By Dr. Victoria Shackelford

Saturday, January 23rd

1:00 -4:00 PM

3 CEUs available

Dr. Shackelford presents a workshop using techniques of active imagination, expressive art therapy, and meditation to explore the shadow-personality. Learn how to enlist the aid of archetypal images through doodle drawing to activate unconscious material from the psyche.

Bio. Of Dr. Shackelford
Victoria Shackelford, PhD is in private practice in Austin Texas. The theoretical depth psychology that informs Dr. Shackelford engages the psyche in response to the body utilizing the analytical studies of Carl G. Jung, the archetypal work of James Hillman and the somatic work of Marion Woodman. You may find Dr. Shackelford at:     

210.602.3002 or 512.464.9544

Materials include:

·      Black markers,

·      Color markers,

·      Oil crayons.

·      A drawing tablet of white paper at least the size of office print paper.

Outline of the day:

1:00 - 1:30 PM
Introductions and short discussion about this outline including the following:

We began the day with a definition of the archetype of the psyche shadow and the archetypal possession of that shadow based on the psychological theories of Carl Jung and James Hillman.  

This includes a discussion of how the shadow archetype as a pattern of behaviors shows up in the body.

 BREAK OF 5 MIN.

1:30 - 2:00 PM
a demonstration of the meditation and the activity of “Psychic Automatism” the techniques used by the surrealist in the 19th century art and taken up by Carl Jung and Freud as “Free Association”.

Psychic Automatism or Free Association a type of Automatic drawing or doodling, according to Jung and Freud, helps release a form of truth and authenticity from the darker areas of the psyche. It is from the images seen on the paper that we can dig deeper into our own shadow psyche and see what it has to say about our true self.

The process of the inquiry is based the Carl Jung perspective:

WHEN A THING IS TRULY SEEN IT USUALLY TRANSFORMS!

BREAK OF 5 MIN

2:00 - 2:45 PM
We begin an actual mediation of 5- 10 min while drawing at the same time and drawing immediately afterwards. We may repeat this several times. There is no talking during this time.

There will be a bell sound for the beginning and end of each meditation /drawing activity.

 BREAK OF 5 MIN

3:00 - 4:00 PM
We together participate in A ZOOM showing of each participant’s automatic drawing and a sharing of the images seen in the drawings that had the strongest emotional affect.

EACH PARTICIPTANT CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO NOT SHARE AND LISTEN ONLY. THIS IS POWERFUL SHADOW MATERIAL FROM EACH PERSON’S OWN PSYCHE. IF ONE FEELS TRIGGERED PLEASE ONLY LISTEN AND LET ME KNOW PRIVATELY AT THE END AND WE CAN TALK ON THE PHONE INDEPENDATELY AND PRIVATERLY AS NEEDED.

Look forward to meeting every one of you Brave Souls.

ph: 210.602.300