About this webinar
A deep sense of unease has taken hold of the global psyche with multiple serious threats that range from climate change, to economic downturn, to the threat of pandemics, to the rise of authoritarianism, and the outbreak of war in many conflicted areas.
The increasing uncertainty of finding security anywhere in the world has led to a dystopian mood that is a killer of being able to imagine a better world in the future. Is there anything that a Jungian perspective has to offer as an antidote to the paralysis of the ability to imagine a better future that is a natural consequence of the dystopian mood?
About the topic of the webinar:
Reflecting on the topic of the webinar, I plunged very deeply into the memories of my journey during these almost two years of war. As if stringing beads, I was pulling out memories of my creative manifestations
during this period. The first desire I had in the first week of the war was to make a rag doll and teach my
children this art. I also remembered the creative revelations of my clients, who discovered new meanings through drawing, clay art, painting, embroidery, making jewellery from beads, wooden beads, feathers, etc. During the war, Ukrainians created an incredible number of new songs, poems, films, new paintings, architectural works that warmed us in the coldest and darkest times. And it is creativity that has become the unifying factor for the Ukrainian nation that helps to sustain life. As C.G. Jung said, “Sometimes the hands can solve a riddle against which the intellect is powerless.”
Similarly, the process of creation helps us to cope with the irrationality that our consciousness cannot comprehend in these dark times. War forces us to transform ourselves through pain, death and loss, but remembering the Middle Ages as one of the bloodiest periods in history, I always hold the image of the Renaissance, which I believe will certainly come in Ukraine..