The Artful Archetpal Journey of Self Discovery

The Artful Archetypal Journey of Self Discovery


WHO: Anyone who loves learning through story, art and
mythology. Anyone who wants to go deeper in self
exploration. Anyone who wants to explore a mythic
poetic way of being in the world.

WHAT: This is an art therapy group using story, art,
focusing, meditation, and other techniques for being
with your hopes and challenges and finding the flow.

WHEN: Sept. 21/09 Monday night 6:30 p.m. – 9;30 p.m.
Sept. 22/09 Tuesday afternoon 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. &
night 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

WHY:Because it’s a rich, insightful, fun and creative
journey and exciting group to be a part of.

HOW: Come to 2500 MacDonald St. The Art Therapy
Studio is at the back of the house in the lower level. If you
don't live in Saskatchewan, we can arrange something
online or by correspondence.

Cost: This group is 20 weeks. Cost is $275.00 for first 8
weeks, $275.00 for next 8 weeks and $175.00 for the
last 4 weeks. Total for year is $725.00.

An archetype is an original model of a person, energy form, or ideal that is universally recognized. We find archetypes in myths, folklore, oral stories and artwork throughout the world. Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Allan Hunter’s Stories We Need to Know, and Carl Jung’s work all explore archetypes. In this workshop we will explore a different archetype each session. We will identify and work with our own personal archetypes and make art using the stories, myths, gifts and characters of our personal archetypes.
The tarot is one of the oldest and richest sources of archetypes. The mythological structure within the tarot is a guide that can help us understand our life experiences and spiritual development. By placing our life stories within a larger context we can step back and witness themes and patterns that we find hard to see while immersed in our life process. We can witness what myths we are living by, what new myths or stories are emerging and which old myths or stories are being challenged. The journey of the Fool through the twenty one archetypal expressions lays the plot or connecting thread for the process of individualism and spiritual growth. The archetypes can show us what gifts or strengths we are ready to claim or what unrealized potential we are avoiding. This symbolic matrix leads us to new realizations and
ways of perceiving. Moving through the archetypal journey as a way to witness, understand, and facilitate your growth process is an exciting journey.
Archetypal psychology is combining Jungian, Eastern, and traditional psychology and seeing how these ideas are blended in the archetypes.

Problems have different needs

Knowing the difference between problems that respond well to a head-on approach and ones that need us to respect their mystery and depth, can really help save our time and energy.

Finding what you need . . .

In one color circle what you have already have and in another color circle what you need in your life right now . . .

balance self-esteem tenderness composure love recognition
generosity centering activity confidence caring awareness
health motivation sharing solitude strength knowledge
skill music devotion energy laughter opportunities
laughter fitness challenges support serenity contemplation
relaxation variety trust comfort insight self-expression
structure joy harmony nutrition control companionship
romance touching sex intimacy sleep accomplishments
money patience integration beauty surrender commitment
flexibility education training sensitivity communion coordination
exercise experience receptivity faith forgiveness responsibility
freedom purpose self-control compassion acceptance self-awareness
peace love passion hope creativity contribution
play respect loyalty trust belonging validation
guidance fun safety security progress being listened to
connection touch attention calmness warmth non-judgment

Keeping a Studio Journal

Keeping a Studio Journal

Keeping a studio journal is a process of catching ideas, and developing those ideas into designs and finally realizing those designs in art pieces.

A studio journal is a valuable tool that can help you in your creative journey. Learning to create is an exploratory journey and a journal helps you:
• Be focused.
• Get distance from and process with the internal critic.
• Learn your own expression and style.
• Share creative ideas with others.
• Express ideas visually. It enriches the texture of your visual life.
• Establish a pattern of observing, notating and using your studio journal.
• The journal catches and stores what you find visually stimulating and keeps it together in one place so those images do not get lost or forgotten.
• It is a place to do visual research. It is a memory aid.
• It is a toolbox. It is a good thing to return to when you feel uninspired.
• It is a place for all parts of you to express and have space to communicate.
• It is a place for sampling and planning.
• It is a place to try new art materials, supplies and styles.
• It is a place to collect, edit, organize, translate and finally make art.

The journal can have drawings, photos, collages, writing, paintings, etc. You work at your own pace and remember to have the journal handy for when you feel inspired by certain images and want to record them. Some people like to have a set time to use their journals and others like to use it whenever they feel drawn to do so. A studio journal is a place to process rather than decorate, although that may happen. In the journal do not try to cultivate a style or look unless it is a part of your visual research. Personal creativity needs to be developed and worked on and this tool helps with that process. Doing this work also means that you will be doing personal work. Your emotional, physical, intellectual and intuitive self will all have views, opinions, emotions and likes and dislikes to express.
Working in a studio journal helps makes an idea real and tangible. The moment you note the idea down in a studio journal a whole series of questions arise in your mind, and as you answer these questions often more questions and reflections arise. This is stepping into your own development as a creator and taking responsibility for what could unfold. The more you journal about your creative understanding and reflective process the more you develop your psychological strength that you are doing the work of educating yourself on the how and what of your creative process. Studio journals are a way of giving you permission to spend time in a creative pursuit. It is an active claim of who you are and how you want to spend your time. They contain potential projects. You note things that you may want to work on right away and other things that you may come back to years later.
Some people may want to record everything to do with their creative life into the journal; to do lists, material receipts, shows attended, etc. Other people may want to use it to support their habit of looking at the world in a creative way. Others may want to use it to develop the skill of creativity in whatever form that takes.
When we create we start repeating patterns. This will show up in the journal. As you collect, sort, and add visual materials to your journal you will note the themes and patterns in life that interest you. If you haven’t developed your style, this will happen while working in the journal.
The journal is a good place to work with your internal critic. It is a place to dialogue about fears, and thoughts that sometimes get in the way of your creativity. It is a place to honor and listen to what your critical side is saying and understand from its point of view how it is trying to protect and guide you. Often what you call your inner critic is really a part of you that remembers how disappointed or hurt you were when you tried something before and failed and it is trying to prevent you from making the same mistake. When you listen to and work with all parts of you, you move into new ways of understanding yourself. Your creative process is enhanced and you to take risks.
The journal can also be a place to keep personal goals and record your process with those goals. It is also a good place to record ideas after workshops before you forget the inspiring things that happened. It can be private or public. It may be something that you enjoy sharing with other artists or very personal.
If you are using blank pages, you may want to print out a template of lined paper or a grid to slip under a page that you want to write on. You may also want some plastic sheets to slip in if you are using wet materials in the journal. You may want to glue a envelope on the front and on the back page for collecting images that you are not ready to glue in. You may want to keep the journal out in a place where you see it all the time so you do not forget to use it.

How to setup the journal:

• You may want it to be random.
• You may want to start with inspirational quotes on the pages.
• You may want to start each entry with an image then write.
• You may want to start each entry with a color.
• You may want to start with process writing.
If you want to develop the habit of using the journal, usually if you practice for 28 days the habit is set. Then it becomes part of your life.

Journaling with Images
A way of processing with an image:
1. Where do you feel this in your body?
What are the body sensations?
2.What emotions are evoked?
What are you feeling?
3. What are your thoughts?
What ideas, reflections are emerging?
4. How are you inspired by this image?
Where would you take it? How would you make it yours?
5. Why is it relevant it your creative process?
Looking at the image:
• Divergent thinking: Free associate to the image
• Subjectively: How does it relate to me?
• Naivete: What is new, fresh here?
• Taking a risk: What can I do new here with this?
• Distinct Style: How does this relate to my own unique voice and or style?


The creative person is one who can look at the same thing as everybody else but see something different. A creative act takes unremarkable parts to create an unforgettable whole.
- Denise Shekerjian

Reflecting on self-acceptance

Before we can move to healthier ways, we must be where we actually are. Radical self-acceptance is a connecting, soft, slow, and compassionate way of being. We can help each other. When you see your “sister” beating up on herself, take her weapons away and just hold her.
-Sark in Succulent Wild Woman

Reflecting on Wholeness . . .

Egocentricity trying to understand whole mind (true nature, inherent adequacy, wholeness, etc.) is like your toaster trying to understand electricity.
- Cheri Huber

Reflecting on optimism . . .

THE OUTLAW CATALOG OF CAGEY OPTIMISM By: Rob Brezsny


The manual called the DSM-IV. identifies scores of pathological states but no healthy ones.
In 2002, I began to complain about this fact, and asked readers to help me compile material for a proposed antidote, the Anti-DSM--a compendium of healthy, exalted, positive states of being. As their entries came in, we at the Beauty and Truth Laboratory were inspired to dream up some of our own. Below is part one of our initial attempt at creating an Anti-DSM-IV, or as we also like to call it, The Outlaw Catalog of Cagey Optimism.

* MODULATED RAPTURISM. Welcoming miracles and peak experiences in full awareness that the growth they initiate will require sober commitment and disciplined work to complete.
* NONRESENTMENT SYNDROME. Having an ability to be friendly, open, and helpful to people with whom you disagree.
* NOT HAVING TO BE RIGHT. Fostering an ability, even a willingness, to be proven wrong about one of your initial perceptions or pet theories; having an eagerness to gather information that may change your mind about something you have fervently believed; cultivating a tendency to enjoy being corrected, especially about ideas that are negative or hostile.
* ORGIASTIC LUCIDITY. Experiencing an expansive and intricate state of clarity while in the midst of extreme sensual pleasure.
* PERMANENT DIVINE INFATUATION. Having not the abstract understanding but rather a direction perception that the Divine Intelligence, who recreates the universe fresh every moment, is deeply in love with you, even as you are in love with the Divine Intelligence.
* RADICAL CURIOSITY. Characterized by the following traits: an enthusiasm for the mystery embedded in the mundane; a preference for questions over answers; an aversion to stereotyping, generalizations, and jumping to conclusions; a belief that people are unsolvable puzzles; an inclination to be unafraid of both change and absence of change; a strong drive to avoid boredom; a lack of interest in possessing or dominating what you are curious about.
* RELENTLESS UNPRETENTIOUSNESS. Possessing a strong determination to not take yourself too seriously, not take your cherished beliefs too literally, and not take other people's ideas about you too personally.
* ROOTED IN ETERNITY. The state of knowing that your true identity is deeper than the constant chatter of thoughts, images, and feelings that swirls through your mind.
* SACRED PERCEPTIVENESS. Seeing others for who they really are, in both their immaturity and genius, and articulating your insights to them with care.
* SCARY-THUNDER-IN-THE-DARK HAPPINESS. Feeling deliciously safe in a well-protected sanctuary during a severe storm.
* SCHIZOFRIENDIA. Hearing voices in your head that are constantly supportive, encouraging, and keen to offer advice that helps you make the most of every experience.
* SELF-ACCEPTANCE UNDER PRESSURE. The state achieved upon leaving a room filled with people who know you, and not worrying about what anyone will say about you.
* SLY TRUST. Having a discerning faith that the integrity of your efforts will inevitably lead to a result that's exactly what you need; being skillful in the art of never trying too hard.
* SONGBIRD-IN-A-TREE. The cultivated awareness that daily life presents countless opportunities to be buoyed by moments of ordinary extraordinary beauty, and that these moments are most available if you perceive with your senses and not with your internal turmoil.
* TENDER RAGE. Maintaining a strong sense of love and protectiveness towards a person or creature or institution you're angry at.
* TRANSCONSUMERISM. An absence of tendencies to predicate happiness on acquiring material possessions.
* UNSELFCONSCIOUSNESS. Doing what you're doing and being who you're being without thinking about it at all. Being happy by virtue of not worrying about whether or not you're happy; enjoying a unified state in which you are not split between the you who acts and the you who observes.
* UNTWEAKABILITY. Having a composed, blame-free readiness to correct false impressions when your actions have been misunderstood and have led to awkward consequences.
* VIRTUOSO INTEGRATION. Consistently walking your talk; effectively translating your ideals into the specific actions; creating results that are congruous with your intentions; being free of hypocrisy.
* VISIONS OF THRILLING EXPLOITS. Experiencing an eruption of intuition that clearly reveals you will attempt a certain adventure in the future, as when you spy a particular mountain for the first time and know you'll climb it one day.
* WEATHER SENSITIVITY. Having a high degree of awareness about your sensitivity to changes in the weather, and having a skill for managing your responses to those shifts so as to consistently bring out the best in yourself.
* WHOLEHEARTEDNESS. Having the capacity to give, on a moment's notice, your complete attention, empathy, and playful intelligence to any person or circumstance you choose.
* WILD DISCIPLINE. Possessing a talent for creating a kind of organization that's liberating; knowing how to introduce limitations into a situation in such a way that everyone involved is empowered to express his or her unique genius; having an ability to discern hidden order within a seemingly chaotic mess.
* WHEEEE. A serenely boisterous intensely focused chaos of communion with streaming fountains of liquid light hurtling softly through the giggly upbeat tender assurance that all is well and a mysterious unimaginable intelligence is magnetizing us forward into ever-more wonderful throbs of naked truth that bestow the humble happy sight of life as a river of fantastically lucky artful change flowing through us forever.

Today when you pause, reflect on your hands . . .

The craftsmen of the Middle Ages, thought that the spiral patterns on our fingertips are marks left by the soul entering or leaving the body. When we touch others with love, care, and attention it is a soulful act.

“Our soul merges from this mysterious place inside us and out through our fingertips, ensouling the wood we carve, the gardens we cultivate, the children and animals and lovers we touch. To me, this is a poetic way of imagining how we bring soul back into our personal lives- by paying attention to the very way we touch, as with the way we prepare food or the care we give our work or the manner in which we touch the earth.”
- Phil Cousineau

Reflecting on Acceptance . . .

Anger and tenderness: my selves.
And now I can believe they breathe in me
as angels, not polarities.
- Adrienne Rich

Reflecting on Patience . . .

Patience is not only tender, respectful and loving, it is quietly defiant; it knows how to hold its own ground. It has a calm, silent authority that insists by example what must change. It empathizes with pain and suffering but provides a way of going beyond mere endurance. You can trust its strength and wisdom. It moves slowly but it the right pace; it's always there, right behind you, offering you just the help you need. Its power is felt by others; it changes them, too.
Mary Jennings,
The Focusing Connection, November 2007

Reflecting on change . . .

All transformations are a change in consciousness.
When making a change in your life:

1. Just Begin
Anywhere is a good place to begin on the path of change. Take baby steps. With change, each day is a new beginning.

2. Give It Time
When you see the new change as a way of life, you don’t have to worry about making time to practice it.

3. Be Natural
Making a conscious change requires energy, earnestness, and sincerity, but these activities do not have to be depleting, ponderous, or strained.

4. Be Flexible
The path of change is filled with many twists and turns. It calls for a certain flexibility of action. Try not to be rigid or unbending for deters you from enjoying the surprises along the way.

5. Let Go
You are not in charge of this path. The harder you try to make things happen or perfect the process of changing, the quicker you’ll find yourself caught in the trap of disappointment. Surrender yourself to practice, and don’t worry about where it is taking you. Go with the flow.

6. Don’t Be Concerned About Externals
Make sure that your being on the path is not dependent upon external conditions. It doesn’t matter whether you’re in the right or wrong place or whether you’re depressed or optimistic. You can change any time and any place no matter what the conditions.

7. Don’t Have Expectations
Taking up the path of change is about dealing with whatever shows up in the present moment.

8. Remember Nothing Is Exactly the Same
Subtle changes are always taking place, revealing new variations on old themes. With practice you become attuned to them.

9. Welcome Bad Days
Don’t beat up on yourself for bad days when nothing seems to go right. In the big picture, even bad days have a purpose. They test our stamina and fuel our resolve.

10. Deal with Your Demons
Sometimes diligence in your practices is taken as a signal that it’s time for your demons to show up to see if they can drag you down or even stop you in your tracks. Accept them as fellow travellers along the path, know in your heart that they can also be your teachers.

11. Work with Who You Are
Change yields a rigorous and rewarding form of self-knowledge. We can’t escape who we are; we carry it around with us all the time. The work with it all, our wholeness.

12. Enjoy the Company
The path of conscious change constantly reminds us how much we need the support and companionship of others. Everyone we meet encourages us to grow by inspiring us or challenging us. Love and appreciate them all.

Adapted from writings by: Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Reflecting on money . . .

"Money is the most universally motivating, mischievous, miraculous, maligned, and misunderstood part of contemporary life." -Lynne Twist

Reflect on the attitudes toward money that you have picked up from your birth families, culture, and religious traditions, as well as the feelings you have over having or not having enough money. Your beliefs, habits, and ideals about this medium of exchange say a lot about your deepest longings, fears, and expectations. Money can be a carrier of your best intentions.



Spirituality of Money - Edward Hays

a) First, we should love our money. It is good to have earned it and it is a sign of a job well done.

b) It is an expression of self-love how we use it for ourselves.

c) Who and where you choose to give money to shows how you move through the world, where your energy goes and who and what you are connected to.

d) Money is an expression of your energy.

Reflect on taking yourself lightly . . .

Remember that angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Reflecting on Change

Every time a human being makes real progress in consciousness, the whole world for him has changed; relationships change and the outlook on the outer world for him has changed and on his own situation changes. There is complete rebirth of the world.
von Franz

Reflecting on Dreams

Everyone dreams each night whether the dreams are remembered or not. Dreaming is necessary for psychic and physical health. Dreams are an essential part of your life. Dreams are used for different purposes in different cultures. The Australian aborigines have ‘dream time’, the Navahos believe dreams are a means of communicating with the spiritual realm. Carl Jung found that dreams were a source of guidance for whole tribes in East Africa. In the shamanic traditions of North America and Central Asia, dreams and visions were a sign of a shaman’s ‘call’. In Greek times dreams were messages of divine truth. The Judeo-Christian tradition also viewed dreams as messages.
Today dreams have become part of the field of psychology and are used in analysis. Sigmund Freud discovered a basic truth about dreams, that they give a picture of the psyche as it is. Carl Jung took this discovery further to prove that dreams also provide clues for future development. He did extensive work to support the recovery of dreams as an important part of the human experience. Freud believed that symbols disguised and distorted the truth. He saw dreams as a secret code that must be deciphered. Jung believed that dreams may be revelations of unconscious wisdom but he also believed that you understand take the symbols and messages for just what it says.
Dreams were believed to sometimes give signals of the moments in life when transformation occurs. Dreams can prepare the dreamer for the next day or coming year. They can be used for increasing the possibility of making wise choices.

The Unconscious
Dreams are products of the unconscious. Jung also thought dreams could connect with the collective unconscious of humans and consists of “latent predisposition's towards identical reactions.” He saw the unconscious as housing undeveloped, unconscious portions of the personality which are “striving for integration in the wholeness of the individual.” Jung called the collective patterns and figures from the collective unconscious archetypes. An archetype is an imprint of a definite grouping of an archaic character containing mythological motifs and patterns. The collective unconscious is the repository of human experience and has taken eons to form.

Symbolic Language
Symbolic language is a language in which inner experience, feelings, and thoughts are expressed as if they were sensory experiences or events in the outer world. Time and space are not as important as intensity and association. Symbolic language is contained in dreams, myths and fairy tales. Images precedes words in the psyche. Signs in a dream point to another reality, symbols make present the other reality.
There are always two aspects of a symbol: the concrete (conscious), and the other reality (unconscious). It bridges the two realities. Symbols in dreams, religious tradition, and literature all share the quality of presenting insights into an unseen world (unconscious).
There are personal symbols, something that has become a symbol to you in your personal experience, conventional symbols such as a country’s flag and universal symbols which come from the common experience of humankind.

Key Questions for Responding to Dreams

Respond to as many questions as you choose. Let your intuition have full rein by writing whatever comes up.
1. How am I, as dream ego, acting in this dream?
2. What archetypal symbols in this dream are important to me?
3. What are the various feelings in this dream?
4. What are the various actions in this dream?
5. What relation, if any, does this dream have to what is happening right now in my life? To something in my future? To something in my personality?
6. Who or what is the archetype in this dream?
7. What is the helping or healing force in this dream?
8. What is being wounded in this dream?
9. What is being healed?
10. What would I like to avoid in this dream?
11. What actions might this dream be suggesting to me to consider?
12. What does this dream want from me?
13. What choices can I, and will I, make as a result of working with this dream?
14. Why did I need this dream?
15. Why am I not doing this in my life?
16. Why have I dreamed of ‘so and so’ now?

Dream Task
Asking a dream for clarity. The following night after a dream, ask before you sleep, “where do I go from here?”
After working with a dream:
1. Take an action in everyday life that honors what the dream has taught you.
2. Work and use the dream as information to integrate into your everyday life.
3. Some dreams can have literal material to work with.
4. Dreams can cause synchronicity to happen in waking life experience.

Working with the Dream Symbol
Relax and center yourself. Concentrate on the symbol you wish to explore. Picture it in your mind. Maintain focus on the symbol.
Answer the following questions:
1. What experiences / associations have you had with the symbol? Look back through the history of your life for times you have seen the symbol and have been involved with it in some manner.
2. What feelings does the symbol evoke in you?
3. Free- associate with the symbol. Say the name of the symbol out-loud and allow your mind to wander spontaneously to other objects or words which your unconscious mind connects it with.
4. Draw or paint the symbol. Draw it in an environment.
5. Read symbolic dictionaries and encyclopedias for the archetypal meanings associated with the symbol.
6. Create a story or fantasy that involves the symbol.
Draw one image or symbol from your dream and ask it:
1. Who or what are you?
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2. What do you have to tell me?
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3. Why are you in my art?
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4. What would you like to have happen?
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5. What more do you have to say to me?
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Title your art:
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Rules for being Human

Rules for Being Human

1. You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons.
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may take the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes only lessons.
Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works”.
4. A lesson is repeated until learned.
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end.
There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better than “here”.
When your “there” has become a “here” you will simply obtain another “there” that will, again, look better than “here”.
7. Others are merely mirrors of you.
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you.
You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie inside you.
The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.

(I got this so long ago, I don't remember who wrote it)

Deeping the inner relationship with yourself

A guide to developing more esteem for yourself:
Compassion: Honour all of your feelings, and listen with empathy to others.
Clear Communication: Express your emotions simply, and speak from the heart.
Creativity: Try new things, be playful, and invite the unexpected.
Consistency: Do what you say, and say what you mean each day.
Challenge: Approach problems with positive expectancy, and learn from the challenges.
Cheerfulness: Embrace the day with lightheartedness, and learn to enjoy life.
Confidence: Trust and believe in your own talents and abilities.
Calmness: Breathe and live from a calm centre within yourself each day.
Clear Agreements: Create clear agreements.
Commitment: Be committed to being true to yourself and honest with others each day.

Steps to self-esteem:
1. Identify and fulfill your needs.
2. YOU approve of yourself.
3. Share experiences with friends.
4. Review your successes and practice self-encouragement.
5. Get in touch with feelings and express them.

“As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”
- Julia Cameron

Today when you pause, reflect on the choices that you are living

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." -Kahlil Gibran

Today when you pause, sit there a little longer . . .

Don't just do something; sit there.
- Osho

Reflecting on the choices that we make . . .

"Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living." -Julia Cameron