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Upcoming WorkshopsOne Day Workshops:Cost: $125.00 Time: 10:00 A.M. until 3:30 P.M. Sept. 26/09 Working with the Nine Year Cycle: Learning how this cycle can help you find flow in your life. - chart analysis and client attunement Oct. 31/09 Knowing Your Archetypal Self: Identifying and working with your personal muses, archetypes, teachers and guides. - archetypal perspective and mythology Nov. 28/09 Working with your own Alchemy: Finding the Gold Within - basic building blocks of elements, energy, archetypes Jan. 9/09 Developing Your Divination Skills: learning to read the tarot for yourself and others - combining intuition with the story structure of the tarot - Basic counseling skills for delivering empowering and life affirming readings Feb. 06/10 The Archetype of the Hero's Journey: Finding your passion and following your interests - Archetypal perspective and mythology The Archetype of the Herione's Journey: Finding resilience and inner strength - Archetypal perspective and mythology Archetypal Discussion Group and Reading Circle This group is for people who have taken the course and want to regroup to check-in, review and keep rich discussion going. We will meet the last Friday afternoon of every month at 1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. |
The Artful Archetypal Journey of Self Discovery
WHO: Anyone who loves learning through story, art and mythology. Anyone who wants to go deeper in self exploration. Anyone who wants to explore a mythic poetic way of being in the world.WHAT: This is an art therapy group using story, art, focusing, meditation, and other techniques for being with your hopes and challenges and finding the flow. WHEN: Sept. 21/09 Monday night 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Sept. 22/09 Tuesday night 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. (meeting very 2 weeks) WHY: Because it's a rich, insightful, fun and creative journey and exciting group to be a part of. HOW: Come to 2500 MacDonald St. The Art Therapy Studio is at the back of the house in the lower level. Cost: This group is 20 weeks. Cost is $275.00 for first 8 weeks, $275.00 for next 8 weeks and $175.00 for the last 4 weeks. Total for year is $725.00. Karen Wallace, BCATR, is an art therapist, artist, and art instructor living and working in Regina SK. Canada. She has a private practice with adults and children and specializes in depression, trauma, life transition and abuse work. She facilitates art therapy, creativity and art groups. She teaches internationally. She shows her mixed media art in galleries in Regina, Victoria B.C. and the Gulf Islands. Karen is known for her enthusiastic and dynamic teaching style. Her workshops are rich, playful and creative. 
An archetype is an original model of a person, energy form, or ideal that is universally recognized. We find archetypes in myths, folklore, oral stories and artwork throughout the world. Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Allan Hunter's Stories We Need to Know, and Carl Jung's work all explore archetypes. In this workshop we will explore a different archetype each session. We will identify and work with our own personal archetypes and make art using the stories, myths, gifts and characters of our personal archetypes. The tarot is one of the oldest and richest sources of archetypes. The mythological structure within the tarot is a guide that can help us understand our life experiences and spiritual development. By placing our life stories within a larger context we can step back and witness themes and patterns that we find hard to see while immersed in our life process. We can witness what myths we are living by, what new myths or stories are emerging and which old myths or stories are being challenged. The journey of the Fool through the twenty one archetypal expressions lays the plot or connecting thread for the process of individualism and spiritual growth. The archetypes can show us what gifts or strengths we are ready to claim or what unrealized potential we are avoiding. This symbolic matrix leads us to new realizations and ways of perceiving. Moving through the archetypal journey as a way to witness, understand, and facilitate your growth process is an exciting journey. Archetypal psychology is combining Jungian, Eastern, and traditional psychology and seeing how these ideas are blended in the archetypes. |
