A one-day Practical Interactive Workshop - led by Ireland’s leading Jungian Psychologist Jasbinder Garnermann
This Workshop will cover the following:
PART ONE:
How to identify the shadow
Symbols of the shadow in dreams – forests, dark landscapes and unsavoury characters, dilapidated houses, wild animals, fires, riots, battles, break-ins, caged, neglected or abused animals, excrement and over-flowing toilets.
Shadow projections in our lives – people we love to hate, a colleague or relative, groups of people such as immigrants, single mums, youths with hoodies; projections on institutions such as the church, as well as on other species.
Manifestation of the shadow in circumstances – obstacles, minor accidents and illnesses, money problems, addictions, conflicts, marital and work problems, missed opportunities, negative events.
PART TWO:
How to redeem the shadow
Garlanding the bull – when we appreciate the teeth of a tiger, the glossy fur of a rat, the plumpness of a slug we garland the shadow. Eros, the life-instinct, replaces Thanatos, the death-instinct.
Through dreams we discover the distortions that lie at the heart of shadow behaviour – abandonment at the core of addictions, sadness distorted into rage, the bad breast into envy and greed, fear of hurt into callousness, oedipal fixations into cowardice.
Widening of perspective –It is the selfish demands and fears of the ego that fuel the shadow. By shifting our centre of consciousness from the ego to the Self we gain a different perspective on life. We respond to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were our own, and so
‘pass from fearful fragmentation To fearless fullness in the changeless whole’(Katha Upanishad, Chapter 3, verse 2)
