One of the deeper, underlying archetypal patterns which is being constellated in the human psyche that is playing itself out collectively on the world stage is the archetype of the “wounded healer.”

To quote Kerenyi, a colleague of Jung who elucidated this archetype, the wounded healer refers psychologically to the capacity “to be at home in the darkness of suffering and there to find germs of light and recovery with which, as though by enchantment, to bring forth Asclepius, the sunlike healer.”

The archetype of the wounded healer reveals to us that it is only by being willing to face, consciously experience and go through our wound do we receive its blessing. To go through our wound is to embrace, assent, and say “yes” to the mysteriously painful new place in ourselves where the wound is leading us. Going through our wound, we can allow ourselves to be re-created by the wound. Our wound is not a static entity, but rather a continually unfolding dynamic process that manifests, reveals and incarnates itself through us, which is to say that our wound is teaching us something about ourselves. Going through our wound means realizing we will never again be the same when we get to the other side of this initiatory process. Going through our wound is a genuine death experience, as our old self “dies” in the process, while a new, more expansive and empowered part of ourselves is potentially born.

Going through and embracing our wound as a part of ourselves is radically different than circumnavigating and going around (avoiding), or getting stuck in and endlessly, obsessively recreating (being taken over by) our wound. The event of our wounding is simultaneously catalyzing a deeper (potential) healing process which requires our active engagement, thus “wedding” us to a deeper level of our being. Jung’s closest colleague, Marie Louise Von Franz, said “the wounded healer is the archetype of the Self [our wholeness, the God within]…and is at the bottom of all genuine healing procedures.”

"The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected.... Only the wounded physician heals."
- Carl Jung 

THEME:

Its dangers as well as its necessity
The Path & Journey
Self-awareness
Inner Work
Transcending pain
Challenges
Light & Dark
Go beyond suffering and pain
The Sacred Teachings of the healer's Heart Chakra
Courage
The Sacred Path of the Innitiate
Source of great wisdom
Path of service
Responsibilty
A Pure and Clear Channel
The Light of God

This workshop is designed for in-depth self analysis and personal process work

TO BRING:

A notebook and pen & healthy lunch for the day