LEARNING PATH

Creativity

Individuation requires creative engagement with the unconscious. Creativity gives form to inner images and conflicts. Through creative work, we discover meaning, take responsibility for our lives, and align more deeply with the Self.

FOR Creative living

This learning path explores creativity as the psyche’s way of expressing the desire for wholeness. To honor your creative calling is to live in relationship with your genius, the unseen companion shaping your life’s meaning.

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WHO IS THIS LEARNING PATH FOR?

This learning path is for anyone who wants to embody and give form to their creative spirit. 
People who feel called to live more creatively.
Anyone seeking to understand what lies beneath the surface of daily life. 
Therapists, coaches, and helpers supporting clients who want to express themselves.
Those drawn to Jungian or mythic approaches that help give expression to what is stirred within.

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Our creative genius, the innate pattern or daemon within you seeks expression through image, word, movement, and form. The individuation process is about participation in this unfolding mystery. Creativity is one of the most authentic ways to serve the soul. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN 

Through this learning path you will learn:
  • How to recognize the voice of your creative genius or daemon.
  • How creativity and individuation are deeply connected. 
  • Ways to engage imagination 
  • Ways to integrate creative insight into everyday life

INCLUDED COURSES

Explore the 3 courses included in this pathway.

Michael Meade, Tina Stromsted, Machiel Klerk, Jean Houston, Thomas Moore, and many more.

Embody your creative spirit

Embody Your Creative Spirit

In the twelve interviews in this course, our world-class teachers will help you connect with your creative spirit. Mentors from different traditions come together in this course to provide perspectives and practical tools to deepen your journey. They will show you ways to give expression to your authentic self. 

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Susan Rowland

Individuation through creativity and art making

Individuation through Creativity and Art Making

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. 

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Dennis Patrick Slattery

The wisdom in deep creativity

The Wisdom in Deep Creativity

Dennis Slattery is a prized teacher and author on mythology and creativity. In this course, Dennis shows us how creativity is an attitude. He puts us on the trail of where we might find inspiration in our lives. Listening to Dennis we feel readier to let go of what’s holding us back so something new can take shape. You will learn the principles of a deep creativity that brings your unique voice and vision into the world.Get closer to your inspiration. Bring yourself into the world.

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Meet your teachers

Michael Meade

Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology and is one of the greatest depth psychological teachers of our time.

Tina Stromsted

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, LPCC, BC-DMT, RSME/T is a Jungian psychoanalyst, Board Certified Dance/ Movement therapist, and Somatic psychotherapist and educator. 

Machiel Klerk

Machiel Klerk is a social entrepreneur, licensed mental health therapist, international speaker, dream worker, and published author.

He has been a mental health therapist since 2006, and currently has an online private practice. Machiel is fascinated by healing traditions. Next to obtaining a master’s degree on counseling psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, he studied extensively Jungian Psychology. 

Jean Houston

Jean Houston, Ph.D., scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. Dr. Houston is noted for her ability to combine a deep knowledge of history, culture, new science, spirituality and human development into her teaching. 

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore published his classic Care of the Soul in 1992 that sold several million copies. Since then he has written twenty books on spirituality, sexuality, myth, religion and depth psychology.

Robert Bosnak

Robert Bosnak, PsyA, is a Jungian psychoanalyst who graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1977. He pioneered the Embodied Imagination® method, that is being applied by practitioners worldwide. Robert Bosnak is a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform.

Stephen Aizenstat

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., has devoted his life to understanding the profound wisdom and healing power that exists within each of us. He is Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Founder and director of Ligmincha International, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a well-known teacher and meditation master in the Bön Buddhist tradition of Tibet. He is dedicated to the study and the practice of the teachings of the Bon tradition. He has a gift to make this tradition available to a large public.

Barbara McAfee

Master voice coach, Barbara McAfee, has spent decades supporting people from all walks of life to live more fully expressed lives. Her book, Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence (Berrett-Koehler Publishers), guides people to find their voice, whatever that means to them.

Andrew Harvey

Andrew Harvey is Founder & Director of the Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.

Dennis Patrick Slattery

Dennis Patrick Slattery Ph.D., has been teaching for more than 54 years, the last 27 of which have been in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus. 

Alia Aizenstat

Alia Aizenstat is a licensed depth psychotherapist, speaker, and educator both locally and internationally.

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.

WHAT YOU WILL GET IN THIS LEARNING PATH

Three depth psychological courses
Lifetime access to revisit content anytime
Certificate of completion for each course and talk
Guided instructions from respected teachers
A meaningful approach to a creative life
Access to Jung Platform’s easy to use learning platform

WHAT OUR LEARNERS SAY

"Mosten often, I give expression to whatever wants to emerge."
Louise
"I realized creativity is not about talent. It’s about listening."
Michael
"My creative blocks started making sense. I see them as messages from the parts of me I ignored before."
Aude

HOW THIS PATH CAN HELP YOU

Each time we engage creatively, we enter into dialogue with the unconscious. We give space to images, feelings, and intuitions to express themselves.

A depth approach invites us to see that what we create (whether a painting, a meal, or a moment of insight) is the soul’s language made visible. When we honor our creative impulses, we cultivate a more authentic relationship with ourselves and the world.
  • By giving space to your creative spirit, you begin to reconnect with what feels most alive in you. 
  • Work with imagination as a source of guidance as well as a source of inspiration.
  • Experience how creative expression brings healing, and meaning in your life.
  • Translate the language of the soul into image, word, or movement
  • Give expression to what was once hidden can find its form in the world.