Monika Wikman | “Archetypal Alchemical Processes of Change: Discovering the Presence of the Divine Feminine as Mediatrix”

Ancient alchemy offers attitudes and insights for learning the art of co-creating healing states of consciousness. With Carl Jung’s wisdom and ancient alchemical teachings guiding the way, we will discover attitudes that help us co-create the healing space, the greater field with the living imagination. Looking into alchemical mysteries, images and processes, we will ground practices for working with the depths of the psyche and discover tools for creating the symbolizing field in which consciousness itself can evolve. We will explore alchemy’s central value of the Divine Feminine, and look into the structures and dynamics of the psyche that help us enter, trust and work with (as we come to embody more and more) the alchemical processes of transformation. Jung said the heart of his work was the “religious function” which he described as the art of learning to see and to hear in ever new ways.

We will explore practices for cleansing the lenses of perception, and creative ways of holding space for the symbolizing field to open. Tools for learning to shift the point of awareness, and practices for working with the somatic versus the psychic unconscious will be differentiated as well. We will bring alive simple practices and attitudes that ground the work with the psyche so that emotion and the trauma body can be held in a larger healing field where contact with the divine feminine takes place and transmutation and healing occurs.