{"id":126486,"date":"2026-06-23T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=126486"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:17:39","slug":"active-imagination-as-ritual-experience-saturday-playshop","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/jungian-events\/active-imagination-as-ritual-experience-saturday-playshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Imagination as Ritual Experience &#8211; Saturday Playshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"neonBody\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\">Experience a blend of movement, breath, sound, and creative expression to practice active imagination and bring unconscious material into conscious awareness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"neonBody\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Whereas active fantasy, as the product of a conscious attitude\u00a0<em data-prosemirror-content-type=\"mark\" data-prosemirror-mark-name=\"em\">not<\/em>\u00a0opposed to the unconscious, and of unconscious processes not opposed but merely compensatory to consciousness, does not require criticism so much as\u00a0<em data-prosemirror-content-type=\"mark\" data-prosemirror-mark-name=\"em\">understanding<\/em>.&#8221; Jung, CW 6, para. 714<\/p>\n<p class=\"neonBody\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\">&#8220;By means of &#8216;active imagination&#8217; we are put in a position of advantage, for we can then make the discovery of the archetype without sinking back into the instinctual sphere, which would only lead to blank unconsciousness or, worse still, to some kind of intellectual substitute for instinct.&#8221; Jung, CW 8, para. 414<\/p>\n<p class=\"neonBody\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"neonBody\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\">This immersive two-day program invites participants into a deep exploration of the psyche through body, imagination, and expressive practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"neonBody\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\">Saturday&#8217;s playshop will experientially activate body, soul and spirit energetically through stretching, breath, movement, image, affect, sound, word and art to manifest previously unconscious material into awareness. 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