SPECIAL JUNE MEMBERS ONLY LECTURE
Friday, 19 June 2020
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Bodysoul Dreaming:
A Journey from Fragmentation to Wholeness
Guest Speaker: Josephine Dyer
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and secret recesses of the soul opening into the cosmic night…All consciousness separates: but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal man/woman dwelling in the darkness of primordial night. There he/she is still whole, and the whole is in him/her, indistinguishable from nature and bare of all ego hood. C.G. Jung: The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man Vol X (Jung 2000 para 304).
Marian Dunlea’s new book Bodydreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach (Routledge 2019) won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), New York.
A Jungian Analyst, Marian Dunlea is Head of Training for BodySoul Europe (Marion Woodman Foundation). Her new book represents an extension of the BodySoul Rhythms work, created by her “beloved pioneering and visionary mentor Marion Woodman”, and Dunlea’s own study of Neuroscience, and work as a Somatic Therapy Trainer.
Both Marion Woodman and Marian Dunlea have developed the work of C. G. Jung through their practice and writings and been leaders in their field of Psychotherapy for many years. They have influenced the development of Jungian Dreamwork through enhancing body awareness and encouraging the embodiment of soul.
As Josephine reflects on the professional development of both women, she will explore both the practice and process itself. The presentation will include discussion of detailed transcripts of individual sessions that Marion Dunlea cites in her book Bodydreaming.
Through Group work, when individuals learn to hold the tension of opposites through working with dreams and concentrating on Presence, Paradox and Process, they can integrate their life experiences and return to the wholeness of which Jung speaks.
Josephine Dyer is a graduate of the Marion Woodman Foundation’s Bodysoul Rhythms® Leadership Program, led by Marian Dunlea. Josephine leads workshops and small groups and conducts private sessions for those wanting to explore their own process through the “BodyDreaming” method.
Her commitment to supporting people with their inner work is backed by years of experience working cross-culturally, as a Clinical Pastoral Care Counsellor for arriving immigrants and refugees. She has developed and implemented Community based Trauma Recovery Programs in East Timor