Jungian Art Therapy: Living a Creative Life

Saturday’s workshop, “Make Your Own Red Book: Explorations of a Creative Life Through Countertransference,” will explore how the psyche spontaneously reveals itself through an initiation pattern by making our own red book. Jung’s lived experience of working with art materials and active imagination was essential in his ability to understand the impact of creativity on the psychic development of his patients and to encourage their own image-making process. The workshop will guide us to cultivate a relationship with the spontaneous images from the psyche that fertilize our sense of play, discovery, and the individuation process. We will consider complexes, archetypal energy and symbolic content that amplify and document content for reflection and changes in attitude. Spontaneous images also offer a powerful way to understand a clinical case—an effective and alternative approach that facilitates a lived experience of our countertransference dilemmas. This workshop is not about being an artist, but about our willingness to open to the creative instinct and the objective psyche. A small supply list will be provided to those who register for the workshop.