The founder of Embodied Imagination®, Robert Bosnak, will talk about this therapeutic practice and creative means of working with dreams, memories, and health issues, and enlivening the creative process.

Embodied Imagination is based on the principles first developed by C.G. Jung and James Hillman and theoretical influences of Alchemical Psychology, Complexity Theory, Phenomenology, and Neuroscience. It is a radically different approach to inner work, viewing imagery from dreams and memory flashbacks as ‘embodied environments’ in which we find ourselves.

Working on images from this perspective stimulates unfamiliar states of consciousness and helps to contain them in an expanded body awareness, which has demonstrated healing effects.

Embodied Imagination can be applied widely in such areas as business, research, psychotherapy, the treatment of trauma, and the triggering of the self-healing reflex in medical situations. It can give rise to bursts of creativity in artists and creative endeavours like character embodiment in theatre, film, and writing.

Robert Bosnak, PsyA is a Jungian psychoanalyst with 40 years of clinical experience working with dreams. Embodied Imagination® (EI), the dreamwork method he has developed, profoundly affects physical health. It is currently in use by health practitioners around the world.

Robert has authored several books, including A Little Course in Dreams, Christopher’s Dream: Dreaming and Living with AIDS, Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming, and Embodiment: Creative imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel.

He is past-president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and a Founding Director of the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary.