Journaling to the Soul:
Active Imagination

with Susan Tiberghien

Presentation
Saturday, March 5, 2022
11 am - 12:30 pm EST (Eastern Time, USA), on Zoom
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This Program Will Not Be Recorded.
Program Cost: $25

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“I did not know that I am your vessel, empty without you but brimming over with you.”

–C.G. Jung, The Red Book, p. 237

Soul is calling out to us. But we have forgotten how to listen. We hunger for moments of rest, for candle light, Mozart, wild flowers, friendship. We long for soulfulness.

Where are you soul? Who are you? So called out Jung over a century ago when he confronted the unconscious. The Red Book is Jung’s journal to his soul. It is a phare to lighten today’s darkness.

In this workshop, we will write our own journals to the soul. We will find images of her in our dreams and fantasies, in our relationships, in nature. We will listen anew to her in inner dialogues. As we journal, we will practice active imagination. Our images will become uniting symbols, relating the visible and the invisible, the known and the unknown. We will move into a new consciousness, radiating light in the darkness around us.

Who Is It For

For those who wish an introduction to journaling and active imagination
For all who are looking for deeper meaning in our lives
For those who feel they have lost their soul
For those who long for a soulful life
For those who would wish to lighten the way for others

Your Instructor

Susan M. Tiberghien is an American writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a degree in Literature and Philosophy and did graduate work at the Université de Grenoble and the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich. She is the author of four memoirs: Looking for Gold, Circling to the Center, Side by Side, Footsteps, and the writing book, One Year to a Writing Life. Her two recent books, Writing Toward Wholeness, Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung, and the 20th Anniversary Edition of Circling to the Center, Invitation to Silent Prayer were published in 2018 and 2019 by Chiron Publications.

For twenty-five years Tiberghien has been lecturing and teaching creative writing at C.G. Jung Societies and Institutes, at the International Women's Writing Guild, and at writers' centers and conferences, both in the US and in Europe. An active member of International PEN, Tiberghien founded and directed the Geneva Writers' Group (250 English-language writers) for twenty-five years. Married with six adult children, fifteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

“I wanted to write you about how profoundly I was moved and, if I may say, enlightened, by the Image exercise. It brought to me a message…. I shared the exercise with my husband and seconds later he had done his own Image for a really deep message he needed to hear. Thank you, thank you, and bless you always!”

–Heidi R. | Writer, USA | Workshop Participant

What You Will Learn

How to find your soul within yourself, within relationships, within the natural world
How to listen and learn from your soul in inner dialogues
How to practice active imagination in journaling
An appreciation of Jung’s journal to the soul, the Red Book
A stimulus to shine the light of your soul in the darkness around you

“...a sense of inner and outer renewal.”

“I feel such a sense of inner and outer renewal. You're a very gifted teacher who provides rich content - marvelously illustrating major points with texts from excellent sources - while remaining lovingly, sharply attentive to participants' needs.”

— Mary| France | Workshop Participant

“...an engaging and stimulating experience.”

I want to thank you for such an engaging and stimulating experience. The structure and content were excellent and your own personality shone through. I hope to see you at another workshop.

— Bill | Scotland | Workshop Participant