Healing the Soul of our Culture:
Active Imagination & Dreamwork for Social Change
A Two-Part Seminar with Dr. Sharon D. Johnson
Saturdays, November 14th & 21st
10-12pm PT
Online event via Zoom - registration limited
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In Jung’s CW 15, The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, he elaborates that our most powerful creative ideas and knowledge emerge from the Unconscious. This deep well of wisdom is available to everyone, most directly through depth psychological exercises such as dream work and active imagination. With regular practice, the alchemical transformation that can result has the capacity to get us “unstuck” from deeply entrenched imbalances in the individual and cultural psyche.
In the first session of “Healing the Soul of our Culture,” participant volunteers will be guided through an active imagination exercise in the West African “Way of Council”* format. With the resulting active imagination content in mind, a collective dream intention will be set, and participants will return for the second session with any dream material they have. We will work this dream material to uncover any wisdom or guidance about concrete actions we can take to effect change that can heal the soul of our culture.
The intended outcome of “Healing the Soul of Our Culture” is to empower and prompt participants into a state of witnessed and supported reflection, transformation, and generation of their own ideas on how to build and create a healed and just society.
*Active imagination involves posing pertinent questions that guide and direct participants. The Way of Council is a way of communication that allows everyone time to share as other participants witness by listening without interruption, intellectual debate, or conditioned response.
About the Instructor:
Dr. Sharon D. Johnson
Sharon D. Johnson Ph.D is a screenwriter, dream educator, and scholar of television, film, and African American arts; literature; and culture. She has been a published critical and feature story writer for over 30 years, and a member of the Writers Guild of America, West since 1993. She served as Chair of the Writers Guild Committee of Black Writers from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Johnson has published and presented her precedent original research on Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, and on the ancient depth psychological practice of dream work, via numerous venues in the field. Her essay, “Conscious Daughters: Psychological Migration, Individuation, and the Declaration of Black Female Identity in Daughters of the Dust” is included in the recently published anthology, Teaching Daughters of the Dust as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash (Peter Lang). She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School. Dr. Johnson has taught screenwriting; Black popular culture; and African American literature at California State University Northridge, and her original senior seminar on race; gender; and screen adaptations at Emerson College Los Angeles.
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Online Attendance: Registrants will receive an email one week in advance requesting registration confirmation. This confirms that you are receiving our emails and will be present at the seminars. Please check your spam folder if you feel you haven’t received anything.
Household Members: Please do not have anyone other than yourself attending the online salons either at the screen or behind the screen. We are working to create sacred space in these gatherings and that requires a degree of confidence in who is present.
Recordings: These seminars will not be recorded due to the personal material shared by participants.
Discounts: If you could use a scholarship or discount in order to participate, please send an email with a short note. We cannot guarantee access as these are smaller gatherings but are committed to making the seminars accessible.