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Dramas from the Deep: Active Imagination and Fairy Tale Work – a Playshop for Adults
November 18, 1995 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm PST
This workshop will focus on active imagination, storytelling and story writing. We will emphasize experiential work dealing with intra-personal, interpersonal and community issues. Through lecture, discussion, exercises, and story writing, we will seek to awaken a spirit of play in dealing with the unconscious, to discover our creative potentials for becoming whole, and to explore our individual places within larger communities. The exercises aim to identify obstacles to the flow of the unconscious, to help each of us decide when to push forward into the depths and when to turn back, and to discover and work with personal legends and myths that shape our lives. Please bring something to write with and some paper, as well as a “big” dream or image-one that is meaningful or puzzling. If you wish you may also bring something that can serve as a talisman of safety for your inner journeys-a special stone, an amulet, a picture or reminder of a loved one, even something soft and furry. Hopefully, you’ll take home some specific, playful tools for continuing inner work.
Related Lecture: Gifts of the Night: Ways of Working with Dreams
Allan B. Chinen, M.D., is the author of four books and the psychological and spiritual tasks of aging: In the Ever After, Once Upon a Midlife, Beyond the Hero, and Waking the World. Although retired from private practice to focus on writing, he continues to teach as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, on the voluntary faculty of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He Is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Born and raised in Hawaii, he obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford University, and completed his psychiatry residency and fellowship at University of California, San Francisco.
Karen Signell, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she teaches Active Imagination. She is the author of Wisdom of the Heart: Working with Women’s Dreams, which has been translated into Danish, French, German, and Japanese; she is co-author of Sandplay Studies: Origins, Theory, and Practice.