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Painting to a Grimm’s Fairy Tale (Zoom Only)
October 31, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - November 28, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
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Prepaid Cost: $110.00 – $125.00
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Painting to a Grimm’s Fairy Tale
Presented by Marion Anderson
Tuesdays 2pm-4 pm online (4 sessions)
Ever since “the olden days”, fairytales speak to people through rich imagery and symbolism, representing personal and archetypal processes relevant to all humans. In this hands-on online workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to choose and paint scenes from a Grimm’s fairy tale, producing a sequence of three images. In the final session, we will reflect on the individual and collective meaning of the story through the series of images created in the previous sessions that we will share with one another.
For mental health professionals, this exploration and lived experience of working with archetypal forces with personal inner imagery in this way is a critical part of training oneself to guide patients in their own journey of working directly with the psyche as described by Jung. This workshop is a hands-on activity for adults and does not require previous artistic knowledge. Please note that the aesthetic quality of the image is secondary to the dynamic of the process and the expression of meaning. Painting inner images is a non-verbal method to contact and symbolically express the unconscious, which may not yet possible to formulate otherwise. The painted images that each participant creates, will not only reflect what is going on within at this very moment, they also effect the group as a whole and provide deepening for all.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how the process of using painting as a way of working with one’s personal imagery can be of value in the therapeutic process
- Describe some of the difficulties that can occur when a patient is expressing inner images through painting
- Describe what is meant by Jung’s concept of the shadow
- Give an example of how working symbolically with inner images can help patients integrate and work more consciously with their shadow material
- Describe how painting symbols from the unconscious can have a healing effect on clients by working more directly with defensive structures such as splitting, projection, and projective identification.
- Describe how this technique can be helpful during times of emotional transition
- Describe how creating an image with the hands can stimulate a more active attitude and why this might be critical in working with patients with depression.
- Give an example of how symbolic content expressed through painting images of the unconscious can help mental health professionals guide clients through trauma and crisis situations.
Marion Anderson Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and certified Sandplay therapist (STA/ISST) in private practice in Santa Monica, and a member of the faculty at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where she teaches Jungian theory, Sandplay, and Active Imagination, as well as painting workshops. A native German, she is a founding member of the Sandplay society in Brazil, where she lived and practiced as a clinical psychologist for 13 years before her move to the US. She teaches and lectures nationally as well as internationally, and is the author of several articles, many of which can be found in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy.
Refund requests must be sent by email at administration@junginla.org before noon (12:00 pm) prior to the program being paid for. No refund will be issued otherwise.
Continuing Education:
Psychologists/LCSWs/MFTs/LPCCs: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Nurses: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is an accredited provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Registered Nurses may claim only the actual number of hours spent in the educational activity for credit.
