The Child Archetype in Individuation
with Susanna Ruebsaat
Workshop
Saturday, February 4, 2023
3 pm - 5:30 pm Eastern Time (USA), on Zoom
Please convert to your Time Zone
This Program Will Be Recorded.
The recording link will be sent to you within 72 hours after the live event.
Program Cost: $35
What images and stories of your childhood are still present in your psyche today?
Through various simple mark-making and storytelling activities, we will explore and activate aspects of the self that hold important links to our creativity.
The Child within that we so often abandon never leaves or abandons us. The archetypal image of the Child is a symbol of individuation itself. An English psychiatrist and author, Anthony Storr, writes, “…in every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention and education. This is the part of the human personality that wants to develop and become whole”.
We can view parts of our dreams, favorite fairy tales, or myths as autonomous entities telling us the story of ourselves. We follow their script for our own life. But what if a story traditionally doesn't have a happy ending? Can we change the ending of how we want the "tale" to turn out? If yes, what inner resources can help us in this task? Interestingly the Child within is so often abandoned, even as it never leaves or abandons us.
Join this workshop to explore the creative power of our Child Self together.
What You Will Learn
Gain a general understanding of Jung’s theory of the archetypes, particularly the Child Archetype and how his framing might be helpful to the your own life and dreams.
Learn a variety of warm-ups to initiate the art making process and overcome the fear of the inability to make art, or make ‘good’ art.
Explore aspects of the child archetype, through art making and viewing and having a dialogue with the images (active imagination).
Come to an understanding of images in art and psyche as ‘guests’ or ‘guides’ from the unconscious and explore the notion of the autonomy of the unconscious as presented in C.G. Jung’s work.
Become familiar with your own symbol making and meaning-making processes within the context of Depth Psychology theory and begin to put trust into your own engagement with images of the unconscious.
Begin to engage the ongoing dialogue of the psyche through the interaction of the conscious and unconscious mind recognising how this leads to wholeness and self-actualisation.
Your Instructor
Susanna Ruebsaat
The foremost question in my mind both personally and as a practitioner is, "How far can we go in receiving and respecting our own and our clients' numinous experiences at a symbolic level and continue to assist in both opening ourselves and them to the ensuing transformative inquiry?”
Susanna Ruebsaat PhD, BFA, T.Ed. MA, BCATR, RCC is a Jungian-oriented therapist, associate faculty member at City University Masters in Counselling Program, registered clinical counselor, clinical supervisor, instructor, author, and registered art therapist. She offers one on one sessions (with or without art-making) and group workshops exploring life narratives (personal myths), and the process of transformation and individuation.
Susanna's approach is woven from strands of Jungian, Depth Psychology, Process Oriented Psychology, Arts-Based and Mythopoetic Inquiry for clients and practitioners wanting to bring a creative, embodied, and symbolic lens to their exploration.
Susanna follows the journey of Individuation as it presents the possibility of stepping into an archetypal awareness of soma and symbol, shaping a mythopoetic inquiry that acts as a container for the metamorphosis of trauma and meaning-making: Psyche’s ulterior motive towards wholeness.
Susanna lives in Victoria British Columbia, Canada.
“Rarely have I seen the inner dimension of visceral experience brought so tangibly to light as in Mourning the Dream/Amor Fati. Dr. Ruebsaat poignantly, poetically, and with remarkable transparency, explores hidden corners of her psyche while engaging in a dialogue with her readers that supports their own self-exploration. Ultimately, this powerful work of image and soul reaches beyond the realm of individual healing to offer the promise of helping to heal the splits and wounds of our culture at large.”
– Dr. Steven Rosen, PhD
Workshop
Saturday, February 4, 2023
3 pm - 5:30 pm Eastern Time (USA), on Zoom
Please convert to your Time Zone
This Program Will Be Recorded.
The recording link will be sent to you within 72 hours after the live event.
Program Cost: $35
Who Is It For
Anyone interested in working with the unconscious.
Anyone interested in Jung's notion of the archetypes.
Anyone wishing to explore simple art-making activities as a form of embodiment and meaning-making.
Anyone interested in exploring a symbolic way of seeing.
“Attending the workshops so skillfully facilitated by Susanna Ruebsaat is a playful, expansive, and uniquely rich experience.”
Susanna carefully tends and attends to process, as well as firing up the imagination with prompts framed around rich themes, that take me on a journey to unexpected (yet (newly/strangely ?) familiar) places. The collective aspect to the workshops - to have the privilege of seeing and listening to other participants’ processes - is also immensely enriching.
— Workshop Participant
“she is solid yet flexible, respectful, inspiring…erudite without being overwhelming.”
Having done many trainings in art and somatic therapies both as student and professional, I have found Susanna’s to be unique in safely and effectively guiding students into somatic experiencing through mark-making, while deepening their understanding of Jungian and Post-Jungian language as ways of understanding integration of self, accessible to those at all levels of experience and expertise. As a teacher and facilitator, she is solid yet flexible, respectful, inspiring, highly skilled in the practice and language of artmaking and erudite without being overwhelming.
— Workshop Participant
“I was also pleasantly surprised at the depth we were able to explore beyond the mind level and into the realm of the soul.”
When I signed up for Exploring Self Image Through Art Making, I was expecting to learn Jungian theory. It would have been interesting and engaging on an intellectual level, however, I was delighted to find us embarking on a more experiential journey, one that utilized our individual backgrounds and inclinations. This kind of method is a great fit with my personal learning style. I was also pleasantly surprised at the depth we were able to explore beyond the mind level and into the realm of the soul. This course gave me the opportunity to identify core themes in my life and integrate them in a new way, especially through the combination of image making and then articulating the resulting images in free and intuitive writing and then discussion.
— Workshop Participant
Workshop
Saturday, February 4, 2023
3 pm - 5:30 pm Eastern Time (USA), on Zoom
Please convert to your Time Zone
This Program Will Be Recorded.
The recording link will be sent to you within 72 hours after the live event.
Program Cost: $35