Healing Trauma, Reimagining the Future
A series of 3 interactive workshops with leading international teacher-practitioners
Please join us for this special online workshop series designed for all those with a calling to therapeutic, community or creative practice, leadership and cultural change.
Through a mix of lectures, small group conversations and experiential exercises, we will engage a range of topics to help ourselves and others with healing trauma and beginning to re-imagine the future.
The fields of depth psychology, mythology, mindfulness and reflective community practice will provide us with maps of exploration and paths of inspiration.
This series includes your participation in all three workshops – registration details are below. Download a workshop flyer here.
WORKSHOP 1 Befriending the Orphan: The Archetypal Roots of Cultural Complexes
Australia: Saturday 17 October 2020, 11.00am – 1.00pm AEDT
USA: Friday October 16 2020, 4.00pm – 6.00pm Pacific Time
The archetypal figure of the orphan is embedded in mythic themes of exile, abandonment, and the search for home. Understanding the archetypal basis of a culture’s psyche is vital for those called to lead or be change agents in a society. In this workshop we explore Australia’s cultural complexes, the Orphan archetype at their core and the many ways it manifests. Our personal pains, preoccupations and constraints can also relate to transgenerational and cultural complexes and traumas, even when the origins are unconscious. We’ll discover how moving towards an imaginative, mythopoetic perspective, connecting with indigeneity and place, holds the key to releasing the Orphan’s redemptive potential.
Presenter: Dr Suzanne Cremen founder, Life Artistry Centre; faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute (USA); author, From Career to Calling: A depth psychology guide to soul-making work in darkening times.
WORKSHOP 2 Grief as the Great Vessel
Australia: Saturday 24 October 2020, 10.30am – 12.30pm AEDT
USA: Friday October 23 2020, 4.30pm – 6.30pm Pacific Time
We are in a time when losses are accumulating. We may find ourselves isolated, fatigued, anxious and depressed. Our habitual attempts to cope with daily life are challenged by disruptions in routines and uncertainty about the future. We have lost our beloved ecosystems to fire and other catastrophes. We notice that the things we looked forward to are no longer available, and confinement is bringing us to our edges. This grief-focused workshop will be drenched in honey with myth, poetry, contemplation, and meditation; it will be a safe place to hold your sadness. You will leave with skillsets to regain your “window of tolerance”, utilizing self-compassion and neuro-regulating skills to work with trauma and sadness to create a safe harbour within and to awaken a renewed sense of possibility.
Presenter: Gael Belden MA, Mythology and Depth Psychology; Storyteller + Mindfulness and Compassion Educator, University of California LA Mindfulness and Awareness Research Center.
WORKSHOP 3 Towards Cultural and Social Healing
Australia: Saturday 31 October 2020, 10.30am – 12.30pm AEDT
USA: Friday October 30 2020, 4.30pm – 6.30pm Pacific Time
Drawing on stories of practice, interwoven with ideas and theories from community development and memory-for-justice work, this workshop explores some of the wisdom of cultural and social healing practices. Starting with recognition that distress and trauma plays out through the social body and cultural tissue of groups / communities / organizations, in small group dialogue we will explore collective healing practices. Examples from work in Australia with refugees, South Africa in development practice and Vanuatu in peaceful community work consider how to sing up the cultural archives of groups who have been marginalized recovering the lost narratives that can support personal and structural healing.
Presenter: Dr Peter Westoby Director, Community Praxis Co-op; practitioner, Hummingbird House; Visiting Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa; author, Soul, Community & Social Change and other titles.
optional class understanding archetypes
You may also choose to attend the optional pre-workshop class, recommended as preparation for this series:
Understanding Archetypes – Perspectives, Patterns & Fields
Australia: Saturday 10 October 2020, 10am – 11.30am AEDT
USA: Friday 9 October 2020, 4.00pm – 5.30pm PST
Presented by Dr Suzanne Cremen
Details and bookings here.
What people have said about Life Artistry workshops & courses
"There is a lot of material floating about these days around spirituality, psychology and the soul. But what made this weekend seminar unique for me was the rigour, scholarship and lived soulfulness of each of the presenters. The content was trustworthy and had a depth I could sink into…. I have come away with a new sensibility or perspective with which to engage my psychic life. Thank you for creating a space for such a quality exchange." – Susie, Academic Researcher
"Thank you for the brilliant seminars this year. I appreciate the engaging content, the quality of speakers and the sacredness of the space that we are embraced and held in."
– Jo Mawdsley, Career Educator & Counsellor
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TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP SERIES
Workshops will be conducted via Zoom with pre-readings and some supplemental materials provided. Access to a recording will be available to registrants for 1 month following the workshop.
Fee for all 3 Workshops in the ‘Healing Trauma, Re-imagining the Future’ series (17, 24 & 31 October 2020) is AU$195 ($185 Jung Society members, $165 concession) or US$145 (October 16, 23 & 30, USA)
Pre-workshop Class 10 October 2020 – AU$40 or US$30 (October 9, USA)
A limited number of partial scholarships may be available for people who would benefit from this workshop series and are unable to participate for financial reasons. If this applies to you, please contact us to apply.
To register please 1) complete the Workshop Application Form and 2) arrange payment below. A confirmation email and Zoom links will follow.
* Life Artistry's Standard Terms for the provision of educational services are available here.
Payment
Australia, New Zealand and Singapore: 3 Workshop Series
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore: Pre-workshop Class
United States and Rest of World: Workshop Series and Pre-workshop Class options
Payments may also be made by direct deposit or SWIFT transfer to: BSB 313 140 (Bank Australia, Kew, Victoria, Australia); Account 14073170; Title – eContent t/a Life Artistry.
Cancellation policy:
AU$25 / US$20 fee applies to all refunds
No refund available after 15 October 2020