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