Mitch:
Yes, thank you. I think I am halfway on my journey to Zurich when it comes to finding a way to share with Frank and Gwen my devotion to both, and my desire to improve the way in which the three of us work together.
Dr. Jung and Mitch conclude their seventh session. Mitch’s mood has changes – as has Dr. Jung’ mood.
Session Eight
Mitch and Joan decided that it was time to travel back to their home in the United States. Both Mitch and Joan had found their work with Dr. Jung and his staff to be of great benefit. However, they were both getting a bit homesick, and Mitch was anxious to get back to his business. He wants to apply some of what he has learned in Zurich in his work with all his employees, especially Frank and Gwen.
Mitch is a bit hesitant about informing Dr. Jung of his decision, though Joan would have already met with Dr. Jung and would have informed him of their desire to return to their home.
Mitch enters Dr. Jung’s office and is immediately greeted by Dr. Jung’s handshake and declaration:
“I am delighted that you and Joan are on your way back to the States. I think my work with you is just about done and you are certainly ready to get things right with Frank and Gwen. So, let’s use this final session to wrap things up. However, I first want to present you with one other insight that you might find a bit odd. It is one of my uncle’s most controversial concepts. It is something called synchronicity and it involves the connection between events that don’t seem to be causally related. So, are you ready for a bit of head-spinning?”
Mitch is taken back a bit but readily agrees to some head-spinning.
Synchronicity
Dr. Jung begins:
“Let’s start with your decision to come to Zurich. It was because your wife was already here working with me. Somehow, it seemed quite timely, given that you were beginning to recognize the need to do something different with Frank. Was it just an accident that you arrived here with a pressing agenda to be addressed? Your meetings with me were not “caused” by your desire specifically to work with me; rather, they were caused by your wife’s presence here in Zurich, meeting with me and members of my staff. Yet, somehow, were you meant to join with me so that you might address your work-related issues. This is what’s called synchronicity. Some things seem to be occurring in our life that benefit us yet have no obvious cause.”
Mitch interrupts:
“I wonder if in some way, my wife’s decision to come here to Zurich was based in part on an unconscious desire for me, her husband, to get some assistance.”
Dr. Jung:
“Yes, that could be the case. However, Joan knew nothing about the work I do as an executive coach and actually knew very little about Jungian psychology. Apparently, she read about it in a book she read about my uncle. And, she admitted to me, that she also wanted to spend some time in Switzerland. She had been here as a child with her parents. And always wanted to return.”
