The Imaginal Heart:
– Practice Group (from fall to spring equinox)
The Imaginal Heart will be a group container for sharing and exploring imaginal practice together. Our journey will follow a series of pre-recorded videos introducing the psychology and philosophy around active imagination.
Our group meetings, however, will be focused on our own experiences with the imaginal, and dedicated to sharing and developing practice together. Setting time aside weekly for dream journalling, imaginal practice, and having an openness to sharing inner life in a safe container is therefore encouraged.
During our journey we will be approaching active imagination, not merely as a therapeutic method, but as an organ of imaginal perception centered in the heart. Cultivating this organ could be seen as a way of retrieving the reality of the soul all too often lost in the dualistic split of our contemporary worldview.
Rather than striving for transcendence, the group will emphasize receptivity, presence and embodiment — learning to meet and engage with archetypal figures, dreams, and images as living and autonomous presences; subtle bodies which can be felt viscerally and which are often connected to land, place and ancestry. Neither “in here” nor “out there”, but in the intermediate space between…
Laboratory of the Soul
– An Alchemical Cacao Ceremony (3/10)
You are warmly invited into an evening of ceremonial cacao, active imagination and symbolic exploration. Together we will enter the imaginal realm — or the Mundus Imaginalis — the subtle reality of dreams, archetypes, myth and living symbols
We begin by honoring and drinking ancient plant teacher, Theobroma Cacao, opener of the heart and “food of the gods”, as the Maya used to call it. From there, the evening unfolds through a sharing circle, sound journey and symbolic, creative work inspired by the Jungian practice of Active Imagination.
The gathering is conceived as a kind of alchemical laboratory of the soul. In the spirit of the old alchemists, we enter the symbolic field not to escape the world, but to deepen it — to encounter the images, emotions, memories, ancestors and archetypal forces that move beneath the surface of ordinary consciousness.
For Jung, these figures were not merely fantasies, but living presences of the psyche: autonomous forces that shape our longings, fears, creativity and becoming. Through imagination, dialogue and symbolic attention, what is unconscious may begin to transform within the vessel of our body.
How can we – poetically and imaginatively – engage with the depths of our being? Is there a way for us to refine the forces that inhabit our psychic life? And is there a quintessence of meaning and vitality, to be distilled from the chaotic world of our dreams, emotions and symptoms? Learn more
The Wounded King and The Path of Renewal
– A pilgrimage walk from Helsingør to Gurre (5/9)
We invite you to join a Jungian pilgrimage through the landscape of North Zealand — a contemplative walk from Helsingør to Gurre, where myth, history, nature, and psyche begin to mirror one another.
The journey unfolds between two symbolic poles: from Kronborg, forever associated with Hamlet and the themes of grief, fragmentation, doubt, and existential questioning, to Gurre, the legendary castle of King Valdemar, whose story echoes longing, loss, and the restless fate of the king struggling to restore and reunite his kingdom. Between these places stretches not only a physical path, but also an archetypal landscape. Read More