2023 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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Module One
Week 1-5
Intro to the Depth Sensibility
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
Module Two
Weeks 6- 10
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
Module Three:
Weeks 11-12
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
Module Four
Weeks 13-16
Story, Myth, & The Art of Asking Questions
Story
Topics Covered Include:
*Psyche Speaks in Images
*The Multiple, Dynamic, and Relational Nature of Myth
*Archetype per se & Archetypal Image
*Story of the Handless Maiden
*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
Module Five
Weeks 17-19
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
Module Six
Weeks 20-22
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
Module Seven
Weeks 23-26
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
Module Eight
Weeks 27-28
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
Readings
Exploring our Context
Articles and Chapters
James Hollis, Archetypal Imagination
Coppin & Nelsom, The Philosophical Commitments of Depth Psychology
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Suggested Books
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung
On the Nature of the Psyche, Carl Jung
The Symbolic Quest, Edward Whitmont
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Active Imagination
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Suggested Books
Jung on Active Imagination, Joan Chodorow
Encounters with Soul, Barbara Hannah
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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
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Suggested Books
Revisioning Psychology, James Hillman
The Myth of Analysis, James Hillman
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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
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Suggested Books
Dream Tending, Stephen Aizenstat
Archetypes
Carl Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
Peter Bishop, The Vegetable Soul
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Myth and Mythic Figures
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Bluebeard
Christine Downing, Preface to Goddess
Joseph Campbell, Myth and Dream
Christine Downing, Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Suggested Books
Goddess, Christine Downing
Pagan Meditations, Ginette Paris
Pagan Grace, Ginette Paris
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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
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Suggested Books
Awakening Somatic Intelligence, Risa F. Kaparo
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
Sweat Your Prayers, Gabrielle Roth
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Earth as Wild and Holy Being
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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
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