October 1


Take the 1st step on an individuation
 journey home to yourself & the Self (ensouled & whole self), following your soul.

Journey into deep authenticity

This is a gentle & flexible approach to soul contact & guidance, following in the archetypal footsteps of Carl Jung, William Blake, Frida Kahlo & others on a healing journey of transformation. Designed to help you find your soul and way, this challenge includes journaling, dreamwork, active imagination, meditation, eco-mindfulness, visualization, gentle yoga, drawing, nature, painting & more to initiate you on an individuation journey called a "path" of embodied healing through the integration of the anima or feminine soul (in all of us).

You must make yourself into the vessel of creation in which the opposites reconcile [integrating soul in art].

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Deep Creativity

This is a deep dive into the process that the psychologist Carl Jung called "nature," his soul called "art" & Heather calls eco-art & play therapy. Jung walked this path in his Black and Red Books, following in the footsteps of others as he lead his advanced patients & pioneered art therapy & research in the modern era. This pilgrimage follows in these footsteps on an archetypal journey that combines core power practices into a method of deep creativity.
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Think of it [a creative visionary/dream image] in your imagination and try to paint it. Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book & turn over the pages & for you it will be your church—your cathedral—the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal—for in that book is your soul. 

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For more info watch the intro video below 

Is this the right step for you? Learn what to expect on your journey. Who do you follow? How is it feminine (embodied love) & more . . .
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Synthesizing Multiple Paths
Global & Archetypal
Finding your Way/Tao (Path)

Why should I walk this pilgrim's path?

This path is for you if you seek deep connection with yourself, soul, power, purpose, passion, intuition, body, art, creativity, family, nature & world.
Do you want greater love, compassion, courage, acceptance, authenticity, immunity, wellbeing, insight, understanding & more? Seriously, who doesn't?

This process has been found to reduce: stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, co-dependence, PTSD, alienation, disassociation, nervous system overactivation, autoimmune disease, interpersonal trauma, self-doubt, pain & more

& increase: self-esteem, overall wellbeing, cognition, productivity, immunity, peace, consciousness, compassion, boundaries, resilience, acceptance, conflict resolution/transformation, healing, treatment outcomes & experience 
*SOUL awakens group consciousness, co-creation & collective initiation
Individuation initiates a collective global transformation from an ego to soul-centered worldview & orientation.

If you succeed in remembering yourself . . . you discover the Self. . . Individuation is our journey towards understanding ourselves. It involves becoming the most integrated, whole version of our unique self as possible. . . [it] is the art of personal transformation. 

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May we awaken from the dream that we are different.
Thich Nhat Han

Who is this pilgrimage for? Everyone

This class is for anyone who seeks understanding, meaning, purpose & empowerment in their life. It is creative and engaging, focusing on active application in activities & exercises so material will take root & change your life. While it comes with a one-on-one live session with Heather & an option for partner & group work, it is ultimately designed for you to explore your own way: to go deep into yourself. To do this, it is important that you are ready for self-exploration. This is deep psycho-activating work meant to kindle soul in your life & make a lived difference in your world. So, are you ready?

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. [discovering, accepting, loving & creating yourself] 

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Ready? If you want to feel better: yes.

No art skills, psychological knowledge or belief in a metaphysical soul are required for this journey. The only prerequisite is a willingness to be creative, honest & authentic. This course is ideal for anyone who seeks deep healing, calling, meaning, transformation, and purpose. The practices of the path are the archetypal power practices of the ages that combine for profound transformation. While this path is for everyone who is ready to grow, it is not a superficial path but deep work. It is playful but powerful, catalyzing our suffering into sacrifice (meaningful suffering that leads to growth).
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Kairos a unique time in a person's life: an opportunity for change." 
Translation:
NOW is our time

MAY SARTON

What is included & what should you expect?

Tutorials to find "your way"
Deep dive into unconscious
Varied archetypal examples  
Guidance on the path

24 "days" (symbolic or literal) of content

A pilgrimage is a sacred journey & this one is designed to accommodate the 24 days that it takes to create a new habit . . . following soul in art in this journey. So, you embark & are guided through 24 steps, but you can return to them or pause for a break, stay longer on any given "step," whatever works (& plays) for you. Find your way!

3 "day" virtual workshop deep dive to begin

Created as an evening lecture & weekend workshop, this is a deep dive to initiate your journey with a visual lecture followed by an experiential activation of your imagination. As always, it can be explored in your own way, taking as much or as little time as you want or need. 

live monthly meeting together (12 x 1 hr.)

Each month we will come together with others taking this pilgrimage to share experiences, learn new aspects & tools for the journey & connect with others upon our path. Come share, ask a question, get inspiration, or just see what others are up to. Each session will be 30 min- 1 hour, depending upon emergent content, with instruction & sharing followed by Q &, following a monthly schedule. 

1 personal meeting with Heather for support

There is always something that comes up (obviously). This session (30 min on zoom) is designed to help support you in the emergent potholes & other emergencies that arise upon your journey. This can be scheduled below & can take any form. You can talk about art, a dream, an experience or ask a question specific to your journey. It's up to you. 

Sign up for 1 personal 30 min sessions with Heather for guidance & support
(*This is her primary path from her doctoral dissertation & life journey.)

Certification option, so you can go to the next step.

  • & share the content

    Knowing how to heal yourself so you can share this healing with others & a world in need.
    • Advanced options for healing yourself & others 
    • In depth instruction on alternative forms & paths
    • Rich interactive classes for live engagement
    • Fully social learning with options for partnering
    • Advanced applications to continue your path

  • Bundled Certification Offer

    Combining this pilgrimage with the additional steps embodied in The Black & Red Book classes which will provide in depth coverage of Jung's journey into the depths of the unconscious. The certification is designed to enable you to teach & share this process & path with others in the world.

50% off Creative Individuation Certification
2 classes + pilgrim

Come on a transformative journey that the psychologist Carl Jung called an "invaluable method" & "path" to discover the power of the "spirit of the deep" to teach & heal us & our time. With tutorials on techniques, bonus material, live lectures, visual glossaries & in depth examples, the cert is designed to deepen your experience & understanding to share.

  • 68 learners

    Enrolled

  • 24 videos

     Personal Instruction

  • 27 hours

    Course duration

  • 4 Ebooks

    Free of charge

Man is indispensable for the completion of creation . . . a second creator of the world, who alone has given to the world its objective existence.

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When you want something; all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it. [Creation is ensouled.]

Paulo Coehlo

Introduction

Step 1

Introduction to Jung & basic concepts to begin your path.

Path

Step 2

Beginning to remember soul & your embodied nature.

Container

Step 3

Creating a safe container for soul: journal, circle & altar.

Toolkit

Step 4

Embodying essential skills & concepts for your journey.

Imagination

Step 5

Activating your imagination to play with your imagery.

Psychology

Step 6

Getting to know yourself & psychology (soul landscape).

Shadow

Step 7

Befriending your shadow to gain understanding and love.

Epi.Gnosis

Step 8

Embodying soul through love & direct experience.

Automatic Writing

Step 9

St. Augustine's example of journaling to talk to soul.

Color & Compose

Step 10

Playing with color as emotion & energy to compose in art.

Black Books

Step 11

Journaling dreams, visions & synchronicities in art diaries.

Unconscious

Step 12

Drop deep into the soul's images & group unconscious.

Soul

Step 13

Reimagining soul in yourself, life & world to make contact.

Thing 1 & 2

Step 14

Identify the spirit of the depths & times in yourself.

Eros & Logos

Step 15

Eros (anima as soul & love) & Logos (animus mind) as lens

Opposites

Step 16

What opposites are in tension in yourself & life? How? Why?

Synthesis

Step 17

Synthesizing opposites with the transcendent function.

Red Book

Step 18

Exploring the example of Jung's creative opus as soul.

Illumination

Step 19

Animating examples of soul in illuminated manuscripts.

Hildegarde

Step 20

Transcending the 4 stages of the feminine soul (anima).

Jung

Step 21

Exploring Jung's art process as inspiration & co-creation.

Kahlo

Step 22

Healing embodied wounds in Frida's life, art & art journals.

Mystics

Step 23

Visioning with mystics like Blake & Black Elk for insight.

You

Step 24

Elaborating your writing and drawing in art illuminations.

What people are saying . . .

This coursework is deep psycho-active or soul activating creativity. It is often described as life changing, offering the gift of getting to know your soul and yourself. It is not easy, but it is profoundly rewarding and life affirming, touching upon the core of who you are and why you are here. At its foundation this art is about your heart's purpose and soul's call.
Its beautiful the language that you use. . . I really feel that you have made such a huge contribution to our souls, to our artistic creative selves. . . You have come in and created a furthering of neuropathways and pathways for us to look at the artist, the archetypal artist, and give us a place where we can have soul. I have great appreciation for what you have done with your dissertation. I would like to have a lot more Jungian work like this.
Fanny Brewster, MFA, PhD, analyst, artist, educator,, and author
Heather is a masterful educator on how to heal and grow through art. Her presence is open, kind, wise and playful. She is skilled at creating an amazing and safe container for individuals to explore, go deep and have meaningful transformative experiences while guided by her. Her engagement with nature as a vessel for her work is powerful. Embarking on a journey of personal growth with her guidance will be blessing in your life.
Mary Gibbons, MD, physician, policy maker, educator, and facilitator
Heather is an exceptional teacher and group facilitator, as well as a beautifully soulful artist and person. She is gifted in leading persons in learning how art evokes the soul while also guiding them into creative exploration of their own inner images. Heather's depth and breadth of knowledge on Jung's Red Book is rare and is complimented by a graceful adeptness at teaching others how to journey into the spiral of their own depths through art and creativity.
Fanny Brewster, MFA, PhD, analyst, artist, educator,, and author
Heather clearly brought scholarship and art together to achieve a transcendent function in a really beautiful way.
Jennifer Leigh Selig, PhD, educator, speaker, and award-winning co-author of Deep Creativity
You and the work you are doing are an inspiration.
Susan Rowland, PhD, educator, speaker, and co-author of Jungian Arts-Based Research
Heather is a creative genius, making artists feel safe to explore and create.
Victoria Christiansen, MFA, MSW, therapist and award-winning author of Feminine Mysticism in Art

Heather 

Following in the soul's footsteps

Heather has been called to walk the transformative path of the Soul of Creativity. Having spent decades in self and soul-directed exploration as a professional artist and seeker, she has taught this process in college classes and workshops. With a doctoral degree in archetypal psychology on art as a transformative process (based on Jung's Red Book), she is passionate about the transformative power of creativity. is a playful seeker, explorer, and inspirer who combines eco, art, and play therapy in a healing and teaching path that is embodied and natural.

Soul, Blake, Jung, Kahlo . . .

Following those who have gone before

While Heather has researched the soul's creativity to walk and lead others on this path, your soul is your real guide. Combining cutting-edge science and ancient wisdom, this path's deep magic is the soul. It is the soul you follow and only you can connect to your soul (You). The heart of this path is your relationship with your soul that connects you with your greater Self.
Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves as whole and complete. C G Jung

Embodied creativity connects to soul

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 day or step you get a new video to watch, a visual text to read & view, plus an activity with instruction. Activities are designed to integrate eco-psychological theory & creative practice into your life as a whole.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being & makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its [soul's] purpose through him. . . he is a 'man' in a higher sense--he is 'collective man'-- who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.
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Trailhead to the imagination.

As you walk you activate your imagination and open to the symbolic guidance of the soul in synchronicity, dreams, and visions. You are dreaming yourself awake and learning to see the waking world as if in a dream through the symbolic sight and insight of your soul. Opening to an archetypal perspective, you will begin to perceive the mythic story that underpins your life, guiding you on a path both within and without. As you move through the coursework, each week's lesson will "show up" and reveal itself in living images and experiences that deepen your insight. Walking in this way, brings you to greater consciousness, as it weaves your inner and outer, unconscious and conscious lives and worlds together in a union of opposites in soul.

Coursework and play . . .

Each week your content drops down for you below.

Soul alchemy = become a butterfly

This process is contained by your soul but also by 3 circles of support made by you and your classmates. Each circle expands with you as you create your opus, designed to offer different levels of containment as you individuate. These circles reflect Jung's process as archetypal or universal.

Alone

You travel alone.

like Jung
To really experience the darkness of the dark night of the soul, you need to be alone with your soul. So, you walk alone.

Partner

A partner helps to mirror you.

like Jung's patients with him
Jung viewed his patients art and worked with them one on one. So you work with a power partner to help contain you.

Group

A circle to discuss and reflect.

Like Jung's inner circle together
Jung led his inner circle on this path, creating a container for group growth. So, we meet in monthly zoom circles.

Creating a safe container for soul

Additional containment comes from creating sacred space in an art studio, creativity altar, and in your art which can be seen as your "church" and "cathedral," housing your soul. In these spaces you create a place of renewal and retreat for you to come back to again and again, whether creating art, lighting a candle, meditating, or doing gentle yoga. These spaces help to cocoon you as an alchemical container of transformation throughout your process, nurturing your creative practice in your body and a body of art. Additionally, a container will be created with a circle ritual that opens and closes the class along with an individual session with me to open and close your personal transformation. 

This class follows in archetypal footsteps.

While we follow the voice and vision of Jung to guide us upon our way, we also follow in the footsteps of artists and seekers from the past and present who have trod this soulful path through the ages. Integrating different examples from different traditions helps us explore and experience the breadth and depth of the soul's archetypal pathway as a creative form of transformation. While we follow in the footsteps of Jung, Christiana Morgan, and others, we ultimately find our way through the interweaving of synchronicity and story that reveals our own unique passage and images. While we begin with the embodied example of Jung's Black and Red Books, we end up off road, exploring the terrain of our own living psychology and soul. There is only one way, your way.

A life-long journey & soul opus

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The map is not the landscape

Just like the saying that the map is not the land, this path and the landscape you cover are unique to your experience. Still, a map can help you orient and find your way. So, we begin with creating a container or space for our creativity, gathering our supplies and centering ourselves in our soul. From there, each week brings a new lesson that characterizes the stage of the path, from ethics to shadow work to your soul's symbolic language. It is essential that you not know where you are going (so you can appreciate it when you get there and also feel like you are lost). Yet, you can trust that every week has guidance established to help you. Like participants in a trust building exercise, you need to lean into this. 

Your soul brings you a vision 

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.

Archetypal Psychology + Creativity

Soul Path
The soul leads us to deep transformation and self-realization in ways that are creative and imaginative. 
Called by your soul through images from dreams, visions and the imagination, you are transformed in a process of deep soul care and soul relationship embodied in art.
Soul Love
The soul leads us to love which is the soul's greatest gift, reflecting their ability to unite opposites.
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Just as Jung received a crown that said love never ends, we are guided to our own realization of self and soul love. What this looks and feels like is unique to each person.
Self Care
Self-care tends to your whole Self, gathering forgotten and repressed fragments of your soul from the past.
Receive tools that will support you to release unconscious patterns of self-doubt and neglect that lead to imbalance and disease. Down time is essential for creative growth.
Self Love
Gain the courage, confidence, and capacity of your soul to express Self-love for who YOU are, others, and the world.
Self-love is rooted in radical and deep acceptance of your uniqueness--how you are different. It is embodied in the unique qualities that are yours and yours alone.

Drop In + Circle Up

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.

Soul toolkit

While you are finding yourself and your way, you are on an archetypal path that offers a consistent way to navigate. Including elements of centering, mindfulness, visioning, dreaming, yoga, eco-psychology and breathwork, the soul guides us on a path that connects our nature to nature. So we begin with introductory videos to seed your imagination with these ancient archetypal practices proven through time.

Dream into your nature

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. This is more about the alchemical Great Work of Art than art. 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.

Connecting to the soul's creative nature

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.

A path into the wilderness of the soul

While we enter into the process on a path of painted steppingstones we find ourselves in the natural world. Jung said that the soul would become less and less a personification, an "other" and more a function. So we internalize our soul's capacity to activate the image of the world and navigate our life. We come alive and bring our life to life in its images. Where you find yourself upon this path is unique, but most people experience a deepening into the magic of nature and their own nature.

Soul advice: "drop into your heart"

In our modern world we have become head-centered, dismissing emotion and intuition as inferior feminine ways of knowing. In a very real way, this path leads from head to heart, reconnecting inner masculine and feminine ways of knowing in a union or coniunctio that alchemically unites above and below, spirit and matter. This is a path to wholeness that integrates all parts of our being in newly discovered yet ancient embodied ways of knowing rooted in the earth.

The soul speaks in images

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.

The soul's ethic is authenticity

This is a very simple path that requires that you honor the soul and the soul's images. Jung called this being a disciple to the image but it is really a discipleship to your soul as a guiding image. What this looks like will be unique to you but it is characterized by a sincere attention to the details of your soul's images, a willingness to follow them as a path.

The soul's goal is to make you whole.

This deep self-care heals you by helping you remember the forgotten and dismembered parts of yourself, life, and soul. Buried in the unconscious, these fragments of your Self are gathered by following your soul and harvesting your soul's images in art and creativity. This process touches and redresses core wounds that lie at the heart of your complexes, mining the rich soil of your unconscious to embrace lost parts, buried and cast in shadow. You need all of these pieces to reclaim your power and soul. On a fundamental level this is a soul retrieval and a soul mate relationship. 

Imagine a new/old way and You

On this path you activate you imagination, moving ever deeper into yourself and the Self. The activating agent of the soul, the imagination is the soul's super power. An application of the intuition, imagination lets you reach places and knowledge otherwise unknown. As Albert Einstein said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." We need imagination to grow.