Painting Dreams: An Experiential Workshop

Painting Inner Images is a non-verbal method to contact and symbolically express the unconscious, often not yet possible to be formulated in words. Dream amplification is a Jungian method of exploring the unconscious. In this workshop, we will immerse into an archetypal dream as well as individually into personal dream images and amplify those images over the course of three weeks. In the last session, we will contemplate the series of three images created by each participant to further understand the enclosed message. The created images will not only reflect the individual’s personal situation at this moment, but also effect the group as a whole and provide symbol amplification for all. For mental health professionals, this exploration and lived experience of working with archetypal forces and personal inner imagery is a critical part of training oneself to guide patients in their own journey of working directly with the psyche as described by Jung. This mostly non-verbal and hands-on workshop for adults does not require artistic talent or knowledge. To contact the unconscious, the aesthetic quality of the image is secondary to the dynamic of the process and the expression of meaning.