This group focuses on strategies for working with dreams. Concepts and principles of dream work are explored while formulating a personal approach to dream tending. Participants will learn how to remember their dreams and keep a dream journal, how to incubate a dream, and how to work with dreams to find guidance, enhance creativity, do problem solving, create and grow relationships, and to design a life of joy. We will look at creative dreams, lucid dreams, healing dreams, tribal dreams, out-of-body dreams, telepathic dreams, clairvoyant dreams, precognitive dreams, past life dreams, dreams within dreams, and spiritual dreams.
Film Studies Discussion Group
This group focuses on the analysis of popular film from a Jungian perspective. Concepts of archetypes, shadow, animus/anima, and a psychodynamic model for viewing film as a psychological tool for self exploration will be introduced. Participants will view the selected film together and a guided discussion will facilitate the exploration of the psychological messages in the medium.
Fairytale Study Discussion Group
This group focuses on the interpretation of a selected fairytale. Why have fairy tales persisted over the ages? Where do they come from? Why do they bewitch and beguile us? What do fairy tales offer us on our paths toward individuation? This course answers these questions. It equips participants to interpret the symbols and discover the archetypal patterns within fairy tales, and challenges them to write their own tale. Extensive commentaries on a selected fairy tale will reveal the complexity and dimension in seemingly simple stories.
Mythology Discussion Group
This group focuses on the in-depth interpretation of a selected myth. Mythology alerts us to the underlying patterns that govern our lives. Making conscious these patterns can assist us on the journey toward individuation. Participants may gain an understanding of how myths have been transformed through myriad cultures throughout time. Through the unpacking of a mythic pattern, participants may hope to acquire the ability to recognize the underlying similarities of human cultures as well as the wide range of variations. Our goal is to appreciate the validity of mythology in our current lives and open ourselves to the symbolic world.
Discussion Groups Format:
4 weeks
2 hours per week
$100.00
Limit to 8 participants
Call: Muriel McMahon to register 519 836 4042
We are surrounded by rhythm. The seasons, the migration of the animals, the rising and setting of the sun, all patterns of rhythm found in nature. One primal rhythm we humans all share is experienced before birth, through the heartbeat of our mother. This may be why drumming... has continued to address something that is integral and held deep within us, a universal rhythm at the center of the human spirit. ~ Mickey Hart
In many cultures there is a belief that the sound of the drum actually rearranges matter and spirit on the atomic level - correcting imbalances in emotion by bringing to the surface those feelings that require release. It is not surprising then that the drum has been the tool of the Shaman for all time ~ Robin Adnan Anders
Workshop Format:
(Three sessions including Saturday lunch, Sunday Break-fast, and all drum making materials and instruction)
