Fear of the Future

Course Description

Fear of the future is one of the most pressing emotional challenges of our time. With rapid technological change, climate instability, and social fragmentation, many of us feel overwhelmed by uncertainty. 

In this timely and thought-provoking course, Robert Bosnak draws on his rich experience. His knowledge from depth psychology, alchemy, and historical insight helps participants explore the fear of the future. Through this course you will learn the psychological flexibility to engage creatively with a rapidly changing world. 

Bosnak examines the deep psychological structures behind our resistance to change. He will discuss the nostalgia for a lost past, the pull toward authoritarian certainty, the dread of being replaced and other aspects. 

He also brings a unique historical perspective, exploring moments when fear and upheaval reshaped the world. One striking example is the Great Migration of the 4th century, when Attila the Hun began moving westward due to climate change in Central Asia, triggering massive cultural and political transformations across Europe.

Although the Great Migration took place over 1,600 years ago, it mirrors some of today’s pressing issues: climate change, migration, and cultural anxiety. 

In those times, the Romans feared the ‘barbarians’. This resonates with societies grappling with similar fears; the fear of cultural loss. In the Roman Empire, many believed the world was ending due to external threats. 

Robert Bosnak discusses how apocalyptic thinking often emerges in times of such uncertainty. Fears evoke a sense of impending doom. This fantasy happens in each turbulent time. ‘Apocalypse’ literally means ‘revelation’, the breakdown of one world and the emergence of a new one. 

Through embodied imagination, dreamwork, and reflection on historical cycles, this course helps participants develop adaptive versatility: the psychological flexibility to engage creatively with a rapidly changing world. By weaving together past and present, the personal and collective, Bosnak offers another way to relate to the future. 

Whether you are grappling with personal uncertainty or the broader anxieties of our age, this course provides insights to face the future with clarity, resilience, and imagination.

The fear of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and especially the moment it will be more intelligent than humans, will be explored with the use of Artificial Emotional Intelligence developed by the presenter’s company Attune Media Labs, PBC.

This course is ideal for:

• Anyone feeling overwhelmed by today’s world and seeking deeper, more imaginative ways to respond
• Therapists and counselors interested in applying depth psychology and (embodied) imagination in their work
• Professionals in tech, healthcare, or policy facing systemic change
• People wanting to build psychological resilience in uncertain times
• Artists, writers, and creatives that want to be inspired by Jungian psychology, history, and dreams

Course Overview

Robert Bosnak’s live classes are immersive, spacious, and thought-provoking. In each 90-minute session, he invites participants into deep exploration. 

He opens with reflections on a theme, drawing from history, psychology, and philosophy, then weaves in practical work with dreams and embodied imagination. 

There’s time for discussion, questions, and active engagement. Rather than providing fixed answers, Bosnak encourages new ways of seeing and responding to complex inner and outer realities. It’s about learning to stay present with deep change, and discovering your own authentic responses to an uncertain world.