{"id":126881,"date":"2026-08-03T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/?post_type=mec-events&p=126881"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:32:12","slug":"tending-the-cauldron-an-introduction-to-jungian-couples-therapy","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/jungian-events\/tending-the-cauldron-an-introduction-to-jungian-couples-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tending the Cauldron: An Introduction to Jungian Couples Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Therapists and analysts, regardless of their training and orientation, continually seek generative ways to address the intense and often long-standing strife endemic to couples therapy. They know that working with couples places tremendous demands on their knowledge, their skill, and their own complicated feelings about the mysteries of relationship.<\/p>\n

Tending the Cauldron: An Introduction to Jungian Couples Therapy is presentation that offers participants fresh ways of thinking about what happens in the consulting room. The course re-imagines the room as a temenos guiding partners toward psychological wholeness, or what Jung termed the Self. The course\u2019s central premise\u2014emotionally-committed relationships are difficult, profound, meaningful, and full of soul\u2014means that couples who bravely begin therapy and the therapists who guide them are working on behalf of soul regardless of the outcome.<\/p>\n

This unique presentation teaches key concepts in Jung\u2019s psychology as it applies to therapeutic couples work, offering participants more nuanced ways of working with the complex energies that arise between suffering partners. Participants will reimagine the couple\u2019s plight\u2014as well as their personal experience of relationship\u2014as an unfolding creative process and a mystery to be lived.<\/p>\n

Learning objectives
\nAs a result of attending this course, participants will be able to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Re-imagine the goals of couple therapy from behavior and cognitive modification to soul work.<\/li>\n
  2. Integrate core ideas of Jungian and archetypal theory with couples therapy.<\/li>\n
  3. Re-imagine couples relationships as the path of individuation, the realization of the Self, and the cultivation of soul.<\/li>\n
  4. Understand how complexes and archetypal patterns appear in couple\u2019s suffering, and how to work with them.<\/li>\n
  5. Apply Jungian typology to understand elemental conflict between partners.<\/li>\n
  6. Re-imagine the deep processes of couples therapy as alchemical transformation.<\/li>\n
  7. Develop awareness of the unique personal, social, and cultural challenges of working with gender, sexual and relationally diverse couples.<\/li>\n
  8. Bring the therapist\u2019s own soul into the work with couples to deepen and sustain their practice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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