I did not know that I am your vessel, empty without you but brimming over with you.

                                             - C.G. Jung speaking to his soul, The Red Book, p. 237

Soul is calling out to us. Are we listening? Our world is in turmoil. We hunger for moments of rest, for candlelight, Mozart, wildflowers, friendship. We long for soulfulness. 

This workshop will have three parts, with handouts and time for reflection and writing. 

Part 1: How do we see the soul?  From Plato to Meister Eckhart to C. G. Jung, we will look at how the soul has been understood and befriended. 

Part 2: How do we listen to the soul?  We will turn to the practice of active imagination. C.G. Jung will guide us with excerpts from The Red Book. We will write our own active imaginations in our journals. Jung saw our journals as our chapels, “the silent places of the spirit.” 

Part 3: How do we share the light of our soul?  Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Thomas Moore will encourage us as we take our place in the world.

Susan Tiberghien, American writer living in Geneva, is the author of four memoirs, two writing books: One Year to a Writing Life and Writing Toward Wholeness, and most recently the 20th Anniversary Edition of Circling to the Center, An Invitation to Silent Prayer. For twenty years, she has been teaching at C.G. Jung Societies, the International Women’s Writing Guild, and writers’ centers and conferences in Europe and the U.S. She recently recorded three online master classes for the Jung Society of Washington. Susan founded and directed the Geneva Writers’ Group for 25 years. www.susantiberghien.com