The Wellsprings of Renewal: The Exodus Story As a Mythopoetic Guide to Transforming Personal and Collective Trauma

Shoshana Fershtman
Start Date: 21/05/2024
End Date:11/06/2024
Scheduled course
Online

Overview

The Exodus is an archetypal journey of healing from collective trauma and reconnecting with the sacred in the wake of catastrophic loss. As we are awakened through numinous experience, we reconnect with the Self’s guiding wisdom. The archetypes in the Exodus story show us how to grieve the losses engendered by trauma, reconnect with the wellsprings of ancestral memory, discover the light hidden in the darkness of what may have been disowned in our family and cultural lineages, and soften defenses developed in response to trauma. We are transformed by wisdom gathered through the journey of suffering and post-traumatic growth.

The workshop explores the interrelationship between Jungian theory, Jewish mysticism and the role of the Sacred Feminine in moving from a state of alienation created by personal and collective trauma to a restoration of the connection with the Self. We explore how the archetypal arc of the Exodus story shows us how to heal through:

  • reconnection with our capacities for embodiment, feeling and imagination;
  • opening to the numinous;
  • a healing of our ancestral lineages;
  • a descent into the depths;
  • the healing power of redemptive grief; and
  • rebirth to an expanded consciousness
  • Those interested in understanding mythic stories about healing intergenerational and collective trauma
  • Those interested in understanding more about the Sacred Feminine in Biblical myth
  • Those interested in understanding the role of the Feminine in healing collective trauma
  • Those interested in understanding the relationship between Jewish mysticism and psychology
  • To identify five psychological concepts related to transgenerational and cultural trauma.
  • To integrate three concepts relating to the healing impact of the cultural collective unconscious.
  • To analyze five Biblical archetypes through the lens of Jewish mysticism and Jungian theory.
  • To understand the role of the Sacred Feminine in the Exodus myth
  • To demonstrate how reconnection to the cultural collective unconscious supports healing of transgenerational and cultural trauma.
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