Sunday, January 7th 2024, 12 noon EST
Presented by Allan Frater, guest editor of December 2023 Psychosynthesis Quarterly on Imagination and Psychosynthesis, author of Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy & Everyday Life
About the Workshop:
Much of theory and practice with imagination in Psychosynthesis assumes it to be a personal-historical psychological interiority - for example, with ‘inner child’ and subpersonality work. However, this personal ‘inner imagination’ understanding, despite popular usage, is arguably misaligned with the transpersonal or beyond-the-personal premise of Psychosynthesis.
This workshop will turn the conventional inner-imagination view inside out in order to present a truly ‘transpersonal imagination’, where instead of images being inside us, it is we who find ourselves surrounded by images.
The result is an experiential and theoretical expansion of the possibilities of image-work, not just as a means to rational insight, but as healing and transformative in itself, spilling over beyond the consulting room into the activity of images in everyday life.
The workshop will be a mixture of slideshow presentation and discussion with break-out room practicums and small group work.
Learning Objectives:
· The explicit and also implicit basis within Assagioli’s psychosynthesis for an understanding of imagination as transpersonal.
· The 4 limitations of ‘inner imagination’: dualistic, rationalistic, narcissitic and mechanistic.
· The 4 advantages of ‘transpersonal imagination’: non-dual, trans-rational, participatory and emergent
· Practice based considerations to better notice, validate and enhance work with images.
Target Audience:
Psychosynthesis Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Coaches and anyone else interested in cultivating imaginative life – or wanting to help others do so.
This webinar is FREE to members, $25 to non-members
You can read the opening pages of 'Waking Dreams' for free here:
https://wildimagination.uk/book/
Sunday, January 7th 2024, 12 noon EST
Registration closes Friday, January 5th, 5 pm EST
Allan Frater is an author, psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher at The Psychosynthesis Trust in London, UK. He is interested in the role of imagination within normal everyday life, creative work and healing/transformation. His first book ‘Waking Dreams’ presented a critical development of standard approaches to ‘active imagination’ and ‘guided imagery’ incorporating paradigm shifting ideas and methods from ecopsychology, complexity theory, fractal geometry and transpersonal psychotherapy. He runs a popular on-line ‘Waking Dreams’ course and is currently writing a second book, provisionally titled ‘Living Between Stories: Imagination in a Time of Crisis’. Find out more via his website www.wildimagination.uk
