Active Imagination: Engaging the Wisdom of the Body in Navigating Uncertain Times with Tina Stromsted, Eileen Nemeth, Lisa Malin, Kate Jobe, and Nancy Gurian

 

August 24-29, 2025

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During polarized times the body/psyche/spirit connection can serve as a vital compass to help navigate difficult passages, painful turmoil, and unexpected opportunities as Eros and Logos find a new balance.

 

Through Authentic Movement, inner-directed movement bridges the realms of conscious and unconscious, body and psyche, instinct and spirit, affect and image, memory, and emergence. What was experienced as non-understandable moves toward form and consciousness. In the process, we may learn to discern and reclaim our unconscious “shadow” projections, which we otherwise tend to attribute to others. 

 

This day-long pre-conference workshop will continue to explore and develop dance/movement as a form of active imagination – interweaving theoretical, experiential, cultural, ecological and clinical material – with special attention to the living body in analytic practice.

 

We will link Jung’s early contributions involving multi-sensory images and emotions to recent neurobiological research. Morning and afternoon sessions include presentations, breathwork, movement, art, writing and discussion.

 

This presentation is part of a tradition, now in its 22nd year, held by leading voices in the field of Active Imagination in Movement & embodiment in analysis, including Dr. Joan Chodorow, Marion Woodman, Carolyn Grant Fay, and others.

 

Members of the MWF are warmly welcome! Please join us in Zurich this summer for all of the rich offerings at the IAAP Congress!