Change Your Story, Change Your Life

All of us have stories about our lives. This lecture focuses on how we can change our lives by changing how we relate to our stories. We can use tools from shamanism and Jungian psychology to step outside of our daily routines and review our life stories. Then, we can use shamanic and Jungian strategies to make changes, bring our spiritual practices into everyday life, and manifest a new story.

1. Discuss the problem of being “stuck” in our stories.
2. Describe practices for ascertaining “what is” in our current story, what we would like it to be, obstacles to change, and ways to relate to transpersonal realms to gain energy and information to make changes.
3. Discuss what shamanism is about and the usefulness of Jungian languaging.

Learning Objectives:

1. Become familiar with ways to engage our current story and dream a new one into being using our rational and nonrational minds
2. Become familiar with ways to engage transpersonal realms using shamanic and Jungian practices to gain energy and information for change
3. Better understand elements of shamanism and Jungian psychology and how they can be used in the practice of clinical social work