Jungian Arts-Based Research (JABR) begins in the psychic image and uses the creativity and dynamism of the collective unconscious to find and shape meaning for issues ranging from personal myth to collaborative social justice. It can even investigate the shadows of the split psyche of modernity. JABR is a transdisciplinary practice rooted in the imaginal fertility of the artist entwined with the cosmological perspectives of synchronicity, emergence, and complexity. Since JABR adds ideas and techniques from Jungian psychology to the Arts-Based Research developed in the academy since the 1990s, there is a need to teach this revised methodology to students at all levels of education, groups seeking social justice practices, to foster wellbeing, and as a way of re-invigorating workplaces. JABR can be done online or face to face and requires no prior expertise from participants.
The course consists of eight weekly modules, each with one live meeting on Tuesdays at 7 – 9pm London time.