Type, personal myth, and the Imagination

Thursday, 30 September (6pm) to Sunday, 3 October (afternoon)

With Dhammaloka

To participate in this seminar, you should be familiar with the Jung-Myers-Briggs approach to psychological type. If you haven’t attended the workshop ‘growing into who you are – type, temperament, and spiritual practice’ (for dates, see here), but gained experience of psychological type in other ways, please contact us before booking.

The focus will be on ‘type development’ in the context of Dharma practice: How can we explore and assimilate the deeper and largely unconscious layers of the psyche, in particular through dream work, symbol, and active imagination?

We will introduce various practices to explore the unconscious treasures in life — hidden potentials that haven’t been lived, yet may speak to you in dreams, fantasies, symbols, myths and images.

There will be little theory only but much practice, including:

  • inner work with dreams;
  • learning from manifestations of your ‘inferior functions’;
  • active imagination and the education of the imaginal faculty;
  • themes, personae, and plots in your life story and the underlying guiding ‘myth’;
  • relating to the archetypal symbolism in Buddhist and other images.

 

Suggested donation: £ 90. Accommodation £15/10 per night.

 

Please book early. Our teachers put a lot of preparation into the seminars — sometimes several weeks of work. We would find it irresponsible to let them continue with their preparations and then cancel the even at short notice due to lack of participants.

If you consider attending, but aren’t as yet certain, please let us know.

If four weeks before an event, we still don’t know that there will be a sufficient number of people attending, we will usually cancel it. By booking early, you can help us prevent disappointment on all sides.

To ask for further information or to book for this event, please contact us here.

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