Write Your Undiscovered Self
One of the main founders of depth-psychology, Carl Gustav Jung proposes that what our rational minds takes for reality is only a partial view of what he calls ‘the real psychic facts’.
Deep beneath our everyday awareness, we all have an undiscovered self who is the creative, animating and healing inner life-force behind our intuition, imagination and dreams.
It is through learning to attune to the embodied wisdom of our undiscovered self that we can experience this deeper level of reality as an expansive cosmological web in which everything and everyone is connected. In this way, we can create the necessary conditions for living more fully, authentically and meaningfully.
Join Write Your Undiscovered Self - a five-week depth work programme led by Dr Rachel Newsome grounded in Jungian psychology - to learn how writing and imagination can be used as tools to access the unconscious, untether creativity and expand your sense of possibility.
Wednesday October 29 - Wednesday November 26
6.30pm - 8.30pm London Time
Early bird tickets available here
Over the five weeks you will have an opportunity to encounter your wild unconscious through an introductory exploration of your creative inner child, the embodied wisdom of your great self and the dark emotions behind your shadow self with a view to attuning to the lessons each has to teach and deepening your sense of self as grounded in a larger, healing reality.
Sessions will include:
An accessible introduction to key Jungian concepts including the collective unconscious, the archetypes & active imagination.
Short writing exercises that will last approximately between 5 and 15 minutes.
Small group discussions
Weekly worksheets
Recordings of each session
Who Is It For?
Those on a journey of self discovery who are interested in learning writing techniques to support psycho-spiritual growth and who are comfortable with diving deeper
Writers & creative practitioners interested in expanding their practice and range
Therapeutic practitioners and professionals in health, social care, education, the arts & creative industries who would like to learn more about how writing can be a form of healing.
The focus of the programme is on process, rather than outcome, and on what comes up in the writing, rather than craft, skills and technique. This means that you don’t need any previous writing experience to benefit from the course and there will be no pressure to read anything out.
Early Bird Tickets: £120 (Full Price ticket: £150)
Course guidelines
Participants will be invited to:
Take responsibility for your experience by engaging with the material at a level
that feels right for you
Avoid ‘over-disclosing’ matter that is particularly painful or private
Consider where you might get outside support if anything difficult comes up
Practice CARE - confidentiality, attention, respect & empathy - with others
