Active Imagination as Ritual Experience - Saturday Playshop (Hybrid)

Experience a blend of movement, breath, sound, and creative expression to practice active imagination and bring unconscious material into conscious awareness.

"Whereas active fantasy, as the product of a conscious attitude not opposed to the unconscious, and of unconscious processes not opposed but merely compensatory to consciousness, does not require criticism so much as understanding." Jung, CW 6, para. 714

"By means of 'active imagination' we are put in a position of advantage, for we can then make the discovery of the archetype without sinking back into the instinctual sphere, which would only lead to blank unconsciousness or, worse still, to some kind of intellectual substitute for instinct." Jung, CW 8, para. 414

This immersive two-day program invites participants into a deep exploration of the psyche through body, imagination, and expressive practice.

Saturday's playshop will experientially activate body, soul and spirit energetically through stretching, breath, movement, image, affect, sound, word and art to manifest previously unconscious material into awareness. Sharing will be voluntary. The fee of the playshop for in-person participants will include art supplies. All you need to bring is a notebook, your presence and lunch. Wear comfortable clothes.

Online participants, please have some creative supplies on hand. Look around your space for forgotten supplies or treat yourself with a supply trip for colored pencils, markers, glitter, tissue paper, glue, and string, in colors that appeal to you.

Recommended Reading: Innerwork by Robert Johnson, Alchemical Active Imagination by Marie-Louise von Franz, Imagination as Space of Freedom by Verena Kast

Jennifer Jones Embry is a Houston-based Jungian Analyst dedicated to the attunement to oneself and others through experience and connection. Trained in Zurich, a BodySoul facilitator, a labyrinth facilitator, a Reiki master, and an alchemical crystal bowl practitioner, she brings knowledge and synthesis through the heart. She is interested in metaphoric languages that connect psyche and soma: dreams, alchemy, poetry, film, dance and voice.

Nila Velchoff is an Integration Specialist, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Language of Being™ co-creator, coach and flow-state facilitator with 30 years of experience. She works with creative, intuitive, sensitive, empathic people to deepen their connection with their own experience of the divine, navigate their spiritual journey, feel deeply seen and heard, discover fulfillment, live in the world more easily, heal from the past, and be in the present.

This program is being offered both IN-PERSON and ONLINE. Please select how you will attend when registering. This program will NOT be recorded.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.

*The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council (TBHEC) has stopped pre-certifying ANY Continuing Education or Professional Development for mental health providers. The Jung Center cannot guarantee that the programs we provide will qualify for continuing education or Professional Development, nor can any other agency. The Jung Center uses high educational standards when selecting to designate events as "potentially appropriate for CEs", and in evaluating the outcomes of our educational services, and we believe them to meet the requirements of state licensing bodies. To find out more about the TBHEC changes to Continuing Education and Professional Development, click here: https://junghouston.app.neoncrm.com/np/viewDocument?orgId=junghouston&id=40288ab689aaa0f10189ada9005e0073