C.G. Jung wrote “psyche is image” and encouraged us to create a personal book where we can put our personal dreams and images. Over time, this becomes our sacred visual temple where we can return for psychological and spiritual reminders, reflection, and nourishment. 

Join me for a four-week course on creating our own touchstone using spontaneous drawing, collage, and response writing that will be prompted by selected quotes and concepts from Jung’s psychology and experimentation with art materials. Each week we will focus on a different psychological topic that will invite us to thoughtfully and playfully explore the various ways in which psychic energy and the alchemy of the creative process become visible through lines, shapes, and colors. Engaging with the creative instinct through an active imagination process amplifies and enhances our relationship with the unconscious, revealing at times the movement of the Self. 

You do not need to be an artist, but simply to come with the courage and willingness to discover and work with what the unconscious offers. Although this is not therapy, you may undergo a discovery process from which you can actively reflect upon how the creative spirit moves through you. 

Nora Swan-Foster has been a Jungian analyst and board-certified art therapist for more than 30 years. She is a training and supervising analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) and on the faculty of the affiliated Memphis Atlanta Jung Seminar (MAJS). She has been on the graduate art therapy faculty at Naropa University for many years and is the former North American editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology.

Along with publishing several papers, she has two books: Jungian Art Therapy: Images, Dreams and Analytical Psychology and Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues: Birth, Death and Rebirth. Nora has a private practice in Boulder, Colorado, where she and her analyst husband currently share a home with two miniature schnauzers, Ruby and Jasper.