuation and new life with God through shadow work, letting go of control, being good enough and spiritual poverty.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: To reconcile, to forgive self and others is a continual call for spiritual transformation and conversion.  This workshop focuses on the soul’s need for reconciliation from one-sidedness, hurts and memories.  The process of forgiveness is presented from both a Jungian and Christian context.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Loneliness is a universal human experience, yet it can be transformed when the soul finds new ways of connecting. Our loneliness is in need of constant conversion to a deeper solitude, which then leads to more meaningful human relationships. This workshop examines and engages the continual need for conversion of heart into a new creation.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs

TOPIC: Our culture is obsessed with food issues. We are bombarded every day with images of culinary temptation, as well as diets & short cuts, workouts & controls. Yet we never manage to satisfy that deeper spiritual hunger within us all. Food is an important reality and we ritualize it every day, but it also plays an important role in religious traditions, in terms of rituals, disciplines, symbols, and meaning. Weaving Christian with Jungian insights, this workshop provides reflections on the soul’s relationship to how and when we feed the body.

This workshop is a set of 2 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: There is a deep yearning human experience to connect with the “heart” of God.  This workshop takes a Jungian and Christian perspective of the archetypal symbol of the heart and the many manifestations of God in mercy, compassion, love and sharing.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The birth of the Divine Child within us, as described by the mystics, is radically different from the echoes of the wounded and unconscious Inner Child. This full day workshop intends to allow the grace of Christ’s birth, rather than our shadow and immature side, to dominate our consciousness.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Dorothy Day has been called the most significant Catholic lay person of the 20th Century, challenging the status quo in politics, religion and spirituality. This workshop reviews biographical material and discusses many areas where spirituality has become too comfortable.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Dreams play a redemptive role in our soul life.  They emerge out of the depths of darkness into symbols, memories, patterns and voices.  They create new identity, self-forgiveness and greater availability for God and relationships.  Dreams are presented as a sign of God’s process for redeeming us into wholeness.

This workshop is a set of 4 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: During this season of conversion, this retreat focuses on the grace of ordinary life… the struggles, defeats, and suffering which open us to the mystery of God’s love and redemption. We are called, seduced, and sometimes even broken into a new relationship with God in preparation for resurrection. This time of silence, reflection and input will lead us more deeply into the Lenten spirit.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: This workshop examines the roots of egocentricity and the movements of the True Self.  Scripture is used as parallel examples of spiritual growth to new freedom.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The gospel of John is filled with deep symbolic language.  This workshop examines the symbolic meaning of this gospel through Jungian lenses.  We are all called to this mystical and intimate relationship with Christ.  We are called to be the beloved disciples.  This workshop hopes to open us to the call, so we may be able to respond.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Lent is a time to be grounded in reality, a time to heal distortions and false living. This recording captures a retreat that invites us to heal our entitlements and cultural inflations and embrace our authenticity as ordinary men and women on the spiritual journey in need of God. The listener is encouraged to find quiet, personal time to reflect on stirrings of the soul.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Healing and recovery call us beyond ourselves into new patterns of behavior, which jolt us out of old conditioning, “The Old Must Go!” This leaves us with new energies, new possibilities… and terrible anxieties. This workshop addresses the fears of regression and relapse, the inability to compromise, and new ways of living into revolutionary truth.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The soul intuits a transformation beyond our bodily presence on earth. This workshop pursues how the “eternal” breaks into our consciousness and prepares us for our transition through death to birth.  The shadow side of the “eternal” will also be presented.  The use of dreams, prayer, and symbols will be used to illustrate the process.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The great stories of the Hebrew Scriptures present the mystery of salvation of the Chosen People, and remind us of how God is involved with ordinary men and women, calling them to wholeness and holiness.  This workshop examines the stories and characters that reflect the archetypal call to fidelity and completeness in the mystery we call God.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In our hectic and individualized society, there is a growing hunger for intentional communities of faith and growth.  This workshop is designed to assist all forms of communities: families, religious life, support groups, parishes, etc, to become more conscious and intentional in their living the call to oneness and love.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: We are all called to the holy, but the pilgrim is the individual who is consciously on the quest to life long conversion. From a Jungian and Christian perspective, this workshop examines the joy and cost of being a daily pilgrim to the Divine… even from the margins of our lives.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In recent years, our culture has become addicted to the ‘connection’ … on the internet, on the phone, texting and tweeting…with work, family, and for recreation.  The intention of this workshop, through self-knowledge and prayer, is to heal the soul of clutter, noise and distraction, and reclaim the spiritual and psychological values of Silence, Solitude and Sabbath.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: After more than thirty years experience as a Spiritual Director and Jungian Teacher, Brother Don Bisson has created an integrated approach to Traditional Christian Spiritual Direction with particular attention to Jungian Psychology and its concepts, practices, and terminology. This workshop is an in-depth introduction and can be particularly useful to any Spiritual Director.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Mary has played an enormous role in the history and spirituality of Christianity.  This workshop brings Jungian insights into Mary’s symbolic role as a model of transformation and fidelity to God’s initiative.  Mary can become a soul guide to spiritual rebirth through her feminine spirit.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Mary is the central figure of the Incarnation.  It was her fiat that allowed the embodiment of Christ into our world. This workshop is taken from a day of reflection where the invitation is to wrestle with our choices, our capacity to cooperate with Divine initiate and to examine our capacity to sabotage the good news experience.

This workshop is a set of 4 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In order for the Soul to respond to the deeper layers of healing, meditative prayer experiences using “Active Imagination” can help us to go deeper. This series of four meditations was used during a seven day intensive retreat called “Decontaminating our God images”… and is now available for your private use in prayer.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: For both men and women, this workshop can assist those who journey with men. Specifically in areas such as: spiritual direction; sponsorships in recovery; all depths of friendship; and other forms of helping and supportive relationships.  This workshop also focuses on special areas such as: the unique masculine modality of processing material; men’s issues in personal growth; and men’s challenges in both recovery and inner healing.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: These two popular authors of spirituality and psychology both were obsessed with the discovery and movements towards the True Self. Similarities and differences between their writings may provide a fuller expression of this search. Biographical material of both men are used.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The ego must participate in living its destiny by making choices.  This workshop, from a Jungian-Christian perspective, wrestles with the voices of inflation, deflation and despair.  The individuation process and our journey to God demand an authentic encounter with temptation and the ethical task of choosing life.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In a life, for every door chosen several were closed.  We cannot live every possibility, every natural inclination, and every gift of God.  This workshop examines the gift of Joy in the paradox of accepting limited choices, roads not taken, and the grief and freedom from unlived life.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Love is the most powerful force in the world. It transforms our being and directs our choices. This retreat is a deep reflection into the mystery of love in our lives, our resistances, attractions, failings and passion which lead us to Love Incarnate… the mystery of God.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: These two popular authors of spirituality and psychology both wrote on the Wounded Healer archetype.  Similarities and differences between their writings may provide a fuller expression of healing through the Wounded Healer. Biographical material of both men will be used.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Jesus' teachings were filled with stories about the coming of the kingdom.  At times, they seem all too familiar and sometimes even trivialized by the tradition.  In reality, these teachings are gateways to our soul and to the mystery of God.  In this workshop, Parables are examined as a call to transformation into new life.  Sometimes they cannot be explained, and yet are invitations into becoming a new being in Christ.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Our Advent prayer of “Come, Lord Jesus” is to bring the reign of God fully incarnated in our world through peace and justice. This workshop looks at the themes of Advent as they apply to transforming the darkness of oppression and violence into the light of Christ. Christian and Jungian insights are integrated throughout this workshop.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The world is rapidly changing and our consciousness seems to resist many of these elements of new identity.  We are asked to work for both peace and justice, but we cannot go further unless we can change our attitudes through our dreams and urgings from the soul.  This workshop relates the need for inner transformation, in order to create the prophecy for outer change.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: After thousands of years, psalms are still the most familiar prayers of our tradition, filling the human spirit, and striking deep chords of emotion. This workshop illustrates movements of the ego when it encounters the Holy. The day will include input and time for Lectio Divina (prayer with scripture) for both praise and healing.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: This workshop is a day of reflection amidst a retreat weekend that was designed to challenge us in several areas.  To deepen our Christian awareness of living fully in our bodies, the sacred dimensions of transformation in aging, acknowledging and living fully with our limits, and what it means to imitate Christ are among the topics covered.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: During these times of financial worry, global anxiety and fear, we can lose ourselves in alienation or fear.  Paradoxically, during this Lenten season we can reclaim a proper rhythm to life including feasting and fasting, work and Sabbath, charity and justice.  This workshop invites us to transform these hard times into spiritual awakening.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Self-sufficiency, total pleasure fulfillment, and being in control are illusions that all religious traditions attempt to transform into truth and compassion. These illusions also have a direct correlation to the traditional monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, which are archetypal responses to those same illusions. This workshop presents the vows as useful and accessible for all men and women on the journey, and especially those who profess these vows publicly.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: St. Francis is a model of the individuation process of becoming one’s true self. Francis unveiled the persona and confronted the shadow in himself and the collective. He became open to the masculine and feminine energies within and without, leading him to the deeper Self and Numinous experiences. This workshop blends Jungian and Christian insights into his life as well as providing implications for our own.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Ignatius underwent a profound transformation in his life. He entered the inner world like Jung, and discovered a similar process to union with God. This workshop looks at the four weeks of the “Spiritual Exercises” as invitations to depth and personal transformation and how they can become ongoing spiritual practices.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: St. John spoke powerfully of the dark nights of the soul.  This workshop provides insights into the destiny for darkness and the necessary transformation they provide.  These experiences are also our path to depth and transformation, and though we resist them, they are the doorways to Joy.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: St. Teresa, the great mystic of the 16th century, provided a metaphor of the inner castle.  This workshop integrates Jungian and Christian insights to the mansions of the inner journey, and allow us to speak in the language of the soul as we search for meaning and union with God.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In this age of instant and constant communication, we are faced with a crisis of silence and solitude.  Religious traditions hold these values as essential ways to deepen our relationship with God.  The workshop uses Jungian psychology to affirm the need for silence for psychic health and wholeness.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The soul awakens through human interaction. This workshop illustrates the significance of multiple forms of human relationship, such as mentors, directors, companions, and intimate soul friends. These relationships can all help us in the capacity to grow, heal, awaken, and live in assurance of love and joy in God.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Suffering awakens us to depth, compassion, and the experience of God. It can also cause us to withdraw, deny, and cause pain to others. This workshop uses Jungian-Christian insights to help us simply “be” with deep suffering so as to begin the spiritual transformation.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In his writings, Carl Jung contemplates the relationship between earth and soul. This workshop celebrates Spring on the Hudson River, and reflects on the soul experience and the power of the river.  God speaks to us in the rebirth of our environment and in the rebirth of the soul as Easter.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Spiritual Direction is a Charism of the Spirit. Some are called to minister at the edges of church. Some are called to minister at the edges of society. Some are called to minister at the edges of the world. This workshop can assist all those called to these edges, to grow as directors, to seek proper supervision, and to not lose hope while serving others.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: As spiritual directors listen to the prayer life and religious experience unfolding in the lives of their directees, they must practice the discipline of listening in stereo. They become witnesses to the unfolding story of God in their directees lives as well as in their own God-story. A silent, contemplative retreat for spiritual directors and others in the helping professions was given to help reflect on and explore their experiences of spiritual direction as spiritual practice. Taken from that retreat, this workshop focuses on tending and deepening the experience of the spiritual director.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Those suffering the effects of Chronic Pain, be it recovery from surgery, or some kind of accident, or from the painful aging process, all face the potential of a spiritual crisis or awakening. This workshop invites those on the margins to use suffering as an opportunity to grow and articulate the experience, thus deepening the trust in God.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The answer to this question is yes!  Spirituality both supports the infrastructure of religion and challenges its one-sided shadow.  Often, the saints were persecuted by religion, only to be canonized years later.  This workshop attempts to engage the contemporary challenge of being spiritual and the struggle to be in relationship with organized religion.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: This workshop integrates Jungian insights of self-emptying Christianity.  Two areas of focus will be generativity at work, and generativity in mentoring and healing relationships.  The workshop focuses on the paradox of both giving and receiving life in the world around us.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Just because something is named “spiritual” does not make it healthy. This workshop deals with the shadow side of contemporary spiritual movements, which do not lead us to authentic spiritual transformation. This workshop looks at spiritual materialism, narcissism, and the dangers of charlatans, as it engages both healthy and unhealthy forms of spiritual movements.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Perfectionism is not at the service of spiritual growth.  This workshop attempts to differentiate between authentic movements of God through our imperfections into wholeness of being and a perfectionistic one sidedness which needs healing.  The workshop includes Jungian insights into the process and also new visions of interpreting traditional Christian practices.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: This workshop integrates Jungian insights of suffering and healing with the Christian image of the cross.  Our culture and certain new age movements refuse to consciously deal with the reality of life long struggle and redemption.  This day will focus on the Lenten theme of suffering and transformation.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The call to surrender to God is at the heart of all religious traditions. This workshop/retreat focuses on befriending the process with new language and insights from both psychology and spirituality.  Surrender is also a whole new way of being and living in the present moment.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: What calls us to relationship? What do we do with the deep longings that arise from the solitude of the soul? In this workshop we ponder the nature of desire, as well as the significance of forming relationships with both others and God. The invitation to awaken and channel one’s desires into depth and meaning can open us up to the mystery of contemplative love. Christian tradition and Jungian depth psychology are the basis for these reflections.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In a period of disenchantment, we live with a radical loss of trust… from government, financial institutions, religious organizations and economic structures. We are in a difficult and dangerous time of anger and polarization. This retreat proposes a journey of trust beyond traditional faith, to a healing Presence, which may begin to address the spiritual question of our age: To whom shall we go?

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs. 

TOPIC: St. Irenaeus said, “The glory of God is the human fully alive.”

From this perspective, this weekend retreat workshop examines aliveness of soul, openness to the experience of the holy, releasing transformative Divine energy, and healing old images of holiness that are still embedded in the psyche.  The listener is strongly encouraged to take some personal time to reflect on these stirrings of the soul.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”, C.S. Lewis describes the Christ-figured Lion as "not tamed: wild, but good." We are constantly coming up against the freedom, wildness, mystery, spontaneity, and shock of God. Our domesticated images of God are crumbling within our religious and cultural institutions. This workshop re-awakens us to the numinous and powerful experiences of God which disturb us into transformation and new life.

This workshop is a set of 3 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: In Today’s culture, beset by addictions and enhanced technology, there is a growing problem with lack of boundaries.  Workaholism has become THE socially acceptable disease.  This workshop looks at the characteristics of the workaholic, and from a Jungian and Christian perspective, suggests a healing process that strives to distinguish the difference between workahoiism and a passion for work and life.

Set of 6 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The journey to being fully alive and become an awakened being calls for a threefold process of inner healing, individuation, and the mystical quest. This Workshop Intensive invites us to be more intentional to the call of God for union and transformation. The listener is encouraged to pursue periods of a quiet, contemplative atmosphere for processing and prayer.

Set of 6 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: “Every person becomes the image of the God he or she adores.” – Thomas Merton.

In the Spiritual Life, we are invited to let go of our distorted and broken images of God, which can propel us into a dark night, and instead move toward a healing and loving more deeply. This silent, guided retreat intends to weave together contemporary psychology, spirituality, spiritual direction and elements of the mystical journey in order to ultimately help participants love and feel more deeply loved by God.

Set of 6 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: We are all striving for a deepening intimacy with the Mystery we call God. We may also be called to become more intentional about a life of conversion. This intensive, taken from a weekend for spiritual directors, can be used as an aid in discerning false from true self, both in our lives and in our direction process. It also reflects on our own invitations to let go, and begins with a meditation on the image of “Christ of Sinai.”

Set of 6 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The Spiritual life is not about becoming prayerful, it is about something much more radical: being taken over by the divine. It is the burning away of all that is not God. Prayer, then becomes the miracle of God…erupting in our surrender. This guided/preached retreat is a contemplative response to God’s invitation to be taken into the “chariot of fire.”

Set of 6 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: This intensive workshop integrates three contemporary areas of human growth. From a Jungian perspective, recovery and addictions are perceived as potential healing events. The paradoxical giftedness of recovery leads to the opportunity for spiritual transformation.

This Intensive is a set of 6 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: Joy is a mysterious encounter with Otherness. Deep joy and consolation become possible as the Soul quiets itself. However, humans tend to resist their deepest desires, including Joy. Though we long to experience its fullness, we must face the manipulation of the ego, and make it powerless in order to experience the fullness of Joy. This recording focuses on the qualities of a life saturated in God, in hopes of filling the listener with the joyous mysteries of life.

Set of 6 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: The culture has created a great divide between sexuality and spirituality. This workshop investigates the necessary union between the transformative powers of sexuality in our search for the Beloved, and the opening to the Divine. From a Jungian and Christian perspective, we see that the libido moves us to spiritual transformation, examining both the light and shadow aspects.

Set of 6 Audio CDs.

TOPIC: This training intensive points out the differentiation between personal shadow work, collective shadow in society, and the mystery of evil. Using both Jungian and Christian insights, this program can help to unfold the mystery of light and darkness. Anyone consciously on their spiritual journey needs to do deep shadow work. In addition, spiritual directors, pastors, and counselors need wisdom to engage the encounter. This intensive is especially important and useful for Spiritual Directors.