Date/Time
Date(s) - Sun 7 Jan 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Sunday, January 7th 2024, 12 noon EST ( = 5pm UK time!)
Presented by Allan Frater, guest editor of December 2023 Psychosynthesis Quarterly on Imagination and Psychosynthesis, author of ‘Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy & Everyday Life’
About the Workshop:
This will be an opportunity to discuss material from Allan’s forthcoming book ‘The Act of Imagination: Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy & Creative Process’
Much of theory and practice with imagination in Psychosynthesis assumes it to be a personal-historical psychological interiority – for example, with ‘inner child’ and subpersonality work. However, this personal ‘inner imagination’ understanding, despite popular usage, is arguably misaligned with the transpersonal or beyond-the-personal premise of Psychosynthesis.
This workshop will turn the conventional inner-imagination view inside out in order to present a truly ‘transpersonal imagination’, where instead of images being inside us, it is we who find ourselves surrounded by images.
The result is an experiential and theoretical expansion of the possibilities of image-work, not just as a means to rational insight, but as healing and transformative in itself, spilling over beyond the consulting room into the activity of images in everyday life.
The workshop will be a mixture of slideshow presentation and discussion with break-out room practicums and small group work.
Learning Objectives:
- The explicit and also implicit basis within Assagioli’s psychosynthesis for an understanding of imagination as transpersonal.
- The 4 limitations of ‘inner imagination’: dualistic, rationalistic, narcissitic and mechanistic.
- The 4 advantages of ‘transpersonal imagination’: non-dual, trans-rational, participatory and emergent
- Practice based considerations to better notice, validate and enhance work with images.
Target Audience:
Psychosynthesis Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Coaches and anyone else interested in cultivating imaginative life – or wanting to help others do so.
This webinar is FREE to members, $25 to non-members: REGISTER HERE
You can read the opening pages of ‘Waking Dreams’ for free here:
https://wildimagination.uk/book/
Sunday, January 7th 2024, 12 noon EST
Registration closes Friday, January 5th, 5 pm EST