Depth Recovery: Amplifying Addiction, Seeing-Through Recovery

Depth Recovery: Amplifying Addiction, Seeing-Through Recovery re-imagines the landscape of addiction and recovery through a mythopoetic and depth-psychological lens. Instead of treating addiction as a static diagnosis or recovery as a fixed path, this course amplifies their imaginal dimensions—seeing them as living patterns, archetypal movements, and invitations from soul.

Grounded in the works of Jung and Hillman, the course explores how addiction can be understood as a collapse of the imaginal function, where images harden into literal cravings and compulsions. In contrast, recovery becomes the reawakening of imagination: a return of story, beauty, and symbolic depth. Through myth, poetry, and archetypal psychology, we learn to see-through the literal and into the imaginal currents that shape recovery consciousness.

Participants will engage the three imaginal positions of recovery—Collective Recovery, Post-Recovery, and Depth Recovery—not as linear stages, but as archetypal orientations, each with its own gifts and tensions. Together, these positions reveal a new “third” possibility for recovery, one that holds descent and transformation alongside stability and renewal.

Learning Objectives
This course is intended to help you:

1. Amplify addiction imaginally — Learn to see addiction not only as symptom or behavior, but as an archetypal collapse of imagination into literal hunger and repetition.

2. See-through recovery — Develop the capacity to look beyond fixed narratives of “cure” or “disease,” perceiving the symbolic and mythic patterns that animate recovery.

3. Navigate imaginal positions — Engage Collective Recovery, Post-Recovery, and Depth Recovery as archetypal orientations, each offering a distinct way of making meaning.

4. Cultivate recovery consciousness — Awaken a mode of seeing that restores story, beauty, and depth to the lived experience of healing.