Monday, 16 June 2025
Dreaming your Life Vision Into Being: Shamanic Practices and Individuation with Doris Klinkhamer and Lynn Hynes
Carl Jung held that our psyche seeks its own wholeness in our lifetime by engaging in a process of making that which is unconscious conscious in order to live our unlived lives – a process he called individuation. The Q’ero shamans also believe that our life’s work is to return to our “healed state” by engaging in a dynamic relationship with earth-based practices and rituals to expand consciousness. Join us as we explore together from a depth psychological perspective and from shamanic practices to begin to vision your life purpose into being as we explore ourselves through ritual, ceremony, dreaming, shamanic journeying, and reflection.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how Jung’s psychology and shamanistic practices inform the relationship between the ego to the unconscious in service to individuation.
- Utilize shamanic practices to create a dialogue between one’s ego complex and the archetype of the Self.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Embodied Resourcing Through Image Making with Leyla Bell
In this workshop, we will explore the interrelation and interconnection of psyche, soma, and inner images, through conscious body movement, image-making, and reflective writing. Participants will call on a new kind of inward attention to explore feeling states, kinesthetic sensations, intuition, and body awareness, toward meaningful new encounters with the self.
Learning Objectives
- Apply creative expressive arts and somatic movement practices to access emotional states and increase self-awareness, empathy, intuitive knowing, and embodied consciousness.
- Observe, describe, and analyze images, symbols, metaphors, somatic states, psychological complexes, and other unconscious dynamics.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Writing from the Depths with Amy Champeau
In this experiential workshop, participants will learn and practice methods of deep reflection and self-expression to enhance their process of individuation. Through the use of breathwork, meditation, somatic practices, and a series of timed writings, we will explore the process of active imagination by deepening our attention and connection to images arising from the unconscious and allowing those to speak.
Learning Objectives
- Use creative expression to access unconscious material.
- Use somatic tools and inquiry to interact and work with complexes.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Psyche’s Cabaret: Where Active Imagination and Ritual Performance Meet with Maude Davis
Engaging in the transformative dynamics of ritual, this workshop expands on Jung’s method of active imagination through the lively performance genre of cabaret. Improvisational theatre games will illuminate symbolic contents of the unconscious. Our psychic explorations will be actualized in the form of a carnivalesque cabaret featuring various art forms – storytelling vignettes, puppetry, movement, and song. Activated at the moment of performance, the group’s role as witness is essential for the therapeutic process.
Learning Objectives
- Describe Jung’s method of active imagination and its relationship to the transcendent function.
- Utilize the process of developing and presenting a cabaret as a therapeutic tool to support the process of individuation.
Friday, 20 June 2025
The Inner Dance: A Jungian Approach to Argentine Tango with Wendy Balconi and Marc Adams
In this workshop, Argentine Tango will be used as an allegory to engage an embodied perspective on deepening one’s access and relationship to an experience of “the self.” We will present the origins of body-oriented psychoanalysis and the relevance and value of an embodied perspective. Specific focus will be placed on the integration of somatic practices designed to facilitate enduring transformation. This workshop will also include a lived experience of these concepts in order to support the integration of this material. As Jung stated, “Only if you first return to the body, to your earth, can individuation take place, only then does the thing become true.”.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the origins of body-oriented depth psychology and examine the art and practice of embodied methods.
- Analyze the process and development of the ego-Self Axis from an embodied perspective utilizing Argentine Tango.
