| Description: During this advanced intensive, we explore those sticky, difficult, and immensely rewarding dynamics that come up so often in life, especially when we least expect them. You know, things like overpowering emotional charges triggered by other people and by our encounters in the natural world!
We will ask: What do you do when all of a sudden someone is laying the biggest PROJECTION you've ever seen right on your lap? That you are, for example, their perfect good father/mother, their one true soulmate, their evil step-parent, or a complete imposter. And what do you do if you believe them, for heaven's sake? And what do you do when you catch yourself projecting on others? Maybe while you are guiding, teaching, counseling . . . or trying to love? Juicy, huh? We're going to work with these things in part by jumping into the cauldron with our own projections on each other. (Don't worry, no one will be required to jump into the hot seat). Furthermore, we are going to do some SHADOW WORK. You bet. How can you live a conscious existence these days without knowing that we are all regularly conjuring up all kinds of monsters from the deep? We go off in search of soul or "the good life", say, or even the desire to contribute to the Great Turning, and before we know it, we have inadvertently opened the long black bag we drag behind us, and all these demons are climbing out. We know, however, that so much of our wholeness is hidden in that bag, the energy there unavailable to us until we assimilate elements of the Shadow.
And all our projections, of course, involve the Shadow. So we'll work with strategies for spotting, unmasking, and assimilating those dark shapes. And then there's the LOYAL SOLDIER, the sub-personality that has been keeping us "safe" since early childhood by making us small as it shovels big chunks of our wholeness into that black bag so that we will appear acceptable to the powers that be. In order to access the Shadow, we are going to have to break an old promise and change the nature of our alliance with the Loyal Soldier.
Furthermore, we are going to have to revisit our SACRED WOUNDS -- our core vulnerabilities -- that have kept us stuck in the Old Story, but that also provide the priceless opportunity, when we are ready, to remythologize our lives. In short, we are going to have to enter the Sweet Darkness. A great deal of liberation and deepening can occur during this intensive as we attend with kindness to those aspects of self we usually hide.
An application is required for this intensive. Please contact the Animas office to receive an application form.
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