Resource Hub for the
Certificate in Depth Practices
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This page is offered as a resource for you as we walk through these ideas and cultivate these practices.
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Intro to the Depth Sensibility & Archetypal Approach
Topics Covered Include:
*Our Context Collectively and in Depth Psychology
*Approved Ways and Sources of Knowing
*The Transpersonal Psyche
*Personal and Collective Conscious & Unconscious
*Dialogue Between Known and Unknown
*The Living Image and Imagination
*Anima Mundi
*Unloading the Personal Realm
*Everything Belongs:Befriending the Unbidden Visitors
Practices:
*Active Imagination
*Noticia, Sacred Silence, & Wandering
*Befriending Unbidden Visitors
Dream Tending
Topics Covered Include:
*The Dream as Living Image
*An Overview of a Depth and Archetypal Approach to Dream
*Association
*Amplification
*Animation
*Somatic Work with Dreams
*Working with Horrific Images
Practices:
*Dream Tending: Individual
*Dream Tending: In group setting
Archetypal Theory
Topics Covered Include:
*Overview of Jung's Archetypal Theory
*Archetype: Definition and Description
*Archetype per se & Archetypal Image
*Psychoid Nature of Archetypes (both spirit and matter)
*Metaphoric Approach
*Dangers of Literalization
Practices:
*Noticing, naming, and engaging with archetypal patterns in daily life
Story, Myth, & The Art of Asking Questions
Topics Covered Include:
*Psyche Speaks in Images
*The Multiple, Dynamic, and Relational Nature of Myth
*Archetype per se & Archetypal Image
*Metaphoric Approach, cont.
* Weaving Story into Life and Work
*The Art of Asking Questions
Practices:
*Working with Stories
*Telling Stories
*Asking Questions That Open & Guide
Mythic Figures
Topics Covered Include:
*Metaphoric Sensibility, cont
*Myth as Root Metaphor
*Personifying
*Artemis: exploring this mythic figure
Practices:
*Working with Mythic Figures as constellations of experiences
*Recognizing our daily experiences as encounters with these figures
Personal Myth
Topics Covered Include:
*What is personal myth?
*Stories vs. Mythology of our Lives
*Ways of Exploring and Discovering our personal myths
*Emerging Mythologies
Practices:
*Writing your life as a fairy tale
*Playing with some of your foundational stories
Body as Wild & Holy Being
Topics Covered Include:
*Personal Stories of the Body
*Collective Stories of the Body
*Somatic Unconscious
*Knowing of and through the Body
*Body love/Body Image, etc.
Practices:
*One Song Authentic Movement
*Moving Between Postures
*Dream Tending through movement
*Movement & Active Imagination
*Five Rhythms
Earth as Wild & Holy Being
Topics Covered Include:
*Personal and Collective Stories about our relationship with the Earth
*Language and More-than-human Nature
*Overview of Ecopsychology
*Medicine Wheel Practice
Practices:
*Medicine Walk
*Recognizing our daily experiences as encounters with these figures
Synchronicity
Topics Covered Include:
*Overview of Jung's theory
*Examples of synchronicities
*Making meaning, how we relate with synchronicities
*Synchronicity and the New Sciences
*Synchronicity and Spirituality
Practices:
*Ways of paying attention
*Recognizing synchronicities in daily life
The Archetype of Divination
Topics Covered Include:
*Overview of this archetype
*Synchronicity as the "seat of divination"
*Examples
*Making meaning of divination
*Cultivating the practices
Practices:
*Playing with the divinatory arts
Complexes & Shadow
Topics Covered Include:
*Overview of Complex Theory
*Characteristics of Complexes
*Overview of Shadow and Shadow work
*Personal Complexes
*Cultural/Collective Complexes
Practices:
*Practice identifying complexes personally and collectively
Ritual
Topics Covered Include:
*Overview of ritual: practice, function, and meaning
*Examples of rituals
*Personal and collective rituals
Practices:
*Craft personal ritual
*Craft collective ritual
The Depth Approach to the Sacred
Topics Covered Include:
*Overview of Depth Approach
*Exploring the word "numinous"
*Spirituality and complexes
*Spirituality and genetic makeup, archetypal constitution, and personal psychology
Practices:
*Explore own experiences of the numinous
*Identify rituals and practices for own daily living
Readings
Exploring our Context
Articles and Chapters
James Hollis, Archetypal Imagination
Coppin & Nelsom, The Philosophical Commitments of Depth Psychology
Suggested Books
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung
On the Nature of the Psyche, Carl Jung
The Symbolic Quest, Edward Whitmont
Active Imagination
Suggested Books
Jung on Active Imagination, Joan Chodorow
Encounters with Soul, Barbara Hannah
The Archetypal Approach
Thomas Moore, Mythic Sensibility
James Hillman, Monotheism or Polytheism
James Hillman, Monotheism or Polytheism 25 yr. later
James Hillman, Inquiry Into the Image
James Hillman, Further Notes on Image
Suggested Books
Revisioning Psychology, James Hillman
The Myth of Analysis, James Hillman
Dreams
Stephen Aizenstat, Introduction
Stephen Aizenstat, Ch. One Cont
Stephen Aizenstat, Assc, Amp, Animation
Stephen Aizenstat, Working with Nightmares
Carl Jung, On the Nature of Dreams
Carl Jung, The Practical Use of Dream Analysis
Patricia Berry, An Approach to the Dream
Suggested Books
Dream Tending, Stephen Aizenstat
Archetypes
Carl Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
Peter Bishop, The Vegetable Soul
Myth and Mythic Figures
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Bluebeard
Christine Downing, Preface to Goddess
Joseph Campbell, Myth and Dream
Christine Downing, Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Suggested Books
Goddess, Christine Downing
Pagan Meditations, Ginette Paris
Pagan Grace, Ginette Paris
Body as Wild and Holy Being
McNeely, Body Therapy & Depth Psychology
Halprin, Returning to Health Through Dance, Movement, & Imagery
Landale, The Use of Imagery in Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
Suggested Books
Awakening Somatic Intelligence, Risa F. Kaparo
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
Sweat Your Prayers, Gabrielle Roth
Earth as Wild and Holy Being
The Four Shields, Foster and Little
Natural World & Therapeutic Process, Steven Foster
Suggested Books
The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram
Radical Ecopsychology, Andrew Fisher
Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin
All things Mary Oliver
Synchronicity
On Divination and Synchronicity, Marie Louise von Franz
Suggested Books
Synchronicity: Nature & Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, Joseph Cambray
Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, myth, and the Trickster, Combs & Holland
The Archetype of Divination
The Divination of Certainty, Thomas Moore
Listening to the Oracle, Dianne Skafte
Complexes & Shadow
Suggested Books
The Symbolic Quest: Basic Concepts of Analytical Psychology, Edward Whitmont
Complex/Archetype/Symbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Jolande Jacobi
The Depth Approach to the Sacred
The Idea of the Holy, Rudolph Otto
Suggested Books
The Psyche and the Sacred, Lionel Corbett
A Religion of One's Own, Thomas Moore
The Awakened Brain, Lisa Miller
The Open-Focus Brain, Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins