LEARNING PATH

Fairy Tales

Fairy tales express the deepest patterns of the psyche. Learning their symbols helps us recognize unconscious dynamics in daily life and dreams, beyond personal history.

A CURATED PATH PERFECT FOR COACHES AND ASPIRING COACHES

Individuation means facing your history and taking responsibility for your choices.
Jungian coaching applies this by exposing patterns, questioning old roles, challenging excuses,
and guiding clients to live a life in alignment with their Soul’s desires.

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WHO IS THIS LEARNING PATH FOR?

This learning path is for anyone who senses that imagination carries wisdom and that stories reflect our inner life. This path is ideal for anyone drawn to psychology, mythology, or personal development. 

Exploring fairy tales through a Jungian lens invites both reflection and wonder. It helps you see your own life as part of a timeless human story.
People drawn to imagination, story, and symbolism.
Anyone seeking meaning through image and story.
Therapists, teachers, and creatives who use stories to understand human experience.
Coaches, therapists, and creatives exploring the archetypal patterns

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Fairy tales reveal how the psyche works toward balance and wholeness.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN 

Through this fairy tale learning path you will learn:
  • Why fairy tales are considered the purest expressions of the collective psyche.
  • To recognize archetypal themes and symbolic patterns in the lives of people today.
  • Ways to interpret fairy tales psychologically.
  • How stories can illuminate your own life journey and inner challenges.
  • The role of imagination in transformation and healing.

INCLUDED COURSES

Explore the 4 courses included in this pathway.

Jonathan Young

The Soul of Fairy tales

The Soul of Fairy Tales

In this 3 class course, Jonathan Young finds new life in 3 classic fairy tales. He points to the archetypal patterns of the soul that we find as we journey through the stories. 


Learn from other earnest seekers in the fairy tale woods. Recognize the call, allow the transformation to happen and take up the return to your village through folklore.

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James Hollis

A Jungian perspective to fairy tales

A Jungian Perspective on Fairy Tales

Explore the world of psychological insights tucked away in fairy tales in this 8-class audio course with James Hollis. Dive deep into how myths and fairy tales are more than just stories—they’re windows into the human psyche. By revisiting these so-called children’s stories as adults, we find dramatic illustrations of contemporary adult neuroses – and the agenda for growth to which they bring us. Beyond the surface, these stories reflect the healing strategies of the psyche and offer the keys to the kingdom of wholeness. 

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Lionel Corbett, Tina Stromsted, Dariane Pictet, Machiel Klerk, Akke-Jeanne Klerk

Fairy Tales 

Fairy Tales

We invited 5 different experienced teachers to talk about one fairy tale each. In this course you will not only learn several specific fairy tales with their unique underlying symbolic forms, but also each of the teachers will offer suggestions on how to work with fairy tales in general. This is an invaluable skill to work with the unconscious, and is also applicable to mythology, dreams, and a symbolic reading of daily life. 

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Ashok Bedi, Colin Campbell, Dariane Pictet, Heyong Shen, Ken James, Megumi Yama

Fairy tales from around the world

Fairy tales from around the world

Journey through five fairy tales from around the world, guided by Jungian analysts and storytellers. We will discover timeless wisdom about the human psyche. Explore themes of love, purpose, and transformation across cultures. This soulful course invites you into symbolic stories that awaken inner knowing and reveal our shared human longing for wholeness.

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Meet your teachers

Jonathan Young

Jonathan Young PhD is a psychologist and storyteller who worked with Joseph Campbell at seminars. He has lectured on fairytales and film studies at Oxford and Harvard. As a professor, Dr. Young organized and chaired the Mythological Studies program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. He was founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives ~ and the James Hillman Collection. He is a featured commentator for several long-running documentary series on the History Channel. He is now with the Center for Story and Symbol in Santa Barbara.

Lionel Corbett

Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he teaches depth psychology.

Dariane Pictet

Dariane is a Jungian Analyst born in Geneva, Switzerland. She attended Drama School in Paris, worked as a Poetry Editor then trained as a Psychotherapist.

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 licensed mental health therapist, with a specialty in working with dreams. He is also an international speaker and dedicated social entrepreneur. 

Akke-Jeanne Klerk

Akke-Jeanne is Jung Platform’s co-founder & Jungian Coach. Her background consists of a Master’s in Psychology, and several years of training in Jungian Analysis. She is the author of ‘Psychology of Heartbreak’ (in Dutch) and has offered trainings on coaching for over a decade.

James Hollis

James Hollis, Ph.D., is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He is also a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform since 2016, and one of the best Jungian teachers of our age.

Heyong Shen

Heyong Shen, is a member of IAAP and ISST, founding president of the Chinese Federation for Analytical Psychology and Sandplay Therapy, and the first president of the China Society for Analytical Psychology.

Ken James

Kenneth James, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Chicago, Illinois. He received a Ph.D. in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University, and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Along the way, he studied vocal music at the American Conservatory of Music, and learned a modality of music therapy known as The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music at the Institute for Consciousness and Music in Baltimore, Maryland.

Megumi Yama

Megumi Yama, Ph.D., is presently a Specially-appointed professor of the faculty of Humanities in Kyoto University of Advanced Science, where she teaches depth psychology and clinical psychology.

Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell, a distinguished sangoma and practitioner of traditional African medicine, has dedicated his life to bridging indigenous healing practices with contemporary society.

Ashok Bedi

Ashok Bedi is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and a Training Analyst at the Jung Institute of Chicago. Trained in India, the UK, and the US, he is interested in the frontiers of spirituality and healing and where the mind, body, soul and spirit meet.

WHAT YOU WILL GET IN THIS LEARNING PATH

Four courses on fairy tales
Lifetime access to revisit content anytime
Certificate of completion for each course and talk
Guided instructions from respected Jungian and depth psychology teachers
A meaningful perspective for listening and analyzing these stories
Access to Jung Platform’s easy to use learning platform

WHAT OUR LEARNERS SAY

"I began to see my own story reflected in the old tale I loved as a child."
Severine
"My clients often recognize their own life themes in these stories and gain new ideas about how to approach their challenges differently."
Uma
I have learned a lot about what it means to be human since I started studying fairy tales.
Mei

HOW THIS PATH CAN HELP YOU

This fairy tales learning path reveals the psyche's most spontaneous expressions of the archetypal patterns that live within us all. When we attend to these stories, we witness the human journey. We see our struggles, transformations, and encounters with mystery. All of this is told in symbolic form.
  • Recognize repeating patterns that are part of the life journey.
  • Develop imagination and find new ways of thinking and problem-solving.
  • Find meaning as tales show that challenges are part of the transformation process.
  • Gain emotional insight through understanding archetypal figures. 
  • Connect to others, as you gain compassion for other people’s stories and the common human struggles.