In the workshop, we take the dialog from the lecture further into application. Practical tools will be given. We will tune in together with the larger psyche and the transcendent via dreams and active imagination with the somatic unconscious. And we will utilize the Axiom of Maria and more to help grow this awakened heart field that helps us with the abject, through active imagination, writing exercises, discussion, and meditation. 

The warrior archetype, whose aim in the psyche is true to Eros, that serves the mysterium coniunctionis -- the union of opposites -- will also be explored to deepen our experience and understanding of these forces at work in our lives.

Monika Wikman, Ph.D, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, she has also contributed chapters, articles and poems to numerous publications including a chapter in The Dream and Its Amplification, edited by Erel Shalit and Nancy Furlotti. A graduate of the Jung–Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zürich, she taught for many years in the graduate department at California State University, Los Angeles, and was a dream researcher at UCSD Medical Center on "Dreams of the Dying."   She hosts a non-profit project under Earthways.com, The Center for Alchemical Studies.  Podcasts with Monika on various topics can be found at Shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com.