What is Jungian Coaching?
Jung said, "Know Thyself". In Jungian coaching, we are explorers of your life. We will find your deeper self and your unique self-expression by listening to the clues given to us through our passions, pain, and imagination.
We will make sense of it all using reason and imagination or in Jungian terms "conscious and unconscious" dialogue. A Jungian approach looks for symbolic meaning and unseen opportunities for growth. It honors depth, complexity, and wholeness; artificial intelligence provides logic and active imagination balances one-sided knowledge for a deeper understanding of who we are. I like to say that this is the ‘rich articulation of experience’ that Hillman coined.
If you feel compelled to search deeper, let's do it together; this exploration will unearth what is deeply rooted in your soul and the treasure of your innate potential so that you can live your best life. We will work with ways the psyche communicates through images, active imagination, dreams, synchronicities, symbols, mythology, and the body. In many ways, this is the work of our lifetime.
About Me
I was born looking at the invisible, at a kind of abstract image that does not exist and is often missing from reality. I never knew what to do with this vision. I remember the days of trying to find myself (well, most days) and meeting people from all walks of life. One day, during an informational interview a designer suggested that if I was a real visionary, I should start a band. Well, I could not see myself on the front line of a band, so I joined creative businesses on the front line. This kept me from studying philosophy and moving towards conceptual thinking.
So how does a deep thinker, a believer in equality and humanity, create happiness? Finding our role, our agency, can be separate from finding our calling or our purpose in life. I needed to dig deeper than the surface of my career. My career was the symptom of a deeper wish for my life.
This deeper desire has been marinating for decades through the study of the wisdom of depth and Jungian psychology. I believe in the power of synchronicity and symbols to illuminate my path. This is the beauty and the art of the active imagination and the unconscious. I combine this with my decades of business strategy experience to identify actionable insights. It is a powerful and transformative way of looking at two sides of AI – active imagination and actionable insights. My craft combines an endless passion for discovery and holding space for your whole self to emerge, and that includes the darker and less receptive side of ourselves, Jung’s term the shadow. Where are we too narrowly identified with a certain aspect of our personality. It is also described as what is contradictory to our values or what repulses us. It is what needs to become part of our behavioral repertoire.
I did not follow a traditional psychological training, but combined Jungian programs designed to teach me how to apply Jungian thought. I am an Archetypal Pattern Analyst candidate from the Assisi Institute. I hold a certificate in Jungian coaching from the Jung platform and it taught me how to take my Jungian knowledge and help others. I also have a Masters Dream Patterning certificate in objective dream analysis from The Assisi Institute.
It took me years to realize I am a creative strategist even though I did not have a PhD or the accolades to prove my abilities. But the wisdom that comes with age not only opened the door to doubt, it also opened the door wider to possibility.
“The object found as if by chance is situated at the point of connection between external nature, perception, and the unconscious.” – Andre Breton
