Personal myth. a story you tell yourself (and that you were told) to make sense and meaning of your life & world as a guide to navigate your life experience. 

They connect us to each other and the world, evolving us through the ages. 

They connect us to each other and the world, evolving us through the ages. 

N

N

Myths hold both our disease and remedy in images of shadow and light. From the casting out of Adam and Eve from Eden and nature to the schism between Isaac and Ishmael, myths are family stories in need of therapy (healing). They call us to address our core wounds and complexes.
"Shame is a soul-eating emotion." C G Jung

No

In creation myths all is one and then differentiates.

No

No 

No art skills or psychological knowledge are required. This class is about deep healing and transformation, what Jung called individuation. It is for anyone who seeks a life of deep meaning, healing, calling, intimacy, relationship, connection, power, purpose, passion, and soul. This is not a superficial path but one that charts the depths. It is a path for those who have lost their connection to their soul and Self. You only need to be honest and ready. It is a confrontation with ourselves, soul, and Self but also death. So you need to be ready. At the same time, like any initiation, you won't feel ready. 

No

No 

N

T

No art skills or psychological knowledge are required. This class is about deep healing and transformation, what Jung called individuation. It is for anyone who seeks a life of deep meaning, healing, calling, intimacy, relationship, connection, power, purpose, passion, and soul. This is not a superficial path but one that charts the depths. It is a path for those who have lost their connection to their soul and Self. You only need to be honest and ready. It is a confrontation with ourselves, soul, and Self but also death. So you need to be ready. At the same time, like any initiation, you won't feel ready. 

This course offers deep transformation and a certificated process to help you guide others as Jung did. This is an archetypal journey for our and all time, but it is also an ethical obligation with a follow up option to teach and help others.

“God left the world unfinished: the pictures unpainted. The songs unsung. Problems unsolved. That man might know the joys of creation.” Thomas S. Monson

Each week you walk on stepping stones that introduce fundamental concepts and skillsets that connect your creative nature to the creative nature of the soul, as you journey toward the Self. These steps take you into the unconscious through coursework that is patterned to help you trust the process and surrender to soul. Each week you will get a new video to watch, a visual text to view, and a downloadable workbook chapter to explore, leading to the last 2 months in which you dive deeper into your art with Red Book readings and emergent partner and group discussion. Activities are woven throughout.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves as whole and complete. C G Jung

A

This process is contained by your soul but also by 3 circles of support made by you and your group. Each circle expands with you as you create your opus or soul journal, designed to offer different levels of containment as you transform. These circles protect and support you

You will create an art studio, creativity altar, and art as your "church" and "cathedral," a place to commune with your soul. This is a place for renewal and retreat whether creating art, lighting a candle, meditating, or doing gentle yoga. These spaces cocoon you as an alchemical container of transformation through your process, nurturing your body and a body of art. 

W 

Sign up for the support you need. Remember that I am here as a resource as well. Feel free to call and touch in for additional containment and support. Reach out to your alchemical partner and group. You are held.

While 3 month may 

You begin by remembering childhood play just as Jung began his creative opus by playing as a child. So we remember Picasso's statement that "every child is an artist" and Einstein's realization that "the imagination is greater than knowledge." How did you play and create (come alive) when you were young?
"Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." C G Jung

Myths map a journey and a map can help you orient and find your way in your life. So, I use maps to help guide us from step to step, creating a container or space for our creativity, gathering our supplies and centering ourselves in our soul and a journal practice. From there, each week brings a new lesson that characterizes the stage of the path, from ethics to shadow work to the soul's symbolic language of the unconscious. Every week has guidance established to guide you. Like participants in a trust building exercise, you need to lean into this. 

Jung said that you cannot go directly into the unconscious but if you create unconsciously with your hands your soul would bring you a vision. Imagination has the roots magi for magic and image and it is the heart of this visionary path. As you walk you are activating your imagination and remembering how to play with your soul's images that guide you. Open your eyes, heart, and mind to a new way of seeing and being. Learn to navigate by starlight through the dark night of the soul.

Imagination has a shared root with image and magi for magus, magician, and magic. Images are the language and wealth of the soul, drawn from the depths of the collective unconscious. They speak with the power of the world soul and what Jung called the "magical value of art." Your images are symbolic and natural, emerging with their own color, shape, composition, and form. 

Bridging head and heart, this course follows in Jung's footsteps as he followed his soul into the wilds of his psychological nature to reconnect with the natural world. Because creativity expresses in our nature and in nature, this is an eco-art therapeutic path to wholeness--to the whole world. It is about your transformative growth, patterned after the perennial rhizome planted in the rich earth of your imagination to grow out of you in art.
"I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world. . . The only important thing is to follow nature.” C G Jung

Images connect our nature to nature because we are a part of nature. So these courses work and play with the nature of our body. Drawing upon our psychological and physiological evolution toward visual evolution and primacy, the coursework combines visual and verbal imagery to maximize our whole brain and body learning. Just as images are the wealth and language of the soul, they are the language we speak in our creativity throughout the coursework. You are learning the unique language of your soul's images that are both visual and verbal.

The soul's communication is symbolic and imagistic, embodied and imaginal. Jung said that his soul did not have speech centers and let her use his to speak, and studies have found that during spiritual experiences speech is not generated in normal speech centers. Nor is core wounding reached by speech. Both are accessed through the imagistic and embodied language of the soul. So, this soul path combines visual and verbal imagery in the way of the soul (the picture superiority effect) in which words are symbolic and metaphoric images, combined with visual art. When Jung's soul referred to The Red Book as art, she meant all of it, words and paintings as images.