Individuation | The unfolding Self
led by Ireland’s leading Jungian Psychologist Jasbinder Garnermann
Saturday 26th August 2023, 12pm-5pm UK / Ireland time
Online via Zoom - (The video recording will also be included)
Registration fee €120
Summary -
Jung often compared the spiral process of individuation to the growth of a tree. Just as the tree embodies its life-story in its very structure and anatomy, we too grow around obstacles, lean towards the sun, and draw nourishment from our ‘muddy routes’.
Beneath the sudden fits and starts of our developmental spurts, the great ground plan of our destiny unfolds slowly but surely. Individuation is the natural flowering of every life organism, but for homo sapiens it becomes a more complicated affair due to our divided nature and the complex adaptations required by societal and cultural norms.
Our real self can go to ground and instead our false self acts to camouflage us in the colours of consensus reality. This split activates the archetype of the Self, the central ordering principal which, like a magnet, draws to itself what belongs and rejects what does not.
We begin to have confidence in our uniqueness and to value our life-history.
‘The path to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings’, said Jung. We begin to see purpose and meaning even in our mistakes and disappointments. In fact it is these stings that pierce our heart, implicating us in life and demanding fresh adaptations and creative solutions.
It is this engagement with every aspect of our life and times that paradoxically shifts the centre of personality from the ego to the Self. This does not mean that we should seek to eliminate the ego, quite the opposite. Only a strong, healthy ego can act in service of the Self, an ego which does not respond with fear, phobias, and defenses to the challenges of fate, but is able to draw upon the strength and fearlessness of the Self and its integral place in the Cosmos.
‘O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?’
from Among School Children by W.B. Yeats
The Process of Individuation in Our Dreams
Initial dreams (the Call)
Identifying the opposites in our lives. What is the major conflict that runs like a thread through our whole life (from minor to major manifestations)?
What is the archetype that can heal this conflict?
What are the complexes involved?
How do these conflicts, opposites, and archetypes appear in our dreams?
Growth Direction in dreams
How does the Self appear in our dreams?
The booking fee includes the full Video Recording of the seminar, CPD points, and the Certificate of Attendance
Read some of Jasbinder's articles:
Rescuing the Feminine article in the IAHIP
Song of The Soul - The Transforming Power of Dreams
False Self, Real Self - The Games We Play With Our Identity
Embracing the Shadow
The Mother Complex
Emotional Child Abuse article in the IAHIP
An Introduction to Dreams
Dreams (Published in Network Magazine)
Dreams For Living
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