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January 21, 2023 - January 22, 2023    
10:00 am PST - 1:15 pm PST
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Presenter: Lynne Ehlers, PhD, CST-T
CE Hours: 6 (California and STA/ISST)
Cost: $225
Event Type: Webinar/Online

Sandplay Journey to Wholeness through the Alchemical Colors Black, White & Red (6 hours)

Contact: Linda Cunningham    linda@drlindacunningham.com
 
January 21 & 22, 2023
10am-1:20pm each day PST
 
Presenter: Lynne Ehlers, PhD, CST-T, Guest Presenter

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The ancient alchemists’ quest to transform base metals such as lead into gold unfolded in generally agreed-upon color-stages, from black (the Nigredo), to white (the Albedo) to red (the Rubedo). Today we understand these color stages, as described by C.G. Jung and others, as the process of transformation in the human psyche—empirically validated in a doctoral thesis by the sequence of colors emerging in Dr. Ehlers’ dreams over a 15-year period (Ehlers,1992). In the first half of the program, using images from art, we will explore the psychological meaning of these color-stages, with a focus on the albedo and the rubedo as a complementary pair in the psyche, representing archetypal feminine and masculine energies, with corroboration for these opposites as a pair found not only in cross-cultural color symbol-systems worldwide and across time but also in contemporary studies of the neuroanatomy of the human brain. We will discuss the challenges we and our clients face in balancing these two energies in our daily lives. In the second half of the program we will focus on these changes of colors selected for use in the sandplay of a deeply wounded woman, on her transformational 22-year journey from addiction and the self-destructive behavior of her past to a radiant new life.

Educational Objectives: To begin to become familiar with alchemy as a symbolic system; to be able to use the symbology of the alchemical colors of black, white and red to understand sandplay and dreams; to understand the importance of having balanced energies in the psyche.

Learning Objectives:

  • List the three alchemical colors.  
  • Describe the psychological meaning of each of the three alchemical colors.
  • Define the coniunctio, or psychological wholeness, in terms of the alchemical colors
  • Give an example of how you might balance your own masculine and feminine energies
  • Discuss three ways the nigredo might appear in a sand tray
  • Describe two ways the albedo might appear in a sand tray

Lynne L. Ehlers, Ph.D., is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Teaching Member (CST-T) of ISST/STA with a private practice in Albany, California where she offers sandplay, dreamwork, case consultation and Jungian-oriented depth psychotherapy for adults. She has worked with sandplay since 1977. For many years she has taught classes on dream symbolism and sandplay at local universities and presented papers at sandplay conferences biennially since 2009 . Her many articles, on Kali, the Scarab, The Pearl of Great Price, Written in the Sand, Archetypal Defenses of the Self, etc., appear in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy. Her chapter on “The Tao of Sandplay Therapy” appears in Into the Heart of Sandplay (2018) and she is the author of Alchemy and Individuation: The Colors of Transformation, (2022) Analytical Psychology Press.

This course meets qualifications for 6 hours of education credit toward certification for Sandplay Therapists of America / International Society of Sandplay Therapists (STA/ISST).

Linda Cunningham is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. 

Linda Cunningham maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Provider #017288