A collective of energies, motives, and agendas operate outside of your conscious control, and they can often clash with the values you hold dear. These energies, which Jung identified as the personal or the collective shadow, can be uncomfortable to acknowledge, but they present an invitation to greater consciousness, ethical sensitivity, and wholeness. Guided by Jungian analyst James Hollis, author of Why Good People Do Bad Things, you learn to bring a new level of awareness to your own personal shadow. Through presentations, discussions, experiential exercises, and personal journaling, you discover that your shadow represents not just the enemy, but the rescuer within. As you engage your shadow, you repair inner fractures, explore what forces are working against you and why, and gain greater self-awareness and humbling self-knowledge. Counseling and mental health professionals can use this powerful process to help their clients.
Upon completion of the training participants will be able to:
- describe the richness of Jung's concept of "the Shadow"
- demonstrate an awareness of the permutations of Shadow material, whether pernicious in a person's life, or enlarging
- utilize a more differentiated understanding of the problem of evil, and how it affects clients at universal, societal, and personal level
- describe the dynamics of sociopathic symptom formation
- implement exercises to bring repressed client material to the surface
- demonstrate a deeper understanding of the role of suffering in the development of character
- describe to others your own counter-transference Shadow and how it infiltrates the therapeutic container.
Bring a notebook and pen. Recommended reading: Hollis, Why Good People Do Bad Things and What Matters Most.
James Hollis, PhD, a Jungian analyst for more than 30 years, is director of Jungian Studies for Saybrook Graduate School of San Francisco. He is author of 13 books, including Why Good People Do Bad Things and What Matters Most. Hollis maintains a private practice in Houston, Texas. jameshollis.net |
