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Soul’s Body: Cultivating Creative Resilience
April 24 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
“What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread its branches against a future sky”? ~ David Whyte (From River Flow: New and Selected Poems, 2004)
In these polarized, fast-paced times, many of us feel the strain in our bodies, emotions, and relationships. This lecture reflects on how we absorb the shock of collective upheaval—and how, by recognizing these effects, we can cultivate resilience, deepen presence, and take more conscious, informed action. Drawing on Jung’s depth psychology and Tina Stromsted’s integrative Soul’s Body approach, we will turn toward fairy tales as symbolic maps of crisis and renewal, focusing on The Handless Maiden as a powerful story of the wounded feeling function, betrayal, and the journey toward empowerment and wholeness.
We will explore how this tale speaks not only to women, but to men and to all who seek to reclaim their feelings, intuition, and agency amid destabilizing circumstances. Through Jung’s method of Active Imagination—engaging inner images through movement, creative arts, and embodied attention—we will listen for ways to access deeper inner resources. Together, we will reflect on how attuning to embodied wisdom and practicing respectful, receptive exchange can nourish empathy, compassion, and courageous, value-driven responses in our shared world.
Related Workshop: Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, & Embodiment in Psychotherapy
TINA STROMSTED, PhD, LMFT, BC-DMT, SEP, is a Jungian analyst, Dance/movement therapist, somatic psychotherapy educator, and author. Director of Soul’s Body® Center and co-founder of the Authentic Movement Institute, she teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the Jung Platform, Inspirees Institute, the Marion Woodman Foundation, and at universities, conferences, and healing centers internationally. With roots in theater and dance and 45 years of clinical experience in hospitals, community mental health, and private practice, Tina’s numerous publications and webinars explore the integration of body, mind, psyche, soul, community, and nature in healing and transformation. Tina’s private practice is in San Francisco with international virtual consultation. www.
Her new book Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, & Embodiment in Psychotherapy, is a rich resource for those drawn to Jungian depth work, somatic and movement practices, body–psyche–soul–community healing, engagement with nature, embodied spirituality, and cultivating a vital, meaningful life. If you’d like to continue to deepen your explorations, Routledge is currently offering a 20% discount on the book, with free shipping. Please click here and use the code 25ESA4 at checkout.
