ON-DEMAND COURSE

Individuation through Creativity and Art Making

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Susan Rowland
TOPIC
Jungian
Format
3 class course
DURATION
3 hours

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Find your wholeness and your creativity right where you’re stuck

Individuation is about becoming whole. Creativity is about expressing what’s inside us that hasn’t found form yet. Susan Rowland explains how images and impulses from the unknown parts of ourselves are vital to both individuation and creativity. She describes how images and stories from the psyche can reconnect us with what we are split off from, both within us and in the world. As she tells us about the myths of Sky Father and Earth Mother, and later, the stages of alchemy, Susan teaches us how to find the balance between technique and inspiration. This is how we move from being stuck to creating art. It’s also how we become more whole.

Course Description

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In this course Susan Rowland shares the good news that the creative work we want to do is waiting for us behind the wall of our stuckness. All we have to do is find the door. Opening this door also helps us heal our inner divisions as we reconnect with parts of ourselves that have been split off.

Using the practice Carl Jung developed of active imagination as well as the 12 transformative stages of alchemy, Susan looks at ways we can be hospitable to the images hidden in our psyche and help them take shape in the world. The image may find its body in any artistic medium; writing, painting, music, sculpting, dancing and crafts. 

Susan presents the myths of the Sky Father creator and the Earth Mother Goddess as two different ways of looking at how knowledge and art are made; one based on the separation of subject and object, the other based on relationship and immersion in the in-spiritedness of psyche in the world of matter. We learn how our over-emphasis of the scientific world view has left us moderns split off from our creative spontaneity. Susan talks about how we need to approach our art making as well as our inner work toward wholeness with both attitudes, at times stepping back into separateness and at other times flowing into what seems Other to us. 

This course is for you if you’ve already spent some time on your inner journey and want to learn about how the processes of individuation and making art are intertwined. 

The theoretical framework of this course is punctuated with an exercise in active imagination and an in-depth application of alchemical phases to the creative process. Learn from Susan how to engage with the psyche and how to overcome stuckness in your personal and artistic life.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • You want to learn what active imagination is and how to use it to bring more creativity into your life. 
  • You want to come up with examples of how to use active imagination and the lens of alchemical stages to contain your creative process and personal journey.
  • You want to theoretically understand how entering the alchemical processes of burning, dissolving, putrefaction, fermentation and others can help you through your creative process and personal stuckness.
  • You wish to recognize the influence of Sky Father versus Earth Mother creation myths in our culture, and how that may have affected our own psychic dividedness and search for wholeness.
  • You want to understand individuation as a path that connects us to the world and others, not just as the realization of a separate individual. You want to learn how the work of individuation and the creative process of making art stimulate and strengthen each other.
  • You want to recognize the role inner images have as the source of artistic creativity and in bringing each person closer to wholeness and healing inner divisions.

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.
3 video & 3 audio recordings
Handout
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

susan rowland 

Susan Rowland (PhD) teaches Jung and creative practice at Pacifica Graduate Institute on the MA Humanities and doctoral programs. She is the author of ten books on Jung, the feminine, literature and the arts.

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