Tina Stromsted

Wellsprings of Feminine Renewal IV - A Personal Adventure: "Beauty & the Beast"
With: Tina Stromsted, Meg Wilbur & Dorothy Anderson
June 4-10, 2007
Pacifica Graduate Institute at Ladera Lane campus in Santa Barbara, CA

Dorothy Anderson, PhD, has specialized in leadership development for nearly 30 years. She taught Management & Interpersonal Communication at UCLA and served as an Assistant Dean. She is a motivational speaker at universities and conferences whose topics include Competition & Cooperation, Effective Teamwork, Conflict Resolution, Owning your Shadow, and Communicating with Confidence. She directed the Leadership Training Institute in Washington, D.C. and facilitated more than 40 nationwide workshops on leadership. She brings a Jungian orientation to her work as a SoulCollage facilitator, LifeCoach, and founder of The Adult Woman? workshops. She also carves "sticks and stones" in her California Studio. She has trained extensively with Marion Woodman and her team.

In the beginning, there was not the word, rather there was a union of body and psyche expressed through symbolic physical action. From the gesture and sound language of our early ancestors, to the rhythmic actions and interactions of infancy, the living body - the body as experience - is the foundation for subsequent development of emotion, multi-sensory imagination and intellect.

Interweaving theoretical, experiential, clinical, communal, and cultural, material, this workshop will explore dance/movement as a form of active imagination. Sometimes called authentic movement, this approach focuses attention on bodily sensations, images, and feelings, which are then allowed to develop into spontaneous movement. The work is done with one’s eyes closed in the presence of a witness, whose task it is to hold and contain the experience of the person moving.

Analysts use the connection between body and psyche as a central clinical tool, yet there may be few opportunities to further develop this dimension. This workshop offers a structure within which analysts can both have a practical experience of their own moving imagination as well as enrich their understanding of its application in analytic practice.

The mover-witness relationship offers a way to explore the ongoing flow of implicit experience, expression and communication of sensations and emotions, toward a more differentiated understanding of the nature of projection and projective identification.

Morning and afternoon sessions include lecture, discussion and movement experience. Participants are invited to bring a notebook and/or drawing materials to record their images and experiences.

For more information visit: http://www.iaap.org/content/view/262/73/ Please use the official IAAP registration from (download the form, or register online)

Evocations of Absence: An Interdisciplinary Encounter with Void States
International Association of Analytical Psychology International Congress,
Cape Town, Africa, August 11-17 2007.
Presenters: Paul Ashton, M.D., Stephen Bloch, Ph.D., Peter Hodson, M.D., Tina Stromsted Ph.D., ADTR, Stephen Watson, Ph.D.

A commonly encountered experience of both analyst and analysand is that of the void. It is spoken about at different stages of therapy and refers to experiences that have different origins. But the apprehension of the void is not limited to the psychoanalytic process and it may be evoked in many different ways. Commonly these ways are verbal or visual as in literature or art but they may also be simply from sound or its absence or from the 'sensori-motor' domain. One way of dealing with the sense of absence or meaninglessness that is felt as The Void is to construct meaning about it and many philosophies and religious systems have been developed to ward off emptiness by substituting "knowing" in its place. Others systems seem to fearlessly enter and explore the vastness of that space.

The void, frightening as it is, is not something that can or should be obliterated, as that would lead to stagnation with "eyes wide shut." Rather, we feel that hidden behind the "clouds of unknowing" that shroud the void, lie enormous possibilities for growth and transformation, and an increasingly strong connection with the objective other. The topic thus lends itself too to something on the spiritual dimension.

Our panel will address the topic of absence; that which is evoked, how it is evoked, what is absent, even what is present, and by extension where the feeling is coming from and where it may lead. Presentations will include analytic implications of void states from the perspective of neuro-psycho-biology, mysticism, art, music, movement and poetry to better understand the experience of, meaning, and potential transformation of these states.

A book on this topic is currently in process.

For more information visit: http://www.iaap.org/

Presenters:

Paul Ashton is a Jungian analyst and Psychiatrist in private practice in Cape Town with an interest in sand-tray and play therapy with children. He has been an active member of the South African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA) serving on the Curriculum Committee, Exco and as a sub-editor of their in-house journal Mantis. He is the author of articles and lectures on aspects of the Void and on Art, as well as review articles.

Stephen Bloch is a Jungian Analyst and Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Cape Town. He is an active member of SAAJA and has served on the Curriculum and Assessment and Review committees. He has a deep interest in music and has recently delivered a paper on the interrelationship between minimalist music and psychoanalysis.

Peter Hodson is a Jungian Analyst and Psychiatrist in private practice in Cape Town. He has been active in SAAJA, serving on the Curriculum Committee and EXCO where he is now Vice-President. Active in teaching, he has lectured to Psychiatric, Analytic and Lay audiences and published articles in Mantis.

Tina Stromsted Ph.D., ADTR, is a Dance therapist and teacher of Authentic Movement and Somatic Psychotherapy at a wide variety of Institutes, Universities and healing centers in the USA and internationally. Her background is in theatre and dance, she is a published author of numerous articles and book chapters and she has had thirty years of clinical practice. She is a Candidate at the G.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco where she is in private practice.

Stephen Watson: Stephen Watson is a South African poet and essayist who has published many collections of poems and other books. He is currently the head of the English Department at the University of Cape Town, as well as the director of its Centre for Creative Writing.

DREAMDANCING GROUP

This group is designed for women engaged in deepening their bodysoul explorations. Now in its sixth year, there are openings for the 2007-8 session, beginning in September.

Beginning with an introductory weekend, monthly three-hour sessions (Friday, 10am-1pm) offer participants the opportunity to enrich their explorations of body, psyche, and spirit through an integrative Jungian depth-oriented approach. Elements include working with dreams in the body (Dreamdancing), Authentic Movement ("active imagination in movement") and creative methods from Marion Woodman's BodySoul Rhythms® approach. We also call on myths, fairytales, and Jungian theory to inform our discoveries. Guest presenters join us from time-to-time to guide the grounding and opening of our embodied authentic voice, a resonant gateway to the unconscious. In an atmosphere of acceptance, curiosity, and care we engage the body's vital energies, contacting the deep feminine and learning to live her wisdom in our daily lives. Bring your desire to feel more at home in your body, and the courage to live your dreams!

Meeting Dates: 1st weekend Friday, Sept. 14, 10am-5:30pm & Saturday, Sept 15, 3:30-6:30pm. Monthly meetings thereafter: 10:00am-1:00pm Fridays, Oct. 12, Nov. 9, Dec. 7, 2007. Jan. 11, Feb. 1, March 14, April 4, May 9, 2008.

Location: A lovely, private dance studio with skylights in the Upper Market/Castro area of San Francisco, California.

Participants: This is an experiential & educational group. Participants have experience in Marion Woodman's BodySoul Rhythms® approach, or are familiar with Woodman's writings. Some background in dreamwork, Authentic Movement, expressive arts therapy or other forms of embodied creative exploration that engage conscious attention is necessary. Ongoing analysis or psychotherapy with an outside therapist is required.

Registration:If you are interested in applying for possible openings in the new series beginning September 2007, please contact Tina Stromsted for an application by July 1st, 2007 at Tina@AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com or Tel. (415) 668-7857. An initial consultation meeting will also be a part of the application process if you are new to the instructor ($140/hr.). For applications received after July 15th, Tina will respond on September 1st as she will be out of the country teaching through August. Thank you.

Tuition: $335 for the 1st weekend and $130 per session thereafter, with a one-time $35 materials fee. The entire tuition for the series must be paid, even if you miss a session, and is due at our first meeting. Monthly payment plans are also available - please post-date your check(s) and submit them at the first session.

CEU's available for MFT;s, & LCSWs. 35hours; $20 CEU registration fee.

Further Resources:
For information about Marion Woodman Foundation contact: http//www.mwoodmanfoundation.org

or http//www.mwoodman.org

"Body & Soul: Honoring Marion Woodman", Spring Journal #72 includes chapters by Marion Woodman and other authors investigating the deep interrelationship between body, psyche and soul. To view table contents and/or to purchase go to: www.springhournalandbooks.com

Tina Stromsted's chapter provides an overview of Marion's life and work. To download please visit: www.mwoodman.org/mw_interviews.html

Authentic Movement & Clinical Skills
Graz, Austria, October 26-28, 2007

Designed for Dance/Movement therapists, body-oriented psychotherapists, Creative Arts therapists and other clinical professionals, this weekend workshop will integrate theoretical material with experiential work. Sessions include opportunities to deepen your practice of Authentic Movement, augmented with art, and writing. Skills and capacities rooted in your own experience can also contribute to further integration of your verbal and body-centered work with clients. The emphasis will be on participants' personal learning and enrichment including direct embodied experience, further development of witness language skills, and exploration of the somatic underpinnings of the transference/countertransference relationship. Studio work will be supplemented by discussion on applications relevant to participant's area of practice. Participants are invited to bring a client case to work with experientially. Our setting, a spectacular monastery in the countryside outside of Graz, offers a lovely place for communion with nature, self-renewal, and the blooming of movement from a rich inner source.

For information and registration contact:
Veronika Fritsch, ADTR at Zentrum f?r Ausdruckstanz und Tanztherapie
Graz, Austria
Tel. 0316/384638
E-Mail: zentrum@tanztherapie.at or on the Web at: www.tanztherapie.at

"Embodied Wisdom: Jung, Neuroscience and Authentic Movement—Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives."
March 14 & 15, 2008
San Francisco Jung Institute
Presenters: Margaret Wilkinson, Joan Chodorow, Tina Stromsted, Dyane N. Sherwood, Helen Marlo

Dates: Friday Evening, March 14, 2008 Public Program; $35 Saturday, March 15, 2008 Professional Program; $125

CEUs: Friday Evening: 1.5
Saturday: 6.75

CEU Fees: If registering for both Friday night and Saturday there is one-time $15 CE fee; for separate registration, a $15 fee applies for Friday night and another for Saturday.

Time: Friday Evening 7:30-9:00 PM, Margaret Wilkinson. Saturday 9:30-5:30 PM, with lunch on your own. Faculty

Location: Friday lecture: SF Jung Institute, 2040 Gough Street, San Francisco, 94109. Saturday Workshop: Osaka Room, Kabuki Hotel, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco, 94115.

Registration: Please contact Baruch Gould, Director of Extended Education Programs, at: 415) 771-8080 or exed@sfjung.org

"The unrelated human being lacks wholeness for he can achieve wholeness only through the soul, and the soul cannot exist without its other side, which is always found in a 'You.' Wholeness is a combination of I and You, and these show themselves to be parts of a transcendent unity whose nature can only be grasped symbolically."

Jung 1946, "Psychology of the Transference," CW 16, par 454

In the beginning, there was not the word; rather there was a union of body and psyche, expressed through symbolic action. From the gesture and sound language of our early ancestors, to the rhythmic actions and interactions of infancy, the living body—the body as experience—is the foundation for subsequent development of relationship, imagination and intellect.

Contemporary developmental psychodynamic theory posits that insight alone seldom produces lasting psychological change. Moreover, analytical, developmental and somatic psychology, along with dance therapy and neuroscience, remind us of the primacy of body, affect, relationship, and relatedness for genuine individuation and wholeness—one expression of "embodied wisdom." Yet how can a "talking cure" address bodily experience, and unconscious affect and memory, what is still unknown to both patient and analyst?

Addressing this question, Margaret Wilkinson and Dyane Sherwood will present recent findings in neurobiology, that illuminate why verbal awareness does not necessarily transform our emotional reactions. They will address the clinical significance of transforming unconscious affect, memory, image and bodily experience into meaningful narrative. They will facilitate our understanding and treatment of this process, and other phenomena, in analysis, and help translate the relevancy of core neuroscience findings for clinical work.

Joan Chodorow and Tina Stromsted will invite us to explore the nonverbal underpinnings of psychotherapy through direct experience of felt bodily sensations, emotions and physical action. They will introduce authentic movement, a valuable form of active imagination in analysis involving a mover, a witness and the dynamics of their relationship. Using embodied methods such as attending to moment-to-moment experiences of synchrony, mirroring, multi-sensory attunement and compensatory affective response, they will build on neuroscientific findings presented by Margaret Wilkinson and Dyane Sherwood, toward further integration.

To synthesize these presentations with clinical practice, case material, presented by Helen Marlo, will focus on one woman's intrapersonal and interpersonal changes, as revealed through her evolving narrative in psychotherapy, and as expressed through transformations in her connections to body, relationship, affect, image, and memory, particularly in its manifestations within the therapeutic relationship.

Through lecture, discussion, movement experience, case presentation, and more, this workshop will approach and explore the multi-sensory, affective, interactive and intrapsychic nature of the brain/mind/body. We will give special attention to the clinical relevance of the living body as the primary source of experience, expression, communication and transformation, and the perspective of recent neurobiological findings on the transformation of bodily experience into consciously apprehended images and words.

Faculty

Margaret Wilkinson, BA Hons, DipEd/SAP, is a Jungian analyst and an assistant editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Her book 'Coming into Mind. The Mind-Brain Relationship: A Jungian Clinical Perspective' was published by Routledge in January 2006. She has a special interest in the application of insights from contemporary neuroscience to analytic work with those who have experienced early relational trauma. She is in private practice in North Derbyshire, England. Her email address is mwilkinson@yahoo.co.uk

Joan Chodorow, Ph.D., is an analyst and faculty member of the C.G.Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is a registered dance therapist and one of the former presidents of the American Dance Therapy Association. Publications include Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination; Jung on Active Imagination; and the forthcoming Active Imagination: Healing from Within. She lectures and teaches internationally and her writings are available in many languages.

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., past co-founder and faculty of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley, teaches in the Somatic Psychology doctoral program at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, the Marion Woodman Foundation and other universities and healing centers internationally. With three decades of clinical experience, she is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals and an advanced Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Her private practice is in San Francisco.

Dyane Sherwood, Ph.D., is an Analyst Member and on the Teaching Faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and she is Editor of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. She has a private practice in Woodside California, where she works with both adults and children. She studied Neuroscience at MIT, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University, and her research articles were published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, Brain Research, and Journal of Experimental Biology (Cambridge)

Helen Marlo, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Burlingame, CA, where she works with adults and children. She is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology Program at Notre Dame de Namur University where she teaches clinical depth psychology courses. She is a candidate in analytic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

The Dreaming Body: Authentic Movement as a Pathway to the Self
A Five-Day Retreat for Women & Men
Affiliated with the Marion Woodman Foundation
with Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., ADTR, assisted by Margareta Neuberger, MA

Tuscany, Italy ~ June 25-July 1, 2008

Dreams carry treasures that enhance the meaning and depth of our life's journey. Authentic Movement allows access to these rich inner resources on a cellular level, bringing us back in touch with our natural rhythms, instinctual wisdom, and sense of self. Attending to the body allows us to more fully access the energies expressed through the textures, imagery, and unfolding action of the dream. Gestures emerge that can guide us toward where our life energy is directing us. Here, body and psyche can begin to work together.

From our earliest beginnings, empathic relating by the other is an essential component in the formation of the self. Recent advances in developmental neuroscience point to the right brain's receptivity to nonverbal elements such as facial expression, voice tone, movement, music, imagery and the play of symbols in dreams and poetry. Authentic Movement provides affective mirroring and embodied presence as a foundation for the development of consciousness in the cells, and a sense of well being and belonging in the world. Sensitivity to the body can allow psychotherapists, educators and health care providers to attend to this language as it arises in our experiences with others, and in ourselves, hearing the soul's call and working with the obstacles to its fulfillment.

This integrative, depth-oriented Jungian approach will include working with dreams in the body (Dreamdancing), Authentic Movement (active imagination in movement), writing, drawing, communion with nature, and creative methods from Marion Woodman's BodySoul Rhythms work. Studio sessions will be supplemented by seminars focusing on questions arising from your personal explorations, as well as applications relevant to your creative and professional work. Nearby hillside and coastal villages make for a wonderful holiday, too, if you can take the time following the intensive!

Prerequisites: Experience in Authentic Movement is vital. Some background in dreamwork, expressive arts therapy or other forms of embodied creative exploration that engage conscious attention is necessary, as well as a background in personal analysis/psychotherapy. A working knowledge of English is important in order to understand and participate in the intricacies of the work. (Unfortunately it is not feasible to work with a translator as participants come from many countries and linguistic backgrounds).

Tuition:
$815 US with paid registration by January 15, 2008.
After that date tuition is $875 US

38 CE credits available for MFT's and LCSWs
($25 admin fee for CEUs)

Accommodation and meals: 55 Euros/night shared occupancy, paid directly to the retreat site upon arrival.

Registration:
Enrollment is by application only. Deadline is April 30, 2008.
Please contact Tina Stromsted at email: TStromsted@aol.com, or
Tel.: (415) 668-7857 USA; www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com/tuscany

Faculty

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., ADTR, licensed psychotherapist and Registered Dance Therapist, was co-founder and faculty at the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley. Currently she serves on the faculty and board of directors of the Marion Woodman Foundation and teaches in the doctoral program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, the California Institute of Integral Studies, public programs at the San Francisco Jung Institute, Esalen, and other universities and healing centers internationally. With a background in theatre and dance she has over three decades of clinical experience. She is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals and an advanced Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Tina's passion is in integrating embodied, creative approaches to reclaiming body wisdom, engaging the natural world and living a soulful life. Her private practice is in San Francisco.

Margareta Neuberger will be assisting. With an M.A., in Somatic Psychology, Margareta is a teacher and practitioner of Authentic Movement, somatic educator and massage therapist, who has explored the interconnectedness of healing, spirituality and creativity for the past 30 years. A native of Germany, she moved to San Francisco in 1984, after completing a B.A. in Theology. She has worked in private practice since 1989, offering Authentic Movement to individuals and groups as an embodied meditative and healing discipline. Margareta is the mother of 5 year old Lukas.

Wellsprings of Feminine Renewal V: Beauty and the Beast
September 15 - 21, 2008
Santa Barbara, California
Faculty: Meg Wilbur, Tina Stromsted, and Dorothy Anderson

Come seek renewal at the autumn equinox. In a beautiful mountain retreat with panoramic views of the Pacific, we will travel pathways to the deep feminine. A former monastery, this site offers peaceful gardens, delicious food, and a swimming pool to nurture the bodysoul.

This year, the fairytale "Beauty and the Beast" is our avenue to the psyche, evoking crucial themes: an endangered feminine, a brutalized masculine, and the redemptive, but threatened power of love to bridge the opposites and achieve the sacred inner marriage. Deep psychological explorations will reveal its relevance to our personal journey and the wider world.

We dive into the riches of the unconscious through dreams, bodily states, and creativity. Authentic movement is a natural means to connect with buried energies, and discover one's inner dance as it unfolds. Simple and playful vocal explorations help reclaim one's true voice (often long denied), through relaxation, breathing, and sounding. This approach does not involve performance, and is attuned to the individual's needs. Enhanced by music and the arts, these dynamic processes support individuation and integration.

This intensive provides an opportunity to engage the feminine and inner masculine in a safe and nurturing vessel. New participants are welcome. Previous participants are encouraged to continue the series to deepen their journey.

Faculty

Meg Wilbur, MA, MFA, is a Jungian Analyst with a private practice in Los Angeles and California's central coast. She is a founding member, vice president, and faculty of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. She is Professor Emerita of UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, where she directed plays and taught voice for the stage. She often works as Associate Analyst with the original BodySoul Rhythms team.

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., past co-founder and faculty of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley, teaches in the Somatic Psychology doctoral program at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, the Marion Woodman Foundation and other universities and healing centers internationally. With three decades of clinical experience, she is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals and an advanced Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Her private practice is in San Francisco.

Dorothy Anderson, PhD, is founder of The Adult Woman workshops. Former assistant dean at UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, she directed the Senior Fellows Program and taught interpersonal communication, leadership development, and conflict resolution. She brings a Jungian orientation to her speaking and consulting in areas relating to personal growth and leadership. She is also a SoulCollage facilitator and carves wood and stone in her California studio. authenticadultwoman.typepad.com

Schedule
September 15-21, Monday, 4:00 PM-Sunday, 10:00 AM. 4:00 PM is the check-in time at the facility. The program begins with dinner at 6:00 PM on Monday, September 15, followed by an evening session, and concludes on Sunday, September 21, at 10 am.

Location Pacifica Graduate Institute, Ladera Lane Campus, Santa Barbara, California

Prerequisites: Open to women with at least 50 hours of Jungian analysis/therapy and 50 hours of active bodywork, or consent of instructor.

Deposit: $250.00

Balance
Single, dorm style: $1,815.00
Single, semi-private: $2,190.00
Double, semi-private: $1,960.00
Fees include 6 nights lodging and all meals. Financial assistance is available. Contact Dana Wherity for details.

CEUs 45 hours of continuing education are available for MFTs, LCSWs, and RNs.

Contact: Dana Wherity
Email: dana@mwoodmanfoundation.org
Phone: 831 425-5794

More Info: www.mwoodmanfoundation.org

Oregon Friends of C.G. Jung —"Jung Embodied"
Presenters: Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., & Meg Wilbur, M.A.
Portland, Oregon, April 24 & 25, 2009
www.ofj.org

This experiential weekend will explore elements from Marion Woodman's BodySoul approach and "embodied active imagination," rooted in the work of C.G. Jung.

On Friday the presenters will discuss theoretical aspects of Jung's and Woodman's work. They will highlight significant learning's from their extensive participation and training with Marion Woodman at her intensives, informed by their own unique background in theater, dance, Jungian, and Somatic Psychology.

Saturday offers an opportunity to explore these theories in practice, deepening our connection to mind and body. Such work supports the reawakening of resonant consciousness in our cells, invites the play of imagination, and promotes integration through embodied dreamwork, movement, and voice, enhanced by music and art.

Authentic Movement is a gentle, natural means to nurture oneself, connect with buried energies, and unfold one's inner dance. Simple exercises in freeing the voice invoke relaxation, breath, and sound to help release one's authentic voice. These creative processes do not involve performance, and are attuned to the needs of the individual.

Come explore "Jung embodied" through these gateways to the unconscious.
For more information and to register please see: www.ofj.org

Bios

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, ADTR, is a Jungian psychotherapist and Registered Dance therapist in San Francisco. With three decades of clinical experience she leads workshops in the U.S. and internationally, integrating body-oriented, Jungian and creative arts therapy approaches to healing and transformation. Past co-founder of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley, she currently teaches in the Somatic Psychology doctoral program at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute in California, the Leadership Training program of the Marion Woodman Foundation, the California Institute of Integral Studies and other universities and healing centers. Her numerous articles and book chapters explore the integration of body, psyche and soul in clinical work. With a background in dance and theater, she has a special interest in the creative process and embodied spirituality. She is a Candidate at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.

Meg Wilbur, MA, MFA, MFT, is a Jungian analyst, with a private practice in Los Angeles and the Central Coast of California, specializing in dream work and active imagination. She works as an Associate Analyst with Marion Woodman and her team, and serves as a board member of the Woodman Foundation. Meg is a professor emerita in UCLA'S School of Theater, Film, and Television where she taught acting and voice for the stage, and directed plays. She also taught at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and writes and directs her own productions, featuring poetry and fairy tales. She is a founding member and faculty of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California and leads workshops in active imagination, dreams, and voice.

Wellsprings of Feminine Renewal V: Seal Skin, Soul Skin: Redeeming the Instinctual Body
Faculty: Meg Wilbur, MFT, Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., & Dorothy Anderson, Ph.D.
Pacifica Graduate Institute at Ladera Lane in Santa Barbara, CA
July 3-9, 2009

This intensive offers a unique experience for women who are committed to deepening life's journey. The foundation of this dynamic process is grounded in Jungian psychology and Marion Woodman's BodySoul Rhythms^® work, as created by Marion Woodman, dancer Mary Hamilton and vocal coach Ann Skinner. This approach can reawaken the wisdom of the body, light the imagination, and promote integration through dreamwork, movement, and voice, enhanced by music, art, ritual, and poetry.

The fairytale "The Selkie" (or "Sealskin, Soulskin") is our avenue to the world of the psyche. It explores the split a woman may experience between her driven or depleted ego, and her deep Self. Dry and landlocked, she may hear the sea's call to immerse herself in the waters of the unconscious. In risking a descent to recover her feminine "soulskin"—her deeper instinctual wisdom—she may birth new life.

Movement offers a safe and natural means to nurture oneself, connect with buried energies, and embody one's inner dance as it unfolds. Simple exercises in freeing the voice involve relaxation, breathing, and resonance to help find and release one's authentic voice. These creative processes do not involve performance, and are attuned to the personal needs of the individual. The intensive provides an opportunity to engage the feminine in an atmosphere of openness, respect and care. New participants are welcome. Previous participants are encouraged to continue the series to deepen their journey.

Faculty

Meg Wilbur, MA, MFA is a Jungian Analyst with a private practice in Los Angeles and California's central coast. She is a founding member, vice president, and faculty of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. She is Professor Emerita of UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, where she directed plays and taught voice for the stage. She often works as Associate Analyst with the original BodySoul Rhythms team.

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., past co-founder and faculty of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley, teaches in the Somatic Psychology doctoral program at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, the Marion Woodman Foundation and other universities and healing centers internationally. With three decades of clinical experience, she is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals and an advanced Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Her private practice is in San Francisco.

Dorothy Anderson, Ph.D., is founder of The Adult Woman workshops. Former assistant dean at UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, she directed the Senior Fellows Program and taught interpersonal communication, leadership development, and conflict resolution. She brings a Jungian orientation to her speaking and consulting in areas relating to personal growth and leadership. She is also a SoulCollage facilitator and carves wood and stone in her California studio. authenticadultwoman.typepad.com

Schedule:
September 15-21, Monday, 4:00 PM-Sunday, 10:00 AM. 4:00 PM is the check-in time at the facility. The program begins with dinner at 6:00 PM on Monday, September 15, followed by an evening session, and concludes on Sunday, September 21, at 10 am.

Location: Pacifica Graduate Institute, Ladera Lane Campus, Santa Barbara, California

Prerequisites: Open to women with at least 50 hours of Jungian analysis/therapy and 50 hours of active bodywork, or consent of instructor.

Tuition: Please consult the program schedule at www.mwoodmanfoundation.org as the date approaches.

Fees include 6 nights lodging and all meals. Financial assistance is available. Contact Dana Wherity for details.

CEUs: 45 hours of continuing education are available for MFTs, LCSWs, and RNs.

Contact: Dana Wherity
Email: dana@mwoodmanfoundation.org
Phone: 831 425-5794

More Info: www.mwoodmanfoundation.org

Authentic Movement: Moving from Within
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
November 14-16, 2008

Authentic Movement, a meditative and therapeutic form of dance/movement therapy, explores the relationship between the mover/client and the witness/therapist - seeing and being seen. With roots in the psychology of C.G. Jung this natural, depth-oriented approach supports the capacity to be present, in a more vital, increasingly conscious relationship. Safe and non-directive, the practice invites a perception of self and other that can evoke embodied resonance, deep respect, and empathy. Theoretical material will be integrated with experiential explorations, assisting you in rediscovering your natural rhythms, bridging body, psyche, and soul through expressive movement, embodied dreamwork, drawing and writing. No experience in dance is necessary -- only a desire to feel more at home in your body, and the courage to live your dreams.

This is a weekend course taught for the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Auditing the course may be possible, if space allows. For registration information please see http://www.ciis.edu/academica/exa.html or contact the Expressive Arts Therapy program coordinator, Victoria Ritchie at vritchie@ciis.edu

BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program
Ontario, Canada and California, 2008-2010

The Marion Woodman Foundation is pleased to announce a new BodySoul Rhythm® Leadership Training Program? that will begin in 2008. This is a rigorous, three-year series of required, sequential courses including BSR Phase 2 Intensives and Leadership Seminars.

Faculty includes Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton, Ann Skinner, Paula Reeves, Tina Stromsted, Meg Wilbur, Dorothy Anderson and others trained to teach the BSR approach.

Women who apply for Leadership Training must have completed at least 3 BodySoul Intensives before the training begins in 2008 (the Wellsprings Intensive in June, 2007 serves as one of these prerequisites).

For more information please see http://www.mwoodmanfoundation.org
For an application contact: Dana Wherity, Operations Manager, Marion Woodman Foundation
212 Olive Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.
Phone: (831) 425-5794
Fax: (831) 425-8794
Email: dana@mwoodmanfoundation.org

Authentic Movement Intensive
June 6-12, 2010
Tuscany, Italy
Watch this space for further information.

For inquiries contract Tina Stromsted at Tina@AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com
Tel. USA (415) 668-7857

Jung & the Body: The Moving Imagination
June 20-25, 2010
ZIST Conference Center, Penzberg, Germany
Five-day workshop integrating didactic and experiential components in the Jungian practice of Authentic Movement. This course will be in the context of the Potential Oriented Psychotherapy Training program (PoPT), a three year professional training that integrates depth psychology, Gestalt, body psychotherapy, and Ericksonian hypnotherapy, with a spiritual orientation (D?rckheim, Almaas).

An additional Authentic Movement Workshop may be offered for the public at Zist. Dates TBA; please watch this site for further information.
For more information & registration contract:
Dr. med. Wolf B?ntig, email at wolf.buentig@zist.de
Tel. +49-8856-933901 ? Fax +49-8856-933902
Websites: www.zist.de or www.zist-kongress.de

Blossoms Bloom in the Fire: A Tribute to Marion Woodman
(With Marion Woodman, Ross Woodman, Joan Chodorow, Robert Johnson, Ernest Rossi, Stephen Aizenstat, Hendrika DeVries, Tina Stromsted, Meg Wilbur, Virginia Holmquist, and Nina Mahaffey)
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Annual Spring Conference
Hotel Mar Monte, Santa Barbara, CA
February 17-19, 2006

Preconference Day: The Dance of Body & Soul: An Introduction to the Work of BodySoul Rhythms® with Tina Stromsted, Meg Wilbur, Virginia Holmquist, and Nina Mahaffey. Full Conference Faculty includes Marion Woodman, Ross Woodman, Joan Chodorow, Robert Johnson, Ernest Rossi, Stephen Aizenstat, and Hendrika DeVries.
February 17-19, 2006

This one-day pre-conference workshop will present an introduction to the BodySoul Rhythms® work developed by Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton, and Ann Skinner. The Marion Woodman Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2002 to insure that this approach continues, envisions the expansion of the BodySoul work by trained leaders so that all those drawn to this transformational process may experience it for themselves.

Based in the work of Jung and Woodman, this dynamic and creative process reawakens the wisdom of the body and offers a means to integrate material from the unconscious through dreams, movement, and voice. Movement explorations offer a safe structure where natural movement can be nurtured, supporting participants in discovering ways to re-inhabit the body and open to authentic response. Simple exercises in freeing the voice involve relaxation, breathing, and sounding to release energies and connect to one’s true voice. These creative processes do not involve performance, but rather support the individual and the group process of working towards consciousness. The workshop provides an opportunity to experience the dance of body and soul in an atmosphere of acceptance, curiosity, respect, and care, encouraging the soul’s longing for expression through a more richly embodied life.

ceus available (arranged with Pacifica)

Bios

Meg Wilbur, MFT, MFA, is a Jungian analyst, with a private practice in the Los Angeles area. Here specialty is working with actors, writers, and other creative people. She is a professor emerita in UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and television where she taught acting and voice for the stage, and directed plays. She taught at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She writes and directs her own production, featuring poetry and fairy tales and has also directed professionally. She leads seminars in active imagination at Jungian societies. She is a founding member and faculty of the C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California.

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, ADTR, is a Jungian psychotherapist and Registered Dance therapist. She teaches Somatic Psychology, Expressive Arts therapy and Authentic Movement at a wide variety of Institutes, Universities and healing centers in the US and internationally. With thirty years of clinical practice and a background in theatre and dance, her numerous articles and book chapters explore the integration of body, psyche and soul in clinical work. She is a Candidate at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco where she is in private practice.

Virginia Holmquist, MFT, is a Jungian oriented psychotherapist and an AAMFT approved supervisor at L.I.F.E. counseling Group in Monrovia, California. Her areas of interest include the transformative and healing potential of music, myth, dreams symptoms and illness. As a former hospice and oncology nurse educator and acupuncturist, Virginia worked for 25 years to integrate complementary medicine and spirituality into the traditional medical world. She has worked as a group facilitator and workshop leader at the The Wellness Community, and has served as a consumer advocate for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program. Virginia is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in mythological studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Nina Mahaffey, MFT, RN, has worked as a psychiatric nurse and a family therapist in private practice. She has trained extensively with Marion Woodman and her team and has been a devoted participant in the work of BodySoul Rhythms®. She currently works at Santa Barbara City College.

For more information & Registration contact:
Toni D'Anca, Director of Public Programs
Pacifica Graduate Institute
249 Lambert Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013
805.969.3626 ext. 159
805.565.5796 fax
tdanca@pacifica.edu

Using the Compass of Analytical Psychology: Our Emerging Ways
October 26-29, 2006
San Francisco, California
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

"The Sailor cannot see the North, but knows the Needle can."
Emily Dickinson

A major tenet of analytical psychology is a deep respect for a person’s quest to find his or her individual path. This core value might function as magnetic North on our compass where the road toward individuation is represented in the direction one takes toward or away from that cardinal point, a journey, which typically is far from direct.

When Emily Dickinson was counseled by her literary critic and friend, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to delay publishing her poems because he judged her pace "spasmodic" and "uncontrolled," she penned the line we have used to underscore our theme. The path of individuation finding one’s own true North and steering for it, often needing to manage without being in sight of land, struggling to trust in something that may not be easy or even possible to articulate, wandering off course and having to find the way back requires a kind of faith in one’s self, in the psyche, in love and human relationships.

The conference will include lectures, concurrent sessions, and pre-conference workshops and covers a broad range of interests and expression: from the body/mind/soul to classical mythology, from Jung’s play with stones and sand on the shores of the Zurichsee to contemporary psychoanalytic thinking, from abstract theorizing to concrete art forms, from the individual to the collective and the cultural.

We hope you will be moved to join us and that you will find intellectual stimulation, fellow travelers, and food for your own journey at the conference itself and in the hospitable and scenic environment of San Francisco.

The conference is open to all Jungian Analysts, Candidates in analytic training programs, and other Licensed Clinical Professionals.

Pre-Conference Workshop
October 26, 9:00am-12:00pm

"Body as Compass: Dreamdancing as a Pathway toward the Self"
With Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., ADTR

"The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body." - C.G. Jung
"In the deepest sense, we all dream not of ourselves, but out of what lies between us and the other." - C.G. Jung

Our bodies and dreams may be our closest links to the unconscious, expressing the soul’s longing through image, breath, gesture, the rhythm of our step, and the music of our speech. Movement that emerges from a genuine source within us, when made conscious and integrated into lived experience, is by its very nature transformative. Attending to the body allows the individual to more fully access the affects and energies expressed through the textures, imagery and unfolding action of the dream. Here, body and psyche can begin to work together. Like a compass, gestures emerge that can guide us toward true North, where our life energy is directing us.

Recent advances in developmental neuroscience point to the right brain’s receptivity to nonverbal elements such as facial expression, voice tone, movement, affect, music, imagery and the play of symbols in dreams and poetry. From our earliest beginnings, empathic relating by the other is an essential component in the formation of the self. Affective mirroring and embodied presence provide a foundation for the development of consciousness in the cells, and a sense of well being and belonging in the world. Sensitivity to the body can allow analysts to attend to this language as it arises in our analysands, and in ourselves, hearing the soul’s call and working with the obstacles to its fulfillment.

Dreamdancing engages participants in exploring essential elements in the dream through a safe, inner-directed movement process, in the presence of a witness. As the witness watches the mover’s dream unfold, the witness also pays attention to the dream’s impact on his/her own body and feelings (somatic countertransference). It is the attitude and experience of the witness/analyst that invites the body of the mover/client into the room, where potentials held in the dream may touch and awaken both people.

Early shamans and traditional peoples from many cultures respected dreams as oracles. Ancient Greeks made pilgrimages to Aesclepian temples where dreams were incubated to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of physical and soul illnesses. Today, Dreamdancing and body-sensitive analysis can provide a temenos where dreams may be further explored through movement that springs from an inner source.

This didactic and experiential workshop will provide a temenos for attending to gestures that arise from the depths of the body, expressing the soul. Through respectful inner listening, moving, witnessing, drawing and writing we will support the unfolding of a source that informs the self, relationship, and the natural world.

Conference Features:

In addition to the rich content of the preconference and conference program, there are also many opportunities for socializing, informal discussion, and fun. Thursday evening there will be a substantial reception preceding the evening presentation. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings will start with a continental breakfast so you can begin your day with good company and conversation. Saturday evening features a cocktail reception, dinner, and dancing. Concurrent Sessions on Saturday afternoon offer a variety of topics to choose from. A lecture, that will also be open to the public, will be held on Friday evening. Conference participants may attend free of charge. Additional tickets may be purchased in advance from the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco by calling 415.771.8080.

For more information and brochure please contact: Toni D’Anca at tdanca@mac.com
Fax (805) 962-1878
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