LITERATURE + LECTURES

The Jung Center of Houston presents Jung, Spirituality, and the Body.  Learn about the individuation process and the significance of working with archetypal embodiment in this lecture and active imagination workshop by analyst Erica Lorentz.

Jung, Spirituality, and the Body, Friday, July 17, 7:30 - 9 pm
Investigate the importance of witnessing and containing archetypal energies when they become embodied and emerge in our lives. The individuation process asks us to return to our personal unconscious and our archetypal roots. We are familiar with personal unconscious work, but Jung also asks us to honor and understand archetypal forces that push into consciousness. Archetypal experiences are often pathologized, though they have been experienced, observed, and discussed since the beginning of human consciousness. How can we have a creative relationship with them?

Active Imagination: Listening to our Inner Stories, Saturday, July 18, 10 am - 4 pm (1 hour break for lunch)
Experience active imagination, Jung's method of attending the unconscious. In active imagination, our conscious aware self invites a meaningful dialogue with some part of our unconscious psyche. This dialogue can take place through any expressive medium -- Jung used play, writing, painting, stone sculpting, and building Bollingen. In this workshop, we will each gently invite this dialogue with ourselves using a non-structured meditative exploration with drawing, writing, and movement.

No experience with these mediums is necessary. Curiosity and a desire to attune to one's inner world is all that is important. When we allow the unconscious to speak in this manner, our soul story can begin to be heard. Insight into our psychology and spiritual path naturally emerges without interpretation. When we share together, each participant's experience will be treated with respect. Thus together we learn to honor our own and other's unique and crucial personal and spiritual paths.

Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, ADTR, Jungian analyst, is in private practice in Houston and is an LPC supervisor. She has taught and supervised on the graduate level. Since 1980, she has lectured and facilitated workshops in the United States and Canada.

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