Soul Making, Story and the Sesame Approach

The poet Rumi speaks of two kinds of knowing; one, he says, “is acquired, as a child in school memorises facts and concepts from books.” The other, soul knowing, “doesn’t move from outside … it is a fountainhead from within you, moving out.” While there is a place for the ‘clinical’ in Jungian analysis access to an embodied creative approach ultimately allows a soft listening into the depths of soul agenda. Soul speaks through metaphors, imagination and embodiment of archetypes in traditional stories and makes a home for what has been wounded or lost. The day will introduce the Sesame Approach – a worldwide Jungian-based trauma therapy that has been working since 1964. It will explore this ‘lower education’ curriculum through enactment, spontaneity and playful-ness. Participants are asked to wear clothes suitable for gentle movement.