JessicaV
12-13-2015, 06:51 PM
Hi people, just want some advice. I am halfway through a 6yr training to become a Jungian Analyst. The training requires participation in about 6x3day intensive residential training workshops a year that I have pay my own costs for flights and accommodation between $1000 ash $3000 a time, plus 40x twice weekly Jungian Analysis plus once weekly supervision costing $120 a time per year. Annual fees are about $6000 a year. My fellow students are lovely and the training is very valuable vocationally. I am getting less and less comfortable/impressed by the training committee and directors of training though.
Since July this has also included participating in a 90minute Infant Observation group Seminar on Wednesdays. Mine is 50km away from my home/workplace. There are 4 groups: Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. 2 people in our Perth group Skype from NZ, the other 2 live less than 10 km away, and all 4 of those are ablebodied and well. I have a 50km drive to get there, half through heavy traffic. I am the only person in the class of 20 who has had breast cancer or any sort of cancer during the training.
For the first 2 months, I mostly attended I/O seminars in person, and was very fatigued after and unable to work competently on the following Thursday. My GP then told me to find something closer because this is not good for me. I then discovered I could Skype and that solved the problem. But after 3 months, I have just been told by the group leader that the Directors of Training will probably not count my Skyped sessions if I continue. He asked on my behalf for me to be allowed to Skype instead. Joy, Director of Training rang me and talked for an hour, telling me I am stubborn, and that being the sort of person I am, I really need to attend in person.
I have specifically asked in terms of needing this reasonable adjustment as an impaired person who needs this as one of my Human Rights, and this does not concern them. The best they have come up with is to take leave for 3 months and only attend I/O by Skype, no supervision or Residential attendance, then alternate embodied and Skype attendance for my I/O seminars from then on. She goes to talk this over with the other Director of Training then will talk with me again on Friday. I am told she is likely to change the offer to something worse not better when I talk to her next.
My analyst died in October, and he was able to help me negotiate this sort of stuff, but now I am handling it very much alone.I want to learn this material, to become a Jungian Analyst, but fear they will string me along and cause me a lot of fatigue and then refuse to let me into Stage 2 or to graduate.
I believe I have a complaint the Human Rights Commission would uphold but am pretty sure bringing such a complaint would wreck all chance I have of being able to complete the training. Not sure I will have the chance to complete at all anyway.
What should I do?
Since July this has also included participating in a 90minute Infant Observation group Seminar on Wednesdays. Mine is 50km away from my home/workplace. There are 4 groups: Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. 2 people in our Perth group Skype from NZ, the other 2 live less than 10 km away, and all 4 of those are ablebodied and well. I have a 50km drive to get there, half through heavy traffic. I am the only person in the class of 20 who has had breast cancer or any sort of cancer during the training.
For the first 2 months, I mostly attended I/O seminars in person, and was very fatigued after and unable to work competently on the following Thursday. My GP then told me to find something closer because this is not good for me. I then discovered I could Skype and that solved the problem. But after 3 months, I have just been told by the group leader that the Directors of Training will probably not count my Skyped sessions if I continue. He asked on my behalf for me to be allowed to Skype instead. Joy, Director of Training rang me and talked for an hour, telling me I am stubborn, and that being the sort of person I am, I really need to attend in person.
I have specifically asked in terms of needing this reasonable adjustment as an impaired person who needs this as one of my Human Rights, and this does not concern them. The best they have come up with is to take leave for 3 months and only attend I/O by Skype, no supervision or Residential attendance, then alternate embodied and Skype attendance for my I/O seminars from then on. She goes to talk this over with the other Director of Training then will talk with me again on Friday. I am told she is likely to change the offer to something worse not better when I talk to her next.
My analyst died in October, and he was able to help me negotiate this sort of stuff, but now I am handling it very much alone.I want to learn this material, to become a Jungian Analyst, but fear they will string me along and cause me a lot of fatigue and then refuse to let me into Stage 2 or to graduate.
I believe I have a complaint the Human Rights Commission would uphold but am pretty sure bringing such a complaint would wreck all chance I have of being able to complete the training. Not sure I will have the chance to complete at all anyway.
What should I do?