The Joy of Jungian Coaching

Talk Description

This talk is for those who sense that coaching can be more than performance metrics or goal-setting. It can be a soulful encounter with the mystery of being human. If you have ever felt drawn to Jungian psychology, with its attention to dreams, to archetypal patterns and inner contradictions, this class offers a gentle doorway in.

We will explore how Jung’s ideas, like the individuation process, shadow work, dreamwork, and myth, can be woven into coaching. This brings greater depth and meaning to the coaching practice. Rather than solving problems or fixing people, Jungian coaching invites us to ask: What is the soul asking for here? What is this challenge or crisis trying to awaken in us?

Jungian coach, Akke-Jeanne Klerk, will offer insights into how personal struggles can be seen as invitations from the psyche. These aren’t distractions from life; they are life trying to speak to us. When we meet clients in that place, coaching becomes an art form, a sacred conversation.

You will leave this class not only with a clearer sense of what Jungian coaching is, but with a simple, practice you can bring into your own work and life. Whether you’re a coach, a therapist, or simply someone seeking a deeper way to walk through the world, this talk is for you.

Come sit at the edge of the known and the unknown, and see what your own psyche might be ready to reveal.

This talk is ideal if you want to:

• Integrate Jungian concepts into your (coaching) conversations.
• Recognize the psychological significance of dreams and symptoms as inner guidance systems.
• Gain a new tool to do shadow work to help clients integrate disowned aspects of themselves.
• Reflect on your own relationship to joy as a foundation for guiding clients authentically.