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Deep Imagery: Opening the Window to the Imaginal World

Eight Wednesday Evenings
Jan. 21, 28; Feb 4,18,25; March 3,17,24
7 to 9 pm
Led by Dianne Timberlake

As human beings we have different ways of knowing - of receiving information about ourselves and our world. We have the capacity to learn through thinking, feeling, sensing, and imagination. These four functions, however, are rarely developed in a balanced way. Our culture promotes thinking and sensing almost exclusively, but if we are to know ourselves at the deepest level, we must develop our imagination.

Depth psychologists say that the substance of the soul is image and that deep imagery (i.e. imagery that comes to us from the unconscious) is one of the most direct and powerful means of accessing soul.

This program is intended to open wide the window to the imaginal world - into knowing yourself through your own deeply personal imagery.

The particular imagery process we will be using is called The Personal Totem Pole. It has its roots in three traditions: Jungian active imagination, charka theory, and the belief of indigenous peoples worldwide in animals as spirit guides or totems.

During this eight week course, we will find an imagery guide for each of the seven main charkas (our own individual persona; totem pole), and then invite all of them to come into council with us to hear their wisdom for our lives.

Dianne Timberlake is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Sebastopol. She is certified as a workshop leader and Trainer in The Personal Totem Pole Process by the International Institute for Visualization Research. During her almost twenty years of experience in working with this process, she has conducted many groups around the United States and in England and Wales.

Cost: $84

2004

Eight Wednesday Evenings
Jan. 21, 28; Feb 4,18,25; March 3,17,24
7 to 9 pm