ON-DEMAND COURSE

Bridges to Wholeness: Body, Psyche, Earth

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Melanie Starr Costello
TOPIC
Deep Insights
Format
4 Class Course
DURATION
4 hours

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Is it possible to experience psycho-spiritual wholeness while living in a socially divisive and environmentally fragmenting world?

This course helps participants locate within themselves culturally inherited patterns of alienation from body, soul, and earth. It then engages participants in pathways to healing, including methods for using mythic imagination, dreamwork, and a nature-based life review process.

Course Description

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This course envisages psycho-spiritual maturation as an ecology of soul. Dr. Costello portrays wholeness, not as a destination, but as a spiritual path that embraces the inextricable relationship between life and death principles and assents to Creation as mystery. She invites us to confront dominant cultural constructs that alienate us from the body and obstruct the psyche’s connection with the non-human world. In hope of redress, an alternative model of consciousness is proposed, one embracing a nature-based-symbolic attitude that reconnects us with our roots in nature, conjoining mind, soul, and cosmos.

Dr. Costello demonstrates how our environmental crisis and our collective fear of death stem from the same ideological root. She discusses our fear of change and our fear of loss – anxieties that stymie the spirit and inhibit growth. She explores how changes in our bodies and in our life-circumstances may be harnessed as a motive-force for reconnecting us to our roots in nature, opening us to mystery, and honing our intentions in regard to self, others, and our work in the world. 

Approaches to healing our severed roots in nature, including methods for using mythic imagination, dreamwork, and a nature-based life review process are demonstrated. Special attention is given to the recurrence of cosmological and elemental themes in dreams of individuals undergoing life-transition.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Identify culturally acquired mythic themes that form the backdrop to the way we experience the natural world.
  • Identify correspondences between outer world struggles and your inner life.
  • Acquire tools for locating unconscious patterns of perception that frustrate your sense of connection and belonging.
  • Formulate a coherent life-narrative - one that makes sense of seemingly senseless internal and external events that shape experience.
  • Deepen your awareness of the web of life as reflected in your own life experience.

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
4 video & 4 audio recordings
Companion Guide
Subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teachers

Melanie Starr Costello

Melanie Starr Costello, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist, historian, and graduate of the C.G. Jung Institut-Zurich, practices as a Jungian Analyst in the Greater Washington D.C. Metropolitan area.

Scholarships

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