My Two Conflicting Selves
A Workshop for Integration
with Satya Doyle Byock
Sunday, January 29, 2023
10 - 12:30am PST | 1 - 3:30pm EST
“Life is born only of the spark of opposites.” — C.G. Jung
All seminars are hosted online.
A recording of this gathering will be available for just one week following the live gathering to protect the confidentiality of participants.
“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.”
NPR’s Life Kit recently featured an exercise from Satya’s recent book, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood. Satya created this exercise out of a desire to work with clients on a very frequent inner conflict, a sense of being pulled in two (or more) different directions, without a clear sense of how to make a choice or move forward. This feeling can manifest in big and small ways but often feels uncomfortable, awkward, scary, or anxiety-inducing.
“The outer opposition is an image of my inner opposition.”
We often feel inner conflict or confusion around points of life transition. While we tend to speak about ourselves in the singular as whole beings, we very frequently feel at odds with ourselves and not quite concise, put together, or whole. This is normal and healthy, but support is often needed to make sense of the inner conflict and to find a way through.
This inner conflict can often be the root of our most creative breakthroughs personally and professionally, but the solution is rarely easy. Indeed, this inner battle—akin to an inner civil war—can in fact be the beginning of our most creative transformations. But at the start, it’s more likely to feel sludgy, muddy, depressing, and stressful.
In this special 2.5-hour workshop, Satya will guide participants through a more robust version of this exercise than was shared via NPR and host space for expanded self-exploration and community dialogue.
Recording: If you are unable to join us live or would like to watch this on your own time, a recording will be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live event. IMPORTANT: This recording will only be available for one week to protect the safety and confidentiality of all participants.
About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC
Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Times of London, and NPR, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.
Register:
Online Attendance: a link for Zoom will be sent to all registrants via email in advance of this salon.
Recording: A recording will be made available to all registered participants following the live event. This recording will expire after one week.
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