This course offers you a creative and intellectually stimulating opportunity to explore what C.G. Jung’s concepts of the ego, the persona, the shadow and the Self mean to you personally. WE will expolre basic theory in Jungian Psychology and simple art/symbol activities, relating your personal experience and insight back to Jung’s concepts of the ego, persona, shadow and self. Simple mark making activities are used to warm up and draw out self-images that offer insight into parts of yourself you would like to know more about. You will discover the different roles the ego, persona, shadow and self take to help you perform the many tasks in life, as well as move you towards wholeness.
This course offers a unique combination of play and reflection through theoretical and experiential learning that activates both left and right hemispheres of the brain; a combination that creates a balance between synthesis and analysis, creativity and practicality, imagination and reality that not only optimizes most learning styles, but also greatly enhances the creativity this balance naturally generates.
Course includes very basic theory in Jungian Psychology, simple art making activities, and exploration of each individual’s artwork through discussion with the instructor, relating your personal experience and insight back to Jung’s concepts of the ego, persona, shadow, and self so that these concepts are now understood and grounded in your own personal experience.
Exploring self-image, both from an archetypal perspective and experientially through art making, activates the most fundamental of symbol making processes of the psyche. Symbols of the self represent not only the individual and their particular circumstances but all of humanity and its connection to the transpersonal.