Ancient Stones & Active Imagination

 

“…invites a deeper intimacy with ourselves, each other, and the earth.”

 This interactive workshop will utilize pictures of billion-year-old stones from Death Valley, California. We will use cards to draw out unconscious material in the form of metaphor, image, and story. By deepening this awareness of unconscious forces and impulses within our psyche, we can meaningfully reflect on our own patterns as well as on the relations of our everyday life. Within a numinous experience, the images themselves can be healing, and the stories that they invoke can invite a deeper intimacy with ourselves, each other, and the earth.

Additionally, the naturally occurring imagery in stone invites participants to reflect on the anima mundi, ensouled world, to explore their own relationship and connection to the landscape around them.

 

Aug 5, 2021
9 AM Los Angeles, 12:00 PM New York, 05:00 PM London
90-min workshop, on Zoom
Registration: $25

 

Your Instructor

 
 
 
 

Cyndera Quackenbush, MA, is the creator of the Story Through Stone cards and practice. As a talented Intuitive Storyteller, Cyndera facilitates workshops in California and internationally on the topics of Therapeutic Use of Card Imagery and Archetypes and also on Awakening the Animistic Imagination. She is a Depth Psychology alumna of Pacifica Graduate Institute whose mission remains, “tending the soul of and in the world."

As a writer, educator, and social-emotional mentor for children and adults in the Bay Area, Cyndera has found her bliss in helping others to uncover their purpose and path with imaginative play. She is also a certified Card Reader through Biddy Tarot and has been the host of the Archetypal Tarot Podcast for almost ten years, with over 100,000 followers. Cyndera has a chapter to be published in a collection of Nature Play Therapy by Routledge in 2022.

 
 

What People Are Saying

 

“I loved getting to tell my story and finding that it actually is full of hope and union. Thank you for sharing my journey.”

— T. H. | Workshop Participant

“The entire process was deeply meaningful and helpful for understanding myself and my situation. It was wonderful to engage that playful, creative part of me in a way that had structure but infinite room to be whatever it needed to be without judgment.”

— D.W. | Workshop Participant

 

You Will Learn

  • You will learn an 8-step approach to intuitive storytelling to explore personal questions for yourself or others.

  • You will bring one specific question to the images in the workshop and experience first-hand the impact of card imagery to draw out previously unseen material.

  • You will explore your own “animistic imagination,” the capacity to see the world as animate and alive, through art, writing, and storytelling.

 

“an amazing way to connect the dreamscape with my current life…”

“This method is an amazing way to connect the dreamscape with my current life both metaphorically and literally. The things I found really helpful: having my story reflected back to me, taking the time to visualize important aspects of the story, and exploring all symbols before analyzing for meaning.”

— T.S. | Workshop Participant

Aug 5, 2021
9 AM Los Angeles, 12:00 PM New York, 05:00 PM London